Daily Tech News 1 August 2025

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Epic Games just won its lawsuit against Google. Again. (The Verge)

Google plans to appeal - again - to either an en banc sitting of the 9th Circuit or the Supreme Court.

But Google no longer has a stay on the lower court's ruling, and Epic plans to put its own app store inside the Google Play store as soon as tomorrow.

Tech News

Vibe code is legacy code. (Val.Town)

And everyone hates legacy code.
Seagate has started selling 28TB HAMR external drives. (Serve the Home)

The bare drive costs around $570.

The external drive in a USB case with a power adaptor costs $330.

Why? Because.

Does it work the same? Yes.
Intel has rolled out the Core 5 120 which looks just like the Core i5 12400 including the support for DDR4 memory. (Tom's Hardware)

Looks just like it because that's what it is.
How did they create the Universal Pictures animated logo in 1936? (Stack Exchange)

Today it looks like a simple bit of 3D CGI, but that was a little less common 90 years ago.

So how did they do it?

They built it. It really existed.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I rolled a 1.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 01, 2025 04:30 AM (aURVT)

2 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 01, 2025 04:31 AM (XQo4F)

3 w00t again

Posted by: m at August 01, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

4 G'Day everyone
Hopefully only a couple more nights next week on night shift

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2025 04:34 AM (oMksJ)

5 Hope you're feeling better, Skip.

Posted by: m at August 01, 2025 04:39 AM (aURVT)

6 Still a occasional nagging coughing

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2025 04:41 AM (oMksJ)

7
We are enjoying a visit from our daughter, her son who was raised in an open adoption, and his girlfriend. He leaves to begin college in Charleston, SC in one week.

Heavy rains precluded doing much of anything outdoors yesterday, but today we hope to get out and do some boating and tubing.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 01, 2025 04:44 AM (Tv15w)

8 Can... can you crack the USB case and install the drive normally or did they stick a proprietary board in there to prevent that?

Posted by: ravenshrike at August 01, 2025 04:47 AM (16udA)

9 G'mornin all y'all
It's been a week of good news, medically - for relations.
This is pleasing, indeed.
Thank you, God.
God is Good.

Posted by: OkJohn at August 01, 2025 04:49 AM (NC/it)

10 Have a great .morning everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2025 04:50 AM (oMksJ)

11 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at August 01, 2025 04:54 AM (PzBTm)

12 These are some of the interesting facts which I learned from various posters on ASHQ yesterday. I apparently have never said a funny thing in the entire time time I've been here . What? Does this guy keep a voluminous record. "It's September 5,
2020 and Fen again said nothing amusing today " Another one commented that I'm totally lacking in grace and humility . Actually, I'm not totally lacking in grace .She's the daughter of one of our menbers and occasionally comes to church. I do lack humility but that a rather Puritan name I haven't seen yet. Maybe for our Thanksgiving Sunday service.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 04:56 AM (2GCMq)

13 >> How did they create the Universal Pictures animated logo in 1936? (Stack Exchange)

Lot of geeks in the comments over there!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2025 04:59 AM (aURVT)

14 Fen, haven't been following what you're referring to but someone seems to be getting kicks out of trolling you. Welcome to the Internet. The solution is simply to never respond to or mention them - like you just did.

Everyone else here is just fine with who you are. Let them go.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 05:00 AM (2lp6s)

15 Texas grandmother reunites Texas flood survivors with some lost belongings. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/2r7dszfr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:01 AM (2GCMq)

16 Fen :
🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: OkJohn at August 01, 2025 05:02 AM (NC/it)

17 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 05:00 AM (2lp6s

I did stop responding to the one. The other one I replied to but will now stop.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:02 AM (2GCMq)

18 Fen,

Can't please everybody. Jus' sayin'.

Ignore those things. Faceless people in grey boxes. What you don't need, ignore. It ain't worth it to get bothered even a little bit by it.

Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 05:04 AM (gKDq2)

19
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2025 05:05 AM (tljrc)

20 Rabbi's daughter speaks of reflecting on our journey and Numbers 33:1:

https://tinyurl.com/2m23zsv5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:05 AM (2GCMq)

21 I did stop responding to the one. The other one I replied to but will now stop.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:02 AM (2GCMq)
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Sticks and stones...

Simply ignore, no matter how long this goes on.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 05:06 AM (2lp6s)

22 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 04:56

Fen you are greatly appreciated here. Thank you for being here.

How is FenSon doing after his first yr of college? Does he plan on returning?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at August 01, 2025 05:07 AM (UyU0M)

23 "...Another one commented that I'm totally lacking in grace..."

"Grace be with you all."
~ Hebrews 13:25.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025 05:07 AM (XQo4F)

24 You were waiting for this!. Really😉. Joyful bird traders out "If you're happy and you know it" and uses a banana as a percussion instrument:

https://tinyurl.com/mrrx3wa7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:09 AM (2GCMq)

25 I'm still laughing from yesterday's Candace Owen's Weinstein interview clip which ended with the names of countries the stupid grifter wasn't expecting to hear.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 05:11 AM (2lp6s)

26 Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at August 01, 2025 05:07 AM (UyU0M

Thanks and I appreciate you, and the morning folks.and others My son is actually finished with school. He was a Botany major and is currently working hard at some greenhouses and in field work ( He"'s "outstanding in the field " as the old joke/ card with the picture of the cow used to say ,but the job is supposed to end in late August ( it was a sixth month thing) so he'll be looking for something else . Thanks for asking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:15 AM (2GCMq)

27 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2025 05:15 AM (BW+Gb)

28 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:09 AM (2GCMq)

Farm typo. Tweets not trades.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:15 AM (2GCMq)

29 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at August 01, 2025 05:16 AM (AN2gy)

30 Evening and morning, AosHQ satellites! 'Tis Friday again, the consummation devoutly to be wished! And a new month as well. How 'bout that?

The Universal logo from the Thirties with the prop airplane flying -- at an orbital height! -- around the turning Earth? Must have been really startling to movie audiences the first time they saw that.

Lousy-ana has a new law that goes into effect today: no cell phone use or texting while driving. No, it's not government's proper function to be micro-managing its citizens like that, but maybe it will keep lousy driving down to the level it was before the toy phones came along. The other new "driving" law: No driving in the left lane unless you are passing or getting ready to turn. I don't know if that applies only to highways or to two-lane roads, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:17 AM (omVj0)

31 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025 05:07 AM (XQo4F)

Thanks 😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:17 AM (2GCMq)

32 Okay, the left-lane law applies to multi-lane roads like highways and the Interstate. Unfortunately they are doing the micro-manage thing, saying even *one* mile an hour under the speed limit can incur the fine. Well, since nearly everybody drives ten or more mph *over* the limit anyway, I guess it's not something I need to worry too much about.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:20 AM (omVj0)

33 God walks with us . Reflection on Psalm 41:8-16

https://tinyurl.com/msh8jy94

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:22 AM (2GCMq)

34 Anyway! Fen, you are definitely appreciated here. Pay no attention to the talking tree stumps that infest the forest of the Internet. They are not worth notice.

And good morning to the rest of you. I'm up early for some reason, waking from a dream where I'm being interviewed by some journalist about how I came to love The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV show. Surreal stuff, as dreams tend to be. So, it's coffee until time to feed the furry thugs and then take my own exercise.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:24 AM (omVj0)

35 Is that Niles Rogers in that music video?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 01, 2025 05:25 AM (BW+Gb)

36 Greetings and good morning, one and all. It's a much nicer day here in the GPROMD owed to the fact that the major storm that swept through yesterday really cooled us off. Sure, we had one dog in a state of panic and one who will bark at the thunderstorm to drive it off but it went well.

I made it to my orthopedic appointment half an hour early so they were willing to see me early. End result: Definitely a sprain in the PCL, I've lost cartilage and it stinks getting older. He drained the knee of 30 CCs of fluid and gave me a cortisone shot. I have a new baseline on what painful means.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2025 05:28 AM (OPGS/)

37 Pay no attention to the talking tree stumps that infest the forest of the Internet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:24 AM (omVj0)

That's a pretty good line.

Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 05:28 AM (gKDq2)

38 I would like to complain about the internet weather people. I understand that they need to warm people , but yesterday we got these dire warning about flood watches, township offices closing early because of dangerous storms . There was a bit of rumble of thunder and it rained for ten minutes and it was one downpour.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:29 AM (2GCMq)

39 Oh and Fen? Illegitimi non carborundum towards the person trolling you. You're good people.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2025 05:29 AM (OPGS/)

40 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:24 AM (omVj0)

LOL. I prefer the talking trees in Tolkien.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:30 AM (2GCMq)

41 Oh, okay -- it was that Art Deco plexiglass logo from later in the Thirties and on into the Forties, right? Yes, that one is impressive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:30 AM (omVj0)

42 LOL. I prefer the talking trees in Tolkien.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025

***
Let. Us. Not. Be. Hasty. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:31 AM (omVj0)

43 So after 100 degrees Wednesday, the weather broke yesterday. Now it's 65 degrees. First real hot shower I've had in a month and a half. When it's 85, it's tepid to chilly showers all the time. Sometimes one forgets the simple pleasure of a hot shower.

Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 05:31 AM (gKDq2)

44 Pay no attention to the talking tree stumps that infest the forest of the Internet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025
*
That's a pretty good line.
Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025

***
Thanks . . . and to think I managed it on only one cup of early morning coffee --!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:32 AM (omVj0)

45 Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2025 05:29 AM (OPGS/)

Thanks. You are too, dear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:32 AM (2GCMq)

46 I prefer the talking trees in Tolkien.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:30 AM (2GCMq)
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Or is that the Tolkien trees in talking?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 05:33 AM (2lp6s)

47 NR Pax, it's good that you don't need surgery!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:34 AM (omVj0)

48 Thanks . . . and to think I managed it on only one cup of early morning coffee --!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:32 AM (omVj0)

Two cups and you'll have a best seller on your hands. Or keyboard. Or file. Or something.

Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 05:36 AM (gKDq2)

49 Nope. Not setting foot in Australia. Nope.

https://tinyurl.com/5ax7bc5j

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 05:37 AM (2lp6s)

50 Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2025 05:28 AM

And I am sorry about your pain. Hope the cortisol shot helps.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:37 AM (2GCMq)

51 "Lousy-ana has a new law that goes into effect today: no cell phone use or texting while driving."

I had the good fortune a year ago to buy a 2023 model year vehicle equipped with Android Auto. Consequently I don't even have my phone mounted anywhere - it just sits face down on the passenger seat. I can do pretty much everything with voice commands. Occasionally I have to touch the vehicle's screen, but not often. Steering wheel controls are a Godsend.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025 05:38 AM (XQo4F)

52 Video

Posted by: Accomack at August 01, 2025 05:39 AM (RBD82)

53 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 05:37 AM (2lp6s)

That's that big ol' insect?

Yeah, the continent of Australia really hates people and tries to kill them in imaginitive ways.

Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2025 05:40 AM (gKDq2)

54 Only a 30-40% chance of rain today, so I think this morning I'll wash the car and try out the new spray wax I bought. Mostly I do that on Saturdays, but tomorrow I have a haircut appointment, so to avoid being rushed I'll tackle it today.

The new Aldi opened five minutes' walk away. Miss L. got herself up and was in line at 7:15 to get in the door at 9:00. She won't get up that early to go out to breakfast, oh, no; but to stand in line in the heat to get a few freebies or heavily discounted goodies, no problem. ????

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:41 AM (omVj0)

55 PA enacted a "no phone use at all while driving" thing recently. Which i feel like has been a thing for a while, except now it's "and we really mean it".

Jersey went on a rampage pulling people over for distracted driving a few years ago.

Honestly, I can't even be that upset. Set your navigation and your playlist up before you head out. If something's so important you can't wait a couple minutes to reply to somebody, then it's important enough to pull in somewhere for a second.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 05:41 AM (Dsfam)

56 We're sitting right here.

Posted by: The talking apple trees from the Wizard of Oz at August 01, 2025 05:43 AM (XQo4F)

57 I had the good fortune a year ago to buy a 2023 model year vehicle equipped with Android Auto. Consequently I don't even have my phone mounted anywhere - it just sits face down on the passenger seat. I can do pretty much everything with voice commands. Occasionally I have to touch the vehicle's screen, but not often. Steering wheel controls are a Godsend.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025

***
I'm pretty sure my 2016 will pair up with the phone . . . but I have never bothered with it. If I need an address that badly, I'll pull over and consult the phone. Same if it rings while I'm driving. Nothing can be so important that it should distract me from watching out for the crazy drivers here. Yes, I know, fiddling with the radio is a distraction, but a quick press of an onscreen preset button changes the radio station and I'm done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:44 AM (omVj0)

58 47 NR Pax, it's good that you don't need surgery!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Agreed. Even back when I got the MRI, I was told it wasn't recommended. But I'm happy to have had that confirmed. Hopefully the pain decreases soon.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2025 05:47 AM (OPGS/)

59 Absolutely LOVE Aldi for my grocery needs.
Lidl tries to compete with the similar German model, but the one available to me tends to only staff one checkout and the line is too long.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025 05:48 AM (XQo4F)

60 >>> I would like to complain about the internet weather people.

The basic forecasting is actually reasonably accurate. Some forecasting models have some hysteria built in, for example the record breaking heat arriving five days from now often moderates to mid 90s as the day approaches.

Posted by: fluffy at August 01, 2025 05:48 AM (AN2gy)

61 Hey, we need our mouse clicks just like everyone else.

Posted by: The Internet Weather People at August 01, 2025 05:50 AM (XQo4F)

62 Absolutely LOVE Aldi for my grocery needs.
Lidl tries to compete with the similar German model, but the one available to me tends to only staff one checkout and the line is too long.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025

***
The Aldis here usually have only one manned checkout, but it's rarely that slow; the staffer is quick. My only real complaint is that they open late (for me), nine am. It would be so much better if they opened at eight or even seven like Walmart.

Come to think of it, I need to visit one today to pick up a pizza for our Friday night dinner. Their "Philly Cheese Steak" pizza is quite good. The one by my house will have higher sales tax because of its location, but the convenience may offset that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:52 AM (omVj0)

63 Lidl is German too, i thought?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 05:53 AM (Dsfam)

64 Short video from comedian Tim Hawkins " Using actual red flags in marriage"

https://youtu.be/yOQo0YtipCo

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:53 AM (2GCMq)

65 >>> Hey, we need our mouse clicks just like everyone else.

Just deliver what you promise, Hoss.

Less global warming hysteria and more astronomy.

Posted by: fluffy at August 01, 2025 05:54 AM (AN2gy)

66 Yesterday I wanted to load the pics of my most recent vintage pipe purchase onto my phone, instead of the usual phone pic-to-computer routine. I figured it would work in reverse, and it will. But the pics (as usual from that vendor's website) were in .webp format, and Mac's Preview wouldn't display them; and I suspected the phone would not either. So I looked up how to do a screen shot on a Mac, opened each pic in a Brave browser tab, saved the screen shots as .jpgs and renamed them, and then Bluetoothed the pics to the phone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

67 Lidl is German too, i thought?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025

***
Lidl missed the boat that day he left the shack. But that was all he missed, and he ain't going back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:59 AM (omVj0)

68 63 Lidl is German too, i thought?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Indeed.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025 06:01 AM (XQo4F)

69 65 >>> Hey, we need our mouse clicks just like everyone else.

Just deliver what you promise, Hoss

Posted by: fluffy
###

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: All those ads for boner pills at August 01, 2025 06:02 AM (XQo4F)

70 LOL.

Posted by: Boz Skaggs at August 01, 2025 06:03 AM (XQo4F)

71 Tech related, I suppose: I just realized how AI has completely taken over as the Meme, and now nobody even remembers how to spell "Nanotechnology". Everything was going to be solved by nanobots, nanomachines, nanothis, nanothat. Now it's a big yawn and new savior of our species is delusional chatbots.

Once upon a time, some clever inventor would find a pressing need in the world at large and create entire new fields of science and mathematics just to solve that problem. How do we figure out how much to plant or when to harvest? How do we keep track of time precisely? How do we communicate long distances? How do we drop a cannonball on a gnat's pinky finger from three countries away?

Now it's almost like the process is in reverse. A diffuse clique of government funded boffins at universities comes up with some incredibly obscure thing that no one ever asked for, and then people who want to make a buck spend a decade or so trying to hype the general population into thinking that Incredibly Obscure Thing No One Asked For is the cure for all that ails them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 06:10 AM (Dsfam)

72 "Grace be with you all."
~ Hebrews 13:25.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

One at a time or is this a group thing?

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 01, 2025 06:13 AM (KAi1n)

73 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: ya-ku-za!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2025 06:17 AM (WvZaB)

74 Like the NSA, FBI, and CIA, West Point needs to be gutted:

https://tinyurl.com/24m773w6

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 01, 2025 06:19 AM (2lp6s)

75 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 01, 2025 06:19 AM (hoCmQ)

76 50 And I am sorry about your pain. Hope the cortisol shot helps.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It's a little better today but I'm mindful of the doctor saying "If you don't feel anything, it does not mean that you are cured."

Really hoping that this does not end me practicing Aikido but I'll just wait and see.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2025 06:19 AM (OPGS/)

77 Ow ow ow ow ow

Posted by: gnat's pinky finger at August 01, 2025 06:20 AM (XQo4F)

78 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:21 AM (u82oZ)

79 Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2025 06:19 AM (OPGS/)

Will keep you in prayer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 06:21 AM (2GCMq)

80 Warai-otoko

Irrational investment has been a thing for quite a while.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:22 AM (u82oZ)

81 Lidl is German too, i thought?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 05:53 AM (Dsfam)

I thought so, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 01, 2025 06:23 AM (s/OAq)

82 72 "Grace be with you all."
~ Hebrews 13:25.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

One at a time or is this a group thing?
Posted by: Dark Litigator

You'll have to ask the author of Hebrews.

Posted by: Hint: the author of Hebrews is God at August 01, 2025 06:23 AM (XQo4F)

83 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:21 AM (u82oZ)

Is tomorrow the "celebration of life " service for your wife, Salty? May it be a blessed time of good memories and sharing and may everyone get back and forth safely.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 06:23 AM (2GCMq)

84 {{{Rosasharn}}}

Huzzah! And she is twirling!

*Does Happy Dance to Peter White's Reveillez-vous. *

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:24 AM (u82oZ)

85 80 Warai-otoko

Irrational investment has been a thing for quite a while.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Wait, wut?

Posted by: Tulip bulbs at August 01, 2025 06:24 AM (XQo4F)

86 So I looked up how to do a screen shot on a Mac, opened each pic in a Brave browser tab, saved the screen shots as .jpgs and renamed them, and then Bluetoothed the pics to the phone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I've been successful with jist changing the file extension to ".jpg"

There is a rant flame at the jackasses tha t forced ".webp" file extensions on a good work___ file format in such a half assed manner. Good stuff. You can find it on 9gag, but that place is a rabbit hole everytime i open it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 01, 2025 06:25 AM (CQeHm)

87 FenelonSpoke

Family arrives today.

Still gots lots to do, but now I can delegate.

The house has not looked this good for 10 years. That's how long I was a caretaker husband. The last two years I was a hospice husband, in retrospect.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:26 AM (u82oZ)

88 Thanks for the prayers, Fen. Much appreciated.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 01, 2025 06:26 AM (OPGS/)

89 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 04:56 AM (2GCMq)

I wouldn't sweat it. We're all different and you're one of us.

One of us. One of us. One of us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 06:28 AM (ExV1e)

90 One of us. One of us. One of us.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 06:28 AM (ExV1e)
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You omitted the "gooble-gobbles"...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2025 06:28 AM (WvZaB)

91 Mornin' Horde.

Seagate and 28Tb HAMR drives. Great, now I've got that blasted M.C. Hammer song stuck in my head.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 01, 2025 06:29 AM (O7YUW)

92 *whistles*
*throws flag*

Use of "Bluetooth" as a verb.

Lose a turn. Pay the bank $150.

Posted by: Grammar ref at August 01, 2025 06:29 AM (XQo4F)

93 FenelonSpoke

My message will be her wedding day was a very happy day for her, she and I both made each other better people, and she overcame long odds to last as long as she did.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:29 AM (u82oZ)

94 Let. Us. Not. Be. Hasty. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:31 AM (omVj0)

You're not a real Ent. A real Ent would have posted each word in a different thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 06:31 AM (ExV1e)

95 FenelonSpoke

Thank you for your good wishes. The best celebration is in life. So may you and FenelonSpouse, two experienced lovebirds, have a joyous day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:31 AM (u82oZ)

96 Ents must really hate woodpeckers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 06:32 AM (Dsfam)

97 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:31 AM (u82oZ

Thank you, dear Salty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 06:33 AM (2GCMq)

98 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:29 AM (u82oZ)

That's lovely.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 06:34 AM (2GCMq)

99 Warai-otoko

Ents need Ent wives.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:34 AM (u82oZ)

100 If God were the author of the Torah, it would have been written in American.

Facts and logic, bro.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 06:34 AM (Dsfam)

101 May you have a blessed day, everyone, and know that you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 06:34 AM (2GCMq)

102 Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 06:10 AM (Dsfam)

You laugh but I've just put in a grant request to create AI powered Segways. They'll revolutionize transportation!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 06:35 AM (ExV1e)

103 If God were the author of the Torah, it would have been written in American.

Facts and logic, bro.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 06:34 AM (Dsfam)
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According to Prof. Higgins, English is the language of Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2025 06:35 AM (WvZaB)

104 Back in the 90's, I bought one of those CD-Caddy style magneto-optical drives that heated the media surface in order to write to it magnetically. It lasted about a year and a bit, and then it failed.

I'll wait a few years to gauge reliability of HAMR drives before I jump in and trust that much data to a single drive. 28 Tb in a single failure point. Yeesh.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 01, 2025 06:37 AM (O7YUW)

105 Warai-otoko

Individuality and a smorgasbord of Christian ethos made America great. The Hebrews and early Christians used what worked to distill wisdom for Americans to harvest.

Pragmatically, Christianity is one of the greatest way of life seen, with a lot of hope for believers. It helps fight the reactionary stone-age tribe believers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:38 AM (u82oZ)

106 According to Prof. Higgins, English is the language of Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2025 06:35 AM (WvZaB)

If GOD weren't English you might get hurricanes in Hertford, Hereford, or Hampshire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 06:40 AM (ExV1e)

107 Byeee...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 01, 2025 06:40 AM (WvZaB)

108 Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Is Portland getting better? Or is that city determined to oppose everything Trump stands for?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:40 AM (u82oZ)

109 ONT had an article about returning grocery carts.

Ok, so why aren't all grocery items in a warehouse somewhere?
And why aren't those groceries picked from the warehouse shelves by a robot and put into a box?
And why isn't that box put into a self driving car that brings them to my house at the time of my choosing?

*taps fingers impatiently on the 1970s era Formica countertop*

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025 06:42 AM (XQo4F)

110 Missed Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea by this much. ||

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:42 AM (u82oZ)

111 Ents must really hate woodpeckers.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2025 06:32 AM (Dsfam)
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And beavers.

For all we know, the entwives are now part of a dam upstream on the River Anduin.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 01, 2025 06:42 AM (IBQGV)

112 Well, since nearly everybody drives ten or more mph *over* the limit anyway, I guess it's not something I need to worry too much about.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:20 AM (omVj0)

Lucky you.
It must be my bad luck that I always seem to get behind the person who wants to do 35 or 40 in a 45.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 01, 2025 06:43 AM (6ydKt)

113 Quarter Twenty

Only happens in gated communities.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 06:43 AM (u82oZ)

114 sock_rat Morning Omnibus:

- G'mornin' everyone!
- one more expression of support for Fenelon Spoke!
- thank you for the twirl, Rosasharn!
- W-o @ 71, yup, exactly, just another grift
- 46 degrees, haze & fog

moar breaking news as it happens!

*sound of teletypes segues into upbeat instrumental*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 01, 2025 06:45 AM (dKEEs)

115 30 Lousy-ana has a new law that goes into effect today: no cell phone use or texting while driving.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:17 AM (omVj0)

It's hard for me to make an argument that that should NOT be the law!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2025 06:47 AM (aURVT)

116 113 Quarter Twenty

Only happens in gated communities.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Oh. So like George Carlin said:
"It's a big club and you ain't in it."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2025 06:47 AM (XQo4F)

117 @71/Warai-otoko:

Shysters claiming they have the latest thing.
CEOs who always chase the latest thing.
Marketers who try to get us caught up in the hype so we buy the latest thing.

Cats. Laser pointers. "The Dot". Frantic pursuit with no payoff.

Posted by: CEOs who never stop chasing the latest fad at August 01, 2025 06:47 AM (O7YUW)

118 "Cats. Laser pointers. "The Dot". Frantic pursuit with no payoff."

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Augmented Reality at August 01, 2025 06:50 AM (XQo4F)

119 morni yall. Is it Friday?

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2025 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

120 I've been successful with jist changing the file extension to ".jpg"

There is a rant flame at the jackasses tha t forced ".webp" file extensions on a good work___ file format in such a half assed manner. Good stuff. You can find it on 9gag, but that place is a rabbit hole everytime i open it.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 01, 2025

***
I tried changing the extension. The system took the change -- and still didn't display the file. I've had the problem before with that vendor's pics.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 06:55 AM (omVj0)

121 A Curtis SB2C-1A Helldiver has been returned to the air after being recovered from Lake Washington.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsmvsuKw_aE

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 06:55 AM (AKpb0)

122 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 01, 2025 06:45 AM (dKEEs)

Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 06:55 AM (2GCMq)

123 "Frantic pursuit with no payoff."

No payoff? for us, maybe.
the grifters seem to be doing verynicelythankyou

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at August 01, 2025 06:56 AM (dKEEs)

124 Let. Us. Not. Be. Hasty. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025
*
You're not a real Ent. A real Ent would have posted each word in a different thread.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025

***
I'm Reform Ent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)

125 ***
I'm Reform Ent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Splitter!!

Posted by: The Ent People's United Front at August 01, 2025 06:59 AM (XQo4F)

126 Pixy, Daft Punk’s video for Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger has all of the 80s looking anime in it.

I’m surprised you didn’t pick that one.

https://youtu.be/gAjR4_CbPpQ

The animated music video for "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" was produced by Daft Punk and directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi, director for Toei Animation, under the supervision of Leiji Matsumoto. It features the four alien characters shown on the single cover in a vast electronic facility. There, they are cosmetically changed by various machines to resemble humans, and have their memories replaced. The video was first released as an individual episode in promotion for the single release. It later appeared as a scene in the feature film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem.

That’s a lot of 5s.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 01, 2025 07:00 AM (6ydKt)

127 Have a great day, everyone. May there be thriving.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 01, 2025 07:00 AM (u82oZ)

128 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2025 07:03 AM (6WCwE)

129 Good morning,Fen. You are appreciated here! Trolls and jerks? Not so much. Hope you have a great day.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 01, 2025 07:04 AM (SLYTa)

130 Kudos for you, Epic.

Posted by: Joe at August 01, 2025 07:05 AM (rzwGB)

131

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 01, 2025 07:06 AM (5hfjS)

132 124 Let. Us. Not. Be. Hasty. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025
*
You're not a real Ent. A real Ent would have posted each word in a different thread.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025

***
I'm Reform Ent.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 06:57 AM (omVj0)

Good save!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2025 07:06 AM (aURVT)

133 Yesterday I wanted to load the pics of my most recent vintage pipe purchase onto my phone, instead of the usual phone pic-to-computer routine. I figured it would work in reverse, and it will. But the pics (as usual from that vendor's website) were in .webp format, and Mac's Preview wouldn't display them; and I suspected the phone would not either. So I looked up how to do a screen shot on a Mac, opened each pic in a Brave browser tab, saved the screen shots as .jpgs and renamed them, and then Bluetoothed the pics to the phone.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

Try getting an iimage file viewer called Xee 3 for MacOS.

You do some light editing in it.
But you can also open a webp and hit Export or Save As, can’t remember which right now, and save it to jpg or other formats.

I’ve been using it for 18 years or so and it’s great for little things like that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 01, 2025 07:07 AM (6ydKt)

134 I don’t read everything in the AoS threads, so I have missed much of what has been going on. But I do want to say that FenSpoke’s comments are always a treasure!

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 01, 2025 07:10 AM (1FEc1)

135 "Mass circumcision ceremony leaves 39 boys dead and dozens more mutilated during tribal ‘initiation’ in South Africa"

That's horrible. They need to cut that out.

Posted by: fd at August 01, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

136 - For whatever reason, my phone will tell me a link was copied to the clipboard but nothing shows up on it.
For that reason I can't provide one but I just ran across this.

Utube search box - Buy for You the Moon - live at TPAC should get you to it.
The singer/songwriter/instrumentalist is a guy I spent 11 years total in a trio with. Also did last minute fill in for drummer with this band twice.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 01, 2025 07:12 AM (jocM1)

137
That's horrible. They need to cut that out.
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

Someone should give them some tips.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 01, 2025 07:13 AM (HZi96)

138 I prefer Daft Punk's "One More Time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8

Though how do you pronounce the title?

Interstellar Five Five Five Five or Interstellar Four Five?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 07:19 AM (AKpb0)

139 OK, here’s more late to the ONT thread.
WWJD?
I bet Jesus would return HIS shopping cart!

Around here, I occasionally see the bumper sticker that says Jesus would use his turn signals, too.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 01, 2025 07:21 AM (1FEc1)

140 Good morning .
Fen, your perspective is always welcomed by me

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 01, 2025 07:22 AM (j1Y/l)

141 @135 I wonder if the circumcision ceremony was being done by the fake sign language guy from Mandela's funeral

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 01, 2025 07:23 AM (j1Y/l)

142 - Heh
How about Jesus wouldn't tailgate.

Posted by: TeeJ at August 01, 2025 07:24 AM (jocM1)

143 JJ is nood.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 01, 2025 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

144 I prefer Daft Punk's "One More Time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8

Though how do you pronounce the title?

Interstellar Five Five Five Five or Interstellar Four Five?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 07:19 AM (AKpb0)

I just watched that one, too, since it was in the recommendations.

I think this one comes first in sequence, and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger is the second part, since they have memories from the first one in it?

I’d like to see the anime, because the style is very nice.

Interstella 4x5, is my guess.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 01, 2025 07:36 AM (6ydKt)

145 138 I prefer Daft Punk's "One More Time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2025 07:19 AM (AKpb0)

Watched it!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2025 08:13 AM (aURVT)

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