Daily Tech News 28 November 2025

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OpenAI has described its forthcoming AI device. (Tech Crunch) (archive site)

Not announced. Not previewed. Described:
When people see it, they say, "that's it?... It's so simple."
Not so much of a description as a fart.

It's expected to be a phone, but without a screen, making it useless to everyone who already has a phone, which is... Everyone.

Also, don't look at the picture.
Why can't ChatGPT tell the time? (The Verge) (archive site)

Because it doesn't know anything.

Tech News

AWS is adding "DNS resilience" to its notoriously unstable US-East-1 region. (The Register)

This won't make the datacenter any more reliable, it will just make it easier for customers to switch over to somewhere else the next time it goes down.
Looking for a larger, faster hard drive for your 2013-era laptop? SSSTC may have what you need. (WCCFTech)

It's an enterprise SSD, but it's just 7mm tall, uses a standard SATA interface, and stores up to 15TB.

Price not mentioned but probably horrifying.
Unless it doesn't: Intel's Nova Lake lineup next year will include models with dual CPU chiplets and dual cache chiplets after all. (WCCFTech)

With a total of up to 52 cores and 288MB of cache.

Which is kind of a lot.

Nominal power consumption for the high-end model is 150W, but this is Intel so expect it to post significantly higher numbers in the real world.
Nvidia then: If you want to buy our GPU chips you have to buy the RAM from us too, at our marked-up prices.

Nvidia now: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. (Tom's Hardware)

Nvidia previously forced the companies that make its graphics cards to also buy memory through them, even though Nvidia doesn't make memory chips.

Now that memory chips have become expensive and hard to find, the board makers have been cut loose to sink or... Well, just to sink really.
As the UK tightens its grip on free speech, it has turned its steely idiot cross-eyed gaze on VPNs. (The Verge) (archive site)

Just as everyone predicted.

It won't work. There are too many VPNs, they're too easy to create, and too easy to use. The Great Firewall of China leaks like a sieve, so the UK doesn't stand a chance.

Musical Interlude

Song is Golden from the movie KPop Demon Hunters, which is about a KPop (Korean pop music) group that, uh, hunts demons.

The movie is supposed to be pretty good, though when Hololive EN did a watchalong stream, Kronii rolled her eyes so hard that her motion-tracking sensor picked it up.

Disclaimer: See for yourself!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 28, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at November 28, 2025 04:00 AM (GE9Fw)

3 Good morning. The early worm gets eaten.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 28, 2025 04:02 AM (IFHRw)

4 Morning.

Posted by: Tuna at November 28, 2025 04:02 AM (lJ0H4)

5 Morning all. Hope you all had a great day with plenty of good food and not too many annoying relatives.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 28, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

6 Kronii rolled her eyes so hard that her motion-tracking sensor picked it up.
Disclaimer: See for yourself!

Posted by: clarence at November 28, 2025 04:05 AM (GE9Fw)

7 (trying again)
Disclaimer: See for yourself!
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The description was enough to let me see it and laugh.

Posted by: clarence at November 28, 2025 04:07 AM (GE9Fw)

8 Thanksgivng by myself. Went fine. We are headed
into a few cold days. Dog has been outside, so back to sleep for me. Hope everyone had a good holiday!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 28, 2025 04:07 AM (+mUZM)

9 3 Good morning. The early worm gets eaten.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 28, 2025 04:02 AM (IFHRw)

Put enough gravy on it and yum.

Posted by: m at November 28, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

10 Nowadays, with computers and GPS and other fancy systems, if you want, you can follow a geodesic on the surface of the earth exactly, essentially doing Riemannian parallel transport on the fly, turning your bearing continuously as you go.

I thought moss grew on the north side of trees, and stuff

Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 04:20 AM (Kux/g)

11 Put enough gravy on it and yum.
Posted by: m at November 28, 2025 04:13 AM (RuTUS)

DH would eat the hind end of a skunk if I poured gravy over it.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 28, 2025 04:20 AM (6Bc88)

12 Pixy -

Thank you for all of your blog work …

Wishing you a wonderful day.

Posted by: Adriane the 24 Hour Rule Critic . . . at November 28, 2025 04:23 AM (3ZUWJ)

13 DH would eat the hind end of a skunk if I poured gravy over it.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK

Just as long as you don’t bury Mr. Big’s Grandmama in a rug made from the skunk’s butt … you should be fine!

Posted by: Adriane the 24 Hour Rule Critic . . . at November 28, 2025 04:24 AM (3ZUWJ)

14 Freddie Mercury. Golden. Also he had weird teeth.

Posted by: Meh at November 28, 2025 04:30 AM (kK7U2)

15 Belated BOING!

Sashimi prepped. Lemon garlic pesto mint chicken in the broiler.

Tech question: found an ancient Thinkpad from Win8 days. Not interested in the Windows. Is it fit for running Linux decently or not to bother? Thanks.

BTW, migration from Win10 to new 11 laptop has been a complete success. Lotsa thanks to the moron(s) who posted links to handle privacy, security and settings issues.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 28, 2025 04:36 AM (BzP/F)

16 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 28, 2025 04:39 AM (v9vY1)

17 Yes, I have Linux on an E530, with 4gb RAM. Try MX Linux, Debian based. Mint would run on it too, Mate desktop.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 28, 2025 04:41 AM (+mUZM)

18 Biden's Dog - probably fine for running Linux. Worst it might need is a bit more RAM if it's desperately short. Modern memory is expensive right now but with that you'd be looking at second-hand DDR3 which is dirt cheap.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 28, 2025 04:42 AM (BLOW1)

19 I just bought RAM from Amazon to upgrade my Thinkpad to 16gb. Was $37. It runs fine on 4gb though.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 28, 2025 04:44 AM (+mUZM)

20 When people see it, they say, "that's it?... It's so simple."

Not so much of a description as a fart.

Also see: Biden, Joe

Posted by: Bruce at November 28, 2025 04:48 AM (xqIDx)

21 “Not so much of a description as a fart.“

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at November 28, 2025 04:53 AM (xqIAL)

22 G'morning Horde.

Okay, now back to the content that Pixy has provided...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 28, 2025 04:59 AM (O7YUW)

23 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at November 28, 2025 05:06 AM (AN2gy)

24 G'Day everyone
Was awake waiting for Pixy and fell asleep

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 05:09 AM (+qU29)

25
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 28, 2025 05:12 AM (tljrc)

26 After the next big AWS-East outage:

Amazon IT exec: Okay, so what happened?

Amazon IT employee: The cut-over module failed to perform properly.

Exec: Do we know why?

Employee: Not yet, it should have worked, I asked ChatGPT to write the updated code, and it compiled and everything!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 28, 2025 05:12 AM (O7YUW)

27 There're lots of fun Thanksgiving stories in the ONT, which I am perusing.

Posted by: m at November 28, 2025 05:15 AM (RuTUS)

28

Good morning, good people, from over-did-it land. Further sustenance may not be required until mid-January. An astonishing melange of love, laughter and superb food. I am proud to bursting of this family, wife and I did a fair job here, in spite of being rank amateurs at parenting. A man can rest easy, knowing he has left a fine legacy.

So let me wish all of you maximum benefit for all efforts at all times, with egregious heartburn for the leftwit fungi who plague us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 28, 2025 05:16 AM (vFbHf)

29 Getting a new cable connection this afternoon. Probably won't take long.

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 05:17 AM (+qU29)

30 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 28, 2025 05:25 AM (u82oZ)

31 IRONGRAMPA

*crisp*

Hand Salute

Ready, Two.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 28, 2025 05:27 AM (u82oZ)

32 Good morning, hordelings!

Posted by: Eromero at November 28, 2025 05:30 AM (LHPAg)

33 Participation in these early morning hours is sadly not reaching performance expectations.

Pixy should have a script that texts or calls all horde members in good standing when this occurs. I’m sure it’s a matter of forgetting to set the alarm.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 05:31 AM (ebH14)

34 33 Participation in these early morning hours is sadly not reaching performance expectations.

Pixy should have a script that texts or calls all horde members in good standing when this occurs. I’m sure it’s a matter of forgetting to set the alarm.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 05:31 AM (ebH14)

Aiming at quality. Not quantity.
; )

Posted by: m at November 28, 2025 05:32 AM (RuTUS)

35 Common Tater

Maybe it's Black Friday preps. Armor and concealed carry in a crowd need preps.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 28, 2025 05:32 AM (u82oZ)

36 Have a great day, everyone.

May you all get the deals you want on what you need. Without acting like the store is a mosh pit full of Dems.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 28, 2025 05:35 AM (u82oZ)

37 School bus driver saves a little boy from drowning. Scrolll down to bottom left . It's more powerful than reading the whole story beforehand :

https://tinyurl.com/3wpxnarx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 05:36 AM (ix8EF)

38 "Without acting like the store is a mosh pit full of Dems."

LOL. I have to go to the Christian bookstore. Hopefully it won't be like a mosh pit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 05:37 AM (ix8EF)

39
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 05:31 AM (ebH14)

I laughed . The ones who are not here who are retired are probably having a food coma.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 05:39 AM (ix8EF)

40 Old time hymn by the blind woman, Fanny Crosby, who wrote a number of hymns including "Blessed Assurance "

https://tinyurl.com/3tcsc4tu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 05:42 AM (ix8EF)

41 I’m sure it’s a matter of forgetting to set the alarm.
Posted by: Common Tater at November 28, 2025 05:31 AM (ebH14)

I didn't want to get my ass out of bed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 05:46 AM (ExV1e)

42 @37/FenelonSpoke: "School bus driver saves a little boy from drowning."

She did very well. Not knowing how to swim herself, and being terrified of water, she still went in to save that little boy.

That, right there, is the kind of love God wants us to show to people.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 28, 2025 05:46 AM (O7YUW)

43 40- the hymn is "Jesus, Keep me near the cross"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 05:46 AM (ix8EF)

44 It isn’t that hard to deal with vpn’s. First step is to ban them outright, 2nd, create a path to remain in business and 3rd, remind them who controls their banks. VPN’s will give it up.

Posted by: Accomack at November 28, 2025 05:47 AM (IG7T0)

45 >>> Participation in these early morning hours is sadly not reaching performance expectations.

Sorry, I'm still a bit sluggish from excessive carbohydrate consumption.

On the bright side, I have a kitteh warming the back of my neck.

Posted by: fluffy at November 28, 2025 05:48 AM (AN2gy)

46 I don't know who this man is, ( Bear Grylls ) but he has a good message about faith and doubt. Scroll down for video:

https://tinyurl.com/mwt2hcp4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 05:50 AM (ix8EF)

47 Thanks, everyone, for the Linux advice.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 28, 2025 05:51 AM (BzP/F)

48 Hard working pizza delivery guy gets a huge tip from Secret Santa:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AjJwEqIrjFQ

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 05:54 AM (ix8EF)

49 Oh kami-sama

What a weird and disgusting rabbit hole did I just fali down. I need brain bleach.

In Jan 2020 it seems the Chicago IWW posted furry fetish pr0n to fight the Nazis. Image is of a fat skunk with ginormous nads literally crushing a cat in a top hat reaching for his bag of money. And the IWW logo is plastered on one of the nads.

The post was quickly deleted but there is a chance that Bernie Sanders saw it.

I need the mental floss also.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2025 05:56 AM (ZVRN+)

50 Philippians 3:1-9

Christian devotional on "A city worth seeking.":

https://tinyurl.com/mtazhvhz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 05:57 AM (ix8EF)

51 It isn’t that hard to deal with vpn’s. First step is to ban them outright, 2nd, create a path to remain in business and 3rd, remind them who controls their banks. VPN’s will give it up.
Posted by: Accomack at November 28, 2025 05:47 AM (IG7T0)

Unlike China, which is renowned for it's history of preserving citizen's rights, the UK will having roving bands of migrants going around gang-raping people on suspicion of vpn-ery.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 05:59 AM (ExV1e)

52 Evening and morning to all the toilers (I know there are some today) and the early risers! I'd say this is the consummation devoutly to be wished, but a lot of people have today off anyway.

After a pleasant T-Day, I slept okay. Stirling the Evil Black Kitten of War and Pestilence (he has reclaimed his youthful title) came leaping across me about an hour ago, but I managed to ignore him and doze a while longer. Now, coffee; shortly, slopping the feline hogs.

What have you on tap for today?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

53 Greetings and good morning, one and all. I'm late to the thread about A Charlie Brown Christmas but we did watch it last night. All these years and it's just as funny as when I was a young pup watching it for the first time.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 28, 2025 06:00 AM (7xrfc)

54 That could have been a Monty Python skit, "no one expects the BBC licensing team! Now show us your paperwork for the tele!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 28, 2025 06:03 AM (ZVRN+)

55 Cool this am, 44 F. wind chill with a stiff north breeze of 14 mph. (A nice change. Usually when air actually moves here, it lumbers out of the south.) Not as chilly as predicted. I can wear a cap and gloves against the wind for my workout; and once I get going, I generate my own heat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:04 AM (wzUl9)

56 Greetings and good morning, one and all. I'm late to the thread about A Charlie Brown Christmas but we did watch it last night. All these years and it's just as funny as when I was a young pup watching it for the first time.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 28, 2025

***
(Snoopy licks Lucy. Panicked, Lucy runs about in true Karen fashion) "Dog germs! Dog germs! Get water! Get antiseptic!" (She runs offscreen)

(Snoopy pauses a moment, then sticks out his tongue and goes "Yuck!")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

57 The thread has two speeds: dead slow and slower than dead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:14 AM (wzUl9)

58 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 28, 2025 06:17 AM (XQo4F)

59 I’m up because I have been getting up around 4:30 for 35 years. How is the house hunting? I am a big fan of the lower Delmarva.

Posted by: Accomack at November 28, 2025 06:18 AM (IG7T0)

60 Still enjoying David Suchet reading the Bible. He's reading the NIV and chapter 15 vs 16 says , "Are ye dull? " or something like like that , which made me laugh since it sounds like "Don't you guys get it!!!"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 06:20 AM (PFs9e)

61 @47/Biden's Dog: I would have chimed in on the Linux advice, but I'm having a particularly bad pain day. I hope Linux serves you well though.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 28, 2025 06:21 AM (O7YUW)

62 I've realized what animal little gray Dagny cat resembles. Last night I happened to shine my LED kitchen flashlight on her body fur, and immediately said, "Raccoon!" She doesn't resemble the trash panda in the tail or the face (though she does have a kind of "wild" expression), but her body color and stripes make you think of raccoons.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:23 AM (wzUl9)

63 Playing spider solitaire, it's evil

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 06:26 AM (+qU29)

64 I’m up because I have been getting up around 4:30 for 35 years. How is the house hunting? I am a big fan of the lower Delmarva.
Posted by: Accomack at November 28, 2025

***
Accomack, if you meant me: The house agent in Owensboro, KY, has been sending me listings. Recently I've seen two I would really want to go see, if I were there.

The current plan is after New Year's, to see about an apartment there and about having my stuff put in storage. Rent for a time while I see if I do like it there, or if I'd prefer Indiana (Terre Haute has nice-looking houses). I'm going to have to tell Linda about this -- but I'm waiting until after her birthday, which is Monday. I doubt she will be in favor of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:27 AM (wzUl9)

65 I've realized what animal little gray Dagny cat resembles. Last night I happened to shine my LED kitchen flashlight on her body fur, and immediately said, "Raccoon!" She doesn't resemble the trash panda in the tail or the face (though she does have a kind of "wild" expression), but her body color and stripes make you think of raccoons.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:23 AM (wzUl9)
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My cat Allie has the trademark "bandit mask" but that's the only resemblance she has to a raccoon. She's a calico, but mostly white with a few scattered patches of brown and tan fur here and there.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025 06:27 AM (IBQGV)

66 Windy and chilly, highs of rps all week and no idea why the Eagles play today

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 06:28 AM (+qU29)

67 Sarah
Rest in peace in Heaven in the meadows of God's eternal light.

Posted by: Kingsman at November 28, 2025 06:28 AM (ehY6c)

68 G & R, I'm sorry to hear about your pain day. Gettin' old is hard work, ain't it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:28 AM (wzUl9)

69 I'm having a particularly bad pain day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 28, 2025 06:21 AM (O7YUW)
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Get well fast(er)!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 28, 2025 06:32 AM (BzP/F)

70 My cat Allie has the trademark "bandit mask" but that's the only resemblance she has to a raccoon. She's a calico, but mostly white with a few scattered patches of brown and tan fur here and there.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025

***
She sounds beautiful!

Big Stirling, of course, looks like that black leopard Ace posted an X video of earlier this week. It amused me to see how the black leopard delicately crossed his front paws while sitting -- something big red Arizona used to do all the time. Little cats and big cats are pretty much the same in personality, arent they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 28, 2025 06:32 AM (wzUl9)

71 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 28, 2025 06:21 AM (O7YUW

Sorry to hear that!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 06:34 AM (rZCVI)

72 @68/Wolfus: That it is.
@69/Biden's Dog: I'll try.

(Thanks to both of you.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 28, 2025 06:35 AM (O7YUW)

73 (Snoopy licks Lucy. Panicked, Lucy runs about in true Karen fashion) "Dog germs! Dog germs! Get water! Get antiseptic!" (She runs offscreen)

And the joy of it is that the jokes are simple, funny and not mean.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 28, 2025 06:36 AM (7xrfc)

74 Hexie is now guarding the door to my office. Allie is most likely trapped in my library, along with Jasmine. Kaylee and Penny are trapped in my office.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 28, 2025 06:37 AM (IBQGV)

75 Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
😪

fin

Posted by: clarence at November 28, 2025 06:38 AM (GE9Fw)

76 Well I just pulled the trigger on buying a RX 9070 XT along with a new power supply to go with it.

Been reading too many articles and watching too many videos of warnings that GPU prices are definitely going back up next year.

The only contrarian opinion I’ve seen is from JayzTwoCents on YT who claimed that because GPUs use GDDR6/7 that they shouldn’t be affected like DDR5 going up 200%.

But I’m skeptical and the consensus is the opposite, especially when I read an article in Tom’s Hardware where the rumour is that AMD is definitely raising prices by at least 10% on board partners, PowerColor pretty much confirmed it.

So I bought a PowerColor Hellhound 9070 XT for $629 and I’m sure I’ll be happy with it for several years to come.

It was either that or a RTX 5070 Ti for $809 and I don’t see paying that much extra for very similar performance except in Ray Tracing and having no DLSS or CUDA cores.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 06:39 AM (6ydKt)

77 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 28, 2025 06:42 AM (bQ4nt)

78 We spend time like it’s cheap, like it’s always gonna be there, waiting. But life is like an egg timer, it’s going to stop one day.

Posted by: Eromero at November 28, 2025 06:43 AM (i+bC1)

79 Pilot thanks grandfather who raised him by giving him a flight:

https://tinyurl.com/f2trcced

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 06:45 AM (Nx5jP)

80 Posted by: olddog in mo at November 28, 2025 06:42 AM (bQ4nt)

Good morning to old dog and all!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 06:45 AM (Nx5jP)

81 Good morning, Fen. Hope all is well with you and your family.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 28, 2025 06:48 AM (bQ4nt)

82 X community note fries CBS on fried chicken history:
-

https://tinyurl.com/45ehbxnb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 28, 2025 06:50 AM (BzP/F)

83 Good morning everyone. Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. We sure did. Lots of pie left for breakfast today, as planned. Making that big meal always exhausts me but it is so worth it, and my wonderful husband does all the clean-up.

Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2025 06:50 AM (79pEw)

84 And God knows why I went with the Brit spelling of rumor.

Although that extra ‘u’ does make it seem a bit more classy.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

85 Korean fried chicken, unlike in the U.S., is fried at least twice.

OK, but why?
Seems like it would dry it out but what do I know?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

86 >> I thought moss grew on the north side of trees, and stuff

I think you'd be interested in this as it relates to navigation and all that. "Parallel transport" is all about what you mean by "straight lines" in a curved space. On the surface of the sphere, a curved 2D space, the geodesics are great circles. A geodesic is, like a straight line in flat space, the shortest distance between two points. And note that is closed. If you keep going "dead straight", parallel transporting yourself on the surface, you get back to where you started.

Now, on the surface of an ellipsoid, a surprising result is those geodesics are not generally closed. The earth, due to rotation, is really more close to an ellipsoid than a perfect sphere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 28, 2025 06:55 AM (w6EFb)

87 Work beckons, and I must answer the call.

Have a fantastic leftovers-day everyone. Enjoy the sales if that's your thing.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 28, 2025 06:57 AM (O7YUW)

88 Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2025 06:50 AM (79pEw)

Glad you had a great day, bluebell and that your husband helped. FenelonSpouse was helpful in both some of the cooking and clean up.He wrestled with the chicken and also helped with clean up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 06:59 AM (rZCVI)

89 Posted by: olddog in mo at November 28, 2025 06:48 AM (bQ4nt)

Thanks. Same to you, brother.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 07:01 AM (rZCVI)

90 Fen, I just got a mental image of your husband wrestling with a giant-sized cartoon chicken, lol. We are lucky to have our helpful spouses!

Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2025 07:02 AM (79pEw)

91 Trump has halted all immigration from “all third world countries”.

Also “millions of green cards will be re-examined” from 19 countries.

I guess we’re going to be arguing over what a third world country is and which qualify for the next two weeks,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 07:03 AM (6ydKt)

92 Trump has halted all immigration from “all third world countries”.

Also “millions of green cards will be re-examined” from 19 countries.

I guess we’re going to be arguing over what a third world country is and which qualify for the next two weeks,

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 07:03 AM (6ydKt)

Overruled. Can't do that because I said so

Posted by: Judge kamalamakadingdong at November 28, 2025 07:08 AM (/6GbT)

93 Posted by: bluebell at November 28, 2025 07:02 AM (79pEw)

LOL. I like the image . Well, it's less wrestling than he did with a turkey .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 28, 2025 07:09 AM (rZCVI)

94
For example, if I started here and went to see Pixy, and followed the true ellipsoidal geodesic, I take the shortest possible path to Pixy. However, were I bound to continue on that straight line, when I went around the earth a full 360 degrees of longitude, I'd miss getting home exactly by around a mile or two, and that distance would grow with each loop.

Going on on and on, my path would fill a band a few degrees wider that the latitude difference between here and Pixy. I would densely cover ever point in that band, but I would never come back exactly to my starting point. I'd get arbitrarily close, but never reach it exactly. The geodesic would condemn me to wander the surface of the earth, confined to that band, forever.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 28, 2025 07:09 AM (w6EFb)

95 Trump has halted all immigration from “all third world countries”.

Also “millions of green cards will be re-examined” from 19 countries.

Time to squeeze the enema bottle.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 28, 2025 07:11 AM (Hg3K0)

96 Thankfully, I didn’t have to do much besides drive and eat.

My brother cooked dinner last night.
He loves to cook, and found some recipe on TikTok or somewhere to make baked turkey quarters (wings and flats) with some spices, and peppers & onions. It tasted pretty good but the skin was soggy as opposed to crispy, which isn’t terrible but certainly not expected from turkey.

His wife turned her nose up at it, ate leftover ham instead, because she didn’t like the way it looked.
Pissed him right off, though, after he’d already cooked a bunch of stuff to bring to her family’s dinner and then he came home and cooked for us.

I ate it right up, along with the chicken & dumplings and collards he’d already made.

I’ll be eating the leftovers tonight.

The only thing I really missed was Mom’s deviled eggs and homemade Mac & Cheese.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 28, 2025 07:12 AM (6ydKt)

97 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 28, 2025 07:12 AM (m6HS6)

98 Good morning.
My Thanksgiving meal was a one inch thick ribeye.
Cooked over charcoal.
Illuminated by a headlamp.
While sitting at a picnic table.
In a grove of massive white pine trees listening to the sound of the wind in their branches under a moonlit sky.
Next to a roaring fire in 27 degree weather.
In a National Park that I had pretty much to myself.
It was so tender I could cut it with the serrated side of a metal spork.
Perhaps the most delicious steak I've ever eaten.

I have so much to be thankful for.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 28, 2025 07:13 AM (XQo4F)

99 Good rather sluggish morning!

28 degrees out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 28, 2025 07:15 AM (a1415)

100 mornin yall. How come I have never heard of this guy?

"Adolf Hitler Uunona, a Namibian politician who shares his name with the infamous Nazi dictator, won re-election for his local seat for the fifth time in a row."

Who names their kid Adolf?

Posted by: fd at November 28, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

101 This bonus Saturday is throwing me off

Posted by: Skip at November 28, 2025 07:21 AM (+qU29)

102 Well, my neighbors threw their annual "come watch football on Thanksgiving" party so my front lawn is covered with the trash that the guest took from the house but chose to not take into their car.

Sigh.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 28, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)

103 Who names their kid Adolf?
Posted by: fd

Could be worse. Could have been Sue.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 28, 2025 07:23 AM (7xrfc)

104 Does anyone know where I can go to volunteer to be on Captain Mark Kelley's firing squad?

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at November 28, 2025 07:24 AM (Da7Vv)

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