Wish I could take credit for the term, lol, but I heard it elsewhere.

Yep!

I’ve seen enough EV conversions to know it’s not rocket science. The instrument cluster just displays the values relayed to it over CAN bus, most of the sensors are the same as they are on a conventional ICE vehicle, and the only real difference is the powertrain. There’s some consideration for the battery placement and management, but that’s pretty much it. Leave the touchscreens in the backseat for the kids, and give me physical buttons to operate the vehicle.

Maybe if they’d focus more on making them functional vehicles instead of smartphones on wheels, it would simplify that problem.

Just updated again. Looks like she did come back for him. At least, I’m assuming she did. They normally don’t wander off from where their mom stashes them.

Took all of my restraint not to boop it. lol.

Phone calls also assume the person on the other end wants to be bothered. If you choose to not answer, you’re treated like the a-hole and are expected to explain why (“I’ve been trying to call you. Why haven’t you picked up?”)

To quote Stephen Fry: “A telephone is a fantastically rude thing. I mean, it’s like going ‘speak to me now! Speak to me now! Speak to me now!’. If you went to someone’s office and banged on their desk and said, ‘I will make a noise until you speak to me’ it would be considered unbelievably rude.”

Space is the final frontier. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I’d only heard about the 10C portion of the bill, but the rest of it is equally or more bonkers than that.

4. THE BILL CALLS THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT “AMERICA’S FIRST WRITTEN CONSTITUTION”

…Louisiana legislators do not mention that this document was prepared for the local governance of a few hundred religious extremists as a giant FU to civil authority, or that the compact was written before any of them had even set a Pilgrim foot on North America.

Maybe we should do what England did and set these religious nutters adrift and hope for the best.

I really like my trackball mouse, though I had to buy it myself.

No they didn’t.

In a strictly technical / laboratory sense, maybe not. But in practice, they stopped just the same. I also slow down to a stop (regen braking is amazing) and don’t slam on my brakes at a stop light (like some drivers I routinely scowl at). And driving through the country and having to slam on the brakes when a deer jumps out (which was common where I lived), I noticed no appreciable difference in stopping distance between the two tire types.

…huh? ABS has nothing to do with rolling resistance…

ABS prevents the tires from locking up and skidding (anti-lock braking system, hence the name). Under normal driving conditions, it merely helps you maintain control, but on slick roads, locking up the wheels can skid you further than without it. So, no, ABS doesn’t directly relate to rolling resistance, but it’s part of a system along with the tires that contribute to stopping distance…which is what I was talking about.

I wouldn’t think stopping distance would be noticeably impacted by less rolling resistance. My original “eco” tires stopped the same as the standard ones. They’re “eco” because they have less rolling resistance and are slightly lighter.

Plus, with ABS, you’re not likely to lock the wheels up such that the decreased resistance would be significant.

On slick roads would be my only concern, but a good and season appropriate tread should mitigate that.

It’s going to be all about the price.

My hybrid recommends “eco” style tires to get the best gas mileage. Those were $100 more, per tire, than the standard low-profiles. At the time, I commuted about 110 miles/day, so tires typically only lasted me about a year before they were either officially worn out or too worn to be safe to drive in winter.

I only noticed about a 1-2 MPG loss with the “standard” tires versus the “eco” ones that came with it. Over the course of a year, I doubt that 1-2 MPG added up to the $400 difference.

So, these cleaner tires are a good thing, assuming they’re not more expensive than current-style tires.

If only we had the technology to open doors without power. One day, perhaps.

Hell yeah! Working “for exposure” is a crock of crap. Good for you for knowing your worth.

TL;DR: I worked at a bank call center, the bank was super shady, and I went on an overdraft fee refund spree my last week.

In college, I worked at a call center for one of the worst Bank of America (oops, meant banks in America 😉). That bank, which will remain unnamed, was doing all kinds of shady stuff (probably still is). For brevity, I’m going to focus only on one specific shady thing they did: processing payments out of order in order to maximize overdraft fees (OD fees from here on). Each OD fee was $34 ($51.50 adjusted for inflation).

There were guidelines for refunding OD fees, and they all had to be the bank’s fault. That said, you weren’t expected to give out many, if any, per month.

After about 7 or 8 months of dealing with customers that the bank was kicking while they were down, I couldn’t take it anymore. I went in on a Monday just knowing it was my last week.

First call of the day was this lady who overdrafted her card 6 times at a fast food place. All of the offending transactions were all $1-4. I didn’t really ask why (irrelevant), but looking at the transaction history, yep, they were processed out of order. She had a big payment go through later the same day which overdrew the account. Had the transactions been processed in order, only the big payment would have overdrawn (1 fee instead of 6).

However, according to policy, none of those were technically the bank’s fault because in the super fine print somewhere it said that the bank processed transactions largest to smallest and it was her fault.

That’s when “this is my last week” went from a “probably” to a “definitely”.

I said I could only refund one as a courtesy (the bank did let us do that occasionally), but just made up something about her being my 1,000,000th caller and I was gonna refund all of them. And I did. She was fucking ecstatic.

From Monday to Thursday mid-morning (more on that below), every caller that wanted an OD fee waived got it. Some guy even called in with a question, didn’t even mention the OD fee, and I was like “Oh, I see you have an overdraft fee last week. Lemme take care of that for you”. Bam, refunded.

My goal was to Robin Hood until Friday and quit, but some lady’s arrogance and entitlement on Thursday morning absolutely broke me. She had like $175K in checking and was complaining about three tiny, $3 yearly fees. I was all set to refund them (not that she needed them, but hey, I’m sticking it to the man here). The system wouldn’t let me touch one of them since it was over 2 years old. So I let her know I knocked off 2 out of 3. That wasn’t good enough, and she went on a tirade.

So I undid the refunds, apologized, and said I’d check with my manager. I put her on hold, left my badge on my desk, and just left.

I wonder if she’s still holding trying to claw back that last $3.

Yeah, just try seeing if SANE supports it out of the box. Someone else commented with a link showing it may have a compatible driver already.

Not directly, no. They’re completely different architectures. You may be able to emulate x86 on a Pi with QEMU and run Vista as a VM, but it’s going to be very, very slow (probably unusably so).

Your best chance would be a ultra small form factor PC and try to get Vista running on that (if using Vista is the only way to interface with it.

Have you tried hooking the scanner up to the Pi (running Raspbian), installing SANE, and checking if it has built-in drivers that work?

I didn’t even see the model page for that one lol.

Unless there’s a driver wrapper, you’d still need Linux drivers AFAIK.

Assuming there’s drivers for it, yeah. A quick look on Canon’s driver/support section doesn’t show any results for that model.

I’ve got a Brother MFC that has Linux drivers, and I built a scan server for it. Basically just a Docker container that has the drivers configured along with SANEd. My other PCs just connect their SANE daemons to the server’s and can scan without having to have the driver installed.

So the idea will definitely work as long as you can get drivers working.