Step five:

https://www.sordum.org/downloads/?st-edge-block

Not in this instance in particular, but I have a copy of Fantasia (i.e. the recalled/rareish game, which makes this even more annoying) which also refuses to boot. I’ve never been able to determine why. The contacts look good, all the traces look good, no part of the board is cracked, and staring at it under magnification doesn’t reveal any of the pins on the chips lifted or anything. It’s the only cartridge game I have for any system that doesn’t work. 'Tis a mystery.

FYI, your $600 Maytag did not come with a 10 year warranty. It comes with a 10 year parts only warranty, labor is not covered, only on the compressor. Labor is only covered for one year.

Here’s a compressor. You figure out the rest.

Here’s the fine print:

https://www.whirlpool.com/content/dam/global/documents/202303/warranty-w11655302-revA.pdf

There are a lot of birds who have a silly facial expression built in, but if there were a contest for that I think cormorants would be top contenders.

She’s actually named Sandie, but all of our cats have secondary names and we also call her Meow-Meow because she likes to double meow whenever she wants something.

It can be, but IIRC in the case of the Bored Ape Yacht Club ones it wasn’t. I think.

Maybe someone who was smart enough to buy one can chime in and let us know the mechanics.

Well, you didn’t leave the house without your sword again, did you?

It might be better to start her off with a Lancrastian Army Knife instead.

It’s even worse. You didn’t buy the picture of a monkey, you bought a link which may if you are lucky still resolve to some server somewhere which hosts a picture of a monkey.

http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=249

…I did not have linking to The Last Days of FOXHOUND on my bingo card today.

Truman rather famously ended the war with Japan…

Although to be fair, Japan should not be circled under the Marshall Plan, which was contained to western Europe. Nobody ever came up with a snappy name for the postwar occupation/reconstruction of Japan.

I never used the one on the CD case, I just used all ones. Or 123451234512345, etc. for Windows 98.

Bronze is still technology. So are stone tools, and sticks when they’re used as tools.

Yes, edited. I usually use Alexandrite and copying links from it is weird.

Suggestions here and elsewhere to have no infill on tall structural components that will have large flat surfaces such as large boxes and bins is hilariously bad advice. Yes, “StReNgTh aCtChUlLy cOmEs fRoM ThE WaLlS,” but unless you plan to use an absurd number of perimeters and probably not even then, you absolutely need to have some infill to connect the inner and outer walls, otherwise they will be prone to warp and collapse in on each other. If your item will be as tall as you suggest, this is likely to happen before the print even finishes. Given the shape of the bottom of most Gridfinity objects, printing it entirely with no infill is impossible anyway. You can’t have a floor suspended in midair of any significant dimensions without infill underneath it to build on top of.

You probably don’t need much infill, probably only 5 or 10%. But it’s going to have to be there.

Don’t overthink it. I print these relatively giant Gridfinity drawer shells standing upright, and I use 10% gyroid infill, 2 wall perimeters, and 3 top and bottom layers. It works just fine and they’re perfectly rigid enough to stack at least four units tall (the most I’ve bothered to hook together to far) while loaded to the gills with probably more weight than is wise worth of knives and nuts/bolts.

I tried to print one without infill precisely once, and it collapsed and failed after about 30mm worth of height had been built up. This was with PLA which is the most rigid of the commonly available printable materials; the issue would be even worse with other plastics.

Theoretically, but it would probably be slower than dogshit if you tried to do it over e.g. USB, and the administration would probably also not be pleased with you spending the entire exam with an external storage device conspicuously bunged into your computer.

You could grab a cheap (relatively, these days) low-ish capacity SSD in whatever flavor your machine takes and install Windows on that with your primary drive removed and safely stored away somewhere, though, and then just swap them back when you’re done.

If you want something to do with your secondary SSD afterwards there are enclosures you can get that’ll convert an NVME SSD into a super fast USB flash drive sort of arrangement, albeit typically dangling on the end of a short cable rather than sticking directly into the port, which makes a good modern day stand-in for those portable laptop hard drive enclosures nerds used to carry around in the early 2000s.

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For further nagware avoidance, remember that the Enterprise editions of Windows come bundled with the group policy editor (gpedit.msc, stick that in your run prompt) and will respect group policy settings with the intent of system administrators having control over various components and features.

In your case, a the system administrator is you.

For the purposes of decluttering your start menu specifically, for instance, I’ll link everyone to this comment I wrote the other day which lists off the policy settings you’ll want to mess with — including disabling Copilot completely.

It doesn’t, but the side windows do if there’s anything solid within reach you can grab.

…Or just put it in reverse.

Ah. I was thinking one hand out the window, like James was trying to accomplish. Either/or.

Time to dredge this up again.