Depends what you mean by “use”.

The Americans are the only ones to have used them in terms of destroying enemy assets (and sadly in that case it was used against civilians). But as a deterrent it’s been used by a LOT of countries all around the world and is still being used for that purpose right now.

An argument could be made the Cold War could have been an all out world war if it weren’t for nukes, with the short peace after WW2 be considered just a break and not the end.

I hope nukes won’t be used, but Ukraine is in trouble and if they are backed into a corner and facing destruction who knows what they will do. Same could apply to Iran before long, if they have the ability to get nukes somehow, it might be their only hope. Just please let it be as a deterrent and not actual nuclear war.

Nah you can just emula…

Fuck Nintendo is at my door, I’m afraid I’ll run out of ammo before they will, when I get to hell I’ll shout Ya-hoo

It’s the yeti invasion isn’t it? I will send my thoughts and prayers your way. I’m atheist, so the prayers will probably work about as well as those of a religious true believer.

Well once the US stops support and drops out of Nato and Putin starts steamrolling across Eastern Europe countries after they decimated what’s left of Ukraine, I’m sure all the borders will be closed.

Not that it does much good. If the option is get tortured and killed or try your luck with an illegal border crossing people will always try. Even if the border police starts shooting like at the North Korean border, people would still try.

It’s actually a plastic ribbon with a metallic foil in a zigzag pattern on top of it. It’s extremely cheap and does a pretty good job. It usually sits on top of a metal bar that can deflect a tiny little bit.

You can read all about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_gauge

That’s because of the way these scales work. They use a material that deforms under stress and when it deforms the resistance changes. By putting current through this material and measuring the voltage drop, it can be mapped to how much stress the material is under and thus how much weight is on the scale.

This is a pretty roundabout way and has a lot of caveats, but it is very cheap. So cheap scales always work this way. That’s why they aren’t super accurate and have deviations depending on things like temperature. Another big downside is any permanent deformation ruins the calibration, giving incorrect results. That’s why you never put more weight on kitchen scales than it says, it will break them.

The issue you are running into is the way it measures. It applies a very specific voltage and current in order to get the result. The lookup table it uses is only valid within a narrow range. When the battery voltage goes outside that range, it can no longer perform the measurement. Even though there’s plenty of juice for things like the little processing chip and the LCD display. They don’t need a lot of power and can do with low voltages. But it can no longer weigh anything so it just errors out with a low battery warning.

So the logic is, because we fucked up the first time, we must be good at fucking up. So if we try to fuck it up a second time, it will totally work and get unfucked?

We have been actively fucking up for about 150 years, so I’d say we have experience. And we’re currently fucking up at record rates, so if we aren’t qualified I don’t know who is.

Look at my awesome Linux setup you guys! Shows a beautiful wallpaper with almost nothing else. You guys know you can install wallpapers on almost every OS since at least the 90s right?

Yeah it shouldn’t be an excuse. Sure the billionaires are terrible per person compared to a regular person. But they are still a minority. Most of the air traffic is regular folk traveling for work or fun. And freight being hauled by plane or trucks because of all the useless stuff people buy. Most of the cars driving every day are regular folk. By far the worst thing are cruise ships, dumping out huge amounts of pollution just for people to go on holiday.

Billionaires are terrible and should not be allowed to exist as they do today. But it isn’t a reason not to do something yourself. If enough people do it, it will make an impact.

And bring him to a free clinic to see after his bunghole.

I saw a fish beat Elden Ring, I’m sure they can microwave a cup of soup.

Good, from a certain point of view

Oeoeoe this has VGA internet? Cool! I’ve been stuck on CGA for so long, considered getting an EGA upgrade, but man that shit is expensive. I already put all my money in getting a color monitor, but it sucks without a good graphics card to back it up. I have a full sized slot in my chassis, so having a long card isn’t an issue for me thankfully. But my motherboard doesn’t have any VLB, but that’s fine I hope.

People will probably just post a Powershell script on Github to make it update directly from the official servers without paying the extra fee. It’s funny how the most popular activation scripts are on Github, even though Microsoft owns Github and could easily just delete them.

Most people who are fed up with Microsofts crap simply don’t buy a new computer anymore. They just do everything on an iPad (maybe pro) or similar without Windows. Gamers switch over to consoles, with Nintendo and Steam deck being preferred. Those things may run Linux like the Steam deck or another non Windows OS, but the user won’t notice or care since they don’t interact with it.

The time of the desktop and to a lesser extent the laptop has come and gone. It’s only for enthusiasts and people at work. At work people probably just use the same couple of apps or even just a browser with a webapp and never really interact with the OS. If it’s even a full computer and not a thin client connecting to a virtual desktop environment. People don’t know or care about OSes. Maybe they’ll bitch about Windows at times, but they bitch about a lot of things at work and they have no influence over any of it.

And Schnitzel, I love a good Schnitzel!

Plus Sauerkraut is the most versatile and delicious thing ever.

That would depend heavily on how accessible the computer is and how fat your fingers are. And I can tell you, mine are pretty fat.

And then you add the inflation and you actually just owe money. Got to get that third job at 65

Die Pringles sind einfach traurig, eine riesige Dose und dann so ein Mini-Chip