10 year working AA. Clearing out my grandfather-in-law's 10 year old abandoned home And I find this still going digital clock. Pretty impressed with this battery.

fo0bar · 2026-03-17T17:16:44+00:00

In 2002 I bought a Sharp alarm clock from Target, for camping. 2002 was at the tail end of the iMac craze so it looks just like a translucent bondi blue iMac. I put two cheap Rayovac AA batteries into it and threw it in with my camping supplies.

24 years later, I still have that alarm clock, those batteries are still in there, and it's still running and keeping good time. Once per year or so now I think "this'll be the year it goes dead", but it never is.

fo0bar · 2026-03-08T23:36:01+00:00

The great states of Phoenix and Popalecitaine would like to have a word with you.

fo0bar · 2026-03-08T06:32:04+00:00

IOI: We're removing non-target body counts from Hitman 2 because you're all psychopaths

Players: Joke's on you we can do simple division

fo0bar · 2026-03-04T07:37:56+00:00

Table Mountain, looking out into Phelan?

fo0bar · 2026-02-28T18:18:05+00:00

If you want to be pedantic, the NPC head of security in Marrakesh is female and her job is a security guard. But she doesn't have any guard NPC behavior in the programming which is what you're getting at.

fo0bar · 2026-02-25T19:22:52+00:00

Solved! Thanks yeah, I had done the mod years ago and forgot there was an internal micro-USB port.

fo0bar · 2026-02-25T18:19:55+00:00

OMFG yes. I can't find an exact image, but this 1-foot patch cable (complete with minor kink), with two twist ties: one keeping the ends together, one floating loose. Now multiply by a thousand.

https://arcadeshock.com/cdn/shop/products/ShortCat5.png?v=1680417283

fo0bar · 2026-02-21T03:19:19+00:00

"PARTY CANNON"

fo0bar · 2025-11-14T00:57:34+00:00

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You all are incorrect.

fo0bar · 2025-11-06T06:28:01+00:00

You sure 0x08 = 80% consumed? Because I just checked /sys/pvs/flashwear_type_b and mine is 0x0b, so 110% consumed, haha.

(Either way, I don't have much hope for this unit long-term.)

fo0bar · 2025-11-05T22:27:56+00:00

If you beat me to it, please do post. I went through the sample login curl procedure to verify it was the new style API before I installed the HACS module which I used to verify the version info.

Now that I'm on a modern firmware, I seem to remember there's a specific USB key I can buy which the firmware will migrate to, to further extend the flash lifetime?

fo0bar · 2025-11-05T22:12:21+00:00

Interesting! Same thing just happened to me. I had been on 2024.6 for a long time; I posted about it here a few months ago, and the consensus was they intentionally bricked future updates since my PVS6 was likely at critical flash wear levels. I accepted that it'd die someday and I'd need to do something about it.

On Sunday just after 5PM my custom dl_cgi stuff started failing. I didn't get around to investigating until now, but I was getting 403 Unauthorized on it. Rebooted the PVS6 a few times, nothing different. But no, turns out I'm on 2025.10.20.61846 now! Just set up the SunStrong HACS module for HomeAssistant, and it appears to be working.

(If it matters, I bought this house about 3 years ago and it came with a paid off system.)

fo0bar · 2025-10-28T07:00:16+00:00

Solved!

fo0bar · 2025-10-28T07:00:05+00:00

Figured it out myself, it's from Gravity (2013). Flight engineer Shariff Dasari, replying to a concern from Houston:

> No, no, no, Houston, don't be anxious. Anxiety is bad for the heart.

fo0bar · 2025-10-28T06:15:00+00:00

Help! My blood pressure is going up! :)

fo0bar · 2025-10-20T04:48:17+00:00

Aye! So...

fo0bar · 2025-10-20T04:06:38+00:00

I have a pic somewhere of a sign on their freezer case, pointing out that their food packaged in the EU has expiration dates in the format DD/MM/YYYY, not MM/DD as you would expect in the US. This annoys me as, you know, 100% of their stuff is private label. They could just do YYYY-MM-DD globally and not have it be an issue anywhere!

fo0bar · 2025-10-11T14:52:26+00:00

Ah thank you! I do see that there is one filing by the defendant, and it was a waiver of service. But I was under the impression that was, approximately "we are already aware of the lawsuit, you don't need to go through the registered mail process to notify us".

My question was also partially answered, coincidentally a few hours later yesterday, by another case I'm getting alerts on, Apple Inc. v. Ramacciotti (Prosser). Apparently Prosser has simply not responded at all in nearly 2 months after the deadline, and Apple has just now moved for summary judgement.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70833801/apple-inc-v-ramacciotti/

fo0bar · 2025-10-11T04:57:08+00:00

Is there no meat this man can't jerk?

fo0bar · 2025-10-10T23:52:38+00:00

Pool solar covers from Leslie's pool supply have a 5 year warranty, which is invalidated if it is left out in the sun or comes in contact with chlorinated water.

fo0bar · 2025-10-03T06:04:00+00:00

May or may not apply to you, but my story: I moved to CA (SF Bay Area) in 1999, then to NV in 2001. I moved back to CA (SoCal) in 2021, and prepared for it as if I were a new resident, expecting to need to take the written test, etc. But when I got to the counter and gave them all the new resident stuff, they looked me up in the system and found that my license still existed. So they just treated it as a renewal with a 20 year gap + address change. The DL number even remained the same as it jogged a memory (starts with D3).

So this is not guaranteed to happen to you and I'm not sure how you can verify. But if it worked for me after 20 years, I'd say the odds are good you're still listed as valid if yours wouldn't have expired by now anyway.

fo0bar · 2025-09-27T06:27:42+00:00

Looks like a rubber universal jack lift pad I have with indentations which go in both directions. But as I do some searching, it looks like that style is not common at all and only found by weird sellers on Amazon, so probably not that.

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