Did any of you submit this successfully? I first tried in Firefox and it seemed to just not work when clicking the final submit. Then I tried again in Safari and the same, but the UI worked a little differently (a dropdown for the product model) and the submission still didn't work. So I tried one more time in Safari and it said the serial number was already submitted.

But never got an email affirming my submission so... I dunno.

This power bank is actually an old one that I don't really use anymore, but if I get a chance to get a replacement, I sure don't mind. So hopefully it went through?

FWIW, yes i was able to submit a claim. Did get a confirmation screen saying claim submitted but no email confirmation yet.

When I put in the serial number it said my batch was safe. I wonder what percent of batches don't actually apply to the recall

This reminds me of PaperDisk: https://www.paperdisk.com/id1.html

For me I pretty quickly realized that I like synths to make sounds, or maybe a bit of programming (with wires!) to make an electronic music box.

But making songs? Just not for me... And that's a whole different thing.

Same here. For just knocking up models of stuff I find it both nicer than Excel (and included with the OS) and works... better... for me than Google Sheets.

It's just convenient and works.

I'd guess warmer destinations in the US.

Flying from Canada to non-US destinations is often MUCH cheaper because there's no TSA fees (which the US puts on the departing airport) for the return leg.

As someone from Buffalo it is (anecdotally) pretty common for Canadians to come here to fly to other parts of the US for cheaper, and for us to go to Toronto for cheaper international flights.

I just spent a few minutes on Google Flights looking at trips to various US holiday destinations like Miami, Las Vegas, Honolulu and Los Angeles. Every single destination was a lot cheaper (in some cases less than half price) when flying out Toronto compared to Buffalo. I wonder is a reflection on the collapse of demand for flights to the US.

Do you have experience or information on direct burial ethernet for something like a POE camera? I'd like to put one on the back fence to watch the back of the house and yard. Direct burial in the back yard would be a plenty easy thing to do, but the cable is pricey enough that I've held off for now.

Whatever you do make sure you put a fiber media converter between the “ethernet” cable and your network to prevent your entire network getting fried.

US citizen here in Michigan, grew up and currently live near the border with southwest Ontario.

For as long as I can remember it's just been known that going to Canada the border control folks are friendly, and coming back into the US is a mixed bag. Sometimes things are fine to cold, other times it's like the folks are having a bad day and taking it out on you.

And this is just me, rando US citizen without any criminal record, going to Canada for random couple-day touristy things. Seeing Toronto, Niagara Falls, hiking, etc.

TOMY made so, so many cool mechanical toys.

My favorite from growing up was Stunt Pilot which held an airplane on the end of a metal rod, with controls for speed and elevation. One had to use it to pick up objects off of a platform, but it felt just like flying.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1628783799/1980-tomy-stunt-pilo...

My first computer was by TOMY

https://toytales.ca/tutor-play-computer-from-tomy-1984/

Not to be confused with

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomy_Tutor

Microsoft is, generally, very very good at backward compatibility.

Indeed, PE+Wine is the most stable Linux ABI.

That's because Linux is remarkably bad at backward compatibility rather than Windows being remarkably good at it. FreeBSD's stable ABI is if anything better than PE+Wine.

That's too much overbearing for Linux, as the kernel itself tries to maintain backwards compatibility (for userland). It's everything else that breaks backwards compatibility (looking at the most egregious, Gnome, although there are many system-level libraries sharing the blame for this).

As are most commercial UNIXes.

nothing stops you from using the old libraries and all that stuff forever?

Linux distributions tend not to ship them - AIUI there is some unique problem with linux ld that makes it harder to have multiple versions of the same library installed. And lately there's a lot of tight coupling in the whole kernel/udev (or hal, remember hal?)/systemd chain, so even if old dynamic libraries are available, old dbus services might not be and you end up in much the same place.

> Microsoft is, generally, very very good at backward compatibility.

It was. A long time ago. Running old games in Win10 has become a big challenge.

As I read it, when someone is "activated" they are provoked to responding; someone replying because they want to say something. I see "triggered" as somewhat of an analogy, but a much more loaded word.

This seems to stand opposed to people who reply because they have something interesting to say.

Actually yes, I think I originally used the word 'triggered' years ago, but it was too...activating, so I switched to 'activated'.

> This seems to stand opposed to people who reply because they have something interesting to say.

Or something interested to say. Interested people say interesting things.