Ok, I was on the “old.” skin; let’s try the standard skin.

Nope, it doesn’t work on the standard skin, either.

Hmm, weird. I notice that you’re using Firefox; maybe that’s the deal. I am too:

Aha! I think that might be it! I can’t on Firefox either.

Edit: Nope, just tried it on Boost, and that didn’t work either.

Oh, bummer. But yeah, I remember being simultaneously bummed about the Fry’s closing, and also feeling vindicated that they were going out of business after how bad they had become in their last years.

Greetings fellow Hoosier. The Castleton Best Buy is particularly awful, though I guess the website is not necessarily a reflection on that. Did you check the Micro Center to see if they have what you’re looking for?

Oh! Yes.

For vaccines in general, yes. But kooky people that think this is some kind of trick are worried about it being an mRNA vaccine, which is indeed somewhat new. The idea has been around for about fifty years, but the first human clinical trials were only about a decade ago and COVID was the first large-scale human deployment.

Now, in fairness, they were almost entirely ready at the time. I would imagine, without COVID, we probably would’ve still seen mRNA vaccines become mainstream already, though maybe last year or this year instead of in 2021. But COVID stepped up the final stages of approval significantly.

Did billions of people end up getting the mRNA vaccine? I thought the traditional vaccine was more widely deployed outside the United States.

In any case, the objection is nonsense. On populations this large, the number of side effects was slightly less than might have been expected at the outset. The researchers did good work.

Have they been subject to medium to long term safety testing on humans?

Yes. For over two years now. Using a population of hundreds of millions of people and a control population of people who xerox misinformation and hand it out to strangers in grocery stores.

News flash: the vaccinated ones are doing way better.

Microsoft login works just fine with any TOTP app, like Aegis. They just heavily push you toward their app.

Actually I find the picture thing to be helpful. There’s a house on the next street over with the same house number and a similar street name, so we get packages misdelivered from time to time. If I see their porch in my delivery picture, I know where to go get it.

Just the other day, Doordash delivered somebody else’s Chipotle to my porch. Because the driver took a picture, I saw the actual customer walking by, comparing the photo on their phone to my house, and then coming up to get their burrito bowl.

And having the photo that their employee took of a house that’s obviously the wrong one has also been helpful in getting refunds before. Not me, but one of my friends; they had their package delivered to a house they didn’t even recognize, and the number on the door was clearly wrong, so the company refunded them.

So the photo thing I’m actually cool with. Yeah, it was probably originally conceived as a CYA for management, but it does actually turn out to help. I’d rather they give them time to be human beings while they’re doing deliveries; the photo thing isn’t really the big problem here.

I bet their phone was too slow and took the picture a half second after the driver hit the button, while they were turning away from the porch.

They’d need to allow drivers to take enough time to appropriately do the job, so that’s never going to happen.

When you have to make as many deliveries in an hour to require breaking the sound barrier during your shift, you don’t have time to check house numbers.

Also in some browsers (I know Gecko-based ones at least), you can override JavaScript by holding shift while you right-click.

I’m not in IT, I’m an SE, but I do wonder if their system automatically approves minor updates but requires manual intervention to approve major updates?

Or maybe it provides the functionality for them to turn off the automatic approval if they’ve done testing while the update is in beta and discovered issues that need to be addressed?

Or maybe it’s just a crufty relic of a previous IT regime when they actually did have to manually update everything, but disabling that specific checkbox would cause downstream issues they hadn’t considered. Or it’s an edict of the management that they have approvals enabled, but they don’t care whether it’s automated or not.

In my experience all enterprise technology policy is basically just three Windows scheduled tasks in a trench coat, so I also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s all of the above.

Millennials were raised on VHS tapes and we could figure out Limewire. I doubt this is going to work out well for the studios.

Yeah, and that’s cool, but it is significantly different from the original implementation (or at least the original idea) since it is a keypad-based device. You couldn’t really flash it onto an Android handset, for instance, as I understand it.

Yeah, I read a retrospective written by one of the developers, and it sounds like they had the trouble that they could only get development partners for low-end devices (which kind of meant that they had to target developing countries) but they couldn’t get companies like WhatsApp to make web apps that would run on Firefox OS (which meant that it was kind of a non-starter in those developing countries).

Couple that with some questionable priority decisions at the top of the project, and a major reshuffling of Mozilla’s organizational aims near the end of the project, and it all just sort of fell apart. I do kind of wonder if it would have done better today, or maybe as a tablet or a Roku competitor.

They did. It was a project initially called “Boot to Gecko,” about a decade ago; and the idea was to make a Linux kernel OS so lightweight that you were running web apps as close to bare metal as possible. There were intended to be no binary apps, only web apps running on open standards; though that didn’t necessarily carry through as originally intended.

I agree. I think it was before its time and would be a real boon today.

More and more every day, I wish the Firefox Phone had survived.

A few years ago I was driving in Atlanta and had to turn onto Peachtree from Peachtree, and then make another turn onto Peachtree. But I missed my turn (turned on Peachtree instead), so I had to go back around via Peachtree to Peachtree to Peachtree (but not Peachtree) to get where I was going.

Glad I didn’t turn onto Peachtree, though. That street is one-way and I’d have to go all the way down to Peachtree to get back.