If I had to choose a method, it would involve an authentication site - one it would have its security validated by a trusted entity and guarantee that you will be fully compensated should they be hacked. Even better if that's backed up by a large insurance policy.

You verify your identity with them. Then they verify information requested by other sites. The risk of hacking is minimized to that one company. They should collect your IP and information about your browser, operating system, and hardware. Then issue you a cookie stored on your browser.

Subsequently, when you use a website that needs to verify your age, they read your identification cookie and validate it with the identification company, asking if you are of majority age and providing the information they collected. The identification company gives a yes or no response. They do not give out any other information about you, preserving your privacy. As long as you are using the same computer on the same IP you don't have to revalidate. A hacker would need access to your computer if they wanted to impersonate you.

The air fryer is my #1 used appliance. I used to throw out leftover french fries, but 4 minutes in the air fryer gets them hot and crispy again. Same thing with leftover fried chicken or a steak.

I liked it so much I bought a larger version that can cook a frozen pizza. Now the oven only gets used for the holiday cooking - ham, turkey, and big casserole dishes. And having two air fryers means I can easily do fish and chips for the family.

In the era before cheap microwave ovens the electric egg steamer was my go-to dorm appliance!. I found a coffee can would fit in place of the cover. Then it could not only cook eggs, it could reheat Chef Boyardee and Dinty Moore stew cans.

Only if Microsoft acquires a major CPU chipmaker. There has to be a lot of vertical integration under one company, the way it is with Apple products. Otherwise there are other OS like Linux that comprise enough of the market to ensure there will always be an unlocked BIOS option.

Nope. Only two.

So are you going to fight the citation? Better have lots of pictures with botanical data on all the plants growing in your lawn. Seems the key element here is the legal definition of a prohibited weed. If you go to trial, give the officer some rope and see if he'll hang himself. Ask if he's an expert on identifying weeds. If not, how does he know your yard had weeds? Otherwise pursue his qualifications. What training is he relying on to identify weeds. Make him define a weed. If it's substantially different from your legal definition, ask whether he's aware of the legal definition. Introduce the legal definition and have him read it. Then ask if in light of his newly acquired knowledge, does he still maintain that your yard had weeds. If not, citation dismissed.

You can do all that and more with an off-the-shelf mini PC running Linux. No need to reinvent a general purpose computer from a router. The chain of trust thing is above my paygrade, but I bet something like that exists.

For LCD screens it doesn't matter. They use the same amount of power whether the screen is black or white. There's no way to damage the screen by displaying an image.

OLED displays are vulnerable to burn in. So a bright static image left on screen for a long time can result in a latent image that's permanently burned into the screen. That's because the OLEDs degrade faster when they're brighter. But a black screen should have no effect.

Where they banned in all their various applications? Because I had a scare when my 2-year-old granddaughter found a box with a magnetic latch and the magnet had been torn out. We thought she ate it. But after scouring the area we found it, and it's a thin neodymium magnet. Went through the whole house making sure boxes like that were out of her reach.

Sounds like your SD card is defective. Try a new card.

Not as tough as it seems. People routinely memorize much more in shorter periods. Try learning the complete Kanji (Asian Pictograms) or heiroglyphics. It's not inconceivable to memorize 10,000 random words. Think of how many songs you can recite the lyrics to. I learned Billy Joel's, "We Didn't Start the Fire" in a day. That's pretty much what this challenge is about - a random list of words.