This one has captured me. It generates them randomly. I've been hitting "generate new comic" for 5mins now...

https://theoatmeal.com/pages/horrible_therapist?q=q_sleep&a=a_blew_party_clown&t=t_sucking_slapping

Here's a hot tip: get some DIY tea bags for a few bucks on Amazon (or your preferred cheap tat bazaar)...

I make my own dessicsnt packs for use with 3d printer filament spools when I store them, and the tea bags are a godsend.

IMAP is the protocol you probably want.

I'm quite happy with "Mail In A Box" as a platform for hosting mail locally with clients.

There are companies that will do inbound spam filtering and outbound mail relaying to ensure high reputation for outgoing main also. I have clients on duocircle but they're grandfathered in on reasonably priced plans (the new plans are probably a little expensive for self hosted home mail)

That last pane.... The island, it looks.... lonely...

They need to make unlock codes available once off contract from memory.

For all we lack in privacy legislation and any kind of actually permitted free speech in Australia, the ACCC is a little gem and has been pretty damn amazing at holding the line against massive corporate interests.

They are the reason that, in Australia:

1. DVD/Blueray region zoning was banned, requiring all players in Australia being in "zone 0" and allowed to play discs from anywhere
2. We have a ban on locking a mobile phone to a carrier
3. We have a consumer guarantee law that requires a warranty period commensurate with the price of the item (so a $1500 iPhone can't limit warranty to 12 months), and the ability to choose to have the retailer or the manufacturer honour that warranty (meaning shops can't just say: "contact the manufacturer not us!"). Also allows for full immediate refund if the problem is big enough that you would not have bought it if this issue had been present at the time of purchase.

I got a full refund for a 12m old iPhone when apple announced they were going to scan everyone's photo libraries, for example, and the shop I bought it from had to honour it. (They also got their money back from Apple).

I know people who bought a new car that turned out to be lemon, after a few years, so they literally filled out a form, dropped the key back to the dealer and had a full refund transferred back to them.

So... Fingers crossed!

Just feed them once a week with dog biscuits or meal worms - not too much though (and no mincemeat or bread)

Kids used to get swooped on the way to the school bus. We started feeding them. Now kids in front of them get swooped, kids behind them get swooped, my kids are "the untouchables"... 🤣🤣 Magpies recognise people (like crows do)...

If you can set up a routine, they'll even sing for you. Ours will sit on the mailbox and sing in the mornings or evenings. They even bring their babies along once they hatch.

They can get ballsy - one year they started tapping on the glass of my back door when they were hungry. I gently shooed them away and only fed them out the front in the evenings. They got with the program super quick...

Unsurprisingly, that is where many were used!!

Do you mean these ELTs?

I fly high powered rockets, and the flight computers run on lipos with a backup high quality 9v battery (good quality means the sub cells are soldered and not just stacked, so they don't separate & disconnect power under Gforce loads causing a reboot of the flight computers mid flight)

As you never want a questionable 9V backup battery, we have a simple rule: new battery, voltage tested, then only ever used once for flight.. You don't risk a $3k of airframe and flight controllers etc to save $3 on a battery....

Why do I tell you this? I have a drawer full of 9V batteries with "NOT FOR FLIGHT" stickers on them that are good as new for use around the house.

Now that my smoke alarms are mains connected with a lipo backup battery designed to last 10years, I have the opposite problem:

"Who has use cases for 9v batteries around the house?!"

I'd bet they were still sharp when you turned them around though!!

Turned 30 this year. Used to make coffee 1-2 times per day, every day since it was bought new in 1996.

They still sell them. They retail for AUD$1000.