Posts by rh16181618190224 19 publicly visible posts • joined 2 May 2015
On Trixie and Bookworm to make a headless image this works for me:
sudo dd if=2024-03-15-raspios-bookworm-armhf.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4096 status=progress
(usb out and in again to mount new partitions)
# set up for ssh access and first account
cd /media/roger/bootfs/
touch ssh
sudo echo 'pi:'`echo 'raspberry' | openssl passwd -6 -stdin` > userconf.txt
Do a search on Bing for Microsoft Rewards Dashboard.
Basically you have to use Bing signed in with a Microsoft Account. Then say you want to enroll in the rewards program.
The Account needs to be (and I'm paraphrasing here) an administrator on your computer for the points to be redeemable for an ESU. Microsoft's ESU documentation says it is not rolled out yet. Once it is rolled out, the ESU is applicable up to 10 devices, presumably all using the same Microsoft Account.
You can earn 500 points just by downloading the Bing App to your phone. You don't have to use it once you have the points, and you can delete the Bing search history from the App.
I signed up to the rewards program. I got the 1000 points in 3 days, less than an hour actually "earning them" by messing around. So it's not onerous. And if you are serious about keeping your current OS up to date, that amount of time or the relatively small fee is annoying but everything Microsoft does nowadays is annoying.
So you could wait until closer to the end date before picking up the 1000 points.
In UK here. Bought something fairly high powered off Amazon, a hand held clothes steamer. It was 120V with a USA plug. My partner did not check the rating, but luckily asked me about the plug before hunting down an adapter.
This is downright dangerous, and they should be held to account everywhere.
I'm old enough to have worked on Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 when they were being built.
We had the technology and could have carried on, not putting large amounts of CO2 and SO2* into the atmosphere. I think the objectors to Nuclear power did a great job of scaring people with the waste argument, so everything stopped. But I think they were mistaken.
Things are different now, and even if Nuclear is not the final answer, we are too late not to have a zero CO2 energy source as a reserve. I'm all for renewables, but they don't always get the base load, and the battery storage is not there yet.
* Remember when acid rain was the problem?
Sometimes you may need to work on a computer that is not connected to the Internet. And you do not want to put an extra binary or two onto the machine either (might be production, might be other reasons). So paint and notepad are goto tools that are always there, hence it makes sense to learn these.
Thank you for the article, and thanks for the pdf link in the discussion.
It took about 3 minutes to fill it in, sign it and send it, all without printing it out.
If you don't know how to put text and a signature into a pdf, why not spend a few minutes finding out rather then composing an angry response on this forum about how printing and scanning is all too difficult.
I'm in UK, getting monthly injections in one eye for something similar. Its slightly unpleasant, and needs a couple of paracetamol afterwards - mostly because of the Iodine they use to disinfect the area. At the instant of injection it is numbed so I don't feel much. Last one a few days ago, took about 30 mins total then I walked home (with sunglasses on!) So don't worry too much about the clockwork orange frame. NHS has been great for this, free at point of delivery. You have my sympathy though.
Moved house - new house had British Gas smart meter. The last bill was estimated. WTF? New supplier is Ovo. Ovo cannot use the same smart meter. WTF? This has not been well thought out. And fiddling around with LCD displays that only read after you press a button a number of times is not well thought out.
At the moment all the apps do not work. I lost my ODBC data sources. I tried to report it, but cannot unless using a Microsoft account. I didn't because that's not how I am going to use it.
So local accounts are not going to be very well tested or reported on.
And if you try and add a Microsoft account, the local account gets converted to a Microsoft account, rather than adding one. Because of course someone who has jumped through the hoops for a local account is going to want it converted!
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