Not even good soup. Real soups use some kind of broth to give a lot of base flavor.

The chess square is not aligned with the monitor pixels so it is sharp edged on the bottom and left, but has a blended border on the top and right.

You’re welcome.

My gf got told “it’s a pinch” and “there are no nerves in the cervix you won’t feel it”.

They stab that shit with sharp pincers to hold it open. Ohhh it hurts.

We are all the sons of someone’s crotch

why would i put it together? the box it is still inside of works perfectly fine

What was your input situation before?

Dreamcast outputs at 480i/p which looks about that size on a 1080 display. I think your TV is running in just-scan display mode which is just displaying what it gets pixel for pixel. I’m guessing whatever you used for input before made the TV auto scale itself, but now it’s not on HDMI.

Change the TV to fill and live with it. It’s gonna be a bit blurry.

You’d be surprised. They’re less common in urban areas, but you can find multiple in any parking lot in more rural areas.

You want a carbureted small block Chevy or Ford.

Nope.

Pre 1990 mechanically fuel injected, naturally aspirated diesels. 7.3 or 6.9 IDI, 6.2 Detroit, most Cummins industrial engines.

Diesel lasts significantly longer in storage (2+ years) than volatile gasoline (6mo max). I’ve even seen some non-mixed diesel last 10+ years when stored right.
But the biggest deal is that compression ignition engines can basically run on literally any vaguely flammable liquid substance. You can make biodiesel from a ton of stuff ranging from oil bearing crops to animal fat. They run way longer on oil changes because they don’t dump as much thin gas into their oil. And there are no real consumables like spark plugs, distributor caps/rotors/points.

In a post-society situation real fossil fuels or petroleum lubricants or parts will not be available.

A quick poke at the retroid pocket’s product page says it’s underlying OS is Android 14. Android defaults external storage formatting to fat32 or exFAT, both of which Raspbian or most Linux distros can support (with an extra package in exFAT’s case). You should have no problems with each device reading the cards, but I’m not sure what emulators each uses.

Nah, they’ll make corporations immune from it but the normal consumer will still have to deal with licensing hell

At best it let’s you get a few gigs of data out, at worst it doesn’t work and you’re back to where you were (which was nothing). Doesn’t really hurt the drive at all.

So, my first goto with an unresponsive external would be to remove the drive from its enclosure. Typically these are retail internal hard drive that are put in an enclosure with a small circuit board that converts SATA to a USB or firewire and sometimes those die.
If you “shuck” the drive and connect it directly to a computer internally via SATA you can bypass that board.

Next step is put the drive in your freezer for an hour or so then pull it out and connect it immediately. Sometimes this frees them up and makes them work for a short while, enough to copy some of the data off.

Drives not being recognized also sometimes happens if they corrupt one sector that’s part of the file system tables and not the actual file system. The drive may be there but not have a file system for windows to read So there’s some other tricks you can try using Linux tools to dump the exact bit for bit contents of the drive, and pass them thru an analyzer that will try to pick out what’s likely of the file structure.

However, still given the drives age, I’ll almost guarantee it’s experienced a full mechanical failure and there might not be anything to recover…

Your house is insanely easy to break into unless it’s built with special materials or has steel bars over all openings.

Disregarding the fact that windows break, pretty much every residential door (both interior and exterior) can be busted down by anyone with a decent body weight or with a framing hammer. Hammer thru the door skin, or claw pry on the jamb to force the latch to release, or even just bodyslamming it can be enough to separate the lock block and stiles and the doors will simply fall apart from there.

Can you hear or feel the drive spinning with the power and USB plugged in?

Do you have a second computer (Linux or windows) to also try it in?

A brief search seems to indicate this drive is a minimum of 15 years old, which is an incredible age for a portable mechanical drive. I would honestly be preparing yourself to be dealing with this drove finally being cooked beyond repair. Sure hope you kept backups of what was on it!

Might be 6’3 if he was stretched out on one of those Medieval torture racks.

Numbers like that should have been why you kept going in mech E.

Once you get past the educational stage, every one of those calculations becomes “OK now round to the closest whole number that gives you the larger factor of safety and move on”

Honestly that’s a complaint I have about nearly every pencil, not just the zebra. They’re almost always hard and smudgy because the pencil has been sitting out either in a warehouse or on an office supply shelf for like 5 years.
I’d rather bring my own hi-poly brick eraser, or even better, a hi-poly retractable eraser that is a lot easier to control and keep a fresh, smudge-free surface on.

#8 all the way.

If I had to do sketch design drafting in college with a pen or wooden pencil and not a 0.5 mechanical, I would have probably become a school shooter.

I think it might be the way her fingers are holding that box

Ah, a fellow "EVERY ACTION MUST BE CORRECTLY VALIDATED WITH POSITIVE ENERGY BY MY PEERS OR ELSE MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE FEELS LIKE ABJECT FAILURE" enjoyer, I see