I can only think of the musical version of the Poe story.
solrize
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Waiting to see how the polls shaped up.
There was a forum I used to lurk on. I hardly ever posted, but there were still some posters who were so annoying that I had to block them anyway, to not get aggravated while reading the good posters. In fact I remember now, it was worse than that. The forum software for some reason only let you block a maximum of 10 accounts at a time, and there were far more than 10 annoying posting accounts (though maybe fewer people behind them) at any given time. I ended up having to write my own software to ignore enough accounts. I had first resisted ignoring, but once I gave in to the feature, I went nuts with it and it was great.
That was a really good forum that became useless when trolls overran it. The owners fixed it by charging a one-time $5(?) fee to get an account (existing users didn't have to pay). If they banned a troll account, they couldn't really stop the troll from paying up to join again, but few bothered doing that. So that worked quite well and was a big relief. Not counting the trolls, it was an intense and nerdy forum that legitimate participants didn't mind paying to join. It was eventually shut down with its archives deleted even though the parent site is still around. I don't know why they did that and I think its archives could have some significant historical value. Oh well.
Edit: I may be mis-remembering how the fee worked. It might be that you had to be a paying member of the parent site, since I do remember sending money, though that might have been to access some unrelated site features.
Debian with the MATE window manager (looks like older Windows) worked pretty well for my mom after I set it up for her. I don't think she ever figured out that it wasn't Windows.
Who is the guy in the picture? I'm missing context.
I don't fly drones and generally find them to be dorky, but it ~~would~~ wouldn't (fixed typo) have occurred to me to worry about carrying radios. I'm not worried now either. And, there really isn't much that isn't made in China these days, including quite a lot of mobile phones.
There is also a cool 4.5 minute animated movie using Schubert's musical setting of the poem. The translation in the subtitles isn't so good though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS91p-vmSf0
The Wikipedia article about the poem looks good and has a literal translation:
Wearing an N95 mask whenever you're indoors around other people is a significant help. I've been doing that nonstop from the beginning.
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/covid-california-masks-cases-b2820098.html
See here, which links to some MSM articles saying similar things:
Does Mike Jittlov count? He did a lot of in-camera animation using single frame shots. Set up scene, click shutter, move stuff in the frame slightly, click, etc. He shot mostly 16mm short films but did a feature length "Wizard of Speed and Time" in 35mm.
Here's the original 3 minute 16mm version to get you started. The feature version is also on youtube it looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XReeuhBeiIA
Aha, thanks, I didn't realize boosting and quoting weren't the same. I'm not very familiar with this stuff.
The current Moto G series (US market) has headphone jack, microsdxc slot, decent battery runtime, and fairly easy availability of replacement batteries. Missing some of the other stuff on your list, but I'm happy with my Stylus 5g 2023 model regardless. Someone in another thread said these models aren't being sold in the EU, but maybe you can import one somehow if that's where you are. For the US models, see: https://www.motorola.com/us/en/family/g.html