No. They will just use the $10 card and leave. They will prey on the fact that "get a gift card for your computer troubles" is something a legitimate company has done.

Buy a $10 Xbox gift card and send us the code so that we can activate it. Then you get back to the shop and get $20 in cash - $10 for returning the card and $10 from us. We'll pay the tax, too.

Is there more info about this? I could only find Chinese forums like https://m-weibo-cn.translate.goog/status/OdaBMza1L?from=page_1005052963774131_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime&jumpfrom=weibocom

The chips (basic TTL logic, perhaps) are all DIP. This may predate the term "open source".

U+0D9E ඞ AMOGUS

I have compiled all the "iota" Unicode search results so you can stop this thread.

U+0196 Ɩ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
U+0269 ɩ LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA
U+027F ɿ LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK
U+0345 ͅ COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
U+037A ͺ GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI
U+038A Ί GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
U+0390 ΐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS
U+0399 Ι GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
U+03AA Ϊ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
U+03AF ί GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH TONOS
U+03B9 ι GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
U+03CA ϊ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA
U+1D7C ᵼ LATIN SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH STROKE
U+1DA5 ᶥ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL IOTA
U+1F30 ἰ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI
U+1F31 ἱ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA
U+1F32 ἲ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
U+1F33 ἳ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
U+1F34 ἴ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
U+1F35 ἵ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
U+1F36 ἶ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
U+1F37 ἷ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
U+1F38 Ἰ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI
U+1F39 Ἱ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA
U+1F3A Ἲ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
U+1F3B Ἳ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
U+1F3C Ἴ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
U+1F3D Ἵ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
U+1F3E Ἶ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
U+1F3F Ἷ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
U+1F76 ὶ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA
U+1F77 ί GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA
U+1FD0 ῐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH VRACHY
U+1FD1 ῑ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON
U+1FD2 ῒ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND VARIA
U+1FD3 ΐ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND OXIA
U+1FD6 ῖ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH PERISPOMENI
U+1FD7 ῗ GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND PERISPOMENI
U+1FD8 Ῐ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH VRACHY
U+1FD9 Ῑ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH MACRON
U+1FDA Ὶ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH VARIA
U+1FDB Ί GREEK CAPITAL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA
U+2129 ℩ TURNED GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA
U+2373 ⍳ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL IOTA
U+2378 ⍸ APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL IOTA UNDERBAR
U+2C27 Ⱗ GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
U+2C29 Ⱙ GLAGOLITIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS
U+2C57 ⱗ GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
U+2C59 ⱙ GLAGOLITIC SMALL LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS
U+A646 Ꙇ CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IOTA
U+A647 ꙇ CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IOTA
U+1D6B0 𝚰 MATHEMATICAL BOLD CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D6CA 𝛊 MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL IOTA
U+1D6EA 𝛪 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D704 𝜄 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL IOTA
U+1D724 𝜤 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D73E 𝜾 MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC SMALL IOTA
U+1D75E 𝝞 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D778 𝝸 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL IOTA
U+1D798 𝞘 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL IOTA
U+1D7B2 𝞲 MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC SMALL IOTA
U+1E027 𞀧 COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER IOTATED SMALL YUS
U+1E029 𞀩 COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER IOTATED BIG YUS

Yes, get yourself eclipse glasses, a pinhole projector, a floppy disk, digital camera or whatever allows you to observe the eclipse safely – no phenomenon is worth risking your eyesight over. However, the consensus is that you can watch the sun flares without protection during totality. The totality lasted 0 to 4 minutes depending on your location.

...and ignore one of the coolest things there is to see on the sky

A solar or lunar eclipse?

Is this by Inspirobot? Its most-upvoted quote on r/inspirobot uses the same image.

I asked ChatGPT and it said it stood for Custom (set your own timing program) and Free (workout as you wish and press a button to record the times for later use). Not a bad idea but I had told it F is for the active period and C is for the resting period, so it is obviously wrong. Another wording gave me Focus / EFfort and Cool-down / Catch your breath.

I tried the Ecosia AI chat too, pasting the post title and it replied with Focus and Catch your breath.

I wish I had your research skills. Where does it even say that?

The letters may have been chosen for early, limited 7-segment display drivers, such as a hex-to-7seg decoder.

Areas with loam touch all three sides. So... Some kind of loam exists without sand, some without clay and some without silt. I am not a soil scientist but I'd guess that any substance that contains neither is a kind of loam.

First sentence of my post, for this very reason – they own the franchise, after all. The law may also change the other way but that's very unlikely to happen in the US within 50 years.

I wonder if they could develop a system of draconian DRM (only their own theatres with metal detectors, personalized online streams...) and mildly edit movies every few decades so that they can destroy the original and effectively renew copyright. The gaming industry’s always-online DRM makes nuking a release possible but copyright lasts for about 20 console generations (we’ve only had 8 so far!) so they don't even have to do that.

I think that at least the sub-title "Episode IV: A New Hope" was added in that DVD release... Anyway, a "4K77" scan of a 1977 film reel distributed directly by the studio exists, it's just noisy and needed color correction.

find an original film print and have it scanned

The 4K77 project did just that, scan and color correction to reverse fading, and effectively no other processing so they cannot claim copyright. Arguably, Harmy's Despecialized Edition cannot either, even if the original becomes public domain, as it could be argued that their effort only served a technical purpose. I don't think you can scan, upscale and denoise Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, 1928) and claim copyright on that even if you do it by hand.

Interesting... Too bad a right-holder can do minor edits to their work and effectively extend copyright (which is already very long in my opinion) if they nuke the previous version. Lucas was surprisingly successful at that, and I think game studios or other creators could do that today too with their aggressive DRM tactics.

Thank you, great point!

Finally, I can calmly watch the performance of my stock portfolio

Knowing the perils of wireless energy transfer, I’m glad this didn't go through. Imagine having 2000 W ready to be delivered from anywhere in the walls to a nearby hairdryer, or the metal springs in an unfortunately-placed old-fashioned armchair.

This is what the BBC was trying to prevent