Alt-SysReq-B

I have a UDR and it’s pretty great. I have had one unknown failure once, which needed a physical reboot. And that’s been in two or so years.

Some Miele washers still come with basic circuit diagrams in my experience, but yeah that’s far from the norm.

To be fair, compliance with that in those cases might be easier. In my experience most washing machines, for example, have programming headers near their main microcontrollers, and you absolutely could write your own firmware for them. Occasionally they’ve been locked down and require an exploit to reprogram (looking at you, Nordic!) but in many cases putting your own code on is as simple as looking up the part number and buying an appropriate JTAG cable. Working out how it’s all connected inside is slightly harder, however.

I suppose it’s better than those people running CDE on modern desktop Linux!

https://github.com/cdesktopenv/cde/tree/master/cde

I remember using slapt-get when I used Slackware and that alleviated most of this sort of issue. Is that not still a thing?

When an eel opens wide and there’s more teeth behind… that’s a Moray!

I’m sure they didn’t think the leopards would eat their face…

These are much more then “former District Line trains” - they re-used the aluminium body shells and some of the internal structures (including a number of seat frames) since they were very much still in good condition, but the rest of the train is completely overhauled.

I’ve lived right up against a railway before. Really not that bad, plus you’re more likely to be near a station which is excellent. Agree on the highway/runway examples, though. Turns out the problem is usually burning shit nearby. (And rubber tyres)