Check if nslookup is returning the correct IP address for the domain.

Try using DNS over HTTPS (DoH). https://quad9.net/news/blog/doh-with-quad9-dns-servers/

Check for overzealous nanny features (cloud filtering, dns filtering, exotic proxy settings) on the router.

640K ought to be enough for anyone

For anyone interested you can enable that feature now. It’s just not enabled by default yet in Firefox

The term tourist traps come to mind.

Many vendors and machines will charge exhorbitment rates and disguise them throughout the transaction.

Depending on how much cash you need, perhaps order the money from your local bank.

Check if the country you’re visiting supports a major credit card. If they do you can get cards that don’t charge a surcharge ontop of the exchange rate.

That way you can be charged in the local currency of the region and not worry about it.

Also check the travel advisories for wherever you’re going and carry a false wallet with some petty cash and bs cards.

Some providers like Cloudflare or Level 3 may have archived records.

That far back might be a stretch. But you’ll probably have a hard time getting in touch with the right people; If you don’t already have a account manager with them.

Are you sure their email isn’t PhatKat@linkedin.com?

At least until the scurvy or heart failure sets in.

I think they are terrible in anything that’s not a soup or stew. I don’t like sparsely crunchy food typically though.

Take a shower at the party and send SOS to the host or my friends to see if she has anything I can borrow.

Check these out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battletoads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Quest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi's_Island

For 3d https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Majora's_Mask

Assuming that you’re able to find drivers for it.

You could watch TV using VLC.

Incomplete article but gets you in the right direction. It’s possible you’ll need Linux.

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Use_a_capture_card/

Your best bet might be the NASA station.

Tidy up and prepare my stuff for family to take over.

Write some letters to people I care about. It would be too hard to speak with them.

It’s too late in the day to fly anywhere fun, so I’d just watch my anime collection until the lights turned off.

This better not awaken anything in me

They are a common wedding gift in some rural communities.

But I don’t have one yet.

But that was something that had to be installed on the system

That was only initially true, by the end of its life it was a default component in some major browsers. Such as chrome and internet explorer.

And prior to that it frequently came preinstalled by the manufacturer.

But with all that said, I suspect we’ve missed the intent of the previous comment. To illustrate that none of the alternative means to run code in a web browser has worked out.

And with that said due to market momentum (like how so many apps are electron based) I would expect JavaScript to outlive C++ haha.

Any particular reason it needs to be XP?

Last time I checked there was over 40 open exploits that are fairly easy to trigger. (Mostly related to web browsing or gpu acceleration)

I’d imagine something like Debian or Alpine would run on it?

Tom Clancy’s: Your Name

An coming of age action story about a CIA double agent from the jungle trying to prevent the end of the world in the body of a teenage shrine maiden.

Its probably your own instance (piefed.world) that’s lagging.

Do you see the behaviour if you try a different client or frontend?

Lowkey Patrick just completed a jigsaw challenge

Happy I found this thread haha