Could be. Key fobs use button cells.

Normal AA or AAA battery, or a CR<something> button? If it is a button cell, try wiping it with alcohol before you insert it. Many modern button cells have a coating that tastes horrible to prevent people (children) from taking them into the mouth. I’ve noticed that on some brands, this coating measurably increases the resistance of the cell, not only reducing the the power it can deliver, but als making it appear “emptier” than they are ofor the measuring circuits. Wiping off the coating with alcohol (90% isopropanol) expanded the cells’ life (in a kitchen scale to boot!) significantly.

That’s how I got a free netbook. The netbook had 32GB flash with windows and office occupying 27+GB. Then windows wanted to do an update - with an 8+GB file. Spot the problem. And windows can get quite annoying with updates. As the netbook could not be expanded, and attempts to redirect the update to a USB stick did not work, a newer netbook was bought, and I got the old one. Linux plus libreoffice plus a bunch of extras happily sat in 4GB…

Don’t worry, the money is not gone. It is just with someone else, probably one of the billionaires.

A friend of ours was approaching her 40th birthday. But she only admitted to having a “round” birthday, and even forbade her kids to talk about mommys age, even though we made a big production to learn her age with trick questions and all. And then we told her that if she keeps mum about her age, we’ll just guesstimate it.

That’s how she got sent loads of cards for her 50th birthday. She was a bit pissed when we arrived for the party. And then we handed her the real cards for her 40th.

I was about to post it. Can you imagine, there is actually a DVD with that film - and a load of extras from the creators.

Sue them for voter intimidation.

We only had one group visiting on Halloween. But that’s due to a decline of Halloween in general in this area - the fad is over. Here it basically started when our kids were young, and there were maybe five to ten groups coming through. But after a few years, it simply declined.

I still buy some sweets - I don’t want to disappoint kids - but whatever is left goes into the sweets bowl at work.

That is the maximum annual pay for a 0-60 h/week job.

Let’s put it this way: You can produce unreadable code in basically any language. With Perl, it is just a bit easier.

And of course if you have the discipline of a good programmer, even your casual Perl programs should be readable. That’s what differenciates a good programmer from a hacker.

I have to admit that using CL-PPCRE does not really help me understanding the regexp any better. But this may be because I deal with complex regexps for decades now, and I just read them.

That is the culinary answer for the question.

Short: Yes, of course. Long: Well, this is really a long answer, depending on your needs…

You forgot the lack of mental capacity in the average windows victim.

Thanks! Now I know what that meme is about.

At least those were a) just banner ads and b) not as annoying as modern JS/HTML5/popup/popover ads are. You just scrolled down a few pixel, and had 100% information.

So you have never tried to out-scan an ALDI cashier.

All zero Walmarts in this country. Their attempt of invading our market was crushed between being to expensive, having shitty products, and working labor protection laws.

We have some, and they are crap.

FDunny, though, that I only know Pepperidge Farm from memes. I assume that is/was an American brand, right?