CNET says that Apple may have added mouse support to iPadOS. Talk about burying the lede if true. I wonder, however, whether that includes support for Bluetooth mice?
For A President, Congress Is The Law
I wonder, if the Republicans controlled the House, whether there would already be an impreachment inquiry open. Mueller served the role as investigator, collecting evidence and documenting his findings. The Constitution gives the House the job of prosecuting attorney (not the Attorney General) in determining whether to charge the President with a crime, which for the President has the unique label of impreachment.
A Republican inquiry would review the evidence, formally declare there is none to bring charges, and then the case is closed. Until the House says it is closed, the case is not closed no matter what Trump or Barr says. That is the Constitution.
To uphold their oath to the Constitution, Democrats in the House must open the impeachment inquiry and determine whether or not to vote articles of impeachment. They must be willing to take the political risk, if that exists, to fulfill their role in our government. It’s not about politics, it’s about the rule of law.
In fact, I think Congress should produce new presidential special consule legislation that states that all presidential special consule investigations require an impeachment inquiry to formalize the conclusions of the investigation.
If the criminal justice system cannot bring charges against a sitting president then Congress has to take serious this responsibility. That is unless Congress thinks the President really is above the law.
A year later my main complaint about micro.blog remains, it is still too difficult for me as an Android user to post pictures to my blog.
Justice Thomas appears to be trying to make the case that abortion is a tool being used to control human breeding, or what is called eugenics. I thought a woman chooses to have an abortion because she is pregnant.
The temperature here has dropped more than ten degrees in the last several hours.
We’re Running Windows Apps on a Chromebook With the Droplet Computing Beta for Chrome OS
Windows-based containers to run Windows apps on Chromebooks appear to be closer to reality thanks to Crostini. Like the author of this article, I am a little hard pressed to think what Windows only app I need to run.
Continue to be surprised by the number of deer I see in our suburban condominium complex. This one was munching on freshly cut grass during my afternoon walk.
Bill Buckner dies: Former MLB player passes away at 69
Before Anthony Rizzo, before Mark Grace, before Leon Durham, there was Bill Buckner. He along with Dave Kingman are among my earliest memories as a Cub fan. Sorry to learn of his passing. It’s been a rough weekend for my sports heros.
Does the Republic for which these people gave their lives still stand?
It’s May 23 and I have just turned the air conditioning on for this year, later than normal. The current temperature is 75 degrees with forecast of 81 degrees. Hello summer!
Shall I go for a walk?
Romney’s astonishing nonsense about Amash and Mueller (Opinion) - CNN
Mueller did the same thing as the Watergate investigation, he laid out the case for Congress to draw a conclusion on impeachment. In short, his entire effort was to layout the evidence for an impeachment inquiry to draw a conclusion, which exactly what the Constitution intends. If the House does not open an inquiry then it is discrediting Mueller’s work and not upholding their own oath to the Constitution. In the end, they might not draft articles of impeachment, but they absolutely should open the inquiry.
Props to Amash for having the integrity to put his oath over party loyalty.
At this time of the year I really appreciate where I live and all the flowering trees.
Amazon is releasing what it is calling a home security feature to Echo devices it calls Alexa Guard. It looks to me like microphone in Echo devices will always be on, which makes me wonder how this feature can be abused? Most home security systems detect situations using sensors other than sound/voice detection.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which eliminated restrictions on corporate campaign spending.
I think this could be one of the most important acts that Congress could take in my lifetime and for the future of the United States. Unfortunately I am skeptical that it will get traction.
Source: Schiff introduces constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United - TheHill
The Cubs and Brewers are both really good teams, which makes their games so entertaining to watch.
A Crostini Meltdown
The Crostini Linux containers on my Google Pixelbook melted down after I upgraded the Pixelbook to the stable release of Chrome OS 74, a reminder that Linux Apps (Crostini) is very much in beta.
I’ve written the details of what occurred, the trigger seems to be that I had two containers. After Chrome OS 74 installs and you launch a container, such as by starting the Terminal app, you see a message telling you that the Linux apps is being upgraded and the app you wish to run will load after the upgrade completes.
I saw the message for the primary container, named penguin, and everything worked as planned. The meltdown began when I started Gnome Terminal, which was in the second container, the one in which I was running Docker. The upgrade message appeared but the upgrade did not seem to complete. After letting it run for an hour, which was much longer than the prior upgrade, I restarted the Pixelbook, and either that or the upgrade rendered the container usable.
From here a few attempts to fix the problem cascaded the meltdown to primary container too. My attempts to re-build and restore the primary container from a backup failed and I am left to re-building from scratch. Not totally awful given that I had no real data in either container, just apps with a bit of data synced to a cloud or github.
I am not entirely sure what happened. I might have been too impatient and the second container may have upgraded had I just let it run. Or, it might be that running Docker in the second container created problems.
The moral of this blog post is that even if you are sticking to the Chrome OS stable channel, Linux Apps (Crostini) is still in beta and thus breakage can and will occur.
A couple of pictures from my walk today along the Detroit river.
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How Rachel Held Evans really should be remembered - The Washington Post
Such an abundant life ended way too soon. I mourn for the family and friends she leaves behind.