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Jonathan Corbet

Today's addition to the list of "things that it never occurred to me could be a problem".
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A hard-earned lesson for US folks needing to renew a passport in the 2020s... there are two choices:

1) Send in an application, pay the "expedited processing" fee, fill in the blank indicating when you have travel plans. Then wait for over three months, spend countless hours in the State department's phone system from hell, and finally be told that there is absolutely no way to get a passport in time to salvage your trip.

2) Complain to your Senator's office. Hear back the next day with the time for appointment two days later to have a passport made on the spot. Actually showing up for the appointment is highly recommended.

I sure wish I'd known about #2 a week earlier. I'm still used to living in an America were government services (for the reasonably well off, at least) Just Work, and we're not there anymore.
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@ieure @liw The C++ experiment was 0.99.11 - https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nico/archive/+/v0.99-pl11 - in 1993. It didn't last long, though.
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The new(ish) solar panels on the roof came with an monitoring app from SunPower which, naturally, stores lots of information about the house in the cloud somewhere. I'm sure that their management of, say, the realtime consumption data is entirely secure, nothing to worry about there.

Today the app said that we were producing nothing, despite this being a beautiful cloudless Colorado day. Some digging into their web site turns up a page (https://us.sunpower.com/solar-resources/home-solar-system-troubleshooting-questions-and-answers) suggesting to log out of the app and back in; failing that, the trick is to uninstall and reinstall. Sure enough, that worked. Quality engineering there.

My intention to figure out how to get the data directly out of the monitoring system and short these people out is growing...
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@matttbe @geert Passport renewal has never been breathtakingly fast here, but it used to be tolerable and relatively deterministic. If you search you'll see there's a lot of people complaining at the moment...lots of excuses about post-pandemic travel surges and such...

Of course, the fact that one of our political parties is against the concept of government, calls government services a waste of money, and refuses to fund said services might just play into this too. Maybe.
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Reply to @monsieuricon
@monsieuricon You missed him...? I had to tune him out a while back, I really just couldn't handle it anymore...
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Reply to @rostedt
@rostedt @brauner I doubt it and, in any case, a passport card wouldn't do me any good.
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Reply to
@brauner Certainly nothing like that as far as I've ever heard. The only option the State department people had to offer was "don't travel".
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Reply to
@geert Somehow I don't see getting a NEXUS card from scratch more quickly than a renewed passport, so that's not going to help me, alas.
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So after something like eight hours spent on hold over the last couple of weeks, I'm now informed that there is no hope of getting my renewed passport in time for next week's trip. Three months and the full "expedited processing" fee, it seems, were not enough. So now I get to tear down all of my plans, pay all of those cancellation fees, and remain stuck inside a country that I am rather frustrated with at the moment.

Hopefully something will happen in time for me to get to LSFMM next month.
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Reply to
@brauner Nah, don't change a thing. I'm just writing for a different audience than you; your detailed and well-written explanations are a joy to read.
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60mph winds ... red flag (fire) warning ... gotta love the spring.
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Reply to @torvalds
@torvalds Seems like a pretty common experience. We took the Bolt in for a tire rotation - about the only regular service an EV needs, along with the steady stream of recalls - and got a call wondering why we hadn't left the lug-nut key with them. Turns out it got tossed into a box in the garage with a bunch of other random car stuff. I had no idea such a thing existed either.
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So #reddit seems to have decided today that the way to profit is to take away its nice "compact" mobile presentation and, instead, ceaselessly nag web users to switch to the app instead. The site has pretty much become unusable on mobile overnight.

The "request desktop site" option (*in the reddit settings*, not the browser equivalent) makes things a bit more tolerable.

My day to grumble, I guess.
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Grumble.

At the very beginning of January I paid the extra fee for "expedited processing" of my passport renewal. Now travel is approaching and I still have no passport...just spent an hour on hold, only to hear that nothing can be done yet.

Time to step away and go for a bike ride, I guess.
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They say that we can't control the weather, but I now have evidence to the contrary: just install solar panels on your roof, and you'll cause one of the cloudiest and snowiest winters in a long time...
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Reply to
@lkundrak We don't really look that hard at traffic. We do notice how many subscriber links are made and the discussion - if any - that an article generates. Not that more discussion is always good...:(
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Sometimes I'll put out an article and the world seems to get excited. Then, other times, I write about direct-map fragmentation and seemingly put everybody to sleep. I've never understood why people don't find these things fascinating...:)
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Apologies if you were expecting email from me... Some days are just not meant to be spent at the keyboard.
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Since I haven't been yelled at enough recently ... https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/T/
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