I love unboxing some new tech, but why an access point specifically?

That might be helpful. So far I was skipping the window manager and just opening the application by itself in xinit.

Thanks, I’ll give that a look.

The cruelty is the point. Just keep repeating that and you’ll understand most of the decisions.

I think they were more into incest than beastiality.

And now I remembered we’ve got over 3 more years of this garbage to fight through.

Based on the ingredients, it sounds like blended in a kinda almost pesto.

Not even close to that third comma, amateur.

Not already fascist enough

I didn’t say it was impossible, I said it was hard. Bigger radiators absorb more heat when exposed to the sun. One of the problems becomes keeping the solar panels exposed to sunlight while keeping the radiators out of it. Putting them behind the solar panels might work, but they have to be smaller than the solar panels and any energy the solar panels don’t convert to electricity will be re-radiated as heat and picked up by the radiators, requiring a larger size. You could put them on the 'back" side of the spacecraft, but that limits the size. As mentioned in another comment, you could position the spacecraft in geostationary orbit on the terminator, but then reaction mass requirements for station keeping and data signal latency go way up. It’s a problem that has been worked around by people much smarter than me, but a lot of work went into figuring it out.

Space isn’t cold, it’s nothing. It’s a vacuum and vacuum is terrible at heat transfer by convection. It’s why thermos bottles have a vacuum layer to prevent heat transfer. You can try to lose some heat by radiant cooling, but that’s slow and if you’re using solar for power then any radiators become heat sinks picking up more heat from the sun. Then there’s conduction, and again, there’s really nowhere to conduct any heat to, what with the large distance between objects and the vacuum and all. Thermal management in space is kind of a hard problem.

Because that’s literally the minimum upload speed they can give you. If you’re pulling down data at 1.2Gbps, you’ll be sending back 40Mbps in response traffic. If they could give you less, they would.

They’re likely imitating his posture. It serves the dual purpose of signaling their sycophantic loyalty and normalizes the absurd stance to the rest of the world.

You can buy cans of just corn in water. Those are mostly full of corn, with water filling the space between. Creamed corn is a whole other thing, and while it has some corn kernels in it, it’s mostly meant to be eaten as-is or used as-is in a recipe. The liquid in creamed corn is not meant to be discarded.

Genuinely curious: why are you straining creamed corn? If you want corn kernels, why not buy that instead?

That’s true, from a certain point of view. What they actually did was give everyone a common target. We still get everything compressed and limited into a flat line, just now we don’t have to adjust the volume on our stereo between songs.

Agreed.Also, Windows and OSX, unless you want to have to call your nephew who’s Good With Computers™ every couple of weeks. If you’re just using a browser for everything and never messing around like a good majority of people, Linux is just as good as either of those. Linux has gotten to the point where it’s Grandma proof if you stick to a distribution that prioritizes stability. If you choose a distro that prioritizes bleeding edge software versions, you may come across more bugs and breaking changes.Then you’ll need the troubleshooting skills mentioned here. Most of us are here to learn and mess around; the troubleshooting skills grow from that mindset.

I agree with your lack of affection for cloud services, but I think your view might be a little skewed here. Does a senior mechanic need to understand the physics of piston design to be a great mechanic, or just gather years of experience fixing problems with the whole system that makes up the car?

I’m a Senior Systems engineer. I know very little about kernel programming or OS design, but i know how the packages and applications work together and where problems might arise in how they interact. Software Engineers might not know how or don’t want to spend time to set up the infrastructure to host their applications, so they rely on me to do it for them, or outsource my job to someone else’s computer.

I tell my kids, never start it, but if someone hits you, hit them back hard enough that they won’t want to do it again. I feel like this works all the way up to state level doctrine.

I feel like you’re wrong here. Moses and Joshua were pretty big into the whole genocide thing. Deuteronomy 20:16 for example is pretty clear about that, among many other examples.