I use dd regularly to back up and restore disk images. It’s not particularly hard to use but like sudo rm -rf it absolutely will eat whatever you point it at so you need to understand what the command does and pay attention.

Navigation displays should all be in your field of view while you can see the road. I’m kind of blown away that no one does eye tracking to auto dim displays yet either.

Not enough plaid skirt IMO

I propose the process be similar to a driving license. Several weeks of classroom urinal use education plus simulator time followed by 10h or so of practical urinal use accompanied by an accredited urinal use instructor, and finally six months or 100h of urinal use accompanied by a licensed urinal user over the age of 18. Then you can take your urinal use written exam and practical test for your license.

Old thin clients and mini PCs are great for this. Many either have a half sized PCIe slot or can take a second network interface using the WiFi m.2 slot and a 3d printed bracket to mount the nic port.

You’re best off splitting the routing and WiFi tasks into separate hardware. Buy yourself a used ruckus unleashed r550/650 or r510/610 depending on how much you want to spend for wifi then run routing on whatever hardware is fit for purpose. I usually slap OPNsense on something like a dell/wyse 5070 j5005 mini PC, any mini PC with a PCIe slot will allow you to build a 1/2.5/10GbE router with open software. Chinese N100 router boxes are cheap now too, or you could reuse an old mini PC of some kind.

I don’t like rolling my own router using arm boards anymore, router distro support for them is unreliable and j5005 pulls <10W anyway.

Here’s another: the human ear is phenomenal at determining where in 3d space a sound is coming from. Most animals can only determine direction and can’t really place a sound vertically. Watch what your cat or dog does when they’re looking for the source of a noise, it takes them a lot longer.

Just remember, this is the worst things have been so far. The Trump admin still has shovels in hand, it can get much, much, worse.

+1, I absolutely loathe the twitter model of discussion because it’s a huge mess of out of order replies and random spam. Individual discussion posts with tree threaded comments are way, way, way more effective at keeping discussion relevant and directed. Also +1 re: moderation, social media functions best with effective, vigorous, moderation and the twitter model just sucks there.

Not as badly as you’d expect, modern compression is pretty quick using the lz*'s and you’re only expending cycles when you’re hitting swap

We joke but zram swap works wonders on low resource systems sometimes

In the US a sizable chunk of the population watched those anti littering campaigns and said “you’re not the boss of me!” then made it a point to litter more. You tell an American what to do and you’ve got a 50/50 chance that they’ll do the opposite purely out of spite, even if they otherwise agree with you.

Ah, gotcha. It’s just difficult to figure out what this does if you’re not already neck deep in configuring status bar JSON

Screenshots showing what this does in action would help a lot

It’s a grey, I’ve never met one that wasn’t a ridiculous ham

Start leaving information about trains out for them and see if they bite

Four and a half kilos of carbohydrates and sugars, goddamn.

Up through Android 14 everything boils down to different programs to manage a work profile. I’ve always used Shelter or just straight up used the built in work profile support in LineageOS.

I don’t know if it’s possible to create more than one separate space.

Edit: the only way I’ve found to make two separate app containers on android <= 14 is a combination of a work profile and Samsung’s secure folder. I don’t know of any other sandbox technique.

It’s not even much of a skill anymore now that there’s so much focus on natural language question and answer. You can straight up Google “how do I X?” And get a relevant answer for just about anything.

Edit: I’m not even talking about generative AI here, googling simple questions without using AI worked well before the AI craze.

Why take the rest of the planet down with us? Hack into the bioweapons labs and release those.