While the priors seemed to suggest it could float, the update step showed that was an outlier.

I’ll show myself the door.

Exactly, the same way I handle all my credentials.

And… they’re basically all correct. Linux does run on all sort of machines, even really ancient ones. It has a solid command line environment, or rather lots of them. And it’s astounding powerful. Windows does still blue screen, is currently the best place for gaming, and wow is MS fucking you with Win11. Macs can have a cool setup, are really simplified for most users and expensive.

Man, now I’m nostalgic for my 3DS. I sold it when I got a Switch, which is a nice system but the 3DS had so many fun little things about it like Streetpass.

Much like all of life. Expectations cause suffering.

A write off is a colloquialism that refers to reducing your effective taxed income. A more realistic example would be, let’s say you make $250k, but you’re self employed and spent $50k on business expenses like a car and office space. Then you can write off that $50k and only pay taxes like you made $200k.

They are people who have fallen for and/or are grifting for a deeply unhinged conspiracy theory that national laws don’t apply to them if they do some certain set of pseudo legal things. What exactly those things are, as well as what laws don’t apply to them,vary widely, but are usually centered around driver’s licenses and car registration, tax evasion and not paying child support.

Past that it’s hard to explain what their beliefs are because it is so vague and ever changing.

There are lots of options, use a CD changer, burn a mix CD, listen to the radio, run a pirate radio station. I’m not saying that physical media is always better in every situation, but neither is streaming. I like having the option depending on the situation.

I love physical media because it’s just much easier to use. If I want to play some album in my car I put the cd in and press play. No fumbling around with search or menus, just put a disc in a slot and done. If I want a friend to listen, read or watch something I hand them a small object and they have it. No need to text them the title so they can search for it later and then forget it.

Christ do I feel old now. CDs and DVDs are read only, so you won’t do anything to them by ripping them. It’s just a copy of the data onto your drive and then probably a compression step of some sort. Nowadays it probably takes less than five minutes for the whole thing. I remember taking at least half an hour on a 2x drive, and then mp3 compression taking another hour or so.

Once upon a time the entire internet was an irrelevant nerd clubhouse. Those were good days.

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Honestly, that’s not that bad? If we were to turn off every data center if would barely impact world energy use and electricity is getting cleaner every day. Of course we should push to get better faster, but this doesn’t seem like a big source of low hanging fruit.

Well, it’s big and great relative to what it used to be. But it’s still pretty limited compared to Windows. As an example, about 40% of my Steam library runs in Linux natively or officially supported by Proton. Another 20% runs ok enough through Proton, though not officially supported. That leaves 40% that I’m rebooting to windows to play. And, of course, that game I’m most playing right now is one of those.

60% of my library running in Linux is amazing compared to what it used to be, but still isn’t enough to convince a serious gamer to switch.

Oy definitely, I can see a box that is a combo LiFi/WiFi access point with a single ethernet/fiber optic cable running to it providing the best network available for each device becoming a standard ceiling fixture in offices and tech forward homes.

Here’s the first two scenarios that come to mind, if/when the price becomes reasonable.

1. In a typical cube farm, you could string up a very small number of these in the drop ceiling and have Ethernet level speeds without having to run cables to every single desk. It should be a much easier install.

2. At home, I could run an drop for these through my attic to the one or two rooms where I use a lot of bandwidth, eg my home office and living room. Again, an easier install than running Ethernet through the ceiling, down the walls and to every piece of equipment in those rooms.

For most people I’m not sure if it would be worth it, but I could certainly see it in those niches.

Pretty much. I wouldn’t worry too much about interference from other light sources, as they are likely to be basically steady and not modulating.

Theoretical max for Wi-Fi in the 60GHz spectrum in 7G/s. Theoretical max for Li-Fi is 228G/s. Of course, no one is hitting those maxes now but in general Li-Fi is about 10x faster in the real world, or at least is you have the right prototype equipment.

Physics reason- LiFi uses shorter wavelengths so can switch faster.

Oh you’re in for a great story! It mostly comes down to the American railroads, but you can listen to a good podcast on it at https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730727038/episode-918-the-day-of-two-noons