Lol, ideally. The last fiber outage was because some meth head thought they were stealing copper. :sigh: I hate this state lol.

Interesting. I’ve only ever had success with cellular PPP when using #777 for carrier based DUN back before mobile broadband was a thing.

Yeah. Part of that is the same kind of nostalgic for me, but also I guess I miss the feeling of the internet being somewhere you go, deliberately, rather than always-on, always-connected, pinging me with attention-sucking notifications constantly.

Like when you sign into AOL messenger in the dial-up days. That was an indication you wanted to chat and had set aside time for it; it was like flipping the sign from “closed” to “open”. Now, you’re just always expected to respond.

Thanks.

And of course my shithole state is one of them. I’ll try to hide my surprise.

Anyone know which 17 states? Article doesn’t say, and some of the links aren’t working for me if they’re mentioned in those.

Probably energy efficiency reasons.

When you’re beaming in or out from the transporter room, that’s only one “hop”. When you beam from elsewhere to elsewhere (bypassing the transporter room; aka a “site to site transport”), you’re actually beaming to the transporter room and then back to your destination, so it’s two hops; you just don’t materialize between the first and second hops.

In Star Trek, there’s always some kind of dampening field, prior battle damage, or other hand wave to explain away why they can’t just use the transporter to get the characters out of danger. The lore is affected by the ever-increasing list of phenomena future episodes/series have to contend with when writing around the transporter.

Probably some use cases for “regular” users. Someone mentioned music production, though that’s probably more professional than hobby.

To my understanding, you mostly need real time performance for specialty cases where timing is absolutely critical. So I guess if you were building custom drones or custom control boards for drones, you could use real time Linux for that now since the timing could be guaranteed.

Doesn’t say, but I am curious. They said their workarounds broke other workarounds which caused a lot of implementation delay, but I’m not sure what the actual compromise was to address all that.

Answer probably lies somewhere in the kernel maintainer’s mailing list, I’d imagine. Just not equipped to search for it right at the moment.

Security tip: Never post your home address on social media.

Lol, yeah.

The Slashdot article that led me to the original was slanted to say “legacy IT” equipment was the cause and had the distinct subtext that had they been using cloud for everything, they would have been fine.

Nope, this is 100% failure to provision and secure equipment correctly. And cloud doesn’t mean anything for security, especially given how many sensitive files have been left in wide-open, publicly accessible S3 buckets.

I always assumed it was.

We have very similar device requirements lol. Though I can’t speak much for the camera portion (I’m not a shutterbug and deal with whatever).

I just upgraded my trusty workhorse OP3 to a OP Nord N200. It’s a few years old, but that usually helps since the custom ROM support is more mature.

OnePlus is usually pretty easy to unlock as long as you get an OEM model (e.g. not one branded / sold by a carrier). Been a while, but if you buy an OEM one, I think you can just unlock it without having to request an unlock code. I had to jump through hoops to convert this T-Mobile carrier model Nord into a global version, but after that I was able to unlock the bootloader with just the fastboot command (e.g. didn’t have to request and flash the cust_unlock.bin. Was still carrier-locked to T-Mob, but that’s who I use, so no biggie.

Similar to what you’re seeing with ASUS, Motorola used to be, but I think their unlocking policy has gone downhill as of late. Haven’t messed with their hardware for a while.

I haven’t used Nothing Phone at all, but they were contenders (and still are) when I was looking for a successor to my OP3.

Same assessment of Fairphone: ideologically pure, but other issues ruled them out for me.

Maybe crosspost to !selfhosted@lemmy.world and/or !selfhosting@slrpnk.net since this is in the ballpark of what we talk about there.

Good question, and I’m not sure of the actual, lexicographic answer.

All I can say is there’s typically an implicit negative connotation when using the form “those people” regardless of intent. Usually it’s used that way when stereotyping or otherwise making a blanket statement about a group, so even benign uses of the phrase tend to sound hostile.

My guess is that “those persons” sounds more specific.

Those are delicious.

Used to make something very similar, but we used a pancake for the “shell” instead of a tortilla.

https://midwest.social/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&userId=647363

In before “they’re just writing that off their own taxes” or “they’re already going to donate it and you’re just reimbursing them”.

Most of the ones near me just ask if you want to “round up” or make a static donation amount. I’m guessing the coupon book is nothing more than the coupons they’d send out in the weekly paper. Having received similar coupon books as “welcome aboard” gifts, most of those deals aren’t even all that good. Plus, they likely expire, so it puts a time rush on using them and draws in business.

“If everything’s above board that store really just acting like an agent,” said [Laurie Styron, Executive Director, CharityWatch]. “They’re really just taking your money and at some point in the future passing it on to the charity if they’re filing their taxes correctly. It actually doesn’t have any impact on that store’s taxes,” she said.

• https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/store-check-out-charity-donations
• https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
• https://www.click2houston.com/consumer/2022/12/19/4-things-to-know-about-charity-donations-at-the-checkout/

I mean…I’m pushing middle age and can’t name one Taylor Swift song. If four songs were played, and 3 of them were Swift’s, I’d still probably not be able to pick it out.

Nothing against her or the genre of music, just has never seemed like it would be my cup of tea.

I’d have got 100%, but I misread the date on the first one.