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This energy would then be transmitted to one or more stations on Earth.

And how do you suppose to do that?

Beam the power from space like they do in Mirai Shounen Conan? Or space shuttles with batteries? Or a giant cable that somehow doesn’t break?

It’s not possible.

Eww, no, it’s not Arch

Sure THIS will protect the children!

/s

I’m not defending satellites, I’m saying fiber is much superior at all the things I mentioned above.

Ofc they can, but they don’t need to, they just seize the server and jail the operator.

Until the go government starts blocking entry nodes, then there will be a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

Also, this doesn’t affect only people under 18, any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

Unreliable, high latency, slow bandwidth and data caps?

Don’t worry, the way things are going the star link satellites are going to shoot themselves. Unfortunately together with everything else in the low orbit.

Best way to detect that?

For airtags there’s airguard and similar apps, but more advanced locators? Maybe a SDR to analyse traffic?

Knowing how paranoid Putin is, I’m almost sure this is a body double

If you are speaking about soundproofing I’m assuming you live in an apartment and have neighbours, I will be making my recommendations based in that assumption.

Also, note that I value audio quality more than video, so if I have a limited budget to setup a home cinema most of it will go to the audio.

For home cinema surround systems are usually the standard, however in my personal and subjective opinion surround adds much to the cost without really proving much value to the experience.

Cheap surround systems like those trendy soundbars will sound like shit comparable to a stereo system for the same price. Yes, they come with a subwoofer so they have bass and provide that wow factor, but you may notice it to be unbalanced the middle or upper frequencies to lack clarity.

If you have a small room and plan on watching films just yourself (and maybe an occasional friend)I recommend a setup similar to mine, a small LCD TV (32" or a bit bigger) and a pair of 8" studio monitors.

From my understanding cheap projectors have quite a substandard image quality and brightness, I understand that you prefer a projector for easier transport, but a small TV is also easy to carry it, you can literally carry it in the backsit of a small car. And will look much better than a cheap projector.

So with your given budget you can get a quality TV for about 500 dollars and a quality pair of near field speakers for another 500 dollars.

This is the perfect setup for a single person intimate setup, however fails short when you put multiple people in the room.

However if you have a big room with many people on it then you will need to compromise on quality, a bigger screen, maybe a projector and maybe a pair of loud used pair of HiFi speakers, since studio monitors aren’t really meant to fill the room and 32" TV will look tiny from a sofa.

I would spend the money on a VPN instead because:

1. DLL links are always down, torrents can die too, but overall they are much more reliable, you can just have your torrent search engine to organise by seeders.

2. Much more content on torrents

3. Much higher quality, DLLs at least back when I used those had terrible quality.

4. Much easier to manage 100 downloads at the same time, sure Jdownloader exists, but…

5. RSS downloaded, you can get your favourite anime torrent or RSS and qbittorrent will download it for you every week.

6. Security, if you download software, popular torrent websites are much more trusted and moderated and you have less probably of getting malware.

7. If you subscribe to a DLL site you can use that single website, if you torrent you can download from many websites.

8. You can use the VPN for other stuff.

As much as I like Librewolf as concept and ideology, I can’t keep thinking that if there’s a Firefox 0day, Firefox gets patched first, Librewolf later, and I’m potentially exposed for longer. That’s why I prefer to stick with upstream.

There’s ffshare on f-droid, but I’ve never tried it, don’t know if it works.

May not be the most polite thing to do, but when outside I always wear headphones walk at fast pace and don’t hear anyone no matter who speaks to be.

I’ve noticed that as long as I have my headphones on, even if they aren’t playing, most ppl won’t speak to me anyway.

The issue with hard drives is that they tend to fail even on ideal conditions and even when powered down. Yes I’ve lost very important data to a powered down hard drive.

While it’s possible to recover information on a hard drive as long as the plates themselves aren’t damaged, that requires very expensive specialised tools and skills. Which probably wouldn’t be available in a scenario where the information on the drive would be of any value.

DVD-R (and probably consequentially Blu-Rays) aren’t any better in my experience, I’ve lost more data to DVD-R than to hard drives actually. Even when stored in low light conditions they tend to just stop reading.

However optical media has one big advantage here, is that the discs themselves are cheap, so instead of having all your digital eggs in the same basket, you spread them over several discs and while some information may be lost, others may survive.

Now, here’s an interesting thought, with digital data, the data either reads or doesn’t read, the so called digital cliff, may become partially corrupted and other parts still read, but after the corruption gets past a certain threshold all information is lost.

With analogue equipment even after severe signal degradation the contents while very deteriorated may still be perceptible, forwardermore an analogue signal is much easier to decode in the event that you need to restart civilisation building tech from scratch and don’t have access to the very very specific specifications of something like the audio codec or the filesystem.

You can probably hack a rudimentary cassette player together from very simple components, all you need is a tape head (a coil), a motor (a coil and a magnet), and an amplifier (a transistor or vaccum tube). (I’m probably oversimplifying here).

Overall I think the most important thing is having redundancy, or if redundancy isn’t possible at least don’t have all eggs in the same basket, instead of having everything in a single 8TB HDD, to try spread them into smaller 512GB ones, or DVDs or flash drives or all of the above. And don’t store them all in the same location, if an area gets flooded or someone builds a building on top, you’re only losing a small part of the information.

That reminds me of the baseball game episode, the worse and the single bad episode of the series, good thing I skipped through all of it. I rate it 0/10

I can’t imagine people watching it on TV back in the days without being able to skip watching the entire thing waiting for something good or plot relevant to happen just to waste an hour of what seems 5 hours of nothing.

Apart from that I loved DS9.

The Hubble still works?

That’s nice, I thought I read an article some years ago that it was going to be decommissioned.

Oh well. I’m just glad I can access all my files on NTFS

Shhh! Don’t give them ideas…

You’re responsible for the technology you create.

So if I create a knife I’m responsible if someone uses it for murder?

Maybe I should implement a camera on the knife that records your kitchen 24/7 to make sure the knife wont be used for murder, is that OK with you?

Unionize workers in Microsoft.

If you “unionize” microsoft and keep windows non-free software, the employees get better wages, apart from that the users still get spied upon, and the means of production (windows source code) still under ownership of a small group of people, (and just like any other operating system or knife, can) still used for nefarious purposes.

Even if the workers at the microsoft commune decide to made windows non-spyware anymore, there is still no way to actually be sure since there’s no way to verify it.

Also, proprietary software isn’t only a prime example of private ownership of the means of production, but also a prime example of artificial scarcity.

As long as it’s “Free Software” instead of “Free people” you’re playing on the side of the tech oligarchy.

Free software is a requirement for free people, if you don’t understand that, then you really have no understanding of how technology works, of how people work and how freedom works.

I recommend reading the following article: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html