Just look at piracy in the 17th and 18th century, and set that in space.

It would require space travel to be commonplace, with FTL - so basically impossible.

I mean you can’t really make that claim. You have no idea what a Harris presidency would be like until it occurred.

You may say you believe that would be the case, and even put forth arguments supporting the prediction, but that’s all it would be.

I do some shady stuff to my own gear, but holy cow they sold it like this??

That’s not what I said at all.

Every time I go read studies, these useless “mores” really are meaningless, to the point of being deceptive.

Tell you what, go do a deep dive on Blood Pressure medication efficacy - turns out they don’t really do what they claim. And then dig into the safety - also turns out they cause as much harm as good.

Example: it takes medicating 33 people for 5 years to prevent a single cardiac event. That’s sixty thousand doses of a medication that carries a non-trivial risk of kidney failure (about 0.8 kidney failures in that same time frame).

Not exactly a convincing result.

Yep, I used to be that way (I’m hypoglycemic, meaning blood sugar is stable then drops very suddenly, so I’m not hungry and then I’m starving).

I found just getting into a morning routine of making breakfast helps - but not immediately after getting up. Water, then coffee - takes me about an hour to be ready for food. So I just get up earlier.

It’s that or be starving later, which isn’t going to work for me.

Figuring out what works for you is key.

Guess I don’t need to know then.

I’ve never even been to the Facebook website. It’s been blocked on all my systems for a decade.

Because studies then seemed to show benefit.

That’s how useful studies are.

You, I like the way you think.

Koharka for our new Barley Beer Bank president!

More like 4 or 5 decades.

They originated with telephony switching centers.

Big difference between Linux and Windows: Linux permissions are per-process, while Windows permissions are per-user. This is why Windows needs Defender in the first place (in addition to being the big target).

If you’re not using root all the time, risks are very low.

Best you can generally do with Samsung phones is run the Debloat tool.

Get the Universal Android Debloat Utility, it’s pretty good at letting you know what can be disabled.

I have borked a phone with it, not permanently just annoyingly. But I also went past the warnings so it’s all my own fault.

Just don’t disable things that tell you it may cause boot loops.

What you want is both Carrier and OEM unlockable.

Carrier means you can use it on any cell service, OEM means you can flash Lineage or Graphene.

I have 3 Pixel 5’s right now running Lineage, I hammer on phones big time, and they run great.

Paid about $100 for each of them on ebay.

To tack on to this:

SMS requires practically no transmission cost, as it is embedded in an unassigned portion of the frames being sent between the phone and tower - frames which are always being sent anyway for keep-alive, registration, etc. There’s some infrastructure required (SMS gateway, network to other cell companies) so it’s not completely a sunk cost for them.

MMS historically worked the same way, just the media was base-64 encoded, and required an http server to temporarily host the media files for the person you were sending to.

Begin the age of the smart phone and data plans - now MMS are sent via the data connection because it’s much faster and doesn’t consume voice channel time, leaving more voice channels available for voice calls.

Today SMS is still largely sent the old way, but with 4G/5G the connection is completely different (it doesn’t use the same framing), so effectively it’s being sent via the data connection.

Voice is generally no longer via a voice channel, but really VOIP - vendors have pushed for voice-over-data since the beginning of 4G (I think LTE doesn’t even have voice channels anymore, 5G definitely doesn’t - it’s all essentially VOIP).

This is all from memory, so may not be spot on.

Bad Ass

All of it.

What a car!

I eat breakfast, same thing, every day, for 20 years.

It’s no harder than anything else, just get up early enough to do it.

Takes 30 minutes from start to cleaning my plates.

I also eat something like 7 times a day. More frequent, smaller meals are generally better for most people from a glucose stability perspective. Of course everyone is different, and only you know for sure what timing works for you.

The only time I’ve gone to my bank in the last 20 years was to get a new card, or to open a new account at a new bank.

Gotta carry ID, what’s one more card?

I refuse to shop at a place that doesn’t do cash.

Bandwidth is akin to number of lanes on an interstate, latency is how long it takes each car to go from point A to B (or X, or wherever you’re measuring to).

Technically, bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies. It is typically measured in unit of hertz (so how “wide” is the signal) - in ye olden days the signal width corresponded to transmission capacity.

While latency is a measure of how long a specified bit of data took to transit a system, especially when compared against the “ideal” performance of the system.