Thanks, it is kind of intriguing though I keep telling myself to just use normal Linux stuff instead of Android. I’d want the 14 inch one which is around $300. Is there any trouble installing F-droid and apps from there?

Alternatives I’m thinking of include Lenovo Yoga laptop (16 inch) and a Raspberry Pi thing with an HDMI monitor (that would be plug-in only but I mostly read at home).

Just be honest about why you quit and what you’re getting out of it, and that the pay at the new job is almost the same. Say you can think about going back if they offer you a big pay increase and other stress relief.

Start by joining amsat.org I guess.

Dunno about dogs, but cats who run around outside kill and eat things all day long.

$25 is too much for a used 1gb pi 3. A new pi 5 with 1gb is $45 and way better. But, most ppl start with a vps.

I see, yeah there is something about it in the blurb. How do you like the tablet? Is it responsive? Is it full of Android bloatware? Do you know if it is rootable?

I see there is a 14 inch version that’s about $300 and that starts to get interesting. It’s not “2nd gen” though. And, I had thought of TCL as a lower tier manufacturer with quality issues, but I hadn’t looked into it much.

I like that the tablet has an SD (probably microSD) slot. Don’t like that there’s no headphone jack. There’s plenty of space in those things compared to a phone.

If anyone was wondering: https://www.tcl.com/us/en/products/mobile/tcl-tab/nxtpaper-11-gen2

11 inch display with 60 hz refresh, but it sounds like regular lcd rather than e-ink? It has an 8000mah battery that it says can run the tablet through a full day, so that’s nothing like an epaper tablet. It sounds more like a drawing tablet, as it has a pressure sensitive pen.

Anyway, I’ve been using Librera FD for reading epubs on Android. Its blurb mentions annotations but I’ve never tried that feature.

I have an Inkplate 10 e-paper tablet but haven’t been using it.

I didn’t realize Hetzner had referral codes. I see https://www.hetzner.com/legal/referrals and think I qualify but am not sure. I’ll see what I can do.

Yes Hetzner has virtual networks. I don’t know how similar they are to AWS or GCP. You should probably check the docs before signing up

Also for cheap processing power, you’re better off with an auction dedi than with their cloud stuff. See hetzner.com/sb . But, I think the referral codes don’t work for that. Also, all the dedi hardware is in EU. US stuff is cloud only.

Added: ok, I have a referral link and will PM it to you.

At minimum there should be a good description of what the video is about, with no clickbait.

Currently known forces splitting at low energies, and hidden 5th force: nobody knows. Physics is an observational science and right now there aren’t any observations that suggest such forces, but never say never.

Star wars force: come on, it’s fiction.

Gravity incompatible with QM: basically, quantum field theories are developed by starting with classical field theories (say electromagnetism) and doing some mathematical transformations called “canonical quantization” and “second quantization” (these have wikipedia articles). In the 1920s through mid-1940s this worked well for electromagnetism, and made good predictions except it broke down at very small scales, giving “infinity” as the answer to calculations that should have been finite. In the late 1940s a scheme called renormalization was developed, that allowed cancelling out the infinities and getting very precise answers. That was called quantum electrodynamics (QED). Later this was extended to the strong and weak nuclear forces, giving the standard model (SM). That was harder, but same basic idea.

The trouble with gravity is that when you perform quantization and then renormalization, the infinities still don’t go away. That’s what the incompatibility means. There are a lot of alternate proposals like string theory to quantize gravity, but it’s all very speculative for now.

As for detecting gravity waves but not gravitons, it’s similar to the situation with visible light. As far back as the 1700s(?) it was possible to combine light beams and see interference patterns, thus confirming the existence of light waves. Light “particles” (photons) are much harder to detect and I think this was first done convincingly by Einstein’s explanation of Brownian motion around 1900 (before relativity). Current gravity wave detection works by measuring interference, if I understand correctly.

Disclaimer: I’m no expert and I haven’t made any progress in understanding this stuff beyond the handwaving level that you see above.

Added: you might like John Baez’s videos about the standard model, https://www.youtube.com/@johncarlosbaez_edinburgh

It means they look like this:

You mean the person can read and write, but is bad at voice communication? Maybe a hearing problem?

Why blast the Democrats instead of pardoning them? They are all turkeys too, as is the GOP.

apt install gitit

Aren’t there already tons of these already? Piwik has been around for a quite a while, plus there are others mentioned in the comments.

Not to mention Star Trek.

Rust has exceptions? Is that new?

Web search shows max CPU power for that unit is 65W. I was thinking of something more power hungry.

This is great. Soon military organizations all over the world will be recruiting poets to compose their cyberattack prompts.

Maybe you could describe what you mean by self-hosted and resilient. If you mean stuff running on a box in your house connected through a home ISP, then the home internet connection is an obvious point of failure that makes your box’s internet connection way less reliable than AWS despite the occasional AWS problems. On the other hand, if you are only trying to use the box from inside your house over a LAN, then it’s ok if the internet goes out.

You do need backup power. You can possibly have backup internet through a mobile phone or the like.

Next thing after that is redundant servers with failover and all that. I think once you’re there and not doing an academic-style exercise, you want to host your stuff in actual data centers, preferably geo separated ones with anycast. And for that you start needing enough infrastructure like routeable IP blocks that you’re not really self hosting any more.

A less hardcore approach would be use something like haproxy, maybe multiple of them on round robin DNS, to shuffle traffic between servers in case of outages of individual ones. This again gets out of self hosting territory though, I would say.

Finally, at the end of the day, you need humans (that probably means yourself) available 24/7 to handle when something inevitably breaks. There have been various products like Heroku that try to encapsulate service applications so they can reliably restart automatically, but stuff still goes wrong.

Every small but growing web site has to face these issues and it’s not that easy for one person. I think the type of people who consider running self-hosted services that way, has already done it at work and gotten woken up by PagerDuty in the middle of the night so they know what it’s about, and are gluttons for punishment.

I don’t attempt anything like this with my own stuff. If it goes down, I sometimes get around to fixing it whenever, but not always. I do try to keep the software stable though. Avoid the latest shiny.