Dr. Dabbles

They could have just illegally cut down the trees like they illegally used too much water, or any of the other things they did against their agreement with the government.

I do realize. I also realize things like weight of the train, cost of the battery packs, the fact those packs will wear and need to be replaced faster than anything else in the system, and much more.

I guess if by a kernel of truth you mean an existing train was used on an existing track, then you could almost make it make sense? But since all of this existed before, it’s just a lie.

I’ll also point out that anybody introducing battery electric trains instead of just electrifying the remaining parts of rail is making an astoundingly bad choice, but that’s almost certainly Germany and not Tesla.

You and I both know someone somewhere was that stupid before Musk. He isn’t even original in what an idiot he is. 😆

It’s also just an outright lie. But, I guess that doesn’t matter anymore.

Because the Olympics aren’t good for anything but ruining nations and memes.

To rip off investors. If they pretend to be on the same hype train as everyone else, and lie about what their product does, there’s a chance some idiot will give them more money.

The missiles at night

Are big and bright

Launched at the heart of Texas

Anyway good luck being a large economy with no trade partners and ports blockaded.

He can’t ask probing questions or he’d inadvertently expose the scam. These people are hucksters, plain and simple. Lex is getting that sweet ad revenue from rubes that think he’s asking deep or meaningful questions, and the fact people haven’t caught on to his scam blows my mind.

Joe has a personality. It might suck, but Lex sucks at everything.

You’re missing a TON of history here. Like udev being a dependency to all those projects AND systemd, which led to systemd adding it to their project. Really it could be said that udev is the critical component here.

As you mentioned networkmanager, you clearly know that many popular distros use that rather than systemd-networkd.

Grub2 is by far the most popular boot loader, so far ahead that it’s not even worth considering others. Grub has had several major issues, every distro uses it, why not pick on grub as the risk?

Did you have these same concerns about sysvinit? About the various distro network scripts? What about libc? Good god if there’s a problem with libc we’re all in deep trouble.

Yes, code has bugs. But New code has new bugs (ironically an argument previously used against systemd). Whatever you replace these components with will be just as likely to have a critical vulnerability, but far fewer maintainers and resources to fix it. Systemd has simplified and improved features of so many parts of Linux that it’s funny to see how vehemently people argued against it. Feel free to disable any parts you don’t need, but I think you’re missing 20 years of painful history that led us here.

ISO standards need to be purchased to be viewed, RFCs are freely available requests for comment. The RFC 3339 format is effectively the same is the ISO format, except RFC 3339 allows for a space between the date and time components whereas the ISO format uses a “T” character to separate date and time components.

If you want to get real weird, RFCs are not standards but rather a request for other participants to comment on the proposal. RFCs tend to be pointed towards as de facto standards though, even before they become a BCP or STD.

This comment is NOT AT ALL intended to excuse anything that Axl has said, sung, or thought. But in the late 80s and early 90s it wasn’t just the cultural norm to saw insanely offensive things about gay people, but they were actively demonized in huge swaths of daily life. I can not imagine how it felt being gay, bi, or otherwise queer but I have to imagine it was petrifying. If something happened to you, the cops were unlikely to investigate. Songs, TV, even news papers made fun of and offensive comments about gay people.

The cultural shift that’s happened over the past 40 years is pretty incredible. Not saying we don’t have further to go, not saying things are good now, just noting where we’ve come from just in my own lifetime. Axl might still be a POS, and he’s absolutely out of his mind. But shit like that was so pervasive.

Yeah, but he went to Israel to talk to a guy that was willing to trade money for looking the other way! Hasn’t he done enough to sweep this under the rug??

Dude’s outed himself as a POS so many times over the years, it’s a shame it took this long to figure it out for most people.

The only correct format. Least to most specific.

Navigating any playlists you created now requires clicking on the library at the bottom, then playlist at them top. I’m also a GPM refugee and the YouTube music app is a shit choice for podcasts.

I use YTM exclusively for music streaming. The interface has been getting worse over time, but the podcasts integration is pure dogshit and they should be embarrassed. Basically it’s a subscription to a youtube channel in the back-end and they might add RSS support some day in the far future. Their only focus now is on allowing creators to add an RSS feed for ingestion, not for users to do the same.

This is a moronic idea, and Google is ruining one of their only good app experiences.

Such a bad idea. Podcasts seek forward and interface actually worked. Zero chance the migration to YouTube is smooth.

Flat out, I will never buy another item from QNAP. Ever. Their “support” is a joke, and their only fix for hardware that doesn’t work on “supported” OS due to old firmware is to return it and hope to get a new one with a new firmware that actually works. Like, WTF? And “supported” here means they have some old, janky, partially functional Linux app that ran on an Ubuntu desktop once upon a time. No headless system support for a server attached product. And really, they want you running it on a Windows desktop.

Beyond that, the physical hardware itself was super generic gear. I was unimpressed with paying a premium after friends all recommended QNAP, and I got what was basically a child’s toy that they didn’t expect a professional to be using.

As for multi-gig router, if you’re doing dynamic, addressing and masquerading then I can recommend the unified dream machine pro. The second edition is more capable, and has a faster backplane between the 10 gig land and land ports and the one gig ports. The original dream machine pro that I have does not have that feature, and it’s sorely missed.

If you need to do any complex routing, or static addressing then things get a little more wonky. Wonky. Very obviously does not expect this device to be a real router, but rather than that and masquerade gateway for a small business office. It totally works, and I’ve had mine for a few years now, but it’s just something to be aware of.

Mikrotik also makes a 10g router device, as do a couple other companies. They’ll expect you to be a bit more experienced, though. I’m not sure what your skill level is, but they are options at least.

Edit: you want an sfp+, btw. An sfp only does 1gbit, an sfp+ does 10gbit, and qsfp does 25+ gbit. https://www.black-box.eu/en-int/page/45646/Resources/technical/Black-Box-Explains/lan/SFP-vs-QSFP-What-s-the-difference

Christmas scenes being set up at arts and crafts stores already. Like, let me enjoy the last few months of warmth!