Not a replicant

It might confuse subsequent consumers of said content, though. And that’s a good thing.

Skinjob.

www.live365.com/listen

No account or subscription required.

Hundreds of internet radio stations. Some are ad-supported, some are ad-free but you can contribute to the station’s patreon.

Got a nice fibre-optic connection, have you? Try throttling that to <10Mbps and you might understand what some people have to deal with. DSL at 10Mbps from an evil corporation, or 150Mbps from an evil corporation, hmmmmm, what a choice.

It’s easy to shit on the owner, but have some sympathy for folk who don’t have a reasonable alternative.

Thank you so much ! /s Come and join me where the options are many and the price is so cheap. /s /s

If you’d like to experience what it’s like to access the internet sans Starlink, perhaps you could just throttle your modem to 8 or even 10 Mbps. Yes? No? Then consider how lucky you are, and have some empathy for those of us who have little or no alternative.

I invite you to join me in rural Australia, and choose from the many options available. /s

Rachel Riley tweets incoming. Maybe she’ll have a new t-shirt to wear?

This also works: shift-F10 before you get to the network configuration, then type this and press enter start ms-cxh:localonly

For either method, if you configure networking during setup, e.g. plug in an ethernet cable or give it the wi-fi password, it’ll keep returning to the online account screen. You need to do it prior to network config.

That’s also an idea that’s been around for a while. Pre-heat your hot water system input, thus reducing the load on whatever you use in your HWS, gas, electric, or other. I’ve not seen it implemented though, presumably it’s quite a manufacturing problem, bonding water pipes to the back of PV panels, secure interconnects, pressure relief valves, etc. It would have a significant effect on the price of a PV panel, and the efficiency increase would need to justify it.

I’d like to know what they’re going to do about the heating issue. Concentrating solar radiation carries with it an increased heat load. And heat reduces solar PV efficiency. I’m already losing about 30% in summer when the panels heat up.

Fursuits

You’ve heard the term “balkanization”? You’ve just invented “US-ification”.

More states = more politicians 🤮

Rank is less important than the presence or absence of chicken salt.

There are states in Australia that can swallow Texas whole. Long distance driving is unavoidable, so it’s less useful as a metric because it can’t be changed easily. It would mean improving public transport, subsidising domestic flights, etc - and we all know how likely that is.

What about the Stay-puft^tm Marshmallow Man?

Talk about clickbait … Article title: trump can pull the plug on the internet and europe can’t do anything about it (my emphasis) First line: the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world (not “pull the plug on the internet”) And then further down: “The fatal vulnerability is Europe’s near-total dependency on U.S. cloud providers.”

So first, it’s “the internet”, then it’s “unplug europe from the digital world”, then it’s “europe’s dependency on US cloud providers”

So it’s NOT “the internet”, and it’s NOT “unplug europe”, it’s disconnect european customers from US cloud providers.

Methinks Monseiur Pollet doesn’t understand very much about the internet.

LOL no. There are many good reasons choose Linux on the desktop/laptop, but the so-called Win10 apocalypse isn’t in the top 10.

ffmpeg - www.deb-multimedia.org . I edit podcast videos for distribution to subscribers. High-quality video produces very large files but if they’re only going to be watched on laptops, tablets, and phones, I can throw away a lot of bits without noticeably affecting quality on a phone screen.

And nothing does that better or faster than ffmpeg.

OS400 (IBM i)

No, just “farmers”. Qualified by what they raise, e.g. “Bill, a cattle farmer from Dalby” or “Harry, a wheat farmer from the Downs”