I was just going off memory. And I’m turning 50 soon. Sooo. 🤣

It’s really not. Solid state devices don’t care one whit about gravity or any lack thereof. And do you have ANY idea how many small things we have today to make our lives better that are all offshoots of the original space race? Velcro. Memory foam. Just to name two of them.

I swear, some people just refuse to see the forest because of all the trees in the way.

There are multiple trillions of dollars worth of materials in the asteroid belt.

Also, solar works best when there’s no atmosphere between the emitter and the collector. Not to mention there are orbital vectors available that would keep the collectors in full sunlight permanently.

No massive battery farm needed. No need to go dig up all that material and continue destroying the environment here by doing so.

Why are there so many luddites using technology like the Internet these days???

Good. The more stuff we can get off this fragile world the better off it will be.

Yes, it’s hard. Now at least. But at some point we can source the materials out there instead of having to launch every bit of it and that’ll make everything easier in space.

No more manufacturing polluting the air. And once we can source the materials to build, it’s a simple matter to source the materials needed for manufacturing as well.

The biggest complaint of EVs is the mining of the parts needed to make it.

Imagine no longer needing to mine the earth for materials.

“It’s mainstream now so it’s no longer cool.”

The same hate Ubuntu got when it first came out (and still gets, tbh).

Particle beams when? I need to upgrade my arsenal. The way things are going in the US there’s liable to be a civil war part 2 soon, sadly.

“Oh, a hug? That’s cool That cools I guess…”

Except they have the high ground. They can drop rocks on us.

Also, being able to use technical devices doesn’t mean you understand them or know how to make them.

Maybe the civilization they were in before would be able to do all that, but they can’t now, doesn’t mean they don’t still have a few “super weapons” they can fall back on.

Or, like I said, just throw heavy objects at us. It’s easier to go from orbit to ground than from ground to orbit.

Except maybe they can’t do any of that any more, and they’re living a nomadic existence as the remnants of a civilization near the end of its life and a stellar event pushed them onto a fleet of generation ships and they’ve centuries roaming in ships that are increasingly taking apart around them.

Just because you can launch a ship or 3000 into space doesn’t mean you can do it well or all that safely.

After all, we have the technology right now, to build such a generational fleet of ships and send them off. We just don’t do it because there’s no real impetus to do so, but I can guarantee that if we knew for certain that absolute death was coming our way with no way of stopping it, escaping would be one of the things we would try to do.

Being able to get here doesn’t mean squat if it was just a random choice based on old light and a “that star looks like the best candidate we can reach in less than 300 years.”

Just because humans haven’t gone outside the orbit of earth doesn’t mean we don’t have the capability of it. We’re just trying to do it safely.

Imagine if we didn’t care how many died as long as some of us made it?

I mean that’s how the old USSR did things…

I forgetted a word

When one civilization meets another, far more advanced, civilization, what tends to happen to the less advanced one?

Yeah, that. It’s gonna suck.

The UNIX philosophy is “Everything is a file.”

systemd doesn’t follow that, with its binary logs and stuff.

Just part of why I keep going back to FreeBSD.

Yes and no. Our emotions are not just chemical processes. And without the controlling interface, our consciousness itself, those chemical processes wouldn’t be initiated.

I can’t prove it, it’s not scientific, and it’s purely me talking out of my ass, but I firmly believe that emotions are part of consciousness.

As in:

You cannot have a self aware sentience without some form of emotion.

I have had Gmail since it was in beta and needed an invite to use.

Yes, it was originally touted as unlimited email. “Never have to delete another email!!” This was in 2003 (or was early 2004? It all runs together these days. I got married in 03, and got the invite not too long after) when my cousin sent me the invite.

The big webmail provider back then was yahoo.com, and I still have that email address as well. AOL even started offering a free webmail for people who had broadband Internet, but wanted to use or keep their old dial up AOL account.

Hotmail was also a thing, and this was before MS bought them and merged it with msn.com

I find it odd that many of the same people who don’t like large corporations, like Visa and MasterCard are, are also the same people who despise using cash.

Every single transaction you use your card, visa and MasterCard gets a percentage of from the place you just spent your money.

You’re enriching those corporations by simply spending your money somewhere when you use their cards.

I remember when Gmail was advertised as unlimited email storage. Then they limited it. Then they sold more storage for it.

USB-C to aux, connected to a good head unit.

Wired > Bluetooth.

Perish the thought.

eBay, FB marketplace, craigslist. Basically any dell, hp, or Lenovo workstation big enough to have a pcie slot.

Intel is usually the most prevalent. 6th or 7th Gen i3 or better. 4 to 8G ram, at least a 64G SSD.

Here’s one that’s a little overkill on the ram. But you’ll need a cheap small SSD if you get it.

https://ebay.us/m/RdCOjG

I can’t put my music on my phone

I have between 4 and 5 terabytes of mostly lossless music.

Navidrome to the rescue!

Used SFF PC: $40

Pcie 10gbe network card: $30

OPNsense: free

Done.