I actually have had an ice scraper blade wear out on me.

I ground it against the sidewalk until I got a straight edge again. Still use it 10 years later.

Mini-b would break the port instead of the cable

Go for it. You don’t need to install Linux in order to start getting your feet wet. Get a USB 3.0+ flash drive and put a “live” (CD/USB, whatever the distro wants to call it) distro on there. There are plenty of directions out there on how to make one from Windows. Most live distros nowadays are persistent, so any programs you install will be there next time you load it up. It will definitely be slower than a normal install, but it’ll let you get a feel for how things work.

Go ham wild on there, break stuff, see if you can fix it, don’t, then remake it again. Try different desktop environments (DEs) and see what you like. Your distro of choice is less important if you’re just starting, but any of the big ones will be fine. I’d recommend trying a few different DEs from the same distro, see what you like the feel of, then try a different distro with what you liked best. They’ll usually all have gnome, kde, and a third lightweight option, but in my experience if Wayland (the other choice is X11) works well, kde and gnome will feel pretty light. I use kde Wayland on this guy and trust me, this review is giving it a lot of grace. Windows 10 was completely unacceptable on it, so if your specs are any better then this, you’ll be fine with whatever you choose. Beware that Nvidia cards have driver issues, they’re fixable but if you do have an Nvidia card, I’d just use the built in graphics chip for trying out Linux at first.

Don’t start with arch, btw.

I saw a video somewhere where they have peel off helmet visors, so they just rip off the top layer to see again. Kind of like a post-it-note version of brand new screen protectors

Looks like store and forward doesn’t work with these. Shame, I could actually put that to good use right away. Unless of course I didn’t get it set up correctly.

This is about on par with what I was thinking. If not a BBS, it could end up being a dongle for a computer. I was thinking they might make pretty good rnode endpoints, if they ever got firmware for it.

Chirp spread spectrum just describes how data is sent, it can’t really be proprietary. It would be like saying waving a flashlight to send morse code was proprietary. The black box part is you say “send this data” then that data comes out of the antenna in the Lora signal. The physical device that connects that data to a signal and visa-versa is what’s proprietary. There could be little tweaks to the transmission that make it work better, like having a slightly non-linear chirp, or some signal processing algorithm that can dig the signal out of some serious noise.

For the most part, a transmission isn’t proprietary, it’s how that transmission is made and how it’s processed that is. In the case of Lora, the radios are cheap and work incredibly well, so there isn’t much of a reason for someone to homebrew their own.

Sure you could. But I’ll offer a different perspective

All honey tastes different from different producers and areas, you’ll be missing out on some wonderful honey flavors if you buy that much in bulk. If it’s purely for sweetening, sure fine, do it. But if you want the flavor of honey, check out a farmers market and see what you’d be missing out on with bulk.

I want to know how much I have to work.

To neurotypicals this sounds like you don’t want to put in the work. A better way to phrase it would be “I’m just trying to see how busy today will be” you can follow it with bullshit like “trying to decide if I’ll be cooking dinner or picking something up on my way home”

Bezos having a say in what news you read or don’t read benefits him quite a bit.

I’ve found that if it’s set up right, it works well for announcements and short discussions around that. But as far as support, it’s absolute trash. It’s nice for slightly quicker communication on updates than than updating a website, and I’ll see all the backlash from users saying “this update broke everything you idiots”, so I know to wait.

Every single Republican is complicit with the Nazi regime.

That’s the problem. Half of our representatives are Nazis. How is an impeachment going to go anywhere?

This isn’t the same thing, but it certainly looks like it might gave the same function

https://www.wescor.com/translations/Translations/M2551-7A-EN.pdf

It’s also impossibly hard to get fired from a government position if you show up and at least put up the appearance of working. So she definitely was an insufferable something or other.

LXIX my balls! Haha got’em.

Believe it or not, this is the second time I got to make that joke within an hour.

You set it free in it’s natural habitat

I’m using an asus e200ha, which is basically a Chromebook from 2016 but without chromeos, or whatever it’s called. It barely works, has 32 gb of emmc storage (that’s right, as much storage as mid-tier computers have RAM). I’ve been ready for an upgrade for years.

What’s wild, is it’s actually been getting steadily faster and more useful as it gets older, because all the issues it had in it’s younger years are all getting fixed in the Linux kernel.

Did you do the nextcloudpi install?

My biggest gripe about non replaceable components is the chance that they’ll fail. I’ve had pretty much every component die on me at some point. If it’s replaceable it’s fine because you just get a new component, but if it isn’t you now have an expensive brick.

I will admit that I haven’t had anything fail recently like in the past, I have a feeling the capacitor plague of the early 2000s influenced my opinion on replaceable parts.

I also don’t fall in the category of people that need soldered components in order to meet their demands, I’m happy with raspberry pis and used business PCs.

That sounds like around the time domino’s decided that pizza should taste like cardboard