What do you mean unused bandwidth? Is that not the normal? Most of the time I’m not using my bandwidth so I guess I have lots of unused bandwidth too.

NFTs actually are an easy concept, a dollar bill is a Frugal Token, because all dollar bills are the same, you can change one for another and it all works out because both represent the same thing (one dollar). A deed to a house is not frugal, you can’t just change one deed for a different one because they represent different things. NFTs are just that, Non Frugal Tokens, why some people wanted to own a digital token representing ownership of a publicly available digital image is what can’t be explained.

It is called the tolerance paradox. If you want a truly tolerant society you can’t tolerate intolerance.

a) Explain why the US hasn’t gone back in so long,

Why would they? Nothing of value came from any of those missions and the risk is enormous.

and why with modern technology it seems so difficult? (especially given that NASA has been experiencing numerous delays in the Artemis missions, that certainly hasn’t given them a good impression…)

Because transistors are a lot more sensitive to EM than valves. Our current technology miniaturized lots of things, but that also means that a single piece of conductive material (like moon dust) or a single electron (from an em pulse) in the wrong place can wreak havok to it. Old computers required lots more electrons and space for their actual function so they were a lot more resistent to random variations. And we can’t make old computers anymore because we don’t have the factories for them, and you’re not going to create an entire factory just to produce a couple pieces for one mission, so they have to focus on isolating and making things more resistent.

b) How do you verify moon rocks without having actually been on the moon? How did scientists figure out what a moon rock looks like?

The moon is constantly being bombarded by unfiltered radiation because of its lack of atmosphere. This makes it so they’re composed of minerals that rarely occur on earth (they usually bind with oxygen or nitrogen in the atmosphere), have different isotopes (because of the radiation) and are much older (because no interference from tectonic movement/rain/wind/etc)

c) Why aren’t the old Apollo designs being reused for a moon landing? (by either the Americans or the Chinese)

Because they can’t for the same reason the US can’t, they don’t work with modern electronics, and no one can produce old electronics.

They say that there isn’t strong evidence either side (but believes that it is false, saying that “we will see” once someone else lands on the moon)

There is very strong evidence, your friend can corroborate for himself by spending a few thousand dollars (or he can understand that if anyone wanted to they could). First you need to buy a very powerful laser, then a very sensitive sensor, you hook them so they very close together and fire at the moon, you will never get a reading back, because the moon surface is a difuse reflector with a rough surface the light will scatter and go everywhere. However, when the astronauts went to the moon they left retroreflectors in specific locations, so if you pointed at one of those you would get the signal back approximately 2.5 second later.

And what other points can I bring up to definitively say, yes, the moon landing wasn’t faked?

I guess it’s easier to ask them “what evidence would convince you” because the answer will be none, of there was any evidence that would convince them they would have been convinced already.

Another thing, they also can’t believe that astronauts could bring and ride the little moon buggies. I am also partially interested in how that was achieved to be honest!

Not sure what’s there to not understand about this, so I’ll just say same way cars get to a dealership and you ride them afterwards.

There are several criticisms I could make to the methodology and other parts of this study (and there are LOTS to make here). But let’s for a moment assume it is correct, let’s imagine that vaccines really do cause a 250% risk increase to ADHD or asthma. Even if that were true (which it isn’t, for example: almost every person diagnosed with ADHD has an undiagnosed parent with it too, leading to the conclusion that it’s not that the cases have increased but that diagnosis has.) vaccines would be a GREAT idea. The study doesn’t go into details (because it’s trying to make the data prove what they want instead of analysing it) but let’s look at one single vaccine, and compare this single vaccine with the whole of the accumulated hypothetical dangers of vaccines. Let’s talk about the BCG.

BCG is the vaccine that prevents tuberculosis, also known as white death or consumption. Before vaccines TB accounted for 25% of all deaths in Europe, this means that for every 4 people who died, one of them was by TB. Do you think COVID was bad? COVID was only 6% of deaths at it’s peak. But hey, maybe you don’t believe in COVID, let’s compare it to actual numbers, in 2018 (before the pandemic) approximately 8.1 million people died in Europe, of those only 259,000 were TB, if we subtract those we get 7.76 million, scaling that back to pre-vaccine days that takes us to 2.6 million deaths per year related to TB (there’s probably some overlap of people’s who died of other stuff and would have died of TB in that hypothetical scenario, but still) even being very generous that’s an extra 1 million deaths. 1 million preventable deaths per year in exchange for a few extra cases of asthma and ADHD seems like a goods exchange. Also have you stopped to consider that maybe since people don’t die of TB they live long enough to have asthma diagnosed?

You can switch to crickets, I think that’s your best murder per Kg ratio.

Yeah, few bad apples is one of the sayings that people use completely backwards, the other ones is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” which people abbreviate to “blood is thicker than water” to mean the exact opposite.

Because only 'Muricas:

• Assume you know what country they’re in
• Have blatant healthcare issues
• Use random units that convert weirdly between themselves
• Get offended when you point any of this up

Their star would eventually die. Flames would die, objects break, it’s not a far fetched thing to think that similar stuff can happen to living beings.

Outer wilds, went in blind (as you should) was not disappointed.

I liked it the first time I played it, but then I decided to play it again to choose different things and realized the horrible truth that it’s all magicians choice. Who do you save A or B? You choose A then A survives and B dies and A is angry that you let B died, you choose B then you fail to save them but A saves themselves so A survives and B dies and A is angry that you tried to save B instead of them. It doesn’t matter much what you choose, the game will do the same.

I shutdown my Desktop daily, sometimes more if for example I’m playing in the morning and going out for lunch and coming back in the evening and playing again. In short if I’m going to spend over an hour not using it I’ll power it off, no reason to keep it on and honestly it powers on almost as fast as coming back from hibernation so why bother? That made sense before SSDs, but nowadays I don’t see much reason.

There’s one big exception, and that is sleeping in the middle of a game, to be able to be back in the game in seconds. It’s one of my favorite features of the Steam Deck, but I haven’t tried it on my desktop because I usually use it for other stuff too so it’s not as useful there.

But what is a trusted provider? How can you trust it? How sure are you that you’re not being MitM? Have you fully manually verified that there’s no funky flags in curl like -k, that the url is using SSL, that it’s a correct url and not pointing at something malicious, etc, etc, etc. There are a lot of manual steps you must verify using this approach, whereas using a package manager all of them get checked automatically, plus some extra checks like hundreds of people validating the content is secure.

To do apt get from an unknown repo, you first need to convince the person to execute root commands they don’t understand on their machine to add that unknown repo, if you can convice someone to run an unsafe command with root credentials then the machine is already compromised.

I get your point, random internet scripts are dangerous but random internet packages can also dangerous. But that’s a false equivalence because there are lots of safeguards to the packages in the usual way people install them, but less than 0 safeguards to the curl|bash. In a similar manner, if this was a post talking about the dangers of fireworks and how you can blow yourself up using them your answer is “but someone can plant a bomb in the mall I go to, or steal the codes for a nuclear missile and blow me up anyways”.

Last year I would have said Arch. I have been running it for over 15 years with some small breaks to try stuff, or with some machines that have company issued OS. But I have been toying with NixOS, and honestly I’m loving it. If I had to choose only one and couldn’t change it it would have to be Arch, I know I can get 5 years with it easily, but if I was setting a new system today it would almost assuredly be NixOS, I might regret that 3 years down the line when there’s something I can’t get to work, but the more I play around, the less likely I think that would be, and the more comfortable I feel that I will eventually migrate to NixOS fulltime

But those are two very different things, I can very easily give you a one liner using curl|bash that will compromise your system, to get the same level of compromise through a proper authenticated channel such as apt/pacman/etc you would need to compromise either their private keys and attack before they notice and change them or stick malicious code in an official package, either of those is orders of magnitude more difficult than writing a simple bash script.

You didn’t knew that the tool to handle URLs written in C (very creatively named C-Url) was handling URLs? It’s also written in C if you didn’t knew.

For this to work you need a display to send through the network, but that display needs not be a physical one. So depending on your definition it can be run headless. If you meant without it being plugged to a display then yes, if you meant without having graphical stack installed then no (there would be no point to streaming display without a display).

It works brilliantly on my Linux host with a 7800 XT, I think you might have an unrelated issue.

Astro A50 that I got from work. It sucks, every once in a while it just refuses to work and I need to plug it into my wife’s Windows PC to update the firmware to get it to work again. Audio and mic quality are okay, but that issue makes me definitely not recommend it for Linux users.

No, I cheated. I figured out that it needs to be solved in layers, and figured out how to solve the first two layers,but could never figure out how to solve the top one. Eventually I looked up how to solve it and reproduced the movements. I can put it in order now, but I wouldn’t say I solved it since I’m doing movements someone taught me not that I figured myself out.