Vulnerability to whom? Russia is no longer a military threat, and China is a threat in ways Trump is unable to comprehend (considering the US is more at threat than Canada). That leaves… vulnerable to the US? We already knew that.

Not copium when the purpose is different.

A mix of both; finding old gear and combining parts to restore functional units, repairing where needed and learning more about how the systems work in the meantime.

And older SIMMs and DIMMs are relatively cheap right now — you can create a maxed out system for its era and still do everything on the computer that was possible to do when it was new.

There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

Have they detained John Oliver yet? It’s only a matter of time.

Switch to retrocomputing; it’s currently significantly more affordable.

Nobody wins. Someone just gets control of the official narrative.

But who’s the “you” you’re asking here?

I thought the POTUS couldn’t break the law? Or does that go out the window once they’re not sitting? Does Trump really want to set THAT precedent?

Reolink and Tapo products can both be set up in LAN-only mode. Many Reolink products can even go one step further and be optionally fully wired.

They can also operate off SD card, and have a free cloud-managed option with subscription upsell. So you can choose to use the configuration that fits your own privacy model.

I always use devices with SD cards, so that even if there’s a stealth firmware update, I’ve got the video on local media.

My personal happy place is SD + RTT to my Home Assistant server, which I can access via VPN anywhere.

Easier to say “everyone but the US and possibly NK.”

You think the government is trying to do a Han Solo here?

Did the 28% who approved of the shooting watch the videos???

I guess we’ve found the basket of deplorables.

I visit some partially built homes from time to time, and recently saw one just after it had been inspected. On one wall, on the insulation, the inspector had scrawled STUD? In red felt.

The stud was completely missing from the wall. It was just an empty frame filled with insulation. You’d think someone would have noticed earlier during construction, but obviously the actual contractor had just let the day labor go to town and never bothered to review their work before inspection.

You’d probably enjoy my yt channel, but it doesn’t contain tips :)

I disagree. Anyone should be allowed to vote. But I’d happily support mandatory civics classes to be able to do so, where you actually have to pass to get your voter registration number.

You could also use the 3 segment method to do matrix math in binary :D

I taught my kids to count in binary on their fingers before I taught them base 10.

Having that skill also makes base conversion relatively simple because base 10 is intrinsically understood to be a way of expressing quantity instead of the literal truth about that quantity.

It’s not just useful for lawsuits (creating them and defending against them) — it also helps you identify early if a new job is going down the same path.

You’re still doing a lot of glossing.

My parents listened to Roy Orbison, Chubby Checker, Buddy Holly, and some of the very early Elvis. Would they consider Elvis “oldies?” Probably not — he was pop music to them. Roy Orbison? Yeah; he’d be oldies.

To me, Madonna and Prince are oldies.

Think of them not as means of differentiating musical style for you, but as historical ways of explaining how a band or musical movement differed from the norm.

Take a band like The Beach Boys. In the 70s, what they were doing was alternative rock — that is, they took the dance/music genre of classic rock and roll, and re-imagined how it would sound on a sandy beach at a surf party instead of in a dance hall.

Enter the 80s, and their music became part of the cultural norm, so they were popular/“pop” music.

And yet, as a band, they kept adding new techniques and writing new music right into the 2000s, often drifting back out of popular culture while doing so.

The point of this is, see what the subgenre tells you about the musicians; it isn’t really a useful way to clearly divide musical works themselves into subcategories.

The only reason XP was decent was that it stuck around for so long so people got used to it, just like OS X 10.4 for Macs. XP SP2 fixed a lot of stuff, as did the yearly patches after that, but it was still a usability and security nightmare that tried to hide what it was doing from the user.

Personally, I feel like NT4 was pretty good, but didn’t have driver support. Windows 2000 onwards was intentionally breaking stuff to make NT more like Windows 95. And just this month, some buggy driver code ported from Windows 98 to Win2K was FINALLY removed from Windows 11.