Also there are fast food alternatives to McDonalds as well.

IMO, Wendy’s has much better burgers. Haven’t had Carl’s Jr’s in a long while but I remember their “$6 Burgers” were pretty good.

Burger King, the meat quality seems to have gone downhill. Like an unchewable but in each meat patty. They used to be my favorite.

Edit: the “$6 burger” is now called the thick burger since it now costs more than $6

Do a search for you server OS + STIG

Then, for each service you’re hosting on that server, do a search for:

Service/Program name + STIG/Benchmark

There’s tons of work already done by the vendors in conjunction with the DoD (and CIS) to create lists of potential vulnerable settings that can be corrected before deploying the server.

Along with this, you can usually find scripts and/or Ansible playbooks that will do most of the hardening for you. Though it’s a good Idea to understand what you do and do not need done.

Reminds me of Coffee Stain Studio’s trailer for the release of Goat MMO Simulator:

https://youtu.be/WAm5yxQA_HY

And the clouds are the same rock, just textured white.

Still looking. Closest I’ve found so far aside from the Widex app is this web page based generator:

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/acousticPianoSoundscapeGenerator.php

They also have other background noise options:

https://mynoise.net/

It’s free with optional donations.

They have an android app but it’s out of date.

Edit: Theres also Nature space but likewise, their android app is out of date (unsupported on newer devices)

http://www.naturespace.org/

I know on the hearing aides themselves it’s called “Zen” which includes white noise options, narrowband white noise, and the fractal tones. I also think there’s an option for combining white noise with fractal tones. Don’t know if there is a “notched therapy” option (play white noise or other sounds but excluding the frequency of your tinnitus.

The fractal tones can also be tuned by average frequency and the number of tones played per time period per channel. I know mine plays more tones on the ear opposite where my tinnitus is.

I’ll post another reply if I can confirm a good fractal tones app. I did a short search in the past but gave up when I came up empty.

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Of course it varies by tinitus sufferer.

I absolutely would not recommend dropping $7000 on a pair of hearing aides just for masking. That said, I’ve found that the fractal tones and nature sounds (not from the hearing aides) with various levels of sounds help me where simple white noise wouldn’t.

My T can be masked by white noise but in the 85-90dBm range. It’s also complicated with the fact that it’s only in one ear.

Until I discovered the right nature sounds track to help me sleep, I was barely getting 3-4 hours of sleep a night.

If they add Fractal Tones then it’ll do what the really expensive hearing aides can do.

Study on Fractal Tones:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197965/

Example of the fractal tones Windex uses:

https://youtu.be/LTPCn749iFc?si=a1PNAq-6p9Gy5TBb&t=2m10s

Edit: Should be Widex, not Windex. Do not spray Windex in your ear!

It’s a pity that Crispin Glover’s suite was settled and a precedent wasn’t set

An instant ramen factory would at least take care of the sodium!

That said, looks like the current sea water desalination worldwide is pretty huge:

https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-but-what-about-all-that-toxic-brine/

16,000 operating desal facilities worldwide have been producing. Until now. Researchers report today that global desal brine production is 50 percent higher than previous estimates, totaling 141.5 million cubic meters a day, compared to 95 million cubic meters of actual freshwater output from the facilities.

236.5 million cubic meters of sea water processed a day, 264 gallons in a cubic meter = 62.44 Billion gallons of water per day.

If the Lithium content is the same as it is in the US example, then that is a potential 20,000 tons of Lithium a year (again assuming the same Li concentration and 100% extraction.

Sadly still short of the current global demand for lithium:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-seeks-new-lithium-sources-as-demand-for-clean-energy-grows

Worldwide demand for lithium was about 350,000 tons (317,517 metric tons) in 2020, but industry estimates project demand will be up to six times greater by 2030.

Looks like there’s three ways to mine Lithium:

1. Hard Rock mining (as mentioned in the article)
2. Natural Brine sources
3. De-salinated water brine

https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/Can-seawater-give-us-lithium-to-meet-our-battery-needs/99/i36

Maine has been burned in the past by previous mining operations closing up and leaving the state to clean up the remaining mess (also in the OP article). Definitely a tough situation all around.

Regarding how much Lithium can be recovered from desalination waste:

https://medium.com/prime-movers-lab/does-the-u-s-have-enough-lithium-to-support-the-growing-ev-market-d73a44a969e5

The US currently has one operating desalination plant, Carlsbad, that processes 50 million gallons of seawater per day. If it recovered 100% of the lithium in that water, it would produce… about 16 tonnes of lithium per year.

VS the amount needed/used per year:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/606481/estimated-lithium-consumption-in-the-united-states/

In 2022 the United States consumed an estimated 3000 metric tons of lithium.

https://www.neefusa.org/story/water/home-water-use-united-states

Each day in the United States, about 27.4 billion gallons of water are withdrawn and delivered from surface water and groundwater sources for residential use

So if we supplemented 10% of our needs from Desalinated water (2.74 Billion gallons a day) and recovered the same max amount of Lithium as the example a day (50 million gallons a day for 16T of Lithium a year) then we get:

(2.74B/50M)16T= 54.816T= 877T of Lithium a year

Best I can do is ultra bright, white cows.

Indeed, the SMS port looks pretty good:

https://youtu.be/dQc_hkTEb4s?t=26m