Why? And which coins are good?

How would a surveillance state even prevent that?

I just found my order confirmation email. Mine is model FW4C (now superseded by the V1410). Purchased almost two years ago.

I’m very satisfied with mine. Nearly 100% uptime, except for occasional reboots after major system updates.

Sure! It’s completely solid-state; no fans or other moving parts. The case is designed to dissipate the heat. The CPU is some low-power Intel Pentium. I don’t remember exactly which model.

I ordered a pre-built one from Protectli because I needed it fast, but you can save quite a bit if you prefer to build one. These little motherboards and cases can be found pretty easily online.

I went with a dedicated mini PC with one of those motherboards that are designed for building a network appliance. It has been running very smoothly for a few years, and I just log in occasionally to run system updates.

I want my network and Internet connection to continue working, regardless of my tinkering with home server stuff.

If I had to guess, maybe they had a surplus of energy and needed some way to dissipate excess energy. I read the book years ago though, so I don’t really remember.

I suppose so. Maybe the concept could work with other forms of electromagnetic radiation too, and visible light was just the one used in the book. Idk, I’m no physicist 🤷‍♂️

In the (fiction) novel Artemis by Andy Weir, which takes place in a city on the moon, they have a heat management system that seemed pretty cool. They convert heat to light, and radiate the light out into space. Not sure how feasible/scalable that is, but I thought the concept was cool.

Lol what? I’m so out of the loop

Oops, that’s what I get for being on my phone hours after I should have gone to sleep. I’m an idiot at those hours lol

Indeed. I assumed that was obvious when I wrote it, but thanks for confirming.

Only nine now? That’s so much better than it used to be!

When I first tried Linux (Mandrake, many years ago), I could probably come up with 9 problems in just the first hour 😆

It’s easy to find nine problems in Windows too, so this is pretty good for a free OS, IMO. It’s great to see Linux gradually become more mainstream (aside from Android and servers)

Edit: I’m a dumbass lol

Can it access a file without spinning up all disks in the array?

I haven’t used ZFS in like a decade, but would strongly consider going back to it if it can do that now.

I haven’t heard DirecTV mentioned in such a long time, I’m a little surprised it still exists

FWIW, I have had some Google (now Nest) Home Hubs for years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard ads on them.

I’m gradually de-googling my life though, so maybe I’ll just replace them with some DIY thing

I’ve been happily using SilverBullet lately too. Can recommend

IMO, that site doesn’t really look like it wants to succeed. Seems like the mobile apps are still in development, so maybe the site is intentionally like that, for now.

The most obvious difference: When I open that link, I see no video. If I open tiktok.com, I see a video.

That’s just from a cursory look though. I’ve never heard of them, so I could easily be wrong.

I remember when Rupert Murdoch’s company, News Corporation, bought Myspace. Maybe US TikTok will see the same fate

I’d suggest Cursor. I was somewhat anti-AI-coding until my job encouraged it, and Cursor (using Claude 4 Sonnet) gave me that “ohh, now I get it” moment.

It’s still plenty capable of generating bad code, so it can take a bit of practice to get a feel for how to use it productively.

Fun fact: Base64url is not quite the same as base64. Its alphabet is slightly different from base64 so its characters can be used in more places (URLs, filenames, etc.).

I suppose the tool’s name is more clear for those who are aware of those differences, but very unclear for others.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648#section-5