lDK...
Did you ever have to completely reassamble a Laptop?
(edit:) Sorry, just saw who exactly you are... My sincerest sympathy to you!
I did that once, my adrenaline was at max level, hyperfocused to get all the tiny parts in the right places again, fixed with the correct length and thread screws in the specific reverse order as before.
Total mental and physical exhaustion afterwards.
Honestly, compared to that, kayaking some rapids actually sounds relaxing to me...
But this doesn't even look remotely dull though.
I already got anxiety just looking at the photo.
Just sayin...
Mold doesn't need light (quite the opposite: UV exposition might even inhibit mold).
But a clear tank helps determining if it is clean. And also if it is empty.
BTW: OP almost certainly did not have mold, but algae.
Had that myself once, coffee maker is placed right at a window...
Where are you from?
I wonder if anyone in the U.S. ever has experienced that, as their water is supposed to be heavily chlorinated, which might just kill any algae right from the start...
That is great and I do the same (shoutout to my local NAS) and I also try to improve situation outside of my family by running a TOR server since things started to significantly deteriorate 20 years ago or so.
But that are just "waterdrops on hot stones" and have no impact on the 99% of people who don't have the means or expertise to do likewise.
Main focus must be to steer politics away from deciding such laws and to implement regulation against monopolies and closed infrastructure instead. I know that's tedious and probably neverending work, but the only viable long-term option I see.
If you throw money at the problem, you’d still have a VPN.
Heavily depends on what "outlawed" means.
I am certainly capable of implementing low cost workarounds to purely technical anti-VPN-measures, but certainly would not risk going to jail just for trying it.
Essentially boils down to the old saying:
"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
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Da hatte ich ja gar nix von mit bekommen.
Und mein Sohn hat von gestern auf heute bei einem Feund in Schoppershof übernachtet, genau am Rand des Evakuierungsradius. Und natürlich sein Handy zuhause liegen lassen...
Da bin ich ja mal auf die Berichte von ihm gespannt...
another form of connectivity that doesn’t rely on national infrastructure. I have no idea what that is
l can tell you.
It's the internet in its original form. A distributed network of independent nodes freely peering to each other over a decentralized infrastructure.
First to go was the decentralization.
Main knots like DE-CIX are now the central connection points and single point of failure (and intrusion).
Next went the independent distribution with hyperscalers taking over.
Currently the free peering is about to disappear.
E.g. my provider, a major one here in Germany, just announced to completely remove from free public peering and let a private company handle it for him instead.
This company then charges other peers based on bandwidth.
The problem of looming governmental restrictions is just the tip of the iceberg.
The internet is already rotten from the infrastructural core and there is no easy way around that...
I agree on the points you mentioned.
Increasing size is also a problem, though.
E.g have the rules to build parking spaces been changed here in Germany recently to accommodate the bigger cars.
This additional space (we are talking about additional 30cm width for a road with parking on both sides) will not only further clutter our cities, but will also not be available for bike lanes and sidewalks.
And yes, seeing my elementary school kid walking between SUVs and Pickups (we now also have a few of those here...) to cross the street, is also horrifying to watch...
l doubt that, considering he would be raised and live with the people who cloned him.
And I raise the hypothesis that "leading a normal life" would not fit the motives of these people.
So we would get a Hitler clone with possible deformities and other health issues on top of Kallmann Syndrome?
Great, I am sure that would significantly improve his mood and totally not lead to senseless acts of extreme angry violence against some unfortunate group of scapegoats!
Ich kann nicht mehr.
Der ganze wirklichkeitsverdrehende Populismus geht mir sowas von auf den Sack...