Dave.

Yeah, probably won’t even dismantle it, just bulldoze this 10 billion dollars into a pit and bury the lot. Then go spend another 10 billion on a shiny new tent+compute

It’s often not possible on other operating systems. Especially the consumer versions of a certain operating system starting with “W”, that system will refuse to have duplicate IPs.

But essentially it’s always been possible (but, probably not preferred these days) to have redundant routes/paths on Unix systems. The way you have it now is more of a side effect of being able to do more complex network setups, like using different interfaces to talk to different subnets, or using a slow link as a backup to a fast link.

With your current setup you should get a slow failover ability, for example if you ping some other device and then unplug your Ethernet cable, you’ll have a bit of a pause in replies and then they will start again as the stack switches to the other link.

The “metric 600” on your Wi-Fi adapter indicates to the system that it is a higher cost route than your Ethernet one. So the IP stack will prefer sending packets out via the Ethernet port.

Local devices who haven’t heard from you lately will send to whatever device gives them a response to their ARP (“who has IP address X?”) request first, and seeing as Ethernet is lower latency than WiFi, they will mostly use your Ethernet adapter as their target when sending data to you.

Devices that have received data from you already will have the MAC address of your Ethernet adapter in their ARP table, so they’ll just send packets to that without bothering to issue an ARP request.

Devices off your subnet talk to your router, so they don’t care about your MAC address, they’ll just use IP to talk to your router, who will then do the ARP request and hand the packets on to your computer via whatever interface answers first.

Orrrr - and hear me out - maybe that rag-tag collection of state and federal governments you’ve got going on over there in the US should have a way of online filing that’s free?

You know, like how most civilised countries have been doing for the last decade or so.

Yes, they artificially limit the reach of your posts, and then you pay them to get more exposure. You can also pay to have your posts more visible to particular demographics.

And of course that payment is on a sliding scale, and no amount of money is enough to reach all of your target audience, and it’s also for a limited time window.

“We write essays that aren’t AI-generated! We’re authentic!”

Proceeds to hand off the bulk of the work to ChatGPT, with a final run through Claude with instructions to scrub all indications of AI from the text.

• what happens if your internet connection is lost while someone sends you an email?

On this point, mail servers will retry for a period, usually 24 hours, before reporting back to the sender that they couldn’t deliver.

You’re a bit behind the times. adduser has been asking for your full name since the dawn of Unix.

Edit: and if you don’t put in your full name, how will people know who they’re fingering?!

There used to be a place at a local shopping center that was all glass and mirrors and was staffed by very serious young Asian men in sharp suits.

They sold - and only sold - boutique toffee apples.

Do not remove my spam

If I want to find something, I’ll look for it.

Don’t dump a truckload of unsolicited information in my inbox/workflow/field of view.

Otherwise you’re as bad as door to door religious folks. Oh yes, I’ve heard about Jesus, thanks. Now let me get back to what I was actually doing a few minutes ago before you begged for my attention.

I have MX Linux on a 14 year old Dell Laptop.

Works great because it’s got a lightweight desktop, and it has a tool (a GUI tool even!) that seamlessly merges the last available Nvidia 340 drivers for my GPU into the latest kernel. Parked at the desktop with no desktop apps running, it uses about 800MB of ram, leaving 15 GB left for whatever I need to run. Which I have found is plenty for my use case, I’ve never seen swap in use.

The MX tools are good, like everyone else has been saying here. They take away a lot of the fiddly business associated with the average “sysadmin” things that an end user needs to do.

That’s a phase change triggered by a seed crystal (generated from a physical shock from the ‘clicker’) where the transition from liquid to solid phases returns the latent heat that was previously added to turn it from solid to liquid.

There is no phase change in this material, it remains a solid and changes temperature depending on how much pressure is applied to it.

Our monkey-brain has put millions of years of evolution into a vision system designed to pick up 3d cues from our environment so we can use our fine motor skills to manipulate small objects. It’s a fantastic piece of wetware that uses shading and colours to pick up 3d hints about the objects we deal with daily and - once you’re a few years old - it’s completely automatic and requires no effort to use.

And then we remove all the 3D cues and skeuomorphic hints from our computer systems so that now the previously subconscious “monkey-click-button” process is now a foreground task where cognitive energy is burned up to identify the correct UI element to manipulate.

I should be able to shift the mouse pointer and click a UI element out of the corner of my eye. I shouldn’t be required to look at and then parse a ‘flat’ UI to determine if this element is a button or just a panel with text. GUI elements should map to recognisable physical objects wherever possible, and where they are more abstract (eg wifi icons) they should be clearly distinguishable from others in the icon set. You’re burning up cognitive energy needlessly otherwise, and that’s why I dislike the monochromatic new age UI/icon sets.

Have you seen some of the stuff at Adafruit?

A lot more DIY but a wide variety of stuff. I had a MagTag unit from them that ran for a few months at a time off a 1000mAh battery with hourly display updates over wifi.

How

the FUCK

can a single datacentre cost

TWENTY SEVEN BILLION

dollars?

The nighttime sky is not the same. You see different constellations in summer than you do in winter.

The stars appear above the horizon about 4 minutes later each day. There are stars at your particular latitude that are always visible (they never set), and they appear to rotate around the celestial pole. If you took note of their positions carefully at a particular time of night, you would see that they end up being 180 degrees opposite where they were 6 months previous.

If you’re talking about the pattern of stars shifting against the more distant background of stars (star parallax), when the earth is at opposite sides of the sun, this is measurable by observatories for stars within a hundred light years or so but the angular change quickly becomes very small and the universe is very big.

I’d not recommend it to anyone who can’t tell the difference between “wifi” and “internet”.

Now there’s something you don’t see every day

Title case capitalization.

Perhaps they’re talking about junction temperatures, but even then specialist components can only do 175 degrees C briefly.