1P gives me anxiety. It’s on my no-fly list.

Shit, take away Giordi’s glasses. Take away any prosthetic from anyone. Removing the arm was dumb.

Turning people off is also astonishingly easy. Turning them back on is a harder trick, but we do it on the regular.

The entire arc of those two are simply genius, and some of the best story telling, writing, and acting - full stop. And I’m a Firefly fan, so that’s saying something.

More exposition! Explain yourself.

For me, the Borg were boring until First Contact, where they became scary. Invasive. Not just lumbering Frankenstein’s monsters with good shields.

But I want to hear more about your thoughts on the Tholians.

And there’s such a thing as bad LSD, which really sucks. Those quasi-legal, almost LSD analogues often sold as genuine LSD, but with glitchy side-effects.

Legalized drugs can be regulated and quality-controlled, and should be. Fuck Reagan for many, many reasons, including his “war on drugs.”

Psh, it’s like you’ve never cooked meth before 🙄

And that, kids, is a great use of RAID: under some other form of data redundancy.

Great story!

Is the Maillard Reaction basic food science? Few people are creating recipes, and if you’re just following them, you don’t need to know it to produced good food. Heck, people cooked for millennium before Maillard identified the reaction.

Still, it had a “moment” a couple of years ago when it seems as if I saw it everywhere. Maybe the downvotes are just from fans of uncertainty.

The downvotes imply many people don’t know about the Maillard Reaction.

RAID 1 is mirroring. If you accidentally delete a file, or it becomes corrupt (for reasons other than drive failure), RAID 1 will faithfully replicate that delete/corruption to both drives. RAID 1 only protects you from drive failure.

Implement backups before RAID. If you have an extra drive, use it for backups first.

There is only one case when it’s smart to use RAID on a machine with no backups, and that’s RAID 0 on a read-only server where the data is being replicated in from somewhere else. All other RAID levels only protect against drive failure, and not against the far more common causes of data loss: user- or application-caused data corruption.

This is a market opportunity. Screen real estate is solved; we just need a clever mobile keyboard/mouse solution. Maybe some sort of haptic feedback gloves.

I can’t imagine playing Factorio on a Steam Deck, so I haven’t gotten one, but it’d be nice to be able to being my factory with me on the airplane. I figure some AR glasses would make for a nice display, but the controls need most of the keyboard, the mouse, and as many mouse buttons as you can afford, and I haven’t worked that part out yet.

Are compatibility issues common with ZigBee? I went down there Z-Wave path years ago, somewhat arbitrarily. I’ve never checked devices for compatibility, not encountered any that didn’t work. As of today, I have 58 z-wave devices connected to HA.

My controller supports ZigBee, and the previous owner left some devices in the house (window sensors, mostly), and I’ve tried unsuccessfully to pair them; I haven’t yet really spent any time trying to troubleshoot, but I’ve been contemplating adding ZigBee to the mix because they’re sometimes cheaper. I really don’t want to have to struggle with compatibility, though. It’s just one more thing to have to fuss with.

You could probably fit it all into AZ. You’d still need oil wells and refineries somewhere; there are still plastics involved. And rare metal mines - mines in general, for metals, so you’d probably need outposts in other states, and then a rail system to get materials to AZ. Feeding people would be hard on AZ, though, so you’d definitely need to clear forests in the Midwest and put in a bunch of factory farms to produced food.

The US might have enough of everything to support this, although I suspect some rare metals would be difficult to source, as many of our’s comes from other countries. However, maybe you could stockpile enough to last. You need the rare metals, but maybe a few tonnes of processed would be enough to last?

I understand; I’m saying, you’d need to take back an entire industry to produce photovoltaics, batteries for storage, the computer control systems; or the high-tensile composites needed to build wind turbines, the fine machining to produce electric motors and wiring, and the cranes and such to raise them. You’d need to clear swaths of land for either, although you might be able to set up in the great plains, but in any case, all of the current renewable tech is high tech supported by countless other industries. You’d be taking back a civilization, to make it all work. And then you’ll need agriculture to feed all those people, housing for them to live, clothing, and so on; and which native tribe are you going to steal land from to put all of this?

Renewables require industry and high tech to produce and maintain. If you go far enough back to establish a foothold, your renewables will most likely not be functioning by the time colonists arrive. If you settle just before they do, you won’t be able to have much advantage. In either case, unless you go really far back, you’re still settling and taking land from indigenous people.

What are you hoping to achieve?

Ones you can download, or, like, ones that provide free hosting for remotely loaded fonts on every new client request?

That’s the most believable.

The cigarette companies will eventually cough up for the cure for cancer that’s being withheld to keep money flowing into the cancer treatment industry, and then smoking will become fashionable again.

You’re probably right; however, wild turkeys looks surprisingly plump and edible.

I happen to dislike turkey, myself, but those turkeys don’t appear particularly athletic, but they’re certainly up there.

I think they’d be okay. Most of the way down would be gliding, which they’re good at, and they’d really only have to flap a bit near the ground, which is how they normally fly.

Turkeys get up into trees; they won’t be migrating by wing, but they’re not land-bound.

What really surprised me was learning that peacocks fly, too.