The idea that Woke changed the world to be kinder is ridiculous funny. Most people seem to want immediate self gratification and to make money by posting on social media virtue signalling.

I think we have to go back to real poverty to be altruistic eg. the world wars, 1930s recession. A person with literally nothing will give you half of their life savings, even if that’s the change that they have in their pockets, to help you make a phone call.

Oh bless.

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The only effective way is to find a spouse or partner who actually cares about you.

(now single) Old fart here.

Otherwise this is my current one (they’re all about 4/10 IMHO): Exfoliating Back Scrubber for… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C1YZDFFM or something similar

1. Take a normal shower curtain and have at it with a long kitchen knife. The knife cuts won’t let very much water through so it will still be effective as a shower curtain.
2. Take a stray can of red paint and spray be a few two or three long strokes across it.
3. Only attach the rings of one end to the shower rail up to one half at most. Break the remaining rings and leave them on the bathroom floor.

The major issue is to complain to/about your provider, not mess around with the workaround solutions.

That said once you have the list of packages, you can download them on your phone and seamlessly transfer them to your pc with Syncthing.

Have a look at dnf-automatic to do downloads only. I’m not sure how many retries it allows.

There is also the option of limiting your bandwidth on the PC so that it doesn’t choke.

Ultimately the ISP has to provide a working service.

None. When was the last time you saw an actual headline not click-bait?

News is not about issues anymore - since the advent of 24 hr TV last century - It’s about filling time until the next exposé about Meghan frigging Markle, or some influencer of zero repute who overdosed.

I applaud this program, exactly what we’ve all been looking for.

Looks like many of the comments identifying it have been removed.

bat.

(half replying to other comments as well as yours)

If you have a look at the btrfs mailing lists post that introduced RAID1c34, they were created because RAID56 were not considered viable or fixable. It’s in couched language but reasonably clear. I don’t think you’re thinking of using those (RAID56) but don’t.

Never had any btrfs problems that weren’t self generated or date from a really sticky period in btrfs’s history (years ago, 4.13 or maybe 3.13). I’ve used RAID56 until RAID1c34 became available and RAID10 where I could.

Haven’t tried LUKS - btrfs though, although effectively no worse than putting btrfs in a VM (which is fine if slow at the time), albeit a bit more computationally intensive.

How does it defeat the purpose?

The domains have nothing that is traceable to you. addy.io provide that opportunity for you to do just that. What’s the issue?

Get a domain and link it so you have your own domain addy.io . It’s not very hard.

You can use the domain for other things too.

Doesn’t development still need funding somehow?

The 'Mercans are not usually aware that there are other countries besides the two countries, Europe and Africa.

I assume you define patriotism as belief in one’s country because no other populated countries actually exist.

In sharp contradiction, most 'Mercans believe that they are Irish, a small town in Delaware.

that’s unrelated - AES-256 for example can be executed just fine on either a 32- or 64-bit machine. in theory there’s nothing stopping you from running it on an 8-bit or 16-bit CPU (although other considerations related to the size of AES’s lookup tables make this unlikely). from some random googling, here is an implementation of Chacha20, another 256-bit encryption algorithm, for 8-bit microcontrollers.

I started out programming a 6502a in 1980, 680X0 a little later in 87, so I get that bit, but it’s easier doing operations on a larger register. I remember writing code for 8 bit multiplication of 32 bit floating points.

I enjoyed and understood the rest of your prose though. Didn’t do much/any programming/low level after say 2005, and regret it now. Trying to re-learn but things have moved on so much.

I take that there isn’t much motivation in moving to 128 because it’s big enough; it’s only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can’t be right?).

Thank-you a lot for that. I wander around the tech blogs like lobsters etc, Reddit and here but never see anything that i remember seeing (if you follow me), but I don’t consciously look.

Encryption lengths are getting long so you’d think it was high time.

Your description sounds like the advent of 32 bits where there was a 16 bit address bus stage.

Whilst other distros move to a Weston (corrections please?) era Intel x86 2013 ish?

Bravo, I think. That’s going to be tough.

On a related track, is there any talk of 128 bit chips in general?

Microsoft own half of OpenAI. (Corrections?)

They don’t need you. They own 50% of your 20 (currency unit) monthly sub to ChatGPT.

I’m highlighting a contradiction in what you’re asking.

You’re asking whether you should use a ‘pure’ Linux kernel but using ‘dirty’ stuff everywhere else?

It’s not a great flex, but the whole thing about Linux is that you can choose to do what you want with no restrictions.

Have at it! Enjoy!