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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US problems require US solutions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live in the Styx

  The Styx as in … the mythical river that runs through the underworld? Yeah, I can see that being a low crime area…

  (Sorry, european here, if you meant someplace in the US, I’ve never heard of it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me_irl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no faster plan.

  The only alternative would be internet over 4G, which is supposed to be faster, but the mobile connection at home is so unreliable, it wouldn’t be worth the added cost.

  I live a couple of houses down a driveway, so laying a new cable is too expensive to justify for just a few houses. This means I get to live with a cable that’s half a century old, and me and my neighbours (and others) are excluded from the recent local fiber internet initiative. Some neighbours just use Starlink, but my hatred of Elon and the sheer stupidity of using satelite internet in central Europe are stopping me.

  And, while I do live in a small village, I also have friends in Düsseldorf and in Berlin with even worse internet connections.

  I’d love to just switch to a faster plan. But mobile just doesn’t work here, and I’m not giving money to Elon, so … there is no faster plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me_irl⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you underestimate the internet speeds in some parts of Germany. I get maybe 11 Mbit/s on a good day, about 5-6 Mbit/s average, and less if anyone else in the house is using it. And yes, that’s Mbit not MByte.

  According to Wikipedia, the slowest Blu-Ray speed is 36 Mbit/s, so about six times my average download speed. And Blu-Rays can go up to 576 Mbit/s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chat, is this accurate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technetium really should be purple. The isotope that you’d be most likely to get some of (used for nuclear medicine) has a half-life of about 6 hours, and is appropriately radioactive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, in English, UTC is an acronym for Coordinated Universal Time, and in French its Temps Universel Coordonné.

  Now you may have noticed that neither of those actually makes UTC. This comes from a previous naming pattern for universal time (UT1, UT2, …) (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time ).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the memory usage of various types of processes?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a number of things running in the background after booting, so here’s some numbers for you:

  • Steam: 1.1GiB
  • Firefox: 1 GiB
  • Discord: 500-600 MiB
  • SchildiChat (Matrix Client): 300 MiB
  • KeePassXC: 180 MiB
  • KDE’s System Monitor (which I am using to get these values): 140 MiB

  In addition to that, there’s always a number of systems services, most of which use a negligible amount of memory, but here’s some I’m just picking out because I recognize what they do:

  • plasmashell (KDE Plasma): 380 MiB
  • kwin_wayland (also KDE Plasma): 70 MiB
  • Syncthing: 80 MiB
  • kdeconnectd: 30 MiB
  • pipewire: 7.5 MiB (though there are some other processes associated with pipewire in addition to the main one)
  • systemd-logind: 1.8 MiB
  • systemd: 3.7 MiB
  • cupsd: 2 MiB
  • XWayland: 45 MiB
  • Xorg: 40 MiB

  Of course, these are just a snapshot of the systems state, and can only really give you a very rough idea of how much memory something might use at one point in time.

  If you want to make your board game more complicated (probably not, but I like the idea, so I’m just throwing it in here), you could use it as an opportunity to teach virtual memory, segmentation, paging and internal vs external fragmentation. Maybe players get certain processes with memory requirements and have to fit them into their own main memory, and whoever can fit the most processes wins, or whoever cannot allocate memory for a new process looses. (I’m just writing down what’s coming out of my head, I don’t want to hijack your game idea, sorry.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Window alignment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds pretty plausible, but I’m not sure.

  The windows are only very slightly off center, inconsistent, and even the ones above the clock are as well (although the clock mechanism could extend both up and down).

  But I also don’t have any better explanation.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  amateur radio was illegal to encrypt

  Amateur radio is still illegal to encrypt (with some exceptions for controlling satelites), because private communication isn’t the point of amateur radio.

  Besides, (in most countries) there are some topics that are illegal to talk over amateur radio about, mainly stuff like politics and religion. You’re also not allowed to offer telecommunication services (i.e. pass messages on for others). Enforcing those sorts of laws would be impossible with encryption.

  But to answer your question: I think we probably wouldn’t have had an internet. Authoritarian regimes thrive on stability and maintaining the status quo, I think someone high up would have quickly decided that developing that sort of tech is too risky.