I would probably add “transmit power” in there somewhere, but I guess if you’re assuming regulatory limits then it’s not a big variable.

Never tried it, but hot peppers can be added to birdseed to prevent this — birds aren’t sensitive to capsaicin, so it only affects the mammals.

Gnarly PDEs aren’t exactly the same beast as differentiating single variable polynomials.

Sounds like this was basically the plot of the first Nolan Batman.

Global Outbreak World Response Outreach Network, perhaps?

Reminds me of Larry Flynt’s defense.

Every so often there’s a post on Lemmy about how you should stick it to your landlord and put grease down the drain.

This is why that’s a bad idea, and it sucks for everyone, not just your landlord.

Not sure how serious your comment is, but I could certainly imagine Microsoft introducing new dependencies/hooks/all-executables-must-support-copilot, etc., that break compatibility faster than Wine can keep up. Glad to hear that’s not the case!

For old stuff though…yeah, I’d hope it’s not moving backwards :)

my pro tip.

I see what you did there.

As they say, it costs a lot to be poor.

Huh. I was expecting the comments to be a little more of the Fuck Cars crowd.

In my city there was a whole kerfuffle because people were fined for parking in their own driveway due to it not actually being a driveway, as there was no garage, despite having a curb cut. It sounds like this sort of thing has been changed under the new mayor.

The difference between a cheap bike and a nice bike is similar to the difference between a Chromebook and a decked out ThinkPad or Macbook IMHO.

You’re absolutely right: most folks just browse the web, and a Chromebook is enough. But the other products do have value.

Whenever I mess with my bike brakes, I only do one wheel, then a few rides later allow myself to do the other. That way if I botch it I should have another brake that sorta still works.

In CA and we pay north of $40k in daycare alone for each kid.

I’m a little confused – debt and balance aren’t the same thing, at least that’s my understanding?

My understanding (and quick searches seem to agree?) is that cc balance is how much you owe on your card; cc debt is how much you carry over to your next statement. You only pay interest on the debt part.

My cc balance climbs every month and then goes to zero when I pay it off, so I don’t pay any interest.

There’s even an extend.mode on some POE switches that’s good for 250m or so, but it drops to 10Mbps. That’s possibly enough for a POE camera with one client, though.

Nice, I use Amcrest cameras with Frigate and I’ve been happy. No app, no cloud, and I have them on a VLAN with no Internet access.

We just bought a combo heat pump unit and I love it. Dirty goes in, clean and dry comes out. Not cheap though.

A big complaint from others/reviews is that they take too long. For us it’s not really an issue because we like our machines (washer/dryer, dishwasher…rsync backups, whatever) to work while we sleep.

Recent purchase, we’ll see about reliability.

Not a historian, but folks on The Internet have characterized the Soviet program as a series of milestones, with the US program a series of stepping stones in support of a single goal.

This makes sense with the cartoon, where the Soviets were first in basically everything except walking on the moon.

Not sure how much merit it has, but it’s kinda interesting.