Which is why the Soviets came in winter. Any other time of the year had been worse. Spring which is mating season, is something not even the Soviets wanted their soldiers to experience. Summer where the Finnish snipers will be hunting for food for their youngs. And lastly fall, where that year's new Finnish snipers leaves their nests.
I used the local bulk deposit yesterday. Had two garbage bags. The guy in front of me had four, and the elderly couple a head of that guy had glass bottles and the machine broke down. Before the poor PFY had fixed the machine and the four bags guy was done, I had spent at least 15min waiting in line and another 5 at the machine.
I went into the store and when done with the groceries for a week the last guy in line when I was done had only moved up one place, and another two people had joined the line.
In theory just dumping your bags in the machine seems like a timesaver. In reality all I got was 20min of audio book, side eye from other shoppers, and fingers that weren't sticky.
I remember when Elon was hailed as an IRL Tony Stark. I remember my envy of Tesla drivers.
Elon's probably always been a PoS, I mean it likely didn't happen overnight like a reverse christmas carol, but he did a good job of keeping it concealed.
My boss asked me to head our international exchange student program, which includes traveling with groups of students, and my acceptance was conditioned by not having to go to the US.
How about locking all the advanced functions behind a hardware lock that requires an online key to unlock? Besides getting an IP address for geolocation, this approach would enable manufacturers to put a subscription on the features as well. Require users to provide a government issued ID that matches the name on the credit card used.
VPN! I hear you cry. But the driver is already running pretty close to the hardware, so good luck hiding a VPN client.
So while you can't guarantee a street address accuracy, you can get country and overall regional subdivision.
Add to that, that most homes have multiple devices that you want connected. So you need a fiber switch as well. 150usd will get you a mikrotik crs305, with 4 sfp+ ports. And you'll probably want a router, but perhaps you can offload that to your ISP, kinda like routing on a stick.
You forgot the "classic" version(s?)... God dammit I hate it so much. Why? I can't even tell the difference and I'm the reactionary kinda guy that ditched Ubuntu over the gui switch in 2012!
In a different part of the world, about 90 years ago, dealing with undesirable people started with prototyping the framework on the weakest individuals.
People with mental disabilities would be shipped to the other end of the country, and there be gassed. Those gassings were in some cases proof of concept for the use of various gasses later on.
I do see the similarities. But I don't believe that the US administration is actively exterminating immigrants. But "at least they're not genocidal" is a pretty low fucking bar to clear. And I'm not sure that we've seen it all yet.
If I was living in the US, I'd get out ASAP. I mean sell my house, even at loss, and GTFO. If being latino with a knuckle tattoo will get you shipped to an El Salvadorian torture prison, what will happen when you post a comment about Trumpaloompa?
That's when you turn it around and ask her about how to deal with some social situation. Oh nvm, chatgpt gave me a great idea