There's no compatible hardware yet, though barring some very convincing custom converter kit, I believe SFP is the way to go.
The question is whether I'll be able to fit the fiber connectors myself without expensive hardware.
Little space + no copper data connections next to power cables leave little choice but fibre.
That's the thing. If I add anything else the house won't pass the periodic electrical inspections.
For an EV we're probably talking 11 or 22kW, so a rather thick cable. But you're probably going to have it installed by a certified electrician anyway, or can you do that yourself in Germany?
Hmm, Lemmy or Jerboa appears to have eaten my lengthy reply, so here we go again:
My aim is to have my router/firewall, mail server and VM host in the shelter, as it's the most protected room in the house. That means I need at least two lines - one from the modem to the router/firewall, and one connecting everything to the internal LAN.
The internet connection is rated 400Mbit synchronous with the option of upgrading to up to 25Gbit, though at present I can't imagine us ever needing that much and it's probably more of a marketing gimmick anyway, so that line isn't as critical, throughput-wise.
The rest of the house is currently a copper Gigabit affair, though the cabling is Cat7 and capable of more, so I wouldn't want the fiber to be the bottleneck when we upgrade to 10Gbit a few years down the road. Hence multimode looks like a good idea. The question is whether (and how) there's a way to cut, install and connect it myself. POF would be easier but comes with a number of question marks concerning 10GbE.
I suspect that's a lie. From a technical point of view there are way easier and cheaper ways to detect potential customers. A simple LDR would probably do a better and more reliable job and cost hundreds of times less.
The spokesdroid also stated that the machines do not take pictures. Duh. It's a camera, what else would it do. May they meant it doesn't store images, but the statements made so far don't exactly instill trust.
I say sue them into oblivion. Make an example out of them.
I'm sorry for the kids that are punished for having stupid parents, but maybe a few public incidents of children dying from entirely preventable diseases is what it takes for other parents to finally stop mindlessly parroting every piece of anti-vax BS they read on Telegram and vaccinate their kids after all.
Though at this point it's evident that we as a species have well and truly failed either way.
There's actually an option to turn GMS off entirely if that's a concern (Settings-->About-->Advanced). It comes at the cost of slightly increased battery usage. Sadly Google does have a bit of a monopoly on mainstream Android there. \
Having said that, the messages themselves should never pass Google's servers, just a packet saying "check your Threema server, there's new stuff waiting for you."
If that's a concern you could also always use Threema, which has been built from the ground up to use anonymous random IDs and optionally lets you link a phone number or e-mail address to that ID. The company has also won important court cases against having to store metadata preemptively and responding to blanket requests by law enforcement.
Thanks! I'm feeling much better already. Luckily the internet outage wasn't at our place. Switzerland is weird like that in places - around here we get fiber all over the countryside, and in most bigger cities of the region you have to do with a copper cablw from the 80's or 90's. Our fiber even comes with a 99.9% uptime promise. One of the kids uses the house mostly for LAN parties. 😅
Well let's see. During the course of last week, what at first felt like a harmless though persistent cold grew into an acute inflammation of pretty much everything from my ears down to my bronchia. But I have antibiotics now and the doctor and I have had an interesting chat about the state of Switzerland's various healthcare systems, so there's that.
There was a prolonged internet outage at the place the kids were scheduled to stay (they alternate between their father's house, our nearby apartment and in one case a student flat-share), which may or may not have helped them decide that they want to spend the weekend with us at our house which is further away from them (but has rock-solid fiber internet), which was nice. I enjoy this quality family time and am very happy that they feel at home in this house, even though 'feeling at home' in their case means they spend most of their time in their room surfing social media or watching TV. We still get to spend enough time together that I'm thankful for a couple of days low on teenage drama afterwards.
It's spring weather here and we're enjoying the sun until the inevitable return of winter sometime in March. I'm looking forward to when my ears stop hurting in a couple of days so I can go outside again and get myself some freshly made vitamin D.
I use VLC for the handful of streams I need regularly. In the More tab you can create launcher (home screen) shortcuts for recently viewed streams and then rearrange them into a group. It doesn't get any more straightforward than that.
I don't see a ban happen for a number of reasons. Especially not if you want to ban the transport of goods (including intercontinental mail) as well.
Not to mention the fact that, short of replacing everything with sailboats, I doubt moving everything from plane to ship would necessarily be an improvement for the environment.
Better ground transportation could be a big game changer. At the moment I could either fly to London for a couple hundred quid at a convenient time of day within 4-5 hours door-to-door, or I could spend a substantially higher amount on a train ride that takes three times as long and requires me to change trains at least twice in the middle of the night.
That's probably true, but I imagine there's considerable overlap between privacy-minded people and people aware of the existence of (or wanting to peruse) news outlets such as 404. It just looks like a largely unnecessary obstacle for new readers.
I agree with most points in the article, but why e-mail? What's wrong with a website where people can click on whatever they deem interesting, or (as suggested elsewhere) RSS? \
Besides the questionable benefits of e-mail over a website, this is also practically guaranteed to deter most privacy-minded people. When 999 out of 1'000 websites ask for your mail address to send you spam, few people are going to take the time and read a lengthy explanation why this one website promises to be different.
It might be a bit of a cliché, but my pick would be Teenage Kicks by the Undertones. It's such a perfect representation of its times, there's a longing in the lyrics that I still feel every time I hear the song, and while not technically a masterpiece in terms of depth or skills, there's nothing you could add or change that would make the song any better.
Or if a partial song counts, there's of course that guitar solo by Prince around the 03:25 mark.
Yes, but say you're the one in power and you have spent the last few decades nanipulating as many people as possible into believing that you're on their side and their enemy is actually the guy trying to raise minimum wages, tax the rich, introduce affordable health care and equal opportunities... what will that revolt look like?
I'm revisiting old favourites of mine - the first two books of the "achtsam morden" (mindful murder) series by Karsten Dusse. Unfortunately they're German so probably not of much interest to you, but if you happen to speak it or come across a translation that I'm not aware of, do give the first book a try.
The protagonist is a lawyer mainly working for a mobster he doesn't like. He's increasingly unhappy with his work and life, and his marriage and the relationship with his little daughter are falling apart... until his wife forces him to go to a mindfulness seminar. When he starts applying the things he learns there, his life takes a dramatic turn as the results of his mindfulness are the death of his boss, him taking his place as the leader of a criminal enterprise and eventually using the enterprise's resources to kill his opponents one by one and secure his daughter a place in kindergarten. \
Especially the first book is a pleasant read both for the protagonist's stoically mindful handling of increasingly violent and unlikely situations and for the actual exercises in mindfulness explained and demonstrated to the reader. You learn both why you should still love your parents-in-law even if you hate their guts (and how to do that) as well as how to correctly detonate a couple of hand grenades taped to a mobster's nuts, all from the point of view of a very smart lawyer (which the author actually is in real life). In that the book is both educational and entertaining at the same time.
There's no compatible hardware yet, though barring some very convincing custom converter kit, I believe SFP is the way to go. The question is whether I'll be able to fit the fiber connectors myself without expensive hardware.