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I'm in an industry where there are already not enough of us, and it's already showing. It would get worse to say the least

It's not the journalist's job to tell you which one is right

But they can absolutely state when something is wrong while still being factual.

"Despite claims from politician X that the sky opened up and ceased to rain in Y when he asked God for sunlight, here were are in Y right now while record rain and floods continue".

Sounds like what should be called an "open box" product to me

Thank you for this. The .CN TLD is China, for anyone who was confused for a moment

Smart lawyers don't take cases they know they're likely to lose

I've heard it's 80% for one with just a female end

More like a Pi than a Surface Pro architecture-wise, but there's still plenty of cool Linux software that runs on that

I'm having issues finding an article on how once installed Linux on a Surface Duo, but there's a got page on building the kernels so I'm guessing it's doable.

Now that updates are done, maybe all the Linux users can find them for cheap and convert them

It's not a punishment in this case, it's a form of restitution to help provide financial security to families that have lost a caretaker/breadwinner.

Tenants deserve to live in house conditions that the landlords themselves would be willing to live in.

Well there probably was, but it was by his own party so...

Have you ever used PFSense? How do you find it compares to Opnsense, and - for anyone with experience - how hard would it be to migrate from one to the other these days?

GL-Inet AX1800

OpenWRT, accessible via the advanced (LUCI) interface. You can define a bunch of SSID's including guest networks and/or bind them to VLAN's

More like "another shot at the presidency so he can got off free and then some"

Hopefully followed by contempt changes with a few days jail time as an appetizer for what's to come

Yes and no. These are AC/DC adaptors so they're rectifying the AC current (+/- AC to DC) and using transformers, resistors, etc to step down the voltage. Watts is V*A

On a power brick, the numbers of a matter of how many volts it pushes out and how fast it can push them out (amps).

The components inside your laptop need a relatively fixed amount of power at a variable amount of current. If it's working harder, it may pull power now quickly using more watts of power. The components within the laptop are designed with that amount of power in mind and the resistance is fixed within a certain tolerance.

The brick is similarly designed to provide a relatively constant amount of power at a maximal rate. You'll notice that a brick heats up with use. Pull power through it faster than capacity and it'll overheat and die.

If you compare to home electricity, think of it like this.

• 110V, 15A appliance in 220V, 15A circuit. That appliance is gonna melt something and catch fire. This is like a laptop with an over-voltage brick
• 220V, 15A appliance in a 110V, 15A circuit, it's probably not going to start or run properly. This is a laptop with an under-voltage brick
• 110V, 30A appliance on a 110V, 15A circuit. It may run for a bit if it doesn't immediately draw over the 15A, but when it does the breaker trips or a fuse pops (if they're working). If you have a bad breaker or fuse that doesn't trip in time, the wires in your wall will actually heat up and either burn out or set your house on fire

In the home circuit, that 110V is the constant voltage and 15A is a maximum. You can plug in a 1500W (110V@13.6a) microwave, or a 20W (110V@0.18A) wall wart. Just like the circuit from the wall to your panel, your brick has a fixed volts and max amps. Your laptop has a fixed volts and variable amps.

Most stuff will draw what it needs for amps. A power supply that provides insufficient amps may fail to start the device, or the power supply will overheat.

Supplying too many volts will fry many electronics though.

If you have a 19V 3A laptop it'll be happy with a 19V 5A brick, but probably not so much with a 25V 3A brick which may overload a component and release the magic smoke

Tracks? Where we're going, we don't need tracks!

Yeah paper maps work, I was just thinking of a way one can acquire updated maps on a regular basis without needing petabytes of storage :-)

Would stuff that's locally hosted count? You can actually download the entirety of Wikipedia and fit it into 22GB, which is well within the capabilities of an common SD card.

Maps are a bigger thing. Google has apparently collected about 20PB (20 million gigabytes) of data for maps, though I'd imagine if you just need street/address/road data that might be a significantly smaller subset. Just the satellite imagery of Google Earth is about 196TB. Not sure what just the basics would take up