your hardware ain’t shit until it’s a first gen core2duo in a random Dell office PC and 2gb of memory that you specifically only use just because it’s a cheaper way to get x86 when you can’t use your raspberry pi.

Also they lie most of the time and it may technically run fine on more memory, especially if it’s older when dimm capacities were a lot lower than they can be now. It just won’t be “supported”.

Where is their thin colored line?

It’s a thin yellow line exiting directly out of Louis DeJoy’s dick hole

How is it better if someone just goes and circles a random name on the list because its mandatory?

Statistically, if a large population being “forced” to vote were voting names randomly on ballots that had their own order randomly assigned, then their votes would be evenly distributed and not end up affecting the results.

As long as the address is specific enough to get through the right distribution center and to the right ending post office… chances are the carriers it ends up with will absolutely figure out where it needs to go.

And very few carry HDMI, because for some strange odd reason hdmi alt-mode is weirdly rare still…

Oh of course, grid scale energy is never for the “normal person”. The point I am making is established fossil-fuel based energy majors do not want any pip-squeak independent startups to start siphoning profit off from their system or possibly making it more efficient or cheaper for the consumer. Vertical integration of regional monopolies is the name of the game.

They’ll only block it until they can be the ones to own the battery plants. There is a hell of a market incentive to be able to purchase literally free electricity ans resell it later.

“Oh no, I can’t play this modern video file using a codec that’s literally been around for more than 10 years unless you pay me $0.99 for a codec pack…”

Every single time I forget to change it and I want to play an h265 file from my phone.

Huge advantages. So much so that multiple government agencies will actively rely on amateur operators to get status reports and communications in and out of disaster zones. There are organizations dedicated to training and indexing operators too, both independent and government run.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_emergency_communications
http://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-emergency-communication

For personal communications it’s not that great of course, but you can become an invaluable asset to your nearby community by having a radio during a disaster.

Typical mobile amateur radio kits can be operated on tens of watts at most, and will effectively run indefinitely from small solar panels or an idling car. And you can reach out quite far just by tossing an aerial wire up in a tree anywhere.

If you’re interested in getting into amateur radio I highly recommend it. It’s super fun to chase signals and see what parts of the world you can talk to. Definitely worth getting licensed as it’s not a terribly expensive hobby to get into either (although the cost ceiling can be… very high haha).
You don’t need a license to listen, only transmit, so if you don’t want to committ you can grab a cheap radio and some wire for a poor man’s listening station.

Curved slopes can be defined as any combination of mathematical formulas on a graph. This means there are any combination of ways to get feom one point to another - effectively infinite.

For a 2-dimenzional plane, these curves are usually defined as a value (y, vertical axis) that is calculated at each location of another value (x, horizontal axis).

A linear slope or “straight line” is a simple rise over run. For every x units you travel in a direction, your height will change y units. On a 2d plane it is the “most” distance efficient way to get from A to B.

How you define “smoothness” matters… In math land, the linear slope is the smoothest as its curvature never changes. In real life it results in an abrupt stop and start at either end with a constant velocity along the line.

A real life “smoothest path” when changing the Y-value/height of your line involves a cubic or logarithmic slope-in and slope-out of the line, like this bezier curve.. Think of the “steepness” as the speed of your car (how fast your distance changes along the y axis), and the x axis the time you have been driving. Gradually pushing the accelerator on your car until you’re up to speed, coasting in the middle, then gradually apply the brakes until you come to a stop at point 2.

I always go back to the original Age of Empires as a classic.

Yes, but less frequently and on the gentlest cycle my washer can do. Also hang dry if possible then air tumble for 10min before folding and storing; heated dryers are the hardest things on clothes.

cheers to Ozzy, may his hunts be plentiful in the great cat Valhalla

I tend to agree with that, but the messaging has also been sent out by the loudmouths that if you don’t toe Trump’s party line, they are going to sick the MAGA gun nuts on ya. And we also know Democrats are not overly safe on critical votes, Ala Manchin.

Tarrifs must be congressional approved first.

Well it’s a good thing that Trump bootlickers control both houses of congress as well as the courts they might be challenged in.

Get a used SFF office PC low profile card off Ebay. They often have chipset wattages around 25 or so and easily run on slot power only

Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/p/1958445856 (idea only, not endorsing this seller).

Anything of a semi modern format with a pcie interface thata not an outright scam card will be fine for VGA no-driver video output. IME older AMD/ATI cards seem to boot better than oder NVidia cards…