I have a friend who was addicted to both cocaine and alcohol. While he, of course, is convinced that cocaine is one of the worst substances to have ever existed, he is even wearier of alcohol because of: (I'm obviously both paraphrasing AND excluding most countries with a Muslim majority here)
a) Social acceptance. No one is ever going to judge you for quietly sitting in the corner of a bar drinking your beer. Try snorting a line on the same setting and see what happens.
b) Availability. Even in sparsely populated areas, you are never too far away (say, a 10 minute walk) from a bottle of wine/spirit/beer.
c) Practicality (which is what answers your question). You don't need a syringe, spoon, knife, bill, bong or lighter, not even another recipient, to start binging on booze. Once you buy/steal the stuff, you're all set - and drinking something definitely IS more 'natural' (as in, it's a reflex) than injecting or smoking something.
Because they are such a tiny AND unprotected minority, they are fairly easy targets for othering / discrimination.
[ I am not condoning, just informing ]
Reminds me of Finkelstein's wise words...I can't exactly remember his wording, but you can easily find the video in Peertube.
He said something to the effect of : In almost all places in the world, it's wise to ideologically separate a people from its government...except in !$ra€| because a) civil institutions are so deeply intertwined with the military, and b) the majority of the people do, indeed, support the government's genocidal policies...
I seriously doubt that it would count as 'shitty', but it wasn't very well received and is not widely known either, for me rather a kind of comfort movie I'll defend till the edges of the earth: the Cohen brothers' 'A Serious Man'
You can argue all you want about TPM and its 'security'. I ALWAYS thought that forcing users to use TPM 2+ hardware is planned obsolescence and nothing/no one will convince me otherwise.
The only thing affected users can and should do is to leave that PoS of an 'operating system'.
Yea. That is THE one reason why I'd never touch GrapheneOS as long as it only runs on Pixel hardware.
I don't see LibreCMC (https://librecmc.org/) mentioned anywhere in this thread, so correct that.
Unlike Open WRT, LibreCMC is recognised by GNU to be a fully free Linux distribution, and you still get the time-honoured LuCi web administration interface.
LibreCMC runs on much fewer devices as OpenWRT, which can be a feature for those who are overwhelmed by the length of OpenWRT's list.
This is a very good, comprehensive and comprehensible answer. Thank you!
Amusing.
a) I don't use shitGPT and never will, so I wouldn't know how to phrase questions for it;
b) You are aware that this is 'no stupid questions', right ? People here expect to be asked stuff - or to learn from others' answers for that matter, which I'm pretty sure is the case here;
c) Cold? Maybe that's because this is a science question? I'm not asking a lady out;
d) Disrespectful? It takes a particular brand of pessimism to be offended in the least by a question that's not even directed at you...
The prequel to the 'A Quiet Place' saga got me thinking.
spoiler alert!
There is a scene in which many humans march towards a safety point. Each individual human would have been relatively quiet, but because there are a lot of them (potentially hundreds), they end up being, as a whole, loud enough to alert the monsters so they get all killed.
This would suggest that many sources of noise which are near to each other and generate more or less the same amount of noise end up adding up so that the end result in dB is more or less the sum of the individual dB levels.
But then again, it's fiction.
Back to reality, I work in a room full of different servers which have also very different levels of noise. I have noticed that from my standpoint, the noise of the quietest server seems to disappear whenever the loudest is running, so it kind of does blow my mind how our perception of noise works...
What is the authoritative source of information for learning how to run an instance of peertube and how difficult is it for a moderately skilled sysadmin to do so?