Hughes will work okay as a backup internet if that's what you're after. Typically when people talk about Hughes they're really desperate and satellite is the only option at all.
I would very much rather not feed the nazi either, but that was my only Internet option I'd probably have to consider it. Although I also probably wouldn't consider moving somewhere without decent connectivity, given I'm a sysadmin and really need the bandwidth.
It's one of those use cases where I would very reluctantly take the L and order Starlink.
Classic satellite Internet is borderline unusable. Forget about any sort of call or video chat, you'll be seconds behind on watching streams. If you want to stream yourself, it won't be great and the stream delay will be horrible.
You can do bulk download, like downloading large games, that's about the only thing that works well.
Also last I heard, the data caps and bandwidth were also really crap.
Aside from the other answers, no you can't offload computations to memory. Memory stores data, it doesn't compute.
The only way having more memory can possibly improve performance, is by having a cached copy of files so they don't have to be fetched from disk, and applications potentially caching the results of heavy but reusable computations. (Unless you run out of memory and starts spilling over to disk, then more memory will make it fast again by avoiding swapping).
I mean I guess technically yes you could transcode into H264 into a tmpfs mount, and then play the H264, but you're still not doing it faster and certainly not fast enough to watch in real time, you're just decoding the AV1 well in advance before actually watching it.
It's crazy how often "I'm only good at worthless/bad things" somehow turns into a career, even really niche careers.
Early gamers were told they'd rot their brain and never accomplish anything and then justin.tv spins off Twitch, blows up and people make thousands. Some ended up driving remote vehicules for a living because of the crazy precision they developed operating controllers and sticks.
So many YouTubers started off doing dumb shit in their garage and becoming self taught scientists/software developers/repairmans/historians.
Heck, 4chan managed to accidentally solve a math theorem.
You just don't know until after the fact, once you see the impact over time. And sometimes, it just takes time for you to get to the point where you do the thing that changes everything.
It's important to understand how those pills work. They're not magic happy pills, they're emotional numbing pills.
The purpose of that is numb all the bad emotions dragging you down, so that you don't feel so awful and can manage to do the things necessary to feel better. If you want to be happy, you use the pills to numb the bad feelings until you can feel some faint happiness, and then you taper off the pills slowly trying to stay above the water and happy, until the pills are gone and experience full strength happiness. It takes time for the brain to adjust, the same way it takes time to relax after a stressful event.
Some people also stay on the pills as it helps control emotional volatility too. For some people it does seem to help generally feel better too.
The reality is nobody really understands exactly how those works making it hard to predict what it'll do. We know what the molecule binds to and what those receptors are for, and what happens when there's increased serotonin, but in the end it's kind of just messing with knobs and figuring out if it's better or worse. Ideally those are prescribed in concert with a therapist to externally measure the changes you might not see yourself, and adjust as needed. Unfortunately those also tend to be prescribed somewhat randomly at walk-in clinics with no proper followup.
ive tried therapy
King of same thing, it's not magic, you don't just talk and feel better. The purpose of therapy is helping untangle how you feel so you can find the root cause and actions to take to change course. Also identify patterns and cycles, like self-sabotage.
Therapy with autism is complicated because we don't quite process emotions and reality the same way, so it needs to be a different approach and few therapists have solid experience with autistic patients. Personally, I can only really feel "I feel okay" and some degree of "I feel like shit", so one thing a therapist could do to help me is figure out whether I'm feeling anxiety, grief, pain.
In turn that also requires you to open up during therapy, and to take it seriously. It's not like a surgery or whatever where you go to power through it and come back home, if therapy is a chore it ain't gonna work.
For what it's worth, when I was 19 I felt really crappy and doomed too. I didn't think I'd ever dig myself out of it, but gradually I found my place in life and I'm doing alright now.
As much as I hate this and as much as I tried to deny it, this. It's real.
I moved two months ago and didn't get a car at the new location until literally today, so I've been walking to the grocery store 15-20 minutes both ways nearly every other day, plus an almost daily trip to the coffee shop also a 15-20 minutes walk. I haven't felt this good in a while, if anything I have to ease off the caffeine a bit as I've been a bit too wired.
The gym never did it for me and really, you're not after muscle building you're after cardio and fresh air. And even then it's not like threadmill levels of activity, it's mostly flat and just walking at whatever pace doesn't feel too tiring. Our bodies evolved with the assumption of a fairly active lifestyle. The veins rely on movement to help pump the oxygen-depleted blood around.
I've been naturally craving better food following the exercise.
It's also good to reduce stress, it's ultimately a 15 minutes of downtime where there's nothing to do but enjoy the scenary passing by and enjoy a podcast or some music, on top of just oxygenating your brain and muscles and filtering bodily waste.
The only one I can't find for sure is whether there's any lockdown on the firmware for the Microsoft Surface and Copilot+ laptops, but I'm also not finding any sources pointing that it would be. But at this point you're buying Microsoft hardware, what do you expect.
That's bullshit. ARM is an architecture and by itself does not specify secure boot any more than x86 does. Raspberry Pis don't have secure boot. You can unlock the bootloader on a Pixel, install GrapheneOS, and relock the bootloader just fine. Several other manufacturers allow bootloader unlocks no problem. The main reason you can't on some popular phones is US carriers, even international Samsungs you can unlock the bootloader and flash whatever you want on it.
I'm literally typing this comment on a phone running a custom OS (LineageOS on a OnePlus 8T). I'm literally 2 versions of Android ahead of the latest supported version. I also have a Galaxy S7 running Android 15, a phone that officially tops out at Android 8 and launched with Android 6. Both you literally just toggle the bootloader unlock option in the settings, no hacks no craziness, it's literally a feature.
At this point you're just straight up making shit up.
That's the whole point of enrolling your own keys in the firmware. You can even wipe the Microsoft keys if you want. You do that from the firmware setup, or within any OS while secure boot is off (such as sbctl on Linux).
That's a feature that is explicitly part of the spec. The expectation is you password protect the BIOS to make sure unauthorized users can't just wipe your keys. But also most importantly that's all measured by the TPM so the OS knows the boot chain is bad and can bail, and the TPM also won't unwrap BitLocker/LUKS keys either.
Secure boot is to prevent unauthorized tampering of the boot chain. It doesn't enforce that the computer will only ever boot Microsoft-approved software, that's a massive liability for an antitrust lawsuit.
Most likely sending pseudorandom data so that the data can be validated at the other end.
Given they say it's really 19 fibers in one, that's really just 6,600Gb/s per fiber which is really just 4 colors per fiber with one of those and some amplifiers: https://www.fs.com/c/1.6t-osfp-infiniband-1392
Apparently those go into a watercooled switch. Those 1.6T NICs sound absolutely insane. Makes your home 10G network look strings and cans.
It's not that insane in perspective. Probably still needs a whole rack of equipment to run just that test, but the technology is not too far off that it's quite plausible.
As commenters on the LWN thread said, I doubt that many firmwares even bother to check anyway. My motherboard happens to have had a bug where you can corrupt the RTC and end up in 2031 if you overclock it wrong. I didn't use secure boot then though so I don't know if it would have still booted Windows. But I imagine it would.
That said, I've always just enrolled my own keys. I know some other distros that make you enroll their keys as well like Bazzite. At least that way you don't depend on Microsoft's keys and shim or anything, clean proper secure boot straight into UKI.
Sounds more like a rolling release than a mess to me. Makes sense for development and users that want to try out new features as they get developed.
From a developer's perspective that sounds like a good idea too, no need to rip out features that weren't ready in time and no need to rush a feature because it was in the developer preview therefore it has to ship.
I got asked the same. I simply pointed out the test is a reproduction of last week's bug that took down prod at 2am and got paged to fix, and is therefore as realistic as it gets of what they'll need to be able to handle.
I went through hiring several times at several companies, being on the interviewer side.
Typically it's not the talent pool as much as what the company has to offer and how much they're willing to pay. I referred top notch engineer friends, and they never made it past HR. A couple were rejected without interview because they asked too high of a salary, despite asking under market average. The rest didn't pass HR on personnality or not having all the "requirements", because the really good engineers are socially awkward and demand flexibility and are honest on the résumé/CV, or are self taught and barely have high-school graduation on there (just like me).
I've literally seen the case of: they want to hire another me, but ended up in a situation where: I wouldn't apply for the position myself, and even if I did, I wouldn't make it to the interview stage where I'd talk to myself and hire myself.
Naturally the candidates that did make it to me weren't great. Those are the people that do the bare minimum, have studied every test question (without understanding), vibe code everything, typically on the younger and very junior side. They're very good at passing HR, and very bad at their actual job.
It's not the technology, it's the companies that hire that ultimately steers the market and what people study for. Job requirements are ridiculous, HR hires engineers on personnality like they're shopping for yet another sales associate, now it takes 6 rounds of interviews for an entry level position at a startup. VC startups continue to pay wildly inflated wages to snatch all the top talent while established companies are laying off as much IT staff as possible to maximize profits.
The email used to be used to send you notices if your cert wasn't renewed and other communications. They've just discontinued that feature, so the email isn't super important.
It's a good idea to provide a valid email address, but it's not that important and doesn't really matter for the purpose of issuing a certificate. It's not part of the problem you're having.
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Hughes will work okay as a backup internet if that's what you're after. Typically when people talk about Hughes they're really desperate and satellite is the only option at all.
I would very much rather not feed the nazi either, but that was my only Internet option I'd probably have to consider it. Although I also probably wouldn't consider moving somewhere without decent connectivity, given I'm a sysadmin and really need the bandwidth.