Oh yeah i understood ya, i was backing up what you were saying and kinda just wanted to give Shotwell a shout-out for anyone that doesn't know about her role there. :)
There's a chance public/hotel/airplane WiFi will have what's called a captive portal that will want you to agree to the terms and conditions or pay money to whoever owns the router. This is usually done by redirecting normal web traffic to a page with the tos, but if you're not browsing the Internet and are instead, say, only using steam, it can cause issues. If that happens pop into desktop mode, open Firefox, go to any website and see if you get redirected to the hotel's portal.
At least it used to be that you sometimes needed to open a browser. Maybe technology has advanced past that now days.
Regarding using other networks - never had a problem, at least not when visiting family and friend's places
Gwynne Shotwell needs far far more recognition regarding the success of SpaceX. Musk could do the song and dance and get the attention but without her they'd just be making really expensive tubes.
I don't know how much she was involved in ruthlessly squeezing every once of brilliance from the engineering team, and there's the whole Ukraine drone thing, but it wasn't musk that landed those rockets.
Now alias ls= all that. And throw it in a background process. And actually return the value of ls so it doesn't look like anything nefarious is going on.
I bet you could chroot into a ram disk so you're not tearing the floor out from under you.
The victim would find this prank hilarious and everyone would like you and think you're super cool.
I'm a programmer (backend web dev, so 99% moving data around) that basically dropped out of school in 9th grade - parents decided to homeschool me because i was becoming a punk ass emo fuck and then never actually did anything to educate me. Thankfully i was curious as hell and passed the GED with flying colors, but i never learned the goddamn weird ass shapes and figures used in mathematics.
It's hard as hell to google "what's the thingy in math that looks like an E?" Oh, it's just a loop..
Finding an algorithm to do what i need but only getting the mathematical notation sucks. Once I've deciphered it and turn it into code, it's always really simple and makes intuitive sense, i just have trouble reading it in that format. Every so often wikipedia will show it in pseudocode, and i love the people that add that section so much.
A "how to read math for programmers" book would be amazing.
Oh god damn it I came here to look at memes and now I friggin learned something that's going to make my life easier