They aren’t very useful for much besides hobby projects. Modern hardware is more energy efficient and will be cheaper in the long run compared to anything that would be considered e-waste. The only advantage an old laptop has is the initial cost, so it makes sense for a small home server.
There are a lot of other hobbies though, and not many other careers that pay as well as comp sci. If you can turn a programming hobby into a career, you should. You’ll have enough money to find another hobby.
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Yes, but temporary fixes are the most permanent.
Looks like the thread is handling most of the force, and the glue is just keeping it in place.
A deadbolt is great, but it’s easier to break a window than pick even a bad lock. If you don’t live in a neighborhood where everyone has bars over their windows, you probably don’t need to keep your deadbolt locked all the time.
A deadbolt is more secure than the lock on the doorknob, but both can be picked or broken. Lots of homes have both locks on the front door, and in a lot of areas just the doorknob lock is secure enough if you’re leaving for a couple hours in the middle of the day.
Based on this research paper, washing with soap and warm water is enough to remove harmful bacteria.
That depends… I watched a video where a guy spent hours casting and machining a small part out of aluminum in his garage to avoid paying the manufacturer $30.
Probably TPU (thermo polyurethane), at least that’s what I’ve used.
You could print a mold and cast it out of food grade silicone.
You forgot the /s so I’ll pretend you’re being serious:
Of course you can debug the kernel drivers, it is open source after all. But it’s always easier to start with a working system and change one thing at a time to isolate any issues that might come up.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
-Linus Torvalds
(6) Try buying a toilet that uses more than 1.6 gallons per flush in the US. Oh wait, you can’t, it’s banned.
Not the best example since they’re trying to reverse all of these environmental protections.
Because 99.999% of the time the hardware you’re buying is different from the hardware you have prior experience with. Even if the model numbers are the same there could be a change in hw or fw revision that breaks compatability with whatever drivers you previously had success with.
HOAs get a lot of hate, but the last one I lived in actually recommended mowing the leaves instead of bagging them.
I live in America and haven’t noticed this as a man, I assume the misogynists have enough self awareness to keep it somewhat out of sight. The last time I noticed something inappropriate, the person quietly left the company a few weeks later. I have no idea if it was related to what I saw, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
I 100% believe that it happens, it’s just not visible to me.
That still seems a little hyperbolic, but I see your point.
Using your analogy, this is more like telling someone there’s an unlocked door and asking them to find it on their own using blueprints.
Not a prefect analogy, but they didn’t tell the AI where the vulnerability was in the code. They just gave it the CVE description (which is intentionally vague) and a set of patches from that time period that included a lot of irrelevant changes.
Is this what they call FAFO?
That’s only true for the high-end Pi 5. Lower-powered models like the zero 2 are still cheap, and they’re a lot easier to find than a few years ago.