winter is offline time, visitors won’t arrive or leave then.
last place to stay cool during boomers heritage “heat death of our planet”
well sure, it has downsides too. Next Rollercoaster park is -tbh- unreachable, internet connection is sloo.oo…oow (or did they already finish the submarine fibre cable?) and sunbathing basically only brings you frost bites (if you’re lucky).
I had a super cynical dystopian idea. Never got around to fleshing it out, so its stability is doubtful at best, but here goes:
So a problem with democracy is that advertising is a powerful force and the candidate with more money to throw into their campaign tends to win, not to mention various forms of bribery coming into play after the elections. A ton of money is being wasted on shady behind-the-scenes deals. Lets get rid of all that and bring it into the light!
Get rid of elections AND politicians, since they are just middlemen. Instead create a kind of stock market for various spheres and levels of lawmaking and have megacorporations and other interested parties bid on those.
Money that would have been secretly funneled into politician pockets instead goes openly into the government budget.
Save more money on elections and government official salaries since there are none.
Corps that make laws that benefit consumers get to use that in their advertising. Buy from ProcLive! The company that brought you halfway decent healthcare!
Voting with you wallet ends up being mandatory. You don’t like that Disney took away weekends? Give your hard-earned cash to Sony next time. They promised to reduce mamdatory weekly working hours to 65!
Maybe sometimes a local citizen initiative manages to raise enough money to get governmental powers in a small town or something. I mean, probably not, but you gotta give people some hope, right?
Yes, the basis of DNS is to match IP addresses with hostnames. But there are plenty of other kinds of DNS records. SPF, DKIM, DMARC use DNS for email validation; AD uses SRV records to point clients to find domain resources. There are also reverse zones, where you send a query for an IP address to learn the hostname(s) associated with it. There are CNAME records that associate a hostname with whatever IP address another hostname is using.
Point being, there are a lot of different interconnected layers, and if some entry is wrong, it can easily have a cascading effect that creates a problem with something entirely different.
I would also extend the "It's always DNS" trope to "It's always name resolution." In a Windows environment, at least, DNS name resolution is only used when a FQDN (fully qualified domain name) is being queried. If your application is only looking for [ServerName], NetBIOS name resolution is used.
When NetBIOS name resolution is used, that is querying a WINS server (if one is specified and exists). In the absence of a WINS server, the query is sent to the "master browser" on your network segment. What machine is the "master browser"? By default, all machines on a network segment (subnet) have a browser election behind the scenes to choose the master browser, based in large part on the machines' hardware capabilities.
This means that any machine on the segment (again, by default) can become the master browser and respond to NetBIOS queries. Laptop, desktop, server, doesn't matter. There are registry entries that can be manipulated to have manual control over what machine is master browser, what machines are and are not allowed to participate in elections, but it is rare that those are configured.
Why do I know all this? Because about 25 years ago, I came across a situation where different machines were configured with different overlapping subnet masks, and users were trying to browse \servername\share, and getting only partial results. It took a long time to narrow that down to the misconfigured subnet masks. At the company I'm currently at, the developers still use NetBIOS names instead of FQDNs in applications.
Always use FQDNs in any in-house development. Always use FQDNs when accessing resources by hostname. And if "some weird, inexplicable, possibly intermittent issue" is happening, check name resolution.
For the longest time, I've relied on DDL sites, blogspot sites with lots of links and Uloz. Since many of them have become rather tedious to use or just outright suck, I now use MP3Caprice. Yeah I know, some money is involved so you're paying people to pirate for you. But on the flipside, everything is relatively dirt cheap (except soundtracks and compilations, they like those enough to charge more).
I don’t use most of Google apps and stock’s bloatware , so I don’t update it too For other apps , it depends on the update itself , if it brings good new things and bug fixes I update , otherwise I mostly ignore until the next update
I always update my apps. If an app gets shitty, I change the app cause the problem is not on the app, it’s on the owners philosophy and this is what I wanna get rid of.
First off, so few models of Chromebooks even allow you to bother sideloading or outright install a Linux distro over ChromeOS. Eventually, Google cut that stuff out so now almost every Chromebook now won't allow you to do that without going through some Developer Mode loop that makes you think you'll get by.
Secondly, Chromebooks are just e-waste. That's their design. They're only made to be online-only "laptops" with just an expiration date attached to them, that date being how long Google wants to bother supporting it with security updates provided something doesn't break down first within the first two years.
Thinkpads have more longevity, they're built well and they're meant to go the distance. Chromebooks has been and will continue to be a joke.
Easiest GUI toolkit I’ve used was NiceGUI. The end result is a web app but the python code you write is extremely simple, and it felt very logical to me.
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