I’ve learned a lot from reading RV forums and stuff like that. It’s common to install DC-powered battery heating pads that run on relatively low watts to keep batteries warm enough to charge. I’ll probably do that too.

To keep a person warm, you’d probably need more power like at least 250-700 watts to run a heat lamp or small space heater. But that is easily doable with solar and batteries now.

My Lithium solar batteries can’t charge today while the sun is out shining brightly, because it’s below freezing and I don’t have battery heaters installed. They’re in an outdoor shed so they can’t burn down my house.

I don’t give a fuck, I will do it anyway. I do what I want with what I own.

Maybe you’d call that a black hole instead of bubble

TCU is what we are looking for here, in modern automotive terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telematic_control_unit

This is the spyware box in most modern vehicles. Can you find it? Can you unplug it? What happens when you disconnect it from the computer bus of the car? Those are the questions we need answered for every car on the road, for our mutual benefit.

Precisely right. We should press charges against all the big tech companies for stalking us.

This is what the puppet-masters behind them are trying to do - the Technate of America

https://studio.brooklynrail.org/assets/3b4ad0b8-cb97-40aa-b122-720e45385c4c.jpeg

This is called Extortion. It’s obvious he thinks he can run the presidency like a mafia operation. But I think people in general are about done with putting up with this bullshit.

Docker compose Nextcloud could allow you to define your standard Nextcloud server in a yml config file that’s reusable.

Example near the bottom of this page - https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/

There’s certainly more to it than just a gimmick. One of the most important things is web filtering for content, which is a useful parental control because children should not be exposed to porn, graphic violence, and other types of mentally harmful content. Controls may not be able to stop everything but they can definitely hinder and slow down the process at least.

Yes I did read up on that and tried using Flatseal for permissions granting, but it didn’t work so I didn’t troubleshoot it very far before doing to the .deb install

That may be an old issue, but I just set up a couple of NTFS drive Steam libraries on Linux last week and it didn’t give me any errors or warnings about the drive format. But I did have big issues with the Flatpak edition of Steam - it couldn’t even write to a local second ext4 partition. Had to switch to .deb Steam install to fix all that

My work PC has Windows 11 and it does get in the way of my work. This bullshit is using 12GB of RAM to run a web browser, Teams, and Powershell. Before “upgrading” to 11 from 10, it used about 3GB less RAM for the same stuff. Nothing has improved from 10 to 11, just made it slower.

Maybe they think they’re requiring verification, but they underestimate the Internet

Had to “upgrade” my work laptop to 11 for security support. Nothing about it is better. Almost everything is slower, and many common operations take more steps to complete on 11 vs 10.

Absolute fuckin’ garbage.

Trusting any of that shit is the problem.

I think it’s “huge” for Linux gaming in general and for the general health of the gaming industry. It’s a Linux PC in disguise as a cool form-factor Steam console. I hope it drives more developers of all types to build Linux support instead of just Windows.

The timing of this is also great, with people getting forcibly dunked into the bullshit that is Windows 11 after the end of Windows 10 support. If all my games worked on Linux, I’d have no use for Windows at all.

Just a little too unlikely to worry about. I’d rather defend my own words in court if it came to that. “Yeah I said that shit, and it was fucking true and you know it.” for example

There is no guarantee unless you could personally audit their facilities and inspect what they did with your account etc. But I would still choose one that states they have a good policy versus one that says nothing on the subject.

What about logging policies? Seems like that would be an important category to visit - which providers store logs or don’t etc. I’ve heard of some that use RAM-only logging that allegedly never gets stored on disk.