That might be helpful. So far I was skipping the window manager and just opening the application by itself in xinit.

Thanks, I’ll give that a look.

The cruelty is the point. Just keep repeating that and you’ll understand most of the decisions.

I think they were more into incest than beastiality.

And now I remembered we’ve got over 3 more years of this garbage to fight through.

Based on the ingredients, it sounds like blended in a kinda almost pesto.

Not even close to that third comma, amateur.

I feel called out. I know how it’s properly pronounced, but I can’t make my mouth put those sounds in that order. It’s uncomf-terble.

A supervillainess

Not already fascist enough

I didn’t say it was impossible, I said it was hard. Bigger radiators absorb more heat when exposed to the sun. One of the problems becomes keeping the solar panels exposed to sunlight while keeping the radiators out of it. Putting them behind the solar panels might work, but they have to be smaller than the solar panels and any energy the solar panels don’t convert to electricity will be re-radiated as heat and picked up by the radiators, requiring a larger size. You could put them on the 'back" side of the spacecraft, but that limits the size. As mentioned in another comment, you could position the spacecraft in geostationary orbit on the terminator, but then reaction mass requirements for station keeping and data signal latency go way up. It’s a problem that has been worked around by people much smarter than me, but a lot of work went into figuring it out.

Space isn’t cold, it’s nothing. It’s a vacuum and vacuum is terrible at heat transfer by convection. It’s why thermos bottles have a vacuum layer to prevent heat transfer. You can try to lose some heat by radiant cooling, but that’s slow and if you’re using solar for power then any radiators become heat sinks picking up more heat from the sun. Then there’s conduction, and again, there’s really nowhere to conduct any heat to, what with the large distance between objects and the vacuum and all. Thermal management in space is kind of a hard problem.

Because that’s literally the minimum upload speed they can give you. If you’re pulling down data at 1.2Gbps, you’ll be sending back 40Mbps in response traffic. If they could give you less, they would.

They’re likely imitating his posture. It serves the dual purpose of signaling their sycophantic loyalty and normalizes the absurd stance to the rest of the world.

I feel like this is just a step towards getting back to phones that are hard linked to a provider like we used to have. Swapping a SIM makes it too easy to switch.

In the US, if it was built before 1984 and you pay the ~$400 tax stamps, your dream can come true.

Who needs to solve it, the answer is 42.

He’s a reporter, I think he has a little latitude to be away from his desk for a few minutes, even days or weeks at a time.

And they only have to win once, we have to fight and win every time they introduce a new variant. Its exhausting.

DRM: Giving people a lock, the key, and unlimited time to play around.