As a counter point, the US would have to re-vote for the 14th Amendment.

As a counter counter point also the 2nd.

You know, I think I like the established way of doing amendments - passes by Congress and a plurality of the states.

The official meshtastic app has a map view that shows all known nodes.

Yep, that can be normal. For my city, the local group has a private (but free to join) channel that’s a bit more active.

Do a web search for meshtastic and your city and see if one pops up.

It is cool! The barrier to entry is relatively low. The only thing to really worry about is:

1. What band/frequency is appropriate for you country.
2. Are there others around to which you can connect?

If there’s not a lot of people around it’s not the end of the world. Nodes can connect over the Internet via MQTT servers. Yes, this defeats the purpose of having an offline/decentralized communication platform, but it is a good stop gap until more nodes are put up.

Here’s a sample of what I can see in a somewhat large-ish Midwest City in the US (there’s about 63 nodes I can reach by hopping through relays).

Miami Connection

There was a site I found in highschool around 1998 - the paradigm of pessimism.

Full of dark humor and anti-jokes, in glorious web 1.0 - that site had a huge impact on my humor. I’ve never been able to find it again. Just a random site someone hosted somewhere on the Internet - no scams, no paywalls, just a bunch of weird humor.

Protip - if it’s a networked printer, fuck with it’s DNS/IP gateway settings or block it at your firewall. Brother was accused of pushing firmware that locks out 3rd party cartridges .

My network gateway is actually 10.0.0.1 but I configured the printer’s gateway for 10.0.0.254 - that way any attempts to leave the 10.0.0.0/24 network will fail.

NixOS if you absolutely hate having things work easily and learning transferrable knowledge.

Ouch. Accurate, but ouch. 😄

living in ignorant bliss not knowing what cheese actually is

May I introduce you to the godless abomination from St Louis, MO - Provel cheese

Yeah that’s because this little shit won’t stop digging in the garden.

Don’t even need your own Certificate Authority - get a public domain and do a wildcard sub-domain from let’s encrypt.

If birthright citizenship can be “blocked” by an executive order and now thanks to SCOTUS, there can’t be a national injunction, the next democrat president better fucking executive order gun control and a whole slew of things.

Honestly? This is a great, low stakes way of letting him get the feel for the game without feeling like he’s not “helping”.

Shit, indeed actually got me a job once, and I’m starting to look again after 8 years.

I’ve been meaning to add his patreon. I have too many as it is and need to call a bit, but I just feel guilty about it.

It’s not like you can learn from it (even if the topic is something you’ll never use like a 2 hour dissertation on heat pumps or a multi-video series on how an old pinball machine uses only relays to calculate scores).

Why yes, I am subscribed to Technology Connections, how could you tell?

I would get multiple drives and do RAID. Here’s a helpful calculator to figure out drive quantity, size, and configuration. The reason to do RAID is redundancy. Hard drives will fail (even NAS branded drives). You do not want your photos, media, etc to be lost in that case. I personally do not go with anything below RAID5 (and for super sensitive things, I’ll even go RAID6 - despite the hit on overall capacity. If the optiplex has drive capacity for multiple drives, I strongly recommend you go this route.

John Bolton is fucking pissed he doesn’t have a good seat for this.

My 75 year old dad got a tick bite and ignored it for three days of fever over 101, no appetite, and severely weak before finally getting antibiotics.

He doesn’t believe in global warming.

I have a tech illiterate mother in law who I switched to Zorin OS (an Ubuntu fork).

I installed a wireguard VPN client on her laptop and did drills over the course of 3 days to make sure that she understood how to connect. Anytime she needs help, I can tunnel through my wireguard server and log on with my own account - Heck, as long as she doesn’t change her password, I can log on as her as well.

That has made remote troubleshooting significantly easier as she is located about a a 23-hour drive away.