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That's good to know! As burdensome as the current climate change debate is, it's somewhat reassuring to know we've made more steps than I'd thought.

Provided compliance is nuts, this man is a nutcase for complying. Sounds all good, but I dont believe being a nutcase warrants doxxing, verbal harassment, verbal threatening, and everything else that we're seeing here.

I know it's not necessarily just emissions, but leaded gasoline as well, but my father would often tell stories of the smog from the days when leaded gasoline was allowed. Even from his perspective of a diesel-loving man who denies climate change, he still recounts times of vehicles in front of him being completely obscured by their own emissions, and days when intersections themselves being coated with a subtle layer of gassy fumes.

One passed, the other has yet to be presented. These legislators have no clue how they'd even do it, but circumventing the scan is also made illegal.

So yeah, flashing Open-Source firmware is something they dont like either, but fingers crossed they just choose to not allocate resources to enforcement. Wouldn't be surprised if this 3D printed missile mentioned in the article above comes up ad a taking point during the legislative hearings.

Washington state already started making moves against it, as an attempt to prevent 3D printed firearm components. Specifically, it requires 3D printers sold within the state to have firmware-based scanning to cancel prints it suspects are used for firearms, alongside criminalizing the possession of files ruled as 'firearm compoments'.

One bill is in the House, the other passed into law. Gonna make it a real rough ride ahead for tinkerers into 3D printing, especially if we've gotta design around "Oh boy, I sure hope my pencil holder doesnt get flagged as an illegal item."

Edit: One of two bills passed: HB2320 and HB2321. HB2320 is currently law, and HB2321 is awaiting presentation to the House.

My my, that's some beautiful style!

Windows is active spyware, it's well documented that services like their Telemetry function as active keyloggers. The main difference is that the vulnerabilities are likely only problematic if someone is actively looking for you.

As for Linux, it has many different types of OS called Distributions/Distros. You'd likely want to start off on a distro that's beginner friendly, like PopOS. Others work too, this is just my personal preferred flavor of 'just works' distribution. A lot of people will overcomplicate the process of selecting what type of Linux-based OS to choose with loads of technical terms, but you dont need most of that if that's not what you seek to make of it.

My serious answer for running games, as much as I'd like to answer it here, it would likely need a fair sized explanation if you're completely unfamiliar with Linux, just so you can know what to expect. It's more than I feel I can reasonably explain, so I'll recommend you lookup YouTube videos of how to run specific game emulators on Linux, since the video format will likely help a lot.

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This has always messed with me to explain, but mostly since this confusion is based on different experiences. If you learn the theory and understand how to craft your own circuitry, pushing and pulling amps can be designed for, but if all you've ever done is install things like a contractor would, then all you're familiar with is pulling amps.

It always makes it such a hard explanation when someone says, "I thought you pulled amps." There really ain't an easy explanation, since most people are only familiar with systems designed to not be used outside their target voltage, so they don't experience Ohm's Law in action.

In retrospect, its probably because I only have these talks with contractors lel, and they've spent a whole lotta time going with the "Pulls amps" approach, and it works out well enough for them. Whatever works for the groups you're communicating among, I suppose.

So, I'm not necessarily going to toss out a rule suggestion, rather a dynamic that I've found that I feel is worth noting.

In rules-bound communities, spaces flourish and perform the best with next to no rules. This however induces the problem of having people who speak out in ways that're unwanted. Juxtaposed to this, spaces with overbearing rules often drive users away and create a "hush-hush" zone, where organic conversation cannot truly occur. You may've seen this often with a sort of "positive vibes only" places, where everyone seems to speak with a face of ^w^ and nothing else.

I have always had a bit of a philosophy towards this after seeing several discord servers' communities, and then having a large community of own. In a nutshell, our rules performed best when boiled down to "Be good." Not everyone has a clear definition of 'good', so we tossed out a few examples, but that's all for rules on vocalizing the self. There were more, but that's just because the server was NSFW-friendly, and only had regards to that.

Not to say this approach works everywhere, but I feel openly saying that "Good rules, but minimal rules" is a good summary in a nutshell.

It's nice to see these remarks every now and then, really throws humanity back into us amidst our anger. Sometimes I think world leaders could use a bit of that lol

For all I bet most of us know, he could be a big POS, but he could also be someone normal who just happens to be son of a world leader. I just don't forecast getting worked up over the political life of a no-name son is quite the healthiest approach.

So, I wanna support the Onion network, but it seems hosting a middle node is the most likely way, and thus have the largest base. In looking into it, exit nodes seem very dangerous to those who're uneducated on the risks of having them, and thus are a big bottleneck.

Not to say this is a bad problem to have, as it's a growing pain and that indicates an increase in popularity, but wouldn't wide-scale adoption of this disproportionately limit the usability of the Onion network through the exit nodes?