You need to keep in mind that most laptops are not going to have 2 ethernet ports(or even 1 these days). You will need 1 port to connect to your modem and 1 port to provide the network to an AP. All ports aren’t created equal. If you want good speeds you want to find something with 2 good ethernet ports. Your internet speed will determine what is good enough for you port wise. If you are fine with pretty slow speeds then a laptop can work and you can use a usb to ethernet adapter but that’s a bit janky. If you intend to use the built in wifi card for the AP just know it won’t be nearly as good as a dedicated AP. Check out the Lenovo ThinkCentre line. It has some good options with decent ports. As for a UPS you can sometimes find something better by looking at “Solar Power Generators” instead. They’re basically just batteries with an inverter and outlets on them. And they can recharge from solar which is why they have the name. But a lot of times they’re the better bang for your buck than a normal UPS. And if you got a few solar panels you could hook them up to it. Which it sounds like might be useful to you in general.

Yes I agree with this for the most part. I do think maybe it leaves a few open questions about the issue in place for me. For example, China still has a national bourgeois class that it has control over. People like Jack Ma for example. A lot of these people seem to be useful to them internationally. And domestically they prevent them from gaining political power. I’m not quite sure how they managed this, or how it could be replicated elsewhere. To have a socialist state where the national bourgeois is weaponized in its favor. Then there’s the question of states where there is no real non-bourgeois force at all. Not that is organized. It would seem to me in this case it might be best to keep the international and national bouregois in a state of stalemate while we attempt to develop a vanguard in that state. Since allowing either to dominate may lead to a much more hostile political environmnt and security situation.

I also think there’s a bit of a phenomenon where say the national bourgeois are in power; They will feel threatened by the rising proletarian forces and will turn to the international bourgeois for their security. Leading to them handing over national resources as payment for this support. So how should we handle these situations? It seems the only answer would be to weaken the international bouregois enough they aren’t a viable way to remain in power any longer? It’s all seemingly quite complicated.

Idk if you liberals realize it but this isn’t them debating what they can manage to do. It’s them trying to figure out the bare minimum they can do without people rioting. They don’t want to do any of it. If you want them to do it all you need to be… well… rioting.

I’d be repulsed in general. This genuinely looks like something a 3 year old would make. It looks like it would have the smell of stale cereal to it that kids have to them sometimes.

fair warning to everyone. Do not go on duckduckgo and search “Jensen Huang spy mistress” and click on images to see if you can see what she looks like unless you have safe search turned on. Idk what the fuck is wrong with DDG but the results are just a bunch of actual porn for some reason.

I’m not really a strict recipe person. I have like general things I’ll do but I mix it up and just kinda use what I have laying around. The Chinese chilli sauce i mentioned I’m just realizing is Thai not Chinese. Since I checked the back lol. It’s Ox Brand Ground Red Chili Sauce. It’s like ground up chilis and still has the seeds. I just let it bake into a crust on the chicken since all the water evaporates. If you were doing like a chicken thigh for example I’d get the sauce under the skin before baking it. Then on the skin just add a tad more. Like a glaze. The sweet and sour sauce depends if your big on sweetness or not. It’s more like an on the side at the end thing. So like I’ll do that stuff but then I’m also just kinda tossing whatever spices I have around on there too.

Another thing you can do that is really good is go to an asian foods market and see if you can find fresh red chilis. They will sell big bags of them. Then you can freeze those and cut them up as needed. Then toss them into some hot oil (like a neutral oil) to make a nice hot chili oil. Which can be used on lots of stuff. Try to find things that look like this:

If you want the Thai Red Curry powder I mentioned you can try this. It’s very good.

Basically any of these spices/sauces will make chicken taste great. But be aware I’m a big fan of spicy so some of this stuff is too spicy for a lot of people. I’m not really able to gauge what is super spicy and what isn’t. I will eat something and not even think its spicy then someone else is acting like they’re gonna die. And even to me the fresh chinese red chilis are noticably spicy. The others not so much.

Edit to say I looked it up and I think the Chilis I get are called Thai Bird’s Eye Chilis.

Did you make that sound like “Home Bomber” on purpose?

Hey, I’m Gen Z. Not everyone here is older. I do cook. Quite well. I can be a bit lazy tho and I’m poor. So it’s simple cheap stuff usually. I like to get chicken or pork, put some chinese chilli sauce on it, and bake it until its crispy. Then maybe some sweet and sour on top. Another good simple sauce is soy sauce mixed with peanut butter and heated and stirred a bit. Rice with some yellow curry powder, msg, and dried onion/carrots while its cooking, then adding the juices from whatever meat you cooked at the end is pretty good. Red Thai Curry powder is also great and can go on almost anything. A lot of my diet is just whatever meat cuts are dirt cheap (usually chicken quarters or pork half loin), rice, potatoes, beans, and other dirt cheap stuff.

Edit: Also, for the time aspect. It’s good to find meals that you can just let cook and don’t need to be watched. Like I can throw chicken thighs in the oven with a potato, leave it at 375F for 1.5 hours then come back and they’re both done and ready to eat. Not need to check on it. I can do other things in the mean time. Like chores. Altho, that specific one only works if you enjoy your chicken cooked to shit which I personally do. I like it cooked so much it falls off the bone.

Also just want to add to your points that the NSA didn’t have to admit they developed this. Putting their name to it basically guaranteed that everyone would pour through the code and assume the worst. So it get hyper scrutinzed. So if they had wanted to put a back door in it they would have released it without saying they made it.

Well even if he knows there’s a decent chance someone suggested her to him and he said, “WAIT! I KNOW! MY UFC FRIEND SHOULD DO IT!” and everyone in the room just kinda sighed and went along with it.

I know you asked about thinkpads but I think you should consider a Latitude 7400. The non 2 in 1 model. It’s got 1 m.2 slot, 2 Sodimm slots, and the back panel comes off in one piece and is easy to get at everything. The downside is the keyboard is hard to replace. It’s one of those built in ones.

I run Debian on it and lock the CPU to 2.5Ghz and below and keep cooling pads in it and its passive. never runs the fan. Has amazing battery life and linux support. (shipped with ubuntu as an option). They’re cheap too. The build quality is really good. It has the barrel charging port, usb c/thunderbolt port, hdmi, 2 USB A, headphone jack, micro usb reader, sim card slot, smart card reader for ports. Plus the trackpad actually has buttons which I like. I don’t like the tapping that’s become common now. The webcam has a physical shutter you can slide over it too. Overall a nice little laptop once you tweak it a bit.

I’ve always said that the US was using Ukraine as a testbed for its experimental shit to see how it did in real combat. Thats why they got a bunch of high tech stuff at the start of the war but not so much anymore. Because they tested most of it already.

Israel Democracy:

Option A: Kill All Palestinians at 2pm (So we can be home in time for dinner)

Option B: Kill All Palestinians at 5pm (so we can take an extended lunch)

If we’re being real Odin would absolutely body the god of the bible in a Flyting.

That’s why there was a whole school of thought back in antiquity called Gnosticism where they thought the god of the bible was an evil demiurge that had stolen their souls and locked them in this hellish earth to torture them lol

I saw this thing once where a christian group had done an experiment where they interviewed people and they found that “people who said they didn’t believe in god felt uneasy when saying it” and used that to conclude that they were afraid of gods judgement. No you fucking idiots. They’re uneasy about YOU!!!

It should be til late 2030 so closer to 4 years atleast. And the newer pixels are your only option if you want longer support. The issue is they’re exponentially more expensive.

My cats poop absolutely reeks. It didn’t used to, but he has tons of allergies and stuff and was just horrible sick for the longest time until I found 1 food that works. I’m talking like eve hydrolyzed foods didn’t help. But I tried the Instinct Limited Ingredient Rabbit food its made from Raw Rabbit, Tapioca, and something else I can’t remember. It makes his poop smell so bad it could clear out an entire house, but its worth it since he isn’t sick anymore. This dude can’t eat any protien I’ve found so far except rabbit. Chicken, Beef, Lamb, Fish, etc all make him sick. He vomits, gets constipated, his skin itches like crazy and he starts to get dandruff and tear at his face til he bleeds, he gets ear infections, etc.

So honestly if the stink is the only downside to this food then I’m just gonna let it stink.

LLMs chatbots are great at reading documentation and spitting it back out at you imo. So to people who don’t realize that the documentation is out there, or don’t know how to find what they need in it, LLMs can be helpful. I do think that you’d be better served actually learning to read it yourself tho as you’ll find solutions to things you didn’t even know to ask in there.

You didn’t give enough info for me to know what happened but generally imo Windows is harder than Linux. Full disk encryption really isn’t needed for most people. What you should do is HOME encryption. Or have a 2nd partition on your ssd that you keep sensetive things in and is encrypted and you keep that unmounted when not using it.