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Same. I tried it just a few days ago. This news made me almost jump out of bed.

They may want to make absolutly sure no wifi signal emit from the device. Turning it off in the setup page is definitely not enough.

The wifi chip may emit signal during boot. The device may get accidentally reset in the field. SpaceX may push an update that messes with the settings.

PS/2 keyboard/mouse are interrupt driven which saves power on laptops. While USB ones are polling based which require controllers running all the time.

I believe that's power saving in action. A single operation at idle is slow, the drive needs time to wake from idle.

There were instruments dropped by parachute.

you can just blacklist amdgpu and use EFI/VGA buffer provided by bios

A simple magic is to set system language and locale to Russian.

Thanks. So that 30W lamp in another comment might be a safty hazzard if someone in close range stares at it and the beam is tightly focused.

Is high power IR lamp safe for eyes?

> This orbital velocity at the surface of the earth is some 40,320 km/sec.

Is that a typo? Orbital velocity on the surface should be 7.9km/s.

And it's relatively easy to make large pure silicon single crystal.

My Firefox+dwm combo works. The 0x1b on my status bar is shown as a Treble clef. Maybe it's a font thing?

  if(!socks5_resolve_local && hostname_len > 255) {
    socks5_resolve_local = TRUE;
  }

This is really a bad idea. For people who use anti-censorship tool to protect privacy, this can leak their identity through DNS.