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Not me!

I spent most of the weekend in VR No-Mans-Sky exploring a made-up galaxy, and when someone tried to speak to me near the meetup-for-missions place I ran away.

Oh. :(

Thanks. Will try and have a look next time I'm forced to boot into windows.

Used to be that Windows users would complain that Linux made them edit arcane config files, I guess now it's Linux users that complain about Windows needing you to edit arcane registry settings.

Really what I want is for the task-bar to not send everything to a search-engine anyway.

I don't want web-results in a task-bar-search at all. I'm trying to launch a program, not tell Microsoft-search the names of every program I launch.

Presumably they make more money with the user-hostile version and the user isn't paying so...

I press it as soon as I see a popup about cookies or login or sales or basically anything at all.

I press it when there's a paywall.

I press it when the site doesn't do dark-mode.

I press it when adverts become annoying.

There also exists an auto-reader-mode plugin that you can tell to always open that site in reader-mode in future.

Reader mode is great. Hope it doesn't become popular so website start trying to stop it working.

Well. A Russian company, DDos-Guard, did host Parler in the end didn't they?

And sure enough, the FBI is investigating.

Signal is a charity rather than a company, but dunno if that makes any actual difference.

If they have telescopes then the trails from star-link satellites would probably give it away.

The ants in the article were in driveways though.

Fermi's paradox says nothing about how likely aliens are to visit earth. It notes that we can't see any sign of them when we look into the sky.

Perhaps the humans don't care about the ants, but the ants damn well can see signs of human activity.

Latency probably matters more than bandwidth in a case like this.

Gotta pay for the direct-fibre for the ping as much as the volume.

Congestion is gonna mean you always need slack. There must be unused bandwidth or the occasional packet-loss just cascades.

My band haven't really been able to get into a room together since about March, mostly it's not even been legal but even during the time when it was legal we figured it was probably inadvisable.

So we've been trying to do it online.

And then decided it might be worth trying to perform online, with each of us in different rooms around the city.

I'm taking a video-feed from four different people, and audio feeds from six different audio-sources, mixing them and then pushing that out as a member of a video-chat with dozens of other people.

So I was kinda glad of my half gig symmetric.

I think I'd have needed the full gig if we were a twelve-piece band, say.

Eh?

When I'm elsewhere it can continue to not have the passwords to anyone else's wifi.

I don't own one of them, but I would surely be able to instruct my router to put it in jail like I can every other device.

LAN-only.

Indeed.

"All your work is instantly synced to the cloud"

Ugh. Nope nope nope.

But now maybe sounds like I could turn that off and just rsync the files to my Debian tower.

That is more win.