I have a Pi 4 (8gb) that I use as a home web server. I use a USB flash drive for the OS (Raspbian)/storage and run Apache on it. I have it running in a case with heat sink and a fan. It's quite a useful device for my purposes but it simply isn't up to the task of general computing. I notice big lags when trying to do literally anything. Even just opening up a code editor (VS Code) and a single browser tab you'd think the thing was on its last legs.
I ssh into it from my Windows machine and that seems to work really well. I have noticed a slight amount of lag in the ssh sessions but it's nominal and not a show stopper.
That being said, I only use it as a server and for the last year haven't had a single issue with it. I love it for what it is and want as many as I can get my hands on.
Copying my mate’s work (hi, mjoc101) at uni taught me to type. Too many headaches looking at his printout, my screen, my keyboard, forced me to use whatever tool was available on the uni *nix systems.
One of the best things I ever did for myself. If you’re reading this and you don’t touch-type, learn. Now.
(They kicked me out eventually, so nothing good came of the copying.)
I was required to learn touch-typing to graduate high school. Early 1990s. My incentive was simple; the class was an hour a day of soul-sucking drudgery, for a full academic year, but if I could just eke out 35 wpm on a test, I could avoid the class entirely. I learned typing the spring before my senior year. And passed. Got to leave school an hour earlier every day. I filled the time by taking another math class.
Definitely messenger apps that did it for me. Back in the AOL online CD days!
No one I knew could type, so I had to learn myself. By the time it was taught in HS, my habits and muscle memory weren't having it. I could type 'properly' but far slower, so I gave up.
To this day I've never had a RSI from typing (and some of the marathons were crazy!), and it's rampant among 'proper' typers.
It could be a geographical thing but my experience of ICQ and MSN was almost entirely 1:1 chat. It was a calmer way to be - no onlookers to impress, and first-class support for signalling that you’re not at your computer right now so maybe they should message later.
This is my experience too. The standout memory for me is staying up till the wee hours of the morning chatting with the girl I'd end up dating for the last couple years of highschool.
The US isn’t some kind of Nazi state. Black people holding professional jobs has been considered culturally acceptable for many decades. (And this by no means proves that racism doesn’t exist).
That makes sense. Polling in the early 90's showed half the country was against black/white interracial marriages, but no one had a problem with a black secretary/typist (which did not disrupt the "social hierarchy" in people's minds)
And let's be serious, this is a fictional black typist. Secretary isn't the most high-status job. Teacher is a bit more status (she's a typing teacher!), but typist could also mean data entry, which is significantly worse.
The US has never had a problem with black servants, but that's not a indicator of not being racist.
My hypothesis is that the groups that were typically associated with steadfast racist views were typically technically illiterate, so this intersection with Mavis Beacon just didn’t happen.
"America is racist" is a narrative sold by racists to sow racial division.
Shirkey's principle. Any institution (or career race-baiter) tasked with solving a problem will instead preserve the problem so they can continue to solve it.
There’s a significant divide between “America is racist” and “America was founded on, and still preserves, many institutions that are fundamentally biased against some people.”
I don’t know many people who seriously claim that every single atom of American life is racist.
No actual person thinks this but it’s the take away when you compress it down to memes / read about it in media.
America has no room for nuance, it’s either every police shooting is justified or every shooting isn’t justified. It’s probably not a great way to actually run a country but it makes for great media sales / entertaining politics.
No the internet can do that just fine, the twitterization of social media in to short quippy "bumper sicker" took the worst aspects of politics (sound bites and bumper stickers") and normalized that in to the "correct" way to debate or discuss topics.
Gone where the long form threaded topics of forums, usenet, etc, replaced with 180 characters quips
I will agree that twitter irrevocably has changed the online landscape. But I believe it's the ability to instantly transmit things that has pushed towards shorter and shorter content. For example Vine really took off, and now you have Tiktok/Instagram reels/etc. Not to mention Snapchat/Periscope.
It's a lot faster to digest and get a dopamine hit from a <140 char tweet (now <380 chars) than poring over a book, so the outcome of twitter was destined to happen.
I think a subtle distinction has to be made: being labelled a racist became the worst thing ever. Which has led to absurd scenes where someone conducts themselves in blatantly racist ways and then says "That's not who I am". It has become a noun, rather than a verb
I think the meta-commentary re: the current zeitgeist of misinformation and nonsense. Being inspired to write a comment like this is probably more revealing of human character.
I don't understand comments like this. Why go through the effort of articulating your lack of interest in a topic? "I have no intellectual curiosity about this topic, but I figure I should still comment letting the world know I have no interest in this".
I think something is lost in translation here, the OP is saying that emotionally it doesn't matter to them if she wasn't real, they still hold her in high regard.
They are not saying, "I have no interest in this."
I think you missed the point of the comment. I don't think this is a lack of interest in the topic per se -- it's demonstrating that when using the software, there was a clear separation between the 'teacher' and just using the software. I had no idea she was a 'real' person (or interpreted as such anyways) and always presumed it was just a 'character'.
"They taught me how to type" sounds a lot more like fond recollection than disinterest to me, but I guess we all read things differently. Your way seems needlessly uncharitable, though!
> A Patriot missile battery usually has about 90 U.S. soldiers attached to it. Each system includes a phased array radar, a control station, and eight launchers, each of which can hold four missiles.
I was completely ignorant of how these missile batteries worked. That's a lot of tech to fall into the wrong hands.
Just checking that you are aware that Putin has been murdering fleeing civilians, targeting health facilities including a maternity ward, and using dumb bombs to level entire cities? At what point does this cross into genocide for you?
Edit: People on this thread seem very confused as to what the word 'genocide' means. Here is the definition from un.org.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
> At what point does this cross into genocide for you?
The point when it enters the definition of the word....
> the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
We're not talking about a few hundred or thousands civilians hit by bombs, we're talking organised and methodical wiping of entire villages/cities/regions
The jewish holocaust was a genocide, the Khmer Rouge were conducting a genocide, the Turkish committed a genocide against Armenians, &c. The scale and goals are completely different, what's happening in Ukraine is a war, it's ugly, it's revolting, it's disgusting, it's still "just" a war.
It would be genocide if the Russians were murdering a significant chunk of the population in order to eradicate the Ukrainians as a distinct ethnic group.
There is no evidence of that happening. Yes, Russia has been committing atrocities. Not all atrocities are genocide.
Your own definition says it has to be an attempt to destroy the group. Killing people from a group doesn’t necessarily mean you are attempting to destroy it. Otherwise all murders would be genocide.
Again, I'm not sure how dumb bombing entire cities that haven't been evacuated, maternity/childrens wards, and fleeing civilians _doesn't_ qualify as genocide, but I guess we will just have to agree to disagree.
I think the definition of genocide is very clear and after watching the daily footage from Ukraine, it's quite difficult to make the argument that there isn't intent to wipe out a large portion of the population systematically. Yeah, their names aren't in a spreadsheet maybe, yet, but this is just beginning.
Something can be a war crime AND not a genocide. (I recommend you wikileaks for a list of US war crimes which aren't genocides).
Putin invasion is illegal, many war crimes were committed, but it's nowhere close to a genocide. What word will you use for real genocides ?
> and after watching the daily footage from Ukraine
That's the main issue with this war, people are fed clips after clips of bombings videos, crying civilians, dead soldiers in blood pools &c. It's an information war just as much as it is a regular war
If we had the same level of publicity for the invasion or Irak or Afghanistan would you have condemned the US of genocide ? Many more civilians died. Would we have banned the US of swift ?
What about the siege of Sarajevo ? genocide committed by nato ?
It's a war, did people forget about them ? Civilians always suffer, either directly or indirectly (starvation, exposure, &c.)
Unplug, stop watching war porn, read experts reports if you want to keep up to date, don't fall for the news cycle/social media bait. There are 30 or 40 other wars going on in the world right now, all with civilians getting killed, if you want to be outraged every single second of your life feel free to look them up. There even is a real genocide going on for the last 10 years or so in Darfur, have you heard of it ? it's not making the news, 100k to 400k people were killed though
> I think the definition of genocide is very clear
It is, and no serious source calls this a genocide...
> It is, and no serious source calls this a genocide...
Again, incorrect. The Ukrainian government has called this genocide. Are they not a serious source? The UN has also had at least one hearing so far to determine if there is genocide happening in Ukraine right now, which, I'll note, the Russians did not show up for. [0]
I'm going to go ahead and stop replying to you at this point. You've made a number of assumptions about my level of engagement and education on the topic that are incorrect, and I don't feel like we are going to get anywhere.
At any rate, insisting that the systematic carpet bombing of cities and murder of fleeing civilians _isn't_ genocide, seems like a questionable hill to die on.
> Again, incorrect. The Ukrainian government has called this genocide
And Russia says there is no war... don't you think Ukraine and Russia stances might be slightly biased ? If we're arguing with that level of bad faith I agree that it won't go anywhere.
> insisting that the systematic carpet bombing of cities and murder of fleeing civilians _isn't_ genocide, seems like a questionable hill to die on.
It's a warcrime, it's not a genocide, I'll die on that hill, words have meaning. Otherwise every single conflict is a genocide, but then the word loses its meaning entirely so why not stop using it ?
Again, it's a question of scale and intent. Putting every single jew you find in trains for death camps is a genocide, killing every single Vietnamese you find is a genocide, killing a few civilians while bombing a city at war is a war crime.
Well, in the case the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are genocide! The all the Americans(still alive) and American state entities responsible for it must be held accountable
I ssh into it from my Windows machine and that seems to work really well. I have noticed a slight amount of lag in the ssh sessions but it's nominal and not a show stopper.
That being said, I only use it as a server and for the last year haven't had a single issue with it. I love it for what it is and want as many as I can get my hands on.