The camera was never a priority for me. Seemed fine for my very basic needs, but I can’t comment on it’s actual features or quality

I used Graphene for a month. It was absolutely amazing, except from not having contactless payment.
The sooner they win their lawsuit against Google to get 3rd party OS attestation the better. I’ll jump back in a heartbeat

Rinky dink little websites should use federated logins, imo.

You obviously haven’t seen the platformio extension.
It’s a beast, turns VSCode into an embedded IDE and programmer for loads of different microchips

I’m saying it’s false to apply Occam’s razor to this scenario and draw a conclusion that this is caused by non-human life.

I’m not assuming earth is unique. There have been many earth-like planets that have been discovered.
I’m not even assuming humans are unique, given all of space-time.

It is extremely unlikely that there exists intelligent life other than humans at this time (or within the window-function of time required for us to receive a transmission from however many million lightyears).
Like, it is vanishingly small. The insane series of events that has lead to an intelligent species being dominant on a planet is ridiculous, to be honest.
In other words, humans are essentially unique at this point in “observable” time.

It is extremely likely it is a natural phenomena that we don’t understand, or even equipment malfunction, misinterpretation, miscalculation etc.
We have discovered unknown signals, then learnt what they are. Humans don’t know everything.
We have discovered unknown signals, then realised it was a nearby microwave, or a dodgy connection, or whatever. Humans make mistakes.

The simplest explanation in order to not have to deal with a new research project is probably “aliens”. But the simplest explanation is “natural phenomena we don’t understand yet”

The complexity involved to have sentient life evolved to the point that it can create radio waves is an astronomically small possibility. Having that coincide with our ability to detect such a thing is even smaller.
The history of “we don’t know what this signal is or means” has always been “a new type/phase of star”.

The only assumption here is that life is rare, and advanced life is rarer still. Which is supported by all of our science so far

The simplest explanation is a new kind of star, or a new kind of star cycle.
We have seen interesting radio signals before, they have all been explained by some sort of star behaviour.

The simplest explanation is NOT the evolution of an entire other species that survives all the way through to advanced tech to send radio signals.

No idea. Probably cause it’s a bit gate-keepy in the way I say “any tuner worth their salt” as if it’s the only way to achieve good results.
I haven’t met a tuner that uses anything other than forks. Maybe that’s because all the pianos I’ve worked with have been in good condition, so haven’t needed drastic measures applied. As I haven’t met a tuner that uses anything else, I can’t say if they are better/faster/whatever. I just assumed it’s the industry standard, like how orchestras tune by ear

I haven’t, but I’ve had many grand and baby grand pianos tuned after being moved onto stage, and a guy comes in and does it by ear.
I asked them why they didn’t have a stroboscopic tuner or something, and they’ve always found it easier with a couple forks and by ear

Im 99% sure any piano tuner worth their salt tunes by ear

Yeh, I’ve looked at a bunch over the years. None have that DVR ability that windows Media Center Edition had.
I feel like I should build up an arr stack, go down that rabbit hole, spend my streaming subscription money on a VPN and a private tracker (or whatever is required).
I just haven’t yet.

Windows MCE, that was it! Not HTPC.
I knew a guy that built a career using xbmc in a professional environment, scripted out the wazoo to make it not look like xbmc.
I think I even tried running it on an actual Xbox, and being impressed with it. But MCE on a spare laptop was better. I eventually built an HTPC to run MCE.

Way back when netflix was new, windows had a Home Theatre edition of windows.
Beautiful 10ft UI, worked with tuners, could record from them, had no issues dealing with auto-ripped DVDs and had a native netflix integration.
Then netflix pulled out, but windows HTPC was still pretty decent.
Nowadays, it’s basically “you have to pay for everything” with a smart TV or a set top android box, maybe lucky enough to have a tuner in it.
Or it’s high seas.
I don’t think there is really a middle ground.

As someone that runs servers, having an immutable os (oe one that “wipes” on updates) is awesome.
The issue is that you are not in control of the config.

Learning to script over it might be worthwhile. Update, apply customisation script, back to normal.
It’s good to learn declarative configuration

Who is subsidising it? You mean a loss-leader?
Previous consoles have been loss-leaders, the original switch isnt. Im not sure about the new gen switch, but considering the success of the first one, i doubt it is.

The manufacturer’s suggested retail price in the U.S. is $299.99. As we have stated before, unlike Wii U, the Nintendo Switch price point was set to ensure that the hardware is not basically sold at a loss

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2017/170201_2e.pdf page 15

Brexit meant brexit. And something about ready meals.

300mbps down 60 mbps up.
Although aoparently fibre-to-the-premises is available… Just havent got rounf to checking if its symmetrical or worth.

Micrometers is actually so common that it has a colloquial non-SI name of “micron”

According to wiki:

The micrometre is a common unit of measurement for wavelengths of infrared radiation as well as sizes of biological cells and bacteria,[1] and for grading wool by the diameter of the fibres.[3] The width of a single human hair ranges from approximately 20 to 200 μm.

You can say 25 micrometers

DHCP problems, huh?