could be, there was more of these weird things that i had to do that i don’t remember already because motherboard of that one cracked like three years ago. i also remember that stock driver for tplink dongle was limited and the actual useful one had to be gotten from github

to get wifi working properly in the first place i had to find a missing binary that wasn’t packaged in any normal way and was only hosted on some dudes github so my expectations were low already. it got a lot better over the years tbh

lmde on a seven year old laptop five years ago, i was already accustomed to wifi on linux being dogshit. energy management was even worse and for some time hibernation was not a thing

Can’t you just disable sleep on close?

i could, but closing the lid turned off radios (wifi + bt) at some low level in a way that i haven’t figured out

starting a cult is just good business

but can both of them lose?

speaking of oracle, they recently loaded up on debt and got into deals that are all but impossible to fulfill, and in a couple of years their survival will depend on openai making profit. (not revenue) put a pin in it and come back to that in a year or three

Altman has been claiming chat gpt made him feel dumb since 4.5

perfectly believable tbh

that mmwave radar would have to be attached to a drone, because their manned aircraft are unbelievably obsolete. it means smaller size meaning low resolution, and as starlink emits pinpointing them would be very easy when active, much easier than any passive sat dish, and starlink is still in use. i’ve seen some advice on hiding starlink that includes turning off starlink wifi and using wired connection, because irgc is looking for 2.4 ghz signal (from ground?) and not for 14-ish ghz uplink, so they probably dont have a lot of flying ew/radars

i’m not saying that iranian air force has definitely none of that, but i would be decently surprised if they do have more than 2

there are ways. for example, put a fake hot water barrel on the roof, made from fiberglass or polypropylene or what have you, but not metal, and put dish inside, or in any variety of inconspicuous containers or boxes made from plastic or wood or fabric. some other antennas can be camouflaged as fake chimneys or gutters or water piping or many other things

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a664bf3d603dc3bdcf9ae47cc21e0daec706d7a5 its in that post

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Stirling engines are woefully inefficient tho, PV panels are better unless you’re intending to supplement heat source with biomass or such. In a climate where most of energy is used for heating and little to none on AC, it just makes more sense to use solar collectors instead of PV because most of energy use will be in form of heat anyway, and per square meter collector will deliver much more. If you can couple excess heat production to seasonal energy storage, this gets you most or all of heat needs year round covered by solar, if you don’t there’s still free hot water in the summer and seriously lowered gas bill through the year. Small PV panel might make sense to keep pumps running or cover some of the rest of needs but won’t shift balance heavily either way. In a place where major use of energy is AC this approach makes no sense and PV panels with daily or a bit longer lasting storage of energy, be it in batteries or thermal (tanks of cold glycol or ice or whatever) would be the way to go, because the most sunny day is also the day when you need AC the most and this way you get most of your energy needs covered

some goods and intermediates have large energy content, like, if you wanted to use energy from large pv farm in, say, morocco, then it might make more sense to ship bauxite in and aluminum bars out (it takes some 50MJ/kg to make aluminum)

simplicity of the system would be a factor in small, unattended installations like for space heating for single home

all of that without heat pumps too

It is a liquid that after irradiating stores that energy while still cold and can be made to release it in form of heat on demand. but also it’s low grade heat mostly useful for heating and not for electricity generation. It would be simpler to just build long range transmission lines or put energy intensive manufacturing near PV farm in sunny region

it’s transparent too so you can just put pv panel underneath to capture the rest

you get 1.6MJ/kg just by irradiating this thing, nothing else is needed and its storable for months as noncorrosive room temperature liquid

to make ammonia you need to have pv to turn light to electricity then make hydrogen out of it then make ammonia in haber process, each step generates losses and none are practical on small scale

there is a problem that it can heat itself up so hard during decomposition that it can just go on without catalyst

aaand it boils water again