Keeping a few smart friends is a good way to keep your head above water. The issue is looking outside of that circle and realizing that more than half of the country would have trouble ordering something from cheesecake factory (and their infamously long menu).

Thats the thing, they were not ideal conditions.

You could see a few dozen yards tops while choking on gunsmoke as 50 guys all fired at the same time. Muskets were also cartoonishly inaccurate, they had ~30% chance of the bullet rattling around in the barrel and landing in the dirt if you were aiming for something 30 yards out (provided you could see it, and quickly ID whos side that formation was on). To compensate for that, volley fire was the most effective means doing reliable damage to the opposing army.

The tactics at the time were just developing past the need for pikes and long pointy sticks. Napoleon and the US civil war did the same things, but that was after rifling was invented and bullets usually when where you pointed the loud end of the gun. They were still 150 years out from WWI and thats when, IMO, formality was fully phased out for practicality.

He had the brilliant idea of not wearing red on the battlefield.

This one touches on one of the fun historical factoids around warfare around then. Smokeless powder was not invented until the late 1800s, as soon as the first volly was fired, noone could see a damn thing. The british redcoat uniform was a dual purpous. It was the cheapest color to identify your side with, and it being bright helped prevent friendly fire.

If a vegan does crossfit, what do they talk about first?

(Replace any part of this joke with the list above)

Thank you, I was not in a place where I could have looked that up easily when I threw that comment onto the interwebs.

Hey, where are my fellow ISO-8601 fans?

Boooo, companies need to fuckin stop that…

Perfectly fine, if your worried about the storage get a bigger one and reinstall what ever OS you want on it before you get comfortable (queue linux enthusiests here).

16gb of ram is the functional minimum for windows 11 and I would not push for an upgrade at the current time. Just be aware of your memory useage, Windows 11, Chrome and Office 365 services are memory hogs.

For the CS stuff, dont worry, your machine needs to run a terminal. You WILL be connecting to more powerful machines to do the heavy lifting. Leasing AWS time or using machines on your schools network is likely how all that will go.

Furthermore, its a Dell, so you can throw the service tag into their support site and get the exact parts list and specs (if the bottom is scratched off, its in the BIOS too).

If you need tech support, just let us know (nerds are always here to help).

IIRC the EU is working on one, but its still a ways out.

Boooo (take the up vote)

Come give Warmachine a shot, army sizes are usually smaller and the rules are less “my rule book was published more recently, that means I win” (Plus the models are slightly cheaper).

Oh no, anyway…

And that for one to become a billionair, one must be completely lacking empathy and compassion.

That would be Diogenes. [Wiki]

There is, but to what standard does the manufacturer consider their product “biodegradable”.

Hm… A likely story, a very human thing a human medical professional would say. Carry on beep poop.

Do you do what Calvin & Hobs do where the draw a line through the peanut butter jar and only eat from that one side, then scoop from the bottom on the other side, until the last of the jar is the perfect untouched half on top?

I dont, I just assume you are all robots. Nice robots, who usually say smart or nice things, but unless I can drive to a place an punch you without breaking my hand… Best to just assume yall are to avoid the disappointment later.

As for proving to the rest of the robots that im not a robot… For Lemmy, I completely turn off spellcheck and amy grammar assistance. The frequency of errors, poorly constructed sentences and bad use of frequent AI tells is hopefully enough to validate that im beep boop not a robot.

Incorrect, a raspberry pi will run off of a phone charger (it will whine at you if it provides less than 2 amps).

And for some of the projects listed that are meant to be out in the field like Meshtastic, there are plenty of guides to get them hooked up to solar cells.

In addition, to avoid costs of the RAMpocalypse/data centers butt-fucking the local power grid, reduce, reuse and recycle. Older desktops can run hypervisors like Proxmox or other VM/container solutions to split the work load into a bunch of VMs. (Dell Refurbished has decent deals, if you dont mind scratched up cases, but its beena bit since ive checked them)

In my case, the same device hosts multiple services split into several VMs, and I just got the backup server taking nightly snapshots. Wont save my data from a fire, but if hardware issues happen, backups are being taken (still need to test them, but thats a problem for future me).

-Gurren Laggan -Trigun -Code Geass -FMA -Tanya the Evil

For FMA, start with the original, because they spend more time during the opening chapters, and switch to Brotherhood at the exact scene when they vault the labratories fence.