Short answer is you would probably die.

Bleach and ammonia make chloramine gas which is incredibly poisonous, readily dissolves in water and is a fairly caustic acid.

I suppose that explains the difference in quality and usability

HP is still plenty serviceable as long as you’re getting HP Enterprise. The consumer stuff has been trash for almost 20 years now.

Saying “I don’t know enough about this to comment” is an answer when asked to comment on something. Also be willing to change your mind when presented with new information. Tangentially, don’t hold it against someone when their opinions change.

I don’t know why they think this change is going to get anyone to switch.

5 seconds of nothing is still way better than a minute-long ad

Copyright is a good thing in general, but the way it’s handled now is incredibly stupid.

The US had it right in 1790. 14 years by default and an additional 14 year renewal. After that it’s public domain.

28 years is more than enough time to profit from a creative work before other people can use those ideas freely.

Imagine the creative landscape if every piece of art older than 1995 was free for everyone to use as they saw fit.

You don’t need to use RDP though. In fact, MS really wants you to use remote powershell or admin center.

Although you could also use whatever 3rd party remote tools you want because you’re just running Windows Server

Aside from the fact that it runs on Windows, what makes HyperV so bad?

I’ve used it a bunch and it seems fine save for some weird quirks with OSs older than 2012 R2

They’re a little different. Kettles are small (1-2 liters) will heat water until it’s boiling and then shut off(or have the user disconnect the heat source)

Water boilers hold a larger amount of water (3-5 liters) at a consistent temperature with a button to dispense it.

I upgraded from a kettle to a zojirushi water boiler and I’ve never looked back. The thing is incredible. Absolutely worth the price.

I revisit Hogfather every few years around this time of year

I can tell you’ve never had to do T1 tech support before.

It’s kind of staggering just how illiterate users can be.

The fact that Fever is your favorite tells me you are a person with good taste. That was the one that really had the best balance of difficulty and novelty. Plus, Remix 9 in that game is probably the best song across the series

The factory must grow

It’s also pretty hard to get malware without network capabilities

The problem is that while personal renewables exist, they’re still pretty expensive and are largely untested at scale. We’re in that stage that computers went through in the late 90s, where it’s an expensive investment that is likely to be obsolete before the year is over.

Not many people would be excited to spend ~$30K outfitting a building with solar panels, turbines and batteries only to learn that they need to be replaced in 2-3 years.

The technology is promising, but it’s not ready for mass adoption yet. We need a stopgap

special waste management is doing a lot of heavy lifting

Yeah, I suppose it is. Although I would argue leaving the waste to future generations is definitely not what we’re doing. Basically, we’re just putting it in a deep hole. Once that underground storage is full it never needs to be opened again. There isn’t any shortage of radioactive elements underground that exist naturally, creating a man-made radioactive pocket deep underground isn’t all that different.

Not having enough power and more power failures isn’t such a bad trade-off

The power that gets sent out over the grid does a lot more that charging your iPhone or powering your computer. For example: Electric vehicles(including public transit) relies on it, food preservation relies on maintaining constant refrigeration which would lead to even more food waste, and if a hospital loses power for even a couple minutes there are real lives at stake.

Hi, pro-nuclear here,

That’s the eventual ideal, but energy storage technology isn’t there yet. The biggest issue facing renewables currently is the ability to maintain a base load demand that is increasing faster and faster each year.

Currently, the cheapest way we have to store energy is to store it chemically, in the form of coal, petroleum, or fissle fuel. Of these, the fissle option is by far the best. It’s by far the most energy-dense, doesn’t release any carbon into the atmosphere when used, and the amount of waste it produces is dangerous, but miniscule in comparison. All the high level waste ever produced since the late 50s could fit in a single building.

It’s not realistic to fully replace everything with renewables until some very difficult engineering problems are solved. So our choices right now are:

• build more renewables

Pros: getting cheaper and more efficient but worse than current tech, no carbon pollution

Cons: experience more power failures as it cannot meet current energy demands

• build a coal/petroleum plant

Pros: very cheap and very efficient

Cons: accelerate climate change, increase pollution

• build a nuclear plant

Pros: can easily meet base load demands, very efficient, no carbon pollution

Cons: expensive, special waste management is required.

As things stand now, I would like to replace aging petroleum power plants with nuclear while continuing to build more and more renewables. Then, once we’ve either found a way to reduce energy demand or improve storage, start to phase out the nuclear plants

Link speaks in both the CDi games and the cartoon that was attached to the Mario Bros super show.

The general consensus on the Mario movie probably doesn’t matter much as it made over a billion dollars worldwide. Personally I thought it was fine but lacks a lot of the heart that made the deeply flawed 1993 movie so charming.

“Chinese Spyware” is probably a little hyperbolic, but it’s not a claim without merit either.

Basically, the issue is that companies that operate in China are beholden to an authoritarian government that has the power to get whatever data they want from the company. Add to that, for the average person, their smartphone contains a ton of data about them and is often brought into trusted networks when you turn Wifi on, collecting even more info.

In the US they were banned largely because the company has very close ties to a foreign government and regulating that communication is far harder once the devices are widely available.

Right now, that data is mostly used to build a profile about you for the purposes of advertising because that’s what’s profitable, but that data exists and can be used for other things if someone with access wants to.

There is no such thing as a backdoor that can only be used by one group of people.

As soon as someone outside of that group figures out how to access it, then they have the keys to every system that uses that encryption method. And because the backdoor is there by design, they will have access in perpetuity until the system gets upgraded to use properly secure encryption.