She’s one of the treasures of English literature.

Her children’s books are as good as her science fiction themes calling out the fundamental problems we have to face as a civilization.

Fuck, Teddy, at this point you’re just strutting around on the board cooing and knocking over pieces.

KS Robinson has the anonymous resistance send drones into plane engines shortly after takeoff, 6 private jets in one day. Things change in the novel quickly after that.

If you plan some violence and include jury nullification as some viable part of the plan, and publish that shit online, not only is it kind of useless and lousy opsec, but it will attract heat that is unwanted and unnecessary. It’s literally a conspiracy to undermine nullification at that point, like a false flag. So no, don’t do that, and I back the mods on this.

I have to use an AppleTV for various reasons, so I settled on a simple SMB share on an old mac mini server and the (subscription) Infuse app, it’s been rock solid as a player on all devices and very low effort.

History is rhyming again.

Proving my point, eh

That’s such an American thing to say lol.

No we are very culturally distinct in subtle but important ways. Expats stick out here more than they think, it isn’t just about accent or removing your shoes.

Most people in BC would wind up in Washington or Lincoln, looks like those go up to around Kelowna latitude.

Anyway, who do I start punching for this?

“She’s got Marty Feldman eyesss”

I expect to eventually see a lot of storage as long term investment, especially gravity, flywheel, and molten salt due to cheap safety.

Desalination, aluminum recycling, ad infinitum. Anyone who says excess solar is an insurmountable problem is manipulating you.

Not in Canada last time I checked, but pretty sure they do in the States.

Yeah that was a lemon. New one seems good though.

As a repair tech I think the Mini is one of the most reliable computers made. A few models were underpowered if people bought low end versions, especially the 2014’s with 4GB memory and laptop hdds.

Also because if the cable plugged into the forward edge, leaving the cable in, like 20% of users would, will destroy the charge port before warranty is done.

Power button is already on a flex cable, could have put it anywhere really.

Move the mouse or touch the trackpad, or press any key on the keyboard and it wakes up quickly. BT OK.

Many macs that I work on haven’t been shut down for months, usually just rebooted after system updates.

Sleep on a mac mini is very low power: if you use the computer every day it’s less energy than booting up.

I repair macs and just hate the battery job on your model. It would be reasonable to have Apple do it. It’s expensive, but it’s a better quality battery than the third party stuff you get by DiY or going to an independent shop.

That said, it may be messy and time consuming, but you can buy the battery off of amazon and use iFixit to guide you, and save $150.

In a lot of cases, especially five years ago, this is correct. Lately, with Apple silicon processors, the low end machines are a good deal. You won’t find a NUC with similar low-power performance, capable of 4k video editing without fan noise or a hiccup, at anything close to the same price. It SMOKES the competition at the $600 price bracket.

But yeah, if money is an issue and you’re already invested in macOS software, buy a used M1 mini for $300 and you’re good, or if really broke, buy an off-lease business desktop for $125 and put linux Mint on it.