you can use a live USB - you run linux off a USB Thumbdrive as a test. Ubuntu would be a good place to start: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#1-overview

There’s a big ol scary warning before entering the installer and before any changes are made to your HDD/SSD, it would take a lot of mistakes in a row to somehow erase Windows by accident while using the Live USB.

Popular conspiracy theories according to me:

1. Fluoridation of municipal water supplies is some evil government program to disperse drugs / chemicals
2. Roswell was an alien UFO crash, the aliens / craft are being kept at Area 51.
3. JFK was not assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald alone. He was killed by the CIA / 2nd shooter on the grassy knoll.
4. Moon landing was faked
5. Condensation trails (contrails) from high altitude aircraft are actually chemicals being dispersed by the government (chemtrails)
6. The Earth (and only the Earth, not the Sun, moon, other planets) is a flat disc.
7. Automakers have cars that run on water but they refuse to sell them to protect the oil industry.
8. Global warming / climate change is a hoax to sell solar / wind / hydro power.
9. Big pharma / doctors have all the cures but they’re not selling them to keep you sick & them rich
10. 9/11 was an inside job (planned by George W. Bush)
11. COVID-19 vaccines deposited secret microchips in the population

no shit? (pun intended)

Well, if you’re only doing black and white photography, you can have dim red lights on once you’ve processed the film into negatives. Black and white photographic paper isn’t affected by red light. Color photography is a whole different beast, and all the steps need to be done in complete darkness.

I guess the one thing said about darkrooms is, “Even when you think you’ve blocked all the light, there’s something you missed that’s gonna ruin your first roll of film.”

parents and family introduce them to guns.

time compression

deets? assuming youtube? desktop? mobile? app? browser? which one? shield looks like SponsorBlock? Usually just waiting a sec the UI disappears when you’re not moving the mouse on mobile, usually tapping once somewhere except the center of the video. Good luck.

when the giggle is held back at the end, it’s a snicker.

if you know how to code, you can vibe code because you can immediately see and be confident enough to identify and not use obvious mistakes, oversights, lack of security, and missed edge cases the LLM generated.

if you don’t know how to code, you can’t vibe code, because you think the LLM is smarter than you and you trust it.

Imagine saying “I’m a mathematician” because you have a scientific calculator. If you don’t know the difference between RAD and DEG and you just start doing calculations without understanding the unit circle, then building a bridge based on your math, you’re gonna have a bad time.

what does pressing objects into clay to capture their shape have to do with OP’s question?

If you don’t feel comfortable fixing it where you are, search for a maker space. libraries in larger cities often have a maker space where you can get tools and expertise to complete these sorts of tasks. They may even be able to connect you with people willing to help for free. It’s highly unlikely that you will break your computer by replacing the thermal paste on the video card just ground yourself by touching a door knob or faucet before working on the system and don’t shuffle your feet on carpet in between the door knob and your workspace. That should eliminate most static shock which could cause damage to your circuits.

so this is definitely going to be the cheapest and jankiest option, but you can basically implement it instantly.

buy a digital outlet timer and schedule it to be on from 03:01 am - 02:59am. The router will lose power for 2 minutes at 3am in the cabin, but it will get rebooted every day.

but i can tell you this is an industry standard enterprise approach to this type of issue.

the Bar Association makes bi-partisan recommendations on judges. They’re often take suggestions from both defense and prosecuting attorneys and if a judge leans too harsh or too lenient then they’ll recommend a vote against.

Example from NY: https://www.nycbar.org/press-releases/new-york-city-bar-association-rates-judicial-candidates-in-new-york-city-2/

Web pages are not allowed to list your extensions. They can indirectly surmise you have certain extensions based on how your requests differ from expectations. For example, if they have advertisements, but your browser never actually makes any requests to load the images, CSS, JS or HTML for the advertisements, they can deduce you have an ad-blocker. That’s a datapoint they now have to ID you: “has an ad-blocker”

Now let’s say they have an ad they know AdBlockPlus allows, but uBlock Origin doesn’t. They see your browser doesn’t load that ad. Another datapoint: “Not using AdBlockPlus”.

Based on what requests go back and forth between your browser and their servers, they map out a unique fingerprint.

Now you visit another site, and lo and behold, all the same quirks are found. Tada, they now say “hm, probably the same browser,” and start personalizing content. Site use an ad network, so it’s the common denominator, not the sites you visit. The ad networks do the between-sites tracking.

also, VPN does diddly squat when you login to some service like google, facebook, xitter, amazon, outlook, reddit, etc. You logged in as you. They don’t give a shit you’re logging in from another IP. And if the sites are working with the same ad network, if you’ve ever logged in from your real IP even once, they they just add another datapoint about you: “Sometimes uses a VPN” and that gets tucked away in your permanent record.

nothing you do online is private. I’m not saying “give up” but it’s pretty bleak and I don’t see it getting better anytime soon.

And his wife?

Chinese will never be the official global language and I’ll give you 8,105 simplified reasons why…

public static void itWasJustADream(Person) 

For many recipes that call for sugar as a flavoring agent (as opposed to recipes that require it for structure like hard candy, toffee, peanut brittle, caramel or crunchy cookies, etc.) I find that I can halve the amount of sugar it calls for and it tastes fine to me…and I do like sweets. I’m starting to agree with GBBO that American recipes are far too sweet and just don’t need it, but to each their own.

HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR!!! idk, i’m just bakin stuff i like man…

amateur detective teenager gang and their talking Great Dane?

What do you mean by “simulation”?

Simulation as in “the internet is not real and our computers somehow have everything already stored on them and there’s no data transfer happening across telco infrastructure” ?

(Because that’s easily disproven - you can message your friends and tell them to meet you somewhere, and when they meet you there, that proves data was moved from your device to their device. )

If that’s not what you mean, please explain (in detail) what you mean by “the entirety of the internet was a simulation”