They need an enclosure

We need a checklist like there is for Russian warships

It really does feel mainstream to come up with tech specs for a new comms technology, not the sort of thing that nerds* might do /s

Tim Burners-Lee** worked in particle accelerators. Total jock****.

* People excessively interested in tech

** Inventor of HTML - the web

**** I’m old. The world is divided into nerds and jocks per Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

I see people like you, and I am reminded that Lemmy has nothing to dissuade those who chase the largest negative score.

Not saying that’s what you’re doing, just that if you aren’t, you should consider it since you seem good at it

I would argue that nearly no one finds this one funny but many found this one funny

The OP comic is less accessible than the empiricism one, so the target audience is smaller, some of the smaller audience comics required one knew Firefly, open source memes, and Corey Doctorow. When you’re in the target group the comics are especially hilarious

Some have fallen flat for me until I looked up XKCD explained, since I have very low knowledge of pop culture. I wouldn’t say those aren’t funny, I say I don’t get them

You’d be imprecise for civil timekeeping, but spot on for astronomy

The civil rule is it’s a leap year if the year is divisible by 4, unless it is also divisible by 100 unless it is also divisible by 400

We saw the rules play out in 2000 (at least those of us over 23 saw it) which is a year divisible by 100 and by 400 so it was a leap year

Yours (and astronomy’s) is Julian style “if it’s divisible by 4”

I prefer the newer calendars, where there is no good mental calculation for leap years - it’s a leap year when the computer says it’s a leap year

I would think that the best time period to use for a light year is whatever year definition has been used to date

Now let’s work on the best second to use for the light second

Ctrl+shift+k and u? I’m pretty sure it’s Ctrl+k and +u

Admin or physical access.

It’s also a new way to compromise a machine you have physical access to

You’re correct. I was confusing the two cities

Your username sounds like a way to become very caffeinated

For that to work, one must pronounce SQL as an acronym, not an initialism

Some people will be constitutionally unable to make that tune work

I’m a scrum master. Drinking now. A lot

Gotta stay at the Ballmer peak

Southern Italy is better at pizza. Florence is about the best

Ubuntu, if I need to reset it, it’ll be Debian/gnome

Yeah, last time I used Usenet the client was the email client, your ISP hosted a server, and the internet occupied the phone line

Linux from scratch was my third Linux, after RedHat, and Debian. That seemed a reasonable point in an interested person’s Linux journey to try a difficult “learning” system

If your budget stretches to a new laptop, framework make laptops (light weight or serious game machines) that come with Linux installed.

If you have no budget some second hand high end Chromebooks can be converted to mainstream Linux (video)

The other comments suggesting old ThinkPads are fine, but they’re heavier than I like to carry