Opnsense on a thin client, riser with a quad port Intel NIC.

I have to use MS Windows and their office suite daily at work. I can certify they’re crap. And it has been getting worse since 11.

When I briefly moved to US end 1990s I put the motherboard and hard drives in hand luggage so I only had to buy the chassis and power supply there. This earned me a wipedown for explosive traces at the control. Asking “this is because of Lockerby, isn’t it?” did not help things.

Supercapacitors are for stabilizing the grid, the batteries are for flattening the peaks/load-levelling at diurnal scale.

The trick is to buy dead tree and also download the same book from the usual online libraries.

You’re playing in hard mode, then. Maybe cutting back on work hours temporarily and/or adding on a few more semesters is an option.

Diesel generators run fine on heating oil, which is cheaper since no fuel tax and has longer shelf life.

You should absolutely positively not work and be doing anything time-intensive on the side while you are studying. Unless you want to burn out and fail, of course.

“The Android & iOS apps will include QUIC obfuscation in future releases.”

Fortunately Google has no say in what OS is running on my Pixels.

I made sure my last car I bought had no modem in it. This is going to get a lot harder for my next. I will be probably limited to the used vehicles market.

You can only lead horses to water.

Thanks, that bit of US history trivia was news to me.

I don’t get it, unfortunately.

You pull money from an ATM which scans the serials and associates them with you. You spend that bill at a shop which brings them to the bank at the end of the day where the serial is collected. So there is the information that you visited a particular shop at a particular day and bought something there.

This can be crosscorrelated with information from a dozen other sources. That information will practically never be used to your advantage.

I am saying that cash payments are not significantly more private than bank card payments. What you do with that information is up to you.

You can also just access cell infra operator log. I can imagine they have a realtime API.

Cash isn’t private due to banknote serial scanning. Now we need a remixing service for physical cash.

For cryptocurrencies, look at Monero.

Fortunately, you can punch them in the face to provide some badly needed attitude adjustment.

Sufficiently advanced automation is indistinguishable from consumers.