I stumbled upon the StarCraft CD key thing myself after my sister broke my original CD and case. I had a ripped copy and tried a pattern until it worked. I was maybe 12 and didn't know what an ICQ was.
If you click on the segment, can see that it is Tampnet. It looks like they provide fiber and mobile networks to offshore drilling. That is right location for oil fields.
Like your fun, but for some extra seriousness, 10k$ is the order of magnitude you pay to setup FTTH in a big city. Most times, consumer ISPs eat the cost and make economies of scale by connecting entire neighborhoods, but if you don't have that chance and for some reasons ISPs won't connect you you can count on 10-50k$ infrastructure bill.
Also, consumer ISPs like Comcast are the worst. If you have good relationships in your neighborhood/municipality, going collective like with SCANI/Freifunk is always going to be more interesting and useful.
Even if we were superhumanly competent at on-land infra, you still have to negotiate right of way and bury hundreds of miles of cable overland. The ocean way they just drop the cable off of the back of a boat.
I guess I was doing some these things already and didnt know it. Standing desk locked in the up position for zoom marathon days. Stepping back from the screens and camera when there isnt any reason to have hands on kb/m.
I'm a usual pacer when on the phone so I'm not sure if that's instinct or habit but it certainly helps.
Scheduling is also not mentioned surprisingly, but leaving 5-15m buffer gaps between back to back meetings I run is huge. When I dont do that I pay for it.
I've tried leaving 15 minute buffers in between meetings. All that happens is that my colleagues schedule 15 minute long meetings in the gaps. It's exhausting.
There’s a concept called defensive calendaring I would encourage you to look up.
I regularly schedule focus time or project time on my calendar and when I had days of stacked meetings, I’ll fill in the gaps with focus time to ensure I’m not overbooked.
I wouldn’t be shocked if there’s plugins or tools to help, though I do it fairly manually.
You say no to them. I have a standing time reserved for school run. People regularly book stuff over it. I reject the meeting automatically. If I have 'busy' in my calendar because I don't want to be disturbed I first take a look what this new invite is and then decide on the spot with no or yes (no being the dominant response). Slowly over time people learn to email or Slack you with a few dates and times and life is good.
if you have time booked on your calendar, no matter what it is, it's safe to assume anything else put on top is going to be declined, because you already have something scheduled.
You can add a regular meeting for yourself too, instead of focus time, also set your calendar not to share meetings' details with other folks, so they will only see 'busy'
I am in this boat. Though my phone usage is still there, I'm spending more time on other apps to get the same brain-break, entertainment, or distraction. Reading articles here or following other news sources straight from their sites instead of having a handy subreddit that aggregates them all (example - following Formula1 news).
It will certainly effect the ability to evacuate the piping as the organic material will outgas. I can also decompose from heating releasing more contaminates and ruin the experiment.
I cant imagine something pulled by such a small animal can seal well enough to trap all the debris. The pigging method uses compressed air to generate a much higher force so a very tight seal can be made to ensure a clean scrub of the walls.
When they are determined, they are surprisingly strong animals. We had one pull a baby gate across our kitchen and living room because it liked the rubber stoppers and wanted to steal them.
Of course, the ferret was only pulling the string through the tube, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was capable of pulling the cleaning plug.
Dr Ian Cutress's youtube channel TechTechPotato has a few interesting videos regarding time and computing and why its hard, and also why it could be easier.
The point about planned obsolescence is tough to work around. Until we start designing physical devices to make it for the long haul, this problem just wont go away.
> Until we start designing physical devices to make it for the long haul, this problem just wont go away.
The problem often times isn't the hardware, it's the software that gets ever more bloated.
Was a 486 capable of surfing the internet, playing games, talking to people, writing code, etc? Certainly!
Was a Pentium 3 capable of surfing the internet, playing games, talking to people, writing code, etc? Certainly!
Are either of those capable of doing it on the modern world? No - and it's not because they're slower than what they were, it's because the complexity of software and data has grown massively.
Consider that the current CNN homepage is about 27MB of assets - half of a Win95 install.
You want to stop obsoleting stuff, buy every web developer and every Google employee a Raspberry Pi 4 with NVMe storage, and make them use it.
You won't stop obsoleting stuff until the pace of development settles down. We've gone from the telephone to VRChat in a century and a half. 20 years ago text messaging was just starting to catch on and the smartphone as we know them today was still 5 years away from existing.
If physical devices are going to start being used for the long haul it's either because hardware/software development has finally hit a wall or because the world has collapsed and smartphones are only good as a decorative hood ornament as you tear across the deserts of Mississippi on your Mad Max bloodwagon.
All I saw was one point where the author claimed his old cameras and phones were planned to be obsolete, which is stupid.
By that standard, the only camera we could ever make is whatever camera humans in the distant future consider the last (sturdy) camera.
We design physical devices to last long enough to see you in to the time we'd expect them to actually be obsolete.
Do you really think it would be a good idea to make everything super long lasting?
Imagine a world where we took this seriously. We'd have precision machined laptop cases made out of advanced alloys, wrapping ruggedised 66mhz intel pentiums from 1993. Still working, but effectively a massive waste of resources.
The better approach is to make the materials reclaimable.
