When one of these guys attacks your site, do they send the info back to the spoofed address or does the scraped info go to their real IP address? Is there some way to get a fix on the actual bot and not on some home user that got his network facing IP address hijacked?

I refuse to let gaming preferences dictate my choice of operating system. I choose my OS first—Linux—because I demand full ownership of my computing environment. If an entity can extract data without your knowledge or control updates, shutdowns, or reboots against your will, they own your machine—not you. With Linux, I own my system entirely. I decide when updates happen, I control what data—if any—leaves my computer, and nothing happens without my explicit consent. My computer works for me, not someone else.

I have not progressed to the point where I can manage a structured language interpreter. The language I would write is sort of like assembler for a machine that works in Doubles.

Yes, Team Konsole!

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But you can still do 64 bit math on a 32 bit processor, if you have a carry/borrow flag.

Nah, all this is solved with star-dates. One of the Federation’s crowning achievements - Warp Drive is small potatoes compared to getting hundreds of delegates from as many different worlds to all agree on one calendar system that is not based on their own world’s orbit around its primary… Diplomatic impossibility, but they managed it.

<Padme mode> Hopefully we are all working on 64 bit dates, right? right? </Padme mode> :^)

Well you are ready to open your own E-Sports training shop! You just need 15 gaming computers and a beefy enough server to run whatever game-servers you might want. (I hope you choose to host a minecraft server in the mix though)

It will also endanger those who’s life does not line up with accepted norms.

any with a dotted zero, extra points for italic.

Turnabout’s fair play.

I am using the latest Debian on an Asus Vivobook laptop.

My only issue is a thing I bring upon myself and is cosmetic. I use an external monitor on the laptop and for text fields I sometimes get spurious lines between rows of text, not an underline, but between the actual rows.

It is a little strange and I could just go back to using the laptop screen only if it bugged me too much, so the higher tolerance argument fits this I guess. Otherwise it has been really great. I used to use only the laptop’s monitor so I had no problems before with the setup I mentioned. I might just go back to use only the laptop’s monitor because I can use the external screen elsewhere.

In fact I think I will, It would be nicer to have a color screen for my Apple IIc+ :^)

I also have a desktop machine running Debian 12 semi headless (the monitor is turned off 90% of the time), this machine is a file storage, backup target, and sometimes an SSH target.

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KDE - Was Gnome, but I switched for a reason. I, uh, forgot the reason.

My ASUS Vivobook has a slider that blocks the camera physically. It is bright red so I can easily see it is closed.

Well, I am not in Australia, but so far my AT&T Uverse has worked well. We don’t need the VOIP or TVOIP we use our cell phones and don’t watch TV so it’s all Internet.

The central office at the other end of that fiber probably has emergency generators too.

I use a small band-aid - no gummy glue on the lens!

In an area power outage, if one keeps the router alive via UPS does the router have anything to talk to? In my case I am “Fiber to the node”, there is a box on the sidewalk at the other end of the block that receives the fiber, then copper to my house.