Tldr the new lease on life is they are doing a couple more years of software updates for it. I think there is some wisdom on c/googlepixel about what models to get. I smile when I see the article describing how great it is that you can get a 512GB storage model for $400 and that the huge storage is such an attraction. I can get a 512GB MicroSDXC card for my Moto G for $40, heh heh heh, and 2TB cards are a thing now too (IDK if they will work in my phone). The Pixel’s main benefit as I see it is GrapheneOS, so the new Google P7 software updates aren’t that important.

It would help if you said what your interests are. I sometimes hang out on lowendspirit.com (self-hosting on cheap servers) and on budgetlightforums.com (flashlights). The OG flashlight forum (candlepowerforums.com) is still around too, but has slowed down a lot. Or heck, start your own!

Most of the stuff you’ve mentioned aren’t that great a match for Rust. Write something in Rust that you would otherwise write in C or C++. It would help if you said what your interests are.

I’ve never understood the fuss about Mint, but I thought it was more of a tinkerer’s distro? I’ve been using Debian, which has its warts, but seems to want to minimize loose ends (not always successfully). Some more explanation of Mint’s benefits could be useful.

Turn off the sound and used closed captions.

If the drive has bad sectors that it can’t read right now, it likely had other sectors that were marginal and got copied (remapped) to new spare sectors before they became unreadable. So there is still potentially recoverable data in the remapped sectors, and not much you can do about it.

Basically, writing zeros to the disk is about as good as you can hope for. If your data is s00per seekrit to the point where you can’t stand the possibility of any bits at all being recovered, you basically have to melt the drive. Otherwise, zero it and send it in.

Next time, set up encryption ahead of time, so your new drives never see plaintext. Some drives have a “secure erase” feature that is basically a crappy version of this built into the drive.

Not the onion? You mean they have no French Onion Soup that way, only chicken noodle? Oh well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power

Before you can can do that, you need enough renewable generation capacity to exceed peak demand. And of course that will never happen because of the bottomless appetite of AI and bitcoin mining for electric power.

Wait didn’t Carter pardon everyone who left the US to escape the Vietnam draft? Hundreds of thousands of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_4483

You want someone to host your meme photos forever for free? That is sort of lol. You need paid hosting. I’m happy to recommend this (formerly buyshared.net, started by the buyvm guys) at $8/year: https://namecrane.com/store/da-shared-hosting

You probably want your own domain name too, but I you might be able to alternatively use a subdomain of namecrane.

Um what? Was this the launch that was going to bring back the ISS crew? Is there a news link?

Ermph, this is C specific and shouldn’t be extrapolated to other languages. Since you’re writing in C you are trying to show your chops as a low level programmer. Therefore, showing that you know how to implement a hash table is worthwhile, so you should do it yourself. You could add a comment to the code saying something to that effect. Again that’s just for C. Implementing your own hash table in Python instead of using the built-in one would be crazy. Implementing one in C++ instead of using the stdlib or some other one would have to be carefully justified.

I do have to wonder what you are up to in this day and age, pursuing what sounds like junior level C projects. I would say that whole approach is something of a dead end. You’re more employable with higher level languages than with C these days, I would have to say. Or if you write something in Python that incorporates some C functions that you write using Python’s C API, that shows you can operate at multiple levels at the same time, which is even better.

Start out using your phone. Get enough experience taking pictures that you have a better sense of what you might want in a camera that your phone doesn’t already do. Take at least a few hundred careful, thoughtful shots that way to see what it is that you can and can’t do with the phone. Then come back and discuss your findings in detail and we can make more suggestions.

If you had something hog memory and a lot of other stuff got paged out of ram as a result, that can slow things down. Try running “top” and see how much swap space is in use. If it’s more than a little bit, once you have enough memory available by shutting off whatever was hogging it, try “swapoff” (pages the stuff back in, which can take a little while) followed by “swapon” to re-enable swap.

Just open an issue on the github suggesting the feature. You can also make a ko-fi donation as someone suggested. Doing something like that as straight-up paid work is legit, but it would cost a heck of a lot more than $20, as everyone has already said.

I want to know how they got the nuke stuff in the first place. That’s potentially much more disruptive than any number of drug deals.

I think it is best to have some understanding of how an OS works, and how Python works, before asking whether you can write an OS in Python.

Python is basically a scripting wrapper around a bunch of C functions (“builtins”) and there are means of installing additional C functions if you need them. Without any of the builtins, you really can’t do much of anything. For example, “print(2+2)” computes the string “4” (by adding 2+2 and converting the result to decimal), then calls a builtin to actually print the string on the console.

For an OS, you will need quite a few more C functions, mostly to control timers and task switching, the main functions of an OS. Given enough C functions though, in principle you can write an OS.

Wait, what? Article says the guy had real plutonium. That is scary. Quantity is not specified though. Also doesn’t say where the plutonium came from. He also had a bunch of what sounds like non-fissionable uranium and thorium. They hype that up some, but it is less of a threat.

Why is this on /nottheonion?

The comment was about the 500, which currently has non-working M2, as a money grab apparently.