Anybody ever get Winmodems to work or did they all give up on it?

Back in the day, it was hard enough getting dialup internet working on Linux (especially before you had internet in your pocket, so you had to print out HowTos or write down a bunch of notes before you tried to do it).

But it was downright impossible with a class of modems that was designed essentially as a softmodem, heavily reliant on closed-source firmware and drivers, making them practically impossible to work on Linux.

I think that wouldn’t work unless the mine is perfectly sealed.

The pulp would still get eaten and digested microorganisms and carbon released to air.

Plus there would be a ton of wasted carbon on harvest, pulpifying, transport…unless those are all done with green energy.

The reason why we have fossil fuels is because of the carbon that didn’t get released to the atmosphere. It got trapped in a hypoxic water/swamps where bacteria and microorganisms couldn’t decompose it.

We could build hypoxic lakes for disposal of large chunks of “organic” (as in alive) carbon to be sequestered…but it couldn’t be done at a scale to even begin to touch what we’ve released. Maybe if we gmod some bacteria or plankton to chew it up and poop it up real fast. And put all the carbon we can find into the pit.

Until one of the operators hits a little bit of latency and you start seeing semis jolting back and forth hundreds of feet at a time on the highway.

Social Engineering is hacking cmv.

That means there are highschool seniors who weren’t even alive while Bill Gates was at Microsoft. Interns might not even know who he is.

Where does the CO2 go when it dies?

Look…man…the whole thing about carbon is the carbon cycle, right?

Well we are breaking that cycle by digging up long-sequestered carbon (in the form of long-chain hydrocarbons aka “fossil fuels”) and burning them up in alarming quantities.

At absolute best, this material will be carbon neutral.

We need more phytoplankton…when that consumes CO2 and dies, most of it sinks to the ocean depths forever, instead of coming up to the atmosphere.

There’s overlap but they are different concepts.

Security is about protecting all assets, tangible or not. Privacy is really about protecting personal and/or identifiable information.

Security is a part of privacy.

For example, you may block cookies in your browser. That is a privacy measure, but not really a security measure.

I’m doing my part.

Wouldn’t that end up in the bloodstream as cells die?

I’m pretty sure my steam is installed via flatpak.

Is this only new installs?

I saw earlier you mentioned it’s an Optiplex, so I’m assuming this is an onboard NIC.

I’ve never had an onboard NIC not work out-of-the-box in Linux. Wifi, sure, but usually just certain chipsets with proprietary/closed firmware. Dell usually uses Intel NICs and they’re usually pretty solid and well supported.

Check to make sure that the NIC is enabled in BIOS.

If you have/had Windows on this PC, did it work there?

Does the NIC show in lspci or ip a ?

Try an external USB NIC. Or an internal PCIe one if you’re comfortable with that.

If companies don’t push the envelope, nobody will mark it return to sender.

So…what’ll probably happen:

• Samsung does this. It is universally despised.
• A year will go by, and Google will do this. It will be universally despised.
• A year will go by, and Apple will do this. It will be loved by Apple users and despised by everyone else.
• A year will go by and it’s a part of every Android phone on the market. Apple users will accuse Android of “stealing” the feature. Everyone else will despise it.

It’s not.

The problem is that one percent that does need Windows.

Unicorns suck in IT. It’s a small number of systems that take a disproportionate amount of admin overhead.

So IT leadership has to decide if they support a separate OS for a small percentage of users, or one OS that works for everyone (Windows).

Big whoop. I remember seeing free tools that would look up a username on Reddit and tell you about them. This “tech” has been around for a while.

Just use Tumbleweed or Fedora…or any other distro with amazing brtfs support.

That alone has saved me from myself more times than I want to mention.

Would it be better to say I rescued my family from a yellow jacket? Who rescued whom?

A couple years ago I rescued a yellow jacket from my basement. For the next few weeks, every time I went outside, I had one yellow jacket following me around.

Not a bee story…but cute nonetheless.

But post-quantum…

A walled garden without an exit is just a pretty prison.