Great... Signal is imperfect.

Can you suggest a perfect alternative?

At this point I'm just happy my family have tolerated it to the point we're not using Facebook Messenger, Google chat (it whatever it's called this month) and WhatsApp.

The xmpp or whatever other convoluted alternative you're about to recommend is not something I'm going to get 20 or 30 family and friends to switch to.

Signal is imperfect... But not as bad as many other options.

Thanks genius.

Keep me make it simpler back to you.

Maybe if you think real hard you can do more than just read the data.

If more defenders carried defensive weapons the results could be very different.

Don't read into it to hard.. I'm not pro gun. Is simply fact that if a defensive firearm were more available then the numbers would be different.

The fact that I have to explain this... Jeez.. I dunno.

I have a vibe that this is anti gun propaganda.

When in reality if a good person with a gun had have been willing and available early enough the results could be vastly different.

Posts must match the context of the community.

Like no topless posts wearing underpants in a pussy community for example.

Haven't seen it get out of control here yet, but it's madly out of control at Reddit with mods actively not caring about it.

Why have categories if posters are going to ignore them.

Every living creature is entitled to an equal portion of useful surface area of the earth proportional to their size and space requirements.

Not like that has anything to do with us possibly living out of a car next year if rent rises 30% again for the 3rd year running.

Fuck landlords hoarding property.

You've made my point well.

Absolutely I've already learnt it, and I don't intend to stuff around translating. At first it's one thing, maybe not cumbersome but then many things become a hassle.

Master and slave are not in and of themselves offensive words. You just assign offence to them, based on certain specific context, again proving my point.

How insane is it that there is no practical way to work with ext4 from within windows.

It's an open source file system. It's decades overdue that windows starts acknowledging other file systems exist.

Sometimes it's not about typing.

In the electronics works the us a serial protocol called SPI Serial Peripheral Interface.

In schematics we might have a micro controller that connects to several sensors or memory chips on a pair of pins, 1 each for transmit and receive.

The micro controller is the master and the common nomenclature for the pin names is MISO and MOSI MasterInSlaveOut and MasterOutSlaveIn.

This overcomes confusion with regard to using things like TXD and RXD.

Wokeness has now suggested a bunch of alternatives.

PICO PeripheralInControllerOut and POCI... are the 2 leading alternatives.

Problem is I now have data sheets and schematics going back to the 1980s

It's bullshit to me.

Words can have more than one meaning. Context and meaning matter.

I just want design cool electronics.

Yep. There was an assumption 20 years ago when common switches were 100Mbps and running cat5e that you'd have to upgrade cable to get the next speed tier, 1Gbps.

It propagated wildly, but was always incorrect. Cat5e was very much capable of gigabit Ethernet by design.

It was only beyond gig that you'd need cat6, and even then at short lengths 2.5/5/10Gbe has a good chance of working on cat5e anyway (but don't do it).

High quality cat 5e would have done the job.

Original cables must have been faulty.

Some how I automatically read this in Greta Thungerg's voice.

How dare you!

This is verifiable in manufactures data sheets.

Efficiency at less than 20% and greater than 80% loads isn't great relative to in between those ends.

This is compounded by lower wattage PSUs being more limited with regard to features and benefits.

If you end up with a 650w PSU and your system idles at 80 watts for the bulk of a working day you spend long periods of time in this less efficient window.

We need to see some quality 300w to 600w designs come back onto the market.

That's some Total Recall shit there. Love it.

From Chinese parts

That's what anti islanding is.

Prevents power from going into the grid when it's down.

Way I read it is it puts surplus into the grid to keep you elec bills down.

800 watts isn't exactly going to set an outlet on fire.

Good police need good tools to respond to anything that could happen.

Imagine a 9/11 variation with an armed group instead of planes.

That's going to need a rapid and powerful police response. Armed forces are not an option with such short notice.

The real issue you should concern yourself with the the quality of the police themselves, not the tools they used.

I'll back you any day on that front.

2 is fine.

I know where you're coming from, I use a closed notebook with external display sometimes.

I might need to be more specific. If the notebook is used as a typical notebook, and one closes it with the intent of putting it to sleep, once sleep has been reached an external mouse should not wake it.

However if you do toggle the power settings to allow the machine to function with the lid closed and/or machine docked then you do want to mouse to wake it keep awake the machine.

Okay.. then by that logic you're ok with America's defence forces being deployed against citizens?

I don't think you understand the meaning of multi purpose.

This used to be so much easier back in win 95,98,xp days.

There was a startup folder in the start menu and all you needed to do was drag what you wanted into it.

This is an example of something that got harder.