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> Forgive me for not looking it up at the moment, but one of them is/was a compenent of rocket fuel, which teenage me loved.

It's hydrazine.

> I'm going out to search for morels this weekend

I don't have any addictions in my life, but one. That's when morel season is in swing, I am in full hunt mode.

You might like https://www.howtoinventeverything.com

They are still around here and there.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com

https://telnet.org/htm/places.htm

Hell, I got a few rounds of Trade Wars in on one of them a while back.

Sheldon Brown's website is to bicycles, as Arch Linux Wiki is to linux.

I run HA on another RPi, so I am familiar.

On the weather station I wrote to the SD card 1,068,266 database records, along with all the nginx logs, etc...

> it's common enough of a problem

It's probably survivorship bias, where everyone complains about SD card corruption, while those with no issues really don't say anything. Well, except my comments today.

> it will kill the card from IO cycles.

It might not. I have a Raspberry Pi 2 that has been running a weather station for over 12 years, and it has been on the original SD card. I have other RPi's doing dumb things around the house and I have never had an SD card failure.

YMMV and all that.

Yes, I am very familiar with zbarimg and qrencode. But, other people might not be, and that's why just scanning a QR code works. Not everyone has Bitwarden, 1Password, Pass, keepass, etc.... also these tools may not be approved by your security teams.

And we are talking about the root account for your production AWS account. No need to get fancy. Just print the QR code, and put it in a safe hoping you never need it.

You print the MFA QR code, and give it to an executive that locks it up in a safe or offsite storage.

In a past life, we printed the MFA QR code and the head of finance put it into a safe.

Or a printer...

Or a phone ...

Or a router ...

> Do people like the Macbook Neo?

People have been begging for MacOS on the iPad... and here it is, but in different clothing. The Neo is just a test bed before committing MacOS to the iPad.

> In the US for example there's still the vague idea that working hard is a virtue of sorts

And easily demonstrable when meeting someone in a social setting:

"Hi, what's your name?"

Then the very next question: "What do you do for a living?"

Heh. I mean you are kinda close.

My callsign is a 2x1 call.

I hold an Extra Class license... the old 20 wpm kind. The cool thing is, I got my extra back when I was 19 years old and it set me up for a great tech career since I understood RF.

Not going to dox myself here putting my callsign in a post.

> How did people manage this prior to 2007?

You just looked at a map. People used to be good at looking at maps, and remembering cardinal directions prior to GPS units. We have unfortunately lost that sense of natural direction.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32545974

I was secretly hoping Framework would have produced a phone that would collaborate with GrapheneOS. I know it is a stretch, but one can dream.

> I would love to have a phone that has an active AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon SIM at the same time.

If you are not aware, US Mobile offers a Super Carrier package that one account can use all three. https://www.usmobile.com/networks

I don't use them, only read about it on r/nocontract.

Same here. I have tried my dangedest to want to need an iPad. Once the new wears off, I just cannot find a use for them.

I prefer a quote from Dune - "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

You'd like this book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Second_After

Everything I type is a lie.

This. I seldom leave the house with an iPhone, and my Apple Watch with cellular is my primary "mobile" device. I want to leave the Apple ecosystem as my devices age out, and the one thing I would love to have is an NFC ring or bracelet to replace my Apple Watch.

No they don't.

They ask _for_ a phone number. It doesn't have to be yours.

I'm an inbox zero person... I keep even my personal notes to disappear after 2 days. For conversations 1 day.

> Having very frequent updates to bleeding edge software versions, often requiring manual intervention is not "stable".

I dunno. I have an arch installation that is maybe 4 years old, I might update every few weeks, and have only had one issue.

Any issues are usually on the front page of archlinux.org what the issue is, and how to fix it.

My first distro I booted from was Ubuntu 4.04.

Indeed. I'm not going to do anything to cause its demise, but when it does go, it is gone.

As a fun weekend project in 2013, I stood up a weather station using Weewx and my RPI 2 with 1 GB RAM. I told myself if it ever crashes or the SD card gets corrupted, I'll just tear everything down.

Well, it's still running today on the original SD card. At noon today it processed its 1,055,425th record in the database.

Still, if it ever crashes, I'll just tear it down. :)

> cascading collisions

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

How about Berty?

https://berty.tech/features