You should at least monitor your deep sleep using a smartwatch. Less than 1.5 hours and I would be worried.

I use a 32" monitor and I find that I use only the center of the screen. I would downsize if not for vertical real estate.

but, it is very boring stable, which means I can't tell the world about my wartime stories and write a blog about it.

AI is going to disrupt the whole academia and it is infinitely better than a book or a teacher.

The student could move at his/her own pace and can ask questions if stuck which no book or teacher could deliver.

Maybe the idea that we should find joy and feel full is wrong?

We are on a random planet circling a random star in an unfathomable Universe.

STOP looking for meaning and you are liberated. The quest for meaning by itself might be exhausting and makes you feel depressed.

I hope you are using KDE Plasma instead of the default GNOME which is going the Microsoft way.

If you are not on KDE, I strongly recommend it.

Source: daily driving Linux for 25+ years.

Stick to RPM based systems as dnf supports transactions. The ability to look at history of package installation and rollback to a known state solves most admin issues.

You don't lose tracks in 3 months. If you don't read the tracks for a year and if the HDD is operated in high temperatures, then the controller might struggle to read them.

The very act of scrubbing generates heat, so we should use it sparingly.

Scrubbing every quarter is usually sufficient without putting high wear on the HDD.

What do you mean? The size of the dipole or monopole antenna is dependent on the wavelength, so obviously the 2.4 GHz is just a few centimeters and not the same size as a VHF antenna.

> After all, where else should the radiated energy go?

Well, most of RF energy is wasted. There are software that can plot the radiation pattern, but even without knowing the exact pattern, very little RF energy is received at the target.

Yeah. Even in free space. For example, attenuation at 1 km for 144 MHz (ham VHF band) is about -76 dB while for 2.4 GHz, it is about -100 dB. That 24 dB drop could mean, the signal is below the noise floor of your receiver unless you increase the RF power output which means more battery drain.

For example, BT audio gets cut just moving to the next room despite the RF power of BT transmitters being ~ 5mW( 7 dBm ) and at 10m, the attenuation is -60 dB(just free space loss which is ideal condition), so 53 dBm (7-60) at the receiver is usually sufficient, yet they struggle.

RF attenuation is proportional to frequency and at 2.4 GHz, it is very high. Also, the distance over which one could communicate depends on antenna height, so if both parties are at ground level, it is not feasible over a few hundred meters unless both are in wide open space.

Source: ham operator who has played with long distance device to device communication without using a repeater.

Programmer here for 30 years in C/C++. It is true that C++ has become a more complex language after rvalue references were introduced, but you have to understand the rationale behind C++: a language suitable for large scale systems programming with *ZERO OVERHEAD*.

The language complexity especially rvalue references was to reduce overhead. Pre-C++-11, there were many code patterns that involved constructing temporaries and destroying them immediately.

C is not suitable as a large scale programming language. Just look at the number of defects in the Linux kernel and their attempt at extending the language through custom compiler attributes to overcome the limitations of C.

How did you miss Lua? It has been available for decades and good SE practice is to evaluate alternatives before commiting to any techonology.