Primitive technology guy is making strides!

Do a search for you server OS + STIG

Then, for each service you’re hosting on that server, do a search for:

Service/Program name + STIG/Benchmark

There’s tons of work already done by the vendors in conjunction with the DoD (and CIS) to create lists of potential vulnerable settings that can be corrected before deploying the server.

Along with this, you can usually find scripts and/or Ansible playbooks that will do most of the hardening for you. Though it’s a good Idea to understand what you do and do not need done.

I’d say we’re less than a year away from a 24/7 AI generated TV channel.

Perfect for tuning into when your friend drops acid for the first time and as the only channel in psych hospitals!

"4 year old boxing prodigy ‘dream’ turns into dying wish when he gets a surprise boxing match with idol: Mike Tyson. "

The difference is that if the device comes with Steam OS, then it’s ready to go out of the box and you’re assured the hardware has good Linux support.

If it’s originally a Windows device then you may have to jump through additional hoops to get everything working. Also you’ll have to deal with allowing other OS’s in the BIOS if it’s locked.

Also you’ve paid Microsoft for a license you won’t use.

The flip side is that there’s work to make a native Steam OS build for 3rd party portable devices:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/the-linux-coders-turning-the-rog-ally-and-other-handhelds-into-steam-deck-clones/

and

https://chimeraos.org/

Know you meme page (for those that want to see the original without giving Twitter or his account the views):

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/george-alexopoulos

“Just Google it!”

Proceeds to Google the issue, top result is the same thread.

Oh shit, how long before she gets bored and decides to touch up the frescos…

Should add link parsing and verification to the bot. The link is in the post above.

Let him know it’s the only way to play Ultimate Skyrim [Warning, language]

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Can it run Subnautica?

The other counterpoint is Mac OS 9 and earlier. Had a minority of the user share, had a ton of viruses.

Holy crap, “Virt” is Jake Kaufman who is a VG composer and did the music for Shovel Knight among others!

For Linux newbies, you can have both Arch and Ubuntu (or any 2+ of your favorite distro installed) by using different root partitions (16-32G) and sharing your home and other partitions.

Though it may work better if the distros you use have different desktop managers or the same desktop manager on the same major version number (KDE 3.x and 4.x settings don’t mix).

It’s a pity that Crispin Glover’s suite was settled and a precedent wasn’t set

Such a crime that the creators only have ~6M views on their video while one of the reposted ones has 195million views.

The Greatest Heist in Internet Meme History

An instant ramen factory would at least take care of the sodium!

That said, looks like the current sea water desalination worldwide is pretty huge:

https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-but-what-about-all-that-toxic-brine/

16,000 operating desal facilities worldwide have been producing. Until now. Researchers report today that global desal brine production is 50 percent higher than previous estimates, totaling 141.5 million cubic meters a day, compared to 95 million cubic meters of actual freshwater output from the facilities.

236.5 million cubic meters of sea water processed a day, 264 gallons in a cubic meter = 62.44 Billion gallons of water per day.

If the Lithium content is the same as it is in the US example, then that is a potential 20,000 tons of Lithium a year (again assuming the same Li concentration and 100% extraction.

Sadly still short of the current global demand for lithium:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-seeks-new-lithium-sources-as-demand-for-clean-energy-grows

Worldwide demand for lithium was about 350,000 tons (317,517 metric tons) in 2020, but industry estimates project demand will be up to six times greater by 2030.

Looks like there’s three ways to mine Lithium:

1. Hard Rock mining (as mentioned in the article)
2. Natural Brine sources
3. De-salinated water brine

https://cen.acs.org/materials/inorganic-chemistry/Can-seawater-give-us-lithium-to-meet-our-battery-needs/99/i36

Maine has been burned in the past by previous mining operations closing up and leaving the state to clean up the remaining mess (also in the OP article). Definitely a tough situation all around.

Regarding how much Lithium can be recovered from desalination waste:

https://medium.com/prime-movers-lab/does-the-u-s-have-enough-lithium-to-support-the-growing-ev-market-d73a44a969e5

The US currently has one operating desalination plant, Carlsbad, that processes 50 million gallons of seawater per day. If it recovered 100% of the lithium in that water, it would produce… about 16 tonnes of lithium per year.

VS the amount needed/used per year:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/606481/estimated-lithium-consumption-in-the-united-states/

In 2022 the United States consumed an estimated 3000 metric tons of lithium.

https://www.neefusa.org/story/water/home-water-use-united-states

Each day in the United States, about 27.4 billion gallons of water are withdrawn and delivered from surface water and groundwater sources for residential use

So if we supplemented 10% of our needs from Desalinated water (2.74 Billion gallons a day) and recovered the same max amount of Lithium as the example a day (50 million gallons a day for 16T of Lithium a year) then we get:

(2.74B/50M)16T= 54.816T= 877T of Lithium a year

Best I can do is ultra bright, white cows.

Could be a scam. Send a semi-believable bill to all students you can look up for something you know they all received in school. Wait for the gullible ones to pay. The non-gullible ones direct their rage at the school and not you. Collect whatever money you can and disappear.