So are the brain waves the cause or the effect?

Are beta waves a sign that my mind is racing and wide awake, or are they the reason?

Right - the saying indicates that IoT stuff is well known for ignoring security.

Went right over my head :)

It did get me thinking - maybe there should be IoTS devices, where the S stands for Security. A commitment to updates for a certain amount of time, the source code in escrow to be released when updates/support ceases, probably other things I'm not thinking of.

Seems like a fitting area for government regulation and certification. But in order for a government to even begin to consider the lack of security in IoT a problem, the adoption must ubiquitous. I.e. the devices (or the number of thereof) should pose enough a threat to public infrastructure (think botnets) to be subjected to regulation. Is there such an incentive in any country at the moment?

Where I work, the saying is, "The H in ABC stands for Happiness."

(Also, "We're not happy until you're not happy.")

It does work a lot better with verbal inflection.

That does require being connected to the AP though.

The counterpoint to that is you aren't trusting any random wifi signal strong enough to reach your device to be telling the truth about the time!

Could easily be solar weather related propagation changes, but probably not Sporadic E specifically - that's much higher frequencies.

Nominal value is in name only, IMO. Which makes it not the value. I can sign my name on a piece of paper and say it's for sale for $5million (nominal value, right?) but it's value is nowhere near $5million, and noone will accidentally purchase it for $5million because they truly thought it was worth that.

nominal: existing or being something in name or form only (Merriam-Webster)

Nominal value of legal tender is in fact legally defensible.

Mind that the problem is actually the inverse of what you describe. It's not that the nominal value is greater than the intrinsic specie value which causes problems with coinage, it's where the monetary value is less than the commodity value of specie, in which case "bad money drives out good". I've already discussed that in detail.

One point worth making explicit is that the receiver of such an under-priced coin would be more than happy to receive it, it's the spender who has to weigh the loss in commodity value against the nominal transactional value, should their counterparty only agree to acknowledge the latter. This brings up the further point that in an exchange, transaction price (whether nominal or commodity) depends on the alternatives available to the parties. A spender without alternatives on price or obtaining desired goods/services might well spend a higher-commodity-valued coin at its nominal value. Should they be aware of that difference, they might well not be happy about the fact, but they'd be forced into the trade by circumstance.

*commutative

Well, that too.

I think the GPS antenna is either omnidirectional or very nearly so., since my phone can get location in many orientations.

So I don't think a single foil sticker would make much difference.

Why would the hardware care if the pressure is higher in the case than ambient? How could it even tell?

Positive pressure means less dust.

Specifically less dust if you have filters on the intakes. Positive pressure means you'll have air coming in where the fans are blowing it in (through a filter), and any gaps in the case where there aren't filters will have air flowing out due to the pressure.

If you have negative pressure you'll be sucking in air through the gaps and that air won't go through a filter, hence more dust.

Is this really part of the ATX spec though? Or just something people have learned to do for modern cases with air filters?

Grex only shut down recently, in 2023.

It's far quicker and easier to hit a toggle in JuiceSSH to turn on a port forward than to open up termux and type in the commands.

> It's far quicker and easier to hit a toggle in JuiceSSH

termux via F-droid is far better now than JuiceSSH Pro. Termux:Widget let's you launch an SSH tunnel script with one click. I stopped using JuiceSSH Pro more than a year ago once I realized this.

I can believe that. But there are ways to reduce this overhead to almost nothing (aliasing, a script, a shell with nice autocomplete...)