Because we are surrounded by the media that the rich owns that propagandizes us to put the rich on a pedestal.

I had a problem with my Bluetooth mouse where it would the device would have a tiny half second lag when moving it after sitting still for about 10 seconds. It took me a lot of on and off troubleshooting before I found out that Windows was putting the Bluetooth driver itself into sleep mode. Don’t ask me why Microsoft decided the default of that a Bluetooth driver needed to be put to sleep while plugged… But I’m sure those milliamps of power really improved performance /s

I’m not sure about those… But I do know what they don’t have to pay extra for is DisplayPort which is far superior to Hdmi.

PiHole

Thank you for the call out to Service Merchandise. As a kid, that store was awesome.

Ping is the command you’re looking for. It will tell you the round trip time it takes for a packet to reach it’s destination. Anything on a wired network should be 1ms and less.

I have an RO system that feeds a separate spigot at my kitchen sink and my refrigerator. Installing it is really simple because it just uses sharkbite connectors that just push to connect. Later on, I added a water heater so that I could have on demand hot water at the spigot which is also nice.

I have a separate filter that takes care of my whole house but that is just a carbon filter meant to scrub out the chlorine (I’m on city water) . Installation for that took a lot more effort and planning.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Amazing world building and visuals that was destroyed by terrible casting and wooden acting.

Oh man… What a great phone. Awesome multi tasking. Wifi charging standard. A back button that actually worked. A slide out keyboard. They just could spool up an app ecosystem quickly enough to gain traction…