american cultural social norms looks down upon talking about politics in public; which creates an entire country of people who lack practice in engaging in meaningful political discourse.

you combine that with american oligarchs using their influence to steer national discourse away from topics that threaten their interests while simultaneously manufacturing consent and you’re left with recipe for red and blue magas.

I don’t know if this is possible or even advisable, but theoretically maybe the NIC could be hardware passed through to a linux VM, and then configure the host to use the guest VM as a gateway?

i don’t know about advisable, but i know it works because i do this.

intel won’t allow you to get wifi 6 speeds in ap mode with their linux driver; so i created a windows vm with pci passthrough to use the windows driver to get wifi 6 speeds. it passes along the connection via dns & ip masquerade to the soft router (also a vm) via kvm/qemu based software defined networking; so technically the connections from my laptop & smartphones go through 2 different networks before making it to my isp.

It’d be kind of a nuts solution but it’d get points for creativity. Guest VM takes hardware control of the NIC and the host connects to the VM like it’s a separate device on the same network.

that’s how my software router works and i always thought of it as hacky; this is the first time i’ve heard/thought otherwise.

i want to also help represent the 98 crowd here.

technically it was windows me in my situation; but it might as well have been called windows 98 third edition.

windows me

i think it should be pretty self explanatory why a switch was necessary. lol

Does anyone have that script?

i would presume that you would have to create it since you’re something of an edge case.

i used to use distos that were geared towards home entertainment in the past like mythbuntu; did none of those work for your circumstances?

If I go the script route, it might screw up that sequence, right?

not if your script either disables to changes those power settings to stay on.

i’ve been using prepaid sims for over a decade and a half now and it works okay for me since i only use a voip number that forwards to my phones.

every major carrier i’ve used in the united states have required some sort of identifying information like a state issued id or credit card; maybe the smaller/re-sale carriers will let you use cash.

why not disable the screensaver when using firefox with a simple script?

approximately the same thing an idf soldier gets for doing the same thing.

part of me wants to understand why someone would pay $300 for a older out of date flagship model when they can spend $100 for a brand new one with the latest software.

brand new androids with the latest version go for about $150 ($90 with android 13 from last year); with them costing the same as 2 to 5 months of a carrier plan in the united states, it’s hard to imagine them being a financial stretch

i’ve tried to leave sumsung multiple times; but their phones seems to be one of the few that work seamlessly with wireless android auto while others are buggy at best or just plain don’t work at all.

they say that all android phones past version 11 should work with android auto; but i have a brand new xiaomi’s, huawei’s, oppo’s, one plus’ and nokia’s with android 11 through 14 that don’t work well or at all.

Vergas son mejores; te lo doy si te comportas. Lol

barefoot & shirtless == unproductive/no-expectations-from-me and i wouldn’t have it any other way. lol

i can only speak for the western world since that’s what i learned about as an american and there’s a recorded history of punching left significantly harder than punching right.

moderates need to stop only punching left.

hitler got into power because their moderates refused to appeal to their leftist voters and supported facism and so hitler’s side won the election and, later, the country after they disenfranchised the moderates and executed the leftists; right now it’s looking like americans are going to follow suit.

i think you’re purposely missing the point; there is no such thing as 24 hour car registration and you cannot register a car unless it’s garaged in the jurisdiction to intend to keep driving it in.

any car owner knows this so you’re clearly no longer arguing in good faith and i don’t see a reason to continue.

compilation would take several hours but it was a learning experience.

the first time i put gentoo on a g3 imac back in 2004; it took 3 days to compile everything and the computer got so hot that it warmed up the entire room like a space heater. lol

that was the last time i contributed; i created a LCARS port and now there are hundreds of them everywhere.

read it, it’s right there in the law: the car has to be qualified by american import restrictions and standards; which these cars do not have and will never get.

the only way to legally drive is it is to return it to a garage out of state and all of the states have similar laws.