we do not know if rohit is already present here or not, for all i know, it could be you!

you should not know what a grenade casingg looks like. in a ideal society, average people shoukd not know anything about any of the weapons. if they do, they either were using them (which is bad), or they were being used against them (which is worse).

is it possible that he can use something like puppy linux like distros (essentially live usbs, where you can make a persistent partition and make changes)? that way you can prepare a usb, and maybe teach them how to plug the usb in, and change the boot order to include usb? it would be slow (for boot times, if you use some faster usb, that would help), but does not require any fancy operation requiring him to open his computer.

Or if opening the computer/laptop and installing ssd/hdd is within scope, then maybe you can prepare a ssd with complette install, and just ship that. give him additional video/text instructions on how to open a computer, and install it. (In case their system supports ssds, then I highly recommend ssds over hdd, as they do not require special packaging, would be much faster, and ssd installations are also easier(detachhing and reattaching sata ribbon is hard imo, where as with something like nvme ssd, it is very close to like plugging in usb, and then just screwing or something similar.)) If their system is old, and does not have nvme/u.2 connectors, i would still recommend ssd over hdd, then you would also have to procure (and ship) an extra enclosure (i think they are called caddys) to fit a ssd in a husk, which after closing looks like a harddisk and connects via sata. these steps are tad bit hard, but if it is within scope, then I do not think their is a better option.

US really needs to increase it’s nuclear energy output (i know that current amount is also big, but it needs to be increased). Nuclear is one of the most cleanest forms of energy, and depending on the age of existing coal plants, some of them can even be converted to nuclear.

its the other way round for bears i think

on my laptop (specs wise - consider steam deck non oled, but worse graphics performance, 1080p screen (IPS)) - 5.3-6 Wh for 2x speed playback. for full hd playback 6-7 Wh. Idle power is much higher though 4.5 Wh, on my old laptop, video power consumption consumed similar power, but idle power was close to 2.5-3 Wh (in terms of specs, it had halve the number of cores, and a tn panel)

thanks matey

a serious question - snails must be using more than 2 brain cells right? i presume that for most beings with a brain that almost all are always working, some less activated some more?

i would presume yes. you could run cinnamon wayland since early 2024 (iirc), but it was only experimental, so i would presume it might have become more stable since then.

yeah, they even worked on that this time (90+% of packages are now reproducible)

I am really surprised some common shit is not there, like hello, hello1234, abcd1234 (and other perms have numbers in front, etc)

or (hear me out) - get everyone to leave their mortal bodies and be replaced by lizard like limbs (which can grow back)?

so you are in the android camp. i am in lizard camp

So is zuckerburg just a more evolved human?

i mean you paid for the cat house, did you not?

that hurt a lot

thank you. but i would prefer not to host stuff on google drive. but some other provider could work (as i said, i am willing to pay a reasonable amount).

So keep a backup. Torrents can be messy because they can be broken if there are no seeders.

If the content is static, then I’d recommend some older P2P filesharing like eD2K to keep one big zip/rar file backup shared among peers.

yes. content would be partially static. most files will not update, only new stuff will be added. and some files be updated.

i did not know syncting could have multiple masters. afaik, syncthing had a master-slave architecture, where a folder on a device is master, and another folder is slave (both can true simultaneously, a folder can be used both as source and sync). if there is another folder, it can be slave of prior 2, but not master, because then you can have conflicting results (which master to pick). do you possibly mean something like a pyramid/tree architecture, where a father nodes has 2 daughter node, and each daughter has 2 and so on. if so, that is even harder to setup (getting people to ask others if they will be their father/daughter cell. this also has problem if some node is out of sync (because of being offline or something), daughters and grand daughter will also not sync. A cyclic link list is also possible, but again chain can be broken. and this can not be a doubly linked list either (2 masters). or is there some other way?

cheating aside

that was just one case. I was stupid. Now I am not.

I did appreciate such archives and made use of them.

to share notes, PDFs, try old exams to prepare…

exactly why i never said no to anyone. it is the age old saying - we stand on shoulder of giants. I remember falling ill, not being able to attend classes, and missing stuff. but then some friend would lend their notes. drive imo is just for that.

some day you’ll graduate as well and life will move on for you.

I am graduating. That is why when i leave, i want to leave stuff in a functional state so they do not have to start a fresh. I did mention this in post, but i wrote a whole lot more than i should have, and i do not expect anyone to read all this.

ou’ll move far away, get a full-time job, maybe have new hobbies or a family and time will come and you’ll stop supporting it as well. I’ve seen that all the time and most privately run things vanish sooner than later.

absolutely. as i said, individuals work for selfish reasons, and once i leave, i would not have a selfish reason anymore.

And I’d say if you’re the main/sole contributor of content, it’s questionable if this even survives long term. Unless people upload recent exams and material, the content will become obsolete after a few years.

yes. it does get obsolete. but our department is still relatively new (5th or 6th year since establishment) and hence, most course have not been taught by 2 or more profs. hence, much of it will stay relevant as long as professors stay.

My juniors have started bugging me again to get drive working again (new sem has started).

So you kind of need some community anyways.

I would have to pull some shit to form a sub division of department society. then i can get budget to either buy some drive subscription, or set something local, but set it behind some proxy, so it would appear not to be hosted in college (reverse vpn if you will)