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So between 0 and 20. 😛

I think people’s experience with PLE will always be subjective. In the old flat we were in, where I needed it. It would drop connection all the time, it was unusable.

But I’ve had them run totally fine in other places. Noisy power supplies that aren’t even in your place can cause problems. Any kind of impulse noise (bad contacts on an old style thermostat for example) and all kinds of other things can and will interfere with it.

Wifi is always a compromise too. But, I guess if wiring direct is not an option, the OP needs to choose their compromise.

I started watching this TV series, with the girl from the west wing in. But didn’t get that much into it.

Perhaps he will punch an intern, get “fired” and then start a new show called The Grand Infowars or something.

If you’re using the ETF as a long term investment and you believe EVs are key to our future then you shouldn’t worry about this too much (unless the ETF is made up of mostly TSLA in which case I’d not be too happy).

You’ve not lost money until you take it out of your investment.

No, it was 2012. The mayans were totally right, it just wasn’t the sudden flip switch end of days people expected. :p

I’m in the ntppool.org pool for the UK. It randomly assigns servers which could be any stratum really (but there is quality control on the time provided). I also have stratum 2 servers in .fi, and .fr (which are dedicated servers I also use for other things, rather than a raspberry pi).

No. A GPS (with PPS) hat. That counts as a stratum 0 time source, making the NTP server stratum 1.

Well I run an ntp stratum 1 server handling 2800 requests a second on average (3.6mbit/s total average traffic), and a flight radar24 reporting station, plus some other rarely used services.

The fan only comes on during boot, I’ve never heard it used in normal operation. Load averages 0.3-0.5. Most of that is Fr24. Chrony takes <5% of a single core usually.

It’s pretty capable.

No no. This kind of automated “protection” is only used against their users, who are their product. Not the advertisers, who are their customer!

My point is, someone has to say where the line is (or indeed was). I don’t think any western government wants to be on record saying where it is (or should have been). Some are saying there isn’t a line regardless of what happens, and that’s the problem I’m talking about. It’s worse than not defining the line.

I would tend to agree. But I think we definitely need to define a line in the sand now, not declare there is no line. Which seems to me to be what such statements say about us.

I would say no-one is sending troops yet. I really dislike any country ruling it out entirely, better to just say nothing. If the conditions change, we (NATO/Europe) will need to act. Otherwise, our leaders may well be judged by the same yardstick as the leaders keen to appease a certain country in the late 30s.

So if you mind sharing your data, don’t get the shiny. You know it will become like that shiny pony back in wow’s wrath expansion. It told you more about the person than anything else.

I really don’t see the problem, provided it is cosmetic. If you don’t want to link, you don’t get a glittering, whatever in game. If you don’t mind sharing your datas, then you get the shiny thing (and everyone knows you don’t mind sharing your datas).

I think that’s entirely fair and similar to store loyalty cards. You get something in exchange for your datas at least.

But if you’re staying on one of the main islands, instead of paying the 5 euro entry ticket you pay the (up to) 5 euro hotel tax

City tax is a thing in pretty much every Italian tourist city. We’ve done the stay in Mestre thing, and it is indeed cheaper (the train ticket is really cheap). But, you have to be clear of the main islands before the last train/bus and it’s much better to not have to worry about such things.

There’s some decent priced places to stay on the island. I mean not compared to a hostel for sure, but still reasonable overall compared to a hotel.

You have to pay 5€ to visit

You only have to pay that if you’re a day visitor. If you’re staying on one of the main islands, you don’t need to pay. The place you’re staying should have a tourism site ID code, which you can enter on the site to get exemption.

a giant sewer city

I never get why this image is so prevalent. Just visit a month or two before or after the main summer months. May or September perhaps, it’s usually still warm, and I’ve visited many times now and only had a few days when in a few select areas it was a bit smelly. The idea it’s common is just plain wrong based on all of my visits.

with no trees

There are trees quite literally everywhere. Maybe not on Rialto bridge, though. Even next to San Marco, there are some nice gardens. Further along at the Biennale, you will see many more gardens. There’s also a garden right by Piazzale Roma and the train station. Once you leave the main tourist areas, you’ll see plenty of trees pretty much everywhere.

two people per every square meter

Go slightly off season, and actually leave Rialto and San Marco alone once you’ve seen them. You can walk for literally 2 minutes and go from serious crowds to totally alone from either of those locations.

Yes, and also they have VOR/DME and ADF.

With the inertial reference navigation, they’re not accurate enough for approaches like RNAV aren’t really viable.

Some airports only have this as the instrument approach option with complex way points without radio navaids, and as such the flight may need to perform a visual approach or divert if jammed during the approach phase.

In short, it’s not as bad as people might think, but can cause some problems.

So, first off. There is no reason for GPS jamming to cause a crash. Modern airliners have other ways to navigate.

Now it is possible to target a single aircraft with GPS “spoofing” potentially, but both GPS and Galileo have ways round this (Navigation Message Authentication). I would like to think aircraft navigation systems should be using this system. But, even if not, I’d bet it’s still quite hard to reliably spoof a specific location to a moving aircraft.