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Please stop promoting these crápto.com cards. You've paid with dollars, not bitcoins.

I think that you mean "mining a single bitcoin block", and a single bitcoin block could consist of many thousands of transactions, so each of the transaction uses much less energy than a home in 28 days, more likely a home uses in 5 minutes. Yes, Bitcoin sucks hard, and that's why we have Proof-of-Stake coins.

It looks like you are implying that Bitcoin does not have any value at all. People thought that the Earth is flat for thousands of years (and some still do lol), it doesn't mean that they were not wrong. Same with gold and silver - if people used it as money for thousands of years it doesn't mean that there are no better alternatives. And the better alternatives are invented already, and they are here with us since around 2009. In case of global nuclear war all those three things' value will go to zero, otherwise - neither of them.

how do you value gold and silver? Why does gold cost 1500 USD per ounce not 15 USD? or whichever is the price right now.

This is the exact reason why I support ETH and DASH but never invested in Binance "smart" stuff or Facebook's buzzwords. If a cryptocurrency allows only few selected parties to run the validators / master nodes while the random Joe could not run them, then this "cryptocurrency" is a bullshít. Of course a random Joe could run a "full blockchain node" but it just holds a copy of a blockchain and is not actually involved in the concensus nor the actual work of the cryptocurrency.

Where is it hosted? Who owns the servers and IP address ranges of the "metaverse"?

One of the biggest selling features of crypto is that you could send any amount whenever you want to whoever you want while in traditional banking you could have your account blocked for sending €100 to your cousin due to idiotic AML policies. With crypto you do not need to wait until Monday if you decided to transfer the money at Saturday.

please save webpages as PDF files instead of HTML. If your browser could not save as PDF directly - try to Print page -> "Print to file"

what now, another WILD CRASH to 25 000 USD from 5 000 USD two years ago? ok np

Krung Thai Bank ATM once took my card, I went inside and asked to get it back. "Sorry can not, we open ATM once per week, come next week please". Came next week, "sorry we destroy your card, please get new card". At least it was free.

I have tested other sockets in the house and found out that only one of them has L and N reversed, all other sockets have correct wiring, so it is not a global issue. Is L-N reverse dangerous for computers? I have pretty expensive stuff here.

I've googled how to test the socket with the multimeter and found out that it has L and N reversed. If the red probe (V) of the multimeter goes into N hole of the socket, and black probe (COM) of the multimeter goes into the G hole of the socket, then I get 235V reading. But if I put the red probe into L hole of the socket and black probe into the ground hole of the socket, I get 0V. Well, TiT. P.S. Should I call the house owner RIGHT NOW or it's not a serious issue?

Okay I could confirm that the neon screwdriver sligtly lights up when touching the metallic parts of the laptop/PC while standing bare feet on the tile floor, also I do confirm that wearing the flipflops effectively prevents any tingles/shocks. The funny thing is - the computer appliances are 3-wire and are connected to the 3-hole sockets of the UPS, and the UPS is 3-wire too and is connected to the 3-holes wall socket. Could I check if the wall socket is actually grounded without disassembling it? Also I still wonder - wth are those sparks that come from the socket when I plug anything in, are they normal and how could I fix it if it is not?

I'd love to have some zebras or blacktips near Phuket beaches...

I believe there is nothing normal about that as I've never had the same experience in the home country, but here in Thailand all houses I've lived in had the very same issue. I'm getting shocks when touching the aluminium lid of the laptop, when touching the steel body of the computer, etc. And the most amusing part are sparks coming from the socket when I insert any device. Most people I've told about that said "these sparks are completely normal". LOLWUT? ????

If it is a serious university they might just do not want the hurdles of reporting your employment and paying taxes to your home country, and a Malaysian woman could have had a Thai passport which significantly simplifies the legal stuff.

@sandbox just create a separate browser profile for Lazada. firefox --no-remote --profilemanager

website of course, I do not use any "apps" as I value my and my friends' privacy.

Lazada became a pile of <fertilizer> after they were bought by the Aliexpress/Alibaba. Just use Shopee - it has lower fees thus lower prices and an _actually working_ search engine.

Is it hosted on wordpress.com or at some hosting provider? Hosting providers usually give clients a control panel to manage their websites, and one of the functions of those panels is to make a "full backup" - including all files, website scripts and databases.

It's strange that you do not recall how NVMe drives were overheating because Linux drivers with the proper power management appeared only a few years later after the NVMe devices hit the market: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1608.3/02787.html I've had to make a custom heatsink myself to cool the NVMe drive a little bit. Also I suppose that many happy Linux users here are using the desktop PCs rather than the laptops, else they would report much more issues with the drivers. Speaking about Nvidia drivers for example, we the unhappy laptop users had to disable the Nvidia GPU in the BIOS because the Nvidia Optimus GPU switching technology was not working in Linux thus making the Nvidia GPU always powered up to 100% thus heating up the laptop and eating the battery in minutes. And as with the NVMe devices, the analogue software called "Bumblebee" appeared only a few years later after the Nvidia Optimus laptops appeared on the market, and it was not working well for a few more years lol.

Yep, Windows XP is a masterpiece of art, and Windows 7 is simply the best OS for home use. But when it comes to professional work... Windows system administrators who setup the AD tell that they have nightmares. kernel bug 12309 is not resolved for 20+ years already. I've experienced it when first tried Linux circa 2006 using a HDD, I've experienced it when first consumer grade SSD appeared and the suggested solution to the bug was "switch to the SSD", and I still experience it now using a NVMe. The kernel developers are so shy about it that they hid the bug behind the "advanced membership" wall a few years ago but you could see it in the Web Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180709122253/https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12309

>>> have you ever tried to edit Microsoft Office or Google Docs document in Libre/Open Office? If you edit something more complex than a single page letter then the incompatibilities becomes so significant that the only _really_ working solution for Linux is running a Windows virtual machine with Microsoft Office inside. If you used Linux for a long time you would know that everything in that article is true and correct.

at least Chevrolet and Hyundai

Linux sucks hard. It is difficult to use, it has no drivers for many devices, it could not run many games, it has no usual apps like Microsoft Office or Adobe Photoshop and its "analog" apps are mediocre at best. There is absolutely no point in using Linux on the home PC unless you are a programmer or a system administrator. Also you should read this: https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html