Oh boy, German internet prices would like a word.
All jokes aside, it's gotten way better the past few years.
But I'm still paying for texts. Imagine that.
Active Duty US Army is 465,239 for FY22
I'm a network engineer in the DoD lol
I can't fathom a good reason for 4TB SD cards.
Most cameras have CF Express which is probably 5-8 times faster.
Even UHS-III is 600MB/s while CF Express Type B is hitting 4GB/s.
Even so, why would you risk 4TB of data on removable storage.
CF Express is also running PCI-E. This article isn't talking about SD Express.
Glass bottles with pop tops
Living near an airport can be everything from dangerous to downright disruptive. People who usually live near these airports and their busy areas of traffic often try to get things at the airport changed, but it’s usually unsuccessful. One household in Washington D.C., though, took things to a whole new level by issuing over 7,000 complaints against Reagan National Airport in a single year.
We first spotted this wild statistic in a tweet from @AlecStapp that contained a screenshot of a page from a 2017 study conducted by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University — and the results were a shocking display of NIMBYism. NIMBY is an acronym that stands for ‘Not In My Back Yard,’ and it usually refers to homeowners or residents that oppose any kind of development in their area. It can involve something as simple as homeowners being furious about a local foot race closing down their streets — or it could involve folks living near an airport issuing thousands of noise complaints.
From 2014 to 2015, nine of the busiest airports in the country — Reagan, Denver, Dulles, Las Vegas, LAX, Portland, Phoenix, Seattle, and San Francisco— all received thousands of noise complaints. However, the most notable finding is that the bulk of the complaints often came from a very small group of people.
For example, Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport received 3,814 complaints from just 13 households in a single zip code. The study says that works out to 293 calls per household. Or, there was a single person at a house in Monterey Park, California who made 489 complaints against LAX just in June of 2015; that one person made up over 50 percent of the complaints that month. But this D.C. household really takes it up a notch.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington D.C. received 8,760 noise complaints in 2015. A whopping 78 percent of those complaints (6,852) were made from just two individuals in a single household in the Foxhall neighborhood of D.C. The report details why these people were so determined to be heard:
The residents of that particular house called Reagan National to express irritation about aircraft noise an average of almost 19 times per day during 2015.
Look, I get being annoyed by plane noise throughout the day. Being disrupted from your work 19 times a day must be very frustrating. At the same time, though, the Reagan National Airport first opened in 1941 and was expanded to two terminals in 1997. There’s no way the residents making those complaints have been around all that time, getting more and more annoyed at the prospect of airplane noise. If the noise is that big of a problem, maybe don't buy a house near an airport in the first place.
You can also cheat by adding some sodium bicarbonate.
Stares at my home networking stack.
First result on DDG.
https://www.hardware-corner.net/guides/optiplex-models-by-year/
I would also look into NUCs. Those are easily separated into generations. NUC11 is 11th gen. NUC 9 is 9th gen.
My framework ryzen laptop has been super smooth for me.
It's nearly as powerful as my 5800X3D. And it's 15w (30w boost) vs 105w.
I wanted a sound bar, and got some affordable ones.
Then I went into budget audiophile.
Got a cheap Sony receiver and 2 bookshelf speakers. Got the whole gig for $175 total. Beats any kind of sound bar.
Did a Sonos test in store and really could hear much difference despite being much cheaper and completely offline.
Now my wife is telling me to go Sonos because it looks better with her aesthetics.
Told her I'm not getting anything that requires an account software to run. Guess we're going to stick with bookshelves for a while