Primitive technology guy is making strides!

Do a search for you server OS + STIG

Then, for each service you’re hosting on that server, do a search for:

Service/Program name + STIG/Benchmark

There’s tons of work already done by the vendors in conjunction with the DoD (and CIS) to create lists of potential vulnerable settings that can be corrected before deploying the server.

Along with this, you can usually find scripts and/or Ansible playbooks that will do most of the hardening for you. Though it’s a good Idea to understand what you do and do not need done.

Reminds me of Coffee Stain Studio’s trailer for the release of Goat MMO Simulator:

https://youtu.be/WAm5yxQA_HY

I would check two things:

1. Is it a QLED tv? Those are very efficient with the backlight power. QLED only have a blue led backlight and the “quantum dots” in the panel between the backlight and the LCD panel absorb the blue light and emit the red green and blue needed to create the full color spectrum.

2. How many nits of brightness does it produce? I’d check for the specific model on RTINGS. It won’t help OP much if the TV is efficient, but so dim that it’s unusable in their case.

Reflectivity also helps with brightness when viewed in a bright room. The less reflective (matte) the less brightness the TV needs to overcome distracting light sources reflecting on the screen.

Edit: Had to look it up to be sure, normal LED panels use filters that filter red, green, and blue light from a white light source. This means roughly 1/3 of the light from the backlight is filtered away, hence the energy inefficiency vs QLED which uses the energy from the blue light to create the colors.

Intestingly, some DLP projectors use alternating red, green, and blue light sources which strobe on the DLP chip which takes turns modulating the intensity of each color. Less efficient (and bright) DLPs use a single white light source and a color wheel (rotating color filter).

How old is this house?

In 1971, the US National Electrical Code (NEC) required grounded receptacles in all locations of the home (effective January 1, 1974).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheater_plug#Use_in_residences

You can check with a $6 electrical receptical tester.

It could be that the electrical system was grounded to the waterlines that enter the house (those should definitely be copper).

More like unexpected new features, like the all new spontaneous exit row!

They can stand at the border and use binoculars. /s

The ball is in the DEA’s court. Some say it should be rescheduled by Spring:

https://mjbizdaily.com/a-look-at-dea-role-in-marijuana-rescheduling-process/

How long the DEA might take to form a response is an open question, though experts told MJBizDaily that an initial proposed rule could be issued by the end of the year and the process finalized by next spring.

What the DEA cannot do is reject the HHS recommendation outright, said Howard Sklamberg, who once served as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s top enforcement official.

This means marijuana’s days as a Schedule 1 drug are ending. It’s only a matter of when.

"we had a vote and all my Nazi rhetoric using buddies agreed it was cool”

It’s a 15 year old reference:

https://youtu.be/P0dXtOVi2yo?t=53s

(Original video was from 2008 but uploaded to YouTube in 2011)

“I can’t believe what a bunch of nerds we are… we’re looking up money laundering in a dictionary”.

I’d say we’re less than a year away from a 24/7 AI generated TV channel.

Perfect for tuning into when your friend drops acid for the first time and as the only channel in psych hospitals!

Even better, find someone who talks in an American accent who wants to speak in your old accent.

Agree to bump into each other hard in front of your friends, when you get up, switch accents.

Alternative, celebrate your birthday together and each can wish for the others accent.

Also, server side anti-cheat computation costs the gaming company money.

Though you’d think some forms of cheating would be computationally inexpensive to detect, like teleporting and such.

It depends on when you were around and reading geeky news sites. FUD came up often on Slashdot in relation to Microsoft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt#Microsoft

and the SCO v. IBM section are relevant.

That would be a correct assessment:

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.2020192084

Radiology departments are major energy consumers within a hospital through operation of CT and MRI scanners, which require energy in the range of 0.5–30 kWh per examination, with peak consumption reaching beyond 100 kW for a short time period.

Note that the low side of that are CT scanners, MRI are in the 25kWh to 30kWh range per exam.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344207928_Emergency_Power_Supply_for_NICU_of_a_Hospital_by_Solar-Wind-Based_System_a_Step_Towards_Sustainable_Development_Journal_of_Solar_Energy_Research_JSER_53_506-515

The neonatal ward of the hospital under study contains 10 phototherapy devices and 4 incubators, with their consumed kWh during the day, equal to 1.08, and 10.76, respectively [16].

So just under 12kWh to operate those 14 NICU devices for 24 hours.

So the energy to perform 1 MRI exam would at a minimum power 28 NICU devices for 24 hours.

On top of that, the peak power usage of an MRI can reach 100kW!

Don’t forget, you’re not only powering the machine itself, but also the cooling it needs to stay operational.

More info:

https://www.vitalscan.health/how-radiology-can-be-greener/

An MRI machine can use up to 400kWh per day across 12 hours or 12000kWh per month. This electrical consumption is equal to running 40 average houses for a month

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treatment of the extra day in leap year

Duh, that’s the purge day.

“Print Recipe” works better when available. That puts the ingredients and steps in one page (usually).

You can also print it to PDF if it’s a recipe you want to keep.

In addition to the explanation others have mentioned, here it is in graph form. See the where the graph of 2^x intersects the y axis (when x=0):

https://people.richland.edu/james/lecture/m116/logs/exponential.html

This also has some additional verbal explanations:

http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2626

The simplest way I think of it is by the properties of exponentials:

2^3 / 2^2 = (2 * 2 * 2) / (2 * 2) = 2 = 2^(3-2)

Dividing two exponentials with the same base (in this case 2) is the same as that same base (2) to the power of the difference between the exponent in the numerator minus the exponent in the denominator (3 and 2 in this case).

Now lets make both exponents the same:

2^3 / 2^3 = 8/8 = 1

2^3 / 2^3 = 2^(3-3) = 2^0 = 1

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