Get multiple quotes and compare them. The cost will depend on where you are, what the conditions are like, how many jobs are being done by the supplier, etc.

Several quotes will quickly tell you who is charging too much and who is not charging enough.

You can also go to the hardware store and source the materials yourself and put it up on the weekend. Plenty of YouTube video experts to learn from.

You don’t need anything as elaborate as you appear to be contemplating.

Insert a large capacity microSD card into your mobile phone and load it up with media.

Share as required.

If you use a raspberry pi for each USB device, you could use multicast to distribute the iso across the network once and have each pi write it to the USB drive connected locally.

I also had a quick look around and found this:

• https://www.everyusb.com/how-do-you-copy-data-to-multiple-flash-drives-at-once

One other idea I came across was to setup the devices as a raid array and write to the raid device.

The Creative Commons website helps you pick the correct licence:

https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/

I should add “Debian, Vic 20” :)

QSL 🙂

The problem is that ChatGPT is not capable of original ideas. When you see AI, you (and the bulk of the population) think Artificial Intelligence, but what you should be thinking is Assumed Intelligence.

If you open up a mobile phone keyboard and tap the next suggested word repeatedly, you’re doing exactly the same as a large language model like ChatGPT, just much slower and with a tiny dataset.

And just like an autopredict keyboard can spout nonsense, so can ChatGPT. It’s euphemistically called hallucinations, but really it’s just grammatically correct gibberish.

It’s right up there with such life changing experiences as a root canal …

Stupid Bot.

If you can’t identify it then don’t post.

I’ve done all of these and now get minimal junk mail in the letter box.

• Contact your municipality and explain the situation and ask for their advice.
• Contact the people delivering the mail and ask them for advice.
• Contact your local gardening centre and ask them if they want paper for composting.
• Put up a no junk mail sign, then contact the companies who are still arriving in your letter box and share your thoughts about their uninvited junk mail. In Australia the last mile delivery of junk mail is often done by one or two companies who don’t want to get a bad name for ignoring your sign.

• open source software that pays for contributions
• privacy laws that protect people against corporations
• living wage
• end of sexism and mysoginy
• global democracy

If you mean automatic brightness correction, most computers have a camera, some have a more generic light sensor.

If you mean night mode, a computer knows what time it is and most know where they are, so they can look up local daylight hours.

If you mean something else, you’ll need to elaborate.

As it happens, every person is an influencer, regardless of followers (…) or content.

The people who are influenced, or said differently, the sphere of influence is dependant on random factors like content going viral when it unexpectedly gets liked and reposted by others.

If you’re asking what size of influence generates income, the answer depends on who is paying.

There are at least three legal ways to do this. CB radio, ISM frequencies and amateur radio. I say legal because the radio spectrum is heavily regulated because every transmitter affects everyone else to more or lesser extent.

You can buy CB or ISM band radios and get started.

Amateur radio is a better option in my opinion. There are many more frequencies to experiment with, people who can help and people to talk to.

Amateur licensing is different in each country, but an introductory licence is often no more than a weekend course and exam. I know of nine year olds who have done this. It’s not hard. No Morse code required either.

With such a licence in hand you can use things like JS8Call, CODEC2, Olivia, WSPR and hundreds of other protocols to communicate using just a radio and a computer.

Disclaimer: I’m a licensed amateur in Australia and have been since 2010. I hold an introductory licence, here it’s called a Foundation licence, and have been having an absolute blast with all that I can do.

If you have specific questions, don’t hesitate to ask.

Yes

Gender reassignment surgery?

If you’re actually working out, nobody cares about what you look like and comfort is more important than any other consideration.

If you’re using the gym as a place to meet people, nobody you would actually want to meet cares about lines in your clothing.

In other words, the lines you’re concerned with have been put there by advertisers wanting to sell you more stuff.

Perl is the only language that looks just as incomprehensible before and after a rot13 transformation.

Python on the other hand is the only language that will cause your application to stop working because you mixed up tabs and spaces, even though it looks perfectly fine on your scr.

And lisp is hard to say if you have one.

Edit: aa -> after a

AI, also known as Assumed Intelligence

I’d expect that the person to ask would be the building manager.