They have called the internet a series of tubes which is true to a degree.

Pneumatic tubes are still used in some places to send documents over a distance quickly.

There are a few things that are core to sending and receiving data and it would pay to read up on some computer networking protocols, particularly those that are a part of the TCP/IP Suite of protocols.

You want the data to be sent fast. A higher throughput means that more data can move in a shorter amount of time.

Depending on the type of data, you may or may not want the data to be received in its entirety. TCP was designed for a post-nuclear war scenario in which the lines that carry the data might be spotty, so it insures that all data sent is eventually received even if every other packet of data is lost on the way.

For real-time data, think live streams or video or voice call data, you dont necessarily care if one or two frames of a video get dropped on the way over because it is still good enough to understand what was sent. UDP works this way, basically firing the data down a line fast but not checking if each packet was received.

You want the data to be sent securely. SSL/TLS makes it so that no one can spy on your packets of data when they are in transit.

You want to make each packet of data dense with information. There are many ways this can be achieved, but a comparison would be something like making use of the back of a piece of paper as well as the front when writing a letter. In history, people would sometimes write letters normally, then if they needed more room, they would turn the paper 90 degrees and continue writing in that direction. The words are still readable even though they cross over other words on the page and it doubles the capacity of the data the piece of paper can hold. If you used the front and back of a page and used this method, you have multiplied the amount of data that you can store on the paper by 4.

I might have further ideas for you that might be helpful, and if I think of more I will edit this comment, but because this is a world-building type of topic, I would invite you to post this question to a community I moderate, as I am sure some people there have thought this over.

https://lemmy.ml/c/worldbuilding

Nothing, I never said any such thing. In your case your answer to my question would be “I would not have to wish, because I already downloaded everything I want”. This makes you wise.

I like the Muji aluminum fountain pen.

https://unsharpen.com/pen/muji-aluminum-body-fountain-pen/

Cheap enough that if it breaks or you lose it or some such, you won’t be that upset, but writes wonderfully. It is nice to have a pen where you can choose your own ink, and it will accept either refillable cartridges or pre-filled cartridges.

The way the cap posts on the back of the pen is pretty unique as well.

Perhaps instead of using youtube-dl or yt-dlp, you may enjoy some client such as freetube more, as it has a lot of the benefits of those tools, but without ads, and with sponsorblock/thumbnail correction, and other nice customizations. It also enables you to create playlists and whatnot.

You can hit a button to download directly from a video’s page as well, though I think that feature needs some love from the developers (you don’t get a loading bar on download).

Requiem for a dream. I have still not used opiates.

Yes, I don’t enjoy the experience as much as Obsidian.

It does look like obsidian to me. People like this or logseq a lot for their note taking. If you want a foss alternative, you can look at Joplin, though I can’t recall if it has a graphing feature like this out of the box.

As others have said, you don’t have to be concerned about anything if you keep good backups. Disk storage at this time is very cheap compared to what it used to be, you could probably find a 5200 RPM 5 TB disk for ~100 dollars USD, or even better, two 2 TB disks which you could configure with software RAID.

Way back in 1997 or so, I was not sure what to use, so I just chose “Foxtrot” from the phonetic alphabet because it sounded a little neat, and it has my favorite animal in it. It was not such an issue because you could still get that name everywhere at the time of course. Since then, I have mainly used variations of that, but at some point branched out into some others such as the one I use here.

It’s always kind of funny to me though, when I go through some old backup and see one of my forum signatures with my original name on it.

Rather arbitrarily for mine haha

Why did you pick your username?

I see, thank you!

Yes, I suppose I could have worded it better, but what I intend to say is that because people can do seemingly nothing (are prevented, or feel as though they will find no meaningful result from their effort), they figure there is no reason to try to do anything in the first place.

I don’t mean to say that they shrug anything off or are not moved. Quite the opposite actually.

You may be right, but I’m not sure which comparisons you are making specifically and am interested to hear what they are if you are interested in explaining them to me.

Our wealth is taken, no one does anything.

Our health is taken, no one does anything.

Our privacy is taken, no one does anything.

Our voices are taken, no one does anything.

Our citizenships are taken, no one does anything.

The reason is apathy, which feeds inability, which feeds apathy, which feeds inability to do anything.

When our lives are taken, most people will be both ultimately unable and unwilling to do anything.

Even if people don’t know it outright, they feel it.

More than this, we feel a disappointment and a shame in our bones that can’t be shaken off because it is that outrageous and primal fear of losing anything more that drives our inaction, and so we feel ourselves to be cowards at our very core.

This is what grinds away at our souls daily.

When you eventually decide to do something, you will see you are no longer apathetic or unable. Your fears will begin to heal, and in this way it will save your soul. This is the power of courage. It is something you have to make for yourself, but hope is what drives it and hope is given.

There are more trees on earth by far than there are stars in the galaxy.

It pulls its data from open street map I believe, so it’s as useful as the community is capable of making it.

The name of a side street I know was missing so I made an account on open street map and added the name, soon after when they consolidated the data it’s there now.

This is both a good and bad thing. It means some stuff is not always up to date, but at the same time, for areas where people maintain it, I can see such fine detail that I can use the map to find out where there are things as small as trash cans, benches, and bike racks.

Hey, other comments will have better advice on the paint than me, but I wanted to tell you that if there is a smoke smell resulting from the incident, you should see if you can get “Zep Smoke Odor Eliminator”.

This stuff works great for all kinds of smells but I can attest that it worked for me in largely removing the lingering smell of smoke in the case of cigarette smoke, so it might work for you too if you have a smell problem as well.

Sorry, but BOTH forks!?

How did you not notice the first one falling off?

I have a hard time with this and I also sleep with exceptionally good ear plugs.

My solution was to purchase an alarm clock made for people hard of hearing.

It has a mattress shaker in addition to a super loud alarm, either can be toggled. I typically use the mattress shaker. The first time I used it I sprung out of bed in a panic because I thought that the building was collapsing, so I can verify they are very effective.

Things you can do to prevent yourself from returning to sleep after disabling the alarm include putting your alarm at the foot of the bed instead of to the side of the bed (This way, you have to physically get up to go turn it off), and insuring it is warm in the room when you get up (If it is cold, you will instinctively want to go back underneath the covers). A space heater on a timer set to begin 15 minutes before your alarm goes off helps with this.

Another reason people don’t want to get up is because they have performed no real preparation for waking up. By this I mean to have your coffee machine timed to preheat just before you get up, set up your breakfast the night before so that it is easy to make and consume in the morning, have the clothes you intend to wear laid out so that its easy to get dressed, etc.

In short, it is generally good to make it difficult to keep sleeping, but also easier to wake up.