I live in a big city in the US and the best internet option I have is 1Gb through Verizon, and my apartment complex is making a deal with Comcast so that’s going to go away leaving only 100Mb. I have a homelab setup which is why I was willing to pay more for the 1Gb.
Voyager is fantastic, but it’s still way, way closer to the solar system than anything else.
An excerpt from Wikipedia:
At this rate, it would need about 17,565 years to travel a single light-year.[78] To compare, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is about 4.2 light-years (2.65×105 AU) distant. If the spacecraft was traveling in the direction of that star, it would take 73,775 years to reach it. Voyager 1 is heading in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus.
To be fair sometimes if you update Linux too sparingly it results in conflicts. Of course the likelihood of that happening depends on the distro. Also the vast majority of Linux updates don’t require a reboot.
I did some googling and it seems you are right, at least for now. I expect Linux support for ARM macs will continue to expand.
As far as I can tell it’s a limitation if moving from the more popular x86 to ARM with some other hardware related caveats. Importantly, the macs are aren’t locked from booting other OSes, its just the hardware support hasn’t caught up yet.
If you look at the “offering rates”, you can see the chances of this. This is a “Rare Pack” which happens 0.05% of the time (or 1 in 2000).
The chance of a Rare Pack has stayed the same, but some of the newer packs have alternate types of “Rare Pack”. This set has the “Regular pack +1 card” (that extra card is a shiny) which has a rate of a little over 1 in 20, and this set is the first set to have a “Themed Rare Pack”, which in this case is all of the shiny megas and has a rate of 1 in 20000.
All of this info is in the “offering rates” at the bottom left of the pack screen.
Qwen 3.5 is one of the best of the open-weight (self-host able) models right now. It’s not as good as some of the extra massive proprietary models like the bigger Claude models.
The model we currently have for the universe goes well beyond anything we could learn with our natural senses and the way we intuitively think about the world because of those senses.
It’s true that we keep refining our models and it’s very possible that an alien would have slightly different models, but at the end of the day, we are trying to describe the same universe and those models are going to overlap a lot because of that.
First of all, there has been a lot of research into what the minimal set of assumptions you need is to reproduce what we consider “basic math” and also what happens if you tweak those assumptions.
Second of all, the main goal for science and the type of math we use for science is to effectively model the world we live in.
Any aliens that live in the same universe are subject to the same physics, and any civilization advanced enough to detect our messages will know some basic universal facts about the world, and those facts are what we hope to use as the basis for starting communication.
I recently upgraded from a 2018 model to a 2025 one. The 2018 model was USBC only but the 2025 one supports both USBC and MagSafe.
Honestly I kinda like it. I prefer the magnet but if another USBC charger happens to be more convenient I can just use that instead.