Wd40 is a solvent.It happens to lubricate and protect from water for a short time. But if you use it as a lube, you are gonna have a bad time.
Use wd40 to loosen something up, clean off old grease/oil/gunk, protect short term from flash rust etc.Then actually wipe it down and lubricate it with a proper lube
Yeh, it was COVID that went after republicans.It wasn't republicans that politicised COVID and rejected medicine and science.It wasn't republicans listening to republican politicians who called it a hoax, and ignored scientific/medical recommendations.It wasn't COVID that was politicised.COVID was created as a political tool to go after specifically American republicans.
(That's all sarcasm.COVID doesn't care about your beliefs. It tried to infect nearly everyone. The resistance to being infected is social distancing, masks and vaccines. All of which are super effective. As proven by the fact that the US is no longer losing a 9/11-worth of people PER DAY and the fact that society is mostly back to normal)
The articles relate to tracking behaviour (IE watching TV, playing video games, cooking, showering, sleeping, out & about), not deciphering what your computer is doing.Maybe they can tell if you are just browsing the internet, or if you are playing video games. But you could just as easily be training AI models, rendering some animations, 3d modelling or mining buttcoin.The articles allude to "knowing it's a computer being used" because the noise of it's PSU is different than lightbulbs or fridges.
Data centers use UPS battery banks to provide persistent power during a power outage to cover the gap before backup generators start up.Data centers use power smoothing systems to protect wiring and switch gear, as well as fixing the Power Factor - which will drastically reduce their electricity bill.
The power required to generate 00001111 Vs 11110000 is the same from an outside perspective. 4 bits on, 4 bits off. And computers have a word size of 64 bits. That's a lot of permutations that a miniscule ripple in current might indicate.And all ICs in a computer will have local decoupling caps (because the same power noise that "can be decoded by a power meter" interferes with the ICs, so it is filtered).And the the SMPS will have some chonky smoothing caps, and the MOSFETs chopping that at 100kHz or whatever. Lots of smoothing, and lots of more significant noise sources.Nothing upstream of the PSU is going to be able to read what's going on inside a PC, other than "it's drawing a few watts more".
Now, maybe there are security minded companies that take things to the extreme.Having a central DC power system that powers 100s of servers has the benefit of mixing all that potential noise together into an even more incomprehensible noise.So, I can see some companies spending tens of thousands more just in case someone manages to break physics. Because 20k on an install could save millions later.But if they are paying that much attention to the data security of power, I hope it's an air gapped system.Or they've been sold some snake oil.
Seriously, noise on the power is not a data security issue.It is a privacy issue if power companies are tracking it that closely, because they can model your behaviour.Which is what the articles are talking about
Offset, not solve.They pollute, but don't want to have to deal with fixing it.So they buy other pollution (easier & cheaper to deal with than their own pollution) and "dispose" of it.
Like carbon offsets. Planting trees offsets co2 pollution. So polluters can keep on pumping out co2 as long as they plant enough trees.
Most of my programming is web stuff. So it builds to containers and using VS Codes dev containers takes care of all issues relating to arch's rolling release (IE needing a specific version of a language).Ie, I work in containers and I build to container and I run containers for all my code (except ESP32 platformio. Unfortunately I haven't migrated that away from windows. So I dual boot)
If I was doing GUI desktop apps, I imagine I would need something other than dev containers.But that's not what I do.
Considering all I do is docker, k8s, linux admin, web frontend/backend that is platform agnostic (but ultimately runs on Linux)... I'm not tied to any OS.Windows is annoying, I am not a fan of osx nor Apple, I use Linux everyday... So my OS might as well be Linux.And Arch & EndeavourOS are nice and just work.For a VPS/server, I use Debian (or Talos OS for k8s). But that's all headless.
I'm lucky in that I freelance and the companies I work for are good companies.I've never had to cancel anything because of EndeavourOS, it's never broken on me (I've only had windows break the EFI partition, which it can do to any distro - until you disable fast boot and stuff), it's never gotten in my way (or if it has, it's lead to a better solution - like VS Code dev containers). It's been really really enjoyable.
I'm sure that I could use any distro in my position, tbh.So, probably not helpful overall.
"think of the children" WRT school ahootings means more police in American schools and arming American teachers.