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Then what are we even discussing? we've had orbital cameras for decades. These are just networked better and launched different?

Do you have any particular pieces of theirs you can recommend I read?

I don't consider Musk, by any means, to be "a good guy". Ideally, I'd just rather let SpaceX keep building out starlink for the good of the world and have it be a medium for communication that is difficult to disable.

Why do we need to kill our enemies at this point in our civilization even? it's barbaric and ridiculous. The state of the art of weaponry right now is trending towards remote operations. How long until it just becomes BattleBots but with collateral damage? When do we get to world leaders settling disputes in a game of Worms?

I didn't like the random blinking and glitchiness the screen did as it changed resolutions. Most OSes, if you notice, do a little fade out and in but I was too lazy to make it gradual.

Eh, though you're right, it's a pattern I like a lot: define your "main" at the top, put all the supporting functions below, and call main at the end.

These days I've got a little bash task runner framework that I use for little scripts like this.

I have a stupid little script for this:

#!/bin/sh

setres() {
  output=$1
  width=$2
  height=$3

  xrandr --output $output --brightness 0 --auto
  xrandr --delmode $output better
  xrandr --rmmode better

  xrandr --newmode better $(cvt $width $height | tail -n1 | cut -d'"' -f3)
  xrandr --addmode $output better
  xrandr --output $output --brightness 1 --mode better 
}

setres "$@"

on my car, there's a fuse you can pull out, which theoretically cuts power to OnStar. check your car manual/forums about your model

Gen 2 chevy volt owner here, PHEVs are absolutely not a step back. If I didn't buy the volt, the one car our family could afford would have been an ICE car. IMO, these things help bridge idealism with current reality - for most of my day-to-day, I drive a fully electric car. I just also get the option to toss some gas into it when on a long road trip.