> Watch out, I'm not sure about the SG108 but the SG108E has a known defect where it incorrectly broadcasts non-VLAN traffic across all ports, regardless of configured VLAN settings.
I've got the SG108, since so many years I forgot how many... It's a little workhorse. I'm pretty sure it's totally unmanaged. I've got both a 192.x.x.x and a 10.x.x.x LAN, on two different switches (one being the SG108) and I've got an actual bridge (and firewall) between the two. It's not a managed switch but a NUC doing the bridging between 192. and 10. I also have got a 3rd switch near the fiber termination (apartment is wired with ethernet in the walls).
I did that years ago: even though I've got a "guests" network, I still wanted my own machines to be on a totally separate LAN.
> I'd say stay far away from this hardware line unless you actually do just want a dumb switch.
Yeah exactly. I've got the SG108, because it's dumb. It's really fine. It never ever fails.
I'm using unmanaged switches at home because it's one less thing to configure/manage.
Now I only have about four desktop PCs (two being workstations used as headless servers), 4 NUCs, 3 laptops, and six Raspberry Pi. It's not a big network by any means.
A buddy of mine has got a 42U rack at home full of servers (and Mikrotik switches) and, well, that's another can of worms.
> ... but my understanding is that meditation techniques often feature closing your eyes and focusing on breathing, body parts or some other irrelevant thing
It's more like the opposite. If you think about your breathing, you'll be "controlling" it (which funnily enough is not the case when you don't think about it). Meditation is the opposite: you have to be in a state where you can think about your breathing and yet you're not controlling it.
I can tell that, from doing it since a long time and from talking to people about it, even many people who practice meditation cannot reach that state (thinking about breathing without controlling it).
And you also really don't focus on body parts: you "disconnect" them all until you don't even feel them anymore.
And you also shouldn't focus on irrelevant things: you have to focus on absolutely nothing.
There are many different techniques to "pass on through to the other side": some visualize thoughts ("words" or the "internal monologue") as if it was a sea. The more thoughts, the more hectic the sea (and you want it all calm: no words, no internal monologue). Some imagine a lotus flower opening and when the last leaf opens, you can be in. Some imagine diving.
I meditate on and off since a long time. There are benefits, for example I definitely can lower the intensity of headaches (or at least how I perceive the pain). What I tell my friends is that Buddhist monks are actually on serious trips beating any psychedelic drug that does exist.
No it's correct. When the 968 came out it was the absolutely worst years ever for Porsche: they were nearly completely bankrupt and Porsche ceasing to exist was actually on the table. They were selling as little as 15 000 cars in a full year in 1992 or something like that (compared to nearly 60 K, nearly 4x as much, in 1986). Compared that to nearly 300 000 today and an insane lineup.
Sure, the EU pretty much killed its auto car industry, offering the markets to Tesla and Chinese EVs (and there are talks of chinese buying Porsche), but Porsche has a crazy lineup compared to what it used to have: 911, Cayman, Boxster, Panamera, Taycan (the 100% EV), Macan and Cayenne and soooo many different sub-models of those (GT4, GTS, Turbo (S), Targa, GT3 (RS), GT2 (RS), S/T, S/C ...).
They just even announced a 911 GT3 S/C // convertible (heresy for some but I love it). For any Porsche enthusiast, we're pretty much living the golden age of Porsche where you can still buy a normally aspirated, stick shift, driver's car. In 2026: thank you so much Porsche for being sufficiently crazy to still do that in 2026, in an era where people are paying subscription to receive OTA updates for their EVs.
And any Porsche enthusiast knows that the early 1990s were nearly the death of Porsche. It was a close call.
BTW to anyone saying the modern Porsche aren't "real" Porsche cars, I send them love from my 911 Carrera from 1988. You can both love old and new Porsche cars.
> where you can still buy a normally aspirated, stick shift, driver's car
The problem is that you can't buy them. All of these "interesting" 911s are limited production in practice even when not limited editions per se and are sold to most favorite clients only, a good chunk of whom then immediately flip them with delivery mileage---i.e. playing Ferrari games without the Ferrari name. I respect and like Porsche the car manufacturer, and I have put a lot of track miles on my 991.2 GT3 RS across the US, but I despise what their sales model has become.
How's this going to work now that there are, arguably, already more AI agents online than humans? Or close to it. Most of the web if fake AI slop already. Many websites are more crawled by bots than by real people.
We'll need to apply for digital IDs for bots and AI agents?
> In a 2019 blog post, I expressed concern that training teachers to recognize “worship of the written word” as “white supremacy culture,” as many equity trainers urged, could alienate students of color from school.
2019... By then some people had already noticed the problem since years and years. Here's Neel Kolhatkar 's take on it in 2016, in this wonderful 7-minutes short satirical movie aptly named "Modern Educayshun" (the realisator plays the main character):
I don't know if there's much else to do than laugh about this entire madness of a movement.
What disgust me really the most is that those very same who've been trying to portrait heterosexual white men in the west as "patriarchal" and responsible for all evils (vs women, vs men of colors, etc.) are the very same who are turning a complete blind eye on the actual patriarchal societies that do the most horrible things one can imagine. For a reality check, for example: there are 230 million woman that have undergone forced female genital mutilation. And if rounded about 0% of those have been done by white men from the west.
And because people have nothing to answer to that, they'll downvote.
So yeah: my advice would be... Do like me: pick your fights.
Perhaps they don't like the explicit connection I've made to progressivism? The article leaves that part unsaid, but it's pretty clear this is where it came from.
In the UK we had the Red Triangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_triangle_(Channel_4) where we stayed up late for the hope of some sexy fun times, and we were exposed to culture and not nearly as much nudity as we had hoped for.
Where I lived the paytv encryption just removed the sync signals and audio and by finetuning the TV you could get a fairly clean black and white picture. It sounds similar to Discret 11 but it wasn't quite the same.
Only with a major scene change (eg day to night) this would need retuning. And this type of content didn't really do that, as most of these movies take place in the same bedroom :) so it was not a bad way to watch it.
Can't wait for Microsoft to go the IBM way.
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