naonintendois

Salaries are a tiny fraction of the military budget. Majority goes to overpriced military contractors. I think the bigger issue is the Pentagon has failed 6 audits in a row.

It likely is. The browser UI is also really old.

The plug is becoming a standard. There are still many more stations needed to increase EV usage for people who live in apartments or doing road trips. Not everyone is relying on them for providing charging. It's sad that they're the only ones who actually maintain their infrastructure

I'm not at all experienced in fixing these but some ideas come to mind: I doubt it's the spring, that would just control rotation of the main rod unless it somehow bent the rod. Could be the tracks on the side are becoming misaligned. That could be from loose track. That might be hard to tell with the door installed due to weight, someone might know of a way to check this.

You also might need to consider that the floor underneath is sinking on the gap side. Are there any cracks in the garage floor? Any cracks on nearby walls? This can happen naturally or due to a leaking pipe where water underground washes away the supporting sand/dirt under the building.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought that!

Looks like shorts on top? Likely flipped the image from OPs perspective to give a better looking photo of the cat.

It shouldn't break if you just install packages from the main app installer. It's more of a concern if you're trying to install anything from source.

Also make sure to try a live cd or live USB to make sure the OS is compatible with your hardware. VM is not sufficient for this last one. This is usually only an issue if you have very new hardware.

I would get comfortable with the idea of breaking things. Make regular backups of your data. The best that I'm aware of for making it easy to work backwards from breaking things is NixOS, but I wouldn't consider it beginner friendly.

You learn a lot from trying to bring a system back online. But it depends if you're trying Linux to learn it more or just to take advance of privacy.

Yes, though this is true of a lot of the easier distros.

Not a lawyer, but worked closely with them in the past. It REALLY depends on your employment contract. Changing variable names and language still makes it a derivative work, so it would depend on the original license. I'm assuming it doesn't have a license which would mean either you or the company owns the copyright: depends on your employment contract. Whether you're a contractor or full time also affects ownership.

Without ownership or a license, you do not have the legal right to copy the work or make a derivative of it.

I'm not clear on whether you actually wrote any code though. If that's the case (that no code was written) then I'm not really sure how that works out. If you do post it and they find out, AND they're mad about it, you could definitely get fired. I'm not sure if there could also be legal trouble or not.

If you need it for a resume item, you can just list it on your resume and talk about it. You could also implement it on your own time (but not share it until you're sure you're safe from legal action), that way you could talk about tradeoffs you've made, etc. in the real implementation.

In general, if you're not sure and you're worried about getting sued, you should ask a lawyer.

HD encryption only helps if they get physical access to the disk when the device is locked or powered off. If they get it via a backdoor or virus, then it doesn't help.

How would you make money as a mastodon instance? Pay to be a member? I don't see the incentive for the average user to pay when it's so easy to join a free instance (I'm considering the average person doesn't know how to host their own).