you can have a digital system with more than two states. You just have to be able to reliably tell apart the different states.

Ssds are digital devices, but the consumer ones usually store more than one bit per cell.

we eat horse (infrequently) where I’m from. If prepared properly it’s delicious

someone at our place has their tongue perpetually shoved deep into someone from microsoft’s ass. We’re a small country of half a million people. Most of our things do not need to hyperscale. But everything is getting moved to the cloud. Did I mention that we have our own datacenter? The national one. Yeah…

I thought the “addressed to it” part was implied. you seem to keep saying that windows handles things. The computer is shut down, not in sleep mode. There is no windows to handle things. Windows is not loaded. It has not gone through the boot process. WoL still works if you rip out all the storage. WoL is handled by the network adapter hardware

You’re describing what windows does after a computer is woken/turned on. That’s irrelevant, by that point the WoL is long over. After the pc is turned on and booted then windows is free to do whatever, including putting the system back to sleep. Whether it does this fast enough for you to notice is irrelevant, that is not WoL functionality.

And no, systems are not constantly waking up and then re-sleeping. Again, if the pc was shut down it’d have to go through the whole boot process before windows can put the system back to sleep. And you would find a sleeping pc when you left a shutdown one. Not what happens. And if instead of sleeping it shut itself down that’d look like a boot loop. definitely noticable.

tldr: after the pc is turned on and the os has been loaded, the os is free to do anything

A magic packet is any packet using any protocol with that string in it. And the os cannot respond to a wake-on-lan packet, because the os is not running at the time; the computer is powered off. The os is later informed, via acpi, of the reason it was woken up, should it bother to check. If you don’t want a magic packet, then any packet will wake the system up. I am not aware of any alternatives. Extensions, yes. But not alternatives

yeah wake on lan is pretty hard to accidentally trigger.

Why would random software be sending packets with 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF + mac*16?

you know you’re the one choosing to run those apps, right?

most code from the before times, from the long-long-ago, actually didn’t need a browser, and could fit on a floppy disk!

writing code that doesn’t need a browser to run on

I don’t see a ball in any of the nets. So there are zero goals in that image

250mw red laser will pretty much blind someone realey quickly…

yes, i know. That’s the problem. No is a very good answer a lot of the time

no, it could just say “no”. It doesn’t have to answer

just today I read that microsoft will stop accepting any new printer drivers. If new printers are to work, they must support mopria and IPP.

That should eventually have positive side effects for us linux users

don’t you have a broken one lying around somewhere you could use?

less is more, but better

it has to pay for itself faster than it becomes unprofitale. Which is never, now

imagine standing at the side of the explosion looking towards it. some debris will be blown way from you, but some will be coming towards you. You are something, and not everything is moving away from you, some debris hits you in the face. That’s an explosion in space.

An explosion of space is defferent. Everything will be moving away from you, regardless of where you are or which side you’re facing.

Something wasn’t in space and it exploded. Space itself exploded. your argument only holds if you are exactly in the explosion source.

In space, we’re still inside the explosion

the big bang wasn’t an explosion from a point, it was an explosion of a point in space. That one point is still expanding to this day. Everything is moving away from everything else, which wouldn’t be the case in an “ordinary” explosion. We are all still in that one point, it’s just that that point has expanded. The center of the universe is, in the literal sense of the word “literally”, everywhere.

they limit the amount of time because it quickly goes to shit after a while, probably