in bash if it happens, it often means i have something wrong in most recent closed loop, which may or may not have closed prorperly, somethign similar with python.

I seemingly have a rverse take - I much prefer the latter. i just do not use threadiverse, i use places where !/@ means something totally else (for example in programming ! is not and @ can be used for different purposes, but in my shell, @ sigil is used for arrays). the latter is very clear to me - /c/ is comm and /u/ is user. a bit more verbose (3 characters vs 1) but not that much but much more readable for someone comming from outside or who context switches.

i had no idea about this either, thanks for telling. I have almost no idea about server stuff.

Thank you for telling that, I absolutely had no idea about that. In my mind, it has been a almost brute force reverse engineering effect, with some help from some documentation (for example, reference metal docs) or having some open source stuff for apple stuff (if that even exists).

regarding bootloader, is it not the case that bootloader just checks for signature of os, and it does not allow you to boot anything else. I did not mean that having a bootloader unlockable means having docs, but as i get it, the general approach to get android image working is to load a gsi (generic system image), if that does not work, we swap kernel or some other system stuff from available os images (which are closed black boxes mostly). now if we can not even boot a gsi (or some other android tree for lineage os), then there is no hope in running anything. and even if gsi runs, that may still have broken stuff (eg, camera or wifi, which i know are some of common culprits).

if i am not wrong, boot process on non x86-64 is not standardised (no obivous uefi independent of os or setup). this genuinely limits the distros one can find, and mostly first party support is all you get. when first party does linux (raspberry pi or other sbcs), it is fine, and often their boot can be “used” by other third party distros (assuming license allows that). if first party does not, there is no way to get work done. something like android - if you get first party unlockable boot lock, you can hope for custom roms, without that, its playing darts where board is invisible. with apple mac, enough people had dart boards that random trial (and recovery processes) allowed them to get in. with qualcomm stuff, there is some first party support (and some second party support from nvidia who use qualcomm cpu for their servers) but qualcomm graphics is still a issue (first party support is very slow) and not enough third party interest (not enough people have qualcomm laptops for dartboards)

i thought i had something broken on my end so tried different methods of downloading, or checking if piefed broke something so checked my alts.

I often just blew air at my mothers face (often near orrifice of nose and ear), especially when she is not expecting. always gave me joy and annoyed her

sorry, we try to not have the latter, but we can not fabricate the former

it is not gaussian. for first electron, it is closer to poissonian

it will never be 100%. there are people who use objectively superior oses (temple os)

I am in genuine heavy tears (the kind where you have huge beads just trickling and then just a continous stream). Both of joy and sorrow.

i know this solution, but many problems are there, what if it is in a ceiling fixture, or enclosed in something such that i can not know the temp (hot or cold), then i can still observe luminosity changes. if you feel your eyes do a bad job, get a camera properly color and temp caliberated, and just focus on filament (now auto exposure or temperature adjustment).

tl:dr i am still trying to poke holes in this thermocol wall of defence.

After reading the incandescent bulb solution, and problems regarding touching the bulb, i would switch first switch on for a appreciably long time, such that bulb has hit maximum luminousity (they heat up as they run, the hotter they get, the brighter they are), then turn switch off, and turn second switch on and quicky run to other room. we are trying to observe change in luminousity as time elapses. if it reduces, it was first (we ran it for a long time, there would be some residual glow, from my irl observations from when i was small suggest roughly 1 min period where i can still tell, but bulb wattage, contrat with background and distance matter). if increasing or max luminous, then second, if nothing then third.

but it was a stupid question. my naive guess was it can not be done, because with just 1 binary observation, you can not tell from 3 switches (you need atleast 2, which the solution assumes as temp and light state, i substitute heat with light state in transition). but still stupid. my natural assumption was leds, even when i head incandascent bulbs in my house somewhere for nearly half of my life. it is also stupid, because when you allow me to do something i was mentioned in question to do, i could just bend my way to do anything. like punch/drill through wall, or hack surveillance systems, or just pull out my handy multimeter that i always have on me, open switch box and see which switch is live, which is dead, or see voltage/current/wattage change across the loop, or measure resistance and guess what thing is there, or like blackmail the interviewer to extract the answer.

Takes a lot more than a dozen or so downvotes to discourage me

that is great. I do not know if you (or anyone else for that matter) may think this community or melly/piefed or fediverse in general is like this, and so wanted to say sorry (as a member/mod of this comm).

I do not even have a ad-blocker. I just have global js disabled and some css rules - goes a very long way and almost no website complaints, is lighter for my browser (though i also have /etc/hosts rule in case something passes by).

Sorry, i do not know why it got downvoted to oblivion (no pay wall should not be reason, if you know how to, you can easily bypass most paywalls(hint - js)). Sorry OP, hope you are not discouraged from this.

(do i have a surprise for you)

yes. in the legend of korra third season, there is a character who can fly. I will not spoil any further cause this a very major plot point

i did not expect that, that is like actually translucent. My guess is this is some textile engineering to hold air across surface to reduce skin friction, but i do not think that adding a base non transparent layer will hurt that much (probably just weight). thank you

honestly, i would have exppected all black to be better, since i theory it will reduce contrast and shadow lines, but yeah i guess outer curves would still be visible

it has to be injected into veins, so do a injection dose (/s just in case)

true, not so great if you are a frog i guess