towerful

Yeh, venting on the internet helps. And it's always great when you actually connect with someone.

I always wish I'd learned a trade. Electrician, plumber or tiler. Get an apprenticeship, learn a trade, be a sole trader, do something physical that's always in demand.
Plenty out there to do, and it's ok to mourn your last job (being a student/doctorate is a job).
Connect with old friends and family. Meet some new people. Somebody will be looking for someone smart and compassionate

Nice.
With the tongue in cheek context, I understand your comment more: DEI (as an idea & movement) blossomed under trumps first term, because of the bullshit he caused and the reaction of the public.
The government had actual civil servants (as opposed to appointed oppressors or whatever), and reacted in a sensible way.

But yeh, the damage being done to people is unimaginable. People's entire careers are being deleted from public records because they are a woman in STEM, or because they are the wrong colour, or because they don't fit Christians opinion of normal. It's fucked up

I'd love to believe it.
I can't find anything backing this up.
The has become a wall of text. Sorry.

1st half of this post is refuting "trump defined DEI". I would live to be proved wrong on this, but it seems like something that happened during trump and was defined by Biden.
2nd half is more positive.

1st half...

Mostly sourced from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusion incase the commas fuck up formatting).

I don't know when DEI actually became the official term. Probably during the Biden administration .
According to wiki, however, DEI has been around since the 60s, in principle.

Executive Orders that first mention "equity" along side diversity and inclusion seems to be https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13583 an Obama EO.

The best I can find relating to what you say is along the lines of this:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-programs

Basically, government bodies using their autonomy to enact DEI policies in response to #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, George Floyd, and lots of other public sentiment & unrest. However nothing official at the government level of "DEI".
Essentially, trump was asleep at the wheel with COVID and civil unrest, did fuck all (or encouraged civil unrest), and government bodies (which still had autonomy) enacted policies inline with the population.

So, what constitutes DEI?
What the right is defining it as? What it has been since the 60s? What Biden enacted? What the government bodies enacted during sleepy trump?

The 2nd half:

Being against DEI is like being against Antifa, or declaring Antifa a terrorist organisation. It's not really a thing.
DEI is the awareness that previous centuries of discrimination no longer applies.
DEI isn't a tangible thing. It's humanity.
It didn't happen during trump's first term. But it did progress.
It didn't happen during Bidens term. But it did progress.
That is humanity. Humanity progresses. Humanity is love, equality and freedom for all.

And a bit more ideologically....

Progress in the next 4 years is gonna be slow.
But everyone has worked on this before. It's a hiatus. It will come back, and will be easier and more streamlined than before. Loads of people are backing up data, so it can be (relatively) easily restored. None of this has to be worked out again, nothing shared on the internet can truly die, ideas can't be killed.
It's gonna be 4 years of shit.
Hopefully Americans learn, and don't vote in more conservatives.
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Hopefully Americans get a chance to vote in another party.

Edit: typo, equality not equity

I know mint is often said to be the friendly new distro.
I've heard good things about Bazzite. Like really good things.

I'm currently running Endeavour OS. As soon as I get a chance, I'm planning on checking out Bazzite.

If you are going in fresh, I think Bazzite is something to try for a week or so.

NVidia got there early with their CUDA API.
That's been around for decade(s), which enabled all sorts of crazy GPU usages beyond just graphics.
Due to that, NVidia held the datacenter/professional scene exclusively for a long time.
As a result, their professional cards and related drivers have been industry standard.
I have no doubt that AMD is better, but so much (non-mainstream) software is built against NVidia drivers, CUDA etc., that will be slow to change until the cost of implementing similar for AMD outweighs "just sticking with NVidia".

The classic "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"

I feel like "look at twitter" is probably enough of a defence to decline president musk.
It would probably need to be wordier for court proceedings.

USB as in USB-C?
If the display is HDMI in, you can get HDMI auto/priority switchers. IE, will switch to the highest active input.
Then get a USB-C cable to HDMI, and a plain HDMI cable for the other input.
That covers USBC & HDMI.

If you want something more fancy,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/KVM-Switch-Monitors-Computers-Keyboard/dp/B0DNYVGRZZ
Or,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-Docking-Station-Laptops-DisplayPort-Gray/dp/B0C7QVL2RT

If you are a larger company, it's worth talking to an AV integrator.
There are many ways to do this.

I had a website serve me oxidised bits. My computer BSODd and now I have herpes.
Need those antioxidants

My experience of checksums are in things like serial where they can potentially recover a corrupt bit.
I presume in the case of encryption, a checksum is more of a hash of the raw data? Like a one-way deterministic compute. Easy to get a hash of data, extremely difficult to get data from a hash.
In which case, it's fine. Passwords are hashed (granted, multiple times), but a cryptographically secure hash is not to be underestimated.

I think it's handguns and anything semi-automatic or automatic that are designed for violence.
Basically anything that makes it simple to shoot more than twice, or makes it easy/convenient to carry.

Bolt action or double barrel shotguns are for hunting or actual self defence.
They are tools.

Pump actions, handguns, semi-autos and automatics are for "I have made a very bad mistake".

If your rifle is semi-automatic, have there ever been actual occasions where you have gone "thank god this is semi-automatic"?

Same as a 4x CPU with 8GB ram VPS.
Unless bandwidth is a limiting factor.
But the quality of a website is about code. Not about hardware

A page could load thousands of images and thousands of tiny CSS files.
None of that is JS, all of that is loads of extra requests.

Never mind WASM. It's a portable compiled binary that runs on the browser. Code that in c#, rust, python, whatever.
So no, JS is not the only way to poorly implement API requests.

Besides, http/2 has connection reuse. If the IP and the TLS cert authority is the same, additional API/file etc requests will happen over the established TLS connection, reducing the overhead of establishing a secure connection.

Your dislike is of badly made websites and the prevalence of the browser being a common execution framework, and is wrongly directed at JS.