I wouldn’t worry too much about IQ numbers falling. It doesn’t fully capture human intelligence, and definitely has some biases (IYKYK).

The IQ test has had a profound impact on psychology and society, offering a standardized measure of cognitive functioning. Yet its limitations are significant. Cultural biases, reductionism, limited predictive validity, and a history of misuse all complicate its role as a definitive measure of intelligence. While IQ tests can be useful tools, they must be interpreted cautiously and supplemented with broader measures of human ability.

Ultimately, criticisms of IQ testing remind us that intelligence is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be fully captured by a single number. The challenge moving forward is to balance the utility of IQ tests with a recognition of their limitations, ensuring that assessments of intelligence are both scientifically rigorous and ethically responsible.

https://simplyputpsych.co.uk/psych-101-1/criticism-of-the-iq-test

Keep in mind, some of the children in Alpha had their schooling methodology switched up during the Covid-19 pandemic. They went from learning in a classroom environment to learning in an online environment for a couple of years.

The teaching strategies do not translate the same across those two mediums, and the teachers had to adapt to it as fast as they could, but they were not experienced online teachers.

Teachers with 10, 15, and 20+ years of classroom experience all of a sudden had to teach their classes online. They has to learn the system themselves, as well as teach their students how to use it.

Many schools were underfunded and were not able to offer adequate technology to accommodate for this change. Many families couldn’t even afford internet, so governments had to establish voucher programs to fund low-bandwidth tiers of internet for them (which develops at the speed of red tape government).

At least one adult had to be home with their children if schools were online-only, so they had one less income earning presence in the home, unless they were able to work online themself. That affects the longterm financial goals of each family, which they might still be recovering from to this day.

By the time children went back to a classroom setting, they were missing some key skills that they would have picked up normally. Now you have 3rd graders returning to a classroom in 5th grade, but they still have 3rd grade reading levels. They have to learn 5th grade level material, and take 5th grade level testing. The online material they learned online during the covid years were a completely different set of educational material versus whats used in a classroom, so now the students have to adjust AGAIN.

Anyway, thats just my thoughts on it.

No their email verification has never worked right. They have insanely strict filters on it to “prevent spammers”.

You could make a document describing what each set of data is, if its useful to anyone but yourself, or if its safe to delete. You could offer suggestions of what to do with each set. I think of it as a treasure map that you leave behind. Maybe they will be interested in it, maybe they will pass it on to someone else.

Depends on the admin.

Arch servers are just fine. Just be sure to pay attention to Arch News to watch for manual interventions on certain updates. If anything, the older Debian packages can cause headaches occasionally. I personally use both distros as servers for different use cases.

WWell, I doubt the hospital staff is just gonna take your phone away from you just because you’re 18 and start looking through it. I figured that was a given.

Maybe if they’re programmed as an emergency contact in their phone or something

Sounds like those companies are not considering the capabilities of their supply chain then.

I don’t think thats the issue, bro. Its touching everyone else’s pee the hours since youve last washed your hands.

A co-worker who I don’t really know too well had been pushing off something I needed them to do. They finally got around to doing it today. They were legitimately busy though, or at least it seemed so. It wasn’t urgent or anything since I have plenty of other work to do, but now I can start on their project.

They treated me to a coffee at a coffee shop for making wait so long, which I thought was a nice gesture. We had a nice chat and I got to know them a little more. It just felt like such a genuine human interaction.

1.) Check the jellyfin logs and see what kind of errors youre getting when adding media folders.

2.) check your firewall rules on the jellyfin server, as well as your local router/switch and make sure you’re allowing access to the jellyfin port

If I had been provided the correct cables initially, i would not have had to play cable roulette.

(It was a used monitor that I had purchased that did not come with any cables.)

No GPU should ever come with video cables. Thats where unnecessary waste would come from IMO.

2 cables for a monitor that will be used for about a decade or so, with a length that is typically long enough for any desk setup so that you don’t have to trial and error cables types/lengths will probably reduce the amount of cables that the user will end up ordering.

If the monitor comes with no cables, someone might end up ordering a 3ft HDMI 2.0 cable, which ends up being too short. Then they’ll order a 6ft HDMI 2.0 cable, which is the correct length, but isn’t the correct cable to fully utilize that monitor. Then a few years go by and they upgrade their GPU and realize that their monitor isn’t displaying to its potential, so they finally order the correct 6ft HDMI 2.1b cable.

Ask me how I know that has happened before 😂 (it was me).

IMO, Monitors since they will ultimately display the image. The HDMI and Displayport cables should match the specifications of the ports. It should include a single 6ft cable per port.

For example, if the monitor uses HDMI 2.1b ports, it should include an HDMI 2.1b cable.

• Older GPU
  If an older GPU has HDMI 2.0 outputs, the 2.1b cable will still work, but will only work as run at the GPU’s 2.0 bandwidth.

• Newer GPU
  If later in the future you upgrade to a GPU that has a theoretical HDMI 3.0 port, then it should still output to the monitor, but only at HDMI 2.1b speeds. That monitor will never work at HDMI 3.0 speeds, but it should be able to fully reach its own HDMI 2.1b specs.

Firmware update utilities, host OS file system encryption packages, HBA management tools, temperature monitoring, and then a lot of the packages had bugs that were resolved with newer versions, but proxmox only provided old versions.

I thought about running something like proxmox, but everything is too pooled, too specialized, or proxmox doesn’t provide the packages I want to use.

Just went with arch as the host OS and firejail or lxc any processes i want contained.

Surprised Google Meet isn’t on there

Its more about the hardware than software.

• Able to have enough processing power to utilize the max speed that my ISP provides, while having IDS/IPS and other services enabled.
• Port segregation so that each port can be on its own network with a full speed backplane.
• PoE capabilities
• SPF ports to utilize both fiber and copper connections
• Multiple networks across many wireless access points

I freakin love OpenWRT. I used it for a solid 5-6 years on some consumer grade routers and learned a lot about managing networks.

Ive since moved to more powerful enterprise network gear because OpenWRT opened that door for me and taught me what is possible. I might not ever go back to it, but I will always recommend OpenWRT to people who want to rice out their routers and get the most out of it.