"Do you think we're going to burn or eat solar cells?"

I think we will. Buildings catch fire. Demolition waste ends up in garbage sites. Garbage is sometimes burned. Garbage is also exposed to rain, which carries particles into both surface and ground water. (Relatedly, now that we are looking for them, we know that plastics have found their way into our drinking water supplies.)

So, I think the answer is yes. We probably will burn and eat solar cells.

"Do you think we're going to burn or eat solar cells?"

I think we will. Buildings catch fire. Demolition waste ends up in garbage sites. Garbage is sometimes burned. Garbage is also exposed to rain, which carries particles into both surface and ground water. (Relatedly, now that we are looking for them, we know that plastics have found their way into our drinking water supplies.) So, I think the answer is yes.

I would mod you up if I had mod points today. It is very easy to forget to consider what will happen over the course of decades. What you describe is exactly what happens.

The Raynor Miranda is sturdy, well-constructed (metal where it counts), well-padded, and far more comfortable to me than the Herman Miller chairs that got popular in the spending frenzy of the dot-com boom. It also happens to be relatively cheap. I've been using the same one for more years than I care to admit, and when one of the armrest pads eventually developed a crack, the manufacturer sent me a replacement with no hassle whatsoever.

If you're willing to learn how to configure a firewall, it's an excellent value.

Bonus: If you don't like EdgeOS/Vyatta-style configuration, or you simply prefer open source, you can install OpenWRT on this device.

I can only imagine that you had a frustrating experience with one product and mistakenly assumed that all of the company's other products work the same way. My EdgeRouter works rather well, and has never required any centralized or cloud management of any kind. I usually manage it via ssh.

Underrated comment.

I have NEVER seen anyone fight against a suggestion from someone offering to ALL the work.

That's lovely, dear. I have. Maybe one day, when you've traveled the world, you will see things you haven't seen before and realize that they exist after all.

So, you're offering to...

Yes.

Your comment demonstrates a lot of arrogance, so I have doubts about whether this will do much good, but I'm going to take a chance and offer you some advice that might help you in life:

1. When interacting with people whom you don't know, don't assume they are less experienced, less knowledgeable, less capable, or less anything than you are. Maybe you'll avoid insulting them and making a fool of yourself.

2. Whenever you don't have all the information, consider looking for ways in which other people might be right, rather than making assumptions about how they might be wrong. Maybe you'll learn something.

I see this behavior surprisingly often as well. Any explanation I offered would just be conjecture, I'm afraid. I have some guesses about why people do this, but they're just guesses. I think it would make for an interesting psychology study.

Anyway, I'm mainly posting here to offset the toxic comments I see in response to your question. I, too, have been there. I've been attacked by onlookers for making suggestions, with the naysayers backing off only when the project leads decided that my suggestions were good ones. I've watched other people get attacked similarly, sometimes when I was a newcomer, and sometimes when I was the developer. It doesn't seem to matter if you're making suggestions for someone else to implement or offering to do the work yourself; some people seem just as likely to sling mud at you either way.

The internet has no shortage of obstructionist personalities, and the communities that gather around software projects are no exception. It makes me sad every time I see it, because to me, it is the antithesis of open software development. When it happens, everybody loses.

The only advice I can think of right now is to accept constructive criticism of your ideas, but also don't assume that your ideas suck just because some internet troll says so. A lot of them are wrong.

ThatOnePrivacyGuy on /r/privacy manages That One Privacy Site, including a handy VPN section:

https://thatoneprivacysite.net...

Unlike most other VPN reviews, this one encourages community discussion and appears to be impartial.

ThatOnePrivacyGuy on /r/privacy manages That One Privacy Site, including a handy VPN section. Unlike the vast majority of VPN provider reviews you'll find in web searches, this one encourages community discussion and appears to be impartial. Next time I need a new VPN provider, I expect I'll be turning to that site.

Here you go:

That One Privacy Guy's VPN section

VPN Review Selection Process

"...the dozen laptops we handed out to winners."

I wonder whether the security researchers who were given those laptops would ever consider trusting those laptops.

I suppose they would be useful as test hardware regardless.

Yep. They defend PulseAudio by having observed cases in which people have opted out... using another thing from which people have opted out. Either they don't know how to science, or they deliberately chose a useless metric in order to support their decision.