The problem with this kind of comprehensive tracking is that it's extremely easy to abuse. Especially in cases when the govt is bad. And the Indian govt is already on the edge in many respects.
A sizeable chunk of senior Indian govt officials are professional criminals. With criminal records and everything. They don't teach that in civics class.
@Bob I get people to do it for me. I once spent 20 minutes trying to plug in a hard drive, as I recall. I don't do well with small movements in confined spaces.
if a user is on a suspension and their rep is reduced to 1, what happens to the rest of their rep? is is gone forever or do they get it back at the end of the suspension?
@JourneymanGeek No but they we totally lack any common sense and hit on strangers on facebook and take pictures of with dead relatives, selfies during natural disasters, livestream from prisons... If it's insane, we done it.
It takes us a week to read a few pages and it makes no sense and then a lightbulb appears and "oh I think he meant [stuff that could be written in two paragraphs]".
When you already know what he meant, then the whole stuff makes sense.
@JourneymanGeek I know nothing about marxist socialism yet. I'm just 10% into a book that supposedly explains theories about political economy. I'm in the basics yet. Marxist socialism is a political theory built on top of those economic theories (that I'm yet starting to study).
@Burgi the war in 21st century is not about crushing the enemy. If you start an expansionist war, you would actually harm yourself by that, because you would destroy the surrounding economies and end up with huge poverty issues in your new .. emm .. Lebensraum
That's a thought that ocurrs to me a lot. In theory, democracy should work... A state-owned public school or hospital *should* work... But human nature happens. =/ (Although I believe there are more in-depth, less simplistic explanations.)
Capitalism brought the studend debt crisis in the US ("lets capitalize the education"), the opioid epidemy in the US (big pharma pushing painkillers)....
@JourneymanGeek The way I see it, letting the market decide will always favor the corporations. "The market" will decide minimum wage isn't competitive, at-will for everyone, workers should have the rights of Industrial England! workers and employers should negotiate employment terms!
@Burgi They were part of the USSR (arguably allied, then invaded then occupied, but yanno, basically everyone was grab grab grab) before ww2, and were the first parts to break away from the Soviets.
@ThatBrazilianPony IN GLORIOUS UNION OF SOCIALIST PEOPLES! WE DO NOT NEED NO DECADANT CAPITALIST WEB DESIGN! IF GLORIOUS FALSE WOOD OF PEOPLE NOT GOOD ENOUGH! THEN WHAT IS?
@Burgi It will never be the true experience because the worst horror of any terrible experience is knowing it is real and you can't escape from it and stop experiencing it.
Besides, I bet true terrible prisons have stuff much worse than people waking you up at 3 am to shout at you (starvings, beatings, rape, dozens in a cell that should have 5 people, in extreme heat, no plumbing, etc etc).
Sounds like a silly thing for people with too much money.
@ThatBrazilianPony I haven't tried that. I just meant that I've VPN'd into work before through my cell phone as a wifi hotspot. I haven't done it in a while. It surprisingly doesn't use too much data, it's just that the latency can be annoying. I can try that option.
@BenRichards Crazy idea, but what if you boot your laptop into a live linux USB and see if the issue persists? (That is, at home you run a VPN'ed VNC session both via ethernet and via wifi on the live linux, and see what happens)
@ThatBrazilianPony I've actually thought about trying that too. I also kinda want to see how Linux runs on my hardware hehe
@rahuldottech Well, I've been busy. :P Yesterday family came over to my house from KC and they're staying for a week. I've had to get my house ready for hosting them.
@BenRichards Click on the battery icon in the taskbar an make sure that power saver isn't switched on. Then click Power and Sleep Settings > Additional Power Settings > Customize Power Plan > High Performance. Try this and see if the problem persists — rahuldottech2 mins ago
I do think that power settings on the laptop could be contributing. Maybe the firmware limits the transmit power of the antenna when on battery power and something changed in just the right way (neighbors or whatever) and I'm getting a lot of interference lately.
I almost mentioned this in the question originally but didn't. I've never had issues with the Wi-Fi that I couldn't figure out with that network, except for my old PS4. It wouldn't reliably connect to the Internet through that Wi-Fi network (and I tried so many configurations). It works fine at my parents' house.
I'd try, in that order: 1) High Performance power plan 2) A live Linux USB 4) A mobile data connection 5) A different router 6) A different ISP (friend's home?)
I never figured out what it was. It could have been the PS4's crappy Wi-Fi chipset, or it could've been something weird with my router.
Got a PS4 Pro as an upgrade and it works fine though. I think the Pro has a slightly different chipset, but shrugs
@ThatBrazilianPony Good options. But again, in keeping with the aim of this site, I would suggest posting new suggestions to the question itself. It could help others debug as well :)
@ThatBrazilianPony I'd say that it's substantive enough as an answer. I can leave comments on it and you can update it with more info or advice in the future :) Thanks.
@ThatBrazilianPony It's a good debugging step but I definitely don't like the idea of running on a max power plan when on battery power all the time :)
I like the option of laying on the couch with my laptop when working from home. It'd be less comfortable if I had to run a power cable, especially since my sectional isn't against a wall
I'm a big fan of the laptop form factor. It can be docked for desktop use, but even if you're always at a desk, it's a much smaller footprint than a desktop and uses less power, plus has built-in battery backup for power outages :)
Unless I'm doing something like gaming, then a desktop is warranted. I'd like to use a laptop then too, but the higher pricetag is a valid criticism against that practice.
I'm not really a fan of laptops because both repair and upgrade are much more expensive, upgrading is severely limited, and performance-wise, for the same price I get a much better desktop.
That and I don't use a laptop outside much because it's targeted by muggers =/
You pick an S7 or the latest iPhone from your pocket on public transport and no one bats an eye. You pick the cheapest laptopt and "OMG A LAPTOP"
@rahuldottech So long as the PSU can handle it, you have enough PCIe lanes for it, and your case is big enough. Depends on the graphics card you're getting.
If you can fit it in the case and the PSU can handle it, any other considerations will just determine how fast it will work (PCI-e lane width and version of the spec).
Yeah, but you really need to look at your motherboard and PSU to know what it can support. Some graphics cards are pretty bulky too, though, so you will have to know if you have the physical space inside for one.
It really depends on the graphics card. From budget to enthusiast, there's all sorts of sizes and requirements.
I've considered looking into EoP, but in practice 802.11ac is good enough for my house, and probably works better than EoP over 40-year-old wiring would
I have 100/10 HFC cable Internet service with typical performance of 110-120 Mbps.
Charter Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable). Generally very consistent performance, with only very slight slowdown during peak hours. No data caps, either.
Upload speeds are a constant 11.5-12 Mbps almost all the time.
Wi-Fi is serviced by a NETGEAR Nighthawk X4S 802.11ac Wave 2 router (model R7800) with 4x4:4 MU-MIMO. Tests indicated peak speeds of about 500 Mbps under ideal conditions using a 2x2 MIMO device and typical speeds of 200-300 Mbps about 8-10 feet from the router (more or less, haven't done a huge amount of testing).
