I don’t know about their monarchy, and I don’t care. Our 19th century grandparents were too mild on the aristocrats, if you ask me. Abdicate or get the French treatment.

You should get cash for reasons that are obvious to anyone with two brain cells: if there is a blackout or cyber attack or failure of the internet, you can still pay by cash. The fact that people don’t use cash now is irrelevant. Nobody sits at candlelight listening to a battery powered radio right now either.

As a fellow pervert, I welcome my swedish siblings.

Relative power? A phone and an app that shows you the received signal strength. Wifianalyzer on F-droid for example.

For me, setting it from max power to 6% (lowest value) took it from -30dBm on my couch to -50 dBm, so 20 dB difference, which is ca. 1/100. So it roughly checks out.

Keep in mind that radio waves are magic, and the higher in frequency you go, the darker the magic gets.

Absolute power is hard, especially if you are interested in average power for, like, health concerns. WiFi works in short bursts over a pretty large part of the spectrum, and you’d need calibrated equipment as well. I knew a guy who did radio wave strength mapping for like government, telcos and concerned residents, and he had a car full of tech. Simple field probes can be reasonably priced, but you need to know how to operate and interpret them.

I’ve sold most of my international/US-biased stocks, only keep a few, plus some local company that I know is doing pretty OK.

I replaced it with mostly high-security stuff like the bank savings account or European central bank rate coupled stuff. So I guess I am losing the potential interest?

I am still not sure when to “buy the drop”. I bet that (sadly), the US administration will do more bullshit before it gets better.

I just looked at my router, it supports max transmit power settings somewhere deep in the menu, I just leave it at maximum/automatic.

I know from debugging my wifi drivers on my laptop that at least that one does adjust its power, I am guessing it works with most other modern devices as well.

I live in a 10-ish story apartment building and according to my router, channel utilisation is <20% for both 2.4 and 5 GHz. So, I guess it just works.

I wonder who downvoted that. I mean, who would disagree with people trying to be considerate?

Fair point

Okay, let’s turn this shipost into a brainstorming session: what would be socially accepted “slutty outfits” for men, both straight and gay?

I feel like our fashion choices are limited to tank tops, shorts and if you feel fancy, half open shirts.

The famous BO regulatory domain? ;)

I’m an electrical engineer and into ham radio. WiFi is the last of my concerns, health-wise.

To even begin to worry about that I should first start eating healthier, work out more than once a week, and so something about all the microplastic in my brain, I guess. I’m not a medical processional, but it’s pretty far down the list. And regarding power consumption… This thing uses like 10 W, of which probably <1 is influenced by the radio power.

Bro, I’d love to change with you. I tend to be the opposite, I fear I often come off as aggressive and rude when in fact I am only pissed off at a computer for beeping the wrong way all week.

You say you have some (good) friends, have you considered just asking that? “How do you perceive me, I worry I look <x>?”

At a store? I have never met an employee like that. How would that even work? Sure, they might try to make some small talk because it helps sell things or because they are bored, but “I’m good / just looking, thanks” is all I’ve ever needed to get them to get the hint.

Fair point, people are different.

Nice try, FBI :)

+1 for the onlookers. I have watched plenty of arguments myself, just trying to build an opinion. Humans work like that.

Not much better, I’d bet. The death penalty does not stop murders from happening. Sure, there might be slightly less, but it would not scare people off the crime, just off getting caught.

Isn’t that just the (American) definition of liberal? That the market works, if restricted and guided enough by the state, so it works in the right way?

I’ve just met more people. Friends coming out kind of forces you to re-evaluate the casual *phobia. I don’t think online can do it. You have to experience and learn yourself.

Unfortunately yes. People wanted this. They still want this. But people were also cheering for like, Mao even after he put millions of his own citizens into the ground, so who knows

And? Seems like your definition and this community’s definition of “science memes” differ. Who cares. What are we even arguing about?

My dude, it’s right there in the description

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Honestly, I have no idea what you are trying to argue