You plug it in when you aren’t using it

I would leave a device on charge permanently. That would use excess electricity.

So to be clear about what this article is about: someone bought an x86 machine from China and installed Linux on it. Is that right?

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devout Christian

this might be a good opportunity to engage

Ha ha! The only time to ever engage with a devout Christian is never.

I’d also appreciate any general advice on how to proceed.

Don’t proceed. Give up on the idea that you’re ever going to get what you want from this relationship. Write it off. For your mental health.

LOL what an idiot

As your read the extraordinarily ignorant comments by representatives of the UK government, just remember that the same extraordinary ignorance underpins everything the government does.

OP never questioned whether the friendship would be a success.

Them trying to make a friendship work

OP never questioned whether they could make a friendship work.

any less dumb

Ah I see, so it’s not a moral thing, just an I-don’t-like-it thing.

This really depends.

What does?

Depends

What does?

peoples individual/anecdotal experience is not what should drive lawmaking

Says who? Certainly not the people who make laws.

Typical advice

OP didn’t ask for advice.

A lot of woolly words and no substance. What was the point of this piece. I’d end that previous sentence with a question mark were it not for the fact that I have no interest whatsoever in an answer.

Downvoted for equating Linux gaming and Steam

The war on drugs promised a drug-free society and instead delivered a Britain in which thousands of young people carry criminal records for non-violent offences that haunt them for the rest of their lives; patients who need essential medicines are denied access to them; and people struggling with substance use are met not with care and support, but with shame and punishment.

Ooof!

I’m the only admin and I have control of everything (domain + server)

O_o

What happened to GreatAlbatross and Emperor?

Are you able to explain succinctly what you mean by “selected” so that we can communicate? That page is pretty dense and opaque.

feels “cleaner”

So this is just your preference, I see.

selected

What do you mean by that? What does it mean to “select” something in the context of a neural net with input nodes and output nodes?

the model was planning

How have you come to that conclusion?