But with more brass and some elaborate power distribution network involving focusing beams of light and pupming water in place of electricity

Honestly solar steampunk with big crazy arrays of glass lenses to focus sunlight onto tanks sounds like a hell of an aethstetic.

Speeds are consistently slower than service contract though notably hub > pc speed is a good chunk slower than hub > net speeds (a good 30-40%) Looking at that site I have the legacy ADSL hub which is more than 10 years old at this point.

They actually tried to send me a replacement once upon a time but the one that arrived was a lemon (wouldn’t even power up) and customer support is less than fantastic.

Would something like this work? https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/dsl-modem-router/archer-vx1800v/#specifications
From what I’m able to discern it still supports wifi 5/.ac standard which is helpful since not all pcs in the house can handle wifi .ax standard and should be a damn side better than an ISP provided router.

Nevermind despite having Modem in its name it cannot actually function as a modem according to their own tech support forum. Back to square one.

This is why we need to teach the kids that if you find a mysterious air vent or hatch out in the wilderness you fill it with mud or pile rocks ontop of it.

Rom, Garak, Nog, Garak again?

Don’t forget a bar, there’s literally a whole episode about how much trouble everyone on the station is willing to go to in order to continue having a place to drink.

Got Linux on my laptop, literally just waiting a year to put it on my desktop (Linux does NOT like brand new hardware)

In most of the world its participate in capitalism or go to jail, not like you can just go live in a tent in the woods without being dragged out. (Unless you live somewhere like the US which still has really big woods.)

True, however there are different ways to do it, I think its Denmark? that gets more than double the yield/acre than the world average utilizing a lot of greenhouses and what amounts to pretty much hydroponics lite. If half of agriculture land suddenly didn’t need to be used that way it would be huge.

You completely forgot:
“Actually just monetizes somethign that already existed for free”
Though I guess Ads is already the free space.

Which is a good thing, perfection is subjective and humans could never buld a Utopia for the same reason ants could build one.

Aren’t like half of those bullet points positives? Also in addition to what you said once you got a tree you got a tree, those tanks need constant maintenence and cycling which I doubt anyone is going to bother with for more than a year after installing them.

Also a lot of the cases actually reported were sports where gender doesn’t confer and advantage either way, like disc golf.

Can confirm, not even an official tester (just an open beta tester) and have acrued a reputation for having a legendary bug aura that can cause catastrophic and previously unseen edge cases to occur just by opening the software (game)

Also the implication that Bashir himself would be punished for the way he was born is straight up punishing someone for not upholding racial purity.

Hey now if we’re using the practical applications of the tech then the warp field emitters could be used to simply tear ships in half with as much or less energy than it takes to move the ship in the first place, or cause planetary cores to collapse into micro black holes, or create an inverted artifical event horizon around the ship making it physically impossible for weapons fire to pass through it because the direction of ‘through’ simply no longer exists.