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1883 was the year Joseph Mortimer Granville the "father of the modern elctromechanical vibrator" wrote a book about it.

These early vibrators became popular among the medical profession and were used for treating a wide variety of ailments in women and men, including hysteria, arthritis, constipation, amenorrhea, inflammations, and tumors; some wounded World War I soldiers received vibrotherapy as treatment at English and French hospitals in Serbia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrator_(sex_toy)

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Why are space shuttles always rockets, and take off straight upward?

So spaceplanes are a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceplane

But they do take off vertically. From my experiemce with kerbal space program, it's because of the density of the atmosphere. The closer to sea level, the denser the atmosphere and the more drag from air resistance. So instead of burning a ton of fuel trying to get through the thick atmosphere, you go straight up until it's thinner and then you start to turn. Makes a huge difference.

There's also the fact that bigger rockets with more fuel create more drag so the solution isn't "just make it bigger"

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Possible virus?(Firefox)

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From mozilla. I'm guessing that the links were hosted/owned/etc. by google. When your system resumed it only partially loaded the sponsored links and you were left with the text of the url.

Your system is fine security wise, but privacy wise pinging google servers everytime you open a new tab is not ideal. This type of stuff is why I use Librewolf. Of course it's up to you how much it bothers you. You can disable alot in vanilla firefox too.

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The Cloudflare Poison

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Tailscale keeps the private keys locally, . It just facillitates setting up wireguard. They could steal your private keys, as could any program you install with root access. But it would comepletely destroy their business, and it's open source. I really dont think they have anything to gain by tricking everyone

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Am I overthinking it?

I think that it's definitely a good case for overlaying with install. They say to use it sparingly because it increases the chances of something breaking, but that doesn't mean it will. Something like a VPN usually needs liw level access that container isolation makes difficult.

I've only had 1 issue on silverblue years ago where I couldn't update because I had vim overlayed and they fixed it within a day or two.

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Fedora 41 with Proposal to Adopt DNF5

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Yeah pretty much, but it's wayyyy faster. There's times where it feels like dnf is hanging trying to download metadata that's 25KB. I have 1Gb down and it takes like 2 minutes, its ridiculous. I know in the grand scheme of things I'm being petty. But it's frustrating when the metadata step takes longer than downloading 500MB of packages lol