It’s called suspension of disbelief! If this were real, could it work?

Thanks, didn’t know about Heroic Launcher, will try it out for GOG games

Where is this message coming from? It’s obviously not written by Xiaomi. If fastboot isn’t available, what is available to show this error?

Did it work? As I said, the ports on the router look a little weird, but if a normal network cable plugged into them then you’re good.

As others have said, you weren’t being dense at all. Your question wasn’t stupid, just a little misguided, and it was very quick for us to figure it out with just a little bit of back and forth. I wish all tech support was this efficient!

BTW, if anything I was being a bit rude when I said I wasn’t sure why you thought the other end needed to be different. Apologies for that. Looking at the photo of the router you sent around the same time, I can see why you thought that, it really does look different.

The router ports are too short, wtf is that?

The ports on the router look weird. I want to look more into this but I’m afk for the next hour. Will look it up more afterwards.

What router is that?

Then you just need a normal Ethernet cable. I don’t know why you thought the other end needs to be different.

Is this the hub in question?

I think you need a perfectly normal Ethernet cable. It would help if you show a photo of both the router and the hub.

Everything since the invention of the wheel.

I was going to say that this might actually be a good idea, but then I remembered how often AI summaries get key details completely the wrong way around.

I still think it’s a good idea in concept: modding is hard, or so I hear, and this could be a very valuable tool if it worked as it’s supposed to. I doubt it would.

There are some details that I’d have done differently too, if I was somehow forced to implement something like this. For example, for each point in the summary (e.g. “talks about US politics”) there should be a list of comments/posts by the user to exemplify what they say and how they write. It’s useless if the summary doesn’t show you what it’s based on.

I don’t think so. They aren’t compatible. Even in the photo, you can see that the right cable only has 2 pins, while an Ethernet connector has 8 (I think). Definitely more than 2.

What are you actually trying to do? What device are you trying to connect, and to where?

My guess is that you’re going to need a modem, but please give more context.

I see, the reference is lost on my on multiple levels. Oh well, it happens.

Help a guy out

Honestly I have to disagree. All my recently purchased appliances: microwave, washing machine, dishwasher and induction cooktop, had detailed instruction manuals that were genuinely useful, especially where the finer details aren’t obvious from the device itself.

Heck, even my wireless earbuds had a little bit of useful info, like how to force them into pairing mode.

Of course, all those manuals contained those nonsense safety warnings too (and I read every word of course! :P) but that’s neither here nor there.

I never smoked anything.

I hardly ever drink alcoholic beverages but that’s mostly because I don’t enjoy their taste and mouth/throat feel.

I have nothing against drinking, as long as it’s not overdone and (obviously!) not combined with driving or other dangerous activities. Under those conditions it’s genuinely harmless fun and socializing.

The only time I was remotely drunk was at a wedding where I found a wine I actually liked. I think I drank the whole bottle, or maybe half of it, something like that. I liked the feeling of how my muscles are loose and don’t react normally. I didn’t feel like my thinking was compromised, but who knows.

Even if my mind was intact, it’s obviously no state to drive if my muscles don’t do what they would. I have no idea how some people actually get behind the wheel in this state.

Emoji domains can be registered using punycode, and you’re right that it’s up to the TLD whether they’re allowed or not.

For example: http://📙.la/🐶

📙.la is encoded using punycode to http://📙.la/

🐶 is URL-encoded to %F0%9F%90%B6

Giving the ‘true’ URL http://📙.la/🐶 which then redirects to https://emojipedia.org/dog-face

Emails should generally use @xn--yt8h.la instead of @📙.la for maximum compatibility. I’m not sure if the email spec allows punycode.

I scored 16/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

This was fun!

Edit: people, upvote the OP, not me

While you’re right, I think there is no right answer here and actually the decisions are probably the best they could have made.

Taiwan flag up for 12 years, fair enough.

China complains? Well, don’t want to make an enemy of China and it’s a tiny change, why oppose it? Just do as China asked and be done with it.

Taiwan complains? Oops, don’t want to make an enemy of Taiwan either, so their flag is definitely going back up. But we can’t take down China’s flag for the aforementioned reasons. But now the Taiwanese flag is up because Taiwan asked for it, not because the council insisted on keeping it.

After this “stay neutral” comment, any further complaint from either Taiwan or China won’t achieve anything. They are literally treating both parties equally, i.e. neutrally.

We’re all playing checkers and this council is winning at 4D chess without even realizing it.

Great question, very interested to hear the answer if anyone knows. Please mention me, future posters!

I expect the answer to be very different for Gaza and for the west bank.

My best guesses (NOT BASED ON KNOWLEDGE, JUST SPECULATION):

West Bank perhaps can connect to Israeli telecom service providers. I’m guessing that’s what Israeli settlements in the west bank do, so no reason why Palestinian cities wouldn’t do that too.

As for Gaza, again their only telecommunications have to be through Israel. It appears that Israel can literally just stop the internet service (and electricity and water for that matter), and Gaza would be in the dark. The fact that Israel isn’t doing this is a bit of an enigma to me - not because I think they should (I don’t), but because it’s very obvious the the Israeli government thinks it should. Some ministers have literally said as much.