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Cake day: December 17th, 2023

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  • Two Raspberry Pi Zero W arrived in the mail today. One will be a VPN gateway for when I’m out and about and I wanna log into my home network.
    The other one might be a print and scan server.

    I’ve set up the basics on one of them and connected to an unused USB port in my TV for power so that I can ssh into it and tinker with it during idle hours.

    I have a bunch of SD cards leftover from work, and I intend to set up various images for various uses, so I can move the boards around as I please and just swap the card to whatever I want to do.

    The boards are dirt cheap, so I kind of wish I had bought more than two.















  • It’s not. But orbits do tend to coalesce around the same plane, this is true. Planets pull on each other, and over time this results in orbits being on a similar plane. However, it’s not perfectly flat - there is some variation, just look at Pluto as a good example.

    The same orbital mechanics that cause star systems to look this way also translates to galaxies.

    In short, stuff likes to stay together, but when said stuff is in motion, they instead form orbits of similar inclination. The rings of Jupiter and Saturn also display this. If I remember correctly, part of that mechanism is called “Sheparding”

    And if you were to go what one would consider “up” from this percieved orbital plane, then you’d be going in that direction. There’s nothing special, there’s just less stuff there. The same orbital mechanics apply, you’re just on a much more inclined orbit.