On 2017-10-09, rhkra...@gmail.com <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, October 08, 2017 05:07:13 PM bw wrote: >> On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Emanuel Berg wrote: >> > Actually I don't care about wireless stuff, I always considered it >> > unreliable and error-prone and it seems at least in this case I was >> > correct :) >> >> I know there is a legacy of this kind of thinking, but really Linux has >> come a LONG way in a very short time. Right now millions, if not tens (or >> hundreds?) of millions of people are using wireless reliably and without >> error. In any case, I hope you'll stick with the install and get the >> issue resolved and post a solution. > > Well, just the other thing that affects my thinking (iirc, this is the first > time I chimed in on this thread)--I would just as soon have fewer > electromagnetic waves passing through (or into) my body.
Do as I do, RH: avoid space travel when at all possible (ionizing variety of EM waves). I know, I know--you really don't feel like canceling those Mars vacation plans, but there you go. Here's a balanced article on the subject (with a particular focus on the brain, my second favorite organ): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-certain-frequencies/ > IIRC, the higher the frequency, the higher the energy in those waves--thus > the > more likely to have an effect. > > -- "A simpering Bambi narcissist and a thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf." Christopher Hitchens, commenting shortly after the nearly concurrent deaths of Lady Diana and Mother Theresa.