If it’s housed in its own case, it’s a power brick.

This is a line lump, the alternative to the wall wart. Both were slang terms, it just sounds like only one of them stuck around.

I don’t know of a way to determine an SSID over the internet from just an IP, no. I’d either need to sniff traffic from your machine or run software on your machine to get the information to then lookup in one of the maps/databases.

It’s far from the only source of this data, and yes it can be used to geolocate you: https://hackers-arise.com/osint-tracking-the-suspects-precise-location-using-wigle-net/

I can’t find a link now, but I remember seeing an article in the past about watching for what networks someone’s laptop checks to see if they are available (saved networks it auto-joins) and using them to determine likely physical locations it is commonly located in.

No. You can get an anime body pillow, and it might be of your waifu, but they are separate things. Not all waifus are body pillows.

Yeah, I can see the bias they are trying to account for, but fail to see how excluding a birth from the statistics helps combat this in any way. Just because you stopped having kids doesn’t have any effect on the gender of your last kid.

I’m in this comment and I don’t like it.

What’s with the hate for rain sounds? Absolutely helps some people sleep.