That is what I do - but there are a number of reasons it isn’t a good answer. Electric is a lot cheaper, and much better for the environment (My city is powered 100% via wind). However if I have to sit around waiting for my car to charge so I can move it on demand instead of doing those things I’m there to do the whole isn’t acceptable.
My city is full of level 2 chargers, and I get nasty messages when I use them because when my car is finally charged I’m in the middle of something else (I have a PHEV that only does level 2 charging, and I need a charge to get back home on electric only on the rare case I go downtown) Even with level 3 though, the time is long enough that you will need something else to do for that half an hour and nobody can plan that close. Most cars with level 3 charging have enough range that most people won’t need to charge on a normal day, but when you do you will need something to do in the mean time and if that something else isn’t about the time of a charge there is a problem.
inconsiderate people may leave their car plugged in for longer than needed.
This is a wrong take. It needs to be normal to leave your car plugged into a charger.
Cars take too long to charge for us to consider it reasonable for someone to stand next to their car waiting while it charges (even worse - as I write this the temperature is -17C, but even when things are nice). We need to expect that people will be doing something else while charging and only come out sometime latter to move their car. If someone is at work they can’t leave work until lunch time. If someone is at the symphony/theater it is impolite to leave when the car is done charging as it disturbs everyone else.
Of course if your car just as enough range to get back home so you don’t need to charge for normal trips that is better. However when someone needs a charger it should be considered normal to stay there for 6 hours, there needs to be enough to handle that. (obviously people making a road trip will disconnect as soon as the car is charged so they can continue on, but if you make the trip to a distance city for an event you may need to charge during the event to get back home).
I mean, the US did sign a pretty big treaty saying they would…
NATO is big, but Russia has so far avoided anything that would trigger it. They are skirting the edges, but so far nothing that matters.
The US did exactly what the treaty with Ukraine said: they brought this matter to the UN security console - where Russia used their veto to ensure nothing happened.
The problem is “Evil” people who see rules now know what abuse they can get by with and they have incentive to find all the weird loopholes the the rest of us wouldn’t think of. I don’t know a good answer to this.
True, but be careful, many of those you list appear to be small business because the big corporate owners have decided to have different name out front which makes it look like small business but they are not. You can tell because they are trying to sell you “services” that you don’t need.
minis like the N100 when you are using it to do things has a lot more ability and uses a similar amount of watts (or can do a lot more for more for just a bit more watts). However when the box is just sitting there with the power on but otherwise doing nothing it uses more power than ARM based single board computers. So the real question is how much will they want to do when they are using it, and how often will that be. If they are watching movies/playing games for 16 hours a day the mini PC is the better answer and won’t really cost more energy to run. If they are leaving this on, but only using it for a couple hours per month than a device that uses less watts will save money.
That risks escalation with countries that can enforce their soverntiy if such a country flags the ship
It is my obwervatoin that as houses approach 325m2 people start looking for more luxury in the space vs more. Beyond that more space isn’t needed unless you are rich enough to win the cities largest mansion competition and so people who are rich but not rich enough to compete don’t go bigger even though they could.
Live in a pup tent and you want a bigger one, but in a bigger tent you start thinking lights or a cot before bigger.
there is of course a lot of variation. you can be happy in anything - but you will want more anyway until you get to about 325
Good thing about form letters is staffers that see a lot start collecting them and report number who sent the same - if you get a lot sent. Bad part is a unique letter shows effort and may get more attention.
The guarantee was done exactly to the letter: the US brought this to the UN security console. Of course Russia then used their veto power to ensure the UN did nothing. Any lawyer would be proud…
NAS can be two different things.
NAS is just “network attached storage”: a computer that has a bunch of disks attached to your network. IF you put a single disk on your network and nfs/samba to share it you have created a simple NAS - I strongly recommend you put in more drives for redundancy, but that is all NAS is.
Often NAS is taken to mean not just the above, but a custom machine that does the above. The downside is these custom machines are often slow, and put weird hardware/software on them such that if the whole box breaks (as opposed to just a single disk failing which they are good at handling) you may not be able to recover anything. One variation of this you want more space and discover you can’t upgrade it at all. They are an easy way into NAS, but the downsides are such that I can’t recommend them anyway.
Many NAS work like that though. Hardware RAID always seems to work like that so if you get a fancy card that supports RAID you been make sure you have a good long term support contract that will be there for you when there are problems (if you are not paying hundreds of thousands per year you don’t have a good support contract)
Not all are that way. Many run ZFS which is great for this and you can replace broken hardware and recover. BTFS is commonly used as well, probably not as good as zfs but likely good enough.
I’ve been using fastmail for a long time for this now. I’ve been happy, not to expensive. I’m surprised they haven’t been recommended, normally when the question is asked there are a million fastmail recommendations
There are 26 letters in the latin alphabet. There are between 38 and 49 sounds in English depending on dialect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_phonology (I’ve seen reports as high at 56 but I can’t find sources so I’ll stick to Wikipedia which is often accurate) There is no way to have nice spelling in English. Some languages using the latin alphabet have various accent marks which help. At this point the dialects of English are different enough that reformed spelling would need to start with reforming how we pronounce words. (there are other alphabets in the world, I have no comment on if any would be better)
English was written long before the printing press. However it always (at least to my knowledge) used the latin alphabet which predates any written English I can find by more than 1000 years. Note that I’m not an expert on English linguistics, so if is someone claims something before 1200 I’m not aware of it but that doesn’t mean they are wrong.
Changed my family dashboard from magic mirror to a home assistant dashboard. I’m missing some cute things, but the major functions work better, and I get some options that I didn’t before.
The US promised to bring this to the UN security console and did. However Russia has veto rights on the UN security console and so this went nowhere.
RaidZ1 is not the same as a mirror. I’m not sure if you are allowed to have Z1 with only 2 disks, but if you are you still shouldn’t because while it scales down that far it still does parity calculations and writes that to the second disk instead of just writing a copy of the data (the parity calculations probably result in the same data, but I doubt this is optimized)
Every system of voting has negatives. First past the post has issues, but it is still massively better than what most people have.