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No tides as a large moon would knock any other moons out of orbit - this means the moons are too small to support a tide.

Location matters. Cheyenne with a population of 65,132 is large enough to expect good medical care (though I didn’t look this up - you should!), and is only a few hours drive from Denver. It is also small enough that you can live practically in the city while also being in the rural exurbs. Something like this may be a good compromise depending on exactly why you want live in a rural area and what you want. There are other “cities” with good enough medical care available (and don’t forget to look just across the border at other states). Maybe you can find a best of both worlds situation.

That said, you should be thinking about what next. Because at your age things can go downhill fast. You need to have good long term care for a nursing home (make sure it is good - you don’t want to be in a nursing home that stinks like a sewer system so don’t buy on cost). Make sure you have a plan on how and where you will move “back” when/if life forces it on you.

Remember farming/ranching is dangerous. Make sure you understand all the safety processes and don’t cut corners. You are doing this as a hobby so feel free to lose money or hire out things.

That said, staying active in old age is your best way to get and stay health such that you can do those things. Those who sit around on the couch after retiring tend to die quick. My great-uncle ran his North Dakota ranch until 95 and only stopped because he couldn’t care for his wife’s Alzheimer’s and run the ranch, I believe the activity is part of why he lived so long.

Versital perhaps but overrated since there are plenty of other chemical mixtures out there and a different one is usually better.

I have known a lot of good looking girls who I only want to see via binoculars - that way I can enjoy the eye candy but their terrible personality is invisible. Fortunately there are plenty of nice girls that are also good looking that I can get close to.

Assuming you can get track and such parts. The right ones are not always available fast - but otherwise yes put the fire out and repair in hours.

The code allows for a disconnect switch near the oven instead. I’ve never seen this in residential applications though.

You should know that wd is for water displacement. If you are trying to do anything else there is a better chemical you should use instead.

How small? I bought a N100 system from Protectli which I’m happy with. It should work better than a pi according to the specs - but I never tried a pi so I can’t say if it really is. However this is bigger than a pi. I have an old system76 Meerkat, which is much smaller (I think this is the NUC form factor?), but my system is 8 years old and so not really comparable to anything modern, but that is an option.

Depends on what is inside, intel N100 or better CPUS are considered really good in general. There are some bad CPUs in mini-PCs though. Make sure the hardware has drivers for your choosen OS, not everything supports linux [well] even today. And every once in a while someone makes a PC with bad design and so it doesn’t work well for technical reasons.

There are a lot of small PCs that are low power that will work well. I haven’t used GMKTech’s, and one look at their website says I won’t try to navigate that mess. (why does everyone need a subscribe to our newsletter popup blocking my ability to see anything - I avoid anyone who abuses me like that)

A bookie is stopped from not paying up by reputation- you won’t bet with them again if they don’t pay up.

the bookwork is hard to make interesting though.

Validating restore is one of the harder things. There are some people who restore means it works on the exact same hardware - commonly hardware vendors will change internal details without changing model numbers so this plan often fails when it turns out the computer restore to is slightly different and so you don’t have the right driver on your backup (My dad used to repair computers for people who did this - he often charged thousands of dollars to fix a 10-30 year old machine that a new PC could run circles around. IIRC most of the machines were HPUX and not PCs so the cost of porting to a new machine was ). Most people figure they will be replacing the computer with something newer and so instead install the latest OS and then restore just files, now you face the question of do you restore applications or not?

I would test restore on a cheap raspberry-pi, assuming the backup is from x86, or on a cheap ebay x86 if the backup is from ARM. For most self hosted people this is really what they want to know can be done because they don’t know what the replacement hardware will be. The goal here isn’t a usable system, it is enough that you can show your files still exist.

Well for sure that is better than nothing, so since you have it keep doing it until/unless you have something better.

Your next task is to make sure you can restore the data. Since the data is - probably - saved, you have good odds. Practice restoring means that when a computer breaks you will faster be able to get the replacement running again. Practice also means in the off chance something isn’t saved you find out about it while your old computer is still running.

Then we need to think about threats.

Ransomware that encrypts your disk will encrypt that shared drive too. I don’t know what unraid offers, but you should enable read-only snapshots (now practice restoring them!), and save those snapshots. Ideally you want some pattern like all backups for a week, then 1 backup a week for a month, then 1 backup a month for a year, and 1 backup a year for the next 7 years. This way you can just go back to before the ransomware and restore from backups.

You might delete one file on accident. You are likely not to realize it for a while. One more reason for the pattern saved above. Make sure you can restore individual files.

Your house might burn down destroying all computers. You want a copy of all that data someplace else, maybe more than one someplace elses. Though perhaps you only want a yearly and weekly copy. If the data is encrypted (very good idea for off site!) make sure the key is saved someplace else secure where you can find it - a key you can remember is a bad key so thought about how to save the key is important.

You might die or become mentally disabled with important files that your heirs need. Pictures, wills, tax/bank data (including passwords!). document the above well enough that someone else can at least figure it out. Ideally you would know someone unrelated to you into computers and leave them a lot of money ($5000?) to figure out your system and get your heirs the important files after you die. (this should be a great business opportunity, but odds are not enough people will pay for it)

There are a lot of variations I didn’t think of, but I think I covered enough to start you out. You get to decide how far you go. I’m not far enough myself, but at least I have one backup in my RAID.

One last thought - you might have some data you don’t want backed up. If you delete the evidence of your crime but the backups are there they can get you. Your secret porn collection might be legal, but still not something you want your heirs to find out about, maybe keep it in a different way? Your call here.

So long as you roll the weighted die first, the odds the unweighted die lands on the number you need is 1/6. If you roll the unweighted die first though, your odds of getting the needed number are no longer 1/6.

get a popcorn popper pan. They are not expensive and well worth it if you like popcorn. You can buy bulk popcorn kernels, choose you oil and salt thus paying for the special pan in weeks - all while getting much better popcorn.

Jellyfin is on his nas which we assume has more power.

To quit driving you need to live in a world where that is possible. Go to all the hearings about transit and speak up - make it clear you care about service not the distractions that so often get money. Trains are useful but don’t let an expensive train to nowhere take money from the bus budget - but also don’t blow your budget on more buses when you need a metro.

there is no place in the world where transit couldn’t be better.

It has long been thought that cheap drones are too easy to counter long term and so they wouldn’t last long as major battlefield forces (they will still have much use in minor battlefields). Doesn’t help Ukraine though which is in the now not 10 years from now. Only time will tell how drones play out over time.

Car designers trade off style, aerodynamics, cost of design work, and cost of manufacturing (and a lot of other things, not all I’m aware of). If you want an economy car you trade things off differently, you take the first design that meets your needs instead of tweaking the design for perfection.

I used to have a Geo metro, 55 horse power in a very light car. If there was any headwind I couldn’t reach freeway speeds. Which is to say most people need more than 55 horse power.

What do you define as a super car? The things that make a car great at high speed are mostly the same things that make for a fuel efficient car at lower speeds. Downforce is one of the exceptions, but until you get to the fastest highways not much downforce is needed. Which is to say replace a super car engine with an economy engine and the resulting car will likely get better fuel mileage than either, but it wouldn’t go nearly as fast. The Corvette is often the most fuel efficient car in GM’s line up because the advantages of a light aerodynamic body are far more than the cost of a massive engine.