Not much of a shower thought.

Your complaint is that the world isn’t perfect.

“Nazi” Oh, now I’m convinced. 🤦🏼‍♂️

I get the thinking (because it’s my first thought too), but the basic force formula (F=M*V^2), means velocity is the greatest influence on Force.

So braking from the higher speed will result in a greater force, meaning more energy dissipation.

I think. Maybe there’s something I’m missing here, like including the time to convert that energy to heat via the brakes. Perhaps in the end it’s all the same (braking early and keeping speed down), since we’re always converting the energy imparted by gravity to heat.

Depends on conditions.

Traditionally potatoes were harvested in fall (just before the first freeze) and stored in a root cellar with stable, cool temps (above about 45) and moderate humidity (IIRC, between 40-60%), and well stacked (good airflow between them, like with straw or even in bushel baskets. I’ve read storing them in sand is a great way to stabilize moisture loss.

Stored like this they last all winter. They tend to dry out some, get soft and wrinkly, but completely fine to eat.

My root cellar is low humidity and a little warmer, so at 3 months they’re a little dry and wrinkly. I’ve never, ever had mold on potatoes. Mold is a result of high humidity and no air flow.

They do require attention while stored - like other fruits and veg, if one goes bad it’ll affect the others.

"alleged fare-beater had charged at the officers with a knife and made verbal threats against their lives; "

The fare jumper sociopath escalated to violence and threats with a deadly weapon. That’s the person responsible here.

I’m sure you would use your Jedi mind tricks in this circumstance.

Read up on how knife attacks go down in close quarters. Theres a reason British police frequently wear knife vests.

Circling back around, I do feel like not all hope is currently lost.

My own contradiction: I feel pretty cynical about it, and yet I’m working on my own solutions for my family and friends. Part of me thinks it’s pointless, but I refuse to give in completely.

I already try to use better comms, minimize the data my phone shares (setting up a de-googled pixel now), and have always avoided most social media (never been on FB/Twitter, etc, as in never even gone to the websites).

I dunno, all my younger family and their friends are neck deep in the shit, and aren’t interested in hearing my “conspiracy theories”…despite them being front page news every day (all the ransomware, hacks, etc).

Be the change you want to see.

Since people won’t (for example) switch to privacy-respecting comm apps just because I ask them too, I’m building my own self-hosted box that I can duplicate for my family and friends.

My goal is to provide them with a single box solution for DNS filtering (PiHole), media server (including auto disc conversion and sharing between boxes), local backup (which will replicate encrypted backups to the other boxes similar to what Crashplan Personal did), phone backup and management (MDM and file management from PC), image and file sharing (something like Facebook for family only), instant messaging (most likely XMPP), etc, etc.

Yes, it’s a pretty bold plan, but my family and friends are tech illiterate, so if I want to see an improvement in privacy for myself and them, it’s on me to do it, and make it attractive for them.

Because what you wrote is unnecessarily convoluted, circular and overly complex.

Going right along with that is your sophist projection of someone “complaining”. Nowhere was there a complaint. That was nothing more than an argumentation tactic by you: sophistry.

I don’t.

They are crazy fast on their element.

30 years ago

Are those seven separate physical drives?

A reset shouldn’t affect them, but if you want to be sure, first you should have backups, like with a cloud provider. For example, my data is replicated in 3 places at home (to protect against drive failure and me being a dumbass), and one online backup.

If it were me, I’d make sure I had a backup, then I’d disconnect those drives just to be sure. Software can’t delete a drive that’s not connected.

Then I’d do the reset, setup the machine, and then reconnect the drives.

Good point about platform agnostic remote for management stuff. VNC is ideal for this.

And systems like Proxmox use a web GUI for most stuff, it’s a touch slow but I think that’s mostly just waiting for the system to finish the actual changes I make, and not the UI.

It uses some form of VNC (forget the name). Performance is fine for the VMs for non-video stuff.

You can run whatever you want inside a VM too.

Works for me, but damn it’s dog snot slow. Like typing takes 1-2 seconds for each character to show up

Serious question, why not use current wifi for that kind of distance?

I know, it’s probably not really easy to make the comparison at this point - power usage is definitely part of that equation. Though the lower bandwidth of this doesn’t seem quite enough for video?

Edit: I misread the bandwidth as 347kbit, not Mbit. So yea, this looks very promising for video, especially given the limitations of Wifi, plus using less power.

How do you know how much it’s filled?

Also, hot water heat works differently than steam, and many steam systems have been converted to hot water, so it’s not easy to know just by looking at a radiator.

As other people have said, let the maintenance folks handle it. They know the system.

And?

There was a post recently about “.LAN” recently being added to the DNS spec