College professor here: we’ve all seen a major decline in social skills over the last 4+ years, rather sudden and precipitous, so clearly not just the “normal” changes we’d been seeing over the previous two decades. Loss of basic functionality is the most glaring, like students who simply cannot bring themselves to talk to a professor face-to-face, or speak in class, or make a phone call, or make a decision about their own education, etc. etc.

The most glaring last fall was an entire class of mine that would arrive early and sit in the dark…despite my explaining how to turn on the lights (i.e. the wall switch by the door). When pressed they collectively said they were “afraid they’d get in trouble” for turning on the lights (despite my telling them to do so) and were afraid to “do anything that would draw attention to them” like being the one person to turned on the lights. So next month with my next group of freshmen we’re going to have a talk about basic life skills on day one, starting with turning on the classroom lights when they arrive.

I read that entire article, thank you. Explains a bit why the company I work for seems really hesitant to hire more software engineers.

My mother in law tells me how worried she is for my daughter and how unfair it is trans kids will compete with her in sports and use her bathrooms. Thanks for the heads up, keep hiding in your house in the woods and leave the parenting to me, this doesn’t affect you now shut up.

+1 on this idea, going to toss in my recommendation for an AMD 5600g second hand. Its basically a laptop CPU with built in GPU that handles my jellyfin transcoding without issue and has a super low idle power rating if you pair it with a quality, small PSU.

I didn’t down vote you but honestly interested in an adult conversation regarding your stance. If all I use is MS365 and I can use it in a web app with full 2FA how am I a security risk? I can access all the same things on my personal laptop, nothing is blocked, so how is Linux different?

Don’t ask for permission if most of what you do can be run from web apps. Its worked for me for a couple of years, I just can’t call IT :)

I am a landlord, I’m sure I’ll catch hell but whatever. I bought a dumpster of a house in a popular metro area and proceeded to pump $300k of my own money as well as doing half the repairs myself because I’m physically and mentally able. I also do all the maintenance on the property and I’m on a first name basis with the tenants. They call me for anything they need. Not everyone has the means to operate like this, but I don’t suspect anyone in this thread will listen to those realities. I now own a house that is worth a decent amount more than my total investment so I rent it way below market rate because I have two awsome tenants living in symbiosis and I don’t want them to leave (selfishly, because its more work for me). But I guess according to this thread I’m a leach. I’m tired of reading these childish black and white arguments, the world is inherently grey, nothing is simple and easy to boil down but everyone sure likes to try and make a simple agreement.

Think about it this way, many Starbucks are in strip malls or developments where they dont own the property. There is consolidated waste management for the site and the property manager handles it, its out of their control. This is 100% reality, my wife used to work in commercial real estate.

I think the problem comes in with the deceit. They have recycle bins even if they don’t recycle and its out of their control. They’re lying to the customer, that is the crux of the problem.

Does anyone know if running a webtunnel attracts additional unwanted hacker attempts to a domain more so than just hosting normal stuff? I presume its all bots and the simple act of hosting anything gets lots of exposure regardless.

I will wait patiently for the Satanic Church to argue in court that if there is Christian curriculums then there must be Satanic and other religions. Then they will withdraw the law and the cycle will continue. Donate to your local satanic temple, they are magnificent trolls.

Just a heads up Baker Creek has a dubious history of right leaning support and using their adopted Asian son as a prop to advertise Asian veggie seeds in their catalog until folks online asked about it. Just a lot of questionable behavior.

http://www.theredneckhippie.com/2019/04/baker-creek-seeds-supports-racism.html?m=1

https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/comments/j1kqfp/controversy_with_baker_creek/

That was the first thing I thought of, all the asymmetric yellowing from exposing the plastic flame retardants to UV light.

Thats friggin bananas. Do you live somewhere with lots of hydro power? Your cost is less than 1/3 mine…

My SSDs use negligible power at idle, I only noticed a 1w increase when I installed two. Almost ‘free’. Also your 0.14kwh is almost certainly just the cost to generate the power minus the delivery fees. Where I live the delivery fees double my true per kWh cost. Double check your bill and divide your monthly consumption by your monthly payment to find the real cost.

Any quality brand SSD (Samsung, Kingston, WD, etc) is going to be more reliable in every way compared to mechanical disks, they just cost a lot more right now. Do NOT buy off brand, random Chinese SSD, you will regret it.

When I bought them 2 years ago power in MA was $0.46 per kWh, this included transmission costs and all the other fees. 15W cost me $4.80 a month, so $57.6 a year and $230 over 4 years. At the time 14TB mechanical disks were about $300 so it was about a $270 ‘premium’ for solid state over mechanical so I exaggerated the ROI, but to me the 2x price premium was worth it for silence and no latency on retrieving my data. So in summary the ROI for me was more like 8 years, ignoring the many advantages of SSD.

Does no one care about power consumption? Mechanical disks use, in my experience, 7-15w all day all the time just idling. If you live in a high energy cost area the ROI on going SSD can be as low as 3-4 years. If you can afford it, splurge for SSD. I spent ~$800 on two 8tb SSDs and I’m very happy with the choice.

Thanks I recently purchased a lot of land so I’m going to be scaling up my garden substantially. Winter squashes are easy but I always struggle with root veggies. You just keep them in a cold corner of your basement and had good luck?

How are you going to store all that goodness? Looks fantastic.

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https://www.waldenmutual.com/