My 16 year old Samsung TV would like to argue otherwise! It's a beast and 1080p is plenty good for me! But my Samsung kitchen? Holy crap it's all so terrible...
This comment hits hard. There are a lot of ignorant people in my life that spout idiotic stuff and I brush it off, I disengage. I could take the time to listen, converse and correct but I don't. I disengage, I brush it off as just "Oh boy, there goes crazy Joe rambling again! But generally he's a good guy so I'll tolerate it". I need to start taking the time to push back and correct people I care about so they understand people are judging them when stupid things are said. Thank you!
I rent two apartments in a state where all of that is not possible. Evictions take months and if repairs are not made quickly the tenant is legally entitled to withhold rent. But while on the topic I am most certainly on the hook for inflationary swings in:
any and all repairs
gas and electric
insurance
property taxes
landscaping and snow removal
There is no free lunch, no one side is correct. Stop pretending this topic is black and white. There are some good landlords, many bad. Same goes for tenants.
I've owned and deployed a lot of pi, every model, and in my experience when I have similar instability as you described its related to the sdcard. Either the sdcard itself or the tray soldered to the pi. I had one pi that would corrupt the sdcard without fail after 2 months and I played with bending the sdcard metal tray inward a little to help press the card better into the contacts and the problem went away. Try fiddling with the sdcard holder or different sdcards.
You won't miss him. You'll miss the idea of who he was
This hits hard with some personal relationships I lost during COVID because they were anti vaccination. Couldn't be bothered to care how their decisions affect others, that was 'their problem'.
Most compostable food plates and containers are made water resistant using PFAS chemicals which can leech into the food. I steer away from them as much as practical.
I host it on the host that runs the script and proxy it. I have one mission critial pi that is my uptime bot, pi hole and backup VPN if my elaborate server falls on its face. But you could easily use docker volumes too, and have the script push to that folder.
Similar, but more fancy, I have a bash script that runs every 15 minutes and ingests a config file. The config file has a super simple CSV format of every service I have. It checks that all the services are operational and generates an HTML file from it. If any services are down the HTML will show its down, otherwise its just a helpful link.
Older speakers like that use always on transformers, constantly wasting energy to keep the core energized. You're correct those cannot be made any more, they must use efficient switch mode supplies.
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.
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.
My 16 year old Samsung TV would like to argue otherwise! It's a beast and 1080p is plenty good for me! But my Samsung kitchen? Holy crap it's all so terrible...