Add to that photo editing (as much as GIMP is great…). I would guess DAW and video editing would fall under that category, too…and good luck finding many AAA open source games.

I’m holding out for Aperture Science, if for no other reason than that their AI has a dry, dark sense of humor.

UN-Verified

Unfortunate abbreviation…

I think it has a lot to do with disposition and convenience. I’m lazy, and I don’t like to drive if I can help it. But I live near enough to public transportation that we’ll spontaneously decide to hop on the subway and grab dinner on the waterfront.

It’s not the money that’s preventing us from hopping in the car to go to some new beach for dinner, it’s the convenience.

I mean…it depends on the job? I go on walks during working hours all the time to clear my head and think about a problem I’m working on. I don’t try to hide this from my manager.

Just use your $200+ Fluke to check the batteries, problem solved.

I think an issue here is that taxonomic and colloquial definitions don’t always agree.

Spiders are colloquially bugs, but they’re not taxonomically “true bugs” (which is itself a colloquialism for Hemiptera). Tomatos are colloquially vegetables but taxonomically fruits…but afaik vegetable is a purely colloquial term anyway.

And as someone else in the thread mentioned, colloquial berries are not always taxonomic berries.

So…colloquially, “plants” sorta means, “macroscopic multicellular living non-animal thing,” but taxonomically it’s something else.

We tend to use between 3kWh (vacation/idle power consumption) and around 8kWh per day. If we switched to electric stove, water heater, and heat pump, and add a hot tub, that’d increase substantially. But if we added solar (on our long Todo list…), the battery in the article (60kWh) would probably be able to handle all our storage needs, and it’d fit in he garage (bonus of it can be placed outside/under a deck!). I live in a major city, but I would absolutely love to effectively be off grid.

Exciting stuff — it seems these are touted as being extremely robust/safe, which is of course important for me if it’s going to be in/near our house. Storage density not a huge concern, but price is somewhat important — let’s hope this sort of thing ticks all the boxes.

And your VPN connection to work knows your endpoint…

Interestingly, there’s another way of finding out if your coworker is in the office — just walk over to their desk.

Just want to give props to OP for playing the role of host/MC very well.

Yeah, you can also find “crystal radio” kits — radio receivers that use only the received RF to produce sound (no external power source).

That’s insanely fast. 30mph on a bike (flat, no wind) is real work. And that’s with proper gearing and, you know…wheels.

Is there any automation available for this? Do you fix them sequentially or can you parallelize the process? How long did it take to fix 450?

Real clustermess, but curious what fixing it looks like for the boots on the ground.

Mitch Approved™

Oh for their cloud services absolutely, you’re right.

CrowdStrike incident happened too soon. Could have made serious money…

“…today is opposite day.”

Can you program some keyboard-presenting device to automate this? Still requires plugging in something of course…what a mess.

As much as it pains me to say it, it’s not really Microsoft at fault here, it’s CrowdStrike.

I rode in a 3 a while back, and to me it felt like a futuristic econobox.