Recently resurrected a nano; it’s 20 years old. Works fine, but I haven’t done the music transfer yet.

My full size iPod though won’t boot. Just clicks and reboots constantly. I think the hard drive is toast.

Well, yeah that’s the point. ಠ_ಠ

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It’s shaming them publicly that did it.

It’s not all genAI. One example they give is scanning the road surface with the bin lorries. Not a bad idea

AI assistants for the last couple of years in adult social care and children’s services

Fuck no. What the fuck? That’s sick.

Low tech options: a smart plug that power cycles if it can’t ping eg google and have your edge devices plugged in there, or a timer that reboots the firewall at 0200 daily. I haven’t implemented either of these, despite having a network other people rely on about 400km from my house. I should remediate that…

I have decided dual firewalls are silly without dual internet and dual power, as both those things go down more often than my FW.

I have two instances of pihole on two hosts, because I block dns outbound to the best of my ability.

I have a reasonably latent connection and using pihole and an anycast upstream resolver is noticeably slow. It falls out of pihole cache so freaking fast with these low TTL. I have set up unbound with aggressive caching prefetch and if I recall correctly pihole has a toggle to serve expired. Serving expired in unbound, before pihole, breaks stuff that rotates IP fast.

Nothing a bit of spray paint won’t cover.

Edited - with all the cameras at gas stations maybe a sticker is a better idea.

Yours would look better no doubt.

I think that’s the ticket. The county should install anti car raised beds. I know they can find someone who knows how because every US embassy has them.

https://protogetic.com/vehicle-barriers/marshalls-landscape-protection-rhinoguard-25-30-surface-mount-pinned-planter/

And it should be a roundabout.

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re out of ideas!” is the carbrain response to every problem.

Everything is car centric, and if you’re not rich enough to own a car, you’re basically excluded from public life

Amsterdam changed.

Paris is changing.

… København

Seriously, visiting North America is “we’ve tried adding a [car] lane to the highway and can’t figure out why nobody is cycling or taking transit.”

Transportation networks indeed make little sense when there’s an ocean in between. Too bad the USA can’t play nicely with others.

Common standards would be a challenge, in some areas -can’t do electrical because 50hz vs 60hz and deep integration with USA grid. The NEMA plugs are a bit of a nightmare. But for vehicle safety and emissions it would be a step forward; more countries adopted the EU than US standards there.

Most of Europe does just fine with English speaking on their own, and some would argue better than the Brits.

Just don’t let the French hear the Quebecois, they’ll veto straightaway.

a/c units shouldn’t exist

I concur. I think there’s two good reasons why and one bad one.

1. Cold climate heat pumps are a reasonably recent creation and have different configuration/refrigerant characteristics than a standard AC unit. If I’m not mistaken, they’re less good at cooling than a straight AC to allow the larger operating range, which might be notable in the southern states
2. USA manufacturers have not been developing their own cold climate air to air heat pumps. Until the rebates kicked off, cold climate heat pumps were very specialized equipment that trades weren’t familiar with. Now, the ones that are being installed with USA brands are almost invariably Midea or another Chinese brand (and some Japanese).
3. Why sell a heat pump with reversing valve for the same or similar price when you can double it?

Also, electricity costs so much more than gas in the USA that if there’s a gas main, it is often cheaper to run a gas furnace at 70% efficiency.

Hopefully. But what are the chances?

It’s better than the alternatives, unfortunately. I really want to dump Apple; the products are waning in quality and the company is spending a lot of time genuflecting for king tangerine. But it just works.

“Just install grapheneOS” my brother in Christ, I have no time or interest in fucking up with the primary communication device I rely on to reach family, friends, and work. I don’t have time for the hobbies I want to do let alone adding work-adjacent activities under the cloak of a hobby.

I imagine that military gear is really built around layers because it could be used for guard duty or a march, which have very different thermal needs. They might have zip out liners which I’m a big fan of for varying conditions.

Military gear is pretty variable in quality. It’s an exercise in cost engineering usually.

As noted, fjallraven makes decent gear. Down is a good material because it compacts well and puffs back. Fur lined hoods are good because it cuts wind exposure. Some furs are less likely to trap moisture and get frosty. Faux furs are no good for actual arctic use.

Line go up.

Actually, TFA is specifically intended to make line go down enough that the authors make a pile of cash.

Unfortunately almost nobody cares about what UI and others are doing.

Is this why there’s never stock? It’s going to Russia?

The city shouldn’t sell permits that are only permits when it’s convenient.

But if you live in a neighborhood that is car dependent and you don’t ensure that there’s enough on-lot parking for the vehicles that will be required for your household, don’t be too surprised when parking regulations mess your life up.

It’s a bit like buying a suburban house backing onto farmland and being surprised when the view gets developed.

There’s a few factors at play, which the article rather rambles around a bit.

• vet clinics are increasingly owned by private equity groups. This is primary in recent years, and linked neatly to the “untapped market potential” of the next item
• people are more willing now than ever to spend money on their pets - “pets are family”, “I’m a pet parent”. I heard about a hip replacement in a senior Guinea pig, an animal with a lifespan around 6 years.
• medical costs are expensive, and in countries with single payer or public healthcare, a lot of those costs can be transparent (for humans) which leads to sticker shock “how can the blood tests be £150, my GP doesn’t charge!”