Proxmox ftw.
It’s open source, has amazing backup features, is rock solid.
Virtual,Box is ORACLE.

We recently had a major fire that knocked out our server infrastructure.
Our SAN and NAS were replicated to another facility but not our servers.
We had recently changed from HyperV to Proxmox running around 45VMs over 3 servers.
We had proxmox rebuilt on emergency hardware within 24hrs.

Proxmox is open source, and has amazing backup infrastructure.
It’s been rock solid for us.

I've been using Piros Tree Style Tab (ie Side Tabs) in firefox for 15 years now.
I still don't get the hate for Firefox. Works great for me.

Nope.
Until Solar, Wind, Nuclear,Geothermal displace 100% of existing electricity use, the balance has to be made by Gas, Oil or Coal. Until then, your electric car is coal powered.

Add in batteries, cloudy days requiring huge inter connectors from other parts of the country and it’s no longer 7c.

Patents should have an exponential function.
First patent is free.
You thousandth patent is $10Million per patent.
And no cross licensing from related entities.

Yep... my middle son had his very last ever high school exam this morning, before he graduates, (physics).
Comes into our room just before 6AM saying his sim is broken and wanting a paperclip to reseat it. Took about 5 minutes to work out it was Optus.

THIS dependency on always on internet creates lots of problems for a cashless society. If war or disaster (or you get 'de customered by the banking system for your social media posts or political affiliation) hits, we're screwed!

This is Australia. We don't tip (unless its a very high end restaurant).
Tipping is almost a uniquely North American concept designed to allow restaurants to underpay their staff and thus hide the true cost of your meal.

In fact the price shown in Australia must include all taxes, unlike USA that loves to add all sorts of fees to the advertised price.. like state tax, resort fees, mandatory tips, etc etc.

Yep.
I know God is not popular on /., but one of the defining marks of Christianity, is we are all equal before God, King and Pauper.
Thus Christian countries tend to look after their poor and even give dignity to prisoners (Although the USA, having worshipped money for so long now is doing poorly in this regard).
Communism rejects the spiritual and turns their people into 'units of work' for the serving of system. Thats a big demotivator and thus you have a country somewhat devoid of humanity and still reaping the consequences of Stalin's legacy.

Try the backwater of Australia where 1G/1G is costing me $500/month.

Sounds like given enough time, all crypto will be ‘lost’.

Stainless steel works better for eggs.
Thin layer of oil (we use macedamia) and no sticking but the eggs have to beaten. Unbeaten eggs will stick.
Stainless pan on an induction takes 30secs to heat and virtually no cleanup and will last decades.
Much easier to take care of than cast iron.

It’s been interesting watching Dr John Campbell on you tube going from raving advocate to completely scathing of mRNA vaccines.
Even on /. I was surprised by the almost blind defence of Pfizer et.al. when they haves been fined Billions in the past for unethical behaviour.
It’s clear now that mRNA escaped the injection site, lodged in other organs and produced inflammatory responses, including clotting, in a small but significant number of people and the overall mortality rate has significantly increased in most highly vaccinated countries.

Yep,
I dropped 30k on a NI pxi ATE system as I thought it was the best. But what a nightmare the whole NI software ecosystem is.

And it makes it unfair for small companies that can’t take advantage of the big companies that pay almost no tax.