Fear of nuclear power is part of the reason we still burn so much coal, oil and gas. This is why thousands die every year in mining, drilling, fuel transportation, domestic gas explosions, and millions die every year from air pollution.

Even using big numbers for deaths at chernobyl (by estimating unmeasurable small risks and multiplying them by large populations (linear no threshold model)), nuclear is historically far safer than fossil fuels, and even safer than renewable. Reactors from the 70s are an order of magnitude safer than chernobyl (water cooled, graphite moderated is a terrible design) and modern designs are safer still (passive safety beats complex systems).

The ubuntu installer lets you install over the top of an existing install without need a seperate /home. As long as you don't tick the format box, it will only delete system directories and leave things like home. Mint is based on ubuntu, so it might work.

how many transistors can you etch onto the side of a silicon atom?

"Do you really expect me to do coordinate transforms in my head while free falling in a plane?"

There are some pretty dubious energy projects on indiegogo.
https://www.indiegogo.com/expl...

Also:
"The Department of Energy decided forty years ago to put all its fusion money on one device, the tokamak, and is not funding anything else"
What about NIF? or is that DoD?

photons can scatter from each other (its just that the cross sections are low)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are lots of reasons that the insurance company may decide not to pay out. You might be better just putting into a savings account each month.

The one time you accidently leave a window open is the time you will get burgled, and the insurance will just laugh at you.

My tip for insurance is to look through the conditions, implement all the security things they need, and put what you would spend on insurance in a savings account.

Bavaria doesn't count as Germany?

Some people believe that rates of radioactive decay have changed with time, to allow the isotopic abundances that we see to be consistent with a 6000 year old universe and in order to be able to discount any archaeological or palaeontological result they don't like. Showing that nuclear physics was the same 2 billion years ago is unlikely to change their minds.

(UK resident) I am happy for it to work automatically. Just like I am happy that if I need to see a doctor or go to A&E it is paid for automatically.

Here you don't pay any income tax on the first ~£10k/a that you earn. To be paying enough tax to be worth complaining about you must be taking home enough money that I have little sympathy for you.

But maybe some people like spending their life being annoyed about numbers.

Most of your radiation exposure is from the radiation that's been in the rocks for ever and from cosmic rays. Releases from nuclear power are tiny compared. Radiation safety limits are incredibly conservative.

RaspberryPI was designed to be cheap and makes various compromises, e.g. very low end CPU, low memory, USB connected 100MB ethernet, fussy PSU.

Novena looks easily powerful enough for normal use, plus has nice features, FPGA, gigabit network.