There is a company called Grundfos that makes good circulation pumps. :D
Well I don't know if enshittification has, hit them yet but they used to be silent efficient and have a long life. I know one person is just an anecdote, but the circulation pumps I have, have been running for 20 years, and they adjust their power to match the load needed so when there are no draw from the loop it runs much slower.

You are right about the add ons so IDK about all use cases and destinations but when we travel between Palma Copenhagen they are extremely cheap. it is like 50eur on the right days. But that is only doable because we don't even have carry on luggage, and everything in an apartment in both ends.
As soon as i need to bring anything with me it it might as well be Norwegian or SAS. they have better take-off times and with SAS apparently I have free high speed Starlink with my Eurobonus membership.

There is more to it than it being low latency high bandwidth, it is also moving from a ground based system to a satellite based.

Well I don't think you fly a budget airline for amenities, it would be add on purchases and it seems to me that people who use them are very price conscious to pay for Starlink. And IIRC Ryan Air does not have any long haul flights so people will probably rather save the money and just listen to music or something for 3 hours than pay for internet.

at least 17.

I have been training Spanish for around 400 days. the last change broke everything. they said something about the track i was on was changing but the level would be the same.
For about a month now(iirc) i cant follow any of the conversations anymore. often i only understand 1 word in each sentence and i have no idea what they are talking about.
It is probably a good time for me to just stop. :/

I would probably run Linux if I had the time to set it up on my gaming PC as gaming is all I use it for these days.
But since running Windows 11, I have migrated back to MacOS, I can run all the tools I need for my work. SSH, web brower based tools, Office 365 that customers use to communicate(incl Teams), Teamviewer etc etc.
Windows is a mess and I swapped back to Mac. If it wasn't because i work 12 hours a day, I would probably start checking Linux as a desktop again.

Citris remote apps and desktops are moving to XEN.
The UNIX dept are building OpenShift, more and more new systems are deployed in containers so why not run Kubernetes somewhere else than VMware?
All of it is happening because of Broadcom and the desire not to be dependent on them and their licensing anymore.
So we have shifted strategy from everything under VMware because it is easier to we want freedom to choose solutions even though it might take more resources.

They are also falling behind a lot in charging speeds.

Open office bullshit with 100 desks cramped in one room. need to wear noise cancelling headset all day to be able to focus on work. shitty screens, mouse and keyboard.
At home i have:
- Peace and quiet environment to focus on work.
- 2* 27" screens
- A proper keyboard and mouse
- Better headset for teams meeting
- Don't have to stand up in a "phonebooth" with my laptop to have teams meetings with a 10 year old headset that sounds like a tin can.
- Don't need to listen to music or youtube videos to drown out the chatter of all the people shouting to the guy that sits 2 desks behind me.
- No people that sits on my desk when they want to talk to the guy to the left or right of me, making my screens and keyboard dip and wobble.
- No disgusting toilets, where know my pants are going to be pee soaked if they touch the floor when i sit down there.

This summer i have changed my position on how i want to spend the rest of my life. I was supposed to work another 15 years until retirement age at 70.
I can't do this anymore. I am willing to sell my house, car and get rid of everything I own and move into something smaller, and even rent.

I have 2 jobs offers from people who need my skills, it can all be done remotely. it is less pay and also way less hours. I can move to a warmer, cheaper country within the EU. live on the money from the sold house and working half of the day remotely.

Work in the office sucks so much that nothing that money can buy is worth it.

I will move on, but my machine that runs Windows 10, does not support Windows 11.

I don't really care about TV or movies anymore. Also don't have much time for it.
But I wanted to see the latest episodes of South Park. I can't find any steaming service that offers their latest episodes in my country(Denmark). Their own side used to stream their show. IDK if they still do that but they didn't allow it outside the US.

Yes, I could pay for a VPN and find a streaming service and go through that, but it is not worth it to me. I don't "pirate" it because I don't care that much to figure that out and spend time on it.
So they could have made money from me if it was easier and readily available. :)

ChatGPT has done this for a long time, you can turn it on/off by yourself. If you subscribe it has a larger memory of how to respond with relevance to you.

Wasn't this what Bitcoin was supposed to help us avoid?
I haven't been following the whole crypto currency for a while, what went wrong. Too volatile? I remember hearing something about it not scaling well for small transactions?

Turn off AI when they have a power shortage. :D
migrate the workload to a data center somewhere else.