and the boys were already ten and eleven years old when I entered their life

I hope you got a good relationship with them! My son can't even talk yet. So, right now, he's just this cute thing that runs around and causes trou^H^H^H^Hgood things to happen.

 

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

A big factor driving EV sales recently is the introduction last year and this year of new, lower-cost (but 200 mile range and under) EV models from the likes of Hyundai/Kia and Renault. Renault, especially with the 4 E-Tech and 5 E-Tech models and the upcoming Twingo E-tech, models well-suited for the narrower streets of Europe.

What self hosted solutions have you been looking at?

I've used TTRSS ever since Google Reader went away, however long ago that was. Works like a champ, and there are one or two Android clients that talk to it.

If every person using an AI assistant becomes a mechanical turk for sending data back upstream to the AI provider as a means to bypass robots.txt that's what isn't cool. Local usage for the benefit of that user should be ok, but not the follow on effects.

The southwestern quadrant of the continental USA has some of the best climate conditions in the world for solar power. Much of Australia and lands along the Mediterranean Sea are the same way. Indeed, that's why there are large solar farms in Spain itself.

But do we REALLY need gigabit broadband for everyone? I think for most Americans, 256 megabits/second download speed is more than sufficient for most uses including working from home.

Maybe the standard for everyone should be 256 megabits/second download and upload.

Correct. Air pollution is definitely a defining factor. We still have many who grew up when air pollution from automobiles was still a serious issue, The long list of air pollutants from the exhaust of gasoline or diesel fueled engines can be quite long.

Here's the problem: one bad winter and all that renewable power goes out the door. And Europe north of the Alps can experience harsh winters.

...Solar power is viable because the Mediterranean climate is high conducive of solar power installations. I can see a lot of them in Spain, Italy, the Balkans and Greece.

But northern Europe? Not so much. In winter, shorter daylight hours and harsh winter weather makes solar power much less viable.

Because this report is almost telling use to just stop eating meat from cattle, pigs and even chickens, let alone seafood. It almost sounds like they want us to switch to an insect-based diet, which may or may not be a good thing given that we haven't really tried to harvest insects for food on an industrial scale. Besides, the phrase "everything in moderation" makes way more sense for a health perspective.

Those hybrid systems found on many Toyotas sold outside the USA aren't the sophisticated hybrid systems like we see on Prius or the current year Camry models. I do think we'll see much more advanced battery packs on the US market Toyotas with hybrid drive to improve fuel economy and/or offer even more range on inital battery power (maybe over 100 km or 62.1 miles) by 2028.

I expect that to drop dramatically because Toyota just recently opened a new battery plant for their hybrid models. And I wouldn't be surprised that Toyota will start sourcing battery packs from third parties for their burgeoning hybrid lineup.