Not sure you're aware that parent only listed SOME of the potential costs. There are numerous more, appliances, plumbing issues... ugh, they are always expensive. I ended relining all the sewage pipes under my home all the way to curb. I've probably spend almost 30k in plumbing, 20k for the roof, 20k in AC units as my house has two.

Oh yeah, then because of said plumbing, you have termites and related damage, roof rats that tunnel under the house and come up under the bath tub.

As a home owner, it can be quite expensive over the long haul, there are a lot of good arguments with renting and investing all that money you would have spent on not just upkeep, but also improvements.

Of course I have a ton of equity now and it does more than cover what I've spent keeping the roof over my head. Home ownership is not for the faint of heart.

To clarify, OS X was descended from NeXTSTEP, which was built on Mach and BSD.

Interesting hot take on 7 lines of words making a wall. I did not state Morning Joe or MSNBC lied, I said they omit information when it doesn't fit their narrative Polls results ahead of 2016, downplaying Joe Biden's age as a problem, and hyping Kamala Harris' chances, especially as they got closer to the election are all examples of this.

If you're an MSNBC watcher I suggest you switch to TYT, you'll be better informed and none of these things will surprise you in the future.

I conflated nothing in my word wall, I'm not sure you understand was conflate means. I literally described how they are different from their right wing counterparts.

NPR is regional, some regions are more biased than others, you will however be hard pressed to find situations where NPR is factually incorrect. That is the difference. Fox, OAN Newsmax, MSNBC, they all get facts wrong in their rush for a 24 hour news cycle. The terrible three for the right also spread misinformation to fit the narrative of their owners. MSNBC will omit information if it doesn't fit their narrative, they don't outright mislead nearly as often.

NPR however, stays out of this all-together and follows actual journalistic principles even if the stories they choose to cover are often considered liberal, although I'm not sure what that means since its just a thing that happened and they provide details about it.

That said, lead in Huel Black Edition especially is still less than a typical meal and consumer reports is fear mongering to gain exposure because that's exactly what they do. It may mean that Huel sources their Pea protein differently and that results in less cadmium which is missing from this conversation along with lead.

The other side of this coin is just showing how f'ed we are that so many rely on quick meal replacements because everybody is working far too hard and far too much and often don't have ready access to anything healthy. My data center days I bring a Huel shake and throw it in the fridge because otherwise I may not eat anything for 12 hours unless I skip out to get some fast good which is definitely worse than Huel.

Sorry, you sound old. I suffer from workhorse syndrome as do a great many of my peers. The harder you work, the more efficient you work, the more work is piled on. Work ethic no longer plays a part, the company gives me the work of 5 to 10 other people because that is definitely cheaper and more efficient for the stock price. In reality its abuse of your best resources and creates unsustainable output.

Much like the resistance to making things energy efficient to reduce the impact of climate change, current behavior is not sustainable. The end of the road isn't quite clear but you can't always be running a marathon.

You can simply look at the wage stats. Productivity has skyrocketed over 40 years. Wage growth has stagnated, this means there is no longer a reward for many people to work hard, why would they have interest in it then?

Employers have a deep sense of entitlement without giving anything back these days. It has to be a two way street otherwise its not sustainable in either direction. My yearly review used to always be with the owner of my previous company. We both understand that my raise was him investing in me, and my continued employment was me investing my time into the company. The goal is that we are both successful. He ended up selling the company but it was a good ride while it lasted.

yes, but poster you're replying to was specifically stating that you're not going to know if Biden's policies were helping because you've stopped analysis which is exactly why this is silly.

So the reality is as follows: broadband subsidies continue giving telecoms billions of dollars every single year but now we don't care if they spent the money on yachts or actual telecom infrastructure. Biden's policies were trying to help them accountable for our tax dollars, something you would think we would be important in the age of DOGE.

I see Xen Orchestra supports S3 compatible buckets, does that mean it supports immutable storage? Backup discussions are almost always lacking when talking about platform shifting. I find Azure immutable storage, especially in the archive tier are more affordable than AWS, they don't mention that. I assume Backblaze would work as they offer S3 compatible buckets but that term has burned me on several occasions. Just because there is support for S3 compatible buckets doesn't mean your solution will work. Ran into that with both Synology and QNAP for local storage.

While I sympathize being in a similar position myself, adding a new cluster to an existing vCenter with distributed switch and doing storage vmotion is quite friendly. In Hyper-v/Azure Local land you can use the Azure migration tool however and your downtime is largely limited to the length of a reboot. Not zero downtime like vmotion can provide but not that bad. I did it for 300 VMs to get to Nutanix AHV using Nutanix Move which is very similar.

Changing platforms alltogether is always going to come with some heartburn. if you were only using basic features then its pretty easy. If you were using NSX and need to migrate to Datacenter firewall then heaven help you, they are not the same. SCVMM does a lot of the heavy lifting there but man, in a HA environment it sure requires a lot of resources compared to vCenter.

For me, the amazing part of all of this is that it used to be good enough to know one platform, these days you have to be proficient in several to be successful.

That was the whole point of essentials bundle, for about 50k you could have a 2 node cluster with an active/backup san and have enterprise uptime on a small business budget. We did these every single day.

Combine that with needing licensed versions of ESXi to take snapshot and thus do backups efficiently and you had a very easy to maintain system and it was relatively cheap.

I have plenty of customers that have RTO/RPO measured in seconds that are quite a bit smaller than you'd think. I just wish Zerto would support AHV or really any OpenStack based solution.

It might be a factor. However, the population is growing, and while the demographics are shifting a bit, they are still a lot of kids, reaching drinking age.

However there are milestones that us older folks had while growing up, that no longer seem as important to the younger generation.

Watching a PG13, R Movie, Getting a drivers license, drinking, smoking, Having Sex, Getting Married, Going to College, Getting an Apartment, getting a house... All these are in decline with the younger generation. Some because of increased difficulty with finance, due to increased cost of living rising higher than salaries, and also prevalence of online culture and access to direct media, so people are finding Cliques that are not necessarily tied to doing particular things, and accessing stuff they are more interested in.

They are plusses and minuses to this trend, but I wouldn't spend too much time complaining about it, younger folks will be doing their own thing that is different than the way older people did for generations.

No, but normally as production increases a lot of the carbon offset is mostly better managed at scale.

For example, a Diesel train may burn 4 gallons of fuel per mile. however being that it carrying so much payload that they rate it 500 miles per gallon per ton.
While an Electric Car that says has 100 eMPG will not be as carbon low in energy expenditure if needed to pull so much weight.

That number seems like the cost to make the material, from start, not in sets of hundreds of thousands of drives.

Well Tech companies had been less than strategic around their hiring and firing practices for the past decade or two.

They try to hire as many people as possible, give them some work to keep them busy. Just so these employees will not be working for their competitors who are trying to hire them for the same reason and give them busy work. Then when money gets tight, they dump them, not realizing that that busy work they were one actually became something profitable for the organization.

They leave, some start new businesses or others get hired by a smaller unknown firm with the skills they learned at that company is useful, and allowed to make the next big thing, that undoubtedly hurts the original company.

AI is a useful tool. However it is being over used, often in cases were standard logic based software can do the job just as well, for a fraction of the computing resources.

Not necessarily. As stated in the summary, people on UBI were more willing to change jobs, or continue further education.

While this might lead to higher education prices, but not necessarily additional inflation overall. I expect those who changed jobs, may had chosen careers that may pay less where they have a more fulfilling career without the worry about meeting basic needs. Other options would they may have chosen higher risk and possibly higher reword type of work as well.

Speaking from my own personal experience as an American. There were many opportunities that I have personally rejected, because my family conditions means I need a steady reliable employment, which is often rather dull, and not pay as much as other opportunities. The more exciting jobs available, would often have a smaller salary, as my experience wouldn't transfer over as well. Or work for a company that may have massive layoffs.

What would most likely happen with UBI as a side effect would be lower salaries in general, with perhaps less expectations as a balance. Causing spending demand to mostly stabilize and remain constant.

Lucky for us (at least for this topic) we live in the 21st century. Where Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries, are cheap, have good energy density, and are very safe.