Well, Con Edison shut down the Indian Point Energy Center for politically-inspired "reasons" so they need to get power from somewhere.

Most of the electrified NY-area trains (Subway, et. al) were powered by clean energy from the Indian Point nuclear reactors since 1962(!!) and have been looking for a more affordable, sustainable, and reliable source of energy since the nuclear station stopped generating electricity in 2021.

I would start with the Orange Pi RV2 and go from there if it's missing the interfaces you require.

Here's part of the whole story (he made Bleem!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's just drinkypoo being drinkypoo.

ChromeOS doesn't run MS Office. It runs the crippled web version of MS Office called "Microsoft 365" in its web browser.

Chromebooks that have removable cases can be easily "jailbroken" with a jumper, a soldering iron, or a crumpled-up piece of aluminum foil jammed into the jumper socket.

This is true.

But I don't like "unified memory" when it comes to actual real-world performance.

Here in British Columbia we just changed our clocks for the last time and will remain on UTC-7 indefinitely. Parts of B.C. (the northeast part) have been UTC-7 all year for a long time. The southeast part has been Mountain time (UTC-7/UTC-6) for a long time. Neither are changing how they do time.

I applaud losing the time change but I'm not crazy about permanent DST. People obviously haven't thought this through, what it's going to feel like come November.

...laura

Near-lifelong B.C. resident here...

People have grumbled about time changes as long as I can remember. Pick one. Stick to it. Just do it.

I can't say I agree with their choice. Not so much the crazy late sunset in the summer - we're used to that - but the very late sunrise in the winter. The sun will still set by 5 in December and January. So what?

...laura

Then there's the twin turbo plug-in hybrid V8 BMW XM.

"Please" and "thank you" are relics of a bygone age to most people.

The one that pisses me off is the habit of customer service people addressing men respectfully ("sir"), but not addressing women with respect ("ma'am" or equivalent). This isn't an issue in places like Texas, but it's very much an issue here in Canada.

...laura

The current and previous Xbox is just a Windows PC without the Windows part. Same with PS5 and PS4.

Of course, I meant "Xbox Game Pass."

Naturally, I meant "Xbox Game Pass."