Fortunately I don't need to filter my water, tap water quality in my country is one of the best in the world (so much so that Kikkoman built their European soy sauce factory here in the Netherlands specifically because of the high water quality). I only filter water for my espresso machine to prevent scale buildup. Never tried boiling water for tea on my induction top, smallest size is 12cm (4.7") and the power setting delivers 3680W so it should be very quick, but still not as quick as just having instant boiling water on tap.

Instead of a mug, you could try a small induction compatible kettle or just get a cheap electric kettle. You can easily find a >3000W kettle for less than €50.

In my kitchen I have a tap that provides both hot and boiling water, to do this there's a 7 liter insulated vat of water kept at boiling temperatures at all times. Because it's well insulated it uses surprisingly little energy to keep it at temperature, about 10W (and between solar panels and battery storage, power usage isn't that much of an issue to begin with).

When you ask for normal hot water, it will mix the boiling water with cold water to provide instant hot water. You can also hook up a regular hot water line from your heater, that will make it switch to the regular hot water line once hot water arrives, but for regular kitchen use that's not even necessary so you can also run it without connecting it to hot water.

The boiling water tap is amazing. You can make tea directly from the tap. Want to cook some pasta, simply fill a pot with already boiling water, no need to wait. Also small stuff like adding some water to a simmering sauce that's getting too thick without it going off the boil. Quickly blanching some vegetables for stir-fry by simply putting them in a sieve and holding it under the tap. It seems like an unnecessary luxury but it's surprisingly useful.

According to Wiki itâ(TM)s the spin-off of IBMâ(TM)s infrastructure services devision.

If they were forgeable they wouldn’t have gotten caught now would they?

Yes, a properly implemented passport is effectively unforgeable. Unless you can get your hands on the government’s private signing key or find a way to break RSA or ECDSA, in which case we have bigger issues.

This is already the case for your passport. The same goes for the vast majority of countries. I the EU all ID cards must also implement this.

I’m surprised it isn’t already. In the EU all ID cards must have a ICAO 9303 compliant chip. The US passport already does, so I would have expected the ID card to implement it as well.

It’s strange that the US is at the cutting-edge for some technology and decades behind in others (banking, basic government administration).

I think it still applies, as this will be about an AI which, by its own failings, will end up being removed or turned off. Yay for fewer overlords!

Literally every door in the building I work in has this, RFID doorknobs on every single door.

They are probably confusing ‘nobody noticed’ with ‘nobody cared’.

Are Android tablet apps even a thing or is it just a bunch of stretched out phone apps?

What lord of the ringish content? There is nothing on TV+ that would fit this description.

Sure you can, but do you actually do that?

In my experience those games you loved back then disappoint on replaying them. Our memories of those games are better than the actual games. In my opinion itâ(TM)s better to let them stay memories. It saves you from playing a disappointing game and ruining a good memory.

If Mozilla wants privacy by default, then why not include an ad-blocker and enable it by default. Why is Mozilla trying to appease the enemy?

A laptop with a larger battery would be a hard sell, Iâ(TM)m not sure there is a large enough market for one.

FAA rules limit lithium batteries in laptops to 100Wh. Something like a MacBook Pro 16â, already contains a 100Wh battery. Any larger and you canâ(TM)t take it on a plane. Who wants a laptops you canâ(TM)t travel with?