When I went to work for post-acquisition Tivoli (IBM) they issued everyone two PCs, for the most part a pair of PPro 180s, one running Windows 2000 and one with OS/2 so that you could use it to run ACME, a screen scraper GUI for RETAIN. You had to keep Windows so that you could run Notes, but if you just used a 3270 emulator and learned to use the application directly (which was often necessary since ACME updates would lag RETAIN) then you didn't need OS/2 any more. So yes I had to have Windows, but then I also had another machine on which I could run whatever I wanted.

The Windows machine came in handy for Diablo anyway.

If so, it's a win in my book.

Thanks for proving my point. I don't know why you do that so readily, but I do appreciate it. Of course, you won't understand how you've done that, but we can add it to the list.

You appear to have your head in the clouds. Reality is where shit happens. Pretending otherwise is what's tiresome.

For some reason France has decided that A/C is bad, and they have lost over 1,000 French senior citizens to the heat waves sweeping across Europe.

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

There are what, 300 million privately-owned guns in America? Very few are actually involved in "Gun Crimes"

After COVID, its hard to imagine a county full of Karens that didn't take the free federal money in COVID money to improve air handling/filtering/conditioning in school buildings.

Are you imagining the schools have electric heat? Really? That not very common in the North East, which this county is very close to if not part of...

Uh, that only explains ONE VOTE on the planning commission - if you are correct, the others are actually hiding it...

Uh, there's no difference - Schools pay with "Other People's Money" too

Also, note the letter was sent to ALL county employees, not just the school district workers.

They are going to be spending $2M/month after July 1st for electricity - that seems like a lot...

You know, the issue could just be that the county is currently paying over $1.6M/month for electricity, and after the next rate hike they will be paying over $2M/month - perhaps the issue is they'd just like to pay less for electricity?

How is electricity generated for this area? perhaps they need to consider more economical means of generating electricity?

Uh, by definition, whatever rate the utility company sells them electricity is "market price" - they can't actually sell electricity below "market price" when they, in fact, are the market.

They can offer a discount over historical pricing, and I suspect that is what you meant.

I think the reality is that the school district has been wasteful in their electricity consumption, and that should be looked at

The school district has solar panels on their buildings, they have (some) electric buses, I suspect they have A/C in their classrooms, and who knows, maybe electric heat? They spend a lot on electricity in my opinion ($20M, going up 25% to $25M if they don't reduce their consumption level).

I suspect they can save a lot of electricity if they put their mind to it...

You do know that computers left on go into "sleep mode" which, I learned a few years ago can use less power that that same computer being turned off (by the soft switch on the case front).

(I can't really explain the why, but I looked into this for a K-12 public school system (12?) years ago and the computers we had at that time, Dell Optiplex computers, used less power sleeping than they did turned-off, waiting for the soft-switch to pressed to turn-on the system. I readily admit that this situation has likely changed in the past decade or so.)

The only way a PC uses ZERO power is to turn off/disconnect the power cord because even turned off they still consume power (not a lot, but some).

This. And configure the containers so that it takes regular snapshots, so that you either always start from the same snapshot, or are able to roll back after a crippling Window update or malware outbreak.