I don't see there being much of a sleep pattern difference from 3:30am - 10pm than 4:30am - 11pm. It's still only 5.5 hours of darkness and would require blackout curtains either way.

Any induction furnace is a very different type of device from the non existent induction oven.

With the furnace you have coils running all along the crucible which the metal you are smelting is against and then melts.

Induction is used to provide direct heat, not radiant heat like an oven.

You have an induction range.

Most of the oven parts are just normal convection ovens, though some are infrared. That means it's just a normal electric heating element and a fan. it might be fancy and have a top fan to force air down like an air fryer, but it could just be marketing BS and having convection = air fry.

The latest marketing BS I've seen is "air sous-vide". AKA a normal oven. Sous-vide works because water holds temperature better than air, and the food won't be overcooked because it is only brought up to the temperature.. Do you really want to look for 4-5 hours at 120-160F in your oven? Better to just slow cook that in the crockpot.

That was a switch to permanent "Daylight Savings Time", so in northern area it can stay dark until almost 10am.

This is to get rid of DST all together and just remain on Standard Time. It has the added benefit of not staying light until after 10pm in the summer. The only benefit to DST is right now it would be getting dark around 7pm instead of 8pm. But I'd give that up in a heart beat to have normal sleep patterns.

There are many studies that people's internal clocks follow standard time, it's almost like the people who figured it all out knew what they were doing.

No that's not correct. Anyone can stream to any device IOS, Android, web, etc on the same network the same as before without a sub of any kind.

But now if you want to stream outside of your home network you need a subscription. If the server owner has the full Plex Pass associated to the server like you do, then anyone can stream from it remotely without needing their own streaming subs.

The new "Remote Watch Pass" is $1.99/month or $19.99/year with no lifetime option. https://www.plex.tv/plans/

This was changed earlier this year. Previously people could stream remotely without any type of sub, and only need to pay for the individual app like in your example. But this was changed with the rollout of this new streaming pass who's only benefit is allowing remote access.

If you didn't have a full Plex Pass sub connected, then the external users would be getting prompted to pay for a streaming sub to allow streaming. Which was a new change earlier this year. Previously there was a one time purchase of a mobile app. These are now free, but there is the "streaming access only" sub that doesn't include the extra features of the full Plex Pass. I think people who previously bought the apps still require these subs now.

Jellyfin on the other hand just needs someone to configure a VPN or remote proxy to allow out of networking streaming, it's so incredibly convenient it's a wonder anyone would use Plex which works where ever someone is with nothing more than logging into their account in the app or on the web.

Plex will even silently handle proxying for you if you are behind CGNAT and can't get a public IP. That has to have some cost to keep this running. But so far they have stood behind their lifetime purchase which they should be applauded for.

The issue is this lessens the price difference for a PC. NVIDIA's RTX 5000 series has been available at MSRP lately.

You can build a PC that outperforms the PS5 Pro for $1,000 versus $750. (Ryzen 7600x /w 16GB RTX 5060ti)

And Sony charges $80/year if you want to play non-F2P games online. So the break even price is down to three years, and that's not taking into account all the free games, and greater discounts on games for the PC.

Switching from farming to an urban society and birth rates as a whole will drastically fall in a country.

But in the US during the Great Recession that began in 2008, birth rates were down for several years. After 2012-2016 when things recovered did people have kids.

Many people are also putting off having children until their mid 30s if not later which leads to greater risks of complications.

Yes there are people who want a large number of children who aren't discouraged and only end up with one. But many people who wanted 2-3 may decided to just stick with one.

Do you know what also happened to Japan in the early 90s? The crash of the 80s bubble economy, and the resulting almost 40 years of stagflation.

When people have uncertain futures many will opt to not have children, or just one child.

Changing up society to not require both parents working which then complicates childcare would cause a major shit.

But expectations also have to change, you can't be leveraged out the wazoo and busy running little Timmy to sports ball 1, and then sports ball 2, then art class, swimming, etc. Having your children enrolled in multiple activities and never having free time instead of growing up and exploring with their peers is having issues with social skills, and less community engagement.

The latest low power CPUs have impressive performance for their 15-40W full system power budget in mini PCs. I saw a drop in my power bill and I'm not as hot by switching out some old systems for new power efficient ones.

Of course anything that's doing large compute, video encoding, 3D rendering, AI, will still need more powerful systems. But 10-15 year old enterprise servers being VM hosts for normal homelab stuff can be swapped with much more power, noise, and space friendly options.

Are increased wages a bad thing? They haven't kept up with inflation over the last two decades.

And who said anything about only hiring citizens? The goal should be to make it less expensive to hire citizens, but if there is a labor shortage then workers could be brought in but it will cost the company more than just hiring a local.

And it is a global market, but wouldn't the cheapest just be out sourcing with workers from cheaper cost of living countries living in those cheaper countries and telecommuting? That was tried an lots of work is moving back. So there needs to be a pipeline to train people in the necessary skills and foster high quality jobs for citizens. The government should be doing what's best for citizens, not corporations.

I recommend reading up on the current situation that's been around for over a decade. Things have changed in the almost 30 years since you used the program.

The majority of H1-B visas are used by have a handful of consulting firms that under pay their staff. Many require managerial kick backs and staff are staying 4-5 if not more to an apartment or condo. H1-B recipients can change jobs why finding a new corporate sponsor. But many are unable to so the choice is keep working and living in the subpar conditions getting low pay, or having to go back home.

Having a program where you can bring in needed talent is a net positive. But there's tons of fraud going on with faking of education and credentials. Initial video calls where someone is sitting in front of the camera and being giving responses on what to say. And that's if the person on the camera is the one who physically shows up.

Why would companies bring someone in if they were able to hire two citizens for the same wage?

H1-B is being abused to out source and bring in a bunch of cheap labor. Take away the "cheap" factor and things change.

Besides the increased wage requirement, having every H1-B position require companies to also pay into a system that trains citizens on the needed skills would over time solve the issue that there's no one local with the needed abilities.

Do you mean the O-1 Visa?

To qualify for an O-1 visa, you must demonstrate extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or extraordinary achievement in motion pictures or television. This requires evidence of sustained national or international acclaim, meaning you are one of the small percentage at the top of your field. You must also be coming to the U.S. to continue working in your area of expertise

Everyone seems believe H1-B's requirements are that of the O-1. But H1-B in reality has really just brought in cheap labor and suppressed wages.

For supported games cloud saves just work across Xbox, PC, and Cloud. If you have a game suspended on your Xbox, but then play and progress on your PC. When you come back the console will sync the save and kick you back to the game's main menu to choose to resume from the new last save or load a different one.

The change here is the Xbox app used to just list PC games to continue playing. Now console games that aren't on the PC will be shown in it and launch the game via cloud streaming.