That seems like the obvious compromise. You can drop POTS when you have FTTH provisioned to an address

GPT-OSS-20B gives me 34 tokens/sec on a 4 yr old gaming laptop with a 3080 RTX - smaller models come in faster still.

But that's an externalized cost - the business isn't paying it and the homeowner isn't directly paying it either. So it's really a win-win.

It would be interesting if you could bring it into your basement in the winter and heat your house for free - that does start to make a little more sense.

tbf that's kind of the definition of a good salesman!

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Forgot to add: if you enable IPv6, be sure to use the browser extension IPvFoo. It shows a small 4 or 6 in your URI bar to let you know what protocol you're connecting to. Once enabled, you'll see just how much stuff out there actually is IPv6.

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

I suspect it forces them to consider that you could apply that same logic to the US if gas prices were to rise. The country has cheap ubiquitous gasoline and electricity, but one of them is a lot more prone to market shocks

But a lot of the time these companies do already run some systems.

My employer runs mostly it's own in-house coded system that's been built over 25 years. I'm effectively one of two developers maintaining it and for a long time that was patching critical bugs and adding a few key features each year. I had the question raised a year ago if we could added asset tracking capabilities - since we already had records for employees and a location based inventory system it seemed like a really natural fit but we didn't have the resources to develop it so operations picked some random saas project and i think it works fine.

However if someone brought me that question today, i could spend 30 minutes and outline a really solid project definition for claude and have it back the next morning. It's still a lot more challenging to get claude to work on the highly specialized tasks that are deeply tied to our data but for cloning a $10/user/month saas app, it really hits the ball out of the park.

They are going to have a hard time expanding into scotland https://www.urbandictionary.co...

Also this is pretty rational government behavior. You've got a country that produces copious green energy (and has the potential for much more) and where oil is expensive. It's exactly the right thing to do.

There are lots of them in Colorado. Here's a report from Kremmling, CO which is one of the coldest places in the state which has been running electric buses for years.

From the story "A lot of the winter days will start off 20 or 30 below zero and bus drivers say at those temperatures, it's hard to get diesel buses running, but their electric buses are ready to roll right out the door." also they note that they have a significantly lower operating cost than diesel.

Certainly you have to design EVs to work well in the cold, and they definitely have reduced range which you have to plan for. But this sounds more like a case of in-ept government choosing the wrong vehicles and not any particular issue with EVs.

> Now would I want to do this for salary and long term, no....but often that old saying "make hay while the sun is shining " is apt advice!!

Yeah I'd have jumped at that when i was younger. If there was a chance to pull in several times my then-salary (+stock options i presume) by working double the hours then I'd totally do it. Honestly at 45 I'd probably still do it for a year for triple my current salary - that'd be enough to pay off my mortgage.

I have my doubts about the efficiency of it all - in the rare instances where I've put in a 70 hour week I notice the precipitous drop in my productivity much about 50, but as the employee that wouldn't be my problem.

I'm not seeing a paywall on the site. uBlock Origin must be doing something.

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.