Yes and that’s why I said 8 billion and not 80, I accounted for the fact that this was one year worth of work.

Spending 8 billion to find half a billion doesn’t sound like something worth bragging about. Let me know when they 20x that number.

What???

Charged overnight most PHEV’s have plenty of range for the average person’s daily commute and there’s really no reason range can’t be improved. That’s a huge reduction in emissions.

It’s not though. There are lots of use cases that electric vehicles are not suitable for (many covered in this thread). Sure there’s people who could switch and don’t out of fear or unwarranted concern but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re simply not feasible for a lot of people currently and PHEV’s are a great middle ground that can still vastly reduce emissions and that’s the goal here isn’t it?

It’s a great stop gap and it’s the bridge we need. It would reduce the great majority of emissions (those produced by commuters) while allowing people to drive longer distances without worry.

It buys us time to build out charging infrastructure and introduces people to the concept of a plug in vehicle.

Expecting everyone to switch to full electric overnight is unrealistic. There are still a lot of logistical issues we have to solve.

I wish communities would start banning that bot. It’s summaries are mostly awful, typically missing critical details in an article to the point of completely altering itsintent.

This example is particularly egregious though, I think it had a stroke.

I’ve had two Dell laptops that ran Ubuntu perfectly. Dell sells laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed and also certifies models for Linux. Their Linux support is top notch in my experience.

Honestly this is probably me going off of outdated or even incorrect information. The fact that it has little adoption for that use case or as a root filesystem is probably the larger factor.

It’s been awesome to see Ubuntu embrace it over the last few releases though and that’s certainly starting to change things but since it’s not part of the Linux kernel that gives most other distros pause I think.

I was referring to its lack of use as a root filesystem. It’s primarily used for large storage arrays both at home and in data centers.

I’m really excited for this. If it lives up to the hype I think it could become the defacto filesystem some day.

BTRFS, despite being a great filesystem, got a bad rep mostly due to its poor RAID5/6 implementation. It also lags behind in performance in many configurations and has been mostly relagated to a specialty filesystem. While it could make a great root filesystem few distros have adopted it as such.

ZFS has been similarly pigeon holed. It’s typically only used for building large arrays because it’s not very safe when used on a single device (edit: After some research this may not be true and is probably outdated or incorrect info stuck in my head) . It also lacks a lot of the flexibility of BTRFS, though you could say it trades flexibility for reliability.

bcachesfs on the other hand feels like it has the potential to be adopted as a root file system while also providing replication, erasure coding, high performance and snapshots; something that no filesystem has managed to date, at least on a wide scale.

They don’t know why the ozone hole is big this year but they suspect it may be related to a volcanic eruption. Article concludes that scientists expect the ozone layer to be back to normal by 2050.

The suggestion is that this is an unusual year for the ozone layer which sees the hole expand this time every year before retracting again by December. They never suggest human behavior is damaging it again.

I don’t think it’s as unpopular as you think it is. The internet skews perceptions.

Okay so I just read up on this. It’s it true that TPM backed FDE only allows snaps?!?

Debs are completely unsupported?

We never even warmed bottles. Some people were shocked to see us pull a bottle straight out of the fridge and give it to our daughter but I didn’t see any reason to warm them when she was perfectly happy with cold milk. I’d rather not have to worry about overheating it or having to lug around a bottle warmer when traveling.

I do like the monitor though but it’s more of a convenience and piece of mind thing than a necessity. Being able to see her means we know if that big thud was her kicking the wall vs falling out of her crib without getting up and running into the room. We almost always keep the volume muted though, it’s a small house and we can can hear her just fine except for if we’re both outside.

The advice I give other parents is to not buy anything but the absolute basics until you really need it because a lot of things you think you’ll need you probably don’t.

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When you buy something from a streaming service you’re only buying the right to stream it, nothing more.

You can’t compare it to owning physical media because there are ongoing costs involved for Amazon to host it and ever changing contracts with media companies outlining what they are allowed to host.

The XLE does 410 miles. Few electric vehicle can touch that and EV ranges decline over time so almost no EV that’s more than a couple years old could match it.

I have a duel fuel system (heat pump + gas furnace) which, while more expensive, is really the best of both worlds.

In a power outage I can plug in a generator and get the furnace running.

If temps drop too low and the heat pump is struggling I can switch to the furnace.

I can choose which to run based on current energy costs.

When looking into heat pumps everyone told me they don’t work well in the northeast or they would be more expensive to run here. I found it really difficult to get an accurate estimate of the cost difference between running a heat pump vs a gas furnace. Ultimately I decided to go dual fuel for flexibility but after comparing my bills before and after I almost wish I’d gone with a hyper heat unit so it could run at lower outdoor temps because the heat pump has turned out to be cheaper but I can’t run it at low temps.

I think HVAC techs in this area are weary of them based on past experience with older units but they really have improved in recent years.

Car seats are not gate checked. Strollers can be since parents use them up until boarding but car seats are checked with the rest of your luggage.

Edit: I forgot to account for car seats that are part of a stroller… I imagine those would have to be gate checked as well. That’s a special case though.