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All of that plus any “Punisher” logo on clothing or vehicles.

Not worth it for a laptop. Making a laptop battery removable means wrapping the whole cell package with enough material that it can’t be casually punctured on every single side. Further, you now also have to build into the laptop the mechanical means to hold that removable battery, and lose space to the release mechanism. It adds a measurably large amount of weight and size to the laptop.

Way back in the days when you would have to own multiple batteries (with a swap in between) to have a long enough computing session to be useful it made sense. Today it doesn’t make sense. I recently replace the battery on my primary personal laptop, now 7 years old. I had to open the laptop one time to remove the old one and put in the replacement. I’m okay doing that every 7 years and don’t need to sacrifice the size, weight, and battery capacity to have a removable one instead.

That used to be the case because the peppers were specifically grown just for Huy Fong. However, Huy Fong screwed over their exclusive pepper grower to increase profits. The peppers they get now don’t taste the same.

assuming I’m worried about a smash and grab

For your specific use case, how about this:

Get a cheap USB thumb drive and a long USB cable. Put your disk unlock password on that thumb drive, and semi-permanently affix the USB drive to your building. You said you’re in a basement. Put it on top of a rafter with a metal fitting that would keep the drive from being taken without removing the screws. Run the long USB cable from the thumb driving in your rafter to the USB port on the machine. Alter your startup script to mount the thumb drive read the password from the thumb drive to unlock your main disk. Don’t forget to immediately unmount the thumbdrive in the OS after the disk is unlocked for extra safety.

If someone is doing a smash and grab, they’ll unplug all the cables (including this USB cable going to the thumb drive) and take your machine leaving the disk encryption password behind on the USB thumb drive.

They are angry at how their life ended up, but can’t see how or why they got there, as it relates to their own actions. It’s all someone and something else’s fault.

Are sure it isn’t narcissism they have?

Eventually, when our numbers will grow significantly, you won’t be able to distinguish this place from Reddit.

You will always be able to distinguish this place from Reddit. There are no ads or “sponsored” posts here on Lemmy.

Another vote for Bosch.

BTW, you know you’re old when you get excited about dishwasher features. I accept I’m old now.

If you can get a higher end 800 series, it has two really cool features: Crystal Dry and Eco mode

You know those silica desiccant pouches that get shipped in everything from our electronics to our beef jerky? Just by being exposed to air, the crystals absorb water. You can even reuse the crystals if you heat them and the water evaporates out. The Bosch 800 series has a large container of these type of crystals (Zeolite) in the back of the unit.

During the heating step, the container is opened allowing the hot moisture to escape. The container then closes, and the wet washing cycle begins. After the dishes are all clean, the container opens again, and the hot wet air inside the dishwasher is pushed through the desiccant container. Because its a closed system, all the water in the air and on the dishes is absorbed by the desiccant and they are bone dry ready to be put away! The desiccant lasts decades so its not like a wearable part.

This feature used to be only available on the high end Thermador Sapphire dishwashers costing a minimum of $2000. A few years ago Bosch allowed this feature in their high end models, the 800 series.

Another feature the 800 series has is “Eco mode”, which saves a lot of water and energy at the cost of a longer dishwasher cycle. Instead of using a 6 gallons of water and a huge amount of electricity to heat the water super hot (for most effective quick washing), it uses only 2.4 gallons of water and half the electricity not heating the water as much, but using that water for much longer cleaning to get the same cleaning in the end. A Eco cycle runs for about 2 hours (which the unit is crazy quiet too). The run time doesn’t bother me a bit because I usually start or schedule the dishwasher to run when I’m not in the kitchen anyway. Also yes, you can run Eco mode and have it finish with Crystal Dry.

But that also wastes a lot of freshwater from dish washing

I’m going to pick on this one point. A high end dishwasher appliance only use 2.4 gallons (9L) of fresh water, while even average dishwashers use about 5 to 6 gallons. To put that in perspective an 8 minute shower likely uses 17 gallons.

So dishwashing is a tiny tiny waste, if you can even call it a waste.

I don’t have a recommendation for you, but if you exhaust your leads there is a large comparrison table with all kinds (and ages) of remote access solutions that you could search against for your criteria (open source, supported, etc) here:

Comparison of remote desktop software on wikipedia

You’re projecting your own ideas on that, friend. I never suggesting sitting anything out. That was you.

In the context of that post they referred to “dream scenario” implying that that action will likely never happen for Musk or trump. I was pointing out that it is very likely to happen for trump. Nothing with my statement is advocating action or inaction beyond pointing out that fact.

trump is 78 years old and is obese. Neither of those two facts usually makes for longevity. Actuarial tables say he could die of natural causes this afternoon and it would be a completely normal thing.

[citation needed]

It’s a multi-generational problem, so we should start fixing it now.

First, sure we can try, but we don’t live in a monolithic place. We have to convince others and come up with plans on how to do it. That’s going to take time. We can start, but ending is a long long way from now.

What is it about EVs is going to make that easier?

I’ve already said it many times, EVs don’t put out CO2 while we’re working on transitioning.

Further, we still have no answer for last mile non-EV green delivery . I notice you ignored that last point.

You’re talking about trying to fix a multi-generational problem. In many places the things you’re asking to change have been in place for hundreds years. The politics and land ownership laws and implications are immense! That is NOT a fast problem to fix. If you’re taking EVs off the table, then that means you’re committing to 30-50 years of ICE vehicles pumping out CO2 all of that time.

How can you consider non-EVs a greener solution in your scenario?

(I take that back if the EVs we’re talking about here are e-bikes and micromobility devices.)

Its simply not possible to deliver 2000kg or 2000lbs of cargo to a business for last mile delivery in a timely fashion without a much larger vehicle than an e-bike. Why on Earth would you want a belching diesel vehicle doing that for decades on end when an EV could it with zero CO2 emissions?

Another vote for Namecheap. I also like they support their legacy pricing for hosting at time of renewal. Many years ago I subscribed to a small hosting plan for a very low price. I had need to set up yet another hosting plan and went looking for it. My preferred one had been discontinued 6 years prior and the new lowest on was a chunk more expensive with fewer features (for my new hosting plan), but Namecheap still honors my old pricing for my original plan. So I currently subscribe to one “cheap” hosting plan and another “not quite as cheap”, and am quite fine with that.

And EVs are not a particular green or revolutionary technology in the first place.

I think most agree that, at least, EVs are needed to evolve away from the CO2 generated from petroleum consumption used in cars and trucks. Yes yes, “public transportation better for moving people” but that doesn’t work for all countries especially those with lower density population areas. Further “public transporation” does nothing for the “last mile” delivery of goods with regard to logistics.

In almost every situation an EV is better than an ICE vehicle in respect to being “green” and vehicles are what our current systems are designed around.

I don’t mean you should tell me your criteria.

Gotcha, I wasn’t trying to put words in your mouth. My apologies for misunderstanding your question.

if your idea of success is chess world champion - many have worked 12 hour days for years at it and failed - thus much luck is needed. likewise you may be great at business without ever making CEO. However more modest goals are reached by many - chess national master is in reach of many more. Engineers don’t make near what the CEO does but many more get there.

All of those examples assume you’re starting from a reasonably high baseline of stability, mental & physical health, resources, and likely education. My point is that you can’t assume those things. Lots and lots of people aren’t even lucky enough to have that starting baseline to even start working toward any of those achievements in your examples.

That’s why I said that my particular personal goals are irrelevant, but where I’ve gotten most would look at and define it as successful, and that I recognize that so many points on that path I was lucky to have the “upside” outcome rather than the “downside” outcome which would have left me far less successful, or at worst, dead. It really doesn’t take many of the inflection points in our lives to not go our way for us to be knocked way down or knocked out entirely. I am very lucky that hasn’t been my fate.

i guess I didn’t explain well. If your success means a private jet with pilots on call 24x7 that you can afford to fly where and where you want: you need a lot more money than I can help you with.

your success says something vague about resources to explore your interests. How much resources?

I’m sorry, I’m not going to divulge my personal financial details on the open internet. Why does this number matter to our discussion? I appreciate if you’re trying to offer financial or life planning advice. I don’t think I’m in need, but I appreciate your concern.

I’ll say this. On this chart, I believe I am past the fourth level (Esteem) and working on number 5 (self actualization).

there is much you can do to earn money - keeping a great job is partially luck.

Getting the job initially is a whole series of lucky events sometimes decades in the making.

There is a lot you can do to keep a relationship but there is some luck on if the other person doesn’t leave you.

Not only do you have do work hard on keeping relationships (this is part of the 25% I was talking about) you have to live to enjoy it. Further, your mate has to live and there’s all kinds of things that can happen to them through no fault of their own (this is part of the 75% luck I was talking about earlier).

i agree that health is partially luck and so there is always a luck element. There is a lot you can do for health but some luck as well.

There is a tiny tiny fraction you can do to keep/improve your health vs the vast majority of the things in this world trying to kill you or make you sick/injured. I’d change the percentages on this even further: 10% in your control to 90% luck.

and you’re taught the illegitimacy of Malcolm X’ ideology and the Nation of Islam on purpose.

I’ll say mostly yes, but there was one thing in my school textbooks that contradicted that narrative. It was this picture of Malcolm X and Dr. King:

I felt I got a semi-decent education in public schools about the Civil Rights era hitting the highlights of:

• Rosa Parks/Bus boycott
• Lunch counter sit ins
• Dr King’s speeches and approaches of non-violent protest
• March on Selma + Edmund Pettus Bridge
• Brown V Board of Education
• Little Rock Nine

With all of that picture of Malcolm X and Dr. King said something to me that words in the textbook never did. Dr. King, the man who preached non-violence and moved the USA forward to a better future chose to meet with Malcolm X. Malcolm X could not have been “all bad” or illegitimate if Dr. King wanted to interact with him. Further, after seeing pictures and film from Bloody Sunday (Edmund Pettus Bridge crossing), Malcolm X’s actions made much more sense.

You need to define succes first. Depending on your definition I will either agree or disagree.

I using the conventional western definition here for this conversation. All of my basic needs are met, I have no worry for my future needs for probably the rest of my life if I need it to be. I am in good health. I have loving relationship. In addition to this I have extra resources that allow me to explore my interests.

definitions are personal. If you are looking for advice find a definition that is less about luck.

No amount of redefinition will help you if you have a genetic condition like Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy which can cause you to keel over dead at 27 years old. No amount of redefinition will help if you’re 8 years old in and are living in an active war zone. In those two examples, they didn’t choose their circumstances. Nothing in their power caused them to be in their situations. Nothing in their power could change their situations. I would be equally powerless in their place. There is nothing intrinsic about them that makes them responsible for their situations. Why is it that those two people have those life threatening issues and I don’t? Luck. Thats life.

Now, I get where you’re going about taking what circumstances you have, and making the best of it. Or possibly exploring the philosophical nature of existence and coming to a different conclusion on what our few decades on Earth are for and how we can all ourselves successful. I don’t think that’s a bad thing to do personally, but understand that’s a luxury that someone starving or dying from exposure likely can’t seriously entertain. Entirely ignoring the base reality, even if we don’t like it, is dangerous, and potentially callous and can lead us to indifference of the suffering of others and how they arrived there through no fault of their own.