We can’t, but we can do net metering, meaning we can offset costs but not get paid. So the best investment is to pay nothing through Dec. 31 and keep costs manageable at the start of the year (net metering ends with the calendar year).

You could probably get by with a gas generator and only run it 2-3 times/year in many areas. It’s not 100% green, but it could get you off grid for a fraction of the price.

Yeah, I completely agree.

I drive old cars because they don’t spy on me and they’re inexpensive to own. I have an 07 hybrid and an 06 minivan. They’re only an expression of my personality to the extent that I don’t care about my car and need something to get from A-B. I don’t flaunt it, and I’ll probably replace it with an older EV because refilling gas is annoying for my dedicated commuter (the hybrid).

I’d rather ride my bike, but my work is too far away (2 hours on transit, ~1.5 hybrid w/ bike, maybe 1 with a riced ebik, each way), and my reasons for sticking with my employer and not moving are more important than my preference for cycling.

My mode of transportation is about utility, not expression of personality. I’d drive a truck if it made sense, I just haven’t found one that makes more sense than renting one the 2-3 times per year I need to haul something that doesn’t fit in my minivan.

When I need to upgrade my car, I’ll find something sensible and maybe remove the parts I don’t like. It’s not a big deal.

Also performance, maintenance, and regression.

My instance has one.

CoMaps

I haven’t. I looked into it, and that’s quite the drama. I like the name of CoMaps better, so I’ll check it out. I see shared commits, but they seem to go to Organic Maps first and then I guess get cherry-picked onto CoMaps?

The main blocker is MFA. I can technically work around Google Authenticator (I use Aegis currently) because I can run it on my laptop, but I also need Okta verify (work VPN), Symantec VIP (bank), and the Steam app.

And some other very nice to haves:

• Signal messenger
• SSH client
• Libby app
• Organic Maps

I can find workaround for the rest.

That said, wouldn’t it just be easier to uninstall the apps that cause distractions?

Privacy guides is the forked project by the original contributors.

Sounds like incompetence to me. Cross platform networking code is tricky, but there are also copious libraries for this to the point where it’s a solved problem.

You mean Connecdicud.

Where’s Nevada? And Montana?

Why does it need to be 64-bit? Does it really need to address more RAM to launch games?

you hand picked 2 peices from that whole page. The first one when you read the example below doesn’t even fit your case, so you left that out.

Words have meaning given context, I pointed to the definition that fit the context. When talking about wealth and assets, “money” means anything that could be easily converted to cash. I didn’t copy the first because it wasn’t relevant to the context.

Then you had to do mental gymnastics to make the second one fit.

I provided two to drive home the point.

How about an example. If I said, “how much money does Elon Musk have?”, that would obviously include his stocks and whatnot because he probably only has a few million in actual cash, if that. If you ask how much money I have on the street, I’d assume you’re talking about cash in my wallet, or maybe cash in my checking, and I wouldn’t include my stocks or even savings balance.

Context matters a lot.

But when conversing with normal people, you will be hard pressed to find people who agree.

Are you saying that if I asked how much money you have in your retirement account, you’d say $0 because you only have stocks? If so, that’s really weird.

My vote is Podman with an immutable distro, like OpenSUSE MicroOS or Fedora Silverblue. Here are my reasons:

• rolling base, with very minimal footprint, so you don’t need to worry about upgrades
• podman runs proper rootless containers, so you get better security vs docker, which tends to run as root (breaking out does less damage if you manage permissions properly)
• deploying a new service (or moving a service) just means copying configs and running, no concerns about what the host has
• there’s nothing special about the host, so if MicroOS or Silverblue are abandoned, just copy the configs and data to a new host

It’s a little more work to set up, but once things are running, it’s drama free. And I think that’s the best thing to optimize for, keeping things boring is a good thing.

If we’re going to change the name, it should be the department of the military/armed forces.

That is basically Schrodinger’s cat

No, it’s not.

Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment is about things where observing state will impact the state. That would maybe apply if we’re talking about something unique, like an ungraded collectible or one of a kind item (maybe Trump’s beard clippings?) where it cannot have a value until it is either graded or sold.

Stocks have real-time valuations, and trades can happen in near real time. There’s no box for the cat to be in, it’s always observable.

money

Look up the definition. Here’s the second usage from Webster:

2 a: wealth reckoned in terms of money

And the legal definition, further down on the same page:

2 a: assets or compensation in the form of or readily convertible into cash

Stocks are absolutely readily convertible to cash, and I argue that less liquid investments like RE are as well (esp with those cash offer places). Basically, if there’s a market price for it and you can reasonably get that price, it counts.

When my stocks go down, I may not have realized that loss yet from a tax perspective, but the amount of money I can readily convert to cash is reduced.

Why would you go to what’s most likely your router?

I’m angry about both, yet still prefer Jellyfin. Why? I control everything about it. I self host it and can choose who has access (including putting it behind a VPN). I have the code so I can patch it if I choose. I can even disable the problematic endpoints of I’m fine with the repercussions.

With Plex, i have to live with their central servers. With Jellyfin, I don’t, and it’s much less likely a corpo comes after me specifically than happens to see something via a Plex compromise.

I think both are fine services, and I appreciate Plex’s response here. I still prefer Jellyfin.

Yup, and that’s why I still use it despite its security issues. I run it in a rootless container, so even if there’s some sort of breach, it should be contained.

That’s correct. All salt does is force the attacker to compromise each password individually. Those passwords should still be considered compromised and users should change them everywhere they’re used.

If you add pepper (random data stored separately from the passwords and salts, like an ENV var or ideally secure hardware device), an attacker would also need the pepper to crack the password correctly, which significantly raises the bar. However, even then it’s good practice to change that password everywhere even if compromise is unlikely, because again, someone could link your login to another compromised site and crack the easier site’s password hash.

The only reason it’s okay to not recommend a password change is if the password hash database was provably not compromised, but in that case, I’d want details on how they kow that.