that means a screaming combustion engine, not a whirring electric motor.

Buyers of luxury car want to make noise, literally and figuratively.

The problem is that an electric engine is too quiet, it’s not disturbing anyone. On the other hand a loud combustion engine is impacting people’s life, positively by enjoying the look of the car (rarely) or negatively by intruding into their audible space.

People with the money to buy luxury car wants that, they are buying a status and the power to intrude into people’s life.

It’s getting close to an electric Jimny.

Similarly in France the “Gendarmerie nationale”, a branch of the French Armed Forces that do the police has been using “GendBuntu” on all their desktop since 2008.

It’s a version of Ubuntu developed specifically for them.

When burying a dead animal, especially a big one like a house, you can contaminate the ground water and the pathogens stay in the soil for a very long time.

It mostly depends on the soil.

For anyone interested in deadstock disposal (who wouldn’t be) I found this great resource : Best Management Practices - Deadstock Disposal

In Ontario it seems that 22% of the farmers are burying their deadstock and 20% of them are composting it.

People dying from the heat are older people or people already in bad medical conditions. Not kid or healthy people.

AC could have an influence but the excess mortality due to heatwave is also happening in countries with a lot of AC like Australia : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412025004982?via=ihub#t0010

In my village there is a donation place drop stuff they don’t need anymore and take what they need. Half of our kid clothing, it’s great ! A lot of my kids clothing come from there, and go back there once they outgrew it.

Same for me.

A friend in high school gave me one of these CD, I think it was 7.04.

From what I understand, the insurance business model is to transform individual unpredictable events into very predictable statistics.

A house burning down ? As an individual it is devastating, it’s a lifetime of savings that burn away. For the insurance company, it’s part of the statistics.

The problem of climate change is that it brings unpredictability at the insurer scale.

This is what my ISP provided, a microtik router with openwrt flashed on it

For what is worth, I have a MG4 first generation and I really like the car.

When I was in college and quite sleep deprived I had a few mornings where I would wake up, scroll through memes, get a shower, get ready to go and … Actually wake up for real.

I hated that because I had to go through the hassle of waking up twice but the memes in my semi awake dreams where quite good !

There is the MG cyberster.

It’s not just for my home server but for EOL or other issues I used bitwarden emergency access options for passwords. Of anything happens to me my wife can request access to my vault and if I don’t deny it in a certain timeframe she will have full access to it.

I did that after my brother in law got in an accident and fell into a coma. I’m very grateful he had all his password saved in chrome on his unlocked laptop because if not it would have made the period insanely more difficult for my sister.

Simple things like paying the bills would I been insanely more difficult and stressful and you don’t need extra stress in this period.

I don’t know specifically for Vermont but “the grid struggling to keep up” usually means that there is a specific moment in the day/week/month at peak consumption where the production is struggling to keep up.

99.9% of the time outside of this specific moment the grid is fine and your fast charger should work fine.

PS: I am not 100% certain of what I am saying so I would be happily corrected if I’m wrong.

The worst is that it will probably increase profit or a quarter or too while running the brand to the ground.

I am really happy with my MG4.

From what I’m reading the Chevy bolt does not have a heat pump and it seems that most of your commute is just standing still in traffic.

In these conditions it makes sense that range goes down in winter but for longer drive with a more recent EV it’s not really an issue anymore.

I barely noticed any difference in range in winter compared to summer with my EV. I have to admit though that winters are quite mild here.

I don’t think I ever saw any star trek but seeing a picture of him without pointy ears feels weird

I was using mainly the emails from proton, I moved to mailbox.

At one point I was planning on moving my drive and VPN with them but their Linux support was really lacking, especially the CLI support so I’ve never done it and I’m glad I didn’t.

For the VPN I’m using Mullvad integrated with tailscale, for the drive in using my own synology NAS and tailscale to connect to it.

Ouch! They really are working hard on getting any privacy oriented person to leave them.

I’m glad I have moved away from them.