Unless they’re on the ground floor, there’s a lot more to consider than just the compressive strength of concrete. If the gold is sitting on a concrete beam, it bends, causing the bottom to be in tension, while the top is in compression. Concrete has really terrible tensile strength, so rebar is installed to keep it together. The load limit of a concrete beam will be significantly less than that of a solid concrete pillar, and depends on the engineering design.

Most of the heating energy would actually be IR, which many types of window glass will be designed to reflect. It probably depends on what kind of coatings are used. Basically all car windows block IR to help keep the inside of the car cool in the sun.

There’s a whole class of electric heater that do this intentionally. Radiant heaters are awesome for outdoor patios and other spaces like uninsulated garages where you care more about heating surfaces than the air itself.

I just backed up all my repos and plan on fully migrating to selfhosted Forgejo. GitHub is rapidly going downhill. Recently they had a bug that was silently corrupting people’s main branches, and they’re getting more trigger happy on the ban hammer.

One of my friends just had their entire 14 year account history wiped without any warning for supposedly misusing GitHub Actions (most likely an AI false positive), and they’re just getting all their tickets immediately closed.

Could that be due to a failing SD card or flash memory? The uncompressed data might be getting corrupted too, it just wouldn’t return you an error depending on the file type (text documents for example would never error, they would just end up with garbled text).

Based on your other comments, if you’re using an old 128mb SD card, this seems kind of likely. I’ve had many SD cards and USB sticks go bad after files have been copied on and off of them too many times.

Damn, where did you even find such a small drive? The last time I used such a small device was the USB stick I brought to highschool in 2009. Even the free giveaway USB drives I have are at least 2GB. You probably have more RAM than storage?

99% of the time it is just automatic and part of the update. Usually it’s only an issue if you are updating from a specific older version of something or have made a particular customization that breaks with the update.

Like others, I’ve got at least one system running Arch for 10+ years and I’ve only had to manually do something a handful of times. Usually it’s just that I have to update the keyring first before the rest of the update.

Most servers you rent are only going to have 1Gbps internet speeds too unless you’re paying extra, so if you’ve got symmetrical gigabit at home, you’re 100% good to go, except for maybe higher downtime than a datacenter. My fiber at home seems to go out for a bit overnight occasionally as they’re doing maintenance.

Sounds like my homelab has better redundancy than these guys, and my monthly bill isn’t much different than their new one. I only pay for power and networking, since I own my own hardware. I’m colocating in my city, so my latency to home is about 1ms, and I’ve got a full mirrored server in my house. Certain files are further backed up elsewhere for proper 3-2-1 backup (+ each server running raidz2 with disk encryption). Even if my home Internet goes out, I still have full access to my files at home, and all my public services stay running in the data center. If either server fails, it’s all set up with containers so it’s easy to spin up each service somewhere else.

One thing that’s tricky to get right with disk encryption (especially with encrypted /boot) is having a redundant boot partition. I was able to hack this together by having sofware raid duplicate my boot partition to a second drive. Now if I remove either OS boot drive it falls back to the remaining one. To prevent breaking EFI boot, you need to use the Version 1 RAID format so the metadata is stored at the end of the partition, not the front where EFI reads.

Cops don’t follow you with a radar gun 24/7 like the data the car manufacturers are collecting.

License plates don’t report your average driving speed and number of hard braking stops etc… to your insurance company.

personal information vacuum

Introducing the new Dyson vacuum! Maybe this is what they mean when they say it’s got a digital motor.

That’s a terms of service/use for Amazon.com (so your account and purchase history), none of that applies to goods sold. This is entirely different than a purchase agreement that says they get to keep any government refunds.

That’s a geothermal battery system with solar water heating as the input. But what’s really cool about Drake Landing is that they can store energy from the summer to heat the homes in the winter, and they even hit net zero a few years ago.

Edit: No idea what the downvote is for… There’s more info about this project here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community

It’s a little disappointing to learn it was decommissioned, but the technology for seasonal energy storage is really interesting.

I’m curious… what legal documents would these be? You don’t have to sign a Terms of Service to buy a physical product. The unjust enrichment claim is just as valid/invalid unless stores like Walmart are going to start making you read a terms of sale agreement before entering the store.

I’m going to say you’re technically correct because the wording is “recovered” and not “profited”. They’re recovering it twice, and profiting once (when they should be at net zero)

run and maintain a service for me indefinitely

This is specifically NOT what is being asked for. Having an end of life plan doesn’t mean running servers forever.

Does the photo search still work offline? It doesn’t for me. That seems like it’d be the only reason to stick with that app if you’re not using the cloud storage, otherwise I might as well just use a basic file browser.

Immich definitely lets you change your email, and even if they didn’t, it’s open source and self-hostable, you could just do it yourself and submit a PR.

GrapheneOS isn’t a replacement for Google Photos though? What do you use for photo backups? (Immich seems like the obvious answer, but I’d like to know if there’s more options out there)