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)

I’m in the PNW and pay about US$0.17/kWh at home, but for the data center rates, they charge based on peak usage because that’s how they size cooling and generator backups. Guaranteed redundant power and networking is just a lot more expensive than residential power.

I’ve been measuring my server rack’s power usage, and it usually sits at around 500W with a 1U + 2U server (and GPU). My plan for the 1U has been to colocate it, but it’s an extra $25/month for each 100W increment, so I’ve been trying things like lowering the CPU power limit to save some money. Apparently turning my 200W EPYC CPU down to 150W barely makes a difference in my workloads, but that 50W is enough to save me quite a bit.

Probably closer to 800W based on OP’s usage.

They’re probably fine for lug bolts at least, the studs are big enough an extra 10-20 ft-lbs would still be in a safe range. If they haven’t broken a stud in 25 years, it’s probably never going to happen.

In some applications it’s required, but not usually with lug nuts. The main one I can think of is Honda crankshaft bolts say to put oil on the washer and bolthead surface before torquing, and the torque spec is adjusted accordingly (still 181 ft-lbs tho!).

The most I ever do for lug nuts is just wire brush off any rust so the surface is clean, and re-torque after about 100 miles (I check them occasionally after spirited driving too, since hot brakes and things cause thermal expansion that can loosen things up on newly installed wheels). I don’t drive somewhere with salt, otherwise I’d maybe try using anti-seize like I saw someone else mention.

I can’t think of a single reason a humanoid robot would need to move that fast that isn’t war related… Literally any other application, like warehouse robots sorting oddly shaped items, would just be cheaper to use wheels and just keep the arms for dexterity

How is this the first time I’ve heard of a feature like this… It’s really cool. This basically seems like technology from VR research determining what makes people motion sick and how to work around it. It makes perfect sense it could apply to other screens as well.

Edit: I wish there was more info on it… the implementation seems like it’s proprietary and I can’t find any research papers about it. MuteMotion also seems to be a name used by some sign language translation software.