Radiant_sir_radiant @ Radiant_sir_radiant @beehaw.org

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I see several issues with your SMTP session.

First, gmail.com will be protected by SPF and DKIM and your message will likely be flagged as spam (or outright rejected) because it's clear that you're not sending on behalf of the real gmail.com.

Second, commands should be in all-caps. A server may accept or reject lowercase keywords.

Third, you need to leave a blank line between the mail headers and the body, so that part of your session would look like so: ...

    
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Having said that, many servers will require an encrypted connection (SMTPS), many ISPs will block port 25 for residential customers as an anti-spam measure (so your local mail server may accept the message from your script but be unable to forward it), ESMTP should be preferred over SMTP etc.
\ If at all possible, you should use a full-featured mail library for this and use your ISP's own mail server.

Doesn't Pop_OS come with a sendmail command?

I'm looking forward to the interview with the guy who got fired because he was late for work and offered "an airplane window fell on my car" as an excuse.

Why do you say this? What gives you the idea that they will face some form of workload pressure because of this?

Oh, I'd be very surprised if any actual personal responsibility found its way to them. But they're gonna have to look super busy and worried for the press for a while, find somebody else to pin the blame on, call friends in government to 'expedite' any investigations and reassure their shareholders. That's gonna cost them a lot of time they could have spent on nicer things such as working on their handicap, doing coke in the coutry club's bathroom or firing a couple of hundred workers.

Other than that I totally agree with you.

Wow. My stepdaughter and her boyfriend flew with one of these just yesterday.

I hope this is resolved soon. The top brass at Boeing probably won't be getting a lot of leisure time until then.

Have you looked at a Volvo XC40/XC60 or even EX30, if available where you live? They're not perfect, but spacious, very pleasant to drive, generally very reliable, safe, with decent range and CarPlay (though not Android Auto).

As I said, it depends. There are inverters made specifically to be connected to PV panels, and there are inverters made for a fixed input voltage that you connect to a battery (the DIY store kind are usually the latter).

Though if you want to build a self-contained PV system without having to think about it too much, you're probably best off with an all-in-one device where you can just plug in your panels, your battery and your devices and let it worry about the rest.

There's another aspect, and I sadly lack the technical vocabulary here, but basically what you want to do for optimum efficiency is to convert the voltage as few times as possible. So: panels-->inverter-->load resp. panels-->charger-->battery, but not panels-->charger-->inverter-->load. The latter decreases your general efficiency and introduces roughly twice the losses.
\ The charger may also reduce its power output to much less than what the panels could deliver once it thinks the battery is full.

But then again, it all depends on your use case: where you use the system, what the environmental conditions are, and of course what your budget is. There simply is no one-size-fits-all PV system. You may not even need an inverter if all you want to do is charge your phone and laptop.

It depends on the hardware you have, as the charger and inverter can interfere with each other in a number of ways.

For an RV with a couple lead-acid batteries, separate devices all connected to the battery usually work fine.

For more sophisticated set-ups (at least around here) all-in-one devices incorporating both charger and inverter are preferred. You also get load managenent this way.

If you have a separate inverter and charger that are designed to talk to each other and have good MPPT, you connect them both to the PV panels so the inverter doesn't sabotage the charger's ability to measure the battery's state of charge or charge it optimally. This is 'preferable' for lead batteries and critical for lithium batteries.

Will look at Murderbot, thanks for the suggestion!
\ I hope you'll enjoy WSTGFF.

Celebrated with the young 'uns till 01:20 in the morning and no hangover, so two good things - can still drink moderately and stay up past midnight! Yay!

How about you?

Nobody is stupid for being manipulated. That line of thinking only encourages people to double down when they realize they are wrong, to avoid being seen as stupid.

I think that's a big part of the problem. Nobody is 100% right all of the time. There's no self-improvement without the ability to say "okay, this is how I could have done X better, I'll try this next time."

The opposite of "dumb" is not "all-knowing". It's the desire and ability to gain new knowledge, and to apply that knowledge to known and new situations.

Taking everything you hear or read at face value and shifting the blame for the consequences on those who've provided you with wrong information effectively means you expect the world to treat you like a helpless idiot unable to think for yourself. That can't possibly be what you're aiming for.

Taking it one step further, would you be to blame if you passed a piece of misinformation on to your buddy or family, you yourself believing it to be correct? You couldn't be to blame, because fact-checking was the job of whomever gave it to you. Only they've got it from somebody else, ... where will the blame game end? Would you introduce a two-class society divided into people whose job it is to check their facts, and those who are to take everything at face value?

It's also impossible to gain new knowledge without questioning what's currently believed to be correct information. Only a few decades ago, it was common 'knowledge' that a good husband needs to show his wife where her place is once in a while. Go back a bit further and people 'knew' how to recognise a witch by her birthmarks. A bit further back Ignaz Semmelweis was committed to the madhouse because he tried to establish a rule that doctors should wash their hands and instruments between an autopsy and a surgery.
\ The powerful people of that time didn't mislead you. They gave you what they believed was correct information.

The only thing that works in the long term is when personal responsibility is both possible and expected from every person. And that's what many people fear.

I respectfully disagree. The powerful people (which have considerable overlap with the wealthy people in a Venn diagram) can set the narrative and potentially influence new policies, but their power comes mainly from those who follow them.

Pretty much everybody in the market for a new car could choose to buy one with a smaller engine - precious few people actually need a pickup or SUV with a V6 or even V8.
\ Long-haul or intercontinental flights are mainly luxury items - even more so in a post-Covid world where pretty much any business can be done much more efficiently by video chat.
\ Many, many things are thrown away that still work or could easily be fixed, but the replacement has this fancy new feature and really doesn't cost that much more, all things considered.
\ etc.

These are all things that most common people could decide to do differently at no additional cost to them, but very few choose to do.

The same goes for new laws. If you* really care about the environment, you could just work on your environmental footprint out of your own free will instead of waiting for a law or regulation that forces you to. It's not like e.g. conserving energy is illegal until a new law makes it mandatory.

ETA: * 'you' in general, not the person I'm replying to specifically.

Yes, but if you as an individual allow yourself to be misled and manipulated, is it entirely the manipulator's fault? They should not lie to you of course, but the failure to question a new piece of information before you let it influence your opinions and view of the world is entirely on you.

The most logical conclusion is that we as a species have failed. A better society than the one we've built would not tolerate this kind of manipulation. Corrupt politicians are a symptom, not the cause.

I'm not at all what you'd call a religious person, but consider the Nine Satanic Sins: the worst sin you can commit is that of stupidity. Imagine a world where everybody lived by this!

Not sure if it tickles your fancy, but if you're in the mood for a humorous space adventure with an elaborate story and serious undertones, give Ben Yahtzee Croshaw's Will Save The Galaxy For Food a try.

Also, I haven't seen Adrift and the Outer Earth Trilogy by Rob Boffard being mentioned here. Especially the former managed to instill a sense of dread in me while the story unfolded. The latter is a rather long read, though the first book (Tracer) is self-contained.

ETA: a somewhat different style, but if you like futuristic worlds / galaxies with tons of intricate details, try The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. Her world (universe, in fact) is incredibly rich in detail and diversity. Each alien race she introduces has its own complex backstory, values, language and culture.
\ The other books in the series didn't grip me like this one - they add a lot of background, and in that she's a genius, but for my taste the story was somewhat lacking.

I got a little further and have to agree. The author views things through a very narrow scope and in places appears to willingly ignore the idea that some people might own a car just because it's a good tool to move them and their things from A to B.

The other examples aren't much better - there are places and situations where a car is a bad means of transportation, so cars are bad. That 'logic' is reminiscent of the current badmouthing of electric cars: they have to be charged more often and it takes longer, so they're clearly inferior to petrol or diesel cars. That line of reasoning is obviously and deeply flawed.

How car-centric (or not) a society should be is certainly debatable, but you generally don't make a strong point by simply ignoring all the obvious facts that might contradict your personal opinion.

Article on El Reg: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/29/amazon_prime_video_ads_coming/

The past days have been a mixed bag. I've achieved dember's objective to get everything at work and at home done before the holidays, but failed 2023's objective to go on vacation at least once this year without getting sick within the first few days. I'm feeling better now but my voice is gone, so no video message or chat with my family or godchild. I didn't get to spend a lot of time with the latter this year and feel like I've sort of failed her. This winter and spring I need to think of some things to do together.

Wanting to spread the holiday cheer (as an unbeliever, Christmas more or less means a break to enjoy time with yourself and your beloved ones), but lack of time and energy means I've done the bare minimum this year. Oh well, it's just one year.

Still, we're in a very nice and warm place with family, and as Don Hector Salamanca has accurately stated on behalf of apparently pretty much the entire country we're currently visiting, la familia es todo. And it's good to see my younger stepdaughter so happy and carefree for a change - she's had a stressful year, too.
\ Tomorrow her friend (our fourth, inofficially adopted child) arrives, and in three days we're on our way to Playa del Carmen where we can introduce the young 'uns to the nice crew at Señor Frog's and then disappear before embarrassing them any further for being the uncool old farts in the place.

Other than that I expect to spend (and enjoy!) a few weeks without a lot of plans or appointments for a change. Let's see how that goes.

I'm making a wild and probably spectacularly wrong guess here: C&C 1 has German text on it and there's Sternenschweif, and the white plastic thinggy might be a Schuko / Type L adapter (it's kinda hard to tell with that camera angle), which would suggest a place somewhere in Southern Tyrolia.

Looking forward to OP's answer though. If it's close to me, I'm gonna book that room and spend a day ripping all of those to SSD.

She does make some good points further down the line. Give the article another chance. You may disagree with the author's views or conclusions, but it's difficult to argue that cars are not an expression of their time's culture one way or the other.