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I've very seriously considered that. Right now, we could probably go down to one car without issue. We have two reasons why I'd like to maintain a second, though. We have young kids, and we are already starting to run them around to different places at the same time. We're looking to move soon, and the idea is to move outside of town where we have more room. That would make basically every drive longer, which would increase the likelihood of needing a second vehicle.

Either way, an EV should be fine. Depending on cost, I might stick with a small, used ICE this time, because I don't need much. But I'm not at that point quite yet, so maybe things will change by the time I'm ready.

I was among those worrying about range until I spent 5 minutes thinking about what I actually do on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.

We'd still have my wife's ICE van, we both work from home, and 99% of the time my work-related travel is local (within 5 miles). My wife's van can pull the camper for our camping trips, or for our longer drives.

I have no good reason not to get an EV for my next car.

Mother-in-law ended up getting COVID last week, so her birthday plans on Christmas Eve were cancelled, plus they couldn't come to see the kids today. Our hot water heater seems to have a failed thermocouple, so we have no (instant) hot water at the moment.

Nothing is "ruined," just annoying.

Our pediatrician approached the question of COVID vaccination for my daughter very gently with me. As soon as she started I saw her demeanor change and I could tell she was getting ready to change course quickly (presumably) in case I went off on a rant or something.

She immediately snapped back to normal when I told her "Absolutely, yes, if she can get it let's make it happen." We had just been waiting for it to be available.

I feel bad for what she likely had to deal with from others. She's a fricking doctor, trying her best to keep children healthy, and now she is clearly getting enough shit from some parents that she's gunshy about even bringing up certain important topics. It's crazy.

Read the error again. It's journalctl.

The untested legal gambit is a last-ditch effort to bar the candidacy of an ex-president who remains popular with his base instigated an insurrection against the nation and constitution he swore to uphold.

FIFY...his popularity is not the issue here. It never was. It's about actions he took, and what the law says happens at this point. I don't care how much his base loves him. We can see that even today, after all the history we have, people still support Hitler. People are fucking idiots, but that's not illegal. Inciting an insurrection is, however.

Better option, have a good contract in place.

Obligatory Mike Montiero video "Fuck you, pay me" - https://youtu.be/jVkLVRt6c1U

This was from a while ago. I believe Linus took some time away to try and work on his interpersonal skills. I haven't seen anything since his hiatus, but hopefully he's less abusive and more constructive in his messages now.

Jumper cables should be in every car. I've only needed them for my own car once, but I've used them probably a dozen times for other people.

I also carry a small extendable snow shovel and an extendable snow broom. A bag of sand or oil dry (or cat litter) for winter are a good idea as well, assuming you live anywhere that snows regularly.

It's a long shot, but I hope that they keep the exposure notification framework and work with the CDC/appropriate orgs around the world to make it a generic exposure notification. The technical feature is impressive, and the usefulness (with proper adoption) would be high for the various occasions where other communicable diseases pop up. It seems easy enough to have a generic app to add the various diseases and their incubation/transmission windows to allow others to be notified.

But, because people are whiny fucks, it'll die and we'll be in a rush to reimplement it for the next thing that comes up.

Even if it did exist in an ideal state, people would still not use it, because people suck.

I just got mine, and I need to get my kids scheduled. My wife and I both work at home, my kids being in school is the most likely infection source these days.

I would rather we all have it if only for the lessened impact, I won't even pretend it's going to prevent infection given how many people out there won't get it.

I've been much more pro-annual flu shots since a baby died at our daycare from the flu. I was never against it, I just didn't think it was a big deal (because I was young and healthy). But now, if my getting a shot every year can help prevent a family from losing a child, I'm all in. It's the least I can do.

I've had 5 shots of Moderna now, most recently last week. The first one made me feel miserable for a day. I was having chills, and my entire body was sore. I took several naps that day. The others made me sore and a little tired for a day.

All told, not the worst side effects, but certainly more than a sore arm. And still entirely worth the mild inconvenience.

I would call my first reaction nearly "unplayable." I was having issues working (remotely even, a desk job), and I just wanted to sleep most of the day. But people react differently. Sounds like you had no issues, so good for you.

See point 1.

The system isn't infallible. There's always a small (but non-zero) chance that they put an innocent person to death. There are multiple records of people being put to death and later being found innocent.

That's enough justification for me to abolish the death penalty.

PowerShell makes that a lot better these days. It's still not perfect, but a lot better.

It's not that it's deleted automatically. If you define deleting as "not being referenced by the file system," then it's deleted as soon as it's unlinked.

Fun story - create a big file, and hold it open in an application. Unlink the file. Then compare the output of du and df for the mount point the file was on. It will differ until the app closes and the inode of the file is finally freed.

This is the way.

I started by just eating less. I cut portions and started counting calories. I did the math and started staying under my number, and the pounds just melted off.

A couple months later, I added biking and walking. I'm trying to walk at least 30 minutes daily, which is just a nice break from everything.

I'm down 120 pounds. I want to drop more, but I've been pretty stationary for the past 3 months or so. I'm already a new man, and my doctor says I'm fine where I am. I'd like to drop another 10 just to be solidly below 200 for the first time in decades.

I went to a personal trainer for some ideas on exercises, and I need to fit those workouts into my schedule. I haven't done that yet, but I need to.

It's like any other VPN service. It's all a question of who you want to trust.

I'm iffy about giving more days to Google, but I use their VPN when I'm on any kind of questionable WiFi. I'd rather give the data to Google than to whatever random place is getting it from my hotels or whatever.

I also have a VPN server setup at home, but generally routing everything through home is too slow (for now, I might be getting significantly increased upload speed soon).

Yes, early 40s, midwest.

My mother wouldn't let me take my driver's test without leaning to drive manual. My first car ended up being a manual, which ensured that no one ever borrowed my car.

Or just don't connect the TV to the Internet at all.