pbjamm @ pbjamm @beehaw.org

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Bill Gates is Pissmaster?

He could not test that by collecting some samples and using a fireplace?

I mean you could look it up

A pool and a shower are different applications. If the pool takes all day to warm up it is not much of an issue, but you want the shower to be hot right now.

Thanks cuz! I was slightly concerned that people might be resentful of us but so far everyone has been kind and welcoming. I am Canadian already (dual citizen) thanks to my Mom being from Toronto and hopefully the wife/kids will be Permanent Residents by spring. Bureaucracy is fairly efficient here but that is still means slow.

I and my family left the USA for Canada last year, not because of Trump necessarily, but the possibility of him being reelected certainly did not slow us down. Even though it has been absurdly cold the last week, so far I regret nothing about the move. I could have just left the Big City for a small one in the US, but finding one of those that is not Trumpy would be a challenge. Instead we moved to BC and it is astoundingly beautiful. I marvel at its beauty every day and I hope I never stop.

If you have 200a service to your house then it might be an option but lots of houses (including my own) do not have the capacity.

I really need to upgrade to 200a or get gas heating as my 100a is woefully inadequate when temps are below freezing like now.

A whole house model will need a 100A circuit to itself. You could install small units in each location that needs hot water but that is also expensive.

Do you have a project page I can keep track of? I have some spare Pi-compatible machines.

Looking at BirdWeather the only node on Vancouver Island is 200km from me. Would be a fun thing I could stick outside my house, we have lots of bird traffic here. Just today I saw robins, crows, ravens, eagles, swans, geese, ducks, and gulls and I was only barely paying attention.

What a pity. Notepad and Wordpad are my favorite MS tools. They did their one job and did it well.

Slackware on floppy disks back in 19-dickity-three. A friend at university introduced me to it and I installed it on my 386sx. Was a hell of a chore, but once I got it all all working it felt amazing. Been using it off and on both personally and professionally ever since. Sadly most of my professional work in recent times is MS based but c'est la vie.

Yeah I do not understand people who take this position. When you are comparing Trump actively encouraging wrecking things to Biden who you wish was doing more to improve things, it does not even seem a choice to me.

Do not let perfection be the enemy of the good.

PHEV is nice (my wife has one) but it adds mechanical complication to the car. I still like it and only rarely need the gas engine except to run the heater or if i drive 100km to the Big City.

I was so hopeful back in the 90s but that sure didnt last long.

The Straight Dope has been at it since before the internet age and their slogan says it all...

"Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought)"

That is far less dramatic and would not get enough clicks.

Fake London?

It like cable with more steps.

I recently bought a 2010 B4000 and it is a great size for a truck.

LA Kings vs Detroit Red Wings in the 2001 playoffs, the Frenzy on Figueroa

Absolutely bonkers. It was also the first hockey game my wife ever went to. Instant hockey fan.

Sometimes it is necessary for public safety and sanitation reasons. The camp in that video certainly looked like a bonfire waiting to happen. The reality is though that this just moves the problem somewhere else. It is not like kicking them out magically creates a better, safer, warmer place for them to go to.

KVM is awesome. It is the core of Proxmox which is my preferred way to manage VMs and LXC containers now. I used to run debian+KVM+virt-manager or cockpit but Proxmox does all the noodling setup for me and then just works.