We're all Canadians, and your family would trace back among of the originals in this country. It's sad that people would think anyone lesser for it, but that says more about them - the ones that need to stand on others to feel big themselves - than your family or heritage. While there will always be those types, I hope the years ahead see them as the minority so the rest of us can help each other make this country a place we're all proud to call home.
Yeah, I'd tend to agree on that.
Even beyond the security issues, nuclear has the potential to be a safe, but it also has the potential to be disastrous if mis-managed.
Now imagine a plant in Texas, where power companies response to winter outages has basically been "sucks to be you, winterizing is too costly".
Or maybe we'd like to go with a long-time trusted company, who totally wouldn't throw away safety and their reputation for a few extra bucks. Boeing comes to mind.
I like nuclear as a power source, but the absolutely needs to be immutable rules in place to ensure it is properly managed and that anyone attempting to cut corners to save costs gets slapped down immediately. Corporate culture in North America seems to indicate otherwise.
This happens in other countries as well. I've been told to speak the local (non-English) language when visiting friends overseas when having a private conversation.
Generally, it seems to be nosy old people who are upset about not being able to eavesdrop
Because water heating with heat pumps is currently garbage on the residential scale.
Also because we're already stressing electric infrastructure with what we use now, and few plans to add capacity in any reasonable amount to deal with the massive increase in population, plus electric cars, AC during heat waves etc let alone home heating.
Gas is efficient for heating, and there's plenty of other stuff we can and need to look at before we replace that.
Yeah, I've had more than a few chipsets or periphs that worked on Windows, and worked on Linux but were.... quirky, especially when dealing with stuff like suspend states etc.
For USB3 in particular, I've found many storage devices or adaptors like to drop out partway through an longer copy process on Linux (like they'll be fine for copying a smaller amount of data, but the controller or device would reset during longer ones). This didn't seem to occur in Windows, but I'm pretty sure the copy process was also slower so guessing it's some sort of buffer or heat quirk that 'nix didn't account for in the more generic driver
Yeah, I've had a few sellers among a lot of orders try to pull a fast one, but by-and-large they've been good and the few that arrived bad I did get refunded for. The main thing I'd say is to be careful of things that plug in but don't meet electrical code in your country (Amazon is getting bad for this as well) as that's definitely some janky stuff you can find
Server or desktop, and what types of files? I find that a self-hosted version of NextCloud does pretty well for keeping contacts, images, and videos in sync.
(You could run it on a Pi as an intermediary to both if desired)
I used to use stuff like AndFTP in the past for similar functions
I'm kinda ok with a combination, like hey during the day run with mostly humans but at night supplement lack of staff when automation (so long as it's safe)
I'm the big picture, maybe. On the other hand, there are plenty of cases where efficiency-per-size may be more important than price-per-efficiency given the available surface area to place a panel.
I'd say the main reason Trump doesn't fall under the latter category currently is lack of opportunity. He'd absolutely try to profit - likely personally and from both sides - in the Israel/Palestine conflict.
You can find them on Amazon if nowhere else