Who here really has the time to stand, think and waste in the shower?

Me, my village gets its water from a spring in the mountains above that provides many times what we consume. Water is just a flatrate utility. The energy to heat it comes exclusively from photovoltaics and solar thermal panels between April and October. Standing under the hot shower is literally free for me in those months.

Rest of the year, eh, okay I either pay for electricity or stuff four more pieces of wood into the stove for half an hour worth of hot shower water, so, basically free as well.

Yep. I dabble in recruiting related stuff at conferences and expos for our company occasionally and I usually meet one or two young people that get the “get in contact!” remark on the protocol sheet. They’re out there, they’re just rare.

So, you go ahead and build one then.

It’s bound to happen, right. However, it’s a thing I have to learn how to deal with and I’m pretty certain I’m going to finish that process as a different person.

Interestingly, being there at the bed wasn’t that hard. It was just the right thing to do and I would always want to be there again.

The part where I’m missing him hard is when I feel like picking up the phone because something good happened but then I realize, no, not today, not tomorrow either, never again.

Yep. I held my father’s hand when he died. When it was over I hugged him and told him we’d be okay on our own now and that we’d manage.

I was mostly right. Mostly. The waves came and went and I thought I’d be over the worst - but now, a year later I sometimes miss the guy with a pain that feels like it will never end in that moment.

I planted a tree and put a bench under it at the end of a small valley where I now own some meadows and where we used to go together and chop firewood. When it gets too bad I take my dog up there and sit down and tell my dad what’s going on.

That is what I did and what I do. I accept that duty the moment I begin to take care of them as a young puppy or rescue.

We’re getting one free newspaper per week here 🤷

Just let a few sheets of old newspaper soak it up and burn it in the stove or the barbecue, done. Have none of those, just throw the hardened paper in the trash.

Okay, okay, you had to get that out, right? Better now?

People around here usually have trailers behind their normal cars for that. Works fine.

The severity of the problem depends on external factors:

• do you live in a dry and salt-free environment? No problem.
• did the maker of your car implement disc wiping as a precaution? No problem.
• did the maker of your car implement intermittent brake blending during recuperation? No problem.
• is your car less driven in wet and salty conditions and then always store in a dry, warm garage? No problem.
• does your car have drumsin the rear and near-undersized discs in the front? Less of a problem.

I drive an electric vehicle and the unfortunate reality is, that brakes that are large enough for an emergency stop get underutilized during everyday, regenerative braking. So they rust.

My solution is: Every time I get back to our village in wet weather, I accelerate hard on the last long straight and brake hard to almost a standstill once. No more brake trouble, all four rotors squeaky clean, but any measuring device would write me up as the biggest idiot on the roads out there.

That is too general of a statement. I have three EVs in my family, none of them do any temp condition of the battery just by being plugged in. However, EVCC turns off the wallbox when they reach 75% SoC and there is no appointment that day in our shared calendar. Sitting at high SoCs kills batteries, especially in warm climates.

Yep, that can happen. At that point everything installation related should already be unmounted, so just power it off hard and be done.

Or just press AltGr-Print-S to emergency sync the disks and AltGr-Print-B to the reboot hard, magic sysrq keys.

I usually buy refurbished Thinkpads with a year of warranty. There are at least two resellers for those in Germany that I know of, AfB and Lapstore.

Eh - YT music (premium) offers 256kB-ish Opus now. That’s on par with 320kBps MP3.

YT Music Premium delivers 256kBit/s Opus now, Deezer delivers FLAC.

🤷sri

If you want a supported version for your phone then yes, it’s paid for. You can create a free build yourself though.

We had that with Sailfish OS.