Gotta remember to enable Quantum Entanglement… Takes a lot more power, but solves the problem.

I’ve taken this approach, sometimes these boxes will act up when they can’t phone home. Definitely worth trying though.

Excellent - thanks for the remote recommendation, it’s one thing I’ve been struggling to find.

Not sure I like the gyro idea - I had a gyro presentation mouse in the past. Worked well, but how do your parents like the gyro element?

Sometimes it’s a decision between reliability and selfhosted

This is an excellent point to keep in mind.

Using something like Telegram for notifications/alerts exposes a minimal amount of info/metadata.

XMPP could be a useful alternative, since there are numerous hosts/providers available, and it’s a privacy minded community.

The proxmox server is connected to a router attached to a fiber ONT.

If you want to be extra secure, there’s no reason the server needs internet connectivity/exposure at all (it should be safe as-is). Put it on its own VLAN with only specified ports open to your home LAN. That would be one extra layer from the internet - if admin/remote ports can’t be accessed via the internet connection LAN, then no way for an outsider to get into it (you’d have to provide other ways of accessing the server to admin it, either KVM, or a machine on that VLAN, etc).

You DO NOT need to do this, just adding an idea about how to make stuff more secure.

Not really, no - entropy is one-way at the macro scale.

The flour absorbed water, and combined with kneading, produced gluten (and was baked, causing more chemical changes).

Grinding it all up wouldn’t reverse that process - it would just be ground up bread.

I’d start with not saying anything, but writing a log/journal hourly, even if it’s just in a phone app that reminds you. Remember squeaky wheels get treated like they’re the problem - best to have documentation on your side.

After maybe a month, then decide what your actions will be. Maybe just request shifts that happen to never coincide with this other person. Sometimes doing what you need is better than addressing the root cause.

That’s why you have the phone call, to discuss it, and in closing state you’ll send an email.

I don’t disagree it’s a focus thing for many people. I’m often stunned at the lack of comprehension or attention to detail using any medium, even in person (also technical field).

Like look, I just said to do what you’re asking would require 250 firewall rules…why are you now talking as if firewall rules aren’t required? I even went through the simplest math out loud during this meeting, so everyone would understand how I came up with that number and didn’t just pull it out of my ass.

People pay attention to what they want to pay attention to (or as my grandfather would say - people hear what they want to hear). If those questions aren’t a high priority for their own work, they simply don’t see them.

For OP: email is a terrible medium for such things, unless there’s been a conversation about it, and this is part of moving a project forward. Anything out of left field isn’t important to your audience, and… people dislike comitting to anything in email. As you work with people up the food chain, you’ll find less and less happens via verifiable comms like email (which is archived).

Anything will work, what’s most important is regular vacuuming, preventing dirt from working it’s way down though the carpet.

In another life I did some reno work. You could tell who vacuumed regularly, and who didn’t. This was long before vacuums became high-ticket items, they were all generic bag-based ones designed in the 60’s and 70’s.

Not to say some of the newer ones don’t work a lot better, just that an infrequently used great one works worse than a regularly used average one.

YouTube does this stuff because it’s effective. The only way to avoif is to not play the game as defined by them.

Switch to other means of watching YouTube, like Grayjay, or an envious instance.

Yep.

Rather than try to single-handedly re-engineer an old protocol to be secure, I just use it for stuff where security isn’t a big deal. Including messages with links to secure resources (and send credentials via a separate system).

I don’t see how you wouldn’t have your email on an email providers servers - that’s how email works. You send an email via a provider, they forward it to the destination address you’ve included with the email.

That destination address is another email provider’s server, which holds it until the receiver connects and downloads it. Email is a store-and-forward system, designed at a time when users weren’t always connected. It still works this way.

Email is old, so the fundamental mechanics are pretty simple, and encryption wasn’t an option at the time - so it’s sent in the clear. Otherwise it would require both sender and receiver (either at both ends, or the servers) to agree on an encryption to use.

If you can get the pack apart, I’d just rebuild it. Replacement cells are as little as $2 each.

It’s abnormal.

That kind of speed requires 500hp+, depending on Cd and frontal area.

What percentage of cars produce 500hp+?

(I’m not even sure 500hp is enough, it’s been a while since I’ve done the math).

Small increments in speed require non-linear increases in power.

At idle, SSD is usually better (like you said if the SSD has proper power management, and that takes research to know).

Spinning platters are generally still better for power per gig/terabyte, because write time they consume less power than SSD.

I dont really look at drive power consumption, because even with ~10 drives running in my environment, a single cpu doing anything moderate blows away their power consumption numbers (I’ve tested, not that it was needed, heat dissipation alone makes it clear).

I have a ten-year old 5 drive NAS that runs 24/7, and it’s barely above room temp. Average draw is a few watts (the number was so low I put it out of my mind, maybe 5 watts - Raspberry Pi territory).

My SFF desktop is 12w at idle, with either 2 small SSDs (500GB each) or a single large drive (12TB). So much for SSD having better idle power.

SSD isn’t necessarily less energy hungry than spinning platter.

It really depends on the specific units and use patterns.

Generally SSD has better idle power, and HD has better read and write power, but that doesn’t even always hold true.

If your device sits idle long enough, SSD is better for power, but the write time to get to idle could easily consume the power differential.

https://www.edn.com/power-vs-energy-ssd-and-hdd-case-studies/

Beat me to it. I always have the page up.

It would probably help to define the terms you’re using, as there are many ways to interpret “big place”, “small place”, “many people”, etc.

I don’t even know if your starting point is accurate.

Ok, Dr. Evil!