Yeah, for any normal person its an easy sell, for a MAGA type, probably not. You'd have to go pretty aggressive on the "Lol, you think nail polish makes me gay? If I was gay I'd far more flamboyant" or something.

Nail polish does feel pretty easily explainable for the most part. "I was out with some female friends, and they thought it would be fun to paint my nails". Its not a wildly unusual thing even for hetero boys, if anything, it means you have female friends.

Good luck.

There are other good reasons to not support older systems, beyond commercial interests.

Every additional system that is supported comes with a cost of time and effort. When the system is rare (SPARC), continuing to support it doesnt make sense, especially when that time and effort can be put towards maintaining other more common systems.

Also, supporting older systems can hold back new technology. Most Linux distros are built with an ancient minimum x86 version, which means that many of the modern CPUs aren't being optimised for. Its good for compatibility, but it is holding back new systems. Every Ubuntu/fedora/etc release their respective steering committees will usually have a discussion about dropping older CPU support. Gentoo at least has a solution for that, because everything is recompiled for the specific system.

IMO, if their system is so resource constrained that 1.5mb is too much to bear, they're well into the "holding everyone else back" territory, 128GB SSDs are 40AUD, which is two big Mac meals. And if they are on SPARC, thats well into the rarity territory, the last SPARC CPU was released in 2017, and they were never common for consumer PCs.

There is a difference between "planned obsolecence" and actual obsolecence, and this case feels like the later.

I absolutely would say that to a billionaire, because they aren't paying me.

My boss, have said it a number of times. I've almost verbatim told them that their use case doesn't line up with our broader user bases' use case, and that I wasn't going to support it. Part of a healthy working relationship is being able to push back.

Ignoring my specific case though, what is your point? That people with power shouldn't ever face push back? Surely that's not your point?

Probably not in the ways I would like :D

The containment "breaks" are intentional. Its a marketing ploy to stay in the news cycle.

Treat them like the crimes that they are and itll stop happening.

There is a valid discussion to be had for software bloat, but 1.5mb isnt huge by any measure. Plenty of binaries can and do exceed that without being "poorly coded".

As others have alluded to, you probably need to get the drying time down, and mechanically removing the water is your best bet (mangle or separate spin dry). Your additional rinse might make it worse if the dry time increases.

One way to get the water out, if spin cycle or mangle isn't an option is to layer your clothes in dry towels, roll them up and wring out the towel. You still need a way to dry the towel, but it will get a lot of water out of the clothes.

Why does it take so long to dry your clothing that mildew can grow? Take it out of the machine as soon as its done, don't dry it in a sauna?

I would guess that citric acid will cause damage, but realistically there shouldn't be any detergent or chemicals left over after a washing cycle anyway. The final rinse should clear it completely.

It’s a huge dependency (as of 0.13.0, its wheels are between 1.2 MiB and 1.5 MiB

What world are they living in that 1.5MiB is huge?

SPARC

Right.

Its cool you want to keep your old system going, but thats a cost you have to pay. You can't expect the rest of the world to make their lives harder to support your niche.

NAS sits at 24w idle. Security cams are drawing 19w of poe power, but I suspect there is a bit more being used in total. I have another NUC using probably around 24w max.

I'll slap some power meters on the switches and main nuc and try get some more accurate numbers.

Recommended sounds like a guideline to me, but im not a bike mechanic. The tire/rim does almost all of the pressure containment, with the exception of the valve, but the valve should be capable of much more than 3.5 bar.

I think you'll be okay at 4.5 bar. Some road tires are run at 6+, so 4.5 doesnt seem outrageously high.

I'm not a mechanic though, just some idiot on the internet :)