[–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The number of comments here taking the joke seriously makes me feel like someone needs to chime in with a counter example. Myself and all my siblings were homeschooled by my very religious mother who had no professional qualifications. I ended up getting my GED and went to college for Electrical Engineering. My sister is currently in Med school (Only one of my siblings is still religious, so that part didn't take root). Most of the religious homeschoolers that I knew growing up went on to have successful professional careers as well.

While I'm sure that some homeschoolers end up failing to launch, most learn at their own pace with personalized attention and learn valuable life skills on how to manage their own time in an unstructured environment.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    There are a number of niche brands out there that still cater to us old farts. Check out Ulefone, Oukitel, Unihertz, Doogee, iiif150, etc. Each company has normal models, but they all also dabble in unusual experimental models as well, some that are ultra small, other that have blackberry style keypads, or feature projectors, floodlights, uhf radios, thermal cameras, multiple screens, etc etc.

    Most models still retain SD card slots, headphone jacks, some still have IR emitters and other older i/o as well.

    They're all Chinese companies though, funny how all the consumer tech innovation is happening in communist countries.

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  • [–] 53 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Probably a good decision in the long run, their rational makes sense. Ubuntu's stubborn insistence on snap is poor decision making on their part.

    I run Tuxedo as my daily driver and look forward to the more rolling release focused strategy.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Most non-battery powered reolink cameras have an https web server interface, as well as support for any 3rd party app through open onvif and rtsp protocols.

    The bad part is, you typically need to turn those functions on with their app...

    Fortunately they don't require a an account or login to do that!

    I have several of their "E1 outdoor" ptz models, highly recommend the "cx" model with the starlight sensor for amazing night vision, although it looks to be backordered at the moment.

    Edit: missed the bit about birds, you'd probably want one of their simple fixed outdoor cams like the RLC-510A or WA depending on whether you prefer wifi or Ethernet.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    The content of the report seems to contradict the title:

    "The report described a series of voltage fluctuations that led to widespread disconnections of power generation in Spain, particularly among converter-based systems commonly used in renewable energy."

    So renewable inverter based generation is at least partiality at fault?

    As someone who works in the renewable industry, it became common knowledge shortly after this event that grid-following inverters exaccerbated the voltage fluctuations that led to this outage.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Hardly unravelling, more like being reformed to carry out the current administrations agenda. Anyone not on board is being pushed out. This take that it's "coming apart at the seams" is pure copium. The only thing coming apart at the seams is the old world order.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Even with insurance, many plans have a deductible that requires you to pay the first couple grand on your own before they'll cover anything, and even once you've paid that amount they will require you to cover a couple hundred per day of hospital stay (doubled for two patients: mom + baby).

    It is entirely normal to pay thousands of dollars for a normal uncomplicated hospital birth even with insurance.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Electrical Engineer here, that corrosion doesn't look too bad, I wouldn't assume it's the issue but it's not impossible it might be a contributing factor since corrosion on connections can cause heat and heat can trip breakers.

    If the breaker trips are happening when you do something like turn on the oven or the toaster then it's just a matter of the electric service to the house being too small for the apartments loads. This can happen if the apartment originally had gas appliances that were later switched to electric or something else (like a hot tub) was later added to increase the electric load beyond what was originally designed for.

    If the trips dont seem to correspond to anything you're doing with electric appliances, then the equipment may be going bad or there may be an intermittent short. Both of which are not something you would be able to troubleshoot (and frankly, if you don't know what you're doing, even opening up a panelboard like you've done can be deadly).

    Either way I highly recommend you either pressure your landlord to bring in an electrician, or pay for one out of pocket if thats not an option.

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