They also came from a time when hard drives could draw several amps while in use and much more on spin-up. There was a good reason why SCSI drive arrays used to spin each disk up one-by-one.
Molex connectors are good for 10 amps or so, SATA connectors couldn't have handled that amount of current.
Letting it ring has no impact. They have autodiallers that call, and when someone picks up, only then is that call assigned to someone in the call centre.
You can often tell this because there is a marked delay in the response to your initial "Hello?". Long enough that you can reliably just hang up if you don't hear a response in two seconds.
If it's a real person who actually wants to call you and they you call again straight away, you can just shrug off your hang-up as a network issue.
The horse has well and truly bolted on this one.
About 30 years ago, I used to do coal seam sampling around those parts. There are thousands of boreholes going down to the coal seams there. We would drill down to the seam and then take about a 6 metre cross section of the seam.
You'd pull up the core samples, place them in sealed tubes made out of metre long, 100mm diameter plastic pipe and take them back to the lab to see how much gas came out.
Over the course of about 48 hours, about 30 litres of gas would come from about 10kg of coal.
Oh, those boreholes? They were just left uncapped. Sometimes if it was particularly gassy, they'd put a burner on top, sometimes they wouldn't, and if a bushfire went through the area those boreholes would never go out and you'd see hundreds of them burning away into the distance. There's thousands of square kilometres with boreholes in them in that area.
Every kilogram of coal that they take to the surface will vent the same amount of methane as my samples did 30 years ago and the aggregate amount of coal they mine in the Bowen Basin is about 50 million tons a year.
So when they finally close all the coal mines, and seal all the shafts and fill in all the pits, they're also going to have to go and cap the thousands upon thousands of boreholes because they're a direct line to the remaining seams below, and they'll basically vent forever.
There's a lot of blame to go around here:
The whole thing is a pressure cooker designed to get as much as possible out of the general public.
Fucking hell, imagine the requirement of a couple of megawatt substation for fast charging, urban power planners must be shitting themselves.
Hey there.
Pressure regulators typically only work when there is flow and also back pressure they can work against.
If you try and measure with the gauge like in the picture you will basically end up measuring input pressure as any tiny leakage of water through the regulator will have nowhere to go afterwards and pressure will build up.
If you want to test the regulator, you need to put it in a line with a few sprinkler heads on it so that there is both flow and back pressure and then put your gauge in a tee piece on that line so it can measure the pressure of the water flowing past.
I hate how bloated the kernel is. I'd like it to fit into main memory.
Take a copy of lspci, lsusb. Use them to build a kernel from source with only the bits you need and then make the bits you might need modules. Include your filesystem driver into the kernel and you can skip the usual initramfs stage and jump straight to your root filesystem.
Might take a few tries, but at least it doesn't take 18 hours to compile the kernel anymore....
They are supposed to be the glue that binds the internal team together as well as bonding to external groups.
The project manager organises external requirements and steers the project in the direction needed for the business. That direction might change depending on the status of other projects, it's their job to be on top of that.
They also report progress and roadblocks upstream so that those who manage groups of related projects can work on keeping everything running.
Whether they're actually competent, well that's something else entirely.
You might need to recalibrate your mental chronometer because Hobart began to have electricity in 1898, 126 years ago, and they had gas lighting before that starting in 1857 ish, some 160-plus years ago.
Whiskey drinking, most definitely though.
Similar things have worked in countries that aren't so under the thrall of the mighty corporation. I recall some guy in ... Russia? who struck out and reworded a bunch of penalty clauses for a credit card offer he got and mailed it back to the bank, which accepted it and issued the card. Cue much hilarity as he racked up a bunch of charges and then got it thrown out in court. (Actually, here's a link.. They eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.)
Anyway, I live in Australia so my response to all these kinds of attempts at removal of my consumer rights is a drawn out "yeah, nahhhh"
For the user mostly it's just slow. It can literally take ten seconds just to check if there's any mail and that's if there are no new messages. When there are messages it takes much longer.
I have my own IMAP server (Dovecot)with 20 years of messages on it. It's on a linode instance in Hong Kong, I'm in Australia.
When I open my Thunderbird on my laptop, it takes less than a second to authenticate and grab a dozen headers. If I pop open the Gmail app on my phone and select that account, again, it connects and refreshes in the same amount of time. Manually doing the drag-down-to-refresh motion gives me one spin of the spinner at the top of the page, possibly 1.5 seconds.
So my question to you is, what's wrong with your IMAP server?
Small edit: Did a totally unprofessional test with Wireshark and a cold start of Thunderbird and my laptop at 5 percent battery and heavily throttled. It takes 1.3 seconds for it to connect to my IMAP server, authenticate, and then check for unread messages. To grab the headers for 9 unread messages in my 2023-2024 inbox (containing about 3500 messages) takes another 3.5 seconds. To transfer approximately 5MB of data for the message bodies takes another 6 seconds on my wifi at home. For an application that lives in my system tray 90 percent of the time with a persistent connection, this seems fine.
That's easy. Just fly somewhere and bring it in your carry-on, airport security will let you know.