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The DGI Mini 3 Pro. Looks pretty cool. For that. Frankly you could just buy a separate cheap phone or tablet to use with just that or use an old one you already have. When you buy something to replace it later you could also consider openness and compatibility too.
Also decide what apps that you must have. If you can use the browser version or the progessive webapp version which is just the browser version installed that is probably better. Or if you do not need it on your phone use the browser version on you laptop.
In the end though you will have some of these platforms for network reasons. Mostly things like Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn. Google is not one of them though except for android itself. You also do not have to spend a lot of time contributing to these platforms. Use them when you need to nothing more.
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Well that is the point isn’t it. Companies are not very reliable. The only thing they can be relied on to do is whatever butters their bread and that can change at any time. There is also a PR component and a fact component and they do not always agree.
Proton is really no different. I seem to remember they changed what they said on their website after outing that activist. Presumably to be a little less misleading. Again, I am impressed with Proton but not infinitely impressed.
Security audits do not guarantee security. They are just the best we have. Just as code reviews do not guarantee good and trustworthy code. In the end, we do not know what we do not know. In the end, every system has its weaknesses.
Sure I believe Proton is a reasonable supplier. Even with that Proton for example is on the record of giving out user info to governments. I am sure they did not meet the expectations of that activist.
All security is porous. So there is every reason to believe that Proton or any other org will have a major breach at some point.
Edit: Just think of the LastPass debacle.
I think it depends on how good your Numpy build is. Lot of Numpys are not that well built so Numba seems to help there too in that case.
For a python library to be fast it needs to be compiled for your specific hardware, vectorized, with fast math, and auto parallel. Most are probably not unless you build them youself.
Taxes. What can I say, there is always something…
Former employer issues me a random 1095-C saying they offered me health insurance in 2023. Of course this is false. How much trouble this will cause when I try to claim the PTC this year, who knows. Then I get my taxes almost into FTU and find that it will not handle this years taxes. So I have to find another provider that can. On top of that, still waiting on one final set of tax documents from one entity that can’t seem to get its act together. Have no idea if they will by April 15 or not. Feels 50/50 at this point. May have to put in an extension while I wait 3 to 6 months for the wheels to turn on something that should have been done 2 months ago. Of course this means I cannot finish my taxes or get my refund until who knows when. Ironically this year my refund is larger then usual so timing matters more.
Not sure where I am. Makes me want to laugh and scream at the same time.
I have no great answers. My wife likes to say find the intersection of your skills and passion and the world’s greatest needs. I prefer to also add and for which you can get paid for, preferably at least 2X median income if possible.
Of the writers I know one did freelance for awhile then wrote a book after getting out of news. The other ultimately switch to being a producer of radio content. Think both were difficult. I had another writer friend that did technical writing for a large company. Something in the medical R&D area. Another person I know did creative stuff in video production and gave it up to be an executive assistant.
Regarding wage stagnation. I do not disagree. That however does not change the basics of managing ones carrier. OP is trying to work in a dying field. Really questionable if that is a good idea. We have family that are writers and they have had similar issues to OP. The way to get paid well is to either be a specialist preffereably in short supply, be management, own your own business, or be in a union. Working in a growing not a dying industry is important too.
I think people can have multiple views in their head at once. Since I come from the sciences it reminds me of the quantum physics analogy. In quantum theory you make a state concrete by projecting the state onto a representation. There are many choices each a different way of measuring the system or understanding the dynamics. Some are more useful and less confusing then others when trying to answer a specific question but they are all valid. Where you get to human issues is what conclusions you try to draw based on your analysis of course and that is open for debate.
I have looked. That they will run down to -10F or a bit more does not mean they move much heat at those temperatures.
Yes. My house is 1948. It is well insulated for a house of that age. We had it done to the max 15 years ago. You would have to totally shell the house to do much more.
Only real opportunities we have is new Windows, a new front door, and think more about basement losses. We do not have a very clear thermal envelope in the basement direction.
By the way what brands are worth a look? I have looked at some and used a design tool but was underwhelmed.
My house requires about 40000btu at minus -30F. Not sure I have even seen a brand that will run below -24F and the efficiency really drops off anyway. Around here it seems that the design point is about +15F and after that supplemental heating is needed.
Edit: My current furnace is 66000 BTU/HR but I think it is way oversized.
The problem with heat pumps is that below 10 degrees you need supplemental heat unless you go with ground loop systems that are very expensive. Many people probably supplement with electric but that seems crazy. Can the grid hold up to everyone doing electric heat on those minus 30 days?
Love the idea of heat pumps but not to sure about getting rid of my gas furnace unless I went ground loop.
Do this mean that we no longer have to give our connections our phone number? Never liked the phone number requirement.
I am guessing but probably about half of the cost of rent is related to true costs and the other half related to the financial mumbo jumbo of capital opportunity cost.
Just based on my experience owning our house.
Even if you do pay cash, housing is expensive. Our little house in a not so good part of town costs about $25K a year. About half that is out of pocket and the other half is capital opportunity cost. One reason many people carry mortgages longer then they need to is the capital opportunity cost. My wife and I both rented until about age 45 and to our surprise we were just barely able to do cash at that point so we did.
The other issue at the moment is high interest rates. Mortgages look less good compared to cash. The other issue of course is the high market price of homes as I said previously. That drives both mortgage and capital opportunity cost and is not directly related to true society wide cost, but is more of a financial mumbo jumbo thing.
Wait… I think we are due for a pole reversal.We could blame it on space junk.