The same way they are intercepting the jabber port they can intercept any other port for the HTTP ACME challenge. No need to get involved at the name server level.
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The problem is the black bars top And bottom are rendered into the video. I happen to have a 34” ultra wide which is the native aspect of the actual video. But I can’t actually watch it full screen. But only on paramount+. Works fine on Amazon.
But only on paramount+
This used to be a problem with VHS/DVDs when widescreen TVs first came out. TVs often (and maybe still do) had a mode to zoom in to cut them off.
The most painful one for me right now is that Paramount+ has all their videos rendered with black bars top and bottom. So when I watch the latest Star Trek New Worlds and Star Trek Discovery on my 34" 1440p ultrawide, it literally has a black border all the way around the edge. Watching the same episode on Prime Video, it entirely fills my screen.
I've reported this to them a couple times over a year and they haven't done anything about it. I imagine, most likely, this is possibly some kind of combination of compatability with some devices that need videos rendered at a certain resolution and not wanting to have too many different encodes of videos. But it is quite annoying not to be able to have the video fill my screen.
The main part of the working week is a fairly dense schedule of both inter-team and cross-team meetings. You can get everyone together from all teams in the same timezone for various meetings, discussions or even pairing sessions to work together on things for the week. We plan and make decisions to set the pace and direction for the next 3-6 months of work remote.
While this definitely differs from person to person, for many it also functions very well as a great way to meet your colleagues face to face, especially for those out of your timezones. Many will have social dinners in various groups, a team dinner, head out for some sight seeing during the week or weekend before/after, etc. The location we travel to is always changing so you get a little taste of travelling to many different places and you can easily tack on a couple of days holiday before/after, etc.
It's a big part of what has made working remote here great for me. I've worked remote since 2007 when I joined MySQL, it was a similar travel setup at MySQL but once we got acquired by Sun and later Oracle for various reasons including the GFC such travel stopped and I never saw my colleagues face to face. In my particular team at that time we also never really used webcam chat etc so it was quite isolating - pretty much everything was done on Chat. It was a refreshing change moving here and getting to travel and see people, as well as chat on video a few times a week.
It definitely has it's challenges, especially for those with families. A subset of people travel for 2 weeks at a time and even the 1 week at a time (twice a year) that everyone does can be challenging for those with families. However I personally contrast that with the fact I have 0 commute time every other day of the year - easily saving me the 0.5-2 hours per day travel time that is pretty common at least in Australia (or more, I have gotten many stories of 3+ hours travel time from candidates in India). This leaves me with a lot more time with my young kids and family every day. I see them at both ends of every day - no leaving before people are awake or getting home when they are in bed already. Assuming 1 hour travel per day that would I guess equate to ~11 days a year saved not travelling? So kindof roughs out I guess - though I had never done that calculation until just now.
The exact semantics vary per protocol but it’s a feature of most protocols at least in the currently used revisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing
I’d be surprised to see the models go the ground breaking commercial AIs shipping but then I’m surprised at how much we’ve gotten open source anyway.
Devstack is great for a quick try out but is not for even toy workloads. As you can’t even really relaunch the same cloud reliably after reboot.
Inverters themselves are potential noise sources though so may be part of the issue but other implementations may not interfere.
However it's still a challenge. I work with all of those daily and I often think about the project over-all and it's features or bugs in terms of the alphabetical name, but there is also a numerical name and I have to lookup and translate from it - when looking at diagnostic output from customer installs, or git tags, etc. I keep some subset of the translations in my head but not all them :)
I do wish this feature was better integrated, and using the share sheet to open with any app including News seems always confusing - you're never sure if you have to scroll the list of icons or scroll the list of names, or edit it to add it to both lists, and different apps seem to appear in both lists in different contexts.
But it works well when it works :D
However this FAA approval is apparently for the Gen1 fixed wing plane (which is quieter than a drone anyway). Their Gen2 "drone" design is barely audible.
Most people don't upgrade every year, but those that do, typically have a still very good condition and usable second hand device to sell or hand down to another friend/co-worker/etc - that same person would otherwise just have to have bought a new device. So on net, no difference.
I'm sure there are some people that both upgrade needlessly and just let them collect dust but I can't see it being a significant percentage?
(This is coming from someone who had every iPhone from the 3G through to the X on Day 1, though now I am going from a 12 Pro Max to a 15 Pro max :)
If you're all in on the idea and have a robust process around key custody it's great, but if you just deploy it without thinking especially to an environment that may not be fully rebooted for 1-2 years at a time, it's far more likely someone will lose the keys and then only months or years later when the entire thing is restarted realise they lost all their data. And I'd put this as more likely than encryption at rest ever saving most people from data privacy.
You have to include availability and user experience in your "threat model".
Apple seems to mostly use Bonjour (mDNS) for these whether using a local network (and indeed that is the case for this wifi sync feature), but they also have a few features/frameworks that can also be setup over an Apple specific "peer to peer wifi" connection which is bootstrapped with bluetooth and switches to peer to peer wifi for fast data transfer, similar but not the same protocol as WiFi direct (according to https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/12885). This is what AirPlay2 does for example. That is one way WiFi could matter for such a feature versus Ethernet.
This wifi sync definitely works with Ethernet on the Mac side (personal experience)
There is no way to know how much the oven is using. Even noce purchased, most people have no idea how much energy in their home is used by what (they just get a single bill and for an entire 2 months period).
Lastly as noted, at least here, the majority are installed by builders and included in a package price - the consumer doesn't choose and most builders don't offer an option. Many more would also be chosen by landlords for those who rent, rather than home owners. Or may have been chosen by the home owner that built the house you then purchased.
Thus I would say the number of consumers that directly choose and purchase the oven they use would be a low percentage, and the cost to replace it is high enough to make that unlikely and not have a great payback period.
From an Appliance repair/reseller "Bens Appliances and Junk" "Clean a Washing Machine Inside: How to Remove Mold, Soap Scum and More with a CHEAP Organic Cleaner" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOXM81Zk_As
"How The Insides Of Washing Machines Are Deep Cleaned | Deep Cleaned | Insider" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I45FqVN-PjE
It doesn't work with every laundry layout (luckily does for me) but I have found leaving the door open so it can dry out is very helpful to prevent mould built up on the doors etc at least. Not sure how much it effects the bacteria/scud/etc - could even make scud worse to some degree since deposits dry out I guess.
Another tip that I only recently learnt is that you can dry washing with a dehumifier at a rate not that much slower than a clothes dryer (6-ish hours). Also at a rate cheaper or comparable to a heat pump dryer. That may be a good option for your staged washing if you're happy to hang the clothes out.
On my washer at least the hour cycle does a pretty good job of things though in theory you're supposed to only wash like 3-4KG instead of 8-11 like in the 2-3 hour cycles.
Two things I am reasonably sure matter but have not looked into the research and need to get around to doing is: - I have to wonder about the impact of long washing loads on clothes longevity and wearing out of the fabric, especially with fuller loads.. that's a lot of rubbing. - The washing powder I currently like the most definitely gets caught and leaves residue.. in particular it builds up -inside- the detergent drawer and becomes so glued on even a pressure washer and screwdriver takes a lot of effort to get it off (clearly needs CLR or some such). I am sure some detergents are much better at not building up SCUD compared to others but this seems to be a not well discussed/reviewed fact.
The one that pains me is ovens. They are hugely power hungry and here many models have a very tiny amount of insulation (unless you get a "pyrolitic" model that heats up to 500C to burn the oil off, they have better insulation by requirement of that).
We have no energy rating for ovens, so no real incentive to improve. The vast majority are also installed by builders when the house is built, so consumers never even make a choice in the first place. You can also imagine that also pushes most builders to the bottom end of the market. I'm also still always surprised how expensive ovens can be for how simple they are.
Most of them now also have a fan to run air around the the outside of the unit so it doesn't overheat the cupboard around it (but not all) which is perhaps also a hint at the poor insulation. The cheap builder model I most recently pulled apart had such poor insulation and gaps all around it.
Choice's most recent review has running cost per year ranging from $310 to $651 (this is unfortunately behind a paywall): https://www.choice.com.au/home-and-living/kitchen/ovens/revi...
"The running costs are calculated based on running the oven at 170°C for one hour, three times per week for 10 years at 30c per kWh. Where available, the fan-forced function is used, otherwise, the fan-assist is used. For models without either function, the top and bottom elements (convection or traditional bake) are used."
That's also probably generous since you often run a higher temp and I suspect 200-220C might make a big difference in that cost.
It's a good reason to make use of appliances like air fryers (which despite the name are mostly just ovens), they heat a much smaller space and use a lot less power as a result.
Unfortunately the ever shrinking house makes storing and using such things increasingly difficult. Microwaves are also only 50% effeceient (a surprise I recently learnt).
I know why we don't have it, and energy ratings are partly a proxy for it, but I always wished the average consumer had easy ways to be more informed about trade-offs exactly like this article talks about. You can trade energy effeciency for a slower cycle - that's partly why most washers these days have many different cycle options - you're trading one thing for another - but most of the time they just tell you the name of the situation they are supposedly for without even a hint at maybe how much more or less energy or water or delicacy you are trading off. The same reason product reviews are never clear cut because everyone has different priorities :)