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Then I tried putting it outside. What I've learned is that while they do not do well in direct sun, they do like light. Lots of it.
I've read that a southern window is the best window for a spath. The reasoning is simple: for folks that live in the northern hemisphere, the most amount of indirect light will enter from the south. And wouldn't you know it -- our south wall has no windows!
I live in Tennessee and I now keep mine outdoors during the growing season. It sits in a pot on the deck underneath the canopy of a large river birch. Even during the 90+°F days, it does well. The back of our home faces west, so it can catch a few direct rays late in the day as the sun sets over the horizon, but it is strategically located so that the deck railing and a nearby crape myrtle filters enough of that scorching late afternoon sun to make it happy.
I bring it indoors once the overnight lows start to dip to around 40°F. Over the winter, it drops about a third to a half of its leaves. I put it back out for a few days at a time in the early spring as weather allows. Once the frost danger has past, it stays outdoors. The leaves rapidly multiply and it puts out about 5-6 blooms around July.
If you can, try putting it outside. I am sure that the boost in photosynthesis will help it more than anything.
Oh, yes, sitting on a wet and windy beach trying to read a newspaper sounds superior to reading it on an e-reader in every conceivable way.
This already happens at convenience stores around the country, too. The "pennies for everybody" trays are the physical manifestations of our collective irritation with the penny. I know I only ever get change back rounded to the nearest 0.05 because I always leave my pennies in the tray. And since I often never have pennies, I'm only prepared to make transactions to the nearest 0.05.
Many of us are already doing it, but just in a roundabout way that requires more effort for no reason.
This is why NetApp sued Sun in 2007, claiming patent infringement.
I worked in a data center that stored medical records around that time. We were moving off of a StorageTek PowderHorn 9310 (that thing was mesmerizing) to some multi-cabinet EMC spinning disk array. You couldn't get access to that thing without hooking up a FC HBA to the SAN. Fast-forward a few years and I found myself in a similar job at a much smaller e-commerce firm. We had some old finicky NetApp filers we ended up getting rid of in favor of Sun Storage 7000 storage appliances running ZFS. Both of them supported replication, but the Sun Storage appliances were far better.
Yeah, SAN and NAS are two different things, but there's a lot of money, a lot of shared technology, and a lot of similar use cases that have driven convergence over the last decade or two.