MalReynolds

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Parent Drivers: Sacrificed their free time, because now they have to fucking drive their kids everywhere. Once kids above a certain age could roam wild (pros and cons there, but on the whole a good thing IMO) and just come back for dinner.

The last winblows in this house is on (one of three) its own disk on a t440p, just in case a piece of shit needs a firmware update, and I dread that moment, last time I needed it was an 8BitDo , now in the hands of my kiddo on Bazzite (thank Athena I now have a steam controller). Not sure what I'm saying other than let the BIOS do the switching and may you never need to boot windows again.

IIRC “3D Printed” houses are falling apart due to lamination issues. That said, I think it's a solvable problem, though it will take awhile to sort out the issues. Modular systems also show a lot of promise for mass production, potentially even of higher quality, and likely amenable to robotic assembly if carefully designed for it, but we know it'll just be a profit seeking race to the bottom. Those construction jobs are safe for at least a decade, likely more.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is a quote from Donald Knuth, one of the grand oldies of Computer Science. Basically get everything working and tested in the real world before even thinking about optimizing, it may be unnecessary or needed somewhere you didn't expect.

In this case the optimization of spinning down as fast as possible is good in the use case of servers to save power and heat, but not good for gaming.

Garmin Fenix 6 (or equivalent) and above work fine for sleep tracking with gadgetbridge and endurain, and are pretty cheap secondhand. Battery life and build are stellar (and seeing as you charge it at most weekly unless hammering GPS and Music, 500 charge cycles is a decade, batteries are replaceable too, screws, but I'd be leery of diving with it afterwards) and you get all the smartwatch / sportswatch stuff. It's sleep, as long as it's +- 5 min, it's good enough to work with, doesn't need to be the best on the market.