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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • “at the expense of economic and social sustainability, [but] defending and promoting European production and safeguarding tens of thousands of jobs.”

    I mean, she’s right in general that the EU might not be taking care of the workers of the affected industries. But that doesn’t mean the way to take care of them is to halt the transition of the worst offending sectors. There’s no reason not to super subsidize the auto sector transition to make EVs in the EU other than ideology. The transition doesn’t mean dependence on Chinese EVs and jobless or downskilled auto workers.


  • Crashes aren’t normal even in Windows. Rare crashes mean a hardware problem 99.7% of the time. Typically RAM as others have pointed out. The only way to figure that out is 4 passes of Memtest86+ without red. Yes 4 because the the first pass is a short one made to spot obviously bad RAM quickly. Less bad RAM might need more. I’ve had a case of 4 sticks that each pass on its own. Every two passed on their own. All 4 failed on the third or fourth pass. And if you think I tested for shits and giggles, I did not. I was see checksum errors on my ZFS pool every other day. No crashes. Nevertheless, if it wasn’t for ZFS I’d have corrupted files all over my archive.



  • The problem with smart light switches is that they sit on the AC path. This means they’re capable of starting fires. As a result you might want units that don’t have questionable designs or the cheapest relays inside. A proxy for that is being certified by a western certification organization. Something like UL, CSA, ETL, MET, TUF, etc. Both the certification and the grade of components used increase the price of such units. There are some cheaper certified switches too, but personally I wouldn’t install something that doesn’t carry the name of a North American (I’m in Canada) manufacturer on it. Leviton, Eaton, etc. And those are $50+. 😔