Done. Thanks.

Since the fuel price is set by market forces (rather than a cost plus model), and the law doesn’t prevent price gouging in energy (those laws only apply to supermarkets) we’ll likely see a drop (or at least a pause in the increases) when it’s first introduced, but then the fuel companies will slowly wind it back up till they are pocketing the excise change.

So no - there’s no framework forcing the saving to be passed on to motorists, and in the medium term it will go to fuel companies, funded by taxpayers.

Plus one for Kavita. Only slight bump is that it wants books to be in series because it’s quite manga focused.

+1 for Uptime Kuma, I use it with ntfy. If OP doesn’t want a self hosted solution, there’s UptimeRobot - essentially SAAS Uptime Kuma, but with a free tier.

This. When your mass is so small, you live in a very different world than we do - momentum and gravity are tiny forces on you, but others such as air resistance and static are huge. Additionally they don’t have the sort of inner-ear positioning system we do - so no real sense of “up” and “down” that would be recognizable to us - so probably the inevitable tumbling motion as you are sucked out of the window would not be disorientating to the fly the way it would be to a big animal.

So the answer is they will likely be fine. From their point of view the blob of air they are flying around in gets sucked out the window and they are just traveling in it. I imagine they would notice the acceleration, but it’s a tiny force on them. The sudden distortion to the block of air (being stretched out to fill the sudden low pressure zone outside of the car window) would be a big deal to the fly, but I don’t think enough to damage them.

Source: idle speculation, and a long standing interest in cats surviving huge falls.

The LEGO Group are relatively un-evil

Coming soon to self-driving cars: Grandad comes to visit from Kansas, but he’s been dead for five hours.

Forgejo + Tailscale. Forgejo is the app behind Codeberg so it’s battle tested. I switched to it from Gitea after the controversy.

Yes - Electron makes some sense in a world where developer effort is expensive and memory is cheap. Perhaps the inverse of that situation will encourage more interest native apps.

Not enough people have watched Utopia

Yep - I feel that, especially after the branded hard disk carry on last year.

I’m a +1 on this. A secondhand Synology set up with some RAID will delay this decision for a few years and give you time to build your expertise on the other aspects without worrying much about data security. It’s a pity that you’re nearly at the limit of 8TB - otherwise I would have suggested a two bay NAS with 2x8TB, but if you’re going to use second hand drives (I do because I’m confident of my backup systems) maybe 4x6TB is better. Bigger drives are harder to come by 2nd hand - and plenty of people will not be comfortable with secondhand spinning rust anyway - if that’s you, then a 2 bay with 2x12TB might be a good choice.

The main downside (according to me) of a Synology is no ZFS, but that didn’t bother me until I was two years in and the owner of three of them.

Proxmox on the metal, then every service as a docker container inside an LXC or VM. Proxmox does nice snapshots (to my NAS) making it a breeze to move them from machine to machine or blow away the Proxmox install and reimport them. All the docker compose files are in git, and the things I apply to every LXC/VM (my monitoring endpoint, apt cache setup etc) are all applied with ansible playbooks also in git. All the LXC’s are cloned from a golden image that has my keys, tailscale setup etc.

https://petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/ahmad-al-ahmad-for-aussie-of-the-year

I’m as disappointed in our pollies as anyone, but if we don’t want corruption we need to treat them something similar to business executives. I’d go further than that - we should have generous superannuation to avoid them currying favour to work with powerful interests when they leave. Both these measures are insurance against corruption.

Thanks for posting, I’d never heard of the Joe Walker Podcast, but will be checking it out.

For anyone interested in an Australian focused take on international relations who hasn’t discovered the “Australia in the World” podcast yet, I highly recommend that as well.

Batocera surely?

100% this. And Lenovos and HPs designed for the business market generally are a pleasure to work on (in the hardware sense) if you need, with good manuals and secondhand spare parts.

To stray even further from OP’s question (because books), I loved the dialect in Riddley Walker and the slang in A Clockwork Orange.

I run nearly all my Docker workloads with their data just in the home directory of the VM (or LXC actually since that’s how I roll) I’m running them in, but a few have data on my separate NAS via and NFS share - so through a switch etc with no problems - just slowish.