I live in New York. If it never exceeded 25C (about 77F) and stayed at under 60% humidity, I'd be happy as a porcine in excrement. Summer is much nicer when it's comfortable enough to be outside without being drenched in sweat.
The law seems to primarily target city-owned buildings -- hope there's money to retrofit them and it doesn't result in the closing of services. Frankly, I see a better path for NY State: build more nuclear power stations to replace Indian Point when it closes. If you can't reduce energy use too much, you can at least make the source(s) clean.
Our fathers' Microsoft was more honest than the current one. It made mediocre software, but at least it didn't try to steal (excuse me, cloud-connect) users' data or nickel-and-dime them for eternity for software that doesn't do that much more than the version from 5-10 years ago.
I'd want an e-ink or split-screen e-ink/OLED laptop, frankly. It could be an e-reader and a general-purpose computing device. With the e-ink display, it could have absurd battery life (days to weeks).
Why not just a few fingers? Pull the USB plug out of the jack. Or hack the fucking thing to prank your roommate and be controlled neither by Scamazon nor the uni.
IDK, if it's 15 years old, a base model, it's generally worth less than $5k, even if it was pampered. People move, change life situations, etc, so they do "let cars go" even if they're not lemons.
At this point, 10-15 year old cars ARE the sweet spot. Less electro-crap and nanny-junk to fail. I've owned plenty of cars of that age with 150k miles on the clock. Given the right model of car (old Corolla or Civic, RWD Volvo, certain Mazdas) it's good for another 100k at least.
I've bought plenty of good, working cars off of Craigslist or EBay, and before that, from the newspaper classifieds. Don't be such a coward that needs everything "pre-certified" and "pre-approved."
Advertise it online -- audio geeks/hobbyists of various types need tubes. There are also probably people who collect things like the IEEE proceedings. Sell it off gradually as interest arises.
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A sucker I mean. This should be a lesson for the next round of "get rich quick" vaporware.
Often doing the work yourself takes less time than babysitting a contractor who's barely literate.
70s are great. Once it exceeds 80, especially with high humidity, it's just gross outside.
I live in New York. If it never exceeded 25C (about 77F) and stayed at under 60% humidity, I'd be happy as a porcine in excrement. Summer is much nicer when it's comfortable enough to be outside without being drenched in sweat.
Yep, that's fine, I'm not a gamer.
It's actually pretty rare outside of very large and old buildings (i.e. Empire State Bldg).
Probably not, but some city-owned school buildings did use coal furnaces well into the 2010s.
Buildings in NYC have gas (if you're lucky), oil, or coal (if you've very unlucky) boilers for heat. So yes, they do emit CO2.
The law seems to primarily target city-owned buildings -- hope there's money to retrofit them and it doesn't result in the closing of services. Frankly, I see a better path for NY State: build more nuclear power stations to replace Indian Point when it closes. If you can't reduce energy use too much, you can at least make the source(s) clean.
Linux and Libreoffice are free and don't steal my data. Who needs Windows? Not me.
Our fathers' Microsoft was more honest than the current one. It made mediocre software, but at least it didn't try to steal (excuse me, cloud-connect) users' data or nickel-and-dime them for eternity for software that doesn't do that much more than the version from 5-10 years ago.
i said split-screen e-ink and OLED. One half e-ink, the other OLED. Or maybe a foldable split display.
I'd want an e-ink or split-screen e-ink/OLED laptop, frankly. It could be an e-reader and a general-purpose computing device. With the e-ink display, it could have absurd battery life (days to weeks).
How about Trump's "I have no organ like Elton John" speech on endless loop, sped up to 2x its original speed?
Rick Astley. Rickroll whoever is listening. Hasselhof also works. Or Britney Spears...
Why not just a few fingers? Pull the USB plug out of the jack. Or hack the fucking thing to prank your roommate and be controlled neither by Scamazon nor the uni.
Do the remodeling yourself or go home -- (wo)man up. Not a big deal to find a tenant -- Cralgslist is your friend as usual.
IDK, if it's 15 years old, a base model, it's generally worth less than $5k, even if it was pampered. People move, change life situations, etc, so they do "let cars go" even if they're not lemons.
At this point, 10-15 year old cars ARE the sweet spot. Less electro-crap and nanny-junk to fail. I've owned plenty of cars of that age with 150k miles on the clock. Given the right model of car (old Corolla or Civic, RWD Volvo, certain Mazdas) it's good for another 100k at least.
I've bought plenty of good, working cars off of Craigslist or EBay, and before that, from the newspaper classifieds. Don't be such a coward that needs everything "pre-certified" and "pre-approved."
Because he wants to date and needs to impress women that are easily impressionable? :D
Advertise it online -- audio geeks/hobbyists of various types need tubes. There are also probably people who collect things like the IEEE proceedings. Sell it off gradually as interest arises.
Politics in the US since Ronnie Raygun (may his memory be dust) became President have been more regressive than progressive.
If you don't care about showing off to others, you can pick up a pretty nice used car for 5 grand or so.
Were the original media backed up on different servers? Owning stuff carries with it a risk of loss -- get insurance or deal with it.
If you want to be cloudfree, it's a lot easier to stick a few TB of hard drives in a safe deposit box than copies of 100s of tapes and CDs.