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bluGill

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  • Should I be concerned about Email responses from my custom email being flagged as spam?

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  • Many email providers blacklist large parts of the internet for spam protection. When I switched from hosting my own email (doing SPF, or whatever existed back then) to paying fastmail to host my email a lot more email started going through. fastmail is large enough and has a good enough reputation that nobody can afford to block emails from them. I still have my own personal domain most people who email me have no clue that I'm not hosting it. I'd advise the same thing, pay fastmail to host your email, it doesn't cost much and everything works.

    There are companies other than fastmail that does this as well. Some of them are just as good, pick whichever you want.

  • [Help] My first serious self hosted server

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  • Parts fail all the time. The problem with hardware raid is you need a compatible controller or none of the data can be read even though it is still on the physical disks. Computer hardware is often only made for a few months before there is a new model and so you are risking that the manufacture really made the new model work with what you have. That is assuming the manufacture doesn't go out of business which could happen without warning. \

    Also, if hardware breaks that is often a good excuse to replace it - odds are better hardware is available for the same price and sometimes a lot less $ - with hardware raid you are stuck paying whatever price they charge.

  • running Media Services on NAS or separate server

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  • Either works fine for most homes. for most homes everything on the nas makes sense as that saves energy vs a second always on box. For enterprises you want them separate because you can't get cpu's powerful enough.

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    'State-owned enterprise is not the American way' — GOP senators, former Trump associates question White House’s 10% stake in Intel, critics brand move as socialism

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  • Well rapublicans are screaming it. Not too loud, but it proves there are some with standards.

  • How should one prepare for high inflation?

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  • Can you immigrate now? Generally that high in'lation implies a lot of other bad things to best is to get out now. Even if you leave with just the clothes on your back that is often a better return than anyone staying can get. (Unless you are the winning side of a corrupt revolution - you can make out very good in that case.)

  • How should one prepare for high inflation?

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  • Generally tha airport is the worst place, but it is easy and probably not too bad. Banks vary from good to bad as far as how good thay are-

    physical cash is generally a bad idea. offshore your investments to a different country: buy stocks, bonds, and real estate elsewhere. Though beware of taxes that can be bad. Swiss banks used to be the place for this as they wouldn't tell your country what you had and thus your country cannot punish you for it.

  • How should one prepare for high inflation?

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  • The last only works if the loan is fixed rate - those are not always available so check terms closely. There is also the possibility that a lon could be called - you are rquired to pay it now, which drops back to the first: a new loan at the new rates.

    finally beware that banks may have political power and so the laws may change and what you thought was a airtight terms is now against you.

    Figure out what your risk tollerance is. I'm not sure how likely any of the above is.

  • You get an unlimited supply of a single item to survive post-apocalypse. What are you choosing, and why?

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  • Iodized salt. I live in iowa, we have planty of water (i can figure out how to filter it), and a great climate for growing food. However our soilis naturaly low iodine and there is no salt around so those are critical nutriants I don't think I could get here.

    second would be iron - we don't have any and It is usefur for a lot.

  • AI Killed My Job: Translators

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  • You don't have to be very good at a language to know when a translation is horrible. I'm not very good at spanish and I can do better than machine translations.

  • Americans who live near state borders,how do you notice you've crossed the border?

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  • Store brands are mostly about distance from the warehouse.

    culture and language changes but there isn't normally a clear line of where one starts - it is a continum. (the minnesota accent is only spoken by a minority in mn)

  • Americans who live near state borders,how do you notice you've crossed the border?

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  • they used to search all cars entering minnesota from wisconson for fireworks until the courts ruled that was illegal without a warant for the specific cars to search. This was around 30 years ago. California has done searchs for 'bugs' before but don't know if the still do.

    in every case I've seen you don't see any difference but locals know and will bicker over trivial things like sport teams or best state bird.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • The average car is 12 years old. Car makers start to drop support (making/stocking parts) when the car is about 10 years old. Come back and talk to me about that car when is is 25 years old and tell me how it is. I have a 26 year old truck, the bed has holes, the frame is showing signs of rot - I'm trying to decide if it is worth trying to rebuild the transmission, my mechanic isn't intersted in part because they are not sure if they can find the parts - they will be more than $1000 in labor in before they know wihch bearing it has and thus can check if it can be had.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • Most suburbs a store is not that far. you will often drive more than that for a store you like but something is closer.

    american suburb covers a lot of variation. If you have a horse as some of the least dense support that is different from ones where you get a postage stamp lot. Streetcar suburbs designed before cars are ess dense than the new developments they are putting is around me today.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • And people were concerned. My grandpa only had initials published not his full name because he knew some widows [when my mom was a baby] afraid of crime who only published their initials and wanted to make things harder for those criminals who targeted on widows.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • They won't be buying new cars in the near future, but their cars will be wearing out and spare parts for old cars always become hard to find. Either they will be spending a large part of their time maintaining the car, including making parts from scratch, or they will forced to buy a new car anyway.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • The car is more valuable than the crap.

    Only if you spend way too much money on a depreciating asset that won't be that valuable for long. For that matter storing inside or outside makes zero difference to the value. The stuff in my garage is more valuable than my car (my car is 26 years old so this is a much lower bar than most people), is more sensitive to weather than my cars, and I enjoy it more than cars.

    I don't get this obsession people have with depreciating assets like cars. They brag about how great they are, take good care of it, and then 3 years latter trade in that piece of junk...

    Besides, the worst weather for cars is bright sun, and most cars are parked outside in a parking lot (at work) when it is sunny, and only put in the garage when it is dark.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • The work isn't hard - I did it myself (I checked my spare parts box and discovered the only thing I was missing was the cover for the outlet, so it cost me $3). However if you don't know what you are doing around electric I can't train you on the internet. While you can find good instructions via a simple search you can also find instructions that are dangerous and if you don't know what you are doing you won't know the difference.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • Most suburbs have plenty of density to support transit as proved in other countries that provide good transit to their areas of similar density. However most suburbs have such bad transit you can't use it for anything and to people start believing the idea that it is impossible to get them good transit and so they won't agree to get it.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • No, the problem is the network matters. When you can't get anywhere on transit you don't use it and in turn won't help improve it. I've many times looked at the transit options available to me and found I was unable to get my errand done on transit so I was forced to drive. One place I lived I checked and transit could do the job so I sold my car (but my wife still had hers because there were still many things we couldn't do on transit)