There are a number of other homebrew DVR projects (the last time I looked anyway). However, the Tivo experience was always the best. It was a solid interface and rock solid hardware. Performance was never anemic. "It just worked".
The most failures I saw were in hardware in the mechanical disks (user replaceable), and the power supplies (where they later switched to external bricks, also user replaceable). You could buy a Tivo for grandma and not have to worry she'd ever have to log into a console terminal to flush a cache or restart a process.
Part of Tivo Inc's business failure, I imagine, is that fewer people are subscribing to cable, and the OTA TV market is just so small it isn't a viable business model anymore. The tide has shifted to watching TV via streaming now.
Sad news for such a formerly iconic brand. I was a series 1 owner since before the turn of the millennium. We still have a Tivo Roamio in the house that gets regular use as an excellent OTA DVR.
In other words, he really does believe his opinion matters that much.
It indicates he wants it to, but its cognitive dissonance at best. If people did care about his opinion, he wouldn't have had to put his thumb on the scale tilting the traffic to artificially point to his posts. People are leaving Twitter anyway, which has to prove it even further people don't want to hear from him.
Perhaps he thinks that people give a shit about his opinions. He burned his bridges with conservatives by accepting huge government contracts and shitting on trump. He burned his bridges with liberals with is DOGE fiasco and by allying himself with trump.
The few disaffected people that hung on after those can't be happy with Elon throwing himself in Ketamine trance on a regular basis. Musks has zero credibility with anyone now except his hand picked board members of Tesla Inc.
While the commonly expressed aspects of the straight edge subculture have been abstinence from alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs, there have been considerable variations. Disagreements often arise as to the primary reasons for living straight edge.
Wouldn't having to justify why you're making a choice to someone be anti-punk in general? If someone is disagreeing with you for you choosing to be "straight edge" shouldn't the punk response to them be: "Fuck you"?
Additionally, if someone that is "straight edge" is telling someone else they should also be straight edge, isn't the response to them also "Fuck you"?
Its crazy to me they are seeing it as a feature, not a bug. Its like they forgot their grandfathers fought and killed Nazis to free the world from fascists.
OMG! Does Treasury Secretary Bessent know something is going happening to the president to allow the law, as it stands today, legally to put trump on a coin?! Shouldn't the Secret Service be talking to Bessent?
Even if he tries to kick them out, they can drag their feet thru the official process, and if trump starts circumventing that widescale, the rest will close ranks and do a coup out of pure self interest.
Things might get spicy when we finally have folks that decide to uphold their oaths to uphold the Constitution. We certainly haven't seen any in the Executive Branch yet, and most of the Judicial and Legislative seems to be abdicating their oaths too.
First, I always appreciate the effort for creating open systems:
and it's entirely open source — bar its off-the-shelf print heads and ink cartridges.
...but the cartridge is usually the worst offender of commercial implementations for a number of reasons.
...leading companies including Brother, Epson, and Hewlett-Packard to implement a range of restrictions in hardware and firmware in an effort to lock printers down to their specific first-party cartridges.
The Open Printer, its creators claim, won't do that — although it's based around off-the-shelf Hewlett-Packard color and black ink cartridges with built-in print heads, the tiny microfluidic nozzles of a high-resolution inkjet being a little beyond the realm of do-it-yourself hardware. These cartridges, which can be third-party compatibles or refilled originals, are installed in a cartridge board driven by an STMicroelectronics STM32 microcontroller — which is, in turn, connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer acting as the central brain of the system.
So they've built their own driver for the cartridge which is good as it would prevent the vendor from denying the use of third party or expired first party cartridges from operating. There's still the expense of acquiring the first party cartridges, and the questionable quality of third party/refilled to contend with.
Oh sweet summer child. Back in the 1999 and 2000 Network Solutions was the only registrar (for North American TLDs) and it cost $35/year (and if memory serves you had to buy it initially for 2 years, and after that you could renew it for 1 year at a time). $35 in the year 2000 is worth $65.66 today.
That is easily explained. Temple Grandin's parents were time travelers from the future where Tylenol existed, making Temple also a time traveler as a baby to have a birthdate recorded 8 years prior to Tylenol's release to the market. /s
It’s also important to check whether solar overcacity is worthwhile in the UsA. Her3 it is not( anymore).
I'll say generally speaking in most places it isn't, however, once you go solar, you may increase your electricity usage as you move away from carbon based energy. Before solar we had natural gas furnace heating and two gasoline cars. Now we have two EVs and a cold climate heat pump with zero natural gas and zero gasoline consumption. So I wanted the larger solar capacity to cover the increases in electricity we knew we'd have.
Its worked out pretty well. We have fairly large electricity bills ($400ish) in Jan and Feb, a small bill in March, and usually a tiny bill (under $10) in April. Then no bills for the rest of the year. Also keep in mind that is TOTAL energy costs, no gas or gasoline bought anymore.
And buy them according and after you’ve done everything possible to insulate your house, whether in the colder or warmer climates.
In the USA there are silly rules that you can only get 120% capacity of your last years worth grid consumption as solar installed. So if one were to follow your advice and do all the energy efficient improvement prior to solar, then you would be restricted to getting a much smaller array. I understand why they have the rule, but its easy to circumvent by just having artificially oversized consumption for a year in your house, and you can then get the larger array you want before then doing all the energy improvements post-array installation.
Using half-worn car battery packs seems optimal for home use.
I'm not putting cobalt based (NMC or NCA) batteries bolted to the inside my house. Thats nearly exclusively what car battery packs are. Thermal runaway is too great a risk to bolt that much energy to a wall in the house. I am comfortable with LFP in the house though.
could be because I told them I’ll buy once I can get net zero.
I'm not following your logic. You aren't willing to accept any savings unless you can completely zero out your power bill? Judging from your consumption I'm assuming a good chunk of that is for cooling your home? If so that means you're likely in a pretty great place to harvest solar power. You'd reach payback of your investment on your array much faster than most, and be saving money for probably 35 years or more with little to no additional investment.
Making some guesses for how much your electricity rates are, and how much you're consuming (assuming much from cooling), you might be a full payback in less than 7 years if you took advantage of the tax credit. Then, every month after that you'd be gaining money back.
"Won't allow" you?