I just checked this today too. A year ago in June I bought two WD Blue 2,5" SSDs for ~165€, shipping included. Today the very same drive is 213€/each at the same store, before shipping.

Out of interest, just how expensive are they? I can get a minisplit heat pump installed on our house for about a 1000€ (higher end models are obviously more expensive) here in Finland. It requires a small-ish hole trough the wall for pipes/wires, but otherwise the installation is pretty easy.

We have one in the house and another in garage and both have already paid for themselves since I don't need to run electric radiators anymore. Newer models would be even more efficient, but as the current ones still work they're not the first thing on the long list of house maintenance.

That's pretty crazy, specially considering that UK doesn't require as arctic-proof pumps as we do here. The absolutely cheapest pump I can find right now is 199€ (without installation obviously). I wouldn't really recommend that, it's the cheapest piece of shit you can get. I have previous "cheap" model from that particular store in garage and efficiency on that drops dramatically when it's below -20C, but it does function even after several years.

Cheaper bosh/samsung/panasonic are around 900€ for the unit and full installation is around 500, but if you put some elbow grease there yourself it'll be around half of that.

That sounds similar to what you'd need to pay here. In-laws did the same few years ago and it was ~20k, but there was quite a lot of additional work to fit the pump next to wood furnace.

I've been looking for a water-to-air unit for us to replace electric under floor heating and water boiler, but as we don't have any plumbing ready that'll quickly add up to the cost since we'd need to rip out tiles, grind channels for pipes, re-level and re-tile the floor and so on. With that we might get 1000-1500 savings per year, but it'd take 15 years (give or take) for the investment to pay itself assuming nothing breaks during that time so at least for it doesn't really make sense.

Single unit for only 30m² sounds a bit excessive. At the house we have one split unit and it has ~170m² in two floors. On top of that we have electric heating in the wet spaces (shower, sauna, laundry room) and couple of radiators in the bedrooms (which are rarely used). Those alone would are just fine most of the year, but we also have a pretty big wood oven and a wood stove and while we could use only the heat pump+radiators it's a lot cheaper to use wood during winter. Also warmth from the oven feels better, but only for heat it's not strictly necessary until temperature drops below -25C.

I personally have installed Mint (Debian edition) with similar needs. Absolutely zero input might be a bit much to ask, since user should be aware of that something is going on before shutting everything down, but when that's taken care of the unattended upgrades work just fine. Just recently I had to fix a laptop with mint to friend of a friend because upgrade was interrupted. Just running 'dpkg --configure -a' followed by apt upgrade and apt dist-upgrade did the job, so not big of a deal for me, but for the owner of the machine that would've been pretty much impossible task since they just refuse to learn even the slightest amount of their computer and have a very short temper on anything like that. And I can kind of understand that too, at least up to a point. There are things which I just can't be arsed to learn which are equally easy to different people.

Move existing messages from gmail account to new one, set up a forwarding rule from gmail to your new address for everything, change accounts as they show up. Maybe a bit longer route, but far easier to swallow since you don't need to go trough all the things in one go nor worry if you've missed something.

“One Ukranian attack on children is coincidence, twice is Russian propaganda, 4 or 5 is uhhh i don’t see anything here”

Meanwhile Russia levels schools, hospitals, daycare centers and just common residential buildings on a daily basis and has been doing so for quite a while. Also, kidnapping children from Ukraine and depositing them to brain wash centers for 're-training'.

Russian attacks on eastern Ukrainian cities kill four, officials say

Kyiv's damaged monastery could take two years to restore, official says

Russian drone hits zoo in Ukraine's Kharkiv, kills animals

Russian attacks on Ukraine kill three; Zelenskiy upbeat on talks with U.S. envoys

Five dead in Russian attacks in Ukraine's southern Kherson region

Russian drone attack kills four in Ukraine's Kyiv region, officials say

Russian attack kills at least three in Ukraine's Kramatorsk, governor says

At least 23 killed in Russian attack, Ukrainian president says new assault possible

For a start from this month and only from a single source. There's plenty of similar stories since 2022 to pick from in any half-decent news outlet. Russia attacks civil targets with full intent and doesn't care a slightest about any kind of casualties.

There are even wikipedia articles of single attacks towards civilian targets (on Mariupol theatre there's estimations of up to 600 casualties) and also a full massacre done by Russian armed forces with over 500 civilian deaths.

Feel free to educate yourself a bit more since you're "paying attention".

Funnily enough, there's pretty much the same mindset in our team, but towards USA models (and tech in general). There's a non-zero risk that either EU decides that USA products aren't trustworthy or that the orange man decides to cut off European companies from the services (which kinda already happened with Anthropic). And, as we're in Europe, there's very similar threat models for Chinese services.

Remember how few years ago there was a massive outcry when U2s album was downloaded to devices without permission?

https://xkcd.com/2347/

So it is always DNS

Team expects, may be useful, could be used, prototype, are currently investigating and so on. Cool piece of technolgy, but no even mention when they'd expect that to be commercially available, if it's even possible to manufacture in commercial scale. Like many other new battery chemistries and technologies, it shows promise and makes a good headline, but at this point that's pretty much it.

Philip Morris: 1 pack of cigarettes per day is not addiction.

unzip; strip; touch; finger; grep; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; umount; sleep

Based on the title alone I thought that she was a barista who poured hundreds of liters of coffee down the drain or something which might make sense. But no, just the last sip on her cup in order to prevent it from spilling in the bus or causing problems in the trash bin. Do they fine people if they accidentally drop their full cup too?