This feels like you should still be able to require them to replace or fix it. It would be like them coming into your home, accidentally stepping on it and then saying, “oops, too bad it’s out of warranty.” It’s too bad that small claims is probably more expensive than just paying to replace it.

Yeah, I almost added “and they most certainly do not” to the end of that sentence, but I was trying to underestimate a little as well.

The numbers aren’t too difficult to verify.

I found this Canadian government web page that says it’s roughly 8.9 kWh, so that checks out.

Looking at the fuel efficiency table on that same website, it looks like OP used a reasonable average fuel efficiency of 30 mpg or slightly under 8L/100km: 4 miles / 30mpg = 0.13 gallons, or 0.492 liters, so their claim of half a liter of gas also checks out.

The cheapest commercial energy appears to be in North Dakota at $0.0741/kWh, so using $0.05/kWh was very generous.

The average Netflix user watches about 2 hours per day, or 60 hours per month.

Just in an attempt to be a bit more accurate, let’s assume the individual user’s television and internet router use about 900W, so we’ll use a final number of 8kW for Netflix’s power use per user.

8 kW * 60 hours= 480 kWh

And the cost of all of those kWh at $0.05: 480 kWh * $0.05 = $24.00

Or, the cost in the least expensive state in the US: 470 kWh * $0.0741 = $35.57

National average is $0.14/kWh, so unless Netflix was serving everyone out of North Dakota and Texas, their average cost per user would be much closer to $70 per user.

OP’s numbers were definitely already accurate enough for the point. Basically, there’s no possible way Netflix needs that much electricity to serve their users.

Heroic Games Launcher works on Steam Deck, and syncs your achievements and cloud saves to GoG. The biggest downside to GoG is it requires you to use the Windows/Proton versions of your games for cloud sync to work.

In Arizona, simply concealing merchandise is still considered shoplifting:

https://azleg.gov/ars/13/01805.htm

Microwaves can generally reach up to nearly 3/4" in water. If heating 8oz in a glass, that should still heat the water evenly enough, since the microwaves will still mostly pass through the glass.

Heating in shorter increments and stirring in between should help avoid breaking the glass, and heat the water more evenly. If you take the time, it should be identical to kettle boiled water. That’s why people prefer a kettle to a microwave, it’s much faster and far less effort.

But the sister also performed that experiment in the worst possible way, why did she microwave the actual tea bag?!

Yes, but the achievements wouldn’t sync with the native Linux installation, I had to switch to the Windows install of Silksong before they started to sync to my GOG profile.

Heroic will let you install the native Linux game (if available), or the Windows version that runs on Wine/Proton. But like moody said, GOG will only allow cloud saves for the Windows versions of your games.

I was halfway through silksong before I realized cloud saves and achievements only work with the Windows version. Fortunately, copying the Linux save folder on top of the Windows one kept my progress, but I’m still missing most of my achievements. Guess I’ll just have to play again from the beginning.

When running as root, I did not need to add the firewall rule.

I haven’t tried rootful since I haven’t had issues with rootless. I’ll have to check on that and get back to you.

I still need to allow the ports in my firewall when using podman, even when I bind to 0.0.0.0.

I had this exact issue with both my desktop and server. Anytime I put any sort of load on the outbound connection, the wifi would cut out. After switching to the iwd backend, I haven’t had any issues.

You could try switching your wifi backend to iwd instead of wpa_supplicant.

If you’re using NetworkManager, then create the file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_backend.conf, and add the following configuration:

[device]
wifi.backend=iwd

Then the ads and header will only take up 47% of the screen!

I think he meant that party leadership hasn’t learned their lesson.

I also had that procedure where the doctor only removes the affected part of the toenail. That was over a decade ago and I’ve never had the issue reoccur; and I still have my toenail.

I found a version of Star vs the Forces of Evil without lyrics. I spliced the first 10 and last 20 seconds to fit it within 30 seconds.

I prefer the way Slack groups threaded conversations within a channel. Teams channels are clunky enough that we just end up using group chats instead.

Unfortunately, the article doesn’t really compare to other collectors. My wife’s bookshelves are full of a much higher cost library than my Steam library could ever hope to achieve, and many of them are still on her “TBR” list. She’ll also never read those physical copies, so she’s buying them twice so she can read them on her Kindle or listen on Audible.