It's the other way around though. A lot of times, it's spending system resources so that they can use something that will run on your OS. Most apps using electron wouldn't have linux versions if electron wasn't a thing.
LFP batteries are quite a bit safer than the LMN or NMC batteries. The sodium batteries are more stable than LFP I think but I'm not sure how much longer and if that matters too much for home battery usage.
On top of the price, I think most of the LTO drives have minimum speeds that need to be sustained in order to avoid drive starts and stops or shoeshining where the heads repeatedly go over the same section of tape waiting for data. That'll slow down the backup or prematurely wear out your data.
And the minimum speeds for something like LTO-7 is 100MB/s so you do need to work a bit to make sure your LTO drive will get fed properly (e.g. cache and consolidate small files so that you're doing sequential reads during the backup).
You should not attempt to write LTO tapes from HDDs.
You need to write them from NVMe SSDs, to ensure an adequate write throughput. The NVMe SSDs could be on a different computer, if you have an intermediate Ethernet connection that is fast enough, of at least 10 Gb/s where the line rate is really reached (but 25 Gb/s Ethernet may be needed for the latest LTO variants).
If you have enough memory on the computer where the tape drive is attached, you can use a RAM drive to store a file before writing it to the tape, and then it does not matter from where the file comes. This is actually what I do, the server with the tape drive has 128 GB of memory, so there is no problem to transfer there through the network 50 GB archive files into the RAM disk, from where the archive files are written to the tape.
It's funny how there's a disclaimer about not supporting as much hardware as Linux. NetBSD had a reputation for supporting pretty much everything so seeing the tables turn in favor of Linux is pretty odd.
There's already a project testing these. However the channels between the main islands in Hawaii can be pretty rough. The water gets pretty deep (900m - 3000+m) quickly and due to geography the winds and waves get funneled there and can easily hit 5-10m high. The short distances make it appealing despite the potentially rough sea state and waves.
So there is data on some policing in NYC. Because the police need to record stop and frisk encounters, it turns out that black populations get stopped and searched at 2-3 times the rate that other racial groups get stopped and frisked (whites got 10% of the encounters despite being something like 33% of the pop and black+latinos got 90% of the encounters). And it's not like the frisks turned up anything, with the vast majority (90%) of the frisks finding nothing. I believe there's similar data for police in other cities.
At the very least, this suggests that police in NYC and probably elsewhere were disproportionately singling out Black (and Latinos) for intrusive searches without evidence and on a pretextual basis.
Ideally that would be the place to keep them. It'd also help with not having to recalibrate the sensor arrays due to bumps that might not damage anything but which jostle things a bit. I think recalibration essentially requires an expensive visit to the dealer since the software needed to do it is dealer only or extremely expensive for independent mechanics.
Beyond that reviewers probably don't get as much time with the product so they're not likely to get the chance to see reliability issues. A new product isn't likely to break within a 1 month review period.
It's there even for parts that require regular replacement. For example, VW GTIs have required removing the bumper and taking a decent amount of stuff off the car in order to replace the headlights. This has been the case since at least 2007. Granted with LED headlights this isn't as much of an issue but prior generations had xenon headlights which required replacement periodically.
Same on my 14-year-old Honda van. The sane way to replace the HID bulbs (or the ballast or the ignitor, because HID things) is to remove the headlight housings, and the first step of doing that is removing the front bumper cover. It's not completely awful, but it's not exactly awesome either.
The less-sane way to replace just-the-bulb is from the top. It seems like it should be faster, and it sure does look easier, but it's a blind one-handed process with little fiddly bits to manipulate. There's not enough room to add a reasonably-stout glove to that hand, and there wouldn't be enough dexterity and tactile sense if there were. Consequently, there will be blood. I'm told that it's a lot more practical to swap a bulb in-situ with the halogen housings (as those don't have as much depth to them as the ones for HID), but my Honda is not so-endowed.
Part of this is because, AFAICT, the headlight assemblies are structural. They tie into several other assemblies and help hold the front of the vehicle together.
(A pedestrian Buick or Chevrolet from ~20 years ago is very different: To remove a headlight assembly, just lift up on a couple of heavy nylon straps and the whole shebang basically just falls out. It takes seconds. Reinstallation is very nearly as quick.)
Latine comes from South Americans (primarily chileans and argentinians). Whether the people from those countries that came up with it are insufferable white people is up to you.
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