I hope they have a good use for it. I'd love to see them utilize the name to try to de-radicalize folks.
The Onion seems to have gotten a new life after they were bought, so maybe they'll go the Cards Against Humanity route and start to push things in a better direction.
Pritzker has been very outspoken about defying national orders, and even protecting the vulnerable in other states.
I'm not surprised he's leading the charge.
I thought he was going to be another shit governor in a long line of shitty Illinois governors, but this guy is knocking it out of the park.
The supreme court has no ability to enforce their decisions. The states can and have ignored their orders in the past.
If an order comes back that's blatant enough, there will be pushback.
The states control the elections, enough of them could literally just refuse to put him on the ballot.
Yup, sometime in the next year or two I'll get laid off, then I'll just mooch off my spouse.
Working through Voyager and DS9 (in airdate order)
Think Tank was the most recent episode, Jason Alexander was pretty good, definitely liked his smooth talker personality.
FYI, in case anyone is running 7.2.1, just be aware that you have to MANUALLY update because you need to agree to new terms that removes local hardware processing of some media types.
https://www.synology.com/en-global/releaseNote/DSM
7.2.2-72806 Update 1 is the update with the new patches.
If you're running Plex locally (i.e. - not in docker) you'll need to manually install the updated 7.2.2 patch. You need to download it locally, then push it back up to your NAS bypassing the normal process. You can't use the plex client to prompt the update, and you can't use the synology package manager to update.
The package links on Reddit and some other sites are older versions that may not install
https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/?cat=nas&plat=synology-dsm72&signUp=0
September 27th, 2024 release is currently the latest non-beta version - v.1.41.1.9057-af5eaea7a
AMD/Intel
https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.41.1.9057-af5eaea7a/synology-dsm72/PlexMediaServer-1.41.1.9057-af5eaea7a-x86_64_DSM72.spk
If you're running home assistant, you can put some inline power monitoring plugs in. I like the thirdreality ones, cause you can set them to "default on" or "default off" after power failure and run it as a zigbee local network without requiring internet access.
Oof, that's a lot of juice.
I'm running a UPS, Syno720+, old gaming laptop as a portainer host, my wifi, router, cable modem, and switches, and that's only using about 50w for everything. Pretty sure the Synology is using the bulk of that power, but I don't have data to back that up.
I'd like to upgrade a few things, but I'm really trying to keep it below 75w. Ideally below 50w if I can. I think my old laptop is good for now, just want more flexibility in my NAS if I can do it without bumping up the power budget.
Any idea what your power consumption is for the 1618? I currently have a 720, but with only two drives it's kind of limiting for HDD upgrades.
Assuming he's only actually married to one person, it's just adultery, which is mostly legal.
Of course, that assumes everyone is there consensually, and is free to leave whenever.
I have an indoor/outdoor thermometer to keep track of how hot the back of my Expedition gets. I drive pretty regularly with two dogs in the back, and over the summer and winter the temps can get a little extreme.
I need to be able to take it out to keep an eye on it remotely (it has about 1/4 mile range) but also have it not rolling around while I drive.
There was a coin holder there that I popped out, and used as a template for an insert to keep this mounted semi-permanently.
Printed with kinda crappy Amazon Basics PETG. If it holds up well, I'll reprint it with better quality black PETG so it matches the car better.
We planted a variety of plants, at different stages of growth. After a bit of experimentation, cosmos grow extremely well. These were cuttings we put in just a couple weeks ago, and they're already bigger than most of the other plants that have been in there for over a month.
The very young plants did not survive, but the larger ones did. If they're too small, they just get swallowed down into the cups by the bobbing of the water.
Seems like the plants need to be large enough to reach all the way to the bottom of the pots, and still stick out enough.
Going to be interesting to see what it looks like at the end of the season.
The experimental mat has been out for about a week now, but extremely high winds during a storm last night pulled up a corner of the mat spilling out the contents.
Luckily the majority of the plants were able to be saved, so we have one empty spot now.
I added some weights to the four corners to hopefully prevent this from happening again.
This is why we're experimenting! Learning what works and what doesn't with the setup.
Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.
Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.
Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.
Design is from:
http://www.beemats.com/
More reading:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub
http://startreklist.blogspot.com/2011/04/list-of-all-star-trek-episodes-sorted_05.html
I printed this out and we've been working through them all from the start. Just crossing them off and starting the next one.