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Not really - keyboards need to be much farther from the screen than that. Laptops are terrible for the same reason. Maybe your body can accept that bad ergonomics, but mine cannot. which is why I carry a separate keyboard for my laptop and phone. (plus mechanical keyboards are much better anyway)

That doesn’t change anything useful. There are many not for profit health insurance companies in the us - they are no cheaper and don’t have better service than the for profit ones.

Many email providers blacklist large parts of the internet for spam protection. When I switched from hosting my own email (doing SPF, or whatever existed back then) to paying fastmail to host my email a lot more email started going through. fastmail is large enough and has a good enough reputation that nobody can afford to block emails from them. I still have my own personal domain most people who email me have no clue that I’m not hosting it. I’d advise the same thing, pay fastmail to host your email, it doesn’t cost much and everything works.

There are companies other than fastmail that does this as well. Some of them are just as good, pick whichever you want.

For many people owning their own housing is the wrong decision. That means somebody else needs to own their housing and that person may as well be you (depending of course on your situation - it isn’t for everyone)

If you say that “look at how much money I’m making, tax me harder daddy” it’s another.

That is a bad thing for affordable housing. For affordable housing you need profits from investment property just enough to be worth doing. Any taxes a property owner pays needs to come from the rent they charge so high taxes mean they are charging more rent to cover it. So if taxes are high that means that rents are higher than they could be. You should get rich - to the extent you do - in property ownership by owning a lot of property for a long time, not charging high rents.

Parts fail all the time. The problem with hardware raid is you need a compatible controller or none of the data can be read even though it is still on the physical disks. Computer hardware is often only made for a few months before there is a new model and so you are risking that the manufacture really made the new model work with what you have. That is assuming the manufacture doesn’t go out of business which could happen without warning. \

Also, if hardware breaks that is often a good excuse to replace it - odds are better hardware is available for the same price and sometimes a lot less $ - with hardware raid you are stuck paying whatever price they charge.

Either works fine for most homes. for most homes everything on the nas makes sense as that saves energy vs a second always on box. For enterprises you want them separate because you can’t get cpu’s powerful enough.

Part of a useful language is a library of various utilites. If the library is behind a license you cannot accept the library may as well not exist - and thus the language is less useful.

If you want to spread rust corporations using it is part of spreading.

You can maybe stretch that 4 hours to several days. However you must get enough solar in 4 hours to provide more than 1 day of use. You will probably get to 6-8 hours of production from your panels, but the production is reduced in the off hours and there are almost always a few clouds reducing your output even at peak times so until proved otherwise just count on 4 hours. (prove can be several years worth of data, or careful local climate calculation possibly with various devices to handle the sun moving)

How reliable do you need to be - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ often goes offline because there wasn’t enough sun to keep their servers up - would this be acceptable for your servers? (you should spend a lot of time on that website when it is up - it will teach you more than anyone else here)

Will you allow yourself to plug in the backup if there isn’t much sun for a few days (either yourself or some automatic system) - just the ability to go 20 hours on battery and enough solar to recharge the battery in 4 hours on a sunny day would get most people to 90% solar and will be a lot cheaper than chasing to 100% solar all the time - but that might not be good enough for you.

The general rule of thumb if you never can go down is you need to be able to run for 2 weeks without any sun, and enough solar to then recharge those batteries when there is 4 hours of full sun. Of course the weather where you live makes a difference. If you live in the desert your worst possible day will always be followed by a day where you can completely recharge the battery so you need much less batteries; while those who live in arctic locations will not get any sun for a couple months and so need a lot more storage.

Do you mean just Lemmy, or do you also want users from mbin or others fediverse instances that can access lemmy discussions?

There is a point where a forum is too active and you need to either split it or implement weird and complex rules so things don’t get too large.

Depends. I went to a exurb elementary school and it didn’t need a fence - walk through the woods until you get bored. However I’ve also seen schools where there is a busy road nearby and they need something to stop the kids that would run that way. (older kids would not, but very young will run without looking and a few special needs kids have no sense of what is safe)

You need enough of a nest egg in case you live to 130 - but odds are you will live to just under 80 like everyone else so that should be the majority of your planning. (unless you have a specific family history/genetics).

There is probably a copy shop near you that will let you scan something for a few bucks. Well worth twiceithe price just for access to high end equipment.

I’m assuming you are young - under 30. If older my advice will be different.

save 10% for retirement and spend the rest of your income ‘now’. Save for a house and other big things but make sure you have fun with life. don’t buy so much of a house that you can’t do whatever you enjoy after paying for it. Take vacations now. climb mountains now if that is what you want to do - at 50 you will likely be forced give up mountain climbing. I strongly recomnend you get married and have kids (this isn’t for everyone but I still recommend it)

make sure you have a good long term disabilitty plan. insurance costs are based on how likely you are to need it. If someone offers you a deal on insurance run away as it is a scam. If someone trias to sell you expensive insurance it might be expensive because odds are you need it so listen carefully (there are expensive scams and some insurance you won’t need but others do so I don’t say buy, just listen)

several of those I graduated with are dead and I’m not retired yet - several of us have been unable to work for medical reasons (treatable but the treatment takes time). I’ve knowen a fair number who planed to enjoy retirement but either their health kept them in or near a hospital once they reached that age; or they died just after retireing. so 10% saved for retirement and then find something in life you enjoy for the rest and spend it. If you are older and didn’t start with 10% then you may need to save more., if you save more than 10% make sure it is because you couldn’t think of anything to spend it not that you are a miser who saves every last penny.

Edit: you should have some emergency savings. Emergencies happen when the s&p is down so this should be short term ‘safe’ investments. 6 months should be enough.

Always follow yourdoctors advice. There is a lot of snake oil out there that sounds good but will kill you.

But caling tevas gets you in touch with someone else who can arrange with the rest of the world to get things you need.

Noise is another issue of course but energy is what will kill faster trains for forever