It only didn’t work if you demand absolute perfection, which is unreasonable. I’m going to stand by it worked.

I already addressed the unintended consequences.

Prohibition worked. It had the annoying unintended consequence is some people ignored it and became criminals, but alcohol consumption clearly dropped when it was in effect.

Assuming somebody is home. Even in Texas you don’t get to have a robot that shoots anyone who comes to the door when you are not home.

I wonder how each of us would do with the same 20k seed money? I’m sure some of us know something about managing a coffee shop and would do okay - but a lot of us don’t know much about it and would make a lot of stupid mistakes as well.

Having used some lockpicks, unless you have the best locks those deadbolts won’t stop anyone. The worst I can pick faster than I could get the correct key into the lock (I only have 3 keys on my keyring) - and I’m not even any good at picking locks. The medium quality will stop me, but again I’m not good, it won’t stop anyone who has put in any practice…

I’ve also been in construction long enough to know there are faster ways into a house than through the doors if I’m trying to be dishonest. Fortunately most people are honest.

The real problem is finding something better. I want researchers who research and publish.

They already cut the internet out off for themselves except a few elites. So they don’t care.

It isn’t that key - most backups do work. Backup program creators test that everything works. and there are consultants who can help restore - for a price - in an emergency.

However if you want to restore fast you better have tested the process recently - all the staff needs to have experience in what to do.

If you want to be 100% sure you got everything backed up you need to do a real test as well. That means you regularly tell everyone no working this weekend, leave your computer behind - when you return it will be wiped to factory and restored from backup. I don’t think anyone does this.

Overwritten is fine when that is intentional. But the best backups do include media that is completely offline and so if there is an issue you can restore to fresh/new uncompromised systems.

ZFS snapshots are great for this - so far they have not been attacked and when they work they give you what the file was before. (you still should have an offline copy of everything stored in a different campus)

Wheel bearings are generally sealed and so last well. Brakes tend to be easier to access and so don’t last - but it doesn’t matter because they typically wear enough before salt/dirt gets them that they will be replaced as part of normal maintenance.

that is what I was trying to say, but perhaps I didn’t write well.

1970s/early 80s. The master cylinder has two chambers, though they are connected.

Most of your gain is at higher speeds, to just leave it in gear with foot off the pedal until the engine is at idle speeds makes a big difference and doesn’t wear the clutch.

I have a history of keeping my cars for about 10 years. However the EV is only saving me money because I was going to replace the previous anyway, and so either way I’d have similar payments, but with the EV my fuel bill is down. You have to drive vastly more miles than average to save money with an EV - in that case charging will be an issue (either you know all the fast chargers on the way - and also factor in the loss of battery life from regular fast charging, or you should be driving a diesel)

Redundancy, warnings, and inspections. You should have two different brake systems, traditionally the “parking brake” is a cable. Your hydraulic brakes are two different systems, one for the front, one for the back - if one fails you should have the others (at least a few times until you lose all fluid - enough to stop once). Your brakes also are designed to make noise when the common wear parts get worn, and that is a good time for a tech to inspect the rest of the system.

Once again tested backups are the answer. I left the backup software industry many years ago, and I don’t miss at all hearing customer crying because the new software they just bought can’t restore the losses from before they had it.

I have not seen such a setting. Thanks for the tip, I will look

My car has Android automotive. If you’re driving 8 hours a day, it’s better than what you have in your Android or Apple phone. Everything’s right there and it integrates very nicely with the car. However, like most people, you’re only driving for a little bit to work and then your car just sits there. It’s not worth it. Your phone already has everything you want on it and you just want your phone to connect and do things. I hate that in my car if I say hey Google my car jumps in sorry you need a subscription- my phone already has my subscription I don’t want a second one. If I remember I can turn on the Wi-Fi on my hotspot on my phone, but why bother? I don’t even want my car to respond here. I just want my phone which is right there and already can respond and do everything. Part of this is another well deserved rant against GM for not putting Android Auto on their cars. That’s something that other manufacturers do and I suppose in that case it actually would work well. I don’t know.

People hate change. Those smokestacks were there so he long ago learned to ignore them.

That depends on the platform. There are things I want from social media in my life. Facebook isn’t giving me that anymore so I mostly left. I still miss the gap in my life from not knowing what my old/distant friends and family are doing (closer friends/family I call)