https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/

The best thing you can do is treat her respectfully. Say hello when you pass and be courteous when you talk, but putting up the professional barrier to any kind of personal relationship likely is your best strategy.

Your coworkers also see these traits. They will see you treating this person with respect, but also not participating in her drama. That’s the mentality you should have to forming a winning workplace presence. People will see you treat her kindly, but also do not participate in the drama.

Everyone respects that person

Cold doesn’t damage the battery. Batteries are basically electricity pumps. When they’re cold they’re less willing to give up their electrons. But being cold isn’t inherently good or bad. It essentially reduces the efficiency of the pump.

Generally speaking the thing you want to avoid with ev batteries is getting them too hot. Heat damages them more than anything else.

The next temperature related thing is putting a heavy load on the battery when it’s too cold. The important thing with this is a cold battery itself isn’t necessarily bad, it’s putting a heavy load on a cold battery that’s bad

Also generally speaking, the healthiest state to store a battery is half charged.

If you’d like to read up on it the thing to search for is “lithium plating.”

So long story short, if you’re going to leave your EV for weeks at a time, the best thing you could do is leave it plugged in to a wall outlet and set the charge limit to 50%. Remember, EV batteries don’t lose electricity when they’re cold, they just can’t pump all the electrons in them because they’re cold. If you leave it plugged in and set the charger limit to 50% it’ll maintain the battery at a good state of charge. It won’t draw that much electricity either.

By definition a disaster recovery solution needs to be geographically separate. You’re protecting yourself from catastrophe, and some of those scenarios include your main location burning down, flooding, being hit by a tornado, etc etc.

So you either need to collocate systems with a friend who you trust, purchase colocation services from a provider, or use a cloud service to achieve what you’re looking for to truly have a DR solution.

As far as how to do that, the main idea is to have that point in time available on a system that, even if you get compromised, the backups won’t. The old school method here is to use an external hard drive or a tape device, and physically store that offsite. So like use your regular backup mechanism, and in addition to what it’s doing now schedule a daily/weekly/monthly job that backs up to this other device, and then store that away from your main location.

That’s essentially the idea though, and there are any number of solutions you can use to do it.

What cloud backup solution are you using? A lot of them offer additional protection that would keep a history of your files. You can essentially say “once a week create a point in time recovery of all my files” and then you could recover your files from that point in time.

This usually costs extra, and it makes sense why. They’re essentially keeping extra copies of your data for you.

How that is configured allows you to determine your RPO, or recovery point objective.

https://www.imperva.com/learn/availability/recovery-point-objective-rpo/

So you can decide how much data you’re comfortable losing by determining how often those point in time recovery events happen.

Did that make sense?

The real issue here is backups vs disaster recovery.

Backups can live on the same network. Backups are there for the day to day things that can go wrong. A server disk is corrupted, a user accidentally deletes a file, those kinds of things.

Disaster recovery is what happens when your primary platform is unavailable.

Your cloud provider getting taken down is a disaster recovery situation. The entire thing is unavailable. At this point you’re accepting data loss and starting to spin up in your disaster recovery location.

The fact they were hit by crypto is irrelevant. It could have been an earthquake, flooding, terrorist attack, or anything, but your primary data center was destroyed.

Backups are not meant for that scenario. What you’re looking for is disaster recovery.

Is there another app on your phone that can manage your calendar?

If desktop is ok the changes aren’t syncing back to Google, so it’s got to be something on your phone.

This article is more about how insane the EV market was during covid than anything else.

They’re discussing how a Tesla ordered in 2022 has had its price cut by 30% in the last year. Most people here are probably aware of Tesla’s massive discounts since their covid peak.

EV depreciation is also a weird topic on the whole. I bought an EV in the last year and received a 7500 tax credit. To make the numbers round let’s say I bought a 50k ev. That’s the price that gets reported. If I were to sell that car today I’d get around 45k for it. That’s a 10% depreciation in the first year

However, with the tax credit I effectively paid 42,500. If I sold the car today I would make 2,500. The sales records don’t include the tax credit in either of those transactions.

Tesla cutting their prices massively did hurt companies or people who paid pandemic prices. That said, arguing EVs should be more expensive is ridiculous. They should be as cheap and as plentiful as possible.

I think what you mean to say is there is nothing American about the Dodge Charger or Jeep Compass.

Stellantis is designing and engineering those cars now. Well, the charger maybe not… That’s on a platform from 2004. The compass is on an FCA platform shared by the Tonale, Hornet, and Rampage

How would that even work?

I’ll agree with the other commenter here.

Also there may not be any difference between the consumer and enterprise drives. The reason the enterprise cost more is the better warranty. But because they have different components.

Monitor the drives, modern drives are pretty good at predicting when they are dying, and replace it necessary.

Yeah. This terminal is awesome. It even supports running whatever console you want in tabs. So if you have WSL enabled you can open a bash shell in it. It also fixes all the stupid fixed width stuff of legacy cmd.exe or even powershell

Generations aren’t a monolith. It’s reductive to say “these people are leaving because they’re from a different generation.”

The best thing you can do is perform an exit interview and ask them why they decided to move on. If they’re good people they’ll give you an honest answer.

And remember, young people in the workforce now have had adults in their lives who were likely laid off during the 2008 financial crisis. Those adults were, correctly, teaching their children that companies are not loyal to their employees, so do not be loyal to your company.

They are probably leaving for more pay, better benefits, or a promotion of some kind. The only way you’ll know for certain is if you ask.

I’m even more confident it’s not CrossFit

I can’t tell. Do you use Arch or are you a vegan.

My guess is Arch. I’m confident it’s not CrossFit

I have worked for 5 different companies that needed to be PCI compliant and every one of them will fully decided not to do certain things. Not all of them were even hard, a lot of times it was simply the person making the decisions just didn’t want too.

So that’s mine. Credit card security is not taken seriously but the vast majority of places that accept credit cards

It’s because you didn’t out smart her, you out asshole’d her.

My entire comment was about how you missed the point.

I then came up with a ridiculous comparison, to illustrate how ridiculous your comparison was.

So let me reiterate my point. Is it worse to have a draft or is it worse for civilians to be murdered by the, potentially, millions. Including things like elderly and infirm being tortured before they’re executed, and children being shipped hundreds or thousands of miles from their home to be the toy of an oligarch.

Ukraine cannot get enough troops with volunteers. If you were leading the country, what would you do? Order a draft or let an invading military run free through your country, raping, pillaging, and murdering.

You missed the point by so much it’s amazing your neighbor didn’t lose an eye.

Civilians will be raped and murdered by an invading military. Towns will be bombed and burned. Children taken from their families and sent thousands of miles away to be enslaved in factories or worse, a toy for an oligarch.

And ALL of that you’re fine with. Hand wave all of that away, because, by your own argument, a draft is more morally outrageous than all of that. Rape, murder, child sex slaves, ALL of that is worse than forcing people into the military.

If we’re really going to make an outrageous argument then here’s one for you. If society really has no right to an individual, then taxes and welfare should also be abolished. Who cares if the poor or mentally incapable starve? That’s not your problem. Individuals have no responsibility to society. They should just move if they can’t succeed.