Respectfully, have you tried browsing the web on Tor and then on Mullvad? Almost everything blocks Tor and almost nothing blocks Mullvad. My comment was not "avoid using detectable exit nodes", it was "avoid using Tor exit nodes." This is still my recommendation. This is coming from personal experience with the services in question.
I live in an area with a large number of mosquitoes. After a lot of trial-and-error, here's what I've found works.
Don't use a bug zapper. The zapper does kill things, but... the zapper also attracts bugs from far away into your area. If you have a large property, a zapper placed far away at the boundary can pull bugs away from the living area.
Mosquitoes are weak flyers; if you want to defend a static area, like a picnic table, a large fan can be used to keep a breeze up over the area and keep mosquitoes out.
It should also be mentioned, Linux Load Average is a complex beast[1]. However, a general rule of thumb that works for most environments is:
You always want the load average to be less than the total number of CPU cores. If higher, you're likely experiencing a lot of waits and context switching.
On Linux this is not true, on an IO heavy system - with lots of synchronous I/Os done concurrently by many threads - your load average may be well over the number of CPUs, without having a CPU shortage. Say, you have 16 CPUs, load avg is 20, but only 10 threads out of 20 are in Runnable (R) mode on average, and the other 10 are in Uninterruptible sleep (D) mode. You don't have a CPU shortage in this case.
Note that synchronous I/O completion checks for previously submitted asynchronous I/Os (both with libaio and io_uring) do not contribute to system load as they sleep in the interruptible sleep (S) mode.
That's why I tend to break down the system load (demand) by the sleep type, system call and wchan/kernel stack location when possible. I've written about the techniques and one extreme scenario ("system load in thousands, little CPU usage") here:
The proper way is to have a idea of what it normally is before you need to troubleshoot issues.
What is a 'good load' depends on the application and how it works. Some servers something close to 0 is a good thing. Other servers a 10 or lower means something is seriously wrong.
Of course if you don't know what is a 'good' number or you are trying to optimize a application and looking for bottlenecks then it is time to reach for different tools.
Daily Mail is usually accurate. If you'd read the link you'd know they're just reporting on the contents of a viral video, and if you search the guy's name you can find reports from Mexican media.
Well, I rate fact checkers less reliable than the Daily Mail based on direct experience of checking both. And this particular story, as expected, has no obvious factual errors.
Well, it's hard to argue against your direct experience without any actual detail. But the paper has consistently been shown up as sensationalised and misleading when it comes to right-wing bugbears such as climate change, COVID, and immigration.
Having just got back from a 8 week European vacation, with a wife+kid+me.
There's also the small issue of it being was 95F degrees outside at 75% humidity (southern France). This means 1 outfit isn't lasting more than a day (sometimes only 1/2 a day) before becoming unbearably stinky. x3 this means laundry needs to be done every other day or packing a ton of stuff.
I have two of these powerbanks, one ordered in 2019 and another in 2021. Amazon sent me scary emails saying these things will kill me. Anker's recall site says I'm not affected and the product is safe to use.
I'm not sure who to trust, but I've erred on the side of caution and trashed the batteries. Because it's not worth dying in a fire over $30 in batteries.
I would have just trusted Anker in this case. Amazon only knows you bought that model of battery, not whether it was affected. Anker would (or should) know exactly what range of serials were made with the problematic cells.
No idea where GP lives, but in lots of places there's simply no other option. Your best bet is to discharge the battery as far as you can make it, and then dump it with the rest of the trash. I don't have anyone willing to accept any batteries for recycling withing a few thousand kilometers. And yes, Amazon ships here just fine.
It's not the lithium that's burning - it's first the electrolyte, typically ethylene carbonate, which decomposes the cathode - a process that releases oxygen, which in turn fuels the fire.
There's actually very little lithium by weight in li-ion batteries.
That is not true. Please don't spread misinformation that could lead to deaths or people losing everything they own.
You can put out a Lithium battery fire with a class-D fire extinguisher. If you don't have one available, you can isolate the burning battery by surrounding it with sand or other inert, dry substances to keep it from spreading until the fire department arrives with proper equipment to dispose of or extinguish it.
You forgot having a fume hood, or halon foam system. Or just a silver heat resistant suit and SCBA. Please don't hold back on the pedantry and "you can"s. People might miss these valuable options and not know they can just coexist with the lithium fire right next door!
Instead of being upset and lashing out when someone corrects you and offers important advice that can save lives, you can just say "Thank you for the information." - or even say nothing at all.
There's no curiosity or intellect featured here anymore. It's just bickering about semantics or pedantry. If that doesn't anger you, great. That's like a toddler saying they don't mind sharing a pool with other kids who urinate in it. That's your preference, not mine. Sorry for rubbing your face in your own drivel.
Water won't put it out but putting it in a big enough container of water and leaving it there long enough works. You just need a big enough energy sink + containment.
Same with the guy half-joking about Chinese malicious implants. Because of course China would never engage in espionage. It's interesting to note that he/she got downvoted a lot harder.
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