I used to hoof it at 16x on single-layer DVD+R discs back in the day (talking 20 years ago at this point), whole disc done in about 5 minutes. Never had an issue with those.
The phenomenon you're referring to is called "Zoned Constant Linear Velocity", for anyone looking for a new Wikipedia reading rabbit hole :)
Can't say I ever tried a dual-layer blank, can only imagine they're a bit more touchy about speeds and feeds.
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My favourite - and I've gotten into arguments with people about this who clearly never just tried it to see what happens - is it never executes things with the shell you think it will.
So many people assume that just because their script says #!/bin/bash at the top that cron is going to run it in bash. The reality is without ALSO setting SHELL=/bin/bash in the crontab file, you're getting your system's lowest-common-denominator shell (ash/dash/sh/whatever other gross abomination).
So much time wasted debugging. And I'm generally pretty good at avoiding shell-specific syntax, I've seen the abominations of shell scripts some people write.
The one thing I do wish systemd timers offered is cron syntax backwards compatibility, rather than just its ISO8601-style time patterns. An every-5-minutes job that used to be */5 * * * * is now OnCalendar=*-*-* *:0/5:0 and I'm just not sure that syntax is universally an improvement.
Local recording is in fact currently the only option, you're forced to buy one of their assorted NVR devices to use Ubiquiti's cameras.
(Technically it could be in another location streaming from the camera to the NVR across the internet, but you're still obliged to control both ends of that equation)
You can optionally have remote access either through Ubiquiti (which judging by the question I'm assuming you would not want) or by your own VPN or other self-controlled method.
There's also good integration with Home Assistant, which you can use for notifications based on motion detection or other events. I use that method for my doorbell, playing an mp3 out of one of the speakers in the house, due to the lack of any actual doorbell chime. They'll also sell you a PoE-powered chime that links to the NVR though.
Twice in the last couple of months my bus has "crashed" during my commute.
The fix both times: rebooting it. While it was immobile in the middle of the street blocking traffic, of course.
Both the joy and the pain of EVs, potentially.
I like aged white rum (Havana Club 3 year old, if you don't want to pay absurd amounts). Something that's had the rough alcohol taste rounded off a little, but also not too much of barrel / other flavours that'll overwhelm the vanilla either.
Split the beans in half, stuff them into the bottle, put it in the pantry. Shake it once a week. Should be good to use in about 2-3 months.
Froggy style 😉
Further to this, as well as the source of the water often being the local city's drinking water supply (as we've found this puts a strain on that supply), evaporative cooling systems concentrate the minerals / contaminants in the water, meaning a smaller (relative to what is evaporated) of now highly-concentrated runoff water also has to be constantly disposed of. This likely is also going into the city's wastewater systems.
Radiators for closed-loop systems do also occupy more space (for the same cooling capacity) versus evaporative cooling towers, and are more limited in the range of climates they can be deployed in.
On balance though, the closed-loop cooling should always be the first choice; if it works for the deployment it will never be the wrong choice on a long-term / total cost of ownership basis.
Carrot sticks and hummus are my go-to for this situation. It might not be the lowest calorie option, but still healthy without at all feeling like I'm torturing myself in the process.
Like so many things, there are degrees. Yes you can sit down with a big bowl of celery, but making yourself miserable isn't going to help you keep up the good habits.
Thanks for the heads-up, added the internet archive torrent to seed up to 25MB/s
Have seen this one here in New Zealand too.
Was a company selling house insulation for $14.88/m², and the owner was a similarly reprehensible individual:
It would be fun to test, there's still a big disc wallet buried somewhere in the (hot and occasionally humid) garage, undoubtedly including some of those 20 year old ones. Worst possible storage conditions for recordable media.
The larger issue however is there is no longer a single device in the house capable of reading one, and hasn't been for a number of years.
Also a significant fraction of them were Linux install media. Not in the modern nudge-nudge-wink-wink-we're-really-talking-piracy-here "Linux ISOs" sense, but actual Linux ISOs, which would be used a couple of times (maybe even only once) then discarded once superseded by a newer version.
It would be at least another couple of years after that period in history before I could afford a) sufficient hard drive space to not have to burn and delete things straight away after downloading them and b) flash drive(s) large enough to do away with optical media for that use case.