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Does anyone have any insights into the proprietary graphics buses that were being created leading up to the VESA Local Bus (as referred to in the article)? I was not aware of anything between 16-bit ISA and the addition of VLB.

Did any of these make it onto the market?

This is called outdoor air temperature reset. It's been commonly used in medium to large size buildings (ie multi residential buildings) back 100 plus years.

Originally there might have been an operator doing the adjustment daily, later mechanical automation, later electronic control.

The system in Toronto takes cold water from deep in Lake Ontario, runs it through heat exchangers that feeds the district cooling loop downtown.

The lake water continues out of the heat exchangers into the intake of the water treatment system, feeding drinking water to the city. The water eventually returns to the lake after being used by people and flowing through the sewers and wastewater treatment system (returned at a shallower level).

I really enjoy typing on the unicomp buckling spring keyboard; I've had an older model for a long time.

It seemed very well built on the outside, however eventually a number of keys stopped functioning. Taking it apart, I found that the plastic rivets holding the assembly together failed.

It was repairable by drilling and replacing the rivets with machine screws. Although original model M's were built in the same way, the design or manufacture of these rivets on my unit is completely insufficient. I'd expect better for a keyboard in this price range. This also seems to be a common problem based on scouring the forums. I'd hope this would be re-designed in newer models, however also don't hold out much hope.

The high temperature limit switch should never be tripping, even when the furnace runs continuously.

This indicates you have a problem with temperature rise across the heat exchanger, probably from inadequate airflow. Your ducts may be sized too small/furnace too large, fan speed set too low, plugged filter, etc. You may be able to mitigate the problem by increasing fan speed, limiting heat by using stage 1 only, putting in less restrictive filter, add additional cold air return, etc.

Usually a failed limit switch means cycling and a bigger problem with airflow. However I have seen a high temperature limit switch fail without cycling - fell apart with age (40 year old furnace).

A CV boot keeps dirt from getting into the CV joint and keeps grease from flying out. Dirt that gets in causes increased wear.

Unless the boot is majorly damaged, very limited dirt gets in, most of the grease stays in, and lifetime of the joint isn't severely impacted.

Perceptions of brand reliability at that.

I would hazard a guess that Toyota and Lexus have very similar real-world reliability - most of them share platforms. However this article shows that Lexus owners perceive their cars to be more reliable than Toyota owners.

Somehow Mini is near the top of the list too

I think it's also worth looking at mikrotik. I run a HAP ac2 for travel which is small, has dual Wi-Fi radios, and enough power for good speeds on IPsec VPN. It also supports wireguard.

They also have a tiny, less powerful unit (mAP) that may fit with some travel use cases.

Have you looked at the Sonoff nspanel?

Although I do remember the ATi drivers on the later Rage Pro could get pretty buggy. I remember the most problems with OpenGL games....