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You can also do things like boot with PXE (Legacy or UEFI PXE boot) to get a small image like iPXE, and then have iPXE do the http boot part. This means that you have an extra shim but you can pull larger images than TFTP is any good for.

TFTP is also UDP and I don't think it is pipelined, so it's all req->ack->req->ack, so any additional latency hits it hard too.

I've had the same experience of looking up and finding an old answer from someone I knew, but one that I made _myself_ for the exact same problem I've just hit again years later... :D

Isn't that the point of such fixes?

(And also why a lot of people thought that the Y2k but was over-hyped, when there was a lot of background work which fixed the problems so few people noticed when it did come to roll-over time)

"Better than Lotus Notes" is not a high bar.

> I personally hate working from home, and will only do it if there are reasons I can't work somewhere else, such as needing to be home for a plumber or being sick.

Why are you working if you're sick?

> ...like an android phone. You might get OS updates or not but mostly whatever OS version it starts with will stay on it for life.

Not all Android phones are like that -- what are you buying which doesn't get any OS updates?

Be extremely careful if soldering Lithium-Ion batteries together, as getting them too hot (which isn't very hot compared to soldering!) can easily cause them to burst into flames or explode...

> It's sad if different trusts have such varied support.

Different trusts in the NHS have wildly differing support, policies, physio, mobile apps, leaflets and documentation, etc etc. It makes the "N" in NHS a bit odd, and surely is tremendously inefficient!

(Having said that, and having recently had a baby the NHS and their staff have all been amazing!)

Or turn it off at the socket so it's not even on standby, using (a small amount of) power all the time?

> Every new parent seems to report that they basically don't sleep for a year or two

I'm a new parent, and I'm pleased to say that our 5-week-old is sleeping really, really well. I was not expecting this after all the horror stories others told... I did, however, feel like I aged about 10 years in the first week as my other half had an emergency C-section and I had to do everything for both her and the baby.

Nothing like getting thrown in at the deep end! :D

But burning a lot of natural gas instead. Still fossil fuel!

Current national grid status meters/graphs:

  http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

CCGT == "Combined cycle gas turbine"

> e.g. Labor party imposing a death tax.

This was advertised on Australian radio before the elections by other parties too, so it's not exclusive to Facebook.

(Source : Started listening to Gold 104.3 FM streamed because Christian O'Connell moved there and we missed his breakfast show!)