Vegemite?
Couldn’t we just go for nuclear tipped ICBMs like civilized people?
We’re not animals.

This is fantastic.
Tradie doesn’t want to be watched while they work.
I want to learn by watching, so I’ll hire someone else.
We both get what we want.

I can’t think of a standalone gui app that does this (and a simple google search didn’t find one).
If you have a gui desktop (gnome,kde,xfce,lxqt,enlightenment,budgie…) it will have a built in function in it’s settings to do this, or leverage one of the parent ones (ie budgie is based on gnome, lxqt on kde).
If your custom environment is pared down to the point where you don’t have an equivalent to gnome-system-tools and don’t want to install it, you might have to just use date at the command line.

Honestly sounds like a job for a Raspberry Pi Zero.
Small battery pack and a USB key, a bit of software setup, off you go.

Install Raspbian: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#raspberry-pi-imager

Set it up as a hotspot:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/configuration.html#enable-hotspot

Configure Samba share:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/remote-access.html#samba

There’s venison farms.
I don’t know how many or where.
Theoretically all the ferals are escapees, as they have never been officially released (unlike rabbits, foxes, cane toads etc).

Regulatory Capture.
The government didn’t want to be in charge of this, so they’ve offloaded the responsibility (and the power) to a private organisation, in this case the Game Management Authority.
The GMA aren’t all bad, they are also a primary driver behind the protection of native waterways (that just coincidentally happen to be duck shooting spots).
As a shooter, I have complex opinions about groups like the GMA and SSAA that theoretically exist for my benefit.

Deer are a point of division in the hunting community.
I don’t know the rules for all the states, but I can highlight the different approaches different places have with just 2 examples.

In Victoria, they only want to hunt deer “sustainably”, so they have recognised “Deer Habitats”.
It’s also illegal to hunt them at night with a spotlight (the easiest method, they’ll literally stand still and look at the light) or use a thermal scope (which of course helps silhouette a naturally camouflaged animal), even during the day.

In South Australia, we have shoot on sight laws - as in you’re legally obliged to attempt to humanely kill feral deer when possible.

Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?

The coalition has multiple aims here.

1. This is a political differentiator - they become the “Nuclear” party.
2. Nuclear technologies create a wonderful wedge to split any green support along the “reduce carbon” and “anti radioactive” line.
3. In a best case, if they started tomorrow, there would be AT LEAST a decade (more like 15 years) before the first Nuclear electricity got onto the grid, and in the meantime their fossil fuel backers get to BURN-BABY-BURN.

And that’s before we get into all the other little thing, that are really just colouring around the edges, ie spending taxpayer money to build a new monopoly which the government can later privatise to their sponsors.

One of the things that I haven’t seen any of the recent articles highlighting is how no investment body is willing to back the construction of nuclear power in Australia, so the government will have to 100% bankroll it with our taxes.
Meanwhile, private equity are lining up to invest in wind, solar, batteries etc - just angling for subsidies because “why not?”.
This ALONE should be indicative of most likely outcomes.

A key part of the coalition nuclear plan is to block the further construction of solar and wind.
There is currently twice as much approved (but yet to be constructed) capacity as the coalition intends to allow in the next 15 years.

I think you’re right, hydrogen is ludicrous, and bang for buck, some other tech will win out for time shifting the power, probably pumped hydro.

edit to add: Hydrogen is ludicrous in the primary context of a battery. There’s other potential uses such as making steel, making ammonia/fertilizer etc that could change the equation again. Hell, you might even find it desirable to make it HERE and transport it THERE as a battery, but again, the maths are currently wrong.

It’s definitely not worth using full price electricity to split hydrogen out of water, if your intention is to turn that hydrogen back into electricity through some method (fuel cell, internal combustion engine, steam turbine, whatever).

But if the electricity was otherwise going to be discarded (as is currently the case practically daily in SA), that cost/benefit gets crazy.

Wikipedia has 3 links indicating around 70% efficiency on the electrolysis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production#Electrolysis_of_water_–_green,_pink_or_yellow

Let’s flip that around and pretend it’s only 30% efficient, because we need to turn it back into electricity afterwards, and rather than quibble about exact efficiencies/losses, I’d rather exaggerate the loss for a theoretical worst case.

That’s still X amount of electricity saved for later use, that would have otherwise have just been switched off.
And that’s especially useful when your primary source is not available (ie, solar in the middle of the night).

I’m curious where you got these numbers from.

A “standard” house build is $200k-$300k, it doesn’t seem right that adding double glazing and proper insulation to every wall and ceiling would double it, not even close.

Someone in this thread on Reddit suggested under $15k for the above. https://www.reddit.com/r/AusFinance/comments/1dkyokv/how_much_extra_would_it_cost_to_build_a_super/

An estimated 15% reduction in running costs (affecting both heating and cooling) would be at least hundreds of dollars a year, the extra insulation would pay for itself within a decade, completely ignoring the side benefits of increased house value and a quieter house.

Sounds like you’re stuck in a worst practices mindset.

Worst/Pragmatic.
If I get a timeline for a feature request, then everything can be scheduled, tested, whitelisted, delivered at a reasonable time.
That’s the rarer event - normally it’s more like “the scale head has died and a technician is on the way to replace it” and whilst I modify the program in question to handle this new input, hundreds of staff are standing around and delivery quotas won’t be met.
Is my position arrogant? This is the job.

Sign your damn releases and have the whitelisting done by cert.

I’ll see if this is possible at the site in question, thank you.

It IS bespoke internal development, not for deployment outside of the facility.
The computers running the software exist only to run this software and have no business talking to the internet at all.
IT is provided by an external third party vendor who operate on an inflexible “best practices dogma”.

In a rapidly churning startup phase, where new releases can and do come out constantly to meet production requirements, this one size fits all mentality is impractical.

If you refuse to whitelist the deployment directory, you will be taking 2am calls to whitelist the emergency releases.

No it can’t wait until Monday at 9am, no there will not be a staged roll out and multiple rounds of testing.

I am more than willing to have a chat; you, me and the CEO.

I have a friend group that insist on all events being planned through facebook.
I’ve missed out on events in the past due to not taking part.
It’s no longer a hill I wish to die on.

I agree and use Signal myself.
But people like the extra features of WhatsApp like desktop/web clients with seamless history sync and all the other little things that WhatsApp provides.
The average Joe doesn’t even think about security or privacy, they just know that the results of using WhatsApp are superior than using SMS.
iMessage is a non starter everywhere out of the US, it just doesn’t have the market penetration.
As an Australian, no one I know (many of whom own iPhones) talk about the blue-green bubble stuff.
They recognise where the fault lies and simply don’t use the app.

In certain places like India, WhatsApp is the default means of communication for everyone.
You can use it without phone data if you are on wifi, it supports better quality than sms for sending images, you can video chat with it, it’s cross platform, etc etc.

What’s more amazing to me is that it’s not more popular in western countries.

Just one example of the lies and misinformation out there:

Smart people I know believe that we have to go Nuclear because it’s the only green way to achieve baseload.

When press on what baseload is, they seem to think it’s the minimum amount of power needed to keep the grid up.

Which for anyone listening in, is backwards, baseload is actually the minimum amount of load required because it’s un-economical to spin old coal burners down. That’s why people used to heat their water at night on the cheap, because the power HAD to go somewhere.

And these are smart people, just disinterested in the how and why of electricity generation.
They flick a switch, the lights come on.
Every 3 months they pay a bill and tut-tut about how expensive it is now “because of the green obsession”.