Is all of this correct?
As far as I know, yes. But I'm a native in here and thus I haven't had any reason to really look things up and there's been a ton of changes in healthcare system in last few years (across the board, not just for students or foreginers). So, what I'd recommend is to contact student care on your institution and verify how things are today with them.
Hope he doesn't change his mind and/or get overruled by then. Stable and predictable global markets are sooooo boring.
Edit: oh.. it took 5 hours since I originally commented.
The option to run one cable to the monitor, or reversely charge your laptop with one docking cable.
USB-C docks can already do this. Obviously with less power and it's not perfect by any means, but we don't need another technology for this. And sure, it's two cables, one from wall outlet to integrated dock/monitor and usb-c from dock to laptop, but no matter the technology you still need something to plug in to wall outlet.
Hetzner provides managed web hosting too. For emails I think you need to look for some other provider.
And what exactly would that be? Essentially everything has insurance.
Here's a list of one type of that kind of disasters where, despite of insurance, various kinds of environmental damage has been left behind which may or may not completely heal, or at least it takes a long, long time.
Here's a pretty public different kind of disaster which I guarantee was not 100% covered by insurance either. Here's another. I'm not building a comprehensive list, there's just too many and their impacts vary wildly.
Then there's the waste management in poorer countries which also cause immeasurable damage to the environment all the time by using a nearby river as a sewage for everything. Here's one example which made into the headlines back then. And here's a list of similar examples.
“they replaced nuclear with coal”
Go read yourself:
A 2020 study found that lost nuclear electricity production has been replaced primarily by coal-fired production and net electricity imports. The social cost of this shift from nuclear to coal is approximately €3 to €8 billion annually, mostly from the eleven hundred additional deaths associated with exposure to the local air pollution emitted when burning fossil fuels.
And remember that the pollution which kills people just because breathing smoke and ash is bad, it's also radioactive.
Let’s not see which one’s marginally worse but instead maybe just push something that’s actually good for the planet?
That would be really nice. We just don't have the alternatives ready to go for that just yet. Here in Finland, on a good day, renewables produce more than nuclear, but those are exceptions. Feel free to look up the data in finngrid service. There's currently over 7000MW worth of turbines around but it's pretty common to have even less than 200MW of wind power in the grid and that unreliability needs to be stabilized with something else.
There's a ton of stuff going on all the time which no amunt of insurance will cover. Modern nuclear generators just can't blow up like Chernobyl. Fukushima is a bit different, but maybe we shouldn't build reactors in places where they can be hit by a tsunami in the first place. And even there the environmental impact was somewhat limited.
And that doesn't change the fact that shutting down nuclear plants and replacing their energy output with coal caused more radiation in ash and other particles which are spread out of the chimney to the environment as a part of normal operation.
And the funny thing is that coal power plants are actually more radioactive to the environment than nuclear power. Sure, accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima change the statistics by quite a lot, but for the absolute majority of nuclear plants they are way less radioactive to the environment than any given coal plant around.
Also there's not that many severe nuclear disasters in the history. Coal and other organic fuel plants cause far more casualties globally than nuclear ever did. But maybe it's easier to accept slow death of a lot of people due to cancer and whatever caused by organic fuel power plant emissions than single large spike when nuclear power (very, very rarely) goes wrong.
I totally agree. Setting up an email server is pretty trivial, but setting up a good email server with long lifespan and managing it is another matter. I absolutely recommend doing that, that's the one front we can take back from the giants if enough people decide to go that route, but it's not something you should just spin up by following a random youtube tutorial and leave it be.
I do host my own emails, but I've been doing that commercially too for a decade or so and make my living as system administrator, so I've cut my teeth on this quite a while ago. You need to understand quite a few things, set up backups, clear your IP from various blocklists every now and then, manage the ever growing spam problem, make sure that no malicious actors can access your systems and so on.
It is very much doable and at least I personally enjoy the freedom I have for not relying on anyone else on my communications. Go for it, but be prepared to jump in to the deep end without floats.
They could at least stop using twitter (and meta). At least here in Finland a ton of public offices, news outlets, radio channels and so on use twitter as a platform to deliver their information and, while it was a decent plan back when twitter wasn't owned by that clown, that ship has sailed ages ago but their practises haven't changed a bit. Government ran mastodon instance would be pretty cheap solution to this and it would quarantee that everyone had access to their information without signing up to any service at all.
Yes, something like that. I've undestood that snap-on is just for tools while Würth does a crapload more than that. You can get shoes, gloves, jackets and pretty much the whole wardrobe from them. And then there's würth electronics (or something like that) where you can get vaious kinds of common electronics components and so on.
I've seen some shit. But I'm also old enough to not care. I'm a freaking system administrator, not a surgeon. No one has died if their email is unreacable for an hour or two. Shit happens, then you deal with it and that's all. Difference between a junior and a seasoned veteran is that old guys with battle scars is that the seasoned guy knows that something will break, shit will hit the fan and everything might turn up into a chaos and plan accordingly. Juniors will either endure and learn along the way or crumble.
When you've been in the business for few decades it's not that big of a deal to cause an outage. You know how to fix your shit, you know how to work with a severely crippled environment and you know how to build the whole circus from the ground up. And you also know that no matter how disappointed or loud the C** suits are, they'll calm down once you get them out of the hole.
Just today I had a meeting with discussion on what to do if some obscure edge-case ruins our ~5k users and few continents wide AD tree. Sure, if that would happen, it would most definetly suck balls to get back up and it would hurt the company bottom line and it would mean few nights with very little sleep, but no one would still die and our team is up to the task to build the whole crap out of nothing if needed. So, it's just business as usual. But all of us have been in the business long enough that we know how to avoid the common pitfalls and we trust eachother enough that should the shit hit the fan in the big way we could still recover the whole situation.
And still, even if the whole thing burns up in the flames, I've got the experience and skillset under my belt which will be valuable to some other business entity. I just don't care if the main office building is on literal fire. It's not my problem to fix immediately and when it is it's still just work. I put in the hours they pay for me and do whatever I can but when I'm off the clock the employer doesn't really exist in my world.
Hohhoi... Kopiosto on vähän oman aikansa tuote ja yhä enemmän on semmoinen kuva että ainoa mitä niiden toimintaan kuuluu on oman olemassaolon pönkittäminen. Pikaisesti netistä kaivettuna löytyi tämmöistä (ja tuosta copypastesta varmaan pitäisi kopiostolle maksaa korvauksia):
6 miljoonaa euroa vuodessa siitä että välitetään korvausrahaa eri tahojen välillä. En nyt väitä, että kopiosto tai teosto olisi aivan tarpeettomia laitoksia, tekijänoikeudet ja niistä saatava korvaus on kuitenkin aika iso tekijä taiteen ja kulttuurin saralla, mutta harvempi voittoa tavoittelematon r.y. tuommoisilla rahoilla pyörii.