The feature is called QoS, and is available on even the cheapest router. Torrenting can cause network issues, at least on crappy infrastructure, not because of bandwidth usage, but because it opens a lot of connections and can overload a router if it doesn’t have enough RAM.
Tracking down and firing someone to cover your corporate iT incompetence is certainly a choice.
It’s either over the mountains, or your owl will have to thread the needle between the Azores and Greenland.
I think in US usage it’s synonymous with Democrat, but on Lemmy it’s used as a slur for anyone to the right of Lenin.
So yeah, tankie bullshit.
H, because I’m in Canada, and the food would be cold before the guy from D got here.
As opposed to the old “only the Great Powers have agency” gambit, which is actual Russian propaganda. Heaven forbid countries other than the US, Russian and China be even conceived of being able to take actions on their own.
The author slightly missed the mark with the discussion around rural areas. As is common when talking about infrastructure, he’s conflating rural with remote. Rural areas have excellent electricity coverage, and can easily have enough public chargers to cover needs of the population. With few to no apartment dwellers, rural areas are actually easier to electrify than city.
Remote areas (most of Nunavut in the article), don’t have electrical infrastructure. Mostly they don’t have people or roads either though. If we have to install the odd diesel powered charger in a remote settlement in order to roll out EVs to the rest of the country, that’s still a solid win.
Lead was out of gas for new cars starting in the '70s. It wasn’t actually banned in the US until 1996 (1990 in Canada). There were leaded and unleaded pumps all through the '80s.
And as we all know, you have to be a legally recognized authority on a subject to express an opinion about it online.
Fortunately, in my jurisdiction I’m licensed as a RightHandOfKaros-is-wierdologist.