If the central heater is a heat pump or natural gas or something other than electrical resistance, it may be net savings to actually get it fixed, as per unit of heat, it'll probably be cheaper to operate than the space heaters. Though if you're just heating part of the house with those space heaters, that might make up for it.
tal
joined 1 year ago
I've played it before on Linux.
In general, you can just check ProtonDB, which will have an entry for the games with status reports.
It has a Gold status.
https://www.protondb.com/app/47890
In 2025, my general take for Steam games isn't even to check any more. I can list a very few games that I want to play that don't work -- Command: Modern Operations is the most prominent. But it's pretty rare now.
The main issue that comes up is some low level anticheat stuff used in some multiplayer competitive games, like first person shooter deathmatch games, which doesn't necessarily like Linux. Not a genre I play any more.
EDIT: For anyone else who is interested in Command: Modern Operations, I'm looking forward to Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age coming out of Early Access, as it's probably the closest thing to the above game and does run on Proton. Still has a lot of work left, though -- the manual, which is normally quite substantial for milsims like this, is barely a few notes at this point.
My understanding is that Sunday and next week, the wind is gonna go back to being a lot worse.
and shit's going to burn.
Having a house next door burn doesn't entail that your house burns. You can see video from this fire of people walking around next to houses on fire -- they aren't spontaneously combusting. Heck, I had a relative who had exactly the not-burn thing happen to them in this fire -- the house next door burned down, but theirs didn't. And it's not hard to see that that has to be the case, or once one house in a city burns, the whole rest of the city would too. That didn't happen even in this fire, or there wouldn't be a Los Angeles left.
You can constrain how your house is built. You can have one of those counter-wildfire systems that has large tanks of water kept on-site and a generator-driven system that sprays it out over the property in a fire. I'm sure that there are others. They aren't necessarily cheap and some aren't pretty, but you can do buildings that can pull though fires.
The problem is that it just makes more financial sense to just not insure the area.
There is always going to be some price at which it makes sense for an insurer to insure a property, as long as they are not restricted in what price they can charge.
Say I plan to sell the house in three months and want a three month term, maybe.
It'll go up, sure. There's nothing magical about the price of the property, though, as a line for making insurance worthwhile. You pay an annual rate, and an insurer will just expect that whatever you're paying over the will pay for the cost of the property within the period of time until they expect the property to burn on average.
If it's a hundred years, it might be -- discounting, for simplicity, the time value of money -- 1% of the property value annually. If it's six months, it might be 200% the value of the property annually. The 100% mark isn't a special line in terms of insurance making sense.
It'd certainly make the property more expensive to own as that percentage goes up, but that's true whether you insure it and spread that risk over many houses or don't insure it and pay for the loss of the thing yourself.
I'm not saying that offering insurance to a given property owner should be mandated, but that there's always some price at which providing insurance is worthwhile to an insurer.
Like, say State Farm's model predicts -- as it probably correctly did here -- that a house is most likely going to burn in the near future. Say the next two years, on average. Your annual fire insurance might be half the rebuild cost of your house, but they can still offer it, even at those levels of risk.
There was a wildfire in the area last month. A couple years ago, a wildfire burned down a bunch of Malibu, a few miles away. I would be very surprised if wildfires in the area stop happening.
I think that maybe the most-reasonable solution is for insurers to just ramp rates way up unless a home is built to be extremely fire-resistant -- just assume that there are going to be wildfires that dump embers in the area sooner or later, and that if your home isn't constrained such that it is able to withstand being showered with embers without going up in flames, that it's going to be insanely costly to insure, because it's likely to burn sooner or later.
Risk makes insurance unaffordable or unavailable
Insurance should really always be available at some price if you don't cap prices. It might be ludicrously expensive if insurers consider the area to be extremely risky -- and this area has had serious wildfires in past months and years, and I'm sure is probably considered to be quite risky -- but there's going to be some price at which they should make a return, even if they think that there's a pretty good probability that the house is going to burn in some kind of fire in the next N years.
Hmm. Fair enough.
Looking at a couple other sources, it also sounds like ADS-B data stopped being transmitted prior to the landing. So that does seem like another data point besides the data recorder maybe cutting out arguing for some measure of electrical issues (which doesn't necessarily mean that the electrical system is damaged, but for power not to be going to part of the plane's systems).
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/jeju-air-2216-muan/
The last ADS-B message received from the aircraft occurred at 23:58:50 UTC with the aircraft located at 34.95966, 126.38426 at an altitude of 500 feet approaching Runway 1 at Muan.
Based on visual evidence (see video below, viewer discretion advised) and the altitude and vertical rate data received by Flightradar24, we believe that the final ADS-B messages received represent preparation for a possible flypast of the airport. A flypast is often performed to visually confirm that the landing gear is either down or not prior to making a decision on next steps. The chart below shows the altitude and reported vertical rate of the aircraft from 2000 feet to the last signal received at 500 feet.
Post-ADS-B data
It appears that ADS-B data was either no longer sent by the aircraft or the aircraft was outside our coverage area after 23:58:50 UTC. Based on coverage of previous flights and of other aircraft on the ground at Muan before and after the accident flight, we believe the former explanation is more likely. There are multiple possible explanations for why an aircraft would stop sending ADS-B messages, including loss of electrical power to the transponder, a wider electrical failure, or pilot action on the flight deck.
EDIT: I did also see a pilot talking about the video and pointing out that while the crew didn't get flaps or gear, they managed to deploy at least one thrust reverser. I'm not sure what drives that (Do you need hydraulics? Electricity?), but it might say something about what was available to them.
kagis
It sounds like he's probably referring to the Lordstown Motors auto plant that closed.
Apparently, some of the facility is now doing EV-related work.
It sounds like originally, there were about 4,500 people, and now about half that work at the new factory, and most of the rest were relocated by GM.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-town-grieving-lost-jobs-voters-are-deeply-divided-president-n1155596
https://atlaspolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Case-Study-Ultium-Cells-Ohio-Final.pdf
So while this is probably quite bad advice aimed at scoring political points:
Assuming that Trump's campaign had any idea that this would happen at the time he was speaking -- and apparently there was federal subsidy (albeit from the Biden-era IRA) involved:
...that might be uncharacteristically accurate for Trump in that new jobs equal to maybe half the number of jobs that exited had been there (though not necessarily the same workers or skillset, and personally, I wouldn't have stayed around a closed auto plant for five years hoping that someone willing to hire me would show up and ramp up hiring and want to hire me).