If you live in a big, brightly lit city and you feel like allergy season just never ends, you might be right: New research shows that light pollution prompts plants to shed pollen longer, increases the growth of notoriously allergenic ragweed and makes our bodies more prone to allergic reactions, from runny noses to asthma.

But on the flip side, there are also going to be fewer trees and other plants in a city. That is, one might have more pollen in a city with a lot of nighttime lighting than one would relative to a less-lit city, but I doubt that one has more pollen in a city than outside cities.

If you’re willing to wait until 2028 when memory prices are expected to drop, and if you’re willing to get new hardware if memory prices drop, I’d give real consideration to waiting until then. There’ll also probably be better hardware and better models then.

If you can constrain yourself to MoE-based LLMs, they’ll generally deal better from a performance standpoint with not entirely fitting in VRAM better than non-MoE LLMs, as experts may not get loaded into VRAM at all.

So, I don’t use iOS devices, and I’m not in Europe, so I can’t provide a lot of first-hand data on your particular widget. I’m just saying that that’s how the weather software I’ve used in the past across a number of platforms works.

Regarding your change as you traveled towards the coast, if they’re choosing the closest weather station to your location, though, you’d expect the weather station in question to shift as you travel.

If they are reporting temperature at a weather station and if this database here represents the weather station set that is used (again, I don’t know, not familiar with weather reporting in Europe):

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/maps-and-charts/locations-of-stations-with-temperature/locations-of-stations-with-temperature

Then it looks like France is operating far fewer weather stations than some other countries in Europe, which might tend to cause more average deviation between conditions at a location of someone checking the weather and the conditions at the local weather station being used.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b8466cdd-29e0-4be8-b438-0c546dd3e128.png

So, I don’t know how European weather reporting works, but if it’s like the US, the temperature that they’re reporting for your area may be for wherever your local weather station is (probably your local airport?), which may well differ from that at your house or wherever you’re taking the picture.

I doubt that Apple themselves tries to model weather; they’ll be reporting weather data from some other service.

Just as a warning, this post is liable to be deleted due to Rule 3. I had an earlier hardware post that I commented on deleted for this reason earlier today.

Why am I not surprised to hear APC is crap compared to Eaton?

Keep in mind that this isn’t my personal experience talking here. I also don’t know if the user in question is correct, or if it might be specific to some portion of the respective brands — both make a wide range of UPSes, from inexpensive to pretty pricey. But I did remember reading that, and it did seem potentially germane to OPs problem, so…shrug

Someone with a multitester or oscilloscope or something and some of those units could probably examine further, see what the actual behavior is for a given model.

My UPS (APC)

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/117oa9i/why_is_eaton_ups_so_much_more_expensive_than_apc/

Why is Eaton UPS so much more expensive than APC and Cyberpower?

In what ways is Eaton so much better that it can demand nearly 2x the price?

UK person here, so not sure how it differs country to country, but every APC UPS we’ve had has excelled in utterly trashing the batteries. Where I have to change batteries in an APC every 18-24 months, an Eaton will go five or six years without killing them.

There’s some further discussion talking about how the APC units hold the charge voltage at a high level, and the Eaton ones, once the batteries reach target voltage, bring it back down and only bring the charging voltage up occasionally for brief periods to maintain the charge in the battery.

I was originally going to use for my important documents

Not quite what you’re asking, but if your concern is avoiding data loss, if you haven’t already, I’d set up a backup before I started setting up a RAID or similar setup.

Gotcha. Yeah, the stuff in fstab is just a convenience; it’s equivalent to running a bunch of mount commands at boot. You might be able to just run “mount” again without the '-o remount" option. I was just listing that in case you were seeing some kind of errors in trying to manually mount it.

Nah, that’s good. What I mean is, if it’s in /etc/fstab, it should be possible to manually mount it without a reboot. Have you tried manually remounting it after power comes back?

Last I looked — not recently — Facebook was one of the more-competitive Bay Area tech companies in terms of base salary (though there are places where people can do better in terms of equity compensation), so they probably have some leeway to ask their employees to do stuff.

searches

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-salaries-revealed-how-much-engineers-researchers-made-in-2025-2026-4?op=1

This is only part of a larger list linked to above, but for 2025 engineering salaries only, base salary only, stock options and other forms of compensation excluded:

ASIC & FPGA Engineer: $299,880

ASIC Manager, Design Verification: $258,940.00 to $299,880

Director, Production Engineering: $354,123

Embedded Software Engineer: $169,313 to $269,081

Front End Engineer: $178,000 to $282,461

Production Engineer: $108,098 to $317,242

Production Engineering Manager: $258,524 to $309,797

Senior Staff Software Engineer: $311,029

Software Engineer: $124,000 to $450,000

Software Engineer (Leadership) - Infrastructure: $317,797

Software Engineering Manager: $200,907 to $328,000

Software Engineer Manager: $277,837 to $318,000

Sr Staff Hardware Engineer: $294,520

Staff Software Engineer: $258,524 to $263,803

Does anyone know how I can resolve this issue?

I don’t know why you’d need a reboot to remount the thing. Are you just not familiar with how to add something to /etc/fstab and mount it manually and are relying on some kind of auto-mounting system that only happens to run at boot, or is it giving some kind of error?

If an error, what happens when you do:

$ sudo mount -o remount /mnt/the-mount-point

?

I was going to mention that, but also that while I’m sure that it’d handle power loss while it’s unmounted the filesystem I don’t know what happens if the backing storage goes away while it’s in use.

rsync is a fine tool, but it’s not really for backups. It’s for unidirectionally syncing data, which is part of a backup.

There are tools that use librsync to do a backup system, like rdiff-backup or duplicity.

I have used rdiff-backup in the past, but restic supports deduping data keyed off content rather than filename, which is functionality that I rather like having. I drive a restic job from backupninja, which handles doing things like notifying you if a backup has failed.

I’m not personally familiar with Synology’s products, but if what’s going on is that you’re using some built-in feature of a Synology NAS to copy files from a USB drive to the NAS and seeing an error, I’d probably try copying that particular file to somewhere else on a PC, cutting the NAS out of the loop, to make sure that you don’t have, say, a corrupt filesystem where attempts to read the file contents are failing.

The limiting factor is in significant part memory and to a lesser degree storage, and while in some cases, there are options for PCs — like using scavenged DDR4 DIMMs — that aren’t available for consoles, PC prices have also generally been hit by the same factors that have driven up console prices.

Frankly, being taken for $100 on a phone is probably a lot better than putting your life savings into one of Trump’s memecoins or Truth Social, which some people did.

My impression is that Trump mostly just licenses his name to these ventures for a payment and isn’t affiliated with them otherwise. I don’t think that he likely cares much what happens to the phone buyers or sellers. He’s made his money either way.

EDIT: Yeah:

https://www.trump.com/lifestyle/trump-mobile

Trump Mobile, its products and services are not designed, developed, manufactured, distributed or sold by The Trump Organization or any of their respective affiliates or principals. T1 Mobile LLC uses the Trump name and trademark pursuant to the terms of a limited license agreement which may be terminated or revoked according to its terms.

It’s some third-party fly-by-night organization doing the actual deal.

Truth Social?