That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.

Lincoln

“They’re watering crops with a sports drink?”

Amazon and several other companies hired like crazy during pandemic. Now they’re trying to shrink the workforce via a combination of outright layoffs and tight policies to make anyone on the verge of quitting go ahead and do it so they don’t have to pay severance.

Bonus points for shedding older, more experienced, more expensive employees vs. cheaper early in career employees.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1324557/quarterly-number-of-amazon-employees/

Doesn’t the isotope in the detection chamber degrade and needs to be replaced in 10 years anyway?

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/americium-ionization-smoke-detectors

One example:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/maximum-tolerance-for-computer-clock-synchronization

Another use case: when you look at activities that flow across multiple devices and you’re correlating the sequence of events, having every device set to the exact same, ideally correct time makes correlation of events less confusing.

I run wireguard VPN, qbitorrent, most of the *arr apps, and Jellyfin all in containers on a headless Raspberry Pi 4, with storage backed by a NAS. It works surprisingly well, I just ensure that I never need to do transcoding.

It’s a really small dollar investment to try it to see if it meets your needs.

Another option for very cheap VM, storage, bandwidth: Oracle Free Forever

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

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