I understand that you are materially constrained.

If you don’t already have your solution, I wonder if you could Ventoy (using as a verb here) a partition of the NVME as an install volume.

My USB drive is actually a spare NVME in a USB enclosure, ironically enough.

I had tricks using native disks reliably in VirtualBox which I had been dabbling with for more than 15 years, and I had to move to using QEMU for my NAS disks. I quotient recommend these paths for noob level project.

I and others agree… It’s funny when someone says “I want a solution besides X” and we all kinda have to say “uhhhh, srsly, X is the answer” - - also another shout out for Ventoy. Complete game changer. I have a 16GB drive with Win10 IoT LTSC, new install apps and drivers for Windows, and 2 or 3 Linux distros.

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Electricity for heating water (tankless) under my roof is approximately 18% of our total consumption, averaged across the months, which cost roughly $25 max, in my market. You’re right that I could aggressively reduce my consumption there and probably cut that number in half.

It is absolutely a luxury I am affording myself in this chapter of my life and hopefully in all the other chapters, too, especially if we add on solar capacity to the house.

Wholesome content.

Semi-retired, or “professionally jobless” here. I’m redditing or wikipedia’ing or you tubing under the Steam. Lol.

I’m not saving time at all, I’m spending it!

Can we just take a moment to say, it is insane to me that the general public would prescribe drugs onto a neurospicy person just so that they felt normal about their predisposition and judgmental about everyone else’s in how they use their assistive technology?

Some hair dyes can have you standing there for 10 or 20 minutes.

Sometimes just enjoying the steam is nice. It’s taking a lot of Blood Sweat and Tears to build a modern world, we are fortunate to have hot safe water on top. I’m going to spend my time and money standing under the boiling shower head and enjoy myself for far longer than everyone else is going to decide is reasonable, I’m going to keep reading and listening while I do so.

You’re not alone, same same. Folks in this thread have a very narrow definition of the role and the duration of the shower.

What if I’m in here, minting new sins?

My last partner and I had fingerprints on each other’s devices just for convenience sake, mostly so that we can text on each other’s behalf while the other was driving or in case of an emergency situation.

I would argue doing this right takes way more Trust than just keeping the boundaries up , and that I wouldn’t prescribe it for most couples.

A whole lot of judgy comments throughout this thread. I’ve been bringing my phone into the shower for the past 15 years, and quit bagging them since all the flagship handsets were IP67 rated or stronger.

I accept the liability of it, and it has not been a problem for me by and large, and I have no regrets.

I would estimate as much as 5% or 8% of my phone use has been standing there in an enjoyably hot shower and listening to podcasts or puzzling through some idea (building an estimated moving cost to relocate to another market for example, and all its tax implications) or catching up on all the personal correspondence that I had ignored for the day.

If that makes me a monster, at least I’ll be an specially clean one.

Once again, this place is your community and my community. You can build your people up or tear them down.

If you aren’t here to build community then you should ask yourself what really feeds you.

You DO realize that you’re firing on your own team, right?

Let’s not do that, here. This is our community, it’s what you and I make of it.

I have heard Kagi just layers their own special sauce atop Google’s index?

It is a unique service with a real value prop, I just want to make sure we are accurate here…