If we knew what city/route/service and day, we might be able to get a better idea.

• Sometimes operators declare a 'fare holiday' when everyone rides free, usually as compensation for some major fuckup previously, or for some other PR stunt. Metlink in Wellington doesn't charge on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or New Year's Eve.

• Operators sometimes half-strike and refuse to collect fares.

• The specific route, service, or time of day might be free.

• It's an express service that you can't pay cash on (only fare cards) and it's easier/nicer to tell you to ride for free than to tell you to get the next bus because they don't take cash.

• You might be part of some group (youth, students, elderly) that doesn't have to pay.

• Something is broken and they can't collect fares.

• They don't want to deal with the big banknote you had.

Boeing doesn't make many of the parts in the aircraft, especially things like pressurization controllers. Those come from contractors like Honeywell.

What they do is design the systems around the parts, including selecting the desired level of redundancy, and commission the custom parts needed.

The 737 is still mostly a 1960s design built mostly to 1960s rules. There have been plenty of improvements but that's not the same as a clean sheet design built to be entirely automatic even when stuff breaks.

Damn. Only needs to hit D H K M U X Z to get every letter of the alphabet.

Acorn/ARM apparently did much the same thing.

The average age in most electorates is going to be pretty similar, unless you start splitting them up by age.

So you're going to have representatives serving for one, maybe two terms - anyone staying longer is going to have to move to progressively older electorates each election.

Having them stick around for 50 years isn't great, but having a constant parade of brand-new mid-30s MPs isn't going to be any better.

It was a few years back, but after it hit ChromeOS EOL I'm pretty sure it just got some KDE distro; I don't think I even used LXDE. Didn't need to do much.

I was mostly using it for web browsing, forums, spreadsheets, documentation etc. Nothing particularly strenuous.

I did have one really fun time of modifying PDF engineering drawings by opening them in Libre Office Draw which it handled kinda OK.

It did get a 240GB SSD but everything else was soldered.

Leafs have battery packs with no active heating or cooling, which significantly impacts their performance in bad weather and when fast charging. Coupled with very small packs in the early models, and you have a recipe for a bad experience.

They should for most purposes. YT has started to try and make it much harder to block their ads, which I think has made Pihole ineffective for that.

Connecting the Pi up to the TV and using it as the player should be an option.

Sounds like a plan.

$2k/ton is not that cheap. Granted, it's cheap enough that it's not going to be an issue in these quantities, but it's the same price as the notoriously quite expensive aluminum, and twice what coil steel is worth: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/hrc-steel

Assuming the setup ends up similar to how it is in NZ, the barrier to entry to either found a new ISP, or for an existing ISP (even from another area) to set up shop, is really really low.

We now have far too many fibre ISPs and resellers to keep track of - a few dozen. It's like the days of dial up.

It depends on the application/duty, but maximum/rated power is not usually relevant for power consumption on home servers like this - they're rarely running at mother than a few percent load.

Idle power consumption is the main concern. Server boards often have a lot of NICs and chipsets that don't idle well. Consumer gear is generally much better for that.

Neither Westmere nor the AM3 platform are known for low power consumption. A modern LGA1150 or later desktop platform would probably be preferable.