#efficient : characterized by energetic and useful activity

- French: efficace

- German: effizient

- Italian: efficiente

- Portuguese: eficiente

- Spanish: eficaz

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On Half Litre Kettles and Tea Drinking

For years I thought, "I want a smaller kettle so I can boil enough for a cup of tea or to make coffee, without throwing out two thirds to three quarters of the water I boiled. For years I thought that getting a smaller kettle was a waste of money, as they are often more expensive than larger ones. That is, until a certain person was elected for a second time and that nation showed real hatred towards the entire world.

No Flies Attracted with Vinegar

It's at this point that I thought "Why should I get products from Country A when it arrests people for not being of the right nationality and punishes people from not buying locally. Let's remember that the world blindly uses phones, computers, operating systems, drinks, books, films and a lot more from that nation. If everyone was as xenophobic as that nation, then that nation would no longer be a world power, but that's a distraction.

The advantage of a small kettle is that you boil enough water for one cup of coffee or one tea. You barely waste any energy or water, so you're more likely to have a second cup, and then a third, and then a fourth. You're also saving on plastic waste and money. If you buy 50-100 bags for a few francs you're set for several weeks. In contrast with bottled drinks you're shopping at least every six days.

I found that with a larger kettle, when I boiled 800ml of water, and put that hot water into a flask, with tea, the volume was such that it took so long to cool that I didn't drink the tea I prepared. With the new system I do.

And finally

I made the switch once my new habit was stable, rather than before. Now I use a higher percentage of the water I boil.

Obsolete hardware

Whenever I need to run an operating system on obsolete computing hardware, I find the smallest distribution Puppy Linux comes into mind.
The last number of years Slitaz has been doing an enormously great job keeping my old hardware to chug along.

Slitaz is so small it can run on RAM:

That's Amiga speak for ramdisk

#hardware #obsolete #distro #small #environment #Puppy #Slitaz #Linux #keep #running #technology #programming #efficient #Amiga #RAM #ramdisk #FAST

Dodgers' Tyler Glasnow puts in efficient work in first spring start

https://misryoum.com/us/sports/dodgers-tyler-glasnow-puts-in-efficient-work-in/

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix"> PHOENIX — Dodgers right-hander Tyler Glasnow is an admitted overthinker. But you wouldn’t know it based on his efficient first spring training start Thursday against the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch. Glasnow pitched two-plus innings, retiring the...

#Dodgers #Tyler #Glasnow #puts #efficient #work #first #spring #start #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

Venezuela invasion: little, too late. Climate-heat pumps are coming to displace oil heat...

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/01/03/on-heat-pumps-colorado-hits-the-ground-running/

#oil #oilheat #heatpumps #hvac #energyefficiency #oilandgas #electrification #decarbonization #zeroemission #healthyhome #buildings #sustainable #sustainability #energy #efficient