When you work with the old systems, you are always afraid to shutdown the machine, because more often than not, it will not boot up. And if you petition to replace it with a new machine, you may very likely hear the phrase "We are planning to move the app to cloud, so no need to build a backup in the meanwhile".
Back in the day, we had purchased a new, bigger machine, and transferred over, and everything was just peachy.
Months later, we had a power outage (scheduled I think, I don't recall).
Anyway, at some point during the transition and such, I managed to have the machines hard mount NFS across each other.
As long as one of the machines is up, everything is rosy. But cold start? They were both hanging while restoring the mount (which, they couldn't because neither was "up").
Took us about 1/2 hr to suss out what was happening and get single user in to tweak it, but...yea...exciting!
"Smart" people do this kind of innocent stuff all the time.
Another happy mid 2012 MBP owner here. I am happy that I could upgrade the RAM as soon as I bought it to 16GB, and replaced the HDD with SSD after 5 years, and have replaced batteries twice. Running 10.15 without any problems. The screen hinge has loosened, but nothing a screw driver and ifixit couldn't fix.
Sorry but $200/month for 1000sqft? Thats not in Bangalore, or just a shitty place. Any place in bangalore thats not upscale but good amenities nearby, its easily $400 with Maintenance for a decent 2BHK in an apartment.
$700 is just not gonna happen for an couple with rent, and you are talking about an American with a different food habit. More like $1000.
Horrible traffic, non-existent public transport, water scarcity, pollution and dust are just cherry on top.
A far more serious consideration for solar is the changing seasons, especially at non-tropical latitudes. I graphed the output of my solar panels (56 north, Scotland) and it's really apparent: https://flatline.org.uk/daystats.html
So those panels are basically useless for 3 or 4 months of the year, i.e. November, December, January, February.
Would there be much improvement if you could tweak the orientation to match the seasons? E.g. tilt them down toward the horizon during the winter?
It's certainly a huge complication to have motorized panels that move all the time to track the sun. But maybe it wouldn't be that much of a hassle to go out there and manually reorient them (just in 1 axis) a few times a year?
They're fixed to the roof, so making them movable would be a risk to their safety and wind resistance while being fairly difficult to access (and ladders are dangerous). For a fairly small benefit. It's not just the angle but the sunrise and sunset are a lot closer together.
