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Exactly. I've never not bought something because the website was temporarily down. I've even bought from b&h photo!

Even if Amazon was down, if I was planning to buy, I'd wait. heck, I got a bunch of crap in my cart right now I haven't finished out.

Intentional downtime lets everyone plan around it, reduces costs by not needing N layers of marginal utility which are all fragile and prone to weird failures at times you don't intend.

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For me at least, the only thing where availability really matters is main personal communication services. If Signal was down for an hour, I'd be a little stressed. Maybe utilities like public transportation, too, but that's because I now have to do that online.

> Intentional downtime lets everyone plan around it, reduces costs by not needing N layers of marginal utility which are all fragile and prone to weird failures at times you don't intend.

Quite frankly, I would manage if things were run "on-supply" with solar and would just go dark at night.

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