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At that point I'd be approaching both the police and this 'social worker's' employer and complaining about her threatening my children.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/spare-parts/

Relevant are some of Chris Boden's videos about bringing up a hydro power plant and his comment that you have to be in sync with the grid when you actually connect because the turbine WILL sync to the grid at connection and if it was incorrect before then there will be a lot of loud angry noises from the equipment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQxSJmadm0

My biggest concern (besides "following through with this? hollow laugh") is when you're not always working in the same place - either hybrid or going to customer sites.

Massena's about the size of the town we moved my parents from after my father had a stroke, though it's a lot poorer (in 2013 nearly a third of the population was below the poverty line, and that's before Alcoa closed a chunk of operations there). It does have a hospital (25 beds, not-for-profit) and given the demographics I'm 100% positive that it's one of those hospitals that *needs* Medicaid to survive.

I'm pretty sure that doing this really would feel a lot like going back and living like your grandparents or great-grandparents did - all the joys of the 1950s.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was data center work available though - with cheap power there's probably someone there doing cryptomining or maybe even hosting AI processing.

I can't find it now, but sometime in the past week or so I saw something that (IIRC) related to the BBC (?) blocking a ton of badly-behaved obvious scraper traffic that was using Meta (?) user-agents but wasn't coming from the ASNs that Meta uses. The graphs looked like this ended up reducing their sustained traffic load by about 80%.

Items where I'm doubting my recall (since I didn't find anything relevant doing some quick searches) are marked with (?)

No competently run company is going to invest in more-expensive domestic production based on what the administration is doing because there can't be any expectation that policies will remain in place until production can be brought online. It doesn't even make sense to consider planning to onshore production because there's no reasonable expectation that the current policies will be in place in a month, much less in the year or more needed for a production change.

I can't imagine this ending in any way other than dropped charges, though they may draw it out to make it as painful as possible prior to that.

Human extinction seems very unlikely, but the collapse of the infrastructure that allows creation of the infrastructure that allows modern life? That could be much more likely, particularly when you factor in military conflicts as well as purely climate-based changes and losses.

Any overage beyond current needs is put into a "trust fund" which is required by law to be kept in US Treasury Bonds, aka loaned to the US Government. For the truly cynical, think about it as years of loaning a bunch of money to your uncle, and around the time that money starts needing to be paid back your uncle starts looking for contract assassins (aka "privatization"). If Social Security can be killed then oh my! Guess all that money owed to it just doesn't need to be paid back.

If the money "borrowed" in that way had been spent in ways that would make providing the services it's for easier and more cost effective that would be one thing, but that's not how it works out because the best ROI for private capital is purchasing politicians and policy.

Notably I'll throw in a few things like PocketCasts, Nova Launcher, Gentle Alarm by Mobitobi, a variety of camera and gallery apps. Some of those shifted to subscriptions (PocketCasts after being sold twice), others just got shuttered.

Interesting visualization though.

It's nothing special, just a location tracker that logs to a file every so often based on time and/or distance moved (could also ping a URL with encoded location info instead). Basically the underlying data for location history without relying on Google. Its notable feature years ago was that it would do location 'steals' - instead of just triggering a then-expensive location check, it would grab the most current available location info as triggered by some other application and only force an update if that information was too old.

But hey, Musk gets to keep eliminating everyone who might exercise oversight on his companies or business activities, so it's all good right?

Good historians? Ehhhhhhh.

The problem is one of trust, and it's very difficult to trust the output of LLMs to be correct/true vs "truthy" without extensive verification that may be either as laborious as doing the original research or that may be difficult or impossible without knowledge and understanding of the internals and sources that may not be available.

TikTok, you've changed! But maybe not that much.

The business plans are a different matter, but can make sense particularly if you're actually paying salary/wages for someone to maintain and support a self-hosted alternative.

When I looked a couple years ago it seemed like there was some news about a year or two of crop issues, but plain potato prices haven't seen the same level of sustained rise in my experience (occasional purchaser, and haven't quite made the jump to just shredding my own).

Contrary to another comment, I'm not convinced that eggs are quite as bad - prices have gone up a lot, but they're much more cyclical and still regularly down where they've traditionally been. I'd absolutely believe that most of the price variation there has been due to flock destruction due to avian flu.

iPhones have this capability as demonstrated by their "Optimized battery charging" that caps at 80% overnight "then finishes charging before you normally pick up your phone" or some crap like that, BUT they only let you set an actual cap on the charge level on the 16 (and 15?) even though older models should have the same capability. Yes, this picture you can't see is me flipping Apple the bird while holding my 14 Pro that's down to 87% of original capacity because I can't cap the charge.