Same. I need to step my game up! Profiles don’t look that hard, just something to learn 🙂

Some people in the US are talking about “Bidenomics” still. It’s been 10 months. Get with the program.

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Thanks for the tips and discussion! Fdroid was incredibly slow to work with, but I have installed osmand with some additions and found that it can possibly replace Gaia. It has a photo layer option and many other things that ate helpful. I will need to spend more time with it, but I feel good about it!

Thanks for pushing me in this direction.

I am using websocket and don’t see a large battery drain. Am I missing something by not setting up unified push?

Thanks for the encouragement! The one person is a key player in that network so maybe! Hard to fight with the apple folks.

That sounds great! So far, after five years, I have won a single person. Even back when Signal worked as a more regular messenger. Happy for you 🙂

I have accepted no RCS. I miss some of the features, sure, but until I can get more than one person to use something like signal I’ll stick with insecure SMS thru a FOSS provider I guess.

What about swappa? I just replaced my 3a with a 7a. I would consider donating it to the cause but had thought about doing something with it.

I don’t really understand the interface, but I hit “power” and was watching some music videos from 1994 and I appreciate you sharing this ❤️

I was a little skeptical and just looked at NFPA codes (USA) and they don’t seem to care about placement elevation, only type of rooms and heating sources. I didn’t read all 68 pages, only what seemed relevant, so maybe I missed some discussion.

I’m in a pretty similar boat to you. Not great financials, not a lot of spare time, I live in a remote location with limited purchasing options. But I made the decision a long time ago to not use Amazon. That does mean purchasing from multiple sources, seeking vendors who will sell products, and maybe pay a little more.

The thing about Amazon is that their pricing is artificial. The whole package, from item price to shipping is meant to capture you, the consumer, into their ecosystem. I am willing to spend a small amount extra to not support hegemonic practices. It isn’t even that much money, and the time investment to find sources is just that (an investment). For most of my mail order stuff, I already know the vendors to use.

I don’t like to castigate folks for using amazon, and I apologize if I was too confrontational, but I do want to encourage people to engage in their options before amazon is all we have.

Best wishes finding quality sources!

Amazon is pretty necessary in much of the US

I couldn’t disagree more. Amazon is a choice. You have to choose other options and move away from the mindset of immediacy.

I don’t think I am the target audience for these products, and have no answers for you, but am curious what these would do above what turning the device off. Is a device that is powered off still reachable? Or is this not about that?

Anyway, on to the non answers, when i worked around wiring that needed to not be affected by interference from adjacent wiring, it would we shielded by aluminum. It was thicker than household foil, and had braiding. The wires could be run with other, non shielded wires, most of which were dramatically different voltages.

I am not a scientist 😅

My experience is very dated, but I bought a used windows Asus laptop in 2013 and put Ubuntu on it and experienced no problems. I had been using Linux for a long time, so maybe I remember this with rose glasses, but it was very straight forward. Also an integrated GPU, but of the 2013 era. I think the laptop was a 2012 model.

Config isn’t hard, it just takes time 🙂

You and @[email protected] really summed up my concerns and knowledge gaps succinctly! Don’t want to frac, but don’t want to miss an opportunity, either. Hard to beat pumped, tho. When applicable.

Ya, usually liquids are compressed with air for any useful stored use. Otherwise something must continually pump. Maybe they are putting a large bladder into the ground?

The article doesn’t discuss how they pressurize water. Conventional pumped storage uses gravity,the water isn’t actually pressurized itself. Plus the whole liquid thing. But otherwise, neat!

Thanks! Currently I am using Mint, and it looks like secure boot is disabled.

Thanks for your replies ❤️

Maybe, but what about units supplied by a Linux builder? My last computer was a windows machine I installed Linux on, but that was before this I think. It shipped with windows 7.

I definitely have UEFI, not sure about secure boot.