During a normal power outage, you’re right. That does keep you isolated on your own island. But in a case like this, the voltage is likely to spike to incredibly high levels on wires that aren’t meant to carry it and cause arcing and possibly fires. That’s why you want to be physically disconnected.

That’s known as a grid tie system and my edit mentions that. The only way it’s going to help is if the grid is physically disconnected from the building as in the wire is not connected to the building at any point.

I’m glad this threat is at least starting to be taken seriously. As an amateur radio operator, I got incredibly interested in how the weather on the sun affects radio propagation and power management here on Earth.

Better a CME than an EMP just simply because there is at least some time to prepare for a massive CME. Whereas an EMP has absolutely no warning whatsoever.

In the event of a massive CME off-grid homes and buildings are likely to fare much better because they are not connected to the power grid. The problem comes with long transmission lines where incredibly large charge differentials can build up over distance. shorter wires can’t build up nearly the same amount of charge differential.

Edit: I feel it’s important to mention that grid tie systems are going to be just as vulnerable as on grid because you still have the grid actually physically connected to the building.

If I’m given the option, I always choose to reject all. I don’t know if the company behind it actually sees that or not, but it makes me feel better anyway.

Lol, fair point. I suspect though that so many people would just ignore that as unlawful that they would have no way of possibly enforcing it.

If the law ever says that we are not allowed to have encryption, I am absolutely going to be one of the first ones going to jail because I’m not going to put up with that.

The way I see it is you can throw me in jail where you then have to feed me, give me proper climate control, give me a place to sleep, etc. all on your dime.

I started my de-googling journey and mostly completed it in 2019 and then ended up fully deleting my Google account in 2023. I still watched IO for the newest Android updates because of Lineage OS but other than that I wasn’t interested and last year’s IO was just total shit. If you are running base AOSP Android, it has not changed very much in several years.

I’ve never used Gopher, but what do you think of Gemini?

Don’t use a major bank then. Use a smaller bank.

I honestly couldn’t agree more. From 2011 to about 2017, I was always distro hopping, trying out different things. And then for the longest time, I just stayed with Ubuntu. And now I’m like, you know what? I’m just gonna fucking use Linux Mint, because it just fucking works.

Access your bank through your web browser. And if your bank does not allow you access through your web browser, get a new bank. That’s what I did.

Using open source software on lineage OS or graphene OS with no Google Play services solves the vast majority of the problems brought up in this article. It doesn’t solve all of them, but it solves most of them.

No idea. I know individual creators can mirror their own videos from YouTube over to AP or tube instance, but I don’t know of anything on mass.

Have a look at Gemini and the Gemini capsules. Seems more like what a browser should be, in my opinion.

Why exactly would I pirate a font? Sans Serif is like the only font that you need.

I’ve been making an effort recently to replace all the YouTube channels I watch with peer tube channels. I haven’t been totally successful yet, but I’m getting there.

Well, that’s unfortunate because they had the old building to get rid of. It would be cool to find out just how quickly it was able to be printed and everything so that we could figure out whether it would be shorter to print buildings that way. I would think it should be, but there’s an awfully large difference between should and reality.

They didn’t say in the article just how long it took to build. If you are in the area, did you notice about how long it took to actually put the thing together and get it open?

Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo in like 2019 and used that for a long time until Kagi came out and now I use that and I’m quite happy with it.

That’s 22 minutes of my life. I’ll never get back. But at least it’s interesting that somebody that popular has decided to go to Linux. On second thought, it wasn’t 22 minutes. It was probably more like 10 because I always use 1.5 or 1.75x speed.