When I go to mastodon and lookup OP, I can see their profile and it says they have 231 posts, but I can’t see any of them - so I have no idea how this thread is displayed there.

Yep - my mother is one of them - she won’t admit it directly, but it’s clear from some of the stuff she says.

It’s scary shit - I think there are three different “accelerationist” groups trying to destroy society as we know it. The christians waiting for the rapture, Curtis Yarvin’s tech bros that want to build their techno feudal cities and the extreme preppers that want to see some return on their investment. Have I missed anyone?

It doesn’t work for me either. Just reading the text on the page linked here was uncomfortable. It’s not like you describe though - for me it’s like there’s too much white space and there’s this mass of words almost floating around the page and it’s hard to keep track of where I’m up to. I am a bad/slow reader and all reading is like that for me - that font just seems to make it worse.

They steal from everyone. My wife was stuck in a hotel with no room service about a year ago and didn’t feel up to walking for food. She found that she could get a free year doodash subscription through her Amazon Prime. She joined, got her food and promptly cancelled the subscription. We’ve just been through the joy of getting a refund for two months of doordash that hit our credit card.

Must depend on your client and/or instance settings - I see raw up/down vote counts.

Or accept that God sent the scientists that developed the vaccine. The whole “will of God” argument is always so full of holes - logic doesn’t come into it.

If money is no object, wicked edge.

I thought it would be obvious from my collection of knives - money is a problem.

Also YouTube project farm for alternativs. He did a big review

Thanks - I find him yelling at me for the whole video a bit annoying, but his content is generally good - I’ll have a look

Unfortunately, only reasonable people think that. Maybe someone should make a movie about how that might work out for us.

When I first discovered the 20VAC potential between electrical ground and my slab I turned off the main breaker in my panel and it was still there. I have not tried turning off the main disconnect in the generator transfer switch. But, turning off the main breaker means the leak isn’t inside the house - doesn’t it?

I have two grounding rods and I believe they are good - they are now buried under foam insulation and gravel so I can’t (easily) check them, but the electrician that wired my house assured me it was OK to bury them. I was a bit paranoid about burying them and checked and double checked that they were both firmly connected before backfilling gently with a shovel. Is it possible my earth ground (gravel fill) just isn’t conductive enough? As I said to someone below - I measure 5V from the electrical ground to earth ground (literally just sticking my meter probe in the earth) right near where the grounding rods are installed.

I have a Generac backup generator so the first disconnect, and neutral bonding, is in the generator transfer switch which is mounted on an outside wall of my house. The ground rods are now buried under the backfill around my slab so it’s not easy (near impossible with the frozen ground) to check them. I backfilled by hand with a shovel so I doubt very much they were damaged. There is another ground wire coming out of the generator transfer switch that connects to the propane line coming into my house - this is accessible and strange - I measure 5V between this ground wire and the actual ground (gravel) just a few inches away from it.

I have a metal roof and I’m maybe 80’ from the high(er) voltage residential supply lines that go into the distribution transformer that feeds my house.

Not that I can think of. I’m in the middle of nowhere - nearest neighbours are about a kilometre away, no industry. The only power lines in the area are the ones that feed my house.

The UPS is connected to an outlet that is about 1 metre from the electrical breaker panel. It’s a new house so the wiring should be OK. There are only 4 buildings/services on my local transformer so I think we’re stressing that. I have not checked the other phase and other comments have suggested that the variation I’m seeing is within normal range, so I probably won’t.

I’m Australian but don’t live there. It worries me how far right it’s getting. Australia being a very sporty place means transgender people in sport is a huge wedge that the Nazis can use. I’ve had to “disown” a bunch of family - including my mother, who I thought I learned my values from!

From a consumer perspective it’s a good solution for internet in remote areas and Ontario has a lot of remote areas. I used it for a couple of years when my only other option was a local wireless provider with an expensive high speed plan with advertised downloads up to 10Mbps, but actually never got anywhere near that. I’m lucky that I now have fibre and my starlink hardware is collecting dust in the shed.

Same - just as I started watching he was saying the democrats had weaponised law enforcement against their political opponents, on the day that said he would crack down on political opponents in universities. (I know he’s abusing law enforcement in many other ways - it just struck me that the that the university protest crack down was one of the big stories of the day. Such a stark example of “every accusation is a confession”)

You are correct in all your assumptions and your assertion that the Standard layer will update. It didn’t happen immediately and I just assumed it was another, independent, layer. I just went and double checked and the “bad” things I deleted yesterday are indeed gone from the Standard layer. Thank you.

Thanks for trying! But, I really need 32GB - I want to upgrade a machine that currently has 4x4GB. I know it seems wrong and I’ve thought about doing a whole new motherboard, CPU and RAM but that very quickly gets to several hundreds of dollars and puts more stuff in the ewaste bin. I’m confident I can easily get a few more years from it with $50(ish) worth of RAM.

The SSD is for another project - repurposing the motherboard and CPU that used to do the job of the 16GB one above :-) I’ll probably go for a new SSD because they do wear out eventually and someone else pointed me one at a Canadian supplier for $20.

Thanks for the suggestion. I know about PC Part Picker. The sites they list mainly sell current technology, which makes sense but it’s not what I’m after. This stuff is for an old PC. It’s not urgent - I’m watching FB marketplace for used memory and also considering buying direct from China, with slooow shipping, for the SSD and cable.