Because of the greed (and/or lazyness) of the companies selling the inverters. They want all your data and want to control all the sold devices.

In good locations: Houses depreciate in value over time because they are less safe in the event of an earthquake than newer houses.

In bad locations: just take the house, everybody else left this town anyways.

I thought we all agreed this movie never happened?

Health. :)

If you pick any random body part and look at it carefully, you’ll come to realize that countless people who had this body part in a slightly different and thus disadvantageous shape, had to die in horrible ways so you could have yours in the shape that it is today.

What you smell is ozone.

He didn’t even invest in a pocket protector. Do they still sell these?

Huh, payments not ging through the play store? Google can’t have that.

Somebody tell the EU. Could be a case for the Digital Markets Act.

Saved.

We’ve successfully replaced the entire support team with an HTML form creating tickets for the one developer.

Surefire way to receive that efficiency performance bonus.

Does that cost money?

That was the case even 19 years back. Ubuntu nailed it back then. You could install it without knowing anything about your computer. Before that, there were text based UIs which required deep understanding and lots of decisions.

Doubtful, but, though unlikely, perhaps some media house would want to pick it up?

I wonder if a verifiable link to Trump can be made through network (as in graphs) analysis of the people and their connections in that list.

😁

Install StreetComplete and put some of them in. Spread the word, it’s really low effort.

So it quit before you could fire it then. 😁

Diode and magnetron are also frequent failure causes. The magnetron is easy to test with a resistance meter. Should be low ohms through and infinity to its casing. (all cables removed of course)

Good thing you survived. They are seriously dangerous. The capacitor usually retains enough energy to kill you for days after it was unplugged.

Two failed harvests. That’s what it takes to strip away the thin varnish of civilisation.

Considering the global integration of the world today, in that case much of the effects can be temporarily cushioned by spending lots of money, thereby letting the ones without money starve. Either way, it won’t be pretty.

At some point, even money can’t help anymore, because you can’t eat it. If there is no food, there is no food.