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  • Home assistant has been on a push to be more user friendly. It's gotten quite good, over the last few years. It's not quite to mass deployment levels yet, but it's managed to wrap all the evil parts in easy to use interfaces.

    The best bet, to play with it, would be a raspberry pi. There are premade images of home assistant available to install. Stick one on as SD card, and follow the prompts. You'll be amazed at what it can just find on your home network.

  • The basic rule is that you can say what you want (and people can call you what they want for it!).

    It would be polite to self moderate to an extent. No point getting the instance owners in to legal hot water. That's a massively higher bar than Reddit has set however. Chatting about and admiring Luigi is completely fine.

  • The prison sentence kicks in after appeals have been made. 2 years, plus 2 suspended.

    It's also not unknown/uncommon for people to be let free for a few days. It lets them put their affairs in order, before serving their time. It tends to be applied to those with a very low flight risk however, with significant affairs, so mainly the rich.

  • That's fairly close. The only proviso is there are some ways to affect the results. You can't send actual information along the link, but you can prove they were in communication. That proof requires information from the sending end however. It's only provable once that information is sent. Basically they communicate faster than light, but can't send information faster than light. Entanglement is weird.

  • Once you hit quantum mechanics, you need to throw out a lot of your instinctive knowledge, and just follow the maths. How this maps back to our perception is patchy at best. Once you add science reporters, who don't actually understand the core subject, and you get some... interesting results.

    In hindsight, "quantum voodoo dolls" is a term I could easily see being used. There are a lot of poorly thought out Wats to try and describe quantum weirdness.

  • My phone has an insane battery. I only have to charge it every couple of days, even when using android auto (via wireless adapter). My charger also includes a cooling fan, and can push 30W. It's not as efficient, but it's damn convenient.

  • You need to prep by sending the entangled particles (photons in this case). The spooky action is when you act on 1, you also act on the other. The useful bit is the uniqueness of the link. It cannot be intercepted without it being obvious and detectable.

    Think of it like voodoo dolls. It works at a distance, but you need to make the voodoo doll using a bit of the target, then send/take it elsewhere to stab.

  • I personally think it would hold up, so long as it wasn't abused. 3D prints are weak and prone to breaking with in the inter layer structure. Intra layer, they are quite strong. Also when they fail, intra layer, they tend to deform, rather than snap.

    Material matters however. PLA is relatively prone to breaking. PETG or nylon are far tougher.

    It's also worth noting the use case here. It's either nefarious (breaking in) or one-off (unlocking a door where you no longer have the key available). Neither requires long term survivability.

  • In fairness, the only thing many people will lack is water. It's not an exclusive stash, but in addition to what's in your cupboards.

    You can get 10L or 25L quite cheaply. 1 should do per person, maybe with an extra for cooking. Or just grab some big bottles of water.

    A hand cranked flashlight, candles and lighter are all a must anyhow, for a power cut. It might also be worth having a cheap camping stove tucked away.

    Food wise. It's just a big bag of pasta or rice, along with some cans/jars to make it pleasant to eat. Throw in some hiking snack bars and you're sorted.