Keeping a close eye and tight rain on bias and fallacy, observation beats word of mouth. A peer-reviewed scientific study is exactly equal to observation.
Mathematical proof is also observation.
Lack of observation does not in any way indicate lack of truth. Because you feel or don't feel some way and have or have not seen something happen to someone else in no way influences whether something actually happened to someone else. Our perception filters are incredibly bad.
Appeal to authority means very little as single people easily get biased. Discount anything said if the person telling you the truth stands to gain money power or time from it being believed.
If you can find landline phones with that feature set, just get them. You can just wire them together and put 20 volts DC in the line. Of course you're not going to want to do that over your single ethernet run but if you had multiple...
Telephone services really simple, 18 to 24 volts on hook should pull down to about eight or nine volts when you open the line. If you pulse a 90 volt signal, It will cause them to ring.
I mean, you get a lot of advantages from fluffy pretty systems. But extracting data from df and systemctl and curling it into telegram is going to be like a 10 line bash script called from a one-line cron job.
I pump a lot of complicated metrics through Prometheus / grafana to get graphs and history.
Most of my critical stuff is still in Nagios and instead of using nagios standardized plugins I just query the operating system directly in bash.
Oh no my ... Looks around house um, my... Looks at the kitchen, in the workshop, rec room... Ooh a casino keyboard! But it's not registered there's no software or internet connection... I think I have a couple of dead dumb watches in the junk drawer.
What in the hell happened to Casio anyway? Back in the '90s and early zeros I think I had like seven or eight things from them.
I can tell you that the average person in the last 30 years hasn't wanted to learn shit. I suspect it goes back far longer than that but I was too young to pay any attention.
People like us have always been around but we are not the norm. We thrive on challenge on the advantages of doing things different and better ways. But the vast majority of human history is primarily people just wanting to get by. They spent their extra time shining their floors or waxing their cars. Maybe getting that last decoration up in the foyer. That's why we have so many databases running in Excel, It says easy as possible while just barely skirting by danger.
I was watching something the other day where these guys went through this tiny little hole in the ground. It turned into a massive cavern hundreds of feet deep then they followed the cave as it narrowed, by the end of, he had taken off most of his gear and was straining to pull himself through crevices that he really didn't fit through. One slight mistake or a shift in some rocks and you're done. If the guy he was with was a little bit bigger and couldn't get through the crevice he couldn't even get in to save his ass. Yeah no thanks.
Underwater spelunking is significantly more dangerous because you have a very limited oxygen supply and it's very easy to get confused about which way is up. And every time you get near a surface you end up having zero visibility.
Everywhere you go your equipment's getting stuck on things.
To be honest either one of those can fuck right off, we don't even need a contest.
We're working through that too. Have had success with making something they absolutely will eat (10/10) being on every plate, and adding some small amount of something they don't love (5/10) that they need to take a bite out of. To earn a small dessert, they eat all of 10/10 and one reasonable bite of 5/10. If they're still hungry later, they get noodles or cup-o-noodles.
After having to try the 5/10 over and over, they slowly build up a taste for it and it slowly moves up the chain until they'll eat it.
For us, it works for everything but texture issues.
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Now that's a fantastic idea. How about options? Democracy grilled cheese? Democracy pizza? All food trucks get a fixed tax break to serve a single free food item pp at polling places on voting days! Basically paid advertising.
edit: Democracy TACOS!!!!
I'm gonna need to go lobby now... or at least do some market research....
Yeah that's the problem, there are corporate options for corporate prices, but home intercoms have more or less disappeared with the advent of cell phones that everybody just has on them anyway.
I just put Amazon devices in most of the populated areas of the house and use broadcast, but honestly we rarely use them it's a lot easier just to text somebody.
One might consider getting some older phones mounting them in locations bringing power to them and running walkie talkie software.
I just want the price to come down on a decent comfortable not absolutely ugly AR display. I don't want AI, I don't want processing power, I just want to be able to display an app or two off my phone in my field of vision, without occluding the rest of what's there. But even the nicest of the shittiest solutions are over $800.
He doesn't seem to have learned much from his existing court cases.