These are facts whether you like them or not.

That’s cheap… I’ve paid over $500 -with- insurance.

I’ve had good luck with them over 3 pairs. I get the exam at Costco and then buy from Zenni. The most expensive pair so far has been $108 for progressives with anti-glare etc although that was during a sale. They are better quality and have lasted longer than almost anything I’ve got from the traditional optometrists places, even when I’ve gone higher end. Even better, you can select the distance for computer, mid or distance - I wear one of 4 pairs depending on what I’m doing - AND they don’t check your prescription so you can use an old one if you know that works for you.

Ain’t never going back.

Sure, right. Because I’m sure you are free and clear of centuries of systemic white supremacy… Uh huh.

The left has GOT to stop using race/skin color.

You first.

Yeah, Nebula is quite good. Really like Curiosity Stream too… I subscribe to both.

But alas, most channels I follow are Youtube only and not likely to change :(

But do you have a viable alternative in your back pocket?

In my experience pretty much all IP cameras phone home in some way at some point, so yeah, you are best off putting them on a separate VLAN and routing appropriately.

The only brand I’ve had a good experience with is Reolink. I don’t think the quality is appreciably different than a brand like Hikvision and the firmware and support is vastly superior.

Edit: Some good info on using Reolink cameras with Frigate. I use Blue Iris but would vastly prefer OSS.

Don’t.

yes, not even dial up (i think)

Apparently some still do exist. 56 KBps… woohoo.

That literally is, it’s called Oneweb. SpaceX even launch their satellites rather amusingly.

You need to correct your post. As has been pointed out, Oneweb is not available for residential use. You simply cannot order it. The best you could do is go in with neighbors and set up community broadband. They don’t publish prices but I read somewhere that you are looking at $1500 per month or more.

No starlink alternative

Of course you get downvoted. Because people don’t know. Let me try to help educate y’all.

In many rural areas in the US there is NO (as in zero, nada, zilch) cable, DSL or even mobile/LTE. Nothing. I know because I live in one of those areas. So your internet options are:

1. Read books and talk to people
2. A traditional satellite provider like Hughesnet or Viasat, where you’ll have 10 GB daytime MONTHLY quotas, 800ms latency and extremely poor service.
3. Twiddle your thumbs and call it twidder.

Until Starlink came along I could not work remotely, stream any content or game. Despite being usually 20 MBps down, Hughesnet was so high latency that page loads were usually 10-20 seconds or more. A lot of things that had short timeouts simply didn’t work. So yeah, I self-flaggilate every time I pay the bill but Starlink has allowed us to have a normal internet life.

Wart Under

Not to quibble but technically dispersed camping, according to the USFS, is camping anywhere outside designated sites. The distinction is important because people believe they can’t camp on USFS (or BLM) land for free, almost anywhere they want. In fact with relatively few exceptions and with a bunch of rules like time limits, proximity to water sources, fire restrictions etc etc, you can.

I would interpret the American Academy of Pediatricians stance as being supportive. But that’s open to interpretation, I suppose.

https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/center-of-excellence-on-social-media-and-youth-mental-health/youth-advisory-panel/youth-advisory-panel-feedback-to-policymakers/

It’s literally cited on the HHS page about it: https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html

So you acknowledge that you don’t have the skills necessary to interpret papers so… what, you decide that Nature adequately represents their findings enough to dismiss them? Even though you say there is little evidence of a causative link? Even though the surgeon general says they feel there is and cites that evidence to back it up?

I mean… what?

It’s a pity you aren’t worth responding to. Have a nice day!

Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me.

Why would you conclude that? Because it conflicts with your “vibe”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence