Just because your microwave oven is not currently emitting 50 Watts per square metre doesn’t mean that others are not.

Just because it’s not doing so today, doesn’t mean that it won’t next week, month or year.

The platform is owned by Google. By using YouTube in any way, watching, liking, subscribing, commenting, searching, clicking, all of it, you’re “using Google”.

So, the answer is that you cannot use YouTube and not use Google.

If Google is broken up, that might change, but I’m not sure if that will ever happen, what form that might take or if it would ever happen at all.

No.

A microwave oven emitting no more than 50 Watts per square metre is considered safe.

This is significantly more than the radiation from a Wi-Fi network.

Your network will unlikely be operational anywhere within its range whilst a microwave oven is operating.

“Samples of all models of microwaves are tested for leakage before sale as prescribed in Australian Standard 60335.2.25:2011 clause 3. The standard says leakage at any point 50 mm or more should not exceed 50 W/m2, a level which is internationally recognised as safe.”

Source: https://www.csiro.au/en/research/health-medical/nutrition/Microwave-oven-safety

In other words, microwave ovens can leak, be compliant and safe and still overwhelm a Wi-FI network running at 0.1 Watts.

😂

I see that your voice to text system is working … sort of.

I’m guessing that you meant 5 GHz Wi-Fi.

In Australia there’s not much in the way of that around, if any. So far all I’ve seen is cheap 2.4 GHz IoT out of China.

Nope, still happening today :)

I’d love to do that but the vast majority of IoT devices are 2.4 GHz only.

Yup.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_radio_band

Black Friday is a marketing exercise to get you all riled up about the massive savings you will receive if you buy something RIGHT NOW.

Suffice to say that the actual bargains on the day are far and few between.

If you actively track pricing you’ll discover that the price goes up before the event, then drops to the same or slightly lower pricing on the day. The “bargain” is notional at best.

Then there are the “pre Black Friday” sales, and the “Cyber Monday” ones afterwards. It’s all just marketing.

If you want an actual bargain, find what you’re looking for, set a price watch on it and track it for as long as you have patience. When you’re ready, buy it from your preferred supplier and get them to price match the amazing price.

As far as refurbished goes, ask yourself what is the upside for the supplier to give away any bit of return on their spend to refurbish the item in the first place?

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

The thing about free speech is that there’s a whole lot of legislation surrounding it. At the moment, every single fediverse instance is run by( a small group of) people, many of them are run by individuals who are legally responsible for the content that’s posted on their site.

In addition, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, better known as the DMCA and the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, have requirements for people who own and publish data, like the people who run instances, not to mention privacy acts and myriad other provisions and laws.

Non compliance is very easy and costly, so instances who are aware of this are cautious in what they allow on their instance.

Finally, many instances want to create a community with a social cohesion and associated standards that they, depending on the level, encourage or enforce.

Why any instance bans something at any one time can generally be traced back to these reasons.

Of course there are also instances where it’s completely open season. Don’t expect these to stick around once lawyers get involved.

Not sure how I feel about such a bot. I can see potential security issues arising in relation to stored relationships between users and posts.

I’m fairly sure that the price information shown on a Google Search result page is advertising that comes from a different source than the results do.

As far as I know, you could write a plugin for SearXNG to query suppliers and format the output as required.

I think that Google Shopping might be queried in the same way, but I’ve never looked into it deeply.

Mathematics and Politics.

There are many more people who are “working class” than rich. The argument is that if you take some money from a lot of people, you get more money than if you take a lot of money from some people.

There’s also the argument that if everyone pitches in, the overall burden for each individual is less.

What this fails to address is that the richer you are, the more you can play with your money and end up with nothing to tax. This is why the rich get richer and the rest of us don’t.

Running through all that is a thing called “trickle down economics” which claims that the money from the rich ends up in society, but recent reviews of this have proven this to be nonsense. Politicians use this as an argument for the status quo.

Finally, the rich shape the narrative. Politicians are essentially elected by the rich through their manipulation of the story through their media empires and social media platforms.

Get multiple quotes and compare them. The cost will depend on where you are, what the conditions are like, how many jobs are being done by the supplier, etc.

Several quotes will quickly tell you who is charging too much and who is not charging enough.

You can also go to the hardware store and source the materials yourself and put it up on the weekend. Plenty of YouTube video experts to learn from.

You don’t need anything as elaborate as you appear to be contemplating.

Insert a large capacity microSD card into your mobile phone and load it up with media.

Share as required.

I should add “Debian, Vic 20” :)

QSL 🙂

The problem is that ChatGPT is not capable of original ideas. When you see AI, you (and the bulk of the population) think Artificial Intelligence, but what you should be thinking is Assumed Intelligence.

If you open up a mobile phone keyboard and tap the next suggested word repeatedly, you’re doing exactly the same as a large language model like ChatGPT, just much slower and with a tiny dataset.

And just like an autopredict keyboard can spout nonsense, so can ChatGPT. It’s euphemistically called hallucinations, but really it’s just grammatically correct gibberish.