She sounds like a single issue voter.

Thats really the biggest problem. People not looking at the whole candidate.

I had a foreskin issue where I couldn’t pull it back. Got it removed around age 10. Wasn’t fun but now my captain doesn’t wear his cap to dinner. Looks normal too.

Yep. This tracks.

My issue now with products is planned obsolescence. Any things aren’t made to last like they used to. They also have extra technology in them making them harder to repair. Appliances, cars and more.

Peanut butter and bread it is!

Food banks are a godsend in these situations. Don’t donate money. Find a local community center that offers assistance and donate foodstuffs. Things like rice, canned beans and mixed veggies are always welcome.

I’ve been there. It’s expensive to be poor with little to no way out.

You need a car to work. Cars are expensive. You get a old clunker.
You work and live check to check. Maybe $50 or $100 left over after taxes and expenses. Not really possible to have an emergency fund.
A single injury or car breaking down and you need to borrow money. From family, friends or some shitty company.

Oh and then your yearly raise comes around at $1/hr that barely covers your rent increasing let alone inflation.

Well it’s two situations. Look at Google dropping the older Nests. There you can lay in a fine.

For the folding company could make it part of declaring bankruptcy. Standard paperwork.

Either release all your source or prep the needful. Once this is common and expected could even force companies to maintain a public branch to release on cue.

Owning IP is fine. Products ending up in a landfill due to software is not.

Hopefully the law also expands to actually owning all of a product you own. Not paying BMW to unlock the heated seats already in the car you fully paid for.

I wasn’t clear.

The article calls out annual household income. Meaning that could be combined income.

A single person making 120k and couple making 60k x2 is not equivalent. Health insurance and living expenses creep up.

There’s also take home pay after taxes and expenses vs gross/net.

I feel like there should be a law to release the bits we need to support these efforts.

Too many times a product will die or a company will fold along with all its documentation.

Maybe release a final firmware opening up a product. Or at the very least a git repo with api documentation.

Yeah that’s a solid recap.

I now possess the knowledge about generating power to life off the grid using old motors salvaged from a junkyard thanks to my own personal research and video tutorials.

My intent with bringing that up is the hope of the existence of a document covering this topic in a preppers backup.

In a post apocalyptic scenario humanity has been proven to band together in groups and cooperate to survive. It’s less murder/greed and more sharing/helping. In these small groups it would only take one prepper or even an engineer to setup a generator or even just get solar panels to hookup for basic electricity.

Many of these points could be moot in a nuclear scenario where were dealing with EMPs and radiation.

Yeah my first thought was wondering what community projects exist to generate a guide to download all this info. I knew you could download all of Wikipedia but not the rest.

I’ve seen people make power generators using old washing machine motors. Youtube is full of them. Cutting PVC pipes to make wind ones and even water based ones off of rivers.

I feel like some people would figure out basic electrical grids for led lights in homes at night and possibly a battery bank made of car batteries or something.

Getting a laptop working in that environment wouldn’t be too far of a stretch. Just need to find an old brother laser printer and a Linux USB and you’re golden.

Print off the critical farming/water treatment stuff you need and power it off.

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Yeah but imagine if we had a laptop motherboard standard like desktops.

Instead of ATX it would be something like MLF - Modular Laptop Framework

Where there would be some board standard for laptop boards.

Then you get screen ribbon standards, keyboard ribbon standards, etc.

This would allow one to order a laptop case with screen, keyboard and touchpad. But you can pick your board, cpu, ram.

I know some companies have done GPU upgrades but how nice would it be to upgrade your 4 year old $3k laptop’s GPU?

Agreed but in most larger businesses swap out the laptops around 3-5 years.

Consumers use laptop 5-10+ until they die.

Bullshit. My aunt has a washing machine with all knobs and switches that’s probably 30+ years old and it still works fine.

They need to stop putting all these digital components into washing machines or make the boards standardized so they can be easily swapped out. These aren’t laptops that you toss after 3-5 years. Appliances should last 10-20 years.

Good to note

Agreed. Website works perfectly fine on mobile.

You can even take the website and “add to homepage” on android effectively making it a webapp.

I don’t know why people install apps…