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It has been years since I gave them a try. Their interface was horrible, but this is a good reason to try them again.

You are correct. The reverse is true too, why should contribute data to their maps service for free? I've done lot of work to add and correct roads, update business info and addresses in my area. If they want to fill the map with ads they have that right - but when they drive me (and people like me) away, their product will suffer.

They don't take longer than I think. The problem is nobody listens! True story - They handed me an RFP, asked for an estimate. I gave it and they cut it in half and got the job. I didn't take any pleasure in being right, but I was right. It was an expensive mistake.

That all depends on how rural it is. Rural enough that a tower can cover enough houses to make it worth it or so rural enough you have almost as many towers as houses?

I spent a decade on various WISPs, even had one of their towers on my house (free connection + cash = very yes). It was a city with a mix of single family homes on small lots and townhomes/condos. Cable doesn't exist there, so WISP was the way to go. It was pretty good until Netfix got popular. It was bad in the evenings when everyone would sit down and turn on a show.

Now I'm in a very rural place, lots of hills, thick trees. Luckily there is a telephone/internet co-op who put in fiber. I think they realized with the distances they have to cover that WISP and copper were out. I've never seen fiber to such remote locations.

We only have one cell tower that covers us now, so I won't hold my breath for 5G.

Just put a 5G tower on the radio tele... nevermind.

I thought it was just me with the "who cares about 5G" attitude. Just give me better 4G coverage. Give me another tower in my area so my cell service isn't out while they work on the only one that serves me. Give me coverage that works at my neighbor's house too. I have poor coverage, but 700 feet away he doesn't have service.

Yes, this works with mattresses, but I don't know many people who'd be willing to do the buy and try thing with something as expensive as a car.

"who would get to the point they were ready to drop six figures on buying engines..."

Right, what kind of guy is this? The kind who built a full size, accurate working Stonehenge just for fun.

It is extreme, but Ford cares about liability in all cases, but most cases don't cross wherever line their lawyers have drawn. The idea that they don't care is all I was going for. That and it is a story someone would enjoy.

Range and service are the two big reasons why I can only sit on the sidelines and watch what happens with EVs. There isn't a super charger within 3 hours of me and the nearest service center is over 500 miles away! (Ok, one might be a bit closer, but it is in another country and that has its own set of issues.)

Obviously, not everyone has that problem, but distance to a dealer is on my mind, even for my ICE vehicles and it is "only" an hour away. I wouldn't want to go any farther than that.

"Chrysler/Ford/GM are happy to sell you parts like engines and transmissions without caring whether they'll even be used in a car"

Ancedata says some of the big 3 do care. A guy down the road from me ordered 500 engines from Ford. They followed up on the order and when he explained they were for airplanes, they cancelled it, saying they didn't want to be liable for an automotive engine in a plane.

His plan to turn his custom plane into a kit stopped at a beautiful one-off that sits in his museum when he isn't flying it.

If he was going to put the engines in a tractor, I bet they would have sold them, but they didn't want to be liable for something in a plane.

*Edit - it was 1000 engines, not 500. Also found a link some might find interesting: http://stonehengeairmuseum.org/1992-montaniar

The other half of the "every piece of mail costs money" coin is to send back every prepaid envelope. What you put in it is up to you, but the thicker and heavier it is the better.

I like keybase, I even got a bunch of my family to use it. To them it is just a free messaging app.I use it for messages and git.

I still keep PGP/GnuPG keys up and working with email because it is universal and simple. The encrypted messages I have are easy to open and get on using a fresh machine/phone as long as I keep my key around. I don't depend on anyone to maintain their servers, etc. I'm still waiting for a modern replacement, but so far it hasn't happened for me.

I'm sure it is everywhere. I'm in NW Montana and was recently checking out coverage maps of various carriers. I had never noticed the fine print telling me something like "coverage" was defined as slow and would only work outdoors. If I'm in my house, I'm lucky to get a signal on one side of it.

I really do count it as lucky. My neighbor doesn't get anything at all - inside or out, but the coverage map says he's good. A few years ago, before buying a phone, he borrowed a Verizon phone (from them) to make sure it worked at home. It did, he bought it and a few months later it quit working. The phone is fine, I guess they are no longer using the tower that served him. I don't think they updated their coverage map.

Yes, because there is no way I'm answering what city I was married in. It is public record. A password-like "nonsense" answer is the only way to go.

Also important in the middle of nowhere when the clean, forest air turns to smoke each August.

I wish there was a standard way to do the same thing. Route 53 is nice when I can use it, but it causes me pain on a regular basis because not all the domains I deal with are on Route 53.

I wonder if more than one party can sign up for the same address? Am I safe because I've already signed up or are they happy to let someone else monitor my mail too?

Yes, it is that easy. I did it and told my parents about it. They signed up to be notified when my grandparents received mail so they could make sure bills were taken care of. Not a case of abuse, but they didn't have to validate anything to start receiving notifications of other people's mail.

Right - home and office both have distractions. I find I can manage them better at home. It has been much easier to train my kids than my old co-workers.

Balance is the key. I worked in the office, then at home, back to the office and now I'm 100% from home. The first time I worked at home I worked WAY too much. Going back to the office was so nice. I hated the commute, but I loved leaving work at work. After going back and forth, this 2nd round of working from home is great. No commute and I rarely get sucked back into working hours that I normally wouldn't. It takes some discipline to keep a balance.

B&H has been around forever. I bought a good pair of binoculars from them when I was a kid. My mom had to drive me to the store to get a money order so I could mail my order form to them. She thought I was crazy.

Yes, I still have and use the binoculars.

Twice I've gone to walmart.com to load up my cart and get free shipping. Both times I ended up leaving empty handed because I got to the checkout and one or more items didn't qualify for free shipping. I get that there will be exceptions, but they could sure work on telling me that before I get halfway through the checkout. In both cases I ended up back on amazon.

Your comment made me search for the nearest one. According to Google Maps, the nearest Whole Foods Market is over 10 hours away. I guess I'll shop Half Foods Market like I always do.

We do because it increases costs and complexity to have a cert per domain. On AWS, you only get 25 certs per load balancer. We'll do a cert per domain if they ask, but we have to pass on the cost.

As for a cold call list, I can already Google and find a list of sites we host. It isn't as easy, but we aren't hiding it.

When my son had just gotten to the point he could confidently walk, we watched as he went from the living room, around a corner, down the hall and around a corner into his room - backwards the whole way. He didn't turn his head or walk slow. We'd never seen him walk backwards before.

Visiting the place the runs the grid sounds much more fun than driving a Ram.

I like mine, but I only drive it when I have to. I don't understand people who commute in a pickup.

I think the difference is A/C is more of a modern comfort that allows us to live in hot places. People could live in cold places without any modern technology or utility service. Fire and a pile of wood was all it took. Both are essential in either extreme, but we've had one solved for much longer.

I guess I missed that. Yes, electric resistance heating is horrible on the wallet.

I have electric resistance as a backup to my heat pump, only because they wouldn't install it without it. It would cost so much to run I have the breakers turned off just so it can't be shocked by my bill.

> There is no real world scenario in a place that has a heating season where the cost to the consumer is better with electricity versus gas or oil. Electric costs about 4x for whole house heating...

I guess I live an unreal life. All of my heating and cooling is electric. My bills are lower than anyone I've compared with and in every case I'm heating and cooling more square feet. The magic? Ground source heat pump. Several people tried to talk me out of it and I'm glad I didn't listen.