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Verizon 5G, $35/month for the 300 mbps / 20 up plan (my needs are not huge, this does the TV streaming and the zoom meetings just fine).

Somerville MA. Was previously paying 3x that for crappy Astound service at half the speed.

Egads. A Christian homeschooling site though? Be very wary of any “history” or “science” you might encounter there. Ask for evidence.

Yeah, it’s a little like people who went to Harvard–you find this out within 2 minutes of conversing with them. I do a lot of local history stuff in this area, and…yeah. There’s a lot of them.

I was amused to watch a film recently called The Last of the Winthrops. So some lines peter out eventually…

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Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum*

*yes, I know: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5937294/trivia/

This point struck me too:

Reddit is under no obligation to make its API free. But, it seems, the company has overreached in enforcing the new policy. If its target is the largest AI firms, then it should focus on curbing their parasitic proclivities and not going after beloved and useful software its users and moderators depend on.

This is my feeling. I understand that it could cost something. But the eye-watering rates for the small fish and the speed of the extortion is the issue.

They should have been leaving earlier, the outcome was clear by last year. But when I saw recently that Block Party was going away, I knew that it was going to become hellish and untenable.

Let’s make them welcome here…

Yah, Leaf 2016 model. I got ticketed by the city for parking the wrong direction. I tried to explain to them that they chose to site the charger in a way that caused this problem, but they said they didn’t care and don’t do it…

LOL, same here. Most of the time I knew, but in a rental car or something, I could never remember…

My charging port is in the front center now–and this is causing me problems with some street chargers because I can’t get the cable far enough over. There’s no arrow for that…

I’m wondering if a Co-op model would work for some of these alternatives. Then they would be less reliant on a single owner/developer system, there would be additional support for some of the businessy components, and there would be a built-in groups structure for resolution of issues.

I’ve been watching the formation of a co-op Etsy alternative, and I’m very interested to see how that goes. I think it’s fine to complain about corporatization, but I think it’s also crucial to build and support other models at the same time.

https://artisans.coop/

I am not a member of this Artisan’s Coop, but am considering it.