Maybe you just have to swap and be okay with less people around, just so you can get out of Microsoft’s grip in open source.

I think you hit the nail on the head here. It is almost always the case that you will trade adoption/utilization/community for a less-used solution. Using loops, pixelfed, mastodon or piefed/lemmy, element, linux, FOSS web apps instead of their more popular system, they all come with an unspoken agreement that you embrace a niche-existence.

Only you can really decide what’s more important to you.

I guess anything that happens while using a computer fits the community now?

Western governments don’t need that. They already have access to all you do on your device via backdoors and agreements with vendors and software providers. They could know absolutely everything about any “free citizen” they wanted.

What you’re describing is not an issue caused by corrosion on a wire. Corrosion won’t cause overdraw or shorting, so it wouldn’t cause your main breaker to flip.

It’s more likely that you either have a weakening breaker due to age tripping at a lower draw than it was originally rated for or you’re drawing more across the entire system than the main is rated for.

The electric co does not handle anything from the first breaker on and nothing on their end would trip your breaker(it would trip something of theirs upstream), usually so they are right that you should be talking to an electrician. That is something that your landlord should be on the hook for, barring any previous agreements.

If you want to see what your circuits are drawing, consider picking up a digital clamp meter, they will make it possible to see what each circuit, including the main are actually drawing.

“The people that seem to be most distressed by it were the people who had not gone looking for it,” Lloyd said.

Lloyd’s his birth name but he insists we call him Captain Obvious at the office.

The British have all the good luck.

If I’m reading DW correctly, the real switft OS has been around since 2011, which I don’t think predates HML but is still getting up there in age.

Thanks for your thoughts, tuckerm. I didn’t create it as an authority on the matter but rather as someone that has gotten very worried about how hard it is to get info that isn’t blended in a corporate blender.

My most recent example was realizing over 3/4 of my regular forums are owned by verticalscope. The sweeping changes across all the sites were rubbing me the wrong way. Trying to find active forums that hadn’t sold to them has proven next to impossible, however.

Which led to my curiosity; could we groupthink a useful database of sites and resources that hadn’t yet been absorbed by one of these conglomerates?

I’ve started work on a sister site that I hope to use to make keeping track of solutions easier if my attention span permits.

So it’s safe to carry on not using it?