Because it worked with cable tv back in the day so it will work again if its allowed to. Stop giving companies your money as a general rule.

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FOSS implies it’s your hardware, therefore a subpoena would extract no information because there is no information outside of the users device.

No global recovery from 2008. A case could be made for no recovery from the .com bust but that’s a bit more nebulous. We have not returned to the 08 baseline.

I pick up muted so they have a null like they hit an old fax line

Think about the children <clutches pearls>. It will make it easier for police to access instead of <checks notes> doing actual police work and getting a warrant.

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Be a better person. Less ignorant, more useful.

Not a huge effect now with smart systems but if you leave solar panel disconnected from everything and out in the sun for weeks at a time you will damage the panel. Open circuit voltage is higher than operating voltage and higher voltage will break down insulation. PN depends on the insulating properties of a doped layer. If I remember correctly electron tunneling causes damage by making the band gap smaller

This can cause degradation of the PN junction on the panel shortening life. The plans I’ve seen all have a resistive heater some place to dump the excess when full. Smart equipment does help mitigate most issues like moving the resistance point on the panel for lower efficiency when signaled to do so but less is not the same as none.

It’s a grift. They came to steal VC money.

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