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This reminds me of an old Andy Warhol quote that I can't find now, to the effect that if you find yourself in a truly lousy situation, just pretend that you are in a movie.

Is the modern version of that to think of the people around you as NPCs?

There is also the film Zardoz.

How is this (or not) a suitable thang for the homeless folks ?

> the work machine is the company's property and there shouldn't be any expectation of privacy.

A bogus argument, methinks. Consider that the company also owns the phones, but can or do they listen to every phone call ?


Or toilets.

If it's a work phone, yes they can.

Yes? And by law so can all US phone companies.


Pragmatism for the win.

Hypothesis: If you can assign different fingers to different accounts, you could use (for example) your middle finger to switch to a "panic account" whose automatic login procedure includes disabling Touch ID.

Or, to avoid arousing suspicion, link the most common "login finger" (pointer finger?) to the account that locks down, and use your middle finger for your normal account day in and day out.


Well, but if there's a chance of random attackers walking around your house then the autolocking kinda makes sense (assuming a realistic timeout on it).

Does it make sense to sell panels that plug only directly into the fusebox ? To avoid overloading in-wall wiring.

That's how traditional (not plug in) panels are connected. The problem is - you need to route a cable from window/balcony to the panel (which may be located outside an apartment in a hall) and if you want to hide the cable in walls it becomes expensive. With plugin you can use closest to the panel socket. En easier solution is a clamp power meter on a socket circuit connected to the inventor via z-ware / zigbee so the inverter can see total socket circuit load and limit own power as a protective measure (at which point a circuit breaker likely will be tripped).

> IEEE 1547, UL 1741

And the EU ?


These are not yet approved in Finland, one reason being that older houses might use thinner conductors to wall outlets that cannot handle higher wattages being fed from solar. Maybe fuses and circuit breakers can prevent problems, maybe not. I am not an electrician.

One fix might be a low ceiling on power output from solar units. Another fix might be to sell solar units that connect _only_ directly into a fusebox, completely bypassing in-wall wiring.

And then there is a question of island mode, so that when the power lines are down, and under repair, you don't accidentally electrocute a lineman.

OTOH maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about.


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