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Another issue is that zwave isn't available in all countries (or it is but uses incompatible frequencies) so it's less useful outside the big markets.

I'll add pinchflat as an alternative with the same aim.

That's the point of this standard, at least in theory. Same with the older but still common ZigBee standard.

Perplexica is one example. I also seem to remember there is some way to integrate it with SearxNG which is a self hosted meta search engine.

I'm going to have to try the selfhosted variants now. What a huge piece of shit.

• FPTP voting system

• Voting isn't compulsory so a lot depends upon on riling up your base

• Voting is on a Tuesday instead of a weekend (or a public holiday)

• Political parties draw up the electoral boundaries instead of an independent body

• The absurdly long leadup to an election

• The amount of money thrown around

This exactly, as long as your phone has at least one frequency band of the provider, then it will at least connect to their network and allow you to access data.

In the implementation in Australia, you actually will lose data access too if you're blocked (wifi still works of course). That strikes me as kind of dumb, but I guess they don't want to give the impression that it's supported at all, since the whole thing is about emergency calling access.

It's not just the bands. You could have all of the needed bands and still be blocked (and you could me missing one and just get a warning).

You can trace it back as least as far as Barry Goldwater and the rise of right-wing "think-tanks" in the 1960s which came as a backlash to the civil rights movement and the perceived dominance of left-wing politics in government. Which led to Nixon's "Southern Strategy", right-wing talk radio, Fox News, and the ongoing brainwashing of much of rural America in particular.

I don't think Bush ever sunk to the depths of the Hitler-like rhetoric that Trump and his cronies have been using, however. Maybe the guardrails will hold if Trump wins again (or loses again) but this is not normal.

Non-voters are complicit in what is happening. Maybe saying they are as bad is a stretch, but they clearly either don't care or are ignorant about it.

that I put on a SD card for my phone

Pretty soon you won't be able to buy a phone without expandable storage. On the plus side, internal storage is going up, but it's still not big enough to hold a complete FLAC collection if it's a reasonably large library. You can re-encode your library just for phone usage, but that's a bit annoying to maintain.

Also, I've found all of the offline music players on Android kind of suck, and don't support the workflow I like or have bugs.