The Gerrymandering has effectively been shut down by Prop 50 being so popular in CA. Indiana isn’t moving on theirs, Missouri looks like it’s going to be shutdown, Ohio can’t move…etc…etc. These corrupt morons have only JUST learned what gerrymandering will actually do in their states, and they have no path to making any of this work anywhere but TX it seems, and CA has neutered that bullshit.

You are absolutely insane:

• Trump is underwater on every single issue
• Support in his minority voting blocks that were the reason for 1% win have abandoned him
• This Gerrymandering blshit is being put to a stop
• Iowa, Virginia, and Nebraska are on track to flip
• Dems have more popular polling candidates writ large in the midterms
• The farming bloc just had a SEISMIC shift away from the GOP and will be endorsing any challengers

Where the hell are you seeing the GOP winning anything? Even their own party is saying it’s going to be an absolute wipeout.

You probably need to spend sometime out the. Ubble you’re living in. Most other places are fighting back.

Any tiny mini PC or RPi will work for the most part unless you plan on hosting media or doing LLM integration. Just make sure it has all the comms and ports you want before ordering one. Minisforum Refurb store has great prices on small devices that beat the price of an RPi kit in most cases and come with a warranty as if new.

I used to run everything on Zigbee because ZWave had one too many vulnerability issues at the time. I think both are being overtaken by Matter devices, so I’ve been adopting those more and more. Set up a dedicated WiFi network for those that doesn’t have direct route to the internet, and you’re all set.

As for sensors, just stick to known brands that don’t require a cloud account or gateway. Moe’s, Aqara, and Sonoff are all fairly well known to “just work” in this regard.

“Chances”? It’s a fucking wipeout by the Democrats by any stretch of polling whatsoever unless they try and rig, which they are trying to do now.

Don’t even pretend like the GOP has a chance in hell.

Never heard of ya

Is this an ad?

Dafuq is this?

Literally no country has these laws of specificity that you describe in the way you’re describing them.

Nobody honestly thought there was a group of humans of completely bereft of morals and ethics as we’ve seen here though, so that’s everyone’s fault.

This. Also, the production of that garbage is also horrible for the environment.

I honestly think that’s what they are trying to setup. Full stop.

Stop buying beef for a few months. Shame them.

You seem to think the entire world is connected by fiber now. Not the case. 98% of long distance cable runs across the world are still air run copper. That won’t immediately impact high dollar facilities like datacenters or undersea cables that are interconnected, but everything else it will take a hit.

But that’s not really relevant to your comment. I’m specifically asking about your assertion that everyone “just let him walk in”, so what would you have done different about that?

The only thing that could take the entirety of the Internet for a bit of time is a massive EMF event that damages enough infrastructure to disable point-to-point communication between nodes. This means something like a Coronal Mass Ejection so large it cooks all satellites on its way in (on one side of orbit at least), then toasts a lot of other protected hardware on the ground.

The P2P nature of the internet would be hard to kill in totality with one event in any sense of the word. At the the very least, it would quick to get local infrastructure up within hours, assuming the entire DNS system isn’t destroyed.

They’d just buy pure gold tableware and steal it on the way out.

What would you have done different?

Refusing to adhere to the law and swear in Obama’s SCOTUS pick, don’t forget that.

TLDR: She didn’t actually say that.

Wherever you heard this from is a conspiracy theory laden wasteland of knowledge and information.

Well they killed off HA Core, so there’s that.

Make sure you keep regular backups, and move some off device. That’s about it.