I use google voice for voicemail and have the voicemail from my cell carrier disabled.

For my GV setup, all callers except a few direct family and friends get bunted directly to voicemail without it ever ringing anyway. If anyone else wants to get in touch with me, they need to leave a message anyway. If the message doesn't say who they are and what they want, I'll just ignore it. If it does, then I can decide I'm not interested and still ignore it.

For some reason, so far, most don't want to leave me message and just hang up.

$50k for a new roof is not remotely comparable to the ~$7K it cost a few years ago for a traditional roof (paid for by insurance, due to hail damage)

Even if it could completely eliminate my electric bill (which is unlikely)(and which would require the additional $7k battery) that only saves me $100/mo - which means it would take be 47 years to pay this off, and even then only if the financing rate was 0% (also unlikely)

As wonderful as an idea as solar roof is, at the prices so far, its completely infeasible for anyone in the middle-class.

As was said elsewhere, a neat toy for the super rich. One can only hope that if lots of said super-rich install these, and want to sell excess power back to the utility, that it might actually drive electric costs down for everyone else. But that's unlikely too, since the power utilities will have to upgrade facilities for bi-directional power, and will want to recoup that cost, and still make money.

only one of those that is really important to me. I already have nothing to do with Amazon, and very little to do with MS or Apple. Facebook is convenient for keeping in touch with certain people, but I could live without it. Google(Alphabet) you'll have to pry from my cold dead hands.

Its far more convenient to look at news from multiple sources in one interface.

There are also a bunch of sites I see articles from via RSS, in Feedly, that I would never bother visiting individually.

Pai is fully bought and paid for by the entrenched incumbent telecom providers,and is going to do exactly what they tell him to do no matter what the facts are.

If you think these companies don't pay for their Internet connections, you are deluded.

don't publish it openly in the first place.

Are they in an open format that you get to keep a permanent copy of if you wish? Or, ff you decide not to keep them, can you sell them to someone else?

established textbook publishing monopolies that feel they are entitled to live richly off the backs of broke college students.

don't bring any devices with you, and if someone asks for your Facebook password reply with "Whats a face book?"

Its not really free, you're still paying for it - The cost is just built into the product prices.

I want to PAY the market cost, for MY CHOICE of shipping method and carrier.

And I want to be able to specify that choice, and verify the pricing, BEFORE I enter a credit card number or any other financial info, and even without having to "log in" first. And I definitely don't want my card number stored from one purchase to the next, partly because I use disposable numbers, but also because for EACH PURCHASE I want positive control over the transaction. Its the same reason I keep my wallet in my pocket until the cashier has rung up my total at a brick&mortar.

When Amazon offers that, then it will be news worth reading.

to get a PO box, and have all packages shipped to you there. Its 100% secure, nobody but you can get your package. And USPS shipping is usually less expensive than other options.

The only problems are:

- many companies have exclusive contracts with shipping carriers that cannot deliver to PO boxes, and
- many companies refuse to ship to PO boxes even if they do offer USPS shipping, possibly out of obsolete paranoia.

People actually being allowed to CHOOSE which companies are allowed to use their personal info.

Why is that a bad idea, again?

(Corporate entities that people widely choose to NOT trust with their data, especially ones that most people have no choice but to be customers of, if they want decent broadband Internet, need not answer)

No need to worry about it accidentally getting installed on any of my computers, which are all linux

is not "a pared-down version of the Linux operating system"

It is often USED as PART of a pared-down Linux install, but is not itself a version of Linux.

https://www.busybox.net/about....

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc.