I have an old Google Pixel 2 which I regularly mount to my Yamaha motorcycle handlebars and I've never had a problem. Camera works fine! Use it with a PacTalk to bluetooth stream music or Google Assistant from the helmet. Would definitely choose an old or cheap phone with enough oomph to do maps and spotify over a mere GPS. Would not buy a $1000 iPhone anyway. $300 will get you a perfectly good last gen phone that will last several years. And if you break it, buy another and don't shed a tear.

China has deployed a one million volt DC electric grid transmission system which, is efficient at several thousand kilometers. They are deploying solar, wind, hydroelectric and nuclear as fast as they can. And not focusing on storage but instead a national transmission grid. Solar in the northwest where it's still light and transmitted to the south east where it's dark in summertime, especially for hvac cooling. Invert that for winter.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chin...

We could do the same thing. And in fact we desperately need to upgrade our electric grid anyway.

A wallet is nothing more than software and a unique crypto key. There's no way to verify identity of wallet holders unless the owner registers a wallet to an official exchange. The blockchain will record chains of transactions to keys, and regulators are welcome to trace those transaction records as much as they like. But it won't get them identity of key holders or the location of a transaction anywhere in the world. Which means, in what jurisdiction did that transaction take place?

Want cash for bitcoin but don't want regulators to know? Trade bitcoin for dirty cash from drug gangs. You get dirty cash and they get bitcoin. They use the bitcoin to buy large quantity drugs. You use the dirty cash to pay fake rent for an empty apartment to get it into the local banking system. This is at least one way bitcoin is used for money laundering. And it won't go away with a mere law. Because bitcoin (and most every crypto currency) is unregulatable at the protocol and intended to be that way.

Liberals play by the rules because to do otherwise is to reinforce the very lawlessness and kleptocracy they oppose. Gaming the system ultimately breaks the system.

Maybe all that bitcoin money laundering of stolen sovereign wealth from Chinese mega projects and then expatriated out to buy residential properties in coastal cities throughout the world might slow down. Go crash crash. Could be a bad time to buy a flat in Vancouver or Sydney right now.

What kind of animal lives in a herd?

The psychological preparation here is to accept random recommendations from pedantic ignoramuses who change their mind every other week, when science and statistics show the recommendations are typically more stupid and harmful than anything, but we are supposed not to notice, because we are a herd.

I suspect the next big power grab will use the term "drone".

Yeah. It would be much better for the government to charge him with multiple felonies and lock his ass up.

That's very nifty. Thanks for the link.

Pressure cuffs are typical for upper arm blood pressure monitors. How does that work in a watch?

No.

May I suggest Theodore Adorno? Hannah Arendt? Walter Benjamin? Siegfried Kracauer?

I know. I can _suggest_ it.

lol

Opinionated much?

Trump and his cronies incited an insurrection against the US Capital with MAGA kooks setting up a gallows outside while chanting, "Hang Mike Pence!" They brought in armed militia members, some of whom were seen holding rings of zip ties. Some were heard calling for Nanci Pelosi and saying they planned, "to put a bullet in her brain". All this to prevent a legal certification of the official electoral college vote.

That's not just opinion, it was broadcast live. Along with Parler and Facebook videos collected from the inside. They didn't disappear. Those records were saved via a data breach. And they ain't going away. Hundreds have already been charged in the attack. Some, already convicted.

If you were in any way involved, your time will come in due course. As former SDNY Prosecutor Glenn Kirchner says, "Justice will be served." Will a big fat F for Felony conviction.

You ever see a company where so many of the Sr Leadership leave en masse? Yeah, when they form a competitor. Regardless, expect more resignations. This ain't done. May the founders go bust and their investors lose a fortune. That'd be a lesson learned.
 

I switched FROM MacOS. Which I've been using since I switched from Linux to MacOS X in 2003. And yes, it's Affinity Photo. Typo.

Apparently 1/3 of the company, including those in Sr. Leadership positions disagree with your assessment.