Technology
Resistance Dimmers
Believe it or not they had noisy, hot resistance dimmers back when I was in elementary school on the stage. They were original - from the 1930s, still in use 50 years later! They aren't that bad but at 50% dim of a 500 watt load they discard nearly 200 watts of heat per channel. At lower or brighter dimming they aren't nearly as inefficient. Very crude technology but reliable as witnessed by the fact they were still using 1930s technology in the 1990s.
NPR
The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack, said John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs. He said the criminals targeted a software supplier called Kaseya, using its network-management package as a conduit to spread the ransomware through cloud-service providers. Other researchers agreed with Hammond's assessment.
A decided to drop the hotspot and unlimited data for my phone
A decided to drop the hotspot and unlimited data for my phone … 🤳
Lately I’ve been spending too much time watching Youtube videos and playing on the Internet, when I should be spending more time reading and doing other activities. With the pandemic over, and myself returning to work more days a week, I really don’t need Internet at home and when I need Internet for work I can either go into the office or walk down to the library and use it there.
Truth be told it’s not a big savings — $6 a month now, maybe $11 a month should the teaser rate expire, which appears to be happening in next month, but that adds up over the course of a year — I’d rather invest the $132 and get closer to owning my own land then spend it on “convenient” home internet or video streaming. I am already cutting everything close to the bone, because my budget is always broken, and I actually prefer the walk down to the library or the park when I need the Internet for work or updating the blog.