The internet is full of forums. These forums have instructions on how to repair old cars, rebuild a radio, repair your HVAC, whatever. Many of the instructions were written by people who are now dead and illustrated with photos that were on public image hosts.

When Photobucket collapsed hundreds of thousands of man-hours evaporated.All those tutorials became useless.

The web routed around that and rebuilt some of that information, and new information, using Imgur.

It's about to disappear in the same way.

The internet proper may not notice much, it's true... the ancient world didn't notice that much when the Library of Alexandria burned either. And yeah, a lot of the stuff in the Library of Alexandria wasn't all that important at the time, or maybe ever. But once it's gone it's gone.

At least with these image hosts the Internet Archive tends to rush in and try to preserve as much of that history as it can. Ok, fine.

What happens when Google pulls the plug on Youtube? The *last two decades will disappear* with respect to cultural history. TikToks and snapchat already do.

We are heading into a corporately induced Dark Age, living in a time that will not be part of any consistent historical record.

That's a big deal. It's a big "part of the internet" on a historical scale.

"The Veldt," Ray Bradbury, 1950. A family lives in an automated home with a room called "The Nursery," which simulates various experiences based on the preferences of the children.

AFAIK this is the invention both of the holodeck and of the "the simulation can kill you" trope in a computer/automation context. Others may have been before him but there's a sense in which "computer simulation" isn't a concept that makes any sense much earlier.

I'm certain I've read stories from earlier where events in a dream or vision had real-world consequences. Basically the "it was all a dream... or was it?" thing.

It was just a little too dry.

An efuse can sometimes be cleared by drilling a hole through the chip casing and exposing it to uv. Needless to say, this isn't something a home user can do. It takes a chip analysis lab.

Any competent effuse based system blows the fuse inside a critical chip, rather than in a separate authentication chip, so no. You probably can't just short out a couple of pins.

Well, let's see. 2.4 GHz would be the 40 millionth harmonic of 60Hz. Not too much energy up there.

The reason your television doesn't work well when your vacuum is on is that the vacuum motor's load seriously disrupts the AC power circuit in your house. The television's power supply is designed to turn fairly clean 60Hz power into DC at a couple of voltages. If you get crazy transients going from a heavy load, you're going to have ripple in your television's circuits.

If your television doesn't work when your next house neighbor uses his vacuum cleaner something is *seriously* wrong. The OP is talking about trouble that affects several houses, so it has to be something that originates in these microwave bands.