Nah, I bet that giant alien ship disguised as a comet got to it first.

Interesting. Apparently the space network has an antenna located in a football field but strangely enough, they don't specify which one:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

I can only speak from my viewpoint in Eugene, Oregon area, but two of the three you name are each the third most expensive in their respective areas.

Half the stores in the area were closed in the Kroger/Albersons/Safeway merger. There is now no competition between them in any neighborhood. You get one or the other.

ATT owns all communication infrastructure in Oregon (going back to the Ma Bell break-up and the acquisition of some Internet backbone), they license to Verizon, who sell licenses to anyone else. T-Mobile has a nice pre-pay plan, but their regular service wasn't cheaper, you just got a better free phone.

There is one tower where I live, it belongs to Verizon. There is one cable company (under many names, but all are equal to Comcast, who leases hanging wire space from ATT, or WiFi/Satellite from Verizon) and it's not cheap.

And before someone tries to blame the big corps here, Oregon as a State issues all these exclusive licenses, and is 95 percent Democrat and has been since 1982.

Mergers are never for the consumer.

Unless they own stock.

That wasn't a really feasible solution in this case since the camera was already mounted and I would have needed a boom lift to reach it, in general I lost two workdays on that junk.

Sorry, the only thing I ended up with all the time was that it needed to download the support package for the camera over the internet, didn't matter what I did.

And having to use an app is also a bonehead solution, all that shall be needed is a web browser on a local net to configure what's needed.

There are TVs with DisplayPort connectors, but they are expensive and sold more as presentation screens for computers.

Please can't someone kill HDMI, it's just causing headaches with no benefits when we have the DisplayPort now.

I needed to have an internet connection for the camera to be installed, something that wasn't easy at the location it was needed.

So Ubiquiti is a no go for me after that.

Sure. But the suggestion here is that they were specifically inviting it, ostensibly because it would harm competitors.

They are not going to support the idea that "glyphosate causes cancer" for some short-term market advantage.

I have been working with Ubiquiti equipment and it needs cloud connection to be set up, and it's in general not the best equipment if you mix it with other equipment or even in some cases build a too complex network with their equipment.

Combine them with iSpy and you'll have a good solution.

This one magnitude 7.6 ; 2011 was a 9.2, 9.1 thereabouts (I can't be bothered looking it up).

That's 2.5 or so orders of magnitude lower which, for earthquakes is a 10^(1.5*diff.magnitude) factor of difference in energy release. Which, for those who can't do mental maths (see "dollar store" rant) is 10^-(3.6 to 3.7) or between 4 and 6 THOUSAND times less energy release.

You didn't need to wake up fully. I saw the alert on my phone, did the maths, and went back to sleep.

Since "deeply discounted" does not necessarily mean a price tag of 1.00 pound-dollar-euro (or 2000 TzSh or 10000 Won) and such stores routinely post non-simple prices (integers, half integers, etc), there is a sub-story here : an appalling (or hilarious) proportion of people who cannot do simple mental arithmetic like adding up the purchases in their basket as they go round the shop.

I should be appalled, but seeing the number of morons on X or YT (and to a lesser extent here ; lesser, but not zero) who think that posting their prompt to Chat.GPClaude.Grok and the AI's response, I'm not even surprised. And they do it for what are simple matters of arithmetic, or recall of uncontentious science which is at most a Wiki search away using the keywords in their Chat.Prompt. And they seem to think that theirs is a useful contribution to the discussion.

[shakes_head.EMOJI]

People - they're skills you worked to gain (and paid, in cash, hours, or tax) ; and you need to exercise them, regularly, or you will lose them. And if you lose them, you will be fucked over - be it by a street grifter, the clerk at the grocery store, or your elected representatives.

Kids today! Gerrorf moi lawrnn!

I realise that I'm talking from a UK perspective not the US, but here, if a store sells it to the general public, the store is primarily liable for it. If it's not fit for sale, the holding company is liable for both the value of the goods and consequential losses. So if that one pound-dollar-euro power lead burns down the house, killing one and putting a couple of other people into long therm 24-7 nursing care, the store (chain) is liable for the quarter million pound-dollar-euro house plus maybe 20 or 30 million to go into trust to pay for care for the injured for the rest of their lives.

Plus punitive "don't do it again" damages on top, to the judge's satisfaction.

I know it's not America - land of the chlorinated chicken as an alternative to farm-to-table food hygiene standards - but that's why I'm rather less concerned about buying such things here.

I still look carefully at purchases, but the situation is somewhat different here.

(I also noticed, on second reading, that the link is to the Grauniad-dot-com not -dot-co-dot-uk, which did puzzle me for a few seconds - what are the Manchester Grauniad doing writing about "dollar" stores rather than "PoundLand" and the like. Who also have plenty of products which are not GBP 1.00 either, just heavily discounted. Those claims of false implied advertising sailed back out of the doors of court decades ago, when a pint still was a pound in any pub on the high street.)