A 555 can keep time for the 1 minute needed before a fridge beeps that it has been left open. It’s not an alarm clock. It doesn’t matter if it is off by a few seconds.

Credit card info has been stolen en mass many many times over the past 40 years that I’ve been online. In the 1980’s I could download lists of credit cards off of BBS’s.

A microcontroller is overkill. A 555 chip will do it.

A 555 is $0.05

More reliable and the poster is wrong, it is cheaper.

A timer circuit is cheaper than a microcontroller.

I did that and it works well. The only problem is that when the battery goes to 0 on a long outage, the UPS can’t recharge it. I had to pull the battery, charge it with a lifepo4 charger, then reinstall.

Short outages are fine.

If you are using a buck converter you might as well use a ups. They’re both going to be ~ 95%.

Nope. This came up a few weeks ago and I checked it very carefully before posting because I thought it was true and was trying to post a map of the border including the airports.

Border patrol can only work near airports.

The 100 mile range near any airport is a myth.

The article isn’t about ice. It specifically says airports

“Border Agents”

You pulling a gun out at an airport is suicide.

We have clay tablets that are 3,000 years old and still readable. Those qr codes aren’t etched deep in granite but some will survive through luck.

The best part was their final was a power point presentation.

So would cows/bulls.

Gorillas are herbavores. So they are like a monkey-cow.

significantly impact their popularity and thus their income,

The person referenced successful bands that don’t need more money. That’s really no different than saying, “You can’t expect billionaires to stop being evil when it would significantly impact their income.”

essentially nothing happens to the company they’re leaving from.

The network effect works both ways. See Myspace and Friendster.

They’ll do that whether you have an account or not.

The title doesn’t do it justice. This is using an obscure feature of the jpg format to make a jpg animated!

Amaze! Amaze!