As a backup for the induction cooktop I have a propane camping stove and a full gas cylinder. Last power outage when I actually needed it was in 2021.

Benefits of induction greatly outweigh the minute possibility of the power going out.

Buy some non US-based cloud storage and copy all your sensitive data to it, and delete said data from personal devices before leaving the country, so you can safely allow customs access to devices if required.

Retrieve data from the cloud when you arrive in the destination country.

I use Arch btw

I drive a pickup (necessary for work) with a removable tow hitch. I take it off when I'm not towing for exactly this reason.

You're good people.

Big purchases must happen on big screen.

In Australia it's called Bin Juice

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

It's an energy saving device from 1993 which connects inline with the monitor's power cord, and also inline with the keyboard. It cuts power to the monitor when no keyboard activity is detected for 10-42min (Adjustable with DIP switches)

What a stupidly simple yet clever idea.

I have a phone running GrapheneOS. What would happen if I gave them my duress PIN at the US border when compelled to do so? If entered, the duress PIN will immediately wipe the phone.

a natural gas or LP stove will continue to function when the power is out

LP camp stoves work without power and are a good backup for an electric stove

sudo pacman -Syu

B e a n s 🐾

I found a cinder block on the sidewalk, and moved it to the road. Hid behind a tree and watched some poor guy in a van run over it, blowing a front tyre and doing some body damage. Thought it was funny at the time.

Teenage me was an asshole.

You just helped me decide what to have for dinner on this miserable cold wet day. source: Am South Australian

...I do now!

I've always found this fascinating about Canada and the US. Both legs are +/- 120V potential to ground, and 240V between them. Here in Australia, everything in my house is 230V between active(hot) and neutral, both for plug in appliances and hard wired stuff like my heat pump (We call it a reverse cycle air conditioner here). Almost every house I've ever lived in has had one.

My old resistive clothes dryer just plugged into a standard 10A outlet like everything else. My current heat pump dryer uses 1/5 the energy though and has already paid for the extra purchase cost over the past three years.

Please tell me this isn't what I think it is 👀

Captain America, the reference understood