Wait, I’ve seen this movie…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core

> The rules also ban the use of facial recognition equipment in public places such as hotel rooms, public bathrooms, public dressing rooms, and public toilets.

So the cameras are still allowed in hotel rooms, dressing rooms, and bathrooms? Just no privately operated facial recognition on them?

This is the alpha we’re all here for

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

YOU CAN JUST DO STUFF

You may want to keep an eye on uptime to be sure something isn’t hard power cycling the host, and dmesg to be sure the bitcoind process isn’t getting OOM killed.

I’ve had issues with the later on an RPI4. JSON-RPC calls from Fulcrum or Electrs syncs also seem to be able to use an unbounded amount of memory…

I think ungraceful stops of the bitcoind process at the right time can cause the chainstate DB to come unsynced from the blockchain DB in ways that require reindexing. The really bad throughput of the RPi4’s USB3 ports for block storage may exasperate this

The D2F ratio is key

I think counties have to provide at least one in person location, but Washington has been mailing every registered voter a ballot since 2018 AFAIK

It’s insane that in my 100% mail-in state, I can’t see an image of my scanned ballot with the associated vote metadata

I’m not disagreeing with this, and I’m not sure that there’s a way to unwind this reality without great pain, but…

Half of the market that sets an iPhone’s USD price today is driven by monetary expansion and resulting devaluation of the USD that has been required to maintain the US/China trade imbalance.