I’d say my favorite venue is the gorge in Washington state (USA). The shows can vary, but the venue is amazing.

Mold and bacteria can grow in it within a day or two, even if it’s not visible. I hand wash mine once every week or two. I also sanitize it regularly by pouring boiling water in the tumbler (it’s metal) when I make tea, then leaving the hot water in for about 10 minutes.

Many ISPs run a Google cache server which caches a lot of Google-specific data local to your internet provider. This would mean that there’s a much shorter path between your home connection and the cached data, but non-cached data would be retrieved externally. I wouldn’t be surprised if popular YouTube videos are part of this. Here’s some more info: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en

This would be done either via a reverse proxy (for public access via a domain you own, ex: service1.reticulatedpasta.com), or via a local DNS server if only being accessed via LAN without a signed SSL cert. For a reverse proxy, I use caddy which also manages SSL certs.

I’m not sure about cert scans, but ShadowServer is what I use for automated scans. They’re free and the scans are thorough: https://www.shadowserver.org/what-we-do/network-reporting/

Yes, this is fully opt-in. You have to manually choose images and submit them if you’d like to use them as training data.

Have you tried Shin Gold? I recently discovered it and it’s my new favorite!

I can see several reasons why this may be done, and most depend on the retailer and product. The short version is that restocking fees make sense for large or valuable items, and for small businesses.

High-value items like electronics, jewelry, etc. are prone to theft and return fraud. For example: someone could buy a computer or jewelry, swap some parts, and return it with different parts that are worth much less. It takes time and resources to test the product to verify it’s the same as what was sold.

Large items like furniture are very expensive to ship and when one is puchased, the retailer would often restock the item which costs them money.

Small businesses are often charged higher fees by manufacturers and distributors for ordering or shipping products, as they generally don’t order in high amounts. This means that they will make less money if they sell an item for the same price as a large corporation. Small businesses also don’t have the same resources for testing returned products, so processing returns has a much larger impact on them vs large corporations. Because of this, it often makes sense to implement a restocking fee to make up for these costs.

Large corporations generally have a streamlined process for processing, testing, and shipping returned products. While some things are still expensive to process, it’s significantly less impactful for a large business to process a return. It still costs money to process a return, but in my opinion restocking fees can be greedy for larger corporations that can eat those costs.

I’ve found garlic can go a long way when you’re cooking without onion, though it definitely depends on the recipe.

Check out Trilium Next! It’s under more active development after development on the original project stopped.

Many smart TVs allow you to disagree to the privacy policy during setup, which allows you to use it as a “dumb TV” which doesn’t connect to WiFi or have other apps installed. I know Sony TVs do this and I’ve heard others do the same.

Governments aren’t fundamentally bad. Having a governing body along with laws and regulations is a good thing when done beneficently. For example, government is responsible for access to public education, libraries, banking, worker safety, and hospitals - all of which are objectively good things to have as a society. The problems usually occur when some individuals have more power/influence than others to choose what the government does, which is what’s happening in much of the world right now.