Why isn’t step 1 disconnecting them from the electricity?

For many people, it wasn’t.

Bikeshedding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

People feel uncomfortable making big decisions, so spend longer on the trivial ones.

I have an exercise app that occasionally asks my overall mood, like “Have you recently felt overwhelmed?” Do you feel anxious a lot?"

I sent them feedback explaining that they never ask if there’s a good reason that I might be feeling down: I’ve variously had reason to think I might lose my job, nearly lost sight in one eye, nearly evacuated from wildfires, etc. Yes, I’ve felt “anxious a lot”!

Is that guy pointing impatiently at his wrist-sundial?

Aside from the Watch Duty app, which I think everyone knows about now, are you signed up with

https://emergency.lacity.gov/notifyla

I get text messages for alerts.

Although none of it helps of your phone is on do not disturb mode, except for the emergency alert system.

I could be done… https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23869462

I still have checkbooks with the 19__ prefix printed to make it easier to write the year!

You say potato, I say tomato.

A similar chart could be made for the US, proving that it does use metric: soda and wine bottles, medicine doses, eye-glasses measurements (in fact most medical things).

I think that both systems are used in schools now.

But then I see cooking instructions for a “cup of chicken strips” and a recipe having 1/4 cup of butter, and I wonder why anyone thought that volume was a good idea there.

• “Avocado?”
• “Don’t mind if I do!”

“Mee-out! Mee-out!”

There an app for that now.

At least, there is on the Flipper Zero.

A tone dialer. Like this

https://images.app.goo.gl/fbdmckv44BY7fdWw9

Not for phone phreaking, just for speed-dialling.

I would make international calls frequently. I would buy calling cards. The process was: dial the 800 number on the card. Enter the id number on the card to use some of its credit. Dial the number to call. Their service would then connect me at a low rate to another country(probably making a voip call).

So I’d set up the 3 speed dial buttons with those. For each new card I’d only have to change the card’s unique number.

You thinking of Apple headsets. These are budget things, maybe $300.

Well, I hope this thread has also put you off being a pedestrian.

I noticed! That’s why my reply became a semi-crazed random stream of consciousness.

Don’t try to bring food. I’ve seen people stopped for smuggling meat. You’re probably okay with packaged sweets or chocolate, but you should declare it.

Don’t be fooled into thinking you can get tea if you see it offered. It may be some strange flavour, or very weak, or iced, or all three. And it will be hard to explain that you want milk and sugar with it.

Biscuits are good enough, but chocolate is rough.

And, of course, a “biscuit” will mean a type of savory scone.

If your shop, at most stores they will pack shopping bags for you and are a little shocked and overly grateful if you do it yourself.

Be prepared to tip in many circumstances (but not, oddly enough, for having your groceries packed).

Be prepared to be asked about football, the Beatles, the Queen, maybe even the King.

Don’t be offended is someone attempts to do a British accent at you, it’s meant as a friendly greeting.

If driving:

Four-way stops are like roundabouts without the roundabout. But with stop signs.

Pedestrians are not expected to look out for traffic, but are not allowed to just cross anywhere. So it balances out.

Someone has stolen the clutch pedals from all the cars.

My pixel 7 has adaptive charging. If there’s an alarm set and I charge it at night, it paces the charging to be full near the time I’m getting up.

So it’s doing what it can to preserve battery health.

A few days ago I almost tried to pause my ebook reader before putting it down.