Snapz

You seem in good spirits, so not assuming you are a troll, but you realize that the 10 minute estimate instantly doubles because that’s both on and off for each panel. And the people who estimate work at scale never actually do the work, so add at least 5 mins per panel and multiple that by thousands per stretch of track to be regularly maintained.

And all of this ignoring that you now have an order of magnitude more potential failure points for both the panels, the tracks and the trains riding them. All as you assume that every single bolt, bracket and gasket will be properly reinstalled while workers do this mind numbing, repetitive task for days and weeks on end.

As a fun side benefit, the trains of course cannot run during this constant maintenance period.

You know what really effectively ends the the most painful forms of cancer… Death.

Be careful blindly submitting to headlines or titles of papers. Some get tunnel vision on solving one problem, their problem, while ignoring other problems (not my problems) or creating new sub issues from their “solutions”. As others point out, significant problems do still exist here.

Also, you were maybe reading about solar roadways, which would be different than this implementation.

“In 1952, Greenspan met the right-wing novelist and social philosopher Ayn Rand, whose views were to have a profound influence on him.

She called him “the undertaker” because of his liking for dark, sombre suits.

But the young economist came to support her belief that society functions most efficiently when people actively pursue their own self-interests, to the exclusion of the interests of society as a whole.”

In clearest terms, I want to completely erase Google from my life first, among other wants. Not expecting you or others to flee with detailed solutions/recommendations, but just to illustrate. My priority is likely:

• Photos, all photos, app accessible locally for my family (and ideally remotely, eventually)

• Notes, no more keep, but the basic flow of that app works for me, so similar UX hopefully without overcomplicating.

• Music, local library accessible to stream throughout my home on capable devices and app accessible. Remotely accessible by app, if possible.

• TV / Movies, as above with music, but ability to control with harmony remote on a TV and not keyboard/mouse ideally (but I do have decent workarounds here currently)

• Optionally run all above through a self hosted, local voice assistant or mounted HW buttons.

• Corresponding hue light control for media events, presence detection (maybe motion detection by room) and sun schedule. All without data going back to any 3p servers.

Nice to haves:

• Calendar away from google, that allows simple external appointment scheduling, shared calendars and great colorful, visual organization of a coming week. Ideally a safe, private way for calendar to connect to and create events from emails.

• Email, my own data and ability to use aliases that route back to main with corresponding tags ideally

• Owning my online bookmarks, browser/device agnostic, with usable recall help, auto tags and read it later structure so saved articles don’t just fall into the abyss. IIRC there was something called something like “Shinobi” that felt exciting for this need?

A reply to all first and then will follow-up with individuals with any specific thanks/questions after work today:

Thank you all for a very generous response. I knew this was a tough ask from the start because, by design, this area is vast and constantly evolving. That said, I think I do have many of the pieces of what I need here to explore - I’m most grateful that this is all advice from humans, unfortunately more rare these days (If you aren’t a human though, please reply here with the word “beep” and I’ll disregard your past advice).

I’ll try to stitch this all into one set, maybe share back here for confirmation that I’m getting it and then try to start this weekend or next. I have my own completionist hangups that I need to get over and ultimately just try something to get my hands dirty. Thanks again, all.