For what it's worth.... I can't find the source, but I saw specifically that staff said that was not true.
Clusterfck
What about a WiFi connected smart outlet? It can be voice controlled or controlled from a phone or turned on at the outlet. You can set just a "run timer" (from the time I turn it on, run 2.5 hours) without it repeating.
AND if you need to make sure it's off at any point, just check your phone.
TP Link Kasa outlets can run for 23 hours and 59 minutes at a time.
Nothing says professional like a Gmail account.
Also, try harder to look legit next time. Your title says $280,000 and then in the post, you got back $65,000.
For anyone else seeing this post.... If you have to pay money to get your money back.... they're using the fact you were gullible enough to be scammed to scam you again.
Replying to this before OP asks.
Usenet is distributed across hundreds (thousands maybe?) of servers. It's centralized in that setting up your own server and getting the same access as joining an existing Usenet server is going to be very difficult (and with Usenet being used for privacy more and more, could be impossible due to admins not trusting a random new person), but in theory one could.
That's assuming IF there ever was a push to build things like this to help homeless they WOULDNT find a way to make it look as inhumane as possible.