Ban might be a bit much, but we’re using tariffs and taxes as a confrontational trade war measure. Might as well use them in return and funnel the proceeds into homegrown solutions that can compete legitimately.

I’ve seen dudes wrap their cars in this 😂

Same argument was had when IDEs became popularized. I remember writing Java in notepad for my Java 117 course forever ago because the professor was insistent that they were a crutch instead of a tool. (To clarify, I don’t suggest “vibe coding” is the way. At a certain point you have to take responsibility for the end product you’re producing and that includes reviewing as much code as necessary to ensure that the output is functional and quality. If I were to compare it, I’d compare it to a compiler. Another layer of abstraction. The C compilers for example used to take what is perfectly well written code and occasionally mangle the output into some unholy abomination of error ridden assembly output, until they were patched and all C standard features implemented ((which iirc some still aren’t, although that’s a bit pedantic)), but I’d bet only a slim fraction of coders review the output assembly of the C compiler nowadays, they’re basically foolproof, however a good coder should still be able to understand and review assembly because a situation may arise where it’s necessary. As for the analogy, LLM based coding tools are in that error ridden phase as well from what I can tell, so taking responsibility for the code they produce is more important now than ever.)

I’d definitely take grandma over this goof.

To be fair to bottles, they cité that even their hosting costs are usually barely covered, so I imagine it’s running on a pretty lean/Foss dev budget already.

Double yeah

Yeah…

It was just charging infrastructure and reasonable range designs that were needed all along?! Who could’ve seen that coming.

Actually. We’re starting a new tax just for solar and wind installations while boosting funding for petroleum and coal… 😩 I’m so fucking tired.

They’re different in their implementation. Zigbee automesh is more of a centralized router-hub model with self healing relying on routing tables. This caused significant issues for me. Thread is true automesh with all devices acting as a hub in a hub/spoke model, so there’s no centralized routing table to act as a single point of failure.

Unscheduled home upgrade time ;)

An important difference between thread and zigbee/wi-fi I’m not seeing mentioned is that all thread devices automesh in a hub/spoke model as long as they’re not battery powered. So your light bulbs, plugs, etc all become extenders and part of a self healing mesh network without a single point of failure. For me it works better than Zigbee for this reason.

Depression fest? Excuse me?..

Depends on the drive too, I have some insanely loud Ironwolf drives and you would never guess they’re from the same manufacturer as my practically silent Exos X18s.

What hurts most is watching them hurt themselves while pretending to come from the moral high ground. I’m not sure if it’s a CIA pysop or what, but something just happens in someone’s brain and it seems like they stop caring about reality as long as you give them somewhere to channel their hate. You did the right thing though. If we all stopped playing their bullshit game and refused to work with the people sabotaging the rest of us we’d have everything fixed in just a few years.

Looking at the network activity of a pixel device vs an iPhone at rest broke my soul.

Sometimes mercy is the heaviest of burdens. It’s the right thing to do, but fuck if it ain’t hard. My condolences for your little bud. May they live on in your memories.

I think of it as a lab because it’s my sandbox for me to do crazy server stuff at home that I’d never do on my production network at work, and I think that’s why the name stuck, because back when systems were expensive as heck it was pretty much just us sysadmin guys hauling home old gear to mess with.

I think that’s a European/Australian consumer protection thing, I can’t think of a manufacturer that allows it in the US.

It’s subtle, but it’s absolutely designed to induce feelings of negative emotions to evoke a click. If you’d like to look into this field of study, search up “shadow patterns” or " dark patterns" as that’s the modern design language meant for working with data on mass scale in order to drive engagement. (To the down voter, the fact you can’t see it is both sad and the point of the design. Unfortunate because it’s true. I’ve sat in these design meetings with software teams and marketing.)