You'd think my pulse-ox reading would be higher because of that but sadly not.

Steven Levy's "Hackers" was fascinating. As a matter of interest, I once stumbled upon a phone system test suite. I had a desk phone that had this fancy contact manager in it and a clock. One day I was trying to set the time on the clock and the number sequence triggered this test suite. It had functions for testing payphones e.g. the coin return. That would have been endless fun.

Maybe they're only closing the holes because they are no longer useful and the feds have something better.

I've looked at these. They only work for pulse dosing not for continuous flow and the one that can do continuous flow only goes up to 5 LPM. When they can do 10 LPM continuous and run for 18 hours, I'd be interested.

Yep, I see all the warnings and I wonder why you can't have a fire in the fireplace. We took the hose off dad to blow out the candles on by 97th birthday cake.
But it's astounding that people would be on oxygen and STILL BE SMOKING! WTF?

Except that he's in a zero-turn scooter.

So many people were up in arms about the repeal of net neutrality but I'll bet nobody noticed any degradation in their data speeds.

Given my current status as a primary caregiver for a parent who's on oxygen, I would pay money for an oxygen concentrator that would follow him around the house so I don't have to wrangle the hose all the time. That said, the power requirements are brutal. The machine draws a constant 450 watts.

The lack of interoperability and buggy firmware will bork any AI's attempt to get everything to work together.

It won't be long before you won't own any software and it will only live in the cloud running on a damn browser and you'll rent it every month. Not on demand but every single month. BTW, if you think the Windows UX is garbage, try doing anything in a browser-based user-interface.

Microsoft insists on taking over your machine to apply updates and advertise crapware much to the annoyance of people who need to get things done. Adding AI to this mix will only make the UX more irritating.

I'm shocked! SHOCKED I TELL YOU at the prospect of an engineer running a company that makes product the requires engineering to create.
You need only look at a particular interview with Steve Jobs to understand this. He said that at one point Apple hired a bunch of MBAs to run things and it didn't work at all because they didn't know how to do anything. This also speaks to the reality that once a company loses sight of what made them a great company in the first place, they're effed. Churning out the same thing year after year isn't what makes a company great. That's why Hollywood studios get into trouble. Taking risks is part of what makes great companies great. MBAs don't understand taking risks. They want to minimize risk.