That makes a good deal of sense. Is this ac past or future thing? I.e. is the half ton of filament any good?

2nd? Amateur!

Your UID is low enough to understand that you can post things without putting a return address on the envelope, even if we weren't talking about publishing open letters, or the concept of email.

False. Matter is internet agnostic. The ability to connect to the internet is not a requirement to connect to the internet.

Regular users can do whatever instructions they want to follow. For many that will whatever cloud instructions they are given. That doesn't mean that is a requirement, and the inability for complex high tech solution to cater for the ignorant doesn't mean that something doesn't work.

You're conflating two very different concepts. Matter very much is the solution you are looking for, even if a Matter enabled device still comes with an instruction book asking you to download the vendor's cloud app.

The cloud is the trap that you, and I, and the tech gurus on Slashdot forced upon the world by constantly promoting the idea of NAT and breaking end-to-end connectivity principles of the internet.

Cloud provisioning is a minimum requirement for any smart device precisely because we have made it either too hard or impossible for any non-tech person to provision their hardware themselves. Congrats, you're never going to have an automated home with your requirements.

The hub is by definition local. Or am I misunderstanding what you are talking about.

Not really. For the most part vendors only lock down their own app. In the back end many are quite open to interactions with most of the large players offering bridges to local control or integration into Home Assistant via various open protocols. Under the hood and behind the shitty app, many devices are actually quite open.

Yes that is hard to figure out. Yet they do it literally all the time. From the very start of the war Russia was lobbing cluster bombs into random suburbs.

The only fact is you presented a truly disgusting false-equivalence.

Depends. Was the Holocaust the result of that specific party doing specific war related activities? No. you're equating two very different things. The Holocaust had nothing to do with the war - the Jews didn't attack, nor were they a party to the war. They were a completely unprovoked 3rd party wiped out at the behest of someone cleansing the world. There was no propaganda angle, no strategic angle, nothing at all related to the war itself.

On the flip side bombing things, especially infrastructure has everything to do with war.

Honestly your false equivalence here is more disgusting than it is ignorant.

hahahah LOL WUT? Chernobyl is up near Kyiv. It was in the path of an initial onslaught that tried to move towards the capital and was basically instantly repelled back across the Belarus border. Not only was that region liberated by the Ukraine within days, the Russians completely abandoned all war activities up there within the month and there hasn't been any fighting or contention of land there since.

The only thing happening anywhere near there is drone strikes and the occasional bombing.

Depends on the meeting. A great many of my meetings over a couple of people are those with information dumps. It may only be 3 or 4 who speak and discuss, but a great many more may need information.

Mind you I work in an industry where multi-disciplinary meetings are essential. Add in if you work with a contractor and you get meetings which require a minimum of 8 people, or you have 1 meeting and then 4 follow ups just so people can forward information which isn't effective either.

The post failed to mention something that isn't true?
The Czech Republic has a relatively centralist coalition led by the Petr Fiala cabinet - which is just right of centre.
Poland is led by the Civic Coalition, a solidly centralist party with a coalition of slightly left and slightly right of centre parties with virtually no extreme views in any direction. They are probably the most centralist government in Europe right now.
Slovakia is run by DSD, a party which split off from the Democratic Left because the Democratic Left weren't left wing enough for them.

Germany (center right) was also a major player in the push for extending the engine ban out by a decade.

Only three of the countries listed are by any slur-defition "right wing", and that's the usual EU shit-stirrers of Hungary, Bulgaria, and recently Italy.

Please correct your ignorance.

Incorrect.

That's because everyone else is making it from Chinese tech. CATL produce more batteries than the entire rest of the (non-Chinese) industry combined. BYD is about half the size of CATL and still the second largest in the world. Both of them are on the cutting edge of tech to the point where even companies that produce their own battery tech often buy from these majors for certain stuff.

There's a reason Tesla despite all of its Gigafactories and ties with Panasonic both license a shitton of tech from CATL as well as outright buy their batteries. - The same is in the rest of the industry. LFP and NMC tech is absolutely dominated by the Chinese which are years ahead of the game. Most other battery manufacturers are either playing catchup while relying on NCA or are attempting to leapfrog them by focusing on development on solid state batteries.