You appear to be making a very prejudiced and quiet bigoted statement. And aer you a doctor in Parentchild relationships? Using your metric, unless you have that doctorate I must summarily reject your conclusion Just being a teacher is not enough, you are not qualif9ied - you only have an opinion that is not accurate - Your rules Tony Issac, not mine. Come back when you have the doctorate in psychiatry, otherwise you are not qualified. Your opinion means nothing - I follow your metrics.

I agree - however once again you make a bigoted post claiming that I am in that subset of parents. I was a coach of youth ice hockey, and I ran into parents who acted as you describe. But no one was rougher on my son than me. I set strong boundaries, enforced them, I had no part on the trendy parenting. He never had a discipline issue in school.

Perhaps I've seen that they do. So which one of is a liar, Tony Issac? You who say that Doctors never rubber stamp anything, or me, who has experience both in school and family matters, and say they sometimes do. I suppose as a teacher, you find my personal experience so repulsive so wrong, that you need to claim I am dissembling. So be it, and may none of your loved ones never have to go through what I have. May all of your teachers, psychiatrists and medical doctors be as perfect as you assume. Any further insults? I must say, your attitude is not dissimilar to many of my son's teachers.

I am "trained" in Electromagnetics. DC to daylight. Fully qualified. It is most interesting you believe that I am unqualified to make any judgement, other than in my field.

I work in an academic environment where I give counsel to doctors in many fields. They seem to have less disdain for it that you do. Although I've run into a few, like the Doctor of Engineering that tried to have me fired because I called him by his first name. Or the one I insulted by correcting an egregious mistake on his part to one of his students. It would have destroyed the student's work his grade, and cost possibly millions. Neither got far. Insecure people with degrees.

Smart people listen to what others have to say. I do. I've asked for and taken advice from the person cleaning the office, or more often from electricians. I gauge if the advice or statement has merit, and accept or deny it based on the merit, not the person's education level. I don't have a doctorates in anything, yet I'm considered a resource among many who do. As expensive as my burn rate was, I was in high demand for different groups, many of which had little to do with my field. For crying out loud, I was a process chemist for a year. So far from my field it was ridiculous. But I did well, filling in and learning until they hired a new chemist. I got the work because I had developed a unique photo exposure and processing method for metallurgy, I supposed.

Now on to these medical experts. I've had 3 relatives killed by doctors. Bad professional Medical Doctor prescription work damn near killed my wife. My mother in law had a TIA, was in the hospital in the ER. She said they had given her a diuretic and she was peeing a lot.

Wife and I were talking to the ER doctor, a nice lady, who told us they were concerned about MIL's strange low potassium levels. I noted that they had given her a diuretic was urinating a lot, which probably caused the low potassium. The ER doctor went wide eyed and blushed. "Oh - yes, that's what caused the low potassium. Thank you!" Stopped the Diuretic, and the potassium levels returned to normal fairly quickly. I am presumably not allowed to note that - except I will, and I am. One does not need a Doctorate to know that potassium levels can get unbalanced when taking a strong diuretic.

The only place where the degree makes a person "correct" is a courtroom, and everyone has their doctors with different opinions. Which one is correct?t. People who are not doctors are on the Jury, casting judgement. You see my friend, that doctorate (in any field) does not make a person an ubermenchen. The only people who have issues with my judgements and opinions are people who are insecure. the idea that I am someone whois versed in many fields, and sorry, I've been around long enough to know that they are not infallible, and have seen their qualified "professional" mistakes often enough that if they don't want to hear my thoughts - they won't be my doctor. They are not in any way superior. And the smart ones listen. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right. But determining I am wrong because of my background - that's wrong.

Alexa and Google are always hooked into Google's stuff, whether there's some at least partial local control still available in an outage or not.

I'd say local-first is *fairly* unique. Yes Homekit/Matter devices *can* be controlled locally in a peer-to-peer manner right from handsets, but Thread radios are fairly rare and I don't know if any non-apple handsets support directly talking to those devices without an intermediary.

If you don't have Apple devices, then HomeKit is a mixed bag, as sometimes the onboarding is only possible with an iPhone.

Now when you want to take it to be internet accessible, Home Assistant is a pretty rare software for easily supporting that *without* going through any cloud provider (get a dynamic dns and let's encrypt going, and Home Assistant plugins exist to automate that including renewal for those that don't want to understand how to do that themselves.

Now who is doing something "tech bro" that "isn't suitable for regular users"?

If the vendor's device doesn't support standards based management then I will just ignore them if at all possible. HomeAssistant can update firmware in any of my devices in my house.

The devices don't have a gateway set so they can't 'phone home' anywhere and if that's a deal breaker for them then it's a deal breaker for me.

I do know that there are devices consistent with 'off-cloud' usage, whether Home Assistant is at all responsible I don't know and don't really care.

To address the 'not for regular folks', they made a 'home assistant green' which is fairly decent at being an accessible, self-maintaining package. One of my relatives had a Nest thermostat that Google made stop working, and so I gave them an alternative together with Home Assistant green and they've been pretty happy.

"Only for tech bros" would be nothing but APIs and you have to assemble something yourself. Home Assistant has some tech-bro friendly deployment options, but does offer something akin to the typical cloud connected consumer electronic fare.

The devices generally do not connect to Home Assistant as a server, the Home Assistant connects to them as a client. The devices are generally oblivious about Home Assistant and it's nature.

I have z-wave thermostats. They have no idea what internet even is. They presumed they would be sold into some partner's hub ecosystem, but as a consequence Home Assistant can talk to it direct.

I attached an open firmware based controller to my garage door opener. The garage door opener doesn't know what networking is, and even the open source controller is oblivious to home assistant, just providing a general, locally accessible HTTP api. Home assistant connects to it.

If you are careful, you can generally find networkable components that do not expect to connect to any server, but can be connected to. Matter over Thread is *generally* a safe bet the device in question is friendly to local usage.

However, a lot of devices have firmware hard coded to connect only to their suppliers internet presence. Without an account you can't control them. Sometimes they start charging a subscription. Sometimes they discontinue allowing a device to connect and operate, suggesting you buy the new model after a couple of years. Meanwhile their 'cloud' doesn't add anything that you couldn't have added yourself. Get a free domain and a let's encrypt certificate and you can connect to your house from anywhere, if you want. Or keep it closed off to anything outside your house. Or 'shadow' select stuff into remote access while keeping some things local.

Do you believe that grade school teachers are qualified? I was very clear about grade school teachers diagnosing entire population of male students as suffering from ADHD. Interestingly all males, no females.

The parents took them to a doctor and he or she rubber stamped the diagnosis. What are your bona fides to say that you are qualified to dismiss my experience. I'm diagnosing nothing except that my son did not have ADHD, when the administrators threatened me with liability because my son was a big strong lad - that didn't seem like an indication, and I told them so Pissed them off royally . Did some of his male classmates have ADHD? Considering the number, a good chance. All of them? Nope.

I don't disagree with what you wrote - but it doesn't answer the question I posed. Adult children didn't bring their parents along to job interviews or work in the past. I'm referring to say, before 20 years ago. In the academic environment I was in - I still am, but not much academic work around students - in the early 2000's, during orientation, we ended up separating the parents from their children, to tell the parents that they needed to allow their children to grow up. We had some"humorous" examples of student's calling their parents to have a professor or instructor fired because they were "mean to them". And no, we were not going to fire our professors unless they did something criminal. And told to not go to their children's job interviews, or overly interfere.

And it was semi successful. You could tell which parents ignored the advice. We had some millenials who had a stress tolerance of zero.

One of our hires was a guy who freaked out every time I spoke to him. "Good morning" delivered as chirpy as I could, was enough to trigger a minor panic attack. I had to assign one of the women to give him his work, and I avoided him until he washed out.

He was an extreme example, but except for two women who were some of the best employees I ever worked with, these kids were simply not ready to adult. So it was about bit less than 10 percent success rate in my department. And before that people didn't stress out of the job.

Which am I Tony? Unless you are an expert with bona fides in Psychiatry and psychiatric drugs, You aren't qualified to have an opinion either.

If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.

This! So much this. What was used as a flex in the education is a terrible liability when they are expected to adult.

If you are incapable of handling anxiety and stress, your employment opportunities shrink dramatically. And even if you do get hired in some of these jobs, you will wash out pronto,

Bastards won't let me bring my emotional support stripper into the classroom. Tatianna relieves all of my stress.

Exactly. After getting through the teen years - which has anxiety, then college - which has a lot of anxiety, they will enter the workforce - and find out just how much anxiety there can be. You might get extra time on a test because of anxiety, but that isn't going to fly when you miss hard deadlines.

I think there has to be some sort of talk therapy for kids to be able to handle anxiety. If you feel anxious, explore that with a therapist. It is not going away, and you cannot be shielded from it forever. Children need to understand that, and that a certain amount of resilience is needed to become a full fledged adult.

I'm dealing with that right now. I was called back from retirement to work at a job that all the new hires were failing. A lot of responsibility, and some stressful moments. They stressed out, and either became belligerent or so anxious they stopped functioning. Granted, not everyone wants to be in that sort of work, but the rewards are also great. Stressful, anxious moments? Sure. A countdown to a Rocket launch invokes some anxiety. I feel concerns until my project is finished. Just natural. When the day is done, I'm happy about it.

But calling back the old dude because the young people can't handle it tells us a lot, and it isn't good.

AC can also be for responding to a post in a topic you have already moderated in. I always note that I'm posting AC to avoid mod point destruction.

Seriously though - unless I have mod points and read at -1, I just set the message level at 1, and hide any posts lower than that. And I mostly ignore any replies by AC's. If you want no posts on anything you disagree with, there are much, much better places for you to post from than Slashdot.

Why would you demand that those people should be silenced? Slashdot's mod system is not perfect, but it is better than most. They can spout whatever nonsense they want, you don't have to see any of their posts, or even know they posted something. It's like you can personally shadow ban them, and see less things that upset you.