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Comment Re:Companies will fight tooth and nail (Score 1) 106

So what do you do to avoid this?

Take apart the clicker and wire the button to your own solution. Or even just have a solenoid that pushes the button that is activated by your own solution. Or alternately, take apart the garage door opener and just bypass their electronics. Or just build your own from scratch. Garage door openers are not particularly sophisticated devices.

Comment Re:Sounds like enshitification (Score 1) 106

Agreed. This is all stuff that at MOST should be accessible over the LAN. The ESP32 is cheap and provides the WiFi and enough power to run a simple RESTful web app. If I actually need/want to access it remotely, it'll be through a well protected integrated web servie on a jump box.

A cheaper manufacturer could probably make the ESP32 do double duty as the primary micro-controller with a suitable interrupt routine.

Comment Re: It's a good thing they aren't all owned (Score 1) 71

In defense of plumbers, it does require an education and critical thinking skills to do the job effectively. There's a LOT going on in our pipes, from both a physics and engineering perspective. People working in the trades need to understand what they're doing or we'd all be in deep poo-poo

I agree with you in principle. Anecdotally... ehhh.

Comment Re:fuck this guy (Score 2) 38

There's far more information available now than there ever was.

You didn't have gopher?

The Internet was, and still is, more than http/https. But that's only for people who know their way around it. The rest of you are like the fat kid on a boy scout camp-out when the bear (Google) arrives. As long as you keep it fed, we'll be safe.

Comment Re: Did they see longitudinal waves? (Score 1) 10

I have replied to myself in the past to add to posts, but usually either because I hit the length limit for a post, so had to split it in two, or because I needed to correct an error. The asking a question then apparently trying to answer yourself thing that you seemed a bit different. I suppose I didn't really need to reply to it myself though.

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