If they don't do anything novel, then why would a mathematician use it for this type of paper in the first place? Hmm.

Not running windows.

I opened my browser 3 months ago.

There's probably some sort of a price break they're getting for listing it public. Typically dealership using forms of fraud though.

All these models have significant physical requirements and the likelihood they all have a physical resource that could be impacted by the same event is definitely non-zero.

The issue should be tracked down to determine if they all had some similar resource contention issue.

Purchasing an American car is absolutely the stupidest thing anyone can do today when buying a vehicle.

But the forced obsolescence caused by systemd is fine.

If the guardrails are so ineffectual to prevent the thing from happening, then they're not guardrails, they're guidelines.

So you used a version that didn't suffer from the issues while a substantial amount of their user base were affected and therefor all is right in the world?

Useless. You. And Sonos.

Customer centric? What's more customer centric than disabling speakers people bought in the past?

Never Sonos.

The system was designed to withstand morons and self-serving grifters.

No it wasn't. The system has glaring flaws in that it requires all members to act in good faith. Soon as they dont, there are zero guardrails.

You realize they'll get your birthdate within a day or two as you transition into a new group. Maybe on a service or two it takes a couple of weeks to update, but it's still close enough.

Once a feature becomes available to you at an age change you're going to want to transition to that group as soon as possible.

Who the fuck doesn't do it West to East.

SMHEO

Decades of appealing to the independents is what got us into this mess, they threw away their base.

Let's use LPR for their purpose; reading and validating license plates. Strip the devices down to the minimum required and load lists of license plates to them. They can trigger in those and generate events. They can also be audited to make sure the plates listed are official stolen/bolo, etc, as required.

That's it. That's all they do. Leave the spy craft to spies.