Yes, yes, they 'sold' it to you and you did pay real money for it, but don't confuse that with you 'owning' anything.

Think of it as the way you 'own' the faucet in your home. You do own the faucet but you don't own the water, even if you pay for every drop you use.

Alexa, Nest, Homepod, etc.... all these devices are basically empty boxes with an internet connection. What you 'own' is whatever they decide to provide and nothing else. (Although they might make decent paperweights.)

It's already out of stock

Also, for about 1 year out of the 4 years of manual drafting I took in school, the exercises were mainly in decimal feet, so we measured tenths instead of inches. The rest it was all decimal inches and thousandths (thou) because we were drawing smaller things.

America is a strange land with strange customs. (an entire customary system!)

I was taught 1 ATM (bar) is 33 feet (of water). And 32 ft/sec^2 for gravity.

Stop complaining, you don't own the Alexa devices in your home anymore than you own the airplanes that fly over it.

You bought a device that you don't own and don't control and can't modify, and now you're complaining that you don't own it, don't control it, and you can't modify it.

Have you tried asking AI?

You can avoid most of the paint by just ignoring DST. Don't change you clocks. Helps if your work is flexible about hours, but you can always move some evening stuff to the morning and vise versa.

Try it, you will find that it's no real effort to remember everyone else's clocks are off by an hour.

Look at Nepal, in the UTC+05:45 timezone. They aren't even the only ones who like to break technology with their non-whole-hour timezone.

The world seems to be moving towards trying to simplify time a bit, e.g. by discontinuing leap seconds. Personally I'd start a project to build a booster large enough to correct the Earth's orbit of the sun to a nice round 256 days, but since there doesn't seem to be much support for that at least we can stop bothering with DST.

You make it sound like not having DST is terrible, but most of the world doesn't bother with it.

It's basically Europe, the US, and a few random others including half of Australia for some reason. Everyone else gets by just fine without DST, and much of the world gave it up when they stopped being colonies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Maybe it's time to think about the hours we do things in general. For example, in Japan most shops don't open until 10 or 11 AM, and stay open until 7-8 PM. That gives people the opportunity to visit them after work or school. Schools and employers set opening times based on local conditions, because there are vast differences between northern and southern climates. It turns out that everyone doing what makes sense for them works just fine.

With things line linear TV and radio becoming less relevant, times also matter less. It's a good thing, it gives us flexibility.

Just because everyone was operating on the assumption that high energy cosmic neutrinos exist doesn't mean that it isn't worth proving that beyond all doubt. It wouldn't be the first time if the results was unexpected, or if it turned out a whole load of accepted physics were based on a faulty assumption.