I'm been rocking one of these for a couple of years, and it's been great. ESP-32 based, open source hardware and software. You can use the cloud, but you can also talk to it locally through REST. I use libcurl to do the latter. It'll also do MQTT.

You can go back to your spongebob. The the big people are talking about gas cars over here.

There is no income limit for the parents who claim these...

So? There is no income limit for opening a savings account, either.

...but there are restrictions on what it can be withdrawn for.

After age of 18, no there are not. It must be converted to an IRA, and then withdrawals can be made accordingly.

This is literally welfare for rich people.

No, this is literally a savings account.

Take your class warfare bullshit back to reddit.

Maybe it's because people already know or, at least, suspect NSA backdoors in Windows. The network gear is a moot point.

Nice

Hey, yo! Y'all heard about the Zune? I heard it's pretty dope, yo.

Are you sure it wasn't the North Carolina bankers?

Or, California wankers?

What sort of "Palantir-specific skills" do you think would not be applicable to another job?

Or, and just hear me out on this one. Companies could stop using deceptive and predatory tactics to make a buck?

Yes, I think we all agree the world would be a better place with more honesty. All of us, except for politicians and marketing execs.

The desire for a lower friction less of a pain in the ass economy. The desire not to waste all that effort and energy across the whole economy? A sense of fair dealing and basic honesty?

Wonderful. I share this desire, but I'm a realist. Caveat emptor rings just as true today, as it did when first coined.

A desire to keep Mr. Haney from Green Acres firmly in the realm of comedic satire?

I'll have to take your word on that one.

What about "customer's responsibility to do some due diligence and educate themselves about company's offerings" strikes you as third world bargain tactics?

Hacker's keyboard is great when I'm using apps like ConnectBot. But, when I want to send an email or text, the swipe in Gboard works for me every ducking Rome.

The moment self-driving cars are ready, Uber will get rid of all human drivers

And, why shouldn't they? Better for them, better for the passengers. Win-win.

I doubt you're completely correct, though. If there's a market for it, they'll just have a different tier of vehicle, driven by humans, for riders that want such a thing. "Uber-H", or something.

It may be a trite saying, but it's as true in education as it is in a gym. If you don't exercise your brain, it's not going to improve.

There's a reason weightlifters don't use a forklift or crane to pick up the barbells and do a dozen reps. The problem is not that the weights are in need of lifting. And that's the same problem with homework. The teacher doesn't need a stack of 5 page reports; what they need is for their students to practice using their brains.

Unfortunately the education system is designed to evaluate output instead of process. It's easier to grade a paper or a test, not evaluate a demonstration of knowledge. It's always been ripe for cheating, but now the cheat tools are everywhere and made legitimate by techbros demanding AI productivity. So either teaching will change, or we'll head straight for idiocracy and nobody will be left with the skills to wonder why it all went to hell.

Me too. I had a Pixel 5 for years. The battery swelled and damaged the screen. So, because there wasn't another phone (with a LineageOS port) available in the size I wanted, I bought another, refurb Pixel 5.

Two weeks ago, the battery started swelling again, so I just broke down and bought a Pixel 9. Awesome phone, aaaand I kinda hate it. Too big. Too heavy. Way too damned slippery (I hate putting cases on my phones).

What I really want is something the size of the old OnePlus X. That was a great phone (crappy camera notwithstanding). An updated model of the OPX, with a mediocre camera (to keep from having a bump) would be great, and I'd pay a premium price for it.