Feature loss really would be a warranty claim(product no longer operates as purchased). A simple bait-and-switch legal goal post should be "listed features must be available the complete duration of the warranty period with the same terms when it was purchased".

My best anecdote was at a grocery store where two people were blaring music from their phones and a third person commanded for them both to turn them down because they were on a speakerphone conversation with someone. None of them appreciated the cashier and I laughing. That grocery store closed down earlier this year and a new local ethic grocery opened in it's place earlier this month. The new place blares music so loud that you can't hear the speakerphones as much, but didn't stop my gf and I pointing and commenting about the five we saw while checking out all the random goodies over the weekend.

This... I've made 26 reports so far this week. I go periods where I just don't have the energy to do it since it never stops.

Here's some of what you've mentioned that's already covered from my extremely limited experience with my "got free for signing up for whatever service" echo dots: "Determine the user's preferences and alert them when discounted products are available" I get frequent reminders about things I've ordered on more than one occasion. Even after expressly telling my echo dot I'm not interested in said alerts. "According to your history, it may be time to order more x. It's currently $y. Would you like me to add it to your cart?" "Charge a small fee for new features" I paid for the Samuel Jackson voice. Of course, they eventually removed the feature. But it was only like $2 and it was fun getting your echo dots to curse. "Enable paring with other speakers" "Enable pairing with TV/etc for more surround sound" My dots support bluetooth or 3.5mm jack output. I had one connected to my sound bar, but it wasn't very good because I had to use my remote on my sound bar to switch sources away from the tv and when it was playing, it was too loud for the echo dot to hear me telling it to shut up. When I do the weekly house cleaning, I tell one of my dots "Play Sirrus XM First Wave, everywhere" and all the speakers in my house play the same source. AKA, you can set device groups for using tasks.

Sounds like there's a market for drones that detect when another drone is entering the airspace of your property. It launches, blocks the incoming drones flight path across your property, the incoming drone redirects around, and then your drone lands back on it's charger waiting for it's next mission. No destruction of property and you'd think at some point the drone operators would bypass the property rather than the delays of having to dodge another drone sitting in it's desired flight path.

It's not an FCC issue, it's an AT&T whitelisting issue. T-Mobile allows you to use the phone just fine. My mother had a ZTE phone, when AT&T killed 3G, they also disconnected hers because it wasn't part of their whitelist. It's humming along just fine on T-Mobile VoLTE.

AT&T in the US has a whitelist of approved phones for VoLTE. If your phone isn't on it, it doesn't work. Doesn't matter if your phone has all the appropriate bands or not. It's an issue for those of us that import far superior/cheaper hardware from overseas. Thankfully Xiaomi has the ability to turn VoLTE carrier check off. Slide your sim into an approved phone, get it registered on the network, make sure your new phone doesn't ever do the check, put sim in your new phone. Yay for Xiaomi 12S Ultra on AT&T in US. Unfortunately, I forgot about it when upgrading from Xiaomi Mi9 to the 12S Ultra and was blocked. Had to dig out my Lumia 950 to get my sim re-registered. It's all sorts of shady.

Take a step back and just look at total deaths and just look at the rise in total deaths year to year. When you toss it into graphs, it's pretty interesting. If you look at it by months and then years, you can see this very distinct pattern when most deaths occur. Looking at by year you can see a distinct pattern showing population growth creating additional deaths each year. Between 2014 and 2015, in the US, there were 26,383 more deaths. Between 2015 and 2016 26,804 Between 2016 and 2017 75,880 (particularly bad influenza year 2.7% increase in total deaths from 2016) Between 2017 and 2018 27,520 Between 2018 and 2019 13,956 Between 2019 and 2020 594,867 (nearly 8 times the rise of that "bad influenza year" 20.9% increase in total deaths from 2019) Between 2020 and 2021 16,720 (small rise, until you compare it to 2019, aka 611,587) We're currently at 2,157,391 dead so far this year. FYI, 2019 was 2,845,957. Unfortunately, death certificates can take up to 10 weeks to be processed so we don't know the total death count for a year until March-ish. Looking by week, weeks 21-29 are creepily similar to 2021. It's actually a good thing, because all previous years have the whole population/death growth pattern. So anything week that's the same as a previous year or less is a win. We're still no where near back to what the pre-pandemic pattern should have us at. For those comparing shit to the 1969 influenza outbreak. Go take a look at the patterns from back then. Between 1960 and 1961 -10,460 Between 1961 and 1962 55,198 (3.2% increase in deaths) Between 1962 and 1963 56,829 Between 1963 and 1964 -15,498 Between 1964 and 1965 30,085 Between 1965 and 1966 35,013 Between 1966 and 1967 -11,826 Between 1968 and 1969 78,759 (4.1% increase in deaths) Between 1969 and 1970 -8,092 Between 1970 and 1971 6,511 That horrific outbreak accounted for a 4% increase in deaths from the previous year. COVID19 21%. https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Week... https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Week... https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/produ...

I'm targeted as "Atheist" which means I don't get ads for the latest Christian rock band. Since, you know, I'm not their demographic. Now I'm just going to get even more completely irrelevant or frustrating advertisements.

I've cared more about total deaths than anything else while tracking what covid has done in my home country. 2014 2,675,414 people died in the United States(well, certified death certificates) 2015 2,701,797 a rise of 26,383 2016 2,728,601 a rise of 26,804 2017 2,804,481 a rise of 75,880. (Cause of three fold rise? Wrong influenza vaccine was selected) 2018 2,832,001 a rise of 27,520 2019 2,845,957 a rise of 13,956 2020 3,439,808 a rise of 593,851 2021 3,453,090 a rise of 13,282(607,133 more than 2019 fyi) See a pattern in years prior to 2020?(average of 34,108 rise per year) See a pattern in our covid world? Stick those total deaths in a graph and look at what that line does. Looking at the weekly numbers, you get this unfortunate delay due to certifying death certificates that could take up to 10 weeks. You can still see what this year has been like. Prior to 2020, the worst weekly death count was week 2 2018 at 67,501. Week 2 2021 was 87,433. 20K extra people just went poof in a week. For those thinking the pandemic is over, look at our death counts so far this year. Week 3 2022 was 83,923(week 3 2021 was 83,683). The real fun is dumping the weekly data into a chart overlayed on each other. There's this incredible pattern that goes on all up until week 12 2020 where everyone started dying. https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Week... https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Week... In 2019 the US had 3,747,540 births, so that year we gained 901,583 more consumers than we lost that year. It's okay though, in 2020 the US had 3,613,647 births, so we still gained 173,839 The provisional number for 2021 is 3,659,000 births, so, we still gained 205,910 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fasta... https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/...

Anyone know what the Z data resolution and accuracy is? What about the size of the head? I'm trying to get the topography of the inside of some very small objects and I'd love to use something like this.