There's an open source workaround that de-clouds SoundTouch devices https://st-reborn.de/

That one reddit user will be fine unless he was stupid enough to throw out his "bricks" (what a strange term to use for a device that still functions without the cloud crap).

Yes and no. They are definitely a lifestyle target company, but they do throw some significant technical capability into that. But it's a tradeoff, always has been. In terms of absolute audio quality they are pretty rubbish, but in terms of invisible audio that integrates into cafe, studio, living room, etc. they aren't actually that bad.

And their noise cancelling on headsets is best in class (it's a shame their sound quality doesn't match).

I wouldn't ever recommend their hifi systems though unless your wife forces it on you.

This already exists and works well. Except as usual the abolitionists blow it out of proportion. I have a remote signal in my AC unit that can be activated by my power company. All it does is change and lock in place the temperature setting by a couple of degrees. That's the reality. You may notice it's slightly warmer or cooler than normal and before you question it you see dollars rolling in, because at present this is fucking lucrative.

Literally everyone I know has the same plan and they all agree you'd be insane not to do it.

No. Ignorant. Clearly.

What in the ever loving fuck are you talking about? Batteries are so hugely ideal for it they are now becoming the primary tool for grid scale stability. Fuck your little fridge, batteries can take the sudden draw of a coal fired power station disconnecting from the grid, and do so better than inertial stability systems ever could.

Like seriously, I can't let this go. Your comment has to be the single most incorrect thing anyone has said about batteries ever. We simply have no electro-mechanical system that can cope with sudden changes in draws then electro-chemical storage. Like, the reason you can start your car is because a battery can cope with a sudden draw of hundreds of amps, and the reason my car has more torque from stopped than any engine could ever hope to provide is because a bank of batteries in my car is able to deal with the sudden draw of the motors on my car literally 100x stronger than your pathetic little fridge or AC unit.

And no your fridge / AC doesn't draw twice it's nameplate at start-up, it's closer to 8 times, and that's not a problem for batteries which are in houses the world over, and have been used in houses off grid the world over long before we even figured out how to make modern lithium batteries.

Don't ever comment on batteries again at least until you've read a book.

The mileage varies a lot less than the anti-EV crazies claim it does. But I don't blame you, I too was one of you until I got an EV. The only difference is I've realised how stupid my view was.

EVs are probably the single most prominent thing in the world that people have extensive views about without ever having tried them.

Sorry but no, we haven't come close. There's a shitton still out there, easily accessible. It's just a question of getting the rights to access it. The proven recoverable reserves companies have clearly identified as viable will keep us going easily through the next 30-50 years.

However, the greenies have done a wonderful job though of making sure we don't completely fuck up our planet so companies are finding those reserves are inaccessible by policy rather than due to technical difficulties, and we've been so busy drawing arbitrary borders and fighting wars to protect them we can't functionally get those reserves from place of production to place of consumption: e.g. Australian coal mine leases not granted, the Iran war, the sanctions against Russia, the OPEC cartel, etc.

Did you just post that as a reply to one post here who actually promoted Trump? And you chose this post to use the word retard against someone else. Go back to bed man, your day needs a reboot.

Actually for once they aren't wrong. I'm highly critical of any idiot who proposes nuclear as a solution to global warming *today*. It's unworkable, too late, too slow, and we lack the expertise and infrastructure to execute these projects at a scale and efficiency we need.

But that's not what the GP said. He was talking about abandoning 45 years ago, and he's absolutely right. If we didn't abandon that we would have a complete fleet of far safer reactors rather than the 45 year old rubbish we are running now. We'd also have an extensive industry to support it rather than the flailing crap we have now.

Your car has a seatbelt, ABS, and airbags because we didn't give up 45 years ago. The nuclear industry would look very different now if we continued with it and developed it further. Instead where we are now it's completely unworkable as a climate solution, but fuck me backwards if it wasn't a major solution to the problem had we been working on it even 25 years ago *ALONG SIDE WIND AND SOLAR*.

- The charger installed at my neighbours took 3 hours and cost about as much as getting a new power outlet put in. The charger itself a couple of hundred Euros. I don't even have a charger for my EV, so the price for me was precise $0.00

- It's only a longer trip when compared to people who shit into buckets, piss into bottles and eat in their toilet of a car. I did long trips before EVs, I do long trips with EVs. The time is identical. Not every idiot tries to spend as many waking moments in their car as they can. Smart people recognise the importance of breaks, even with ICE vehicles. Unfortunately there are morons out there, including professional ones which is why sane countries have legal limits on continuous driving without breaks. Limits you can easily meet with an EV. If you think otherwise I guess it's probably because you're a more moronic driver than others.

- My EV over its life was cheaper than a comparable ICE. Was. Past Tense. Thanks to Trump, it's now a FUCKLOAD CHEAPER to own an EV.

Well it didn't take long for our usual anti-EV troll to take another opportunity to spread his ignorance.

Russia is now over 1700 days into its 2 week "special military operation". There's no way to describe this other than a stalemate. No one is moving. No one is surrendering.

The cloud is someone else's computer. You're at the local arcade, throwing quarters in for the privilege of playing.

False equivalence. Google has a history of poorly running things into the ground. On the flip side looking at cloud gaming the segment has supported service for over a decade now. Stadia may have shut down but that was a service that came 4 years after Nvidia GeForce Now, a cloud gaming division that has generated enough revenue to remain running and operational for 11 years now (initial beta launched in 2015).

Yep, and as a person in IT, I don't run phising tests. Why would I want my users to distrust emails from me? One of the ways they could have handled this would be to tell the user to connect to a validated and verified employee portal, and access the form for the ring. That's precisely how they should have handled it, and if it were me, I would have deleted the email, or, messaged IT and told them to validate it.

Yes! Isolate the email client in a VM or container, so when the link blows up, the system is protected. I don't suggest everyone runs QubesOS, but the idea is sound, and since you can't trust anything over email, don't.