>They didn't say whose value it strengthened.

LG's, Westinghouse, GE, and so forth!

Actually, if they had the testicular fortitude, your Samsung would display an add reading, "if you had bought LG, you wouldn't be seeing this!" :)

hawk

>Has about the same importance as smart tech in a fridge for me.

I live in the desert, you insensitive clod! :_)

but seriously we doohave many days of 115-117F most summers. Self-replenishing ice is *important*.

it's not why we bought it, but our LG actually has two ice makers; one in the refrigerator door, which you can actually clean out, and another for larger square tubes in the upper freezer drawer (which we turn off for the cooler half of the year)

>A fridge will last for a decade or more,

you would *think* that, but my prior fridge was a Samsung.

The ice maker died of its own buildup just out of warranty, the drip tray for the water dispenser caused rust lines through the paint below it, and the whole thing failed at 4 or 5 years--we came out one morning and it was at 50.

Compare to the Samsung dryers whose stainless steel barrels tend to crack and go out of round, wanting a $400 replacement!

The refurbisher who came out with our temporary dryer told us that from his experience (primarily washers & dryers), Samsung had the highest failure rate, while the other Korean brand, lg,had the lowest, with everything else in between.

>Agree, and don't even allow my TStat's to connect to wifi.

Have you *read* the license on those?

I brought home a wifi thermostat, thinking it would be nice to be able to change it half an hour out when coming home, and then read the terms.

It was like a parody of the terms you find offered sarcastically around here.

Pretty much, "you agree that we can send armed goons into your house, torture your dog, rape your cat, and sell your children into slavery. We may do anything we want with your data, and even more so if someone is willing to pay us for it."

It went back.

They tried that, briefly.

Then they gave up . . .

It's inevitable that something like this will appear regularly, and one day it will be silently exploited.

At that point, everyone will scramble back to on-prem, but until then we have to tolerate this cloud nonsense, apparently.

No, no, that's fine.

You've just testified before a court of law that there are no adverse health effects. Noted. You all stand by that statement, right?

Because then when the lawsuits start to fly, not only can you be charged with whatever charge it would be, we can add perjury to the list too.

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Unfortunately, the parental controls are basically "on/off" measures, and schools and other places are increasingly expecting them to use AI tools.

And though parental supervision is THE TOOL, it doesn't apply when they're walking to and from school, on someone else's phone, or even using a laptop in a playground. Trust me. I know.

And then the AI tools are entirely lacking ANY KIND of parental control in themselves.

It's like telling everyone that they have to use 4chan for their homework, and then being shocked that they run into things they shouldn't.

Don't make / allow kids to use unsuitable tools, and AI companies should be offering a "child-safe" AI that simply isn't trained and can't discuss anything it shouldn't be able to discuss with a child unsupervised.

But, no, their solution is "we'll just check if you're 18 using the very tool that's already terrible and determining whether it should discuss ways to kill yourself or not".

Shock, horror.

When everyone has one, the value of having one plummets.

But apparently I'm the one who lives in 1984 because I live in the UK and people misinterpreted a CCTV survey from 15+ years ago that included private CCTV cameras only for Lonond...

DEP will save us all from malware
ASLR will save us all from malware ...
*insert 20 years of the same* ...
MTE will save us all from malware
EMTE will save us all from malware

Even solar LiFePO4 setups come with built-in heaters in the batteries nowadays.

This is a non-issue. Of course you use more power when it's cold and you're trying to heat things up, this isn't rocket science.

So buy a car that has a capacity greater than your maximum range, especially if you're buying for business for becoming reliant on it. They're not hard to find. In fact, when EV shopping for just standard personal models of car, I see Long Range / Extended Battery options on everything, and even the lowest battery is higher than the nonsense cited in this article.

If only, with the announced phase-out of fossil fuel for vehicular use almost worldwide, there were some places we have which won't be used so much anymore which could be used to host electric chargers in the same location so that, in the near future, people won't have to go further than they currently go to refuel / recharge...

Well, yes, but if I lived in such a climate, I'd be parking the car indoors regardless. It might not be 20C inside the garage, but it's a damn sight better than trying to start at -15C.

Where they don't disturb anyone, don't look ugly, generate more power, and don't take up land.