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Exactly. AT&T does that automatically. There were times they reported a possible service interruption for my area and I never even noticed since WiFi calling was available.

Companies are notorious for not recognizing the derived value they get from open source software and recognizing that if they want to keep using them without taking on the burden of self-maintenance, they should pony up some funds to those who are maintaining it. The managers with the ability to spend funds have binders on resulting in vary narrow vision.

Wow, not sure what you are doing to your vacuums, but I've had two that easily lasted over 10 years. My current one is 12 years old.

Exactly, I thought it had died years ago.

It tells me I don't need to bother to change my FHD TV for something else, especially with my aging eyes.

I use a BDXL to backup my ripped music as a fall back to backups on RAID. Probably should update the backup set to make sure my drive is still functional.

Agreed, if the bed can heat to 110 F then that has the potential to do bodily harm. Seems like they failed to define a safe state for the bed.

Sounds like the time some of my coworkers attached a mouse dongle to the docking station of the "victim". Then they'd randomly move the remote mouse from time to time, but not enough to make it obvious. Hopefully the wake phrase is trained to the computer owner only.

My B&W speakers I bought in the 1980s are still working without worrying about when a cloud service will stop. Only had to replace one tweeter speaker when a dog's tennis ball broke the cone.

Meanwhile my Beermkr is useless junk now because the cloud servers have gone away.

Both mice and headsets exist that use Bluetooth, eliminating the need for dongles. Seems like an easy solution if you aren't wedded to using older devices.

BSD 2.8 (or 9 or 10) had a security hole where it was possible to read the tty input queue from memory. With a suitable program and enough time you could watch as a computer center staff member typed in the root password. From there it was just a matter of covering your tracks in the log files.

Lack of any visible lane markings during heavy snow storms is one reason. How well do those vehicles pick up the road edge markers on posts? Hope the automated vehicles will be kept off the roads in heavy snow.

I don't look forward to Waymo vehicles blocking two lane loads like CO 93 in a snow storm. It's bad enough when people with crappy tires do it.

I routinely mark all political text messages as junk too. Doesn't matter from who sent them, consistently applied junk marking.