Yeah, I'm still on S1, partially because I still have one of the old remotes. However, my old Sonos Connects are starting to die of old age. I've had 2 die on me in the last 18 months. Took one apart hoping it was just something like a bad capacitor. No such luck. There's no visible issues, and I couldn't find any issues with a voltmeter on the bits I knew enough to check.

I had to read this article to even know what Gemini is. I guess I'm not one of the billion. It isn't like I'm ignoring AI stuff either. Part of my job is defining AI best practices. One of those in my personal life is always saying "no" when a device or system wants to shove an AI at me.

I really don't grasp the point of this other than trendy nostalgia. Why not just have a smart phone and choose not to use social media or browse on your phone?

Considering a billionaire ex-CEO is making this statement, it can be wholly discounted. I've been a salaried employee for more than 25 years. I've worked 90 hours per week. I've worked 35. Guess how much of an impact it has made on my wealth? I'm sure all of you know. Zero is the answer. Skilled workers in tech make the same amount regardless. It isn't like overworking leads to more stock/bonuses/dividends when you are on salary. The only personal impact is to your health long-term.

I have a couple of hierarchical data system related patents to my name. Should my patents exist? Maybe. I'm not a fan of software and idea patents. However, as the world currently works we kind of had to file. The ideas, code, and algorithms are novel and have been a demonstrable differentiation for our business compared to competitors.

What they are showing here in this patent filing isn't novel or innovative. There are also literally decades of prior art to counter it also.

Stack Overflow can be pretty annoying but usually you can find an answer with some decent Googling. Literally every time I've tried to use ChatGPT to answer a code question it has responded with incorrect information or invalid code. I've had it hallucinate what the client classes are for 3rd party libraries. It *looked* like something viable but it sure wasn't. It also just invents its own syntax for languages like terraform that isn't anywhere close to something that would ever work.

I'd assume it is Steamdeck.

My fitbit a few years ago bricked itself one month after the warranty expired. My wife bought herself a Versa Two awhile ago. It got stuck in an endless reboot cycle and couldn't be reset. It was a few months after the warranty ended. Based on our anecdotal experience Fitbits already kill themselves as soon as is economically feasible for them.

In my area only Sunday MLB games are broadcast on FM. The other six days of the week they are only available on AM. Technically I guess I could stream fubo from my phone while driving but that seems like a solution in need of a problem as compared to just listening to the regular AM broadcast.

Hasn't it been two decades at this point? It sure feels like it.

Why bother throwing it away before it inevitably dies? Fitbits often only last slightly longer than the warranty. Mine completely died at 18 months.

You don't really know if it matches manufacturer specs unless you test it anyways. Some reviewers do test. Look at https://www.soundandvision.com/content/vizio-pq65-f1-lcd-ultra-hdtv-review-test-bench as an example. The print magazine Home Theater which merged with that used to post the color graphs with measured vs. expected too.

I've used versions of vi on various unixes where :x wasn't supported.

Ok, so if you don't watch and listen to every single commercial while tuned into realtime broadcasts is that stealing? Following Dvorak's logic it would seem so. If I record a show and watch a particularly entertaining commercial multiple times do I build up credit for skipping commercials later in the recording?

Even if you aren't watching the commercial the broadcasters have already been paid for it. Did VCRs kill the advertiser based revenue stream for televisions? Of course it didn't. Most people want to watch their television in realtime and don't want to hassle with recording it. As Dvorak overstates in his article, it does require effort to use a recording device.

This is the exact same mentality of studios who forcefeed you commercials at the start of a DVD with no way to skip them.