I hope you're wrong because otherwise we're all fucked. Yes, you too, and only a very short time after the rest of us

Systemd doesn't do that, although it causes other problems, like breaking early boot logging when part of its mission was supposed to be fixing logging. It doesn't have significant requirements...

Lolol you think smart people talk to you

Do they not use the same arch?

Sounds like you have that backwards. The bum is ungovernable due to scarcity. It's prosperity that makes people controllable, by giving them something to lose.

What, crypto? Good point, I should call it cryptocurrency to differentiate

Most people's PCs use less than 500W.

Ok, but I'm partially innumerate. I simply can't do longer sums in my head because I can't keep track of the digits. It may be related to my almost total aphantasia. So I'm never going to be able to do that shit rapidly without a calculator.

A far bigger problem is that people don't learn to think critically so they don't ask the necessary questions. It doesn't matter if they could do the math in their head if they don't understand why.

Lolololol as if we were seeing the fruits of anything but the malignant tree of capitalism

This is what happens when crypto bros take something over. Enshittification is fundamentally inevitable.

But we're already there. Automation and making people stupid so they have kids they can't feed has already made things terrible. This isn't the beginning.

I got all that by year 9 plus a plastics class.

One has to assume that they've done market research, and that their target customers are those who -somehow- are in love with the concept of home automation, and especially to give FOMO to their friends for not being 'up-to-date enough' with new tech.Turns out that there are also some pretty major annoyances to being trapped in these types of walled-garden software ecosystems. Sometimes down to the level of show-stopping ones.

I'm sorry, the app-bricking episode was enough for me, it would take an awful lot of goodwill for them to ever be on the shortlist of audio products I'd want to own; however this is written knowing full well that I am most certainly not a part of their target audience. This move towards AI features reeks of 'marketingspeak' being written by numpties for a press release to hopefully help pump stock valuations up; and of solutions in search of a problem to solve rather than striving to offer the types of features which will tangibly improve their listeners' experience with music.

TL;DR: The 'smarter' you make your products, the 'dumber' you also seem to imply your customers are.

While they don't seem to mind being used as poster boys for Cory Doctorow's 'enshittification' (audio edition), that'll be a giant nope from me, on principle.

Bill "Fox and Sinclair" Clinton

Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.