How about an unconnected mechanical thermostat?

Missing the 90's yet? No interconnected cars, no interconnected fridges/freezers, no interconnected anything, as far as appliances go.

Sometimes progress for the sake of progress is derp, and interconnected cooling units is an example of "Jumped the Shark"

Google the phrase if you're too young to know what it means and how it came about.

Why not all of them?

You know that you could install an Internet-connected monitoring system. Without putting the control function on line. And include a premises, non-Internet alarm bell, should someone hack the monitor.

Two words: "eSIM". And "No".

The key word here is "employer". You want me to use your app? You give me a phone that will run it. Because mine won't.

... this is why my Android STB stuck an Apple sticker on itself when the cops came by.

Checks your shorts. Analyzes skid marks and reports your lack of dietary fiber to your health insurance company.

Socks are the larval form of wire hangars.

So Vizio has a secret handshake deal with Xfinity. I wouldn't be surprised if they have such a deal with cellular carriers as well.

You're just not safe unless you are on a desert island. Then Starlink flies over ....

This is the biggest thing that keeps me on projectors.

At least for now, the projectors I buy are dumb as a brick, and apple TV is also pretty dumb, it doens't have ACR. My HTPC is from 2011, it's positively jurassic, so it also is not gonna rat me out.

There is zero incentive for me to add a "TV" to this house. none. If I needed a 2nd display, i'd find the gnarliest, largerst "monitor" and use that.

I knew the programming content in TV had quickly gone to shit once the Reality Show became a thing but the hardware has suffered tremendously since the days of CRT Trinitrons.

I really want no part of this TV future. Those affected, sharpen your suing pencils, fight the good fight, 'tho all you'll get is a dime for every million dollars they make. Good luck, and all that.

Thinking about this. As I poke away at my Android tablet. It's not really a strange position to take. My tablet, my TV set, innumerable appliances around my house, kiosks all over town.

Turns out that there's already an 800 pound gorilla that owns this space. Google. I wish Amutable and Poettering good luck in this market.

All this.

By this, they mean locked down.

From TFS:

So, pretty much useless in most environments. And for people who are doing their own development, do you really want to give Amutable/Poettering a peek over your shoulder and possibly veto power over your project? Anyone that didn't see this coming in the early days of systemDunce deserves everything they get.

Strange choice of adjectives in this context. One that elicits positive relationships with other people. For a technology that is clearly not living.

Madison Avenue must have worked overtime on this one. Except that it's not Madison Avenue but a data center in Texas. And it doesn't charge overtime.

Two things:

• A. How do we know they were only 500 grams?
• 2. Even a small shaped charge can penetrate a lot.

Could be that someone else has entered into a contractual agreement with Flock. And Flock might be covered by utility franchise agreements for access to the right-of-way. Now its an interstate commerce issue. Have fun messing with that (particularly with the current administration).