Because the Department of Homeland Security has broad powers and very little checks and balances to it’s discretionary use by the Executive branch. It’s the thing people have been warning against since it’s creation after 9/11.

more than 300 million Americans

I know wiggle room is the gold standard of journalism… but you can just say “all Americans”.

They can also be, not to put too fine a point on it, petty dicks about it.

My city banned Flock cameras. So there are a bunch of them juuust outside the city limits. Since official city limits lag behind development they’re at intersections you would otherwise think were in the city.

With a zero specifically I think you’d need extra bits to get it on a network, but Traccar itself is pretty lightweight.

Former healthcare IT, holy crap do all digital health records systems seem to suck. Some of them suck in different ways, but none of the big ones anyway are great.

I get that there’s a lot of semi-special use cases and regulatory requirements and so on, but at the end of the day it’s text and images and a record of the changes to them. And it’s not like this is a surprise problem. People have been trying to digitize stuff since at least the 90s. And yet every single system seems like it’s only been in development for a few months and usually has trouble working with itself, much less any other record system.

You can still get cameras and screens for the Fairphone 2 from Fairphone. No they’re not making more, but they also have never said “unlimited support forever”.

That the process doesn’t require prying apart glue alone makes it significantly more repairable than any other mainstream phone.

For now anyway, it used to be $20+/gb. I’ll settle for flooding the market with refurbished 16+tb drives.

Saying “my point is valid” does not make an argument valid. You’re presenting as a 2nd year computer science student who is mad because they just learned that Microsoft is less than trustworthy. Who read an article about toxoplasmosis recently.

Most of the devices connecting to Home Assistant are using air gapped, non-wifi networks. A lot of them don’t have a TCP/IP stack, much less a radio capable of connecting to the internet.

Home Assistant is an open source project. It’s not a thing constructed by a company for sale. You are in a lemmy instance talking about it, which is why the people reading a post about a version update to it, know what it is.

Yes, there could be a magical way for “them” to secretly gather data on everything you do. But at that point they don’t need the smart devices.

If you have trust, why do you need a blockchain?

Distributed / immutable databases are not solely a feature of blockchain either.

It’s a very interesting thing in a vacuum. Basically any application of it so far (with the possible exception of the original one, if it weren’t just a speculation investment machine at the moment) runs into the problem where it has to interact with reality at some point. And most of the problems Blockchains solve are already solved by a variety of other systems, for less time/currency/hardware investment.

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Are they close to feature parity with Steam yet? Like after a quick search of it looks like they added cloud saves but that took years.

Fair.

Other than the “not actually a monopoly” argument, I think it’s important that Steam has that marketshare because they add value. They have a stranglehold on the market similar to the way BarCodes do. You don’t have to register your product with the bar code authority, but it will sure make your product more accessible to more people.

And that’s before cloud saves, achievements, patching infrastructure, community forums, game recording/streaming, and other stuff built into the Steam client/API.

Whether that’s worth a blanket 30% is absolutely a conversation worth having. Maybe it should be a sliding / bracketed scale depending on revenue or units sold or something. But like you said, the big lawsuits are coming from competitors, not smaller developers.

Auto-translate is saying ‘snap knife’, but I’d imagine it’s to do with it being deployable / spring loaded in some way.

Agreed, just, that camera might as well be as capable as possible.

The camera and the IP rating are my hangups. IP might just be complacency, but I like not having to worry about rain or where to put the phone while paddleboarding or whatever.

Camera… I might be okay with a dedicated one of some kind. I have an old DSLR, but it’s too big to carry everywhere. Which means I have to purposefully go on a ‘photo trip’. Could of course get a decent pocket digital camera and the price of the Communicator + camera will probably be at on par with a new flagship phone.

Not looking to reserve but will probably have to think more about it once it’s out.

I mean service accounts and email groups are a thing.

This sounds like someone asked an LLM how to give them an email account and it parroted the instructions for a regular user because no one involved new any better.

Absolutely it didn’t just get lit on fire.

But that amount of money is enough to end world hunger for a decade. (According to the WHO, ~$7-8 billion a year.)

Instead of being the next Carnegie but with food instead of libraries, and worldwide, Zuckerberg went for a moon shot pet project that an undergrad MBA student would’ve been laughed out of the room for presenting. Diverting time, money, and resources from anything actually productive.

While paying basically no taxes.

Verified by providing well sourced and reasoned answers. There are PhD contributors but mostly it’s down to providing consistently providing context to an answer and not going off on some fringe tangent. It’s easily the most heavily moderated subreddit.

“Why on reddit” comes up often and the answer has consistently (historically anyway) been that there isn’t really a better long-form public outreach platform at the moment. Blogs are close don’t have the same opportunity for followup questions and definitely don’t have the same “drive-by” effect of just seeing it on the front page.

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The short version is, while the meaning/intent is fascist as hell. The attribution of the phrase is “highly unlikely”.

Tiles and the metro interface in general were a really good idea. Kind of a shame everything’s consolidated around iPhone’s icon system instead. I remember being impressed with my mom’s, but it was such a flash in the pan and had so little 3rd party app support I never ended up getting one.

You could do something similar with widgets I suppose.