And yet, still recommended on PrivacyGuides

While you’re searching for batteries (or any other potentially smart appliance), check if they are supported by just searching for “device home assistant”

Those that have official support will have a page on home-assistant.io and scrolling the description will tell you if it’s controlled locally (preferred) or via cloud polling/API (less preferred)

Some devices may have custom integrations you can setup from Github via HACS, where the quality and support can vary more significantly than official integrations.

Except for this bit:

If you see something like this again, tell us. We rely on your feedback and vigilance.

Bitch you’re like a billion dollar company, rely on doing your own homework.

Proposal, all FOSS slicers come with a secondary download with a disclaimer like:

THIS ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE IS definitely not SPYWARE MANDATED BY THE US GOVERNMENT. For residents of XYZ jurisdiction you are “required” to copy this file to your slicer/snitchoneverythingyoudo folder. If you DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE, your slicer will not be able to report your activities to the government. You have been warned.

Based on the fact that you’re asking this question, it’s safe to assume pretty much everything you use is AC powered.

The “charger bricks” for some of your electronics convert AC to DC for you, but trying to bypass them “for efficiency” has a high probability of ending poorly.

Get/use AC on your backup system

In order to demonstrate Trump’s supposedly far-reaching power to destroy and alter national monuments at whim, the DOJ lawyers claimed that if the president wanted to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty in New York, there would be no one with the standing to challenge him.

“If the government decides very quickly to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, the people whose ancestors—that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast—nothing can be done?” Judge Patricia Millett asked, according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney.

“I think that’s right, yes,” the government responded.

Not sure what is misleading about the headline. DOJ is arguing on the President’s behalf that he has the unilateral authority to demolish or modify any national or historic monuments he chooses (at minimum, any managed by the Parks Service).

“This avatar video game is bigger than the Avatar videogame that used to be the biggest one before this one”

GrapheneOS team has a pretty level take on the issue in the original thread:

This is fearmongering based on customer support making ridiculous claims to someone. There’s nothing illegal about using GrapheneOS and the customer support is nearly certainly making it all up to get the person to go away so the ticket can be considered closed. It’s unlikely the company has done anything to specifically detect GrapheneOS or ban using it. It’s far more likely they detect not using a Google Mobile Services operating system without modifications. This customer support person went on a power trip to scare someone and get the ticket closed.

His analogy is that most people don’t generate their own electricity. They connect to a grid and pay for what they use. AI is heading the same way. The problem is that building that grid — the data centers, power lines, cooling systems and chips needed to make AI a utility — is proving harder, pricier and slower than almost anyone expected.

Really? The AI boom not being as easy as the tech bros promised is a surprise to “almost anyone”? Is almost everyone going to be surprised when “next quarter’s” AGI is punted out another quarter for the 12th quarter in a row?

It’s going to come as a big shocker to “almost anyone” now that this article has taken the bold step to publish on such a controversial view

Respectfully, this software could solve all my problems in life, and I would still struggle to ask my friends to “federate with my continuwuity server so we can chat”

Can you use the gun lobby loophole on everything banned for guns and buy your 3d printer as a kit?

The simple bit is already done, EVs require way less upkeep. The affordable bit is done as well, those ones are just banned to “protect domestic auto markets” (depending on where in the world you live).

The fast ubiquitous charging is still very location dependent. In CA I have no issue finding chargers on roadtrips. I imagine TX is not the same. If you happen to have access to a charger at home or work then 99% of your problems are solved.

only about a tenth of an eyeblink

What’s that in furlongs per knot?

Also the trash tends to stink the most.

If that’s not enough of a sell for you, how about rusting walls from any of that iron that finds itself on the surface

And let’s not forget concrete and steel are the most environmentally impactful building materials. Is “magnet” a good enough reason to fill your walls with them?

IDK about a true voice call but you could definitely set something to play a message through a second satellite. You could even make it recurring until snoozed e.g.:

Grandma: “Computer, I need help”

HASS - Trigger automation say (through separate speaker) “Grandma called, she needs help”, delay 30, repeat until button is pressed.

The tricky part is teaching it enough permutations of “I need help” that Grandma doesn’t have to get the phrasing exactly right in an emergency

https://www.percussionplay.com/instruments/talk-tubes/

If communicating between relatively fixed points, this may be more effective

IDK if its really 5s but that’s like eons in page loading time

https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/

Not seeing any adblockblock, do you have all of the annoyances filters enabled in uBO?