Sort of a win since you didn’t even reply to the right comment :-)

I hate to shit on your general point, but they absolutely do ask in this case.

That’s exactly what I did, except I went the Meross route instead of zwave to save some $. My house is split between zwave for critical stuff and wifi/zigbee/matter for stuff that I don’t really care about and don’t want to waste zwave money on.

$20 and MyQ can go fuck itself. Unexpected benefit is that because Meross controller emulates physical button press, it skips the delay and loud beeping/lights flashing warning that MyQ implemented on remote door close.

I guess you could use Samsung watch for nfc payments, but you lose a bunch of functionality without Samsung phone.

I use MyQ, but can live without it and it’s a shitty app anyway. Not sure why even bother having a smart phone without Wallet and Auto though. Unless you live in a city where nobody drives and everyone still takes cash?

It’s usually a car setting. Have you looked into BT options in the car? Precedence and auto connect are both configurable on my cars. One is POS, another is a nice car from different manufacturer. Both relatively new though.

Ouch

Base or premium?

It’s relatively inexpensive and makes life much easier for people who are not tech savvy. Your position is that of an incredibly egoistic person that never had to help an older relative or dealt with an adult who doesn’t have time for random bs during an hour or so of downtime most people get in a day.

If spending hours trying to figure out which “free” streaming service had not gotten shot down today and magically has the content you want is worth less to you than a one time payment of a few bucks to plex, then you really don’t value your time.

Red light cameras are fine as long as they work properly, but fuck the speed cams. Glad they are still illegal here.

I’d agree, but the joke was funny.

Also zypper is a fantastic package manager.

Neighbor’s wild grape nearly destroyed my bottle brush trees. Now I have to spend 30 minutes every weekend cleaning that shit off my trees. Are other creeping plants not that destructive to trees?

I have 7 various PebbleBees and they work great. Just recently used one to make sure my checked bag did not get lost and was able to track it at every step.

Yes, but which OS is still running glibc < 2.31?

Super relevant argument that ccp allows some companies to grow before they take over. And yes, obviously nobody would do business in China if they didn’t share the profits. Hopefully nobody will ever do business again with a shithole like russia.

Except Nvidia is the third largest company in the world with a ton of existing IP that they would effectively be handing over to a country that has a history of stealing IP without any repercussions and had the resources to take advantage of that IP and make Nvidia irrelevant.

Right, for profit companies famously have a history of just handing themselves over to totalitarian regimes.

China has no successful companies that aren’t approved, controlled and often subsidized by the party.

Bigger problem than tmsc is that China will just “legitimately” steal all IP and replace them with another company within a year. Moving to China is insane if you don’t plan to bend over for the party.

They’re probably not on staff and hiring them externally just got much more expensive and complicated.

That’s what I mean. I’m happy to cover that. Bunch of small retailers have a notice that there’s a 3% surcharge for CC transactions. Well worth it for me.

Tourism is pretty much the only reason some countries are still around. Not asking for preferential treatment - just don’t be an asshole to someone that’s there to respectfully explore your culture or enjoy your weather.