TimeSquirrel

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why is it so common for Apple users to replace their devices every 1-2 years then? Theres a reason it's a meme. Regardless of what Apple does with old hardware, they promote this mentality of always needing the next new shiny thing. They're the pioneers of that.

I'm still on a rooted Samsung from 2017. I know several people who went through 3 iPhones in that time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Incredibly advanced AI, yet it couldn't fix the German accent. My Google Home speaker can do better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (20 children)

Hey guys, unless I missed Boeing getting into biological warfare, I'm pretty sure an infection had nothing to do with them. It's funny to circlejerk though, I know.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Are you sure you don't just want another camera stuck to the back? Maybe you have one too many external ports?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

16 years old? That thermostat has sure had a run

I have game consoles that are more than twice that old and still play reliably. Apple really skewed our idea of lifespans for electronics, didn't they? It's a thermostat, they should be designed to install and forget for the next half-century. It's a core part of a house, like the plumbing and breaker box.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In a world with finite resources, a system seeking infinite growth will eventually collapse.

That's why some of the most powerful capitalists are starting to look up. Our great-great-grandchildren are going to be indentured servants on an asteroid mine. They know what's coming. They'll pack each SpaceX Starship with 100s of them just like they did 200 years ago. That thing ain't no exploration vessel. It's a future slave ship. Private companies don't do "exploration" unless it's to find more things to make a profit on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Can't get a train track to every single depot and loading dock in the country that receives shipments (which is like, practically every big box store and warehouse there is). There has to be a handover at some point.

Edit: also not a big fan of the train system in the US, since the vast majority of rail is privately owned. The operators have too much control. They'll charge towns extra to put automated crossing guards on their rail and then keep charging them for its maintenance. The jurisdiction can't use their own third party workers to maintain it. The railroads are legally only required to put up a sign. It's extortion if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This entire article is full of absolutely nothing but speculation with no sources and poor experimentation without proper knowledge in the field, software, or equipment. No technical analysis at all. This person kind of has no clue and is taking ignorant shots in the dark to try to confirm preexisting notions. The "experiment" they ran sounds like something my mother would do and then get all bent out of shape and frantically call me about it.

I want the 5 minutes back I wasted reading that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

That doesn't mean it's sending anything out through the network connection. The wake word is locally processed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Its already established that the mic always hot, and that data is always being sent to the server.

Tell me, how have you established this? What were your methods?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

If you're monitoring the traffic, and you start speaking, and you suddenly see packets spewing out of a device every time you talk, that's a good indication. There's indirect methods to analyze it without necessarily being able to see the actual data.

Poking around the PCB with an oscilloscope to see electrical signals will probably be useful too.

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