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Yeah, this reminds me of the other article on the frontpage, about Google not understanding why anyone needs 5m files in Drive. Well, maybe you don't.

Maybe it's not something that affects you, or 80% of people, 80% of the time... that doesn't make it useless. Try to step outside your own life even a few steps...

You would let a repairman in without someone present?

Well you forgot about my micro drone that follows them around filming their every move.

… except unironically

Sure. In such a scenario I could have cameras in place if I’m super paranoid. In my experience repair people have been extremely professional and have a reputation to uphold, so if I can’t be at home and a repair needs to happen, I don’t see a problem if that convenience is important to me.

Different areas of the world have different trust levels. In northern Europe nobody would think twice about letting in the repairman, we trust each other. It is a great place to live.

I'm guessing that the existence of edge cases like that are why Joker_vD included the "almost" qualifier.