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I have one. It’s the stupidest thing ever. It tries to detect food items going in and out, requires confirmation on screen, and maybe categorises 5% of things automatically.

Then curate those apps. My wife doesn’t run the social media apps on the phone, forcing her to make a conscious decision to pull out an iPad. The Apps I use are largely work, browser, email, Strava(/garmin/athlytic), maps, music and smart home control / network tools. It’s just about being conscious of what you put on it and what you use it for.

Is this not more a self control and discipline issue than an issue with the tools? The phone plays audio better than the CD player, fits in the pocket better than anything there, takes better pictures, etc etc. It feels like most of this issue could be solved by changing the way you interact with it.

TV is the same. Some people turn on the tv and “flick” to see what’s on to watch to fill time, some people turn it on with purpose when time has been carved out for something specific.

Is that not because people are generally unwilling to spend money on better solutions and take the path of least resistance?

Way back when, I’d imagine your average micro hifi was more than the average BT speaker someone would buy to stick in the kitchen.

Google home / Alexa on the cheap end, BluOS / Sonos / Heos on the more expensive end all do a great job of bridging that gap. People just don’t bother as it’s not enough of a problem to care about, they don’t have the knowledge (technical or otherwise), or it’s cheaper to use a £50 Bluetooth speaker and done with.

I think there are plenty using espressif chips. One of my robot vacuums (possibly the Neato?) certainly appeared to be.

How can EE and BT be the only ones to support, surely it’s dependent on the underlying network, not the MVNO? If it’s a feature controlled network side, presumably it could be turned off at whim network side.

Not sure if you’re from the US, but they certainly need to remove the log from their own eye…

Is that practice not really common? I’ve seen that done as a matter of course on lots of international airports with baby food / liquid and no one seems to get too fussed about it.

X didn’t force Y to the ground. If Y had made different choices, worked out more, was stronger, Y could have fought back.

Keychain, not FDE.

At least the option is there, unlike with MS. Also the option to (very clearly) create an offline account, which MS try very hard to stop you doing (read: don’t publish how, block off routes to doing it sequentially)

Except you’re not coerced (near enough forced?) to use an account password managed by MS on Apple. Until MS themselves publish, for home users, how to set up without an MS account, I’m considering it forced.

Use 1Password or similar instead. They’re keyed against a key they don’t have access to.

And MacOS, which I suspect may be the more obvious choice for many users.

I thought this was what happened. Clearly not :( That’s the idea with services like 1Password (which I suppose is ultimately doing the same thing) - you need both the key held on the device and the password.

I suppose this all falls apart when the PC unlock password is your MS account password, the MS account can reset the local password. In Mac OS / Linux, you reset the login password, you loose the keychain.

Disagree. If the path is shrouded behind key presses and commands which are unpublished by MS (and in some instances routes that have been closed), it may as well be.

The German suppliers they link do European centric MOCA too! Looking seriously at these guys - the previous owners who renovated put decent CoAx absolutely everywhere, 4 BT lines for the outside office, and 0 Ethernet in.

I’ve tried that over fairly short lengths at home, and ended up with flapping even locked to 10HDX

Maybe we should just treat the pipe as insecure and focus on encrypting the app layer.

Voice calls and SMS are presumably getting less and less popular.

If it’s at all representative, I had to replace 2 of the dell ultra sharp super ultra wides due to failing USB C hub / PD parts. I gave up at that point.

Like a waypoint on a proper “pure” GPS handset?

I think I’ve got too used to VM snapshotting to turn away from it for HA.

Have we not all given up on pis at this stage? I’ve got ESP32s for edge I/O, Nucs/VMs for the crunch. What’s the Pi doing?

Fascinating seems like an overshoot here

I’d (un-)intuitively thought it would be way more than that. I know 3 people with subscriptions, and assumed that would scale!

AIUI most hypervisors offer vTPM - it’s disabled by default often, but most solutions have it (including Proxmox / KVM (using swtpm)

Not a worthwhile trade if you want to run / exercise with metrics.

That’s neat - have you considered publishing it?

Other points aside, I didn’t think ISPs were meant to issue space as small as a 64.

I think many still recognise the train, car, going for a run / cycle, gym… isn’t an optimum listening environment and the convenience significantly outweighs AQ in a lot of situations.