Many people would, but I think I could rig something to have a sufficient amount of power in the house.

I can still read books and manuals, and i do have those books and manuals in paper form.

See who is supporting this account and put them on the ignore list, too.

Easy way to weed out the shitheads.

I have a book titled “Generation Doof” (Generation Stupid), and yes, this book got it right.

I’m afraid that most people under 30 would simply cease to function if the internet suddenly went away.

Don’t know about months. we print once or twice a week, with some spells where we print dozens of jobs on one weekend. But so far we had way less issues than with HP. Occasionally, it did a head clean.

With the last set of cartridges on the HP, they basically went into the head cleaning dump - with a two page color print, the second page lost color, and it needed a deep clean to come back. And returned to the problem when I printed the next batch half an hour later. Basically a 100 quid cardridge set for printing maybe 20-30 pages with color. And it was not even full page color, but a set of 15 cards on a page, each with a small picture of the item.

We now use the Epson Ecotank printers. We don’t print enough for a laser printer. And Canon is a brand I will never ever buy again.

Not me. I value Wikipedia content over AI slop.

After many years, I switched from HP to Epson. Back in the days, HP delivered quality, but the last two printers of them that we had showed that this was no longer the case.

Exactly that. This has happened several times in the past.

The part that the law demands has probably been tested. But I think the US is less stringent with that than our EU.

How about not adding more AI shit instead?

You do not know or believe how much shit has to be pipelined to get a simple change on a car design going on the market. If you have knowledge about computers, you quickly notice that the hardware and software running in a car are OLD. I’ve seen cars sold as new with processors so old, they are “no longer recommended for new designs”. This is because every single thing has to be tested and approved to death in a car. Sometimes several times over.

Yes, but a lot of ZigBee stuff ends up in environments that use a cloud-connected “smart” hub.

That’s why I never went serious into home automation. Because any affordable system is based on cloud shit beyond my control. Cloud goes belly-up, and thousands invested ins such a system are suddenly scrap? Not with me.

Are those things hackable? Even if it means a full wipe?

… or to funny looking specimen. Radioactivity no longer required.

Most likely, there is. In very small print.

Oh, they did that? That’s IMHO a thousand times worse than just getting hacked…

May they get beaten to pulp by privacy lawyers in court.

How surprising that a predictable (and predicted) thing happened!

Not me. Thank goodness for adblockers.

Pro tip: Don’t be stuck in from of your phone all day, this reduces ad counts, too!

I did not switch to Linux. I simply never did Windows. I use Linux since the old days of Slackware where you really had to compile ones kernel. That was with kernel 0.97.