In fairness, One Nation voters can’t read, so we can’t expect them to understand anything. And 60% is still a majority. But doesn’t feel good being down with UAE and Nigeria :(

Yeah, I looked into that, but I seem to be in the google play beta for bitwarden and nothing is broken? Looks like this is a different beta? Bizarre.

Is this a new breakage? I’ve been using vaultwarden + android for years now?

I am also Aussie, but I’ve been buying from Aliexpress of late. Maybe should try some Mirabella bulbs again, last time I bought them it was after the first OTA exploit was fixed, but before cloudcutter. Had to slice open the bulbs and flash via serial.

Are you just getting stuff from Costco?

Have they updated it for new stuff? Last time I tried it cloudcutter was patched in new stuff :(

I saw a 1.5hr video published a few hours ago, dunno if it got removed. Description did say it would be edited and reuploaded.

Are you from Tuya? They seem hellbent on locking their stuff down to the cloud.

Perhaps point out to your management that IOT is an enthusiast driven market. If you appease the enthusiasts, they will recommend your products to their less technically inclined friends.

Enthusiasts want both: a good initial software ecosystem, and the option to break out of that if required. If your company can offer that, even if it involves voiding the warrenty, we’ll buy and recommend their stuff.

In the case of Tuya, their stuff was historically super easy to open, solder some jumpers and flash (or exploit the OTA to flash). I bought loads of their power boards and lights. In some ways I was an ideal consumer, I bought their stuff, voided the warrenty immediately (so no support calls), and never used their cloud, so didn’t waste their resources. Now they are making it near impossible, and I won’t touch their stuff.

All that said, good luck, your gonna need it.

There will be a lot of work to understand the implications of these novel metals in the stratosphere,” Murphy said

I don’t see anything in that article about them being “alarmed”.

So far all the scientists appear to be saying “heads up, we need to investigate this further”, not “stop launching, this is bad”. We should listen to the scientists.

How about we wait until the science is actually in before kneejerking around? We have had the science equivalent of a shower thought, actual work and analysis needs to be done before jumping to conclusions.

I enjoyed Luigis Mansion 3. Never tried the previous games, but this one was fun. Has coop as well which you and your son may enjoy.

Not good. I bought a CO2 sensor for my lounge out of curiosity. I can see when I get home, because the levels immediately start climbing. My house is old and not well sealed, a new classroom with more people is gonna be worse.

I think they dropped their original plan for a unibody design, and there is a regular chassis underneith. That also could be rusting, but invisibly :)

I gave a windows 7 netbook to my grandma a few years back. It wasnt super bad, but eventually her eyesight started to ler her down. She upgraded to an android tablet, which is greatly helped.

She was fairly technically proficient though, she used to take the bus to the library just so she could take classes on how to use computers, so she set herself up for success there.

She is still mentally capable, but alas her eyesight is letting her down :(

Thats fair, i shouldn’t have brought age into it. Sorry. My partner is mid 30s, and I dont think she would find Linux usable either, its certainly not an age thing. Again, sorry for any offence.

I’m not trying to say that Linux isnt usable, it obviously is for many people (myself included), but for “most people”, i dont think it is “Best”. Specifically, the tech adverse crowd are not going to have a pleasant time without external support, and they make up a large portion of the population. Its silly though, to try claim a “best”. Windows is the clear popularity leader of OSs, but if all other OSs were to disappear except for Windows, it wouldnt take long for the next Linus/Terry Davis to bring out something that suits them better.

Sorry for rambling :)

I 100% agree on Medium though, complete nuisance of a site to use. Content is usually not worth it either.

What’s it like for remote support? Can you remote desktop into it if you need to? Or do you just not need to do that?

My goto for my grandma is an android tablet. She has terrible eyesight, so a light tablet can be “zoomed” as much as she needs, and i can remote in with some difficulty via teamviewer.

My only problem with ChromeOS was installing it on unsupported hardware. Id like to be able to get an old laptop and install it, but it hasnt been possible since I last checked?

It is a high bar, but so is “best for most people”.

Like i said, its getting better and better, but i dont think its anywhere near close to “best for most”.

As for anecdotes, my dad has been using Linux for years professionally, and occasionally needs help fixing something that broke in an update. Ill have to pry Win7 away from my mum at some point.

I think we need to be very careful making these kind of bold claims, as it can end up sounding very silly if it turns out to be untrue. “Year of the linux desktop”, “Mission accomplished”, etc.

This seems wildly out of touch. Yes, things are getting better and more user friendly, but its definitely not “best for most people”.

Until i can give a laptop with linux to my elderly neighbour without also needing to also provide support, its not there yet.