Well they are correct to a point.

If the solar panel don't have grid failure shutdown for its inverter, it can shock (or with bad luck) kill workers working on a downed power line assuming the load side is safe. That is also why house installations also often only have a dedicated outlet during power loss and are not allowed to connect to the full house.

I agree everyone should be able to get off-grid solar system or balcony solar, but they should have to be certified to not shock workers during an outage when people inevitably get cheap TEMU balcony solar.

Excuse me if I am doubtful lol.

Nearly every country requires an ID. 80% of Europe or so, nearly all of Asia including China and India, all but 1 country in Africa, Australia, many/most countries in the Americas.

It is going to end up like seatbelts and surveillance in America. Tons of complaining and bitching and grand threats, but everyone immediately capitulating and putting up no resistance. That is just how humans are I think and this is a lot less of a deal than other surveillance being done daily (as long as encrypted messaging stands) since you are completely fingerprinted on your phone anyway and your identity is widely tied to your browsers and apps and google/apple accounts.

Sadly the absolutely pitifully small storage space of the pixels to force you to use their cloud services carries over to graphene.

Currently I have immich not removing any photos or videos from my phone and my entire music library synced via syncthing.

Even if I got the more expensive "upgraded memory" pixel, I would be out of storage (having 0 games on my phone and minimal apps) in about another year, maybe 2...

The experience of only "cloud" (even if self-hosted) media services is a compromise at best.

I run Handy with Parakeet for speech to text, and home assistant with Whiper for the same. Whisper+ on my phone.

I think that counts. But I have more relevant and useful things to do on my hardware and no 2000€+ to get LLM-capable hardware 😂

Would spamming low effort comments to fill a quota then fall under the spam bit, not necessarily self promotion bit? It would be quite obvious and from what was written in the post, moderators have more hand-wavy freedom to decide what is spam.

I have no dog in this fight either since all of my projects are open hardware so nobody cares anyway because it would cost money to build it and test it out 😂

I wonder if it has to do with the perception of danger (and reality in the US with the massive human trafficking). Along the lines of "if my child ever disappears without a trace, maybe tracking will be able to locate them or where they were heading"?

I don't have children, but I would think that they would much prefer freedom with less curfews, less interrogation if they get home late, and a return to "just let your kids go out and play for the whole day" like was common 20+ years ago?

Maybe that would require trust that the parents wouldn't track their every move though... Then again, normalizing mentally accepting having your location tracked all the time is very dangerous...

Nvm, I realized after I typed this that it is only really useful for pre-teens teenagers, not people over 18.

Ah and mega corporations never die, so never 😂

How dare you suggest tech journalism isn't just trying to sensationalize a nothing burger without doing more than 10 minutes of research??

The EU is pushing very similar things...

Literally Meta has been caught paying people through shell orgs all around the world to pass this kind of legislation.

Communicating with external devices via USB or the old D-Sub connectors.

Printers, microcontrollers, instruments, etc... Directly instead of through the OS.

Notably, ESPHome Programmer uses it for flashing ESP32s wired. Other companies like Solo Motor Controllers use it for delivering a user GUI to customers that is always updated but that can switch between versions instantly for production without having to having to deal with window's broken method of having to manually search and download .exes for every program.

26°C inside? That is rough.

Zach Freedman always has quite thouroughly thought out videos. Not always interesting for me personally, but quite a few bangers.

And he launched Gridfinity into the ecosystem it is today.

FUTO is a bit problematic

Rossman left FUTO (unclear if it was because of their practices) anyway. Best to contribute to projects directly.

It will be robots sent to kill humans, whether by another country or the country on its own citizens.

Robots killing robots is just damage to capital which the elites will make sure is not the path forward.

If you are looking for fireproof safes, these types technically don't let the flame in, but they get so hot that the documents turn to dust apparently. You generally need a lot bigger safe to be able to be thick enough to disperse heat

For theft, you also need a super heavy or bolted down safe or they will just take the whole safe.

Safes Re expensive stuff, sadly.

I had the GameCube "The two towers" and "return of the king"

This is definately ROTK from the GameCube by the amount of characters (TTT was only 4 I think)

Faramir was pretty great.

But that era of LOTR games was phenomenal.

Gameboy The Third Age being an advance wars/fire emblem turned based while other platforms were an open world RPG and they were all great.

The movie games were absolutely great.

The Hobbit cartoon-style game was also pretty good.

Battle For Middle Earth series was iconic and while unbalanced, had some of the most epic fights

LOTR Conquest was like battlefront with LOTR

Like star wars games in those days, there were so many different game genres where most of them were actually really well done unlike other movie based games.

I fine this a funny one.

If you can reconfigure a physical switch, that it by definition is not a kill switch for those functions. It is literally the same as turning them off in software.

It was literally never about the children

There is a lawyer's wet dream of evidence against thousands of real-world non-speculative child rapists and abusers with names, phones, emails, and literal video evidence and written admissions of guilt of systematic rape, torture, abuse, and child sex trafficking that are legally usable in court.

What has been done about it?

Not one. Single. Arrest. Because the guys implementing the tracking are the same ones raping and torturing children.

This is not a policy or tool to protect children.

This is a way for the exact same sadist pedophiles to track children's identities so that they can use that plus data broker data to figure out what kids are most vulternable and target them to be raped, tortured, and abused.

One thing that people often forget is TVs / stream boxes and Alexa/google assistants.

Smart TVs all have microphones that are recording (for "voice commands") and the same with the remotes for stream devices (though probably not unless asked because of battery life), also google and Alexa's are constantly always listening. They are simply spyware devices that parse everything you say and hand it to advertisers, insurance, governments, etc...

Phones also suffer from the battery life problem, so jury is still out on whether they listen to you because constantly recording audio would degrade battery life quite a bit (though maybe it is factored in). Phones absolutely do share location data and any phones discovered on the same WiFi network or in the same location if that data was available and from there will share entire search history of devices on the same network (well, that is on the data center end, phones likely just send what devices and for how long they were together). From there it is quite easy to advertised based on search history, unencrypted text data, etc...

For example in OP, OP had likely searched around about cars and checked out manufacturers websites and such before meeting with the parents (unless they were going in completely blind to dealerships), so it would have shared exactly the cars that they were looking at and linked it to the parents for advertising.

Still fucked, ethically wrong and legally grey, but "listening" is a bit of an inefficient way to do it, generally.

I did this a few years ago.

Maybe the best option is to create an entirely new prefix in Heroic and install battle.net via their "run installer first" button. Via Winetricks GUI you can install the 2 fonts or whatever that the lutris script installs.

Then, copy the game files of StarCraft 2 or WoW or whatever to the new prefix program files.

Then, in battle.net, it will either auto-detect the game, or you can go through the "search for games" flow in settings.

That should work, it is always better to have a fresh prefix as it takes almost no space. Once everything is copied you can simply delete the old one.