Which one specifically?

LitterRobot 3 – Died after a year… I am not spending money on repairing it as I think the design is fundamentally flawed (DFI system gets pee and litter in it by design and fails). LitterRobot 4 fixes SOME of the issues but I am not dropping that much money on another robot litter box…

I loved not having to scoop so regularly and the immediate clean cycle actually made the litter last longer with just a few top ups.

I have purchased two cat fountains, both died in like 6mo of use even with filters and careful cleaning. Cats loved them and they were purchased because they were not drinking enough… Found out all I needed was a CHEAP larger diameter bowl as their whiskers were touching the edges and that is why they didn’t drink much from other bowls.

Please no! I shouldn’t need to constantly re-grant permissions unless an app has maybe had a major update where it may warrant review.

I am already annoyed how often iOS asks me am I sure I want an app to run in background etc when that is the point of said app.

CrowdStrike managed to break Linux systems a few months ago

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/

Linux, windows and MacOS have security APIs to avoid kernel drivers but they also let the user approve 3rd parties to install them still.

I also strongly agree that Burnout 3: Takedown and Burnout Revenge are the best in the series, the most focused and polished… Burnout Paradise is OK but lacks something those other two have.

Apple implemented a kernel API for security software and made it good enough that they forced their own tools to use the API.

I haven’t looked at the Security API in depth but I have looked at the iOS APIs… Apple gets away with their own apps having MUCH MUCH deeper access than what they give 3rd parties… I would be SHOCKED if their kernel API is all they use in their own tools.

Microsoft needs to shut up and do the work to make their kernel secure.

The EU ruling is very broad however, if it has just been security tools YES MS could have just built out the APIs and used them for defender, but the EU ruling makes it so open we have wonderful video game anti cheat and DRM drivers from all sorts of providers playing around in driver / kernel space.

Yes, System extensions on macOS Catalina 10.15 or later allow software https://developer.apple.com/support/kernel-extensions/

MS had this implemented originally in NT4 then started allowing more drivers direct access for performance.

They tried again with VISTA but McAfee and Symantec cried to the EU and forced MS to back down.

Apparently apple got away with implementing it however.

Kind of old news “Posted July 19, 2024 10:45 am Updated July 19, 2024 3:12 pm”

This report makes it sound like they had a video call with camera on, vs other reports where they recommend people have camera on because they didn’t

also used AI tools to create a profile picture and match that face during the video conference calls.

This doesn’t sounds like the video was on / faked only that they had a call where the profile picture was used.

Don’t Buy Stuff

Will it get done if it costs too much to get someone to do it? Do I think I can do it?

If I added up all of the home, auto and technical maintenance I have done in the last month as farmed out to a professional I would be broke ALL THE TIME or the things would not have gotten done.

SO many things can be looked up and even found as full instructional videos now.

I generally look at it as if there is special knowledge, skills or tools needed also if I could make things worse… If not I will try and do it myself.

As expected… COMBINED other manufactures are starting to make meaningful amounts of EVs. Individually it is funny how few they sell however.

Tesla still sells nearly 10x the number of EVs (BEVs) to the next most popular brand (globally).

Correction Tesla and BYD are embarrassing the “REST” of the the manufactures. Globally.

BYD numbers are often mix EV as a combination of PHEV and BEV, their BEV sales have substantially grown.

○ Tesla market share 20% ○ BYD Auto 15% ○ Geely Holdings 8% ○ Others 57%

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-electric-vehicle-market-share/

Well there are almost religious Richard Stallman GNU/Linux followers.

Your examples would have more similarity with suggesting a vegetarian diet as an alternative to a mix or most meat diet. That would be a functional alternative, like suggesting a different OS or Browser.

Veganism more like a political statement that if you eat meat your are a bad person for harming animals. All vegans may be vegetarians but not all vegetarians are vegan.

I will admit there are many OS and Browser purists that might be more like vegans telling you, you are bad for choosing the one you currently use. There are FOSS purists that only tell you to use FOSS because it is NOT commercial not because the software is better for what you need.

I went from an iPhone 7 to an iPhone 13 . I had replaced the battery on the iPhone 7 already, it still was getting updates but physically the charge port started wearing out and the NFC stopped working .

Was a good run, phone was super reliable needed no tweaking to work.

I have also been using iPhones since the iPhone 3G. Long before it existed on Android it was very easy to movie everything from your old phone to the new one, first via iTunes desktop then later via iCloud.

Family sharing for apps and family backups pooled in iCloud is also very convenient.

Gen X / Xennial, analog childhood, digital adult hood.

References TikTok as a source of knowledge

Likely has more to do with the cost of 1-2million per station vs 250,000 to 500,000 for a typical EV fast charging station

Electrolysis is at least 25% less as efficient than just storing the electricity in battery’s as it produces both oxygen and hydrogen and then you need to spend some more of the power compressing it…. Even before you get to transporting it. Otherwise we would just have electrolytes plants all over already.