I think you are severely underestimating how computer illiterate most people are. Many people I know struggle to use their Iphones. Not long ago a friend asked me to help him turn on subtitles on a streaming service on his smart TV.
I wonder what French fries are made from?
My Republican mother used to say "Keep the government out of my Medicare."
And 90% of those will blame Biden and the Democrats for their skyrocketing premiums.
2nd the SSD suggestion. I switched to one after a couple of microSD failures and it is very stable and way faster. A 240GB SSD is around $30. Even if you eventually decide to go to a different HA platform the SSD will make the Pi much more useful for other things.
The only thing keep in mind is the power limitation of your Pi. Make sure whatever you buy doesn't draw more than the Pi power supply can provide.
This week Amazon starting pushing ads to customers paying extra for ad-free Prime Video.
Corporations are now so powerful they don't have to abide by reasonable norms, contracts, or laws any longer. Any fines are just a cost of doing business and are a small fraction of the profits they generate.
What are customers going to do anyway? Go to other businesses that are doing the exact same things on different days?
At a private store in Victoria a month ago there was a sign up on an empty shelf saying they weren't ordering any more American wine or spirits.
Yes. I had them blocked via my firewall because of the constant traffic they generated and blocking Internet access causes constant bulb resets. The resets are known to TP-Link and according to a couple of sources they created a private firmware release that fixed it. TP-Link failed to publically release that firmware, and last time I checked deny it ever existed. I replaced the bulbs with 3rd Reality Zigbee bulbs that work perfectly.
I didn't get that far. When they demanded I log in I just removed it. Jellyfin is working OK without having to figure out how to bypass defaults.
When I was in the market for bulbs Hue was just starting that BS. They lost that sale and I've been in the process of removing network access for everything possible and severely restricting it when not. My old Honeywell wifi thermostat is gone, smart appliances are disconnected from wifi, and TVs are blocked by my firewall when they aren't actually being used. Next up, Graphene OS.
Sometimes I'd like to move to a tropical island with no news or Internet at all.
Scalzi - both The Kaiju Preservation Society and Starter Villain are terrific.
It's not just companies. Amazon started pushing ads to subscribers who pay for ad-free Prime video content. Some idiot here on Lemmy actually insisted it wasn't an ad at all, but a "promotion."
Companies are getting their customers to make infuriating, ridiculous corporate statements for them.