Co2, CO, particulates, NO2 and volatile organics.

I guess it’s down to venting?

There are also refrigerators, washers, dryers and dishwashers that collect telemetry.

I’ve never found a compelling reason to buy a TV. Now if computer monitors ever go “smart” then I’m in trouble.

I disagree; I’d say the issue is HAVING to install and configure. Windows got where it is by coming preinstalled with a functional default configuration, allowing IT to set group policies to make and enforce configuration changes.

That can all be done with Linux today; it just isn’t.

Hard to enforce a GPO on Linux, unless it’s locked down like ChromeOS.

That’s really the limiting factor: liability and support costs.

I prefer tabbies.

AI is only as good as a sum of its human created algorithms and its human created training sets.

Which means, there’s no escaping the influence of politics; AI just means it will be permanently skewed and not as responsive to current political events.

Yes, actually. I can see the level go up slightly when the burners go on, but when the ventilation fan kicks in, the levels go back down almost immediately.

As a foil: I grew up with an electric oven. Used an electric ofen through the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and finally got a gas oven in 2017.

Because I was concerned about gas in the home, methane, CO, etc. I invested in a bunch of sensors so I’d know the moment any of it became an issue.

It’s been almost 9 years now, and I’ve yet to experience an issue.

However, that whole “you can use it when the power’s out” thing: can’t use the oven; the valve is electric. On my first gas range, the range wouldn’t even come on without electricity.

The pots and pans I use now are designed for gas and heat up fast, maintain an even heat, and cool down fast.

Essentially, I think not all devices are created equal.

I like not depending on a single utility for my energy needs, but at the same time wouldn’t shed a tear if methane production vanished tomorrow (I’d probably convert to propane short term and electric long-term).

Interesting. I presume that over time, MS plans to tweak the driver, increasing safety and security, and then start transitioning known safe devices over. Seems surprisingly responsible.

It pre-dated Reagan. I’d say it started in the early 1960s, right about the time Boomers started becoming adults.

I just told my extended family how they can contact me, and accepted that I’d be out of the loop on some things.

I generally post variations on this when similar questions come up:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2025+marketing+technology+landscape&iar=images

The companies on the edges are all about marketing adtech firms to companies with money to convince them to spend it on digital marketing.

After what happened in China when motorcycles were legalized, I think I’d want to wait a while before going anywhere that flying cars were being ised.

The encryption is so if someone breaks in and takes off with your hardware, they don’t get your data too.

Of course, my backup software encrypts anyway, so I don’t bother to do volume encryption.

I just got a cheap Beelink minipc and slapped external HDDs on it — comes with a decent SSD inside and a slot for SATAIII drive inside too.

I’m running Debian on it, but FreeNAS/TrueNAS Community would have worked as well.

Good/bad doesn’t have to do with age. Are you going to Harvard or a local college with subsidized night school classes? Are you wanting to learn a specific skill, get a degree, upskill for a career path, retrain for new work?

I had a grandfather who ended up deployed in the army when he was planning to go off to college. When he got back, he took the jobs he could and continually took night school classes.

My father got his masters degree when he was 46, which resulted in 20 years of increased pay at work.

Me? I’m constantly learning, using free online courses. I don’t care about the degrees or certifications; anyone who knows me knows what I’m capable of.

I knew a woman who got her PhD in Law at the age of 97.

My workplace pays for appropriate certifications for its employees.

There’s all sorts of ways to go to school.

It’s projection. Paxton doesn’t like who’s benefiting.

Mom! The giant sloths have dug up the neighborhood again!

I’m still missing your point.

I’ve got all my apps I’ve downloaded backed up, at least for macOS. iOS… easier to grab the older ones off a pirate repository once Apple stops listing them.

Are you trying to say that everyone should be running Debian Stable without non-free on commodity x86 or RISC-V hardware with only open source hardware gerbers and no proprietary chips?