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There are ways to control a device remotely without letting the device spy on you and call home - Zigbee, Matter, Esphome..

20minutes just means a shitty module or lots of ~1.3ghz noise (e.g. from dji o3/o4 or gopro cpu), although bad input filtering and gps located near an antenna could saturate the amplifier even with antenna on a different frequency. 1min is typical for cold fixes but you can make it faster by uploading ephemeris/cache using AssistNow (valid for about a month).

20x plan is $200, 5x is $100. Pausing $200 plan signups is effectively doubling prices (you can subscribe to two $100 accounts for the same money and get half as much usage), and that's exactly what they did.

Disconnect the u.fl to the antenna and it’ll be hard for it to transmit data unless you live next door to a cell tower.

HDMI breakout and a esp32 module flashed with esphome is another option. The tv most likely doesn’t care that the port that sent on/off command is not the same port the video signal is coming from..

You can do on/off using an IR blaster (broadlink integration with discrete on/off codes). It’s when you want to read volume etc things get trickier

To be fair print drivers have mostly been user mode. On Windows since win2000, and on macOS - since macOS 10 Cheetah.

> Also pilot suicide isn't something new and the aviation world has tried to come up with several regulations to ensure it doesn't happen

As AI171 has shown, turning the engines off on rotation does it reliably and there’s nothing that the other pilot or regulations can do to prevent it.

> and the likely eventual outcome will be the same for the US as it was for the USSR.

Split into a bunch of states with only one of them getting the debt burden and the nukes? and they try to invade some other 'ex-US' states a couple decades later?

> Hobbyist drones also don't ship with lidar in stock.

Is Neo a $20 toy? LIDARs are getting cheap quick, at some point when ToF sensors add $10 to BoM they will be in all drones.. I guess except US only SKUs? Not like you can't get pretty much the same data using just a single camera, GPS+IMU fusion and structure-from-motion..

US companies don't even sell consumer drones, so are they going to stay competitive by forcing consumers to buy $4000 enterprise models for their kids to play with?

> And banning the foreign ones means they can order domestic-made drones to have firmware that prevents them from operating in certain (government) areas, among other things.

Yeah because DJI drones are well known for their easy to hack firmware and lacking support for no fly zones..right? And they would openly flaunt any US law making any drones sold or flown the US to obey the NFZs? But wait, that's exactly what DJI drones used to do even without a law on the books, before FCC banned them.

Feels like having touch calibration procedure built into firmware and documented in the manual (remember those?) would also work.