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As someone who's technical but not enough to the point of writing code, this has been my experience writing software 100% with LLMs.

nice to see an article from my industry! st2110 is such a complex standard which a lot of the hardware mentioned has been molded to deal with.

It costs $5 to open a bank account at most US credit unions.

Not even for the average HN user.

This is because Apple has barely updated the iTunes/Music App codebase and featureset since iCloud came out in 2011.

The only asterisk to that statement would be if OP was a Mac user. Using Firefox for reddit and youtube nets me 4 hours of battery life on a 2020 13 inch MacBook Pro, while safari will get my 6.5-8 hours with the same usage.

Ah. Then there really isn't any completely voice activated solution on the market that can sort your needs. They're all so cloud-focused.

You can use HomePods as dedicated outputs for your Apple TV 4th gen or newer. Can also work alongside your amp.

Also, as stated in earlier comments, you’ll be able to use AirPlay to stream anything from your NAS via an iOS/Mac device.

The only feature you’ll lose is the ability to say “hey Siri, play song x”

AirPlay is lossless, too.

Considering that the HomePod non-mini doesn’t do any on-device language processing, I don’t see a need for that much power.

I also think that leasing or buying used negates the car-rental argument. The costs of owning a used sedan are very low, and the on-demand convenience imho beats renting a car for $8/hr. Leasing enables one to have a new car without taking the depreciation hit.

Own what appreciates, rent what depreciates.

I bought my HomePod mainly for its value as a speaker first -- at $199 I don't think any Sonos or Harman competitor can produce such high-fidelity sound.

I also put more trust into Apple/Siri than I do with Alexa or Google. Their differential privacy and anonymized Siri requests have limited the speaker to few features which in my experience work well with the latest 13.x OS.

There is a team taking advantage (jailbreaking on iOS) of the security flaw in all A-series chips up to A11 in the hardware-level bootloader. The T2 in your 2018 or newer Mac is a variant of the A10.

The bootROM flaw allows for an exploit that can only be executed with physical access, another Mac and DFU mode. It's not persistent.

The main use of this exploit was to install unsigned code on iOS devices (jailbreaking.) The team is doing it for free, however many contributors take advantage of Apple's bug bounty program for income, therefore making newer devices more secure.

Making UXs for desktop that share design elements with touchscreens will always be a mess.

It's my biggest fear for the future of macOS development given the recent announcement of Big Sur and ARM.

I find that funny when Among Us (indie) and Fall Guys (also indie) are some of the highest-trending games at the moment.