bmurphy1976

It cheaper to create one-off products. Creating a sustainable business though? Charging money for the product or service? Actually getting enough income to thrive? I think that also just got a lot harder. Sure, you quit and you undermined BigCo with your open source release, but somebody with even less to lose will now undermine you.

I think that's so true and it was one of the keys to success of the project. I contributed the very first simplistic implementation of referencing linked containers by name. I never would have bothered if the project was written in C or C++ (I'm more than capable, I just don't enjoy torturing myself). Go made it MUCH easier for a fly-by-night contributor such as myself to join the party.

I don't think there's any robust method. I lurk HN, subscribe to security lists, run our code through scanning tools regularly. All options suck, all options have gaps, and all options mean you have to stay on the hamster wheel.

Boss is part of a company that's over 50 years old, has half a billion dollars in revenue and 3000 employees. The op is a small shop just trying to get started. They aren't even in the same galaxy.

The farther you go, the faster you need to go to get enough time dilation to make the trip worthwhile. The faster you go, the more the shielding matters. It still applies!

Sounds like a good candidate for shielding an inter-galactic colony ship.

Do you think Chinese manufactures can't clone the hardware? Do you think they can't provide a premium product/experience? They most certainly can and do.

Just be different. Just create a brand. Oh if only it were that easy!

I want more stuff like this. The era 20 years ago (e.g. Enlightenment) was way more fun than the bland monotonic design we have these days. If you like bland modern design, great, that should be an option as well, but we should still have good variety.

You need the right sized coin. A nickel works best. Anything else doesn't fit right and tears up the plastic or slips out.

I have a bunch of Aqara sensors and they stay connected most of the time, but if there's an extended power outage, usually about 1/3rd of them won't reconnect. It's annoying having to hunt them all down and reboot them. Sometimes the button won't work either and I have to fuss with the battery to get them situated.

I had issues with my garage fridge last year. Took a while to figure out, but there was a small box at the bottom that was occasionally keeping the door from closing completely. The Zigbee sensor was great tracking what happened when and helping me narrow down the cause.

Google isn't much better. I have them all over the house. Ask a question to the living room speaker, skips that, skips the one in the kitchen, answers from the one in the bathroom upstairs or one in the basement. Then you get a notification later asking "was this the right device?" which is doubly infuriating since responding to that never actually improves anything.

Yes, that's my point. Fridges don't need all this functionality built into them.

Is it really an Elephant in the Room situation? Are there upvoted ticket/issues or community threads asking for it? I don't really know, it's an honest question.

As somebody with a pretty extensive Home Assistant based home automation system AND kids, I've never once felt the need for this. I can certainly see the utility of it, but Home Assistant is already complicated enough. I'd prefer effort be spent improving the UX, simplifying the system, improving reliability and adding more (optional) integrations.