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Yeah, pointing to the problem is quite easier than figuring out a solution.

As far as I'm concerned, I actually read the popups and having to click okay about five or six times in a row would make me second-guess my decision. Would that work for everyone? Most of the people? Some of the people? I don't know that answer.

> I'm not even sure if such a barrier should be technological or legal.

My answer would be both. I highly doubt it's in hardware manufacturer's interest to figure out a technological solution, but if there's some legal incentive for them to at least try, they'll figure out a technological solution.

> The idea that ROMs from questionable sources make your device safer sounds very strange to me.

It's about owning your hardware, not safety. A person that's willing to go through the hassle knows the consequences of such actions and how to deal with them.

Do "normal people" need to do that? Absolutely not. Should it be easy to do that? Absolutely not. But for those of us that really want to own our hardware, there should be a way of doing so without relying on exploits.

As with any Apple product ever, this is not a "completely new tech product". This is a long established market that Apple believes they can do better than everyone else.

For an exorbant price of course, but that stage is some years into the future.

It's literally mentioned and linked to in the first paragraph.

Predictable audience? Absolutely not.

It's easy for a story or two to go viral (as in, slightly easier than on other platforms). What's not easy is to retain that viewership. Similarly to YouTube, you could put weeks worth of effort into one article just for it to flunk spectacularly simply because the recommendation algorithm didn't like it in the first 12 hours or so since you've clicked "publish".

In any case, thanks for mentioning it. Thoroughly enjoyed Story of Your Life and Others and had no idea he released a second short story collection a few months ago.

It's going straight to the top of my to-read list.

> and no, sending a reset command via apps is not feasible (what if you've lost the account password and you've accidentally paired it to your neighbours wifi?)

Hubs save all the pain with smart lighting system. No need for an account, system works locally. If you wanna control them remotely, you can (but you don't have to). Connected to the wrong wifi? Reset a hub instead of individual bulbs. You pair bulbs with hubs and have just one device spamming traffic to your router.

Ikea and Philips Hue seem to be the only systems that got this solution down properly.

I couldn't agree more. I can't help but feel like the Venn's diagram between people who suggest "move to a more rural area" and people who never lived in a rural area for a prolonged period of time is a full circle.

It sure doesn't help that there's a bunch of articles about people who "found happiness" by moving to a rural area like a year ago. You may see some benefit in the short term (yes, one year is a short term), but on a long term it will fuck you up.

The answer is so simple it's brilliant: you need a permission from the local police in order to organize a protest on a specific location at a specific time. In most of the cases, that works fine.

In a small number of cases when the authorities really don't want you to organize a protest, they'll keep denying you one location after the other using bullshit excuses until the date when the protest is set to happen. Then they can crack it down for "unlawful assembly".

Note that I'm not from Russia, but I am from a country that looks up to Russia for some forsaken reason and we have experienced protests getting killed in this fashion.

Almost as if that was the point of me including the words "but its price is not publicly available" in my comment.

GitHub does offer self-hostable enterprise edition, but its price is not publicly available.

I have never touched their air purifier, but I did three other gadgets (TV box, some indoor camera, some light bulbs).

If privacy is your concern, I wouldn't recommend them. If stability is your concern, I wouldn't recommend them.

The light bulb works with an app only (probably to remove the need for a separate hub), the camera could be rooted to work offline-only (which is why I bought it, but I gave up after a couple of shots and it's currently sitting in my drawer), and the TV box is by far the noisiest device in my local network. It's like 60% of all DNS requests blocked by my Pi-hole.

Their devices are also the most unstable devices I own, to the point where I'm considering just throwing them in the trash and re-investing in another camera and a TV box. I've already replaced the bulb I've purchased with a Philips Hue system. Quite more expensive, but truly works locally.

I don't drink much, but a $5 wrench would probably work on me.

Did you add any friends lately? Do you know those "greetings" that Facebook pushes into Messenger whenever you add a new friend on Facebook?

I've recently noticed on my SO's phone that Messenger counts them as "unread messages", and the only way to clear them is to a) send that greeting, or b) clear them from a desktop.

In other words, they're getting pretty desperate to drive the engagements up, and this is something that probably wasn't implemented in third-party clients.

Note that this is different than a "message" on a mobile browser. Last time I've checked (admittedly, quite some time ago), there was one "message" that never gets cleared, regardless of what you do.

Yeah, it's just the title. I was on top for like 16h or so because I had a catchy title and some way of supporting that title within the content.

Comments were far different. Almost all of them were negative and highly unconstructive. I don't mind criticism, but I really mind criticism from which I can't learn anything. One HN reader actually took the time to write a constructive comment. I don't know who it was nor did I thank him at the time, but that one constructive criticism was way more helpful than all the traffic boost I got.