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I've been using tinc for quite while. How does it compare to Wireguard?

One Tinc advantage is that it can run on an Openwrt router.

Because the person with dementia does not have a stable level of cognition. It changes continuously. The article mentions this. At higher levels of cognition they will know whatever the simulation is false and it will upset them.

Spend some time with dementia patients and you'll quickly realize the issue.

Any VR would have to be able to determine current cognitive ability to not cause as much frustration and harm as relief.

It is no worse than email is now. In fact, it's better because only allowed clients can read messages authorized for them.

Without NN won't ranking pages by "page speed" simply enhance the benefits of purchasing "fast lanes" near end points (on previously dumb pipes ;-) to those willing to do so?

I agree. EquiFax deserves complete dissolution as a corporate entity. Much like Arthur Anderson dissolved itself after being caught as the approving auditor in the Enron scam.

Corporations and executives as well as stockholders must suffer. For executives there must be clear disincentives to bad management. Stockholders must learn to NOT invest in unethical companies. And employees need to learn that working for poorly run companies is a poor career choice.

Otherwise, these events will continue to occur and everyone on the inside will glad hand each other about how they got away with it.

Z-wave and encrypted ZigBee controlled products work pretty well for in-home automation. Communication is encrypted between devices.

The problem can be the Z-wave/ZigBee controller which may very well require Internet and Cloud access to "phone home."

I avoid using IoT devices that I can't re-program or if nothing is available except some proprietary/cloud driven device I isolate them into their own little network space, so they can't attack the rest of the network or "phone home" unless I let them. Sometimes, that isn't possible and that's when 30 day return privileges come in real handy.

The ability to trace the packets coming off of most IoT devices is fascinating and sometimes scary. A lot of devices are like the recent OnePlus smartphones that record and send most everything to their "true master" the manufacturer of the device. At least, with a Oneplus you can fix that, by reflashing the phone.... which is not true of most IoT devices being sold today.

Have you noticed that BestBuy seems to only sell IoT devices that will "phone home?"

Roku has made all the difference for many. It has most every streaming option including Amazon who refuses to work on Chromecast.

It's easy compared to most other Internet Video Stream Receivers by offering a WiFi remote (not your phone) and a TV/Cable channel metaphor UI rather than a web metaphor UI.

It works really well for the non-technical and older people.

Actually, they know their customer needs and wants. Their advertising and "in network" offers are brimming with all the appropriate wording and promises. They just don't provide good support or deal honestly so customers are rightfully are fed up, but most don't know there are any options.

If they were not local regional monopolies they'd be losing customers a lot faster than they are now.

The faster we can make cable companies "dumb pipes" the better off we will all be... except if you are a Cable company exec or shareholder.

BTW, if you are an HOA board member make sure you maximize your "door fees" when they come up for re-negotiation. "Door fees" are what a cable company pays the HOA for access to living units within the HOA. "Door fees" also prevent the HOA from letting any other Cable company have the same access for the term of the contract. Since you can't break the monopoly, you can at least lower the regular assessments for your HOA members with Cable company cash.

Cable companies keep tightening the screws on Cable TV customers who in many cases will remain cable subscribers for broadband internet only..... But only because there are no other options in their area.

Also Cable Companies continue to encrypt local channels that used to be on unencrypted clear QAM channels. So that HDTV or DVR that has a digital tuner that you purchased can't get a signal without adding yet another cable box (or cablecard) to your monthly bill for each and every device.

Then customers decide to try an Over-The-Air (OTA) antenna and realize that the Cable Co's have been degrading their local channels signal for years in favor of pay channels and shopping channels.

Next, a customer may get a Roku or Chromecast and realize the choice greater and quality better streaming from the Internet than via local cable and the customer has much better control over the costs.

Also "cord cutters" are making a lot of noise on social networks about what they are doing and how well it works. Couple that with how much "love" most people have for their cable company and well decline should be inevitable as long as the alternatives work and they do.

Rats! They didn't provide the old mouse pad with buttons above and below. The "click anywhere" mouse pads are a pain. And who wants to be stuck with only a iCore 7U processor?

If space utilization is the issue then use a 2.5mm jack. Like Palm (before HP) did over 10 years ago. Waterproofing a jack is not any harder than doing it for USB.

Eliminating the jack entirely just means I'll be looking elsewhere for my next phone and I've bought a lot of Google phones.

Bluetooth dropouts and interference are a regular occurrence. And dongles are not necessary unless the phone makers is just trying to make more money by removing existing functionality from the base device.

In Portland Oregon many ADUs are converted unattached garages, finished attics, finished basements and more rarely converted garden sheds. Particularly, in the areas where much of the closer to city center housing stock is pre-World War 2 and near good public transit.

ADUs have to meet current building and fire codes. Though there is a loophole where an on-site resident owner may do their own construction without permits.

ADU construction along with rental housing starts is also slowing due to recent city legislation and the threat of rent control which has been illegal in the entire state of Oregon since the 1980s. And the city of Portland via new regulation has already added friction and increased costs in their rental market exacerbating their "rental housing crisis" except for those renters already in existing rentals.

ADUs were popular additions on family occupied and/or owned Portland properties until the recent regulatory changes and rent control threat. Now there is added known risk and uncertainty.

Existing stakeholders see more traffic, less parking, more noise and disturbance. Higher density housing generally creates more conflicts among residents.

So existing residents already in place resist more residents arriving in the same area. Which is understandable, since ADUs do not address adding services provided by government to existing properties. They just increase the number of inhabitants in the same area.

Also much of Portland has a much better and less expensive public transportation system than the SF Bay Area does.

My preference was UUCP for USENET via 1200 baud modem circa 1983.

That likely depends on what trade agreements exist between your country and the US. The dominoes could fall quite quickly.