The technology used in 1915 was completely different from what the phone network is now, but essentially it’s still voice being carried from one device to another over a distance. You can still pay for international calls if you like, though, if you insist it absolutely has to be non-voip.

You can use the internet these days to call anyone for free, with video even.

Why would an immortal decide to take a pension?

Looks like it’s also a variant of Synergy, so I guess it’s just the same. There’s a lot of different forks of it, I’m not sure which one is the ‘best’ these days.

Maybe to connect to their update servers and validate updated binaries or something like that? Not sure if it supported calling home to get updates.

I mean, it’s the smart thing to do (even from a purely selfish perspective where you want to make sure the project continues to go into the development direction that keeps making you money), but it’s not something that’s actionable in court or anything like that.

There’s no expectation to contribute back when you use FOSS software, that makes no sense. I’m running Linux on like 10 devices and I’ve never merged anything in the kernel.

Because of you, Bezos isn’t a trillionaire yet, I hope you’re happy.

You probably need to stay within a certain ratio of returns vs keeping stuff, and as long as your score is good, they’ll honour returns without asking too much questions. We definitely return a lot of stuff without having any trouble, but we only return like less than 1% compared to what we buy.

Yep, I doubt the chatbot has direct access to the inventory.

And election campaigns only last a few weeks as opposed to the seemingly constant campaign in the US.

And parties publish manifestos with their positions on everything, as opposed to what both major parties are currently doing.

Let’s start by putting up cameras in all his houses.

And I don’t get why they would use it for graphics instead of using an AI coprocessor to do interesting stuff in games, like generating dialogue, complex missions, smarter NPCs, maps, etc.

You could build worlds where stuff happens that isn’t just governed by randomly doing stuff based on triggers.

https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-lock

Not sure if it’s compatible with your particular lock, but I’ve got switchbot stuff integrated into home assistant without issue (using their hub).

For a lot of devices that will leave an unsecured wifi network on that will

• allow any passerby to just set it up under their account and potentially mess with it
• use up valuable WiFi channels you might want to use for your own network

And this criticism of ‘the greens only show up every 4 years’ is in bad faith. The greens run in other elections as well, you just only hear about the presidential elections because that’s the only time they get some media attention.

This list has a bunch of school board members, city councillors, even a mayor on it. They do run in local elections, and even win sometimes.

Until you get rejected for a job at your own dad’s company.

The only sane answer in this whole thread.

Yeah, why the hell is OP using SMS?

He got rid of everyone else when he took over, he’s still dealing with court cases about how he handled that.