I’ve never had an issue accessing necessary services from Linux. Once, literally, I had to use a Chromium browser — but presumably that would have been the case off Linux, as well.
What services are you thinking of that gate at an OS level?
1.44Mb should be enough even for a compressed but still decent quality MP3(~128kb) or AAC(~112kb) short track (1:30+, I think), then you can also reduce audio quality and gain more time based on music styles (lo-fi, etc).
Firewall blocking is not the point. The point is, that over time through enshitiffication the new device will require call home to unlock. Even when it does not need internet to work at all. But through this the vendor will get a foothold.
Sure you can block it, but then you have a pricey paperweight.
This is not unique to Thread/Matter, they can pull the rug on ZigBee as well, ofc.
> through enshitiffication the new device will require call home to unlock
I thought Matter certification demands that the device work without cloud connectivity, it's part of the spec. Being able to use any hub and have guaranteed basic functionality without the cloud is the big selling point.
> This is not unique to Thread/Matter, they can pull the rug on ZigBee as well, ofc.
Exactly. Enshittification can't be prevented with technical means, a manufacturer looking to rentseek can always do something shady to force your hand no matter the technology. These are by definition smart and connected devices, there are plenty of avenues for abuse. Philips tried to push an app update that required you to log in to an account to manage your Zigbee Hue hub and devices. They'll try again.
Thread/Matter are on paper mostly good for the consumers but come with some potential drawbacks. No smart home technology eliminates these risks, they only balance different advantages and drawbacks.
> but then you have a pricey paperweight.
The device must work offline. You might lose some features though, usually the ones that are only supported via the proprietary app.
The assumption of enshitification it that is receives updates. What you and a few others aren't understanding is that these don't need updates. These aren't Alexa or Google devices. They just get setup and passively work
Now, will they eventually build devices that don't work like that? Maybe.
A lot of companies have invested a lot into matter and thread. I’d be surprised if companies started requiring a call home to work. It doesn’t make sense to need that, since a thread network is, in a sense, offline by nature. Only the hub has access to the internet and it doesn’t require access to work, so having a device require a call home wouldn’t really make sense.
I get that enshittification is a real thing but I’d be surprised if it affected smart home devices in the way you are describing.
This trailer saves 7000l of diesel per year. Assuming 40l/100km, with this trailer you can go ~17.000 km more, which is 11-17% more, for the same fuel cost. Or ~12-15k EUR in fuel savings per year (assuming 1.8EUR/l).
With 13+ years ROI (electricity is not free) is this really beneficial?
Not in the next 3 year. However there are more elections coming up. And other things changing. For that matter even if the US does nothing, other countries doing something will forced changes. Petro cars are so cheap in the US (they are not exactly cheap) in large part because the design costs are amortized over so many buyers, when the rest of the world isn't buying them that drives up costs in the US.
Meanwhile I'm not the only US driver who has discovered how much cheaper a EV is, so even without CO2 fees things are changing - just slowly.
> The real benefit I think is when stuff like tax codes, carbon credits and government subsidies come into play and ROI goes down significantly.
Those are unreliable and vary at the whim of the government and their need to fill a hole in the budget. The only reliable factor here is a subsidy on the purchase price for the trailer as that can not be withdrawn after a year. Carbon credits will disappear as soon as a significant part of transport has been electrified, electricity prices are still rising, tax exemptions are temporary at best.
>Those are unreliable and vary at the whim of the government and their need to fill a hole in the budget.
Sure, but that doesn't matter to the guy buying the trailer. They got a tax break, credit, whatever, and through the magic of financialization they sold that tax break for $.92 on the dollar. So they don't really care what happens. And the $.08 hedges the middle man's risk. Etc. etc.
I think that's an overblown concern that mainly applies to processed forms of soy like soy milk or tofu (I don't consume soy milk or tofu). It would be difficult to consume that much of the raw bean; we're probably talking hundreds of grams of fiber per day if you tried. I'm not certain though, do your own research.
How is TikTok able to screen this en masse? Are they going after tags? Political issues aside, I am really interested in the technical background in this.
Every large social network has fairly advanced mass screening setups for advertiser-sensitive topics. They just need to change the configs. On YouTube for example they will transcribe audio and run OCR on text to flag sensitive topics using MLP in order to flag certain topics (ex: Palestine/Israel), and prevent most ads from being shown (and demonetize and down rank).
Basically every large advertiser requires this so it's pretty trivial to turn on.
The only thing I could come up with, assuming this isn’t a technical glitch, is that TikTok already had the infra to silence anything they want on the platform and as soon as the keys were handed over they turned that filter up to 100%
Surely they do that to filter out Tiannamen Square content already…. Now they’re good to go for any authoritarian gov who wants to restrict what their citizens can see their own government doing.
