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Why is AI assistance not welcome?

How do you feel about people like me who own a home (multiple homes actually), have dozens of cameras around it, with license plate readers, and work with local police? As I enter …

Gemini can just consume the device documents. There's an incentive for device makers to publish this content.

If Rivian was completely equal with Tesla at FSD, your tone would be completely different about Rivian. We understand.

> It's a topsy-turvy world where America closes up and China opens There's nothing "open" about China. Google, meta, openai, etc all blocked. Go visit and see how it goes when you …

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I just checked, and now it is 50 Gbps. Not long ago it was 300 Gbps when I moved into my house. I guess they lowered it. Not really any use for such speeds in a residential home an…

Because my main account is tied to my real identity in the username so I wanted to shift away from that.

No, not a typo. Ziply has 300 Gbps at my house if I want to pay $900 a month. Instead I pay $65 for 2 Gbps

I have fiber (I can get up to 300 Gbps at my home in the Seattle area, but I got opted for the 2Gbps) and I have Starlink as backup/failover. I previously used my mobile service fo…

No, I just created a new alt account. I have a year 1 account as my main.

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Thanks. This is very useful. I'm surprised at push back I always get on this topic so it's nice to see I'm not the only one. I thought tech people were concerned about privacy, but…

I rarely type my password or PIN. And if I did, I'd make sure to hide my screen. But I frequently casually read HN, reddit, and other sites casually and in public places. It would …

Then I can't vote up/down, hide, or flag posts and logged out users will get cached pages.

I'm often around others (bus, work, standing in line on my phone) and I don't want people to know my HN username. Many sites display the username in the upper right corner and it s…