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In other parts of the world the police get a call saying there is an armed individual threatening to hurt hostages and they send a single unarmed officer to knock on the door?
In other parts, citizens generally don't have guns, so the idea of an "armed individual" by itself is already hard to believe.
https://twitter.com/ppathole/status/1116670170980859905 Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize. The only modification i'd recommend is replacing the gun with something simpler, like a sledgehammer. Can't be too careful.
(I've been on twitter too long and it's given me a sixth sense for detecting clout chasers who just repost others' jokes or make incredibly low-effort tweets.)
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In other parts, citizens generally don't have guns, so the idea of an "armed individual" by itself is already hard to believe.
Guns are in many countries all over the world.
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I still have no idea why anyone would want automated light switches. Unless they are bedridden. The conventional light switches never fail. The dimmer switches go out every 5 years or so, and I eventually get fed up and just replace them with a conventional switch. I've had programmable thermostats, but the user interfaces on them are so terrible I eventually replace them with one with a simple dial and thermostat.
That is true for some switches made by fly-by-night Silicon Valley companies. Especially the ones that need a Wifi connection to work. The ones I use are made by Lutron, who has a long history of making conventional light switches. They act just like normal switches, and I could sell my house without the home automation system, and it would be perfectly functional for the new owner. Having carefully designs home auto…
I just don't think of it as a burden. I don't think about it at all. My hand goes up to the switch.
I know I don't think about it, because when the power goes out my hand still automatically turns the switch on, even when I'm carrying a lamp. There's a second where I blink wonderering why the light didn't go on.
I have some 1-watt LED lights plugged in and on all the time, so I don't fall down the stairs. I figure the 1 watt is less than the power draw of motion detectors, etc.
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I still have no idea why anyone would want automated light switches. Unless they are bedridden. The conventional light switches never fail. The dimmer switches go out every 5 years or so, and I eventually get fed up and just replace them with a conventional switch. I've had programmable thermostats, but the user interfaces on them are so terrible I eventually replace them with one with a simple dial and thermostat.
And then we graciously disregarded the trouble of 'obsolete' hardware that is not supported anymore by the 'brand new improved and with most super revolutionary functionality in the universe' version of the software. I am fed up with phone apps already because of that, nearly no month or several week goes by without one warning me: UPDATE! NOW! And then when you update its behaviour is altered, many times functionali…
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Your analogy doesn’t hold because it’s a very different crime with very different intent and culpability. I’m simply pointing to the most similar Federal crimes and pointing out that the sentences are proportional. For comparison, Federal attempted murder-to-hire is only 10 years and that’s clearly a much worse crime. Tragically there’s now over 1000 cases of swatting per year. Only one person (Andrew Finch) has been…
>It’s not comparable to murder because it’s much more likely that someone would be killed by you offering them a ride in your car than by swatting them. My car rides don't come with a 0.1% chance of death. I'm not that bad of a driver.
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I still have no idea why anyone would want automated light switches. Unless they are bedridden. The conventional light switches never fail. The dimmer switches go out every 5 years or so, and I eventually get fed up and just replace them with a conventional switch. I've had programmable thermostats, but the user interfaces on them are so terrible I eventually replace them with one with a simple dial and thermostat.
And then we graciously disregarded the trouble of 'obsolete' hardware that is not supported anymore by the 'brand new improved and with most super revolutionary functionality in the universe' version of the software. I am fed up with phone apps already because of that, nearly no month or several week goes by without one warning me: UPDATE! NOW! And then when you update its behaviour is altered, many times functionali…
It doesn't matter if it's the best vacuum or the most secure vacuum or even the cheapest, for us it matters if it actually gets used and thus the floors are cleaner.
Same reason I've come to like our stick vacuum: we're far more likely to use it than other vacuums that are technically better but are heavier/louder/more difficult to store/etc.
https://twitter.com/ppathole/status/1116670170980859905 Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize. The only modification i'd recommend is replacing the gun with something simpler, like a sledgehammer. Can't be too careful.
That tweet you linked was plagiarised from: https://twitter.com/rururunit/status/1116412605025935362 (I've been on twitter too long and it's given me a sixth sense for detecting clout chasers who just repost others' jokes or make incredibly low-effort tweets.)
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As a sysadmin of many decades, I have not owned a printer in 15 years, and no self respecting tech worker I know would ever have one of them in their home. I do have an enterprise grade network, next gen firewall, a homelab, and a host of vlans with home automation segmented off to a dedicated network with zero internet access
"Printer" doesn't imply "wireless connection" necessarily. A lot of "smart" devices can be used without giving them access to the world. Just. don't. give. them. your. password.
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I still have no idea why anyone would want automated light switches. Unless they are bedridden. The conventional light switches never fail. The dimmer switches go out every 5 years or so, and I eventually get fed up and just replace them with a conventional switch. I've had programmable thermostats, but the user interfaces on them are so terrible I eventually replace them with one with a simple dial and thermostat.
And then we graciously disregarded the trouble of 'obsolete' hardware that is not supported anymore by the 'brand new improved and with most super revolutionary functionality in the universe' version of the software. I am fed up with phone apps already because of that, nearly no month or several week goes by without one warning me: UPDATE! NOW! And then when you update its behaviour is altered, many times functionali…