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Comment Re:Aux port - how could it even technically pause? (Score 1) 41

I don't know the protocol but old phone headsets had a 2.5 or 3.5mm jack with an extra ring that got you play/pause/hook/next/last.

Hypothetically that could have been implemented. I had a collection of Alexas that got binned as soon as they got caught spying for police so I never got that far. ESP32 is better for nerds anyway.

One thing Australia does right is a statute naming removal of features as a violation of contract requiring full refunds in these circumstances.

Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 245

Which is why the best idea is to allow States (or in this case Provinces) choose what they want to do for themselves

Yeah, that's the weird thing about this whole topic. I don't know how it is in Canada, but - why do US states have what amounts to partial autonomy in this regard? States are allowed to choose between implementing twice-yearly DST switches or sticking with year-round standard time... but they can't choose permanent DST?

Comment Re:We already tried this (Score 1) 245

It sounds good until you have to live it

I *did* live it, and I can't say going to school in the dark bothered me in the least.

But, in any case, I'll be retired soon - so I no longer particularly care which way we go. I think maybe we could even keep doing what we're doing, and I'll bring the popcorn to these ongoing Slashdot discussions.

Comment Re:Aaand as usual.. (Score 2) 64

At best you could fool someone like Peter Thiel I suppose.

Isn't that pretty much the standard tech business plan nowadays? Not to build a sustainably profitable company... but to pull something together that offers the best potential for a quick buyout in the shortest amount of time.

Comment Re:Threating to "shoot up" a police station (Score 2, Insightful) 89

No! Nothing happened here. This person wrote something in a place they thought was private. Someone spied on them an ratted them out, but nothing actually happened and no one should be under arrest. No was was harmed, no one was threatened, nothing happened.

This is some crazy big brother shit that should not happen.

Comment Re:I'm sticking with my intel mac (Score 1) 73

I actually just bought a refurbished 15" M4 MacBook Air (for various reasons), but I'm also hanging on to my Intel-based MacBook Pro since it's running fine. The latter machine currently has a small-ish Linux Mint partition alongside macOS, but I'm thinking of switching it to Linux-only.

Note that, if you do this, you need carefully chose your distro if your Mac has the T2 security chip.

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