I know he has empathy for me, for which I am thankful.

She should cancel the marriage, because voting for Trump and having empathy for your wife are mutually exclusive.

I use the *arr suite to manage things for me. There’s lidarr for music, radarr for movies, sonarr for TV, readarr for ebooks, bazarr for subtitles, and prowlarr to manage trackers/usenet.

And, the first settlers moved here because they were such religious extremists that no one wanted them around.

For sure. There always needs to be a human in the loop. But this notion people seem to have that all AI is completely worthless just isn’t true.

What’s scary is the hospital administration that will use AI to deny care to unprofitable patients (I’ve listened in on these conversations).

Hasn’t AI already been shown to be better at catching things like cancer than humans?

There are some things that computers can be better at than humans.

It could be they were within city limits or something

I fully support killing rapists in self defense.

I’d start carrying a gun.

I call them pieces of shit.

Like $1k a month just for me

Your upper range is way too low. I’ve had $75 copays before with shitty insurance.

My hobby is designing smart home systems and building my own smart devices, as well as being a cyber security expert in my day job, so I’m actually a primary source.

Plus, don’t rely on strangers on the internet to spoon feed you sources. It’s pretty easy to do your own research (which is how I learned what I know. If I’m dubious of a claim, I research it myself, which is why I possess the wealth of knowledge I do.

But you can easily find the security risks posed by Tuya with light googling.

The people who inherit the billions will be the billionaires who take their place. I’m not sure why this is such a hard concept to grasp.

I’m not providing anything because the fact that inheritances exist isn’t something that requires a peer reviewed study.

But you know this since you’re being intentionally obtuse.

All of the cheap Chinese devices are Tuya, which is a Chinese company which iirc the CCP controls.

The only reason you should buy a Tuya device is if you’re going up flash it with an open source firmware.

Throw those bulbs away. They’re likely Tuya bulbs, and everything Tuya is a major security vulnerability. Worse than TikTok

Go with TP-Link. Their products work well, work with home kit, and work with things like home assistant. They’re also creating matter devices now.

Also, I’d recommend getting a smart light switch instead of a smart bulb since the Led controller in the bulb is what will fail first. But, I get that this isn’t an option for a lamp, or if your overhead light and fan are tied together.

For the lamp, a smart outlet would work, and for the fan you can probably rig up a Shelly relay at the fan so you don’t have to do a drop for the fan control cable (if it has that capability).

No.

Someone inherits their wealth. You realize this, right?

Prove that wealth doesn’t just poof out of existence when the owner dies?

Not really. You have to remove the companies that made them a billionaire or they’ll just be replaced.