Actually, yeah, I edited above but it did have a little keyhole: Except the management office said it was for themselves alone.

That’s just…eegh…

LOL relevant meme attached:

Arlen TX

Weird coincidence seeing this right after finishing an episode of King of the Hill. LOL

“Yo man dang’ol smartlock open up man left my daggum phone in there tell ya what.”

“I’m sorry, can you repeat that?”

Are you sure EA or Ubisoft didn’t already beat you to it? Lol

I mean you could fuck other Americans

This is officially American policy at this point.

I was laughing early thinking this was depicting the future, where the “funny old man gibberish” was the Roblox “oof!” because a Zoomer was getting punched lmao.

For a sec it felt like a deep commentary on how the flow of time is always cruel. BUT ANYWAY more on topic:

I both miss the Yahoo! Messenger days and also feel incredibly weirded out knowing how like, nothing was encrypted back then. That’s something I simply can’t imagine not caring about now. :|

At this point I’m quickly getting to the “…rebellion becomes duty” phase on this issue. Everything is getting so unreasonable.

I’m also just worried about getting served because I forgot to turn on an obfuscation service or something lol…

Honestly I’m not sure, I only got a look at it when I was helping her move.

It’s tied to a wall panel on the other side that controls the whole unit’s lighting and thermostat and such though, and shows a doorbell cam.

Educated guess that it’s all tied to Amazon. Blegh.

Allegedly they’re just supposed to rely on maintenance to change the batteries so they’re not locked out of their home. Crazy.

Okay hang on…this could be a thinly valid use for “vibe coding.”

Is the only software for a particular use case proprietary, ad-ridden, and/or subscription forced, but you don’t have time to dedicate to an entirely new project?

Quickly throw together open sourced “good 'nuff” alternatives to big corporate software!

My sister’s new apartment’s front door has a “smart lock”, hooked up to Ring, naturally. No keyhole, you open it with your phone. It also runs on batteries.

Do I really need to say any more? We were baffled.

EDIT: Correction - there IS a keyhole but the actual tenants don’t have access to it. Only the property management. Creepy. :|

“Routers using OpenWRT”

Every time I research this, it seems like nothing I can reasonably acquire can run it. Especially any WiFi 6 / AX devices. It’s infuriating.

Edit: Not the fault of OpenWRT, but how stupidly locked down everything is manufactured by design anymore.

This. SO many devices, especially networking stuff. It seems like they should just do their thing after plugging in and setting a few settings. “It’s so EZ!” says the box.

Nope, “scan this code to get this app, make an account, agree to all the things, register for spam…”

It’s disgusting.

The only upside to this state of things is that it keeps alive my fantasies of one day being a Watchdogs-style techno-sorcerer that can wirelessly hack anything that runs on electrons and a WiFi signal.

… Although the nightmare is that people far more evil can probably already do that.

and if it bugs all you can do is wait for the devs to fix it for you.

“Oop, sorry, we only promised 2 major updates! Your 2 year old device is abandoned now.”

–The mobile industry

We need a decently-hardwared Linux phone so badly…

Children of Men Guy

Ah I was gonna say Boromir. :p

Rome fiddled while Tesla burned. :)

Thank god, ol’ smarty Musky built a tunnel with no safety features for all those Teslas.

You. Could. Not. Pay me…To get into that stupid friggin’ tunnel. How on earth did that thing actually get built?!

The flooding potential is bad enough, but otherwise, it’s not a matter of “if” people are gonna die horribly of fire or toxic inhalation in a confined concrete space with no escape, it’s absolutely “when.”

He along with others discovered the cure for fascism.

One such cure makes an exceptionally satisfying “PING!” after every 8th dose administered.

I’m guessing they mean catching dealerships setting their own vehicles ablaze to claim insurance money.

I don’t see that happening really though, sadly in my locale, these stupid jellybean caskets are selling and there’s more clogging up the roads by the day.

…but investigators are exploring multiple causes, including arson.

I think it’s quite telling that they’re likely considering the strong possibility that these wonderous marvels of cost-cutting may have just spontaneously lit themselves ablaze without help, at rest, in a parking lot.

For a majority of other vehicles, that’d be an absurd conclusion. But Teslas contain a baffling amount of greed-motivated engineering and numerous fire incidents. It isn’t talked about enough and I see more of these things by the day. There has to be some kind of “reputation management” going on.

Either way, ::: spoiler remember kids! If you see someone setting an unoccupied swastikar ablaze… No you didn’t. :::