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I had the same issue, but my wife loved it. We have agreed to disagree.

Good thing they stopped emptying train toilets on the tracks.

Where's the fun in that?

This is why you should keep all appliance User's manuals.

When it first came out, my first thought was privacy.

It's the single most immutable piece of information about a person. You can change your clothes, hair, face, address, phone number, driver's license, passport and SSN (a little harder, but doable), hell -- even your fingerprints if you really must.

But your DNA?

And you'd put it out on some webserver, voluntarily, as unprotected medical data?

I hadn't been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.

Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.

Noped right out.

I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. 🤷🏻‍♂️

There was an appliance where the wifi chip was at the end of the power cable, embedded inside the plug. From the outside, you couldn't really tell. It was there so radiation inside the box couldn't affect the wireless signal as much.

I can imagine some genius thinking it's a good idea to run a server from inside a cable or a connected home appliance.

That top picture made me think it was a camper bus (like EV.Buzz) but at a fraction of the price.

But, alas...

Ed is getting good at lobbing these darts at hype bubbles.

The thing that this writeup ignores is that the object isn't to show short-term revenue, but to put all competitors out of business, be the last one standing, and create a monopoly. Either that or get bought out so the investors can move on to the next thing. But at $150B valuation, only MSFT or Nvidia can afford to buy them outright.

Google, Meta, and Amazon burned through cash for years, but they eventually outran all competition and then monetized the users who had nowhere else to go.

In earlier drone shows, they moved the drones into position to make the image they were going for, so navigation and collision avoidance was an issue.

With 7500, it feels like they can just set up a pixel grid in the sky, never move the drones (other than adjusting for wind), then just change the colors to get the image they need.

Conclusion: Tim Walz is just too nice a guy to say what needs to be said.