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Not too sure about the middle part, but the end was pointing out that baby pictures of little Sally playing in the tub are not okay to share or take in the first place.

Its a common enough situation where Ma is going through the baby album with your bride-to-be or a total stranger (mother-in-law) and there's a bunch of photos of under-dressed children that would definetny make the wrong crowd happy to have.

You should probably get a louder smoke decetor if you can barely hear it upstairs.

I'm going to go with the DIY approach;

For the water sensor, I'd look into the possibility of linking the basement alarm to a speaker upstairs. I've no idea what kind of alarm you're looking at or what the electronics are like. Theoreticaly, you can jump off the audio signal just before it reaches the speaker. Send the audio signal through an amp (located close* to the alarm, preferably where it won't get wet) and connect it to a speaker upstairs.

I would never try to mess with a smoke detector I rely on, but a water sensor...buy two and have fun.

*the amp is to overcome voltage drop in the new cable, I doubt that the sensor electronics will be capable of driving a seperate speaker with at least 30 ft of cable between it.

Yeah, the first time was for the joke. Second time must have been umm autocorrect.

I am defiantly not making things up to excuse my poor spelling...what can I say? I made a double oops 0ops.

I know...college is a joke for a lot of careers.

I made up this situation pointing out the opposing stereotypes of books and authors.

Reads lots of books = smart person who has lots of potential in life.

Writes lots of books = bum who can barley pay rent.

Parents: you need to read lots of book in your free time to get smart and go to collage.

~~~ Many years later ~~~

Me: I would like to attend university next year. I will pursue an education in literature to achieve my goal of becoming a published author.

Parents: you will not! There is no success as an author, I will not support you going to to school for such a waste.

I'm going to copy paste a reply I left somewhere else. This was for iOS AI, I'm unsure what the implemention for macOS is. If they are scanning everything then I do not support it.

From what I saw,

MS Recall is a 24/7 AI monitor system that captures everything you look at and saves it for later. They didn't even do the bare minimum for protecting the data, it was just dumped in an unencytped folder where anyone get wholesale access to the data. All trust has been lost.

Apple is using AI as a tool to improve specific tasks/features that a user invokes. Things like assistant queries and the new calculator. They have said some promising things in regards to privacy, specificly with the use of ChatGPT - any inquiry sent to ChatGPT will ask the user permission first and obscure their IP. This shows they care enough to try, they have not lost our trust - but we remain skeptical.

If apple tries the same thing by scanning everything wholesale, then that's getting over shadowed by the promises made by the implentaion on the much more popular iOS.

Seems like you're some kind of purest...go back to the Alpha versions? Which, they actually make really easy.

Personally I like features that provide a new purpose and build off of existing systems. Horse armor is a a natural progression for protecting your horse. Its mirrors the player armor system with materials (leather to diamond). Wolf armor breaks the mold, it could mimic player/horse armor in mechanics and material progression, but instead it comes from armodillo scales with seemingly no way to upgrade. They even copied the ability to dye the armor - they probably copy pasted the code for leather and made a new redundant item.

Yup, they could have just made wolf armor follow the same system as horse armor. But they had to add an all new system to further complicate the game.

They did add a bunch of wolf variants, like cats have, so that's cool.

Probably. I'll be surprised if they don't finally stop this noncense this year or next with all the negative feedback it got last year.

Just give us the new features without threatening us with other features "lost forever".

That being said, I will always give credit where credit is due - for a game fullly released in 2011, the fact we have gotten significant free anual updates for the past 13 years is insane. Unlike the other major 2011 release (Skyrim) that seems to only update to break mods for fun.

I really hate that this was the only reason Armadillos won the stupid mob vote.

No one (from chat and what I've seen) actually cares about the armadillo. They only wanted to wolves to be more viable hunting partners in survival.

Local elections are still significant and will have impact on your area. These are the people allocate funds in your city - could be the difference in roads getting fixed or yet another pet project no one asked for.

If I can rent it out for the night so its just me and my buddies it'd be great! Of course it'll need a completntary extra tall dude who sits in front of me, a crying baby, an old lady with a nasty caugh, and the dude with an obnonxious laugh who seen the movie 6 times and spoils everything.