I don’t recommend the latter if you can avoid it.
Yeah, kind of like how adrenaline can let a person ignore a serious injury for a little while, there’s always a brick wall on that road.
I don’t recommend the latter if you can avoid it.
Yeah, kind of like how adrenaline can let a person ignore a serious injury for a little while, there’s always a brick wall on that road.
And abstinence is correlated with both phenomena.
Fun fact: longtime voice actors of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor, married each other in 1991. A number of things can be inferred from this. In particular, they likely tried using work voice in bed at least once.
Why is this “win-11” pdf 70GB? Win eleven of what?
Eleven. This OS was released in the time before the war. There never was a Windows Twelve.
That’s the ticket, laddie.
Oh he is.
True. Pretty used to considering all gender and sexuality as spectra, where labels can feel arbitrary. But if someone thinks of it as gay, I accept the compliment.
It’s like he tried to generate a color palette from the scuff marks on his banged up iron ranger boots.
Yes, I only used mqtt because it’s a common low-level protocol in smart appliances that’s comparatively simple. A more accessible example might have been Smart TVs being half the price of dumb ones (if you can even find them now) since the principle is the same.
I agree that support is one of the main things cloud legitimately makes easier. Support personnel have more reliable case data, more robust central control, and so forth.
And I think you’ll agree many smart home folks already have/had hubs and bridges (servers) floating around that obfuscate most of that complexity without the need for always-on WAN access. Remote maintenance (patches, firmware updates, etc) don’t necessarily preclude a plug and play experience.
Whether this accounts for the cost and complexity differential consumers experience can be debated, but my point was simpler. Cloud-based products are artificially subsidized in at least two ways. The first is that they’re a loss leader facilitating platform lock-in, but the second is that rich usage data from intimate user contexts is quite valuable to the endless parade of marketing voyeurs.
I get what you’re saying, but I’m not talking about SaaS products. I’m talking about physical things on local networks that don’t need cloud access.
For example, a common wall switch may use mqtt internally, but inexplicably railroad all commands through the online Tuya platform. The device requires a beefier ESP chip as a result. It must be capable of ethernet and async workflows for client platform auth, token refresh, and so forth. It may even cease functioning when it can’t reach the servers.
By comparison, the strictly intranetwork equivalent has far simpler hardware that can run for months on a watch battery. And yet, the cloud-based product will basically always be cheaper, in spite of being more complex and requiring cloud infrastructure.
So, how come? Yes economies of scale might apply to the hardware manufacturing, but certainly not to the cloud requirement. No economy scales quite like 0.
Would be nice if grid tied inverters weren’t such a regulatory PITA. Micro-deployment solar, and more importantly distributed energy storage, makes so much sense and could solve a lot of grid-related problems.
PSA: eating like Cookie Monster is, for many if not most, an important qualifier for being a monster in bed 🌈
I suspect it’s one of the many international depictions of Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
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Everything related to consumer IoT is more expensive and/or difficult to implement as a local-only service.
But that doesn’t make any sense. Why would cloud access make anything cheaper?
Hmmmmm
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Yep, like for sure kernel of truth worth discussion and I don’t even disagree, but this is definitely an FFG template lol