The person saying this is very knowledgeable in the field, far more than I’ll ever be. Still, that doesn’t pass the sniff test. I cannot believe an automotive ECU consumes a non-trivial portion of the vehicle’s power budget. There’s just no way a CPU draws more power than an air conditioner, let alone an electric drive motor. (And surely they’re talking about electric cars, because an ICE dissipates orders of magnitude more heat than any common CPU, and no one talks about electronic stuff shortening an ICE car’s range.)

I don’t recall ever seeing a security requirement not to have 2 root accounts. What you can’t have is multiple users sharing the same account. This is different.

Mindfulness >>> recordings, any day of the week. Be there with your kid and don't worry about capturing every precious moment. You're never going to have enough time to curate them anyway. Even if you did, the time spent curating is time you could've just been hanging out with your kid instead.

Extend hand for a handshake. Hey, I'm [name]. We've met before but it's been a while.

First, it lets the other person off the hook, because they're almost certainly experiencing the same momentary anxiousness. Second, literally every time I've done this, they've replied like "Hi, nice to talk to you again! And I'm [name]."

For myself, I noticed that observing it cheerfully, like “oh, hey, little whining sound!” makes it disappear into the background and I stop noticing it.

And on that note, has no one involved heard of a thermostat?

That’s the baseline I’d expect from an e-ink tablet. It might not blow me away, but should at least be reasonably useful as a reader. Any tablet that can’t adequately let me comfortably read an epub is unserious, in my opinion.

Well, same here: a Remarkable tablet is nearly identical to a Kobo or Kindle in form factor and basic capabilities. It even includes an ereader app. But the app, frankly, sucks. They could swapped in KOreader and called it a day. But instead of that, they — or rather, their supporters — give the laughable excuse that “it’s not an ereader”. Well, an iPad’s also not a calculator, and yet…

If your car has four wheels, room to walk around inside, and built in refrigerators that are mounted upside down for some reason, maybe the factory would say that they didn’t sell you an ice cream truck, but everyone else looking at it is going to wonder why they didn’t make it possible to stock popsicles while they were at it.