The younger you are when you learn or realize this, the healthier will your spirit be.

Can’t even write pleasant technical documentation by hand after memorizing hotkeys without being falsely accused…

I've been using network-level limits on all my entertainment devices I don't want accessing the internet. If they truly dump data over foreign WiFi networks, it'd be difficult to understand how they dare to do that in the EU.

With software like Scrypted or Frigate, I was able to use an Apple TV 4K to get a security feed into my Apple Home with iCloud+. You don’t need to buy Homekit certified product.

They can imagine their code doing a million crazy things, but they hardly think about the incredible amount of things that need to exist and operate at 100% before a single line of code can be run on a VPS.

How many of these guys have had to tell a customer something silly like ”we lost connectivity to the DC because a farmer decided to do some digging and cut fibre lines connecting the DC to the internet”? If they knew that this was in the realm of possibilities, they wouldn’t be so confident about a program being able to somehow run amok and simultaneously feed itself all the resources and components it needs to run, as you mentioned.

Just last week, Youtube took even more steps in hiding your subscriptions homepage on iOS, and on desktop the shorts (content made for phones in portrait mode) is front and centre.

1. The fact that nuclear power has been quite safe so far does not mean that it would have been just as safe if its deployment would have rapidly spread.

2. Nuclear energy is unfortunately tightly coupled with nuclear weapons, as well as the treaties and geopolitics that were designed to keep them only in the hands of the few. Quite many late 1900s crises in Europe could have looked different if nuclear material was even more widespread than it was. I don't even wanna think about nations outside Europe that have been extremely unstable in the past and in recent history.

3. Seeing how intensely fossil fuel companies spread misinformation and disinformation about green technology and climate science, it's hardly a far-fetched idea that that same industry had a hand in helping policymakers steer away from an energy source that would unseat it from the throne.

There's probably nothing powerful in society than the wealthy elite. They have the power to slow down or stop technological change if it threatens their sources of continued wealth.

(1): https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024652?seq=1

Even if you are not alarmed about the environmental impact of flights as a share of global emissions, it’s no reason to spend our global oil reserves for useless travel. Airlines already optimize flights and routes, but the gap can be closed even further if we simply let go of the immediate convenience of booking flights.

They do have a gateway product, but it’s not necessary if you have HA. If Apple homekit routers supported BLE as source it would work seamlessly in the ecosystem, but a bridge software is required on HA.