I mean that’s the very concept of a holiday to me ?

I think surrounding it with spaces comes from people using a regular dash (the em dash is not readily accessible on the keyboard), then surrounding it with spaces to make sure it’s not interpreted as a dash.

Accent is a subset of dialect, referring to pronunciation, where dialect also refers to vocabulary and grammar. It follows that if all English belongs to a dialect, all English has an accent.

Of course, some accents are more readily understood across the world; I imagine you are from the US, and there is the American English featured in film and TV (that I imagine synthesises different regional accents), that has a huge cultural reach, so people who learned English through media might find this particularly easy to understand.

However, outside the US, if you speak like this, you will always turn be regarded as the person with an accent, because you don’t speak like the locals. And people are going to find their local accent easier to understand.

You’ll need to solder it to the contacts inside the can, but that’s quite straightforward.

In case the internal cable that goes from one can to the other breaks, you can replace it with any bit of audio cable so you can use one that’s easy to solder.

Plus, the more high end ones come with repleceable cables.

Yet AV remote controls were UX hell and phones are an improvement. So maybe a separate old phone just for that ?

I personally prefer corded headphones and mains powered speakers, but if I were to buy a small wireless speaker I would buy a cheaper brand and ideally second hand, because this category of devices are basically consumables.

Seems though that working with those AI tools appeals to the author, that they learned and had fun, so I guess that makes it a good usecase for them specifically?

In contrast I had a great experience repairing a Smeg stove and buying all the necessary parts directly from them, so it’s not like it’s impossible.