Likely not. This is a spectacularly dumb move, the product isn’t that good and Samsung / SK Hynix are high if they think they they’ll get paid if the market so much as sneezes and things go sideways

Fair enough, that’s true. I guess my gripe is with the narrow use case and the debugging and/or prompt/context tuning to get what you want. I still feel that if you don’t get what you want on the first try, it’s faster to write it yourself than spending time “debugging” the input and maybe get a 60% chance on correct output, which in most cases, still needs debugging. And god forbid, a framework is rewritten.

I just wished it was a bit better before we hit the plateau of diminishing returns.

TBH, it’s not really that great at that. Is average at best and grossly misleading and flat out wrong at worst. It may bring slight speedups for average development on boring legacy enterprise code, but anything really novel and interesting? Detrimental.

You can find out - set up a local DNS (pihole, blocky et. al.) and check which domains the vacuum connects to.

Then block those and see what happens! Interesting experiment for a weekend.

To be fair, many roombas have a mini DIN connector somewhere, which opens up the possibility for external control - what I plan to do when mine stops working due to server shutdown. However, getting replacement parts will get more and more tricky as time goes by.

I just had to through out a mostly functional airfryer because the drawer rail disintegrated and the replacement part is no longer manufactured. The oldest one I could get was a “new” version with more plastic and a slightly bigger size, so it didn’t fit by about 5%.

It really should be illegal, there is no logical reason for 500 slightly different models and inoperability of basic functions (drawers, APIs, …) aside from malignant greed and planet destruction.

safer than ever 👍📘.

Not great, not terrible.

Have one (Fairphone with E/OS) and tbh, I really enjoy not dealing with googles shenanigans and straight up malware practices. I did not take kindly to one morning them telling me they removed a “dangerous” app. Mind you, it was a work phone and NFC debugging app from our own institute, costing my employer my lost time on it. Extra bonus for remotely installing and executing unwanted services that reduce battery life by 75%.

With that level of interference, I wonder about the legal implications? “Someone torrented shrek from that phone?” Or even “Device was used as part of a malicious DDoS op?” Must’ve been some intern/intelligence agent at google, I don’t control the device after all." seems like a legitimate defense/claim. Well, as long as the rule of law exists in some way. But if that goes away, then it doesn’t matter really. At that point you need guns and combat drones, not phones.