And why is that “mildly infuriating”?

Charging a fee to accept payment is ridiculous. If a cost is unavoidable then it should be included in the price.

I accept that some payment providers charge more than others but there should be at least one that is free even if that means adding the cost of the cheapest one to the base price.

Ideally they would all be free and you’d just add the average cost of payment processing to the price.

There was a time in the UK when you could get a flight from Manchester to London for £8 but the final price ended up being ten times that due to additional costs that weren’t optional.

The books have one or two references to him working as a labourer or other jobs between books.

He does have access to a shower. He stays at motels mostly and very rarely sleeps outside.

There’s no explanation for that body though as he definitely never goes to a gym.

If people weren’t buying more of them, they wouldn’t’ve changed the size.

That’s not a valid conclusion.

The only thing that we can say for sure is that the companies benefit from shrinkflation in some way otherwise they wouldn’t do it.

If sales drop due to the smaller sizes but they still make more profit overall then you can be sure that we’d be getting smaller bars.

Microsoft is as bad. As our IT admin, I have about 300 different ways to launch Copilot.

The most annoying was when they changed it so that going to office.com went to a Copilot chat window instead of allowing me to select the MS Office apps such as SharePoint and OneDrive.

Bloody Notepad has a Copilot button now!

A ‘universal’ key, IE a key that can be used to open multiple different locks. So yes, a lock pick. What were you expecting?

Something like a TSA key that fits the lock in addition to the owner’s key.

A lock pick requires an amount of skill to use and is definitely not a key.

Wrong community. I think that there’s an actually infuriating one somewhere.

I did do it a while ago with my system when I managed the remote access myself and remember it to be a bit of a faff.

I moved Internet providers and the new one didn’t have inbound traffic enabled so it stopped working. Rather than go through the hassle of contacting support to allow incoming traffic I signed up for Nabu Casa. It was a lot easier than setting up the security myself and it made Alexa integration trivial.

https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/25619363899677-Configuring-Amazon-Alexa-to-work-with-Home-Assistant

So if an annual or monthly fee is an option then it’s worth considering.

Why do you think that I was trying to make it better?

You can make a quiet call if you have headphones or earphones but I find that people (myself included) tend to talk louder on a call than they do in person. I’m sure that it’s not necessary but it happens anyway.

It has a lot of content that isn’t available anywhere else. Sometimes the best option is still shit.

Same here. For a trial period I kept the ST hub but as soon as was happy with home assistant the ST went.

Better to not screw them.

You have to trust the contract.

If you use Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace etc then they already have all your data anyway. Most businesses have to trust other companies and the contract at some point.

The only other option is to use Open Source self hosted everything which is beyond most people’s ability.

If you’re a business with a contract with them it should state that they won’t use your data to train their models.

If you’re using the free service then you’re right that it’s safe to assume that your data was already being used.

I have heard it used as a racial slurs once I the film True Romance (1993). It has a scene where Dennis Hopper’s character is explaining to Christopher Walken’s character (a Sicilian) how he’s “part eggplant” due to the fact that the Moors conquered Sicily in the past.

I’d link to the scene on YouTube but I don’t want to as it’s very racist.

Deterministic means for the same input you always get the same output.

For AI it would be if you ask it a question multiple times using exactly the same words you would get the same answer.

That looks good. The current cats look very different from one another so I reckon that we’d only need three pictures to train it.

We don’t let our cats out at night so it would be great to have a cat flap that knew whether each cat was in the house or not and could either lock the flap or lock it on in-only at a certain time of day.

In the UK, you can get your license revoked for speeding. You can lose your license if you’re going a lot over the speed limit. If you’re going a bit slower you can get 3 or 6 points and if you get more than 12 points you also lose your license.

It doesn’t seem to do a huge amount to discourage speeding in my experience.