Amazon did this with their cloud security cameras as well.
Spotify did it with their "Car thing"
It's common and I agree, should be illegal.
You can use shift+f10 and type OOBE\\BYPASSNRO
It's been on the steam page since day one, so I doubt they'd refund. It was agreed upon but not enforced until now.
He wasn't say you personally do it. He even said that he knows what the commands do, most of the time, but that the average person does not. Especially beginners to Linux, who are more prone to break their system and be on forum rabbit holes to try and fix it.
HomeAssistant is HomeKit compatible and could probably do everything you've got going now locally
My company buys a specific board from an Israeli company.
We have been working on an in house alternative for a few years now. Now we're scared to actually perform the switch because of the anti-boycott laws
But I still pine for a cabin in the woods
Just buy a smart tv and don't connect it to internet. You'll get to buy from the same selection and enjoy the subsidized price.
Yes, I've held coal and touched crude oil.
Coal was common along the railway and I would pick up chunks cause it was interesting.
Crude oil I saw / touched because I would go along with my dad who would measure the tank level for oil on the see-saw style pumps
EasyTether+ might have a Linux client. It's a similar app
Then block the instance?
I'm really don't understand the calls for defederation. Lemmy added per-user instance blocking so people could stop whining and block the instance. There's no need to have the entire instance defederate instead of just blocking it.
Just think about a user making a post to whatever admin community for their instance. That takes so much more work than just blocking the instance.
"Cartridges" which are just SD cards in reality are a thing