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I was surprised by that too. I took apart a lot of electronics as a kid and distinctly remember it being mostly components with leads.

This is entirely true, and easily verified by checking subreddit user overlap. WSB overlaps heavily with a number of right-wing subreddits, and, naturally, /r/unemployment.

I find my comment civil, substantive, and a worthwhile contribution to the discussion. Maybe you should talk to the guy I replied to.

Right well Google is preternaturally good at that shit. I want to know Apple's excuse for failing to outperform Amazon.

Exactly. "The technology isn't there yet" and "I wouldn't be comfortable using voice control" are said from a place of privilege. There are people out there benefiting from it right now, despite some people's very first-world hangups about it.

I bet you have lots of friends.

But in only five years, he was able to go from knowing nothing about photography, to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on it!

That's not entirely accurate. They observed that with a fully charged battery it performed as expected. The CPU wasn't throttled until the battery was depleted.

It's absolute magic in person. The limited FOV is kind of a bummer, but tracking is rock solid.

The whole thing read like an only mildly more coherent version of the Series of Tubes speech.

And kept harping on about voice call quality. What.

Good summary. Basically the trick is to be rich, and spend ridiculous amounts of money with the right credit cards.

It even says in the article that his brother was killed when he was young, so his parents felt guilty and bankrolled him.

They make a variety pack, but it's only available with the caffeinated flavors.

That's a pretty classic example really. I know Flickr had some awkward interactions with a foot fetishist community that took up residence there, because they didn't reeeally post anything that violated the terms of service, they were just kind of creepy about it.

Ah yes, the terrifying privacy implications of Alexa. Now Google and Amazon know I check the weather every morning.

Oh, the dystopia.

I think they have exactly zero obligation to keep people from doing stupid things with their money. Making a blog post about it is nice of them, but probably not necessary.

Seriously? He thinks people are being too optimistic?

All I ever read anymore is how the dark forces of technology are coming to steal my private information and break into my house via my IOT.

Now I want to go buy Terri Favro's book, just because she's apparently not a total downer.

This is an odd but apparently widespread phobia.

Do you not have a housekeeper, or a landscaper, or dog walker, or anyone else who goes into your house when you're not there? It's pretty common for service personnel to be in a house doing stuff.

That's a great feature. I have a smartlock and it's insane how hard they try to keep it from being convenient to use -- in the same of security of course.

Used to be you could read tech news written by people who were both knowledgable and enthusiastic about technology. Now it seems to be mostly paranoid, technophobic clickbait.

Technological ignorance? Most people who are afraid of technology don't seem to understand it very well. God knows why they'd be here though.

At the time it came out, voice triggered smart assistants had been available on phones for years, and computers for decades. All it did was put that feature in a different package.

Sickeningly naive is a good description. Especially on technology forums.

It's like the recurring conspiracy theory about the Facebook app literally listening to people's conversations -- if you're reasonably technical, you already understand how silly that is.

> It's going to you a 3D profile of your face from your online photos or from CCTV cameras

Good thing I'm not Jason Bourne, and the most likely scenario for someone trying to get into my phone involves my sister's kids.

Well typically that's the point of an embargo, not a perpetual gag order. Though I can see how "we left an AWS directory open" might be embarrassing to have announced to the public, regardless of whether they had time to fix it.

Having the foresight and capabilities to make the right acquisitions at the right times is just good business. Splitting hairs over whether the technology was internally developed or purchased is irrelevant to the point being made about the exclusivity of the hardware.

A huge portion of the banned subreddits were zoophilia related too. This was just general housecleaning.