While you are generally correct, in this case the release notes labeled this as a security update and not an OS upgrade. The fault for this is Microsoft’s not the sysadmin.

https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban

I’m just going to leave this here.

My Subaru EV has this. They just call it enhanced cruise control. I mean, that’s what it is. It also monitors for driver inattentiveness.

I haven’t done it other than for testing, but you can pair a fire Stick remote to a PC using Bluetooth and it works with Kodi.

Yes

This looks interesting, I hadn’t heard of it before. Do you know if they support sas controllers?

Republican acts are official. Democrat acts are not official.

Doesn’t matter. He’ll be dead before they’re done litigating it.

That’s just so wrong-headed. How else do you expect billionaires to monetize every aspect of our lives?

Easy mistake. The M stands for Moron, not mother.

Try getting a used server. You can find one on labgopher. For the budget you have, don’t expect something great but it’ll be a start.

Thanks, I will definitely check out both of those

I’ll take a look at that, thanks. It’s been a year or so since I last looked at it but back then there was a push button that you could use but I couldn’t get it going.

Privacy issues aside, for wider adoption the user experience needs to be better. Most people don’t want to be a sysadmin for their house, they just want to live in it.

Yeah, that’s why I said I’m very hopeful. It says so in my comment.

Sure, but if I had a Pi (or similar board) with a speaker and a mic, I’d hope to be able to do the same thing. A Pi Zero would definitely be able to do the job.

I’ve dabbled a little with it, but I really want something that’s as easy to use & set up as the commercial offerings like Google Home and Amazon Echo. I want to have an interface where I can connect my light bulbs, and have little hockey pucks that will listen for a wake word and do what I ask of it, and play my music. I also want to be able to get under the covers and do something that solves an odd problem that might come up.

I’m very hopeful for the project and I do think it will get there eventually.

That makes sense. I’m a lazy guy and I didn’t want to try testing so I went with a known quantity.

You should take a look at getting sas enclosures. They’re pretty cheap, like $200 for a 16 bay. That will be so much more reliable.

I used to work at Merrill Lynch, we had a Linux desktop pilot. We were an 80k company but had less than 1k users in the program, and most of us were capable of self-support.

It’s definitely doable at scale especially since most apps are web based these days, but there certainly is a retraining effort needed for support, and Windows would still be there. For most organizations, that’s not worth the effort.