AlternateRoute @ AlternateRoute @lemmy.ca

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I don’t think there is a short clear way to avoid potential centuries of suffering. Living in pain could be worse than a violent death.

Imagine a life time as a comatose patient who is still conscious and can hear but not respond?

Years of nearly starving to death. Years of physical abuse? Slowly dying in a hospital from cancer / some other slow painful death.

Hiker trapped alone on a mountain.

In short no thanks.

In Canada if you are physically injured or have a baby you go to the hospital, get care and go home. No worries of bankruptcy.

If you have a non urgent / long term condition you spend years waiting to see someone.

On the whole I still think it is a better system than the US but it really does have problems.

People opt not to get treated or take ambulance in the states due to the costs. Even if you have coverage from work you may only have coverage at specific hospitals for some treatments.

Ecobee is fully local via homekit.. Your internet can be off and the homekit commands will be sent local. You can also control everything from its screen locally if your internet is down.

Initial setup (first time powering it up) and use of the Ecobee app require internet.

End to end user experience.. They control the HW and the Software better than anyone else.

Guess they didn't learn when this happened to them with the noise cancelling in the Air Pod Pros, which resulted in them nerfing them, then fixing it in a new model.. Leaving a bunch of people with less effective noise cancelling after a firmware update.

Our latest analysis uses QuoteWizard by LendingTree insurance quote data to determine which car brands have the worst drivers.

Wonder how many drivers of each brand they actually have, that would very much sway the numbers if they have smaller numbers of some brands insured.

This sounds like less of a "study" and more of a top ten list for page views.

There are also a lot of rural communities in Alaska, Northern Canada etc where the whole communities only option is satellite internet.

Sure we should get it out to those areas NEAR major cities but there are huge amounts of users where the cost for that would be impractical.

Can't really help the small islands and all the shipping traffic and aircraft that have started using it and can't benefit from a high speed connection with buried lines.

HA related the Litter Robot does have an integration for the wifi enabled ones and it will report state and error codes.

As previously stated I have an LR3 already that my cat STOPPED using... Not sure the LR4 opening is different enough to get him back in one.

Cost and my old cat not willing to try it are the two things that hold me back from getting an LR4.. It it is wider but still not open so I am not sure he would use it.

I have a LR3 it is great until it isn't.. Both my cats used it for several months but my oldest cat with joint issues refuses to use anything but an open litter box now (doesn't like the confined space).. Also possibly fixed in the LR4 the LR3 FULL sensor easily gets false positives due to dust build up from litter and is a PITA to clean.

I have been looking at a lot of reviews for alternatives but all of them eventually seems to have some flaw around reliability.

Would say everyone running emulators would disagree. Particularly steam deck users.

Hiding all the USB-C chargers in the house might be difficult.

Ya the Switch has fairly good reporting on play time by total time and time of day.. They have a parent mobile app for managing it.

That trick likely only works on specific brands of these self checkout terminals.

Ya and some of them will let you put your own bags in the bagging area in the start so you can fill your bags as you scan, while others do not.

I will put one other mistake in there, is self checkouts with too many prompts. I avoid using self checkout at a few stores because the minimum number of prompts is higher than 3.

Good: scanning starts the process, select done AT MOST asks for how many bags, then payment type, swipe and pay (optional email receipt on pin pad).

Bad: Cant' start till you tap start, asks for member ship card up front, asks if you want to donate, scan, asks if you want to use your rewards, asks for number of bags, also would you like an email receipt?

Ya, having a lot of items, or odd items like vegetables or bulk items at a grocery store that need to have a code entered or need to be weighed suck at self checkout.

I would also say large items, but home depot and costco provide wireless scanners which work very well. Can just roll your cart up grab the scanner scan and go without taking stuff off.