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Can you imagine your house doorknob had to think about the shape of your key before letting you in, and then have the possibility of just saying "No. Not today."?

Not everyone. They're never going to touch oil and farm subsidies.

"Says the Weimar Republic citizen, circa 1933."

Debian. Seemed like the most generic "Linux" there is. Nothing special, nothing weird. Just Linux. Gray, boring, system defaults Linux.

My main hobby is designing and programming embedded devices, and anything I create gets slapped up on my github in case anyone else can use it. Schematics, code, whatever.

I have a side hustle of selling the PCBs I make, but I have absolutely no problems with someone making a clone of my designs. It's not like they're super advanced tech. Anyone can figure out what I've figured out.

You can browse directly to your server's local IP address and use it that way if your Internet goes down. The cloud stuff just allows you to connect from the outside without port forwarding on your firewall.

Plex be like:

"All this shit you got is legit, right?"

"Yep, all 15,000 video files, yes sir, now plz stream."

If the door has no means of mechanical egress, for example, a maglock, then it is required to have a second form of egress that cuts power to the maglock, such as a normally-closed exit button. Maglocks naturally unlock when losing power. Electric strikes and locksets can be set up fail-safe or fail-secure.

Usually, if a building has electronic access control, it's a requirement that the main controller or power supply be directly tied into the fire alarm with a hardwired trigger relay to drop power to all the door locks during an alarm. It may all be controllable and configurable on the cloud, but commercial equipment still has traditional redundancies like standby batteries and the like.

Just don’t fully rely on them for core stuff such as doors, fire alarms

I am an alarm/automation/access control technician, and I have some bad news for you...

One time I decided for shits and giggles to just keep pushing tab and see where it went. It didn't take long for it to enter a useless recursive loop, hallucinating a new iteration of the same thing on each line.

It definitely isn't gonna magically think up new algorithms for you. I don't know what everybody is scared of. It ain't even gonna replace my kid programming on Scratch.

tries to move arms and legs and call out for help

HHNNGGFMMMMMMMMMMFFFFFF!

That's like the "vintage" radios with fake plastic woodgrain and bluetooth/CD player built in.

On Android, I'm using Google Family Link. Pretty much locks down and takes control of the entire phone and let's you manage it all remotely, it's akin to attaching a Windows computer to a centrally managed Active Directory domain.

I like it.

We spent decades depicting science fiction AIs as the key to giving humanity true freedom from mandatory labor, and now we're scared because it can do creative work too? We'll adapt. We'll be just fine. A new generation will crop up that will have no issues with AI-generated content. We're too old to see it like they will. Just like a lot of our parents and grandparents didn't understand email until they were forced to, while us kids were doing all kinds of things online.

I mean shoot, my parents still argue with me over whether electronic music is even music or not. It's just gonna be another tool in an artist's arsenal.

I've registered as republican a long time ago to vote in their primaries so just in case the republican nomination won the general election, it was at least someone I could somewhat tolerate until the next election. People do do this.

There's one on every construction jobsite as well. We call them "newspaper".

They don't get invited to the unofficial "safety meetings". Some people just don't get workplace camaraderie.

If that company is serious about conducting professional business for any length of time, they'll learn better soon enough. In my industry, we still use dialup modems to remotely manage some equipment. You'd be fired for telling a customer to fuck off for not having a specific phone.