I am tired of US citizens misunderstanding the entire point of the 1st amendment.

It has absolutely nothing to do with private companies. You can just not use their services. It has to do with the us and state governments not being able to jail you for talking trash about them.

Keep in mind that, at the time, the monarchy of England was known for jailing people who talked badly about them.

This was to prevent that. It wasn’t to make sure Bobby could tell Janie she was a cunt, and her not be able to slap him.

I have a kid. She turns 18 in September. I thought it was funny.

I also still make jokes about my mom, and she is now sitting on top of a shelf at Dad’s house as of a few months ago.

I’ve been rockin my HL3170CDW for many years now. I have absolutely no issues with this printer, and I’ll buy nothing else.

This existed briefly, but was quickly removed because big box retailers complained that people were looking at the real stats instead of big numbers in their ads.

Yes please. Can’t be much worse than what we have now.

I’m predicting they build it in just 2 or 3 cities, then quit.

Again.

How dare they make a profit!? It’s only the whole reason they’re in business after all…

Ever notice that it’s the governments that shoot people for not buying what they sell?

You can see the US federal government imploding at this very moment, all because one side or the other takes power, and your first thought is to give them power of control over your Internet services??

Just…wow.

Guess it’s ok when governments leave debris by shooting at satellites, but not when businesses do?

Weird.

So? The ISS is due to be decommissioned soon and the HST has been failing from orbit for a while now.

Telescopes on the far side of the moon would see far far more than any telescope in earth orbit and especially any on the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Crater_Radio_Telescope

Things in space don’t veer wildly out of control when they fail. They stay pretty much in their existing orbit.

It’s not like these satellites have big thrusters or engines just propelling them constantly around the planet. They’re in a state of free fall. They’re just also moving sideways fast enough that the earth also falls away from them at around the same speed that they are falling towards it.

Lower orbits have far more atmospheric drag, and any debris in those orbits will simply slow down enough to stop missing the planet.

There’s so much more room out there than there is here on this finite planet.

Correct. Unlike zigbee and zwave Matter does not define a single communication technique.

It can be used with thread, or over a standard tco TCP IP network.

Typically, Matter devices will support either thread or WiFi, but there’s no definite distinction to Matter itself.

If you also want to use Matter over Thread devices, you will need a thread dongle. The ZBT-1 can do either thread OR zigbee but not both at once.

In fact, the biggest issue I see with Matter is that there’s no real easy way to tell if the device uses WiFi or thread.

There are a lot of Matter devices out there now, but only a few use the Thread protocol.

My Matter (and Zigbee, and Z-Wave) hub is a laptop I paid 300.00 for almost 10 years ago, when I wanted something cheap for the semi truck.

I run Home Assistant on it now. I have both a $40 zwave USB stick, and a similarly priced Zigbee stick.

The software for the hub comes with HA. Just install the matter server

Their zbt-1 dongle can do either zigbee or thread, but matter does not technically need anything else. Thread does, but not Matter. Install Matter Server addon and you can use any matter WiFi device.

Weird. My Google Pixel 9 Pro XL has 3 navigation buttons.

That’s something that’s customizable using the stock firmware.

Settings -> Display & touch -> Navigation mode.

My Google Assistant still responds to “Hey Google” or “ok Google” just fine as well on my Google phone.

Weebles wobble, but they don’t fall down!