Which just shows how timeless poop jokes can be.

Yeah there’s no going back from talk like this.

Because they’re a specialty product sold to businesses not mass produced products sold to budget-minded consumers.

I also doubt they’re technologically superior as they’re just designed to display a static McDonalds menu for 18 hours a day, not play Dune in HDR at a massive bitrate. I’m no fan of tracking or similar corporate bullshit surrounding advertising but you’re making a lot of (almost entirely) assumptions here about these signage displays. You’ll likely be paying more than 2x the price of a comparable model considering these are likely equivalent to Black Friday TVs.

Or just buying a regular TV and not connecting it to the internet. Signage TVs are specialized and will cost a lot more for a lot less.

Would you want any other type of jerk playing with your sillcock?

That’s probably the real driver here behind the push to upgrade and the article. Some grubby, underqualified company wants a giant contract with little responsibility to deliver a working product.

They used a second grinder to power the hamster wheel.

If the system is working, what’s the big deal? Is not like this needs to be running on windows 11 with the ability to send out tweets and Instagram posts. Relying on floppies may seem archaic but it’s better than spending $10B and years of ‘project delays’ just to wind up with a functionally similar system using modern hardware.

This was my immediate thought too. Even people 2-3 levels of management above me struggle to understand our job let alone the person 5-6 levels up in the executive suite.

I didn’t say anything about abandoning it, just that it’s bound to happen eventually like with any other business unlike people and murder.

“Every person who isn’t a murderer is just a murder away from becoming a murderer. Timebomb!”

I get your point, but this metaphor would be more applicable if historically every human on earth murdered someone during their lifetime. I think Steam/Valve will remain the same as long as their current leadership is in place. 999 times out of 1000, once the original founders are gone, any company begins the enshittification process, whether it’s a major business like Valve or a local chain of grocery stores.

How are either of those a monopoly? A monopoly generally means you only have one option and that option is taking advantage of their outrageous market share by jacking up prices.

Where I live the only broadband internet is Comcast which is why I pay 2-3x more for my service than comparable services in areas where they don’t have a monopoly (or areas with sane regulations).

Saying that you’ll not earn as much money if you don’t put your game on steam doesn’t mean steam has a monopoly, it just means you’re not getting as much reach as you could. Being popular doesn’t equate to being a monopoly.

$5.5B with a yearly revenue of $4 million and a loss of $58 million. Even if they had $0 in expenses, it’d still take a little under 1400 years to earn the equivalent of their market cap.

In that article:

The only “workaround” I can think of is to use a better coordinator (EFR32MG21) and have many routers deployed in your network, so this device doesn’t crash it.

Maybe I’m missing some context here, but ‘debouncing’ is just accounting for the fact that every switch, when pressed, will bounce on and off the contact for a few milliseconds. If you didn’t account for this, then turning your light on would cause it to flicker on and off rapidly until the switch settles.

Your zigbee devices phoning home all day while not being used shouldn’t have anything to do with debouncing.

How is that the moral avenue? You want these artists to fade into obscurity because nobody can ever hear their music while also not earning any money?

Yeah the moral thing to do is pay a third party company $130 per year who then pays an artist $0.20 per billion streams of their work.

At the 76 here its also the second down from the right but only needs a single press.

And Z-wave

Do you really think Joe Biden is sitting on his phone scrolling through the Fediverse and reading comments from us while he’s taking a dump?

I seriously doubt it’s anyone but some young PR person.