I got to thinking today about how my TiVo HD from 2006 still works fine. Strange how a company going out of business can still support decades old hardware, but a gazillionaire conglomerate like Google just “doesn’t have the resources”.

To make more electricity, they should try using some of the hot air that constantly comes out of Nadella’s mouth.

The website you linked to says that it’s not a class action suit, but a “mass arbitration” which I’ve never heard of. It also claims that Google has a “no class action” clause in its warranty/user agreement. I don’t see how that’s legal, but whatever. I also wonder if that clause was there at the time of purchase for gen 1 and gen 2 thermostats.

While an interesting idea, that project wants what amounts to the cost of a new thermostat in exchange for a kickstarter project. Might as well just buy a new thermostat.

Surprisingly, these still work as dumb thermostats after the cutoff date.

Was hoping something like Homebridge could be used to still control these, but so far no luck. After the cutoff they can be used manually like a traditional thermostat, which is a surprise coming from Google. I still fear they are going to generate a bunch of ewaste from people replacing them.

Isn’t this how Skynet started?

I think it’s more likely just Tim Cook. The buck stops with him. Someone needs to say no to some of this stuff (liquid glass, yearly release schedules, etc.) and that someone should have been him.

They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.

If they are still in business by then.

Would this be a good replacement for 12v lead acid car batteries as well?

Android and iOS have made companies fortunes. But keep telling yourself Windows Phone needed to die.

Same with game consoles. Switch I & II have made Nintendo a ton of money.

These Microsoft products would have been profitable in the hands of a company that actually cared about them.

All the more reason to spin off their consumer products divisions rather than killing them.

Also it’s so gross that they own LinkedIn and GitHub now.

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Microsoft would be better up split into multiple companies. They’re killing windows with lack of innovation. They’re also putting Xbox slowly out of business. They have no phone on the market and they barely have a tablet with the surface line. They also stopped making peripherals.

I think the current CEO is just trying to make Microsoft into the next lumbering IBM.

This report is a blog linking to a blog.

https://blog.stackademic.com/aws-just-fired-40-of-its-devops-team-then-let-ai-take-their-jobs-d9db9d298bfa

I doubt Apple and Microsoft will be affected much by the pop. They make plenty of money on other products and their AI investments have been an afterthought.

Tesla will plummet someday because it is vastly overpriced, but their business model has little to do with AI either.

If you’re lucky it will clear it. There were some folks complaining that they couldn’t install a system update because there “wasn’t enough room” according to the update process. This despite caches that could be cleared or apps that could be unloaded.

Just doing everything they can to drive people away from Windows.