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Yup, sure does. It's a shame you can only really order from the services that are available. Short of using 4G and paying through the nose for data, paying double for a second line and a load balancing router or moving to an area with FTTH about 20km away I'm kinda stuck with it.

Yeah, I'm not really going to be transcoding UHD files. For one thing, kinda defeats the point a bit, you have a UHD copy so it can be at a stupid resolution. And secondly when I get a UHD BluRay usually it'll come with a regular BluRay which I'll also rip so I'll always have a 1080p copy also... well almost always. At this point the only UHD movies I don't have a 1080p copy of are the LotR trilogy and Justice League

What I like about Unraid is how easy it is to expand total capacity and its ability to use different sized drives. I couldn't deploy a full 20 TB solution in one go, so I started with a 3, 2, and 1 TB drive I had lying around and slowly replaced and expanded with 4 TB drives over time. Plus, since it's not really RAID and data is not striped across drives, each disk is readable independently. I don't intend to test it out, but should I lose two or more drives (I only run one parity drive) I should be able to read the others outside of the array.

Honestly, I think this is kinda my point in a round about way. I mean a thermostat IS an automation and IMO probably the best kind of automation there is. You set it and it reads sensors (time/temp/humidity) to decide what it does (heat/cool). That's the gold standard of home automation right there. And there's a lot more you can do along those lines
 
For example, here in Perth Australia it gets pretty damn hot in the summer and "programmable thermostats" aren't really something that's that common. And there are usually degrees of actions that you'll do throughout a particularly hot day like turning on ceiling fans well before you turn on the aircon, closing blinds during the peak of the heat, opening the doors when the temp outside drops to lower than the inside temp late in the day etc. Doing it that way saves energy compared to just blasting the aircon all day. So a reasonable set of automations might be:
- Fans go on when the temp goes above a certain level (I've done this, for some fans)
- Set aircon to turn on when the doors are shut, people are home and the temp goes above some other threshold (I plan to do this)
- Turn the aircon off when the temp outside starts to drop or when someone opens the door for more than a couple of mins
- Have an RGB lamp that visually shows what the weather is like outside vs inside (I'm close to this but I don't have any inside temp sensors yet)
 
You know, extended thermostat kind of stuffs. Do I need some automation on the washer/dryer/fridge/dishwasher/oven? Probably not, there's not a lot I would think you'd need to automate there. Not saying there couldn't be for some people but I wouldn't see the need. For example I have seen an automation someone had on their dishwasher where it would change the colour of a light strip near it to indicate whether the dishes in it were clean or dirty as a prompt to stop people from putting dirty dishes into it without emptying it. So you can do stuff with some of these "smart appliances" but..... I would agree most of those kind of "smart" device features are not very useful. The useful stuff is often not the flashy stuff they put in the ads and on boxes. Really, this is quite literally the point I'm making 😉 
 
I mean, of course it's a luxury. We're literally talking about creating a virtual butler for us. Do I need my bedroom lights to slowly fade on in the morning before my alarm goes of? Of course not, I did fine without it. But damn, it's a hell of a lot nicer than being woken up by some rude device shouting in your ear to shock you awake. I'd also argue waking up in that way makes me quite a bit more productive, a slowly fading on light doesn't interrupt your sleep in the same way an alarm does
 
In terms of the environmental impact? Again, I think it really depends on what you're doing. I think a lot of the more useful automations are built around more efficiently using resources. Really, the two biggest things you tend to have to manually juggle in a house would be keeping the climate comfortable and setting appropriate lighting. Then there are tertiary things like managing when to schedule things like watering, high draw devices, exhaust fans. Pretty much all of that stuff, to some degree, has an element of reducing consumption. So it's not necessarily a decision between environment and "luxury", it can be both
 
Kinda thinking about this now, I'm not so keen on automating things like dryers at all but there is something you could do along those lines. We get charged more for power we take off the grid than we do power we put back into the grid via solar. If you had your solar output tied into home assistant and a simple RGB strip you could visibly show when you were exporting power to the grid and to what degree. Maybe combine with the chance of rain and humidity. Red lamp? Use clothes line. Green lamp? Dryer. Blue lamp? Wait

I was looking at this tweet from @LinusTech this arvo and it kinda got me thinking a bit. Has the tech industry kinda missed the boat a bit on what "smart" devices should be doing for us? The entire point of automation, and to a degree tech in general, should be to make things easier for us. As soon as you start using tech that's "flashy" while making the task more complex you're kinda defeating the point (unless of course the point is to sell smarthome gear which I guess IS the point but still)
 
Eg the example from the tweet. Saying a phrase to have a car door open, especially when car doors come with a remote already, is not something that makes the task easier. Doubly so when the voice assistant misunderstands you and does the wrong thing. I'd go further and say the same thing is true for most voice assistant commands. Unless you're issuing some command with some attribute (eg turn the lamp blue, play king gizzard in the kitchen) you're just doing an action that would be easier if it was replaced with a button or a switch. I'm pretty into home automation but the only smarthome command I ever issue to google is "turn off the family room TV" when someone has left the TV on in the family room
 
I think there should only be really one kind of home automation people should be thinking about. It should be some kind of event that I'm otherwise not directly aware of followed by some appropriate action to that event. Everything else is just adding complexity to otherwise simple tasks. A few examples of good automations, some of which I've done:
- fade on bedroom lights early on days when I set the alarm on my phone for a work day
- turn lights on/off when I leave/return home
- turn on fan if temperature outside exceeds 27C (then off when it cools down)
- announce over speakers when certain devices connect to the WiFi (eg relatives have come over)
- change light colours based on sensors (eg blue -> humidity, red -> temperature, green -> "cold and dry")
- turn on exhaust fan when bathroom gets humid etc
 
That sort of stuff, genuinely helpful little automations. That's the appeal of this kind of thing in my mind. The fact that we seem to only ever talk about it and companies only ever advertise smart home stuff as "hey google, turn on the lights"? I think it really does damage to the entire concept of smart home in the minds of a lot of people. Because people just think that it's not a hassle to just turn on the lights with a switch. Which is valid, because it's true, but it's not the appeal
 
/rant

Honestly, I think this is kinda my point in a round about way. I mean a thermostat IS an automation and IMO probably the best kind of automation there is. You set it and it reads sensors (time/temp/humidity) to decide what it does (heat/cool). That's the gold standard of home automation right there. And there's a lot more you can do along those lines
 
For example, here in Perth Australia it gets pretty damn hot in the summer and "programmable thermostats" aren't really something that's that common. And there are usually degrees of actions that you'll do throughout a particularly hot day like turning on ceiling fans well before you turn on the aircon, closing blinds during the peak of the heat, opening the doors when the temp outside drops to lower than the inside temp late in the day etc. Doing it that way saves energy compared to just blasting the aircon all day. So a reasonable set of automations might be:
- Fans go on when the temp goes above a certain level (I've done this, for some fans)
- Set aircon to turn on when the doors are shut, people are home and the temp goes above some other threshold (I plan to do this)
- Turn the aircon off when the temp outside starts to drop or when someone opens the door for more than a couple of mins
- Have an RGB lamp that visually shows what the weather is like outside vs inside (I'm close to this but I don't have any inside temp sensors yet)
 
You know, extended thermostat kind of stuffs. Do I need some automation on the washer/dryer/fridge/dishwasher/oven? Probably not, there's not a lot I would think you'd need to automate there. Not saying there couldn't be for some people but I wouldn't see the need. For example I have seen an automation someone had on their dishwasher where it would change the colour of a light strip near it to indicate whether the dishes in it were clean or dirty as a prompt to stop people from putting dirty dishes into it without emptying it. So you can do stuff with some of these "smart appliances" but..... I would agree most of those kind of "smart" device features are not very useful. The useful stuff is often not the flashy stuff they put in the ads and on boxes. Really, this is quite literally the point I'm making 😉 
 
I mean, of course it's a luxury. We're literally talking about creating a virtual butler for us. Do I need my bedroom lights to slowly fade on in the morning before my alarm goes of? Of course not, I did fine without it. But damn, it's a hell of a lot nicer than being woken up by some rude device shouting in your ear to shock you awake. I'd also argue waking up in that way makes me quite a bit more productive, a slowly fading on light doesn't interrupt your sleep in the same way an alarm does
 
In terms of the environmental impact? Again, I think it really depends on what you're doing. I think a lot of the more useful automations are built around more efficiently using resources. Really, the two biggest things you tend to have to manually juggle in a house would be keeping the climate comfortable and setting appropriate lighting. Then there are tertiary things like managing when to schedule things like watering, high draw devices, exhaust fans. Pretty much all of that stuff, to some degree, has an element of reducing consumption. So it's not necessarily a decision between environment and "luxury", it can be both
 
Kinda thinking about this now, I'm not so keen on automating things like dryers at all but there is something you could do along those lines. We get charged more for power we take off the grid than we do power we put back into the grid via solar. If you had your solar output tied into home assistant and a simple RGB strip you could visibly show when you were exporting power to the grid and to what degree. Maybe combine with the chance of rain and humidity. Red lamp? Use clothes line. Green lamp? Dryer. Blue lamp? Wait

I was looking at this tweet from @LinusTech this arvo and it kinda got me thinking a bit. Has the tech industry kinda missed the boat a bit on what "smart" devices should be doing for us? The entire point of automation, and to a degree tech in general, should be to make things easier for us. As soon as you start using tech that's "flashy" while making the task more complex you're kinda defeating the point (unless of course the point is to sell smarthome gear which I guess IS the point but still)
 
Eg the example from the tweet. Saying a phrase to have a car door open, especially when car doors come with a remote already, is not something that makes the task easier. Doubly so when the voice assistant misunderstands you and does the wrong thing. I'd go further and say the same thing is true for most voice assistant commands. Unless you're issuing some command with some attribute (eg turn the lamp blue, play king gizzard in the kitchen) you're just doing an action that would be easier if it was replaced with a button or a switch. I'm pretty into home automation but the only smarthome command I ever issue to google is "turn off the family room TV" when someone has left the TV on in the family room
 
I think there should only be really one kind of home automation people should be thinking about. It should be some kind of event that I'm otherwise not directly aware of followed by some appropriate action to that event. Everything else is just adding complexity to otherwise simple tasks. A few examples of good automations, some of which I've done:
- fade on bedroom lights early on days when I set the alarm on my phone for a work day
- turn lights on/off when I leave/return home
- turn on fan if temperature outside exceeds 27C (then off when it cools down)
- announce over speakers when certain devices connect to the WiFi (eg relatives have come over)
- change light colours based on sensors (eg blue -> humidity, red -> temperature, green -> "cold and dry")
- turn on exhaust fan when bathroom gets humid etc
 
That sort of stuff, genuinely helpful little automations. That's the appeal of this kind of thing in my mind. The fact that we seem to only ever talk about it and companies only ever advertise smart home stuff as "hey google, turn on the lights"? I think it really does damage to the entire concept of smart home in the minds of a lot of people. Because people just think that it's not a hassle to just turn on the lights with a switch. Which is valid, because it's true, but it's not the appeal
 
/rant

I was looking at this tweet from @LinusTech this arvo and it kinda got me thinking a bit. Has the tech industry kinda missed the boat a bit on what "smart" devices should be doing for us? The entire point of automation, and to a degree tech in general, should be to make things easier for us. As soon as you start using tech that's "flashy" while making the task more complex you're kinda defeating the point (unless of course the point is to sell smarthome gear which I guess IS the point but still)
 
Eg the example from the tweet. Saying a phrase to have a car door open, especially when car doors come with a remote already, is not something that makes the task easier. Doubly so when the voice assistant misunderstands you and does the wrong thing. I'd go further and say the same thing is true for most voice assistant commands. Unless you're issuing some command with some attribute (eg turn the lamp blue, play king gizzard in the kitchen) you're just doing an action that would be easier if it was replaced with a button or a switch. I'm pretty into home automation but the only smarthome command I ever issue to google is "turn off the family room TV" when someone has left the TV on in the family room
 
I think there should only be really one kind of home automation people should be thinking about. It should be some kind of event that I'm otherwise not directly aware of followed by some appropriate action to that event. Everything else is just adding complexity to otherwise simple tasks. A few examples of good automations, some of which I've done:
- fade on bedroom lights early on days when I set the alarm on my phone for a work day
- turn lights on/off when I leave/return home
- turn on fan if temperature outside exceeds 27C (then off when it cools down)
- announce over speakers when certain devices connect to the WiFi (eg relatives have come over)
- change light colours based on sensors (eg blue -> humidity, red -> temperature, green -> "cold and dry")
- turn on exhaust fan when bathroom gets humid etc
 
That sort of stuff, genuinely helpful little automations. That's the appeal of this kind of thing in my mind. The fact that we seem to only ever talk about it and companies only ever advertise smart home stuff as "hey google, turn on the lights"? I think it really does damage to the entire concept of smart home in the minds of a lot of people. Because people just think that it's not a hassle to just turn on the lights with a switch. Which is valid, because it's true, but it's not the appeal
 
/rant

In my mind the only advantages consoles have over PCs are the upfront costs, the controller first UI and the exclusives. I have a Switch for Nintendo's exclusive which obviously I'm into given my choice of avatar. And I probably do the majority of my gaming on Switch. But I also have a PC connected to my TV with a wireless KB/Mouse, an XBox controller and a huge backlog of games on Steam
 
If I wasn't into Nintendo's exclusives I'd be PC only

A couple of additional suggestions. Find a Wii U, for all the failings of the Wii U it is still also a Wii with a HDMI port. Plus you get the added bonus of having the ability to stream your Wii games to a portable screen. The Wii U GamePad may only be 480p but Wii games were 480p anyways so it's not much of an issue
 
Second suggestion, emulation. If you have a Wii and games it's easy enough to dump your discs. These days Wii emulation is good enough, there are some titles that have some funky stuff going on and scaling in some titles does odd things. Also you'll want to figure out a way to get a sensor bar (the Wii is a bit of an old device now, not as easy to find a USB or battery powered sensor bar as it once was). But once you get it going? It's pretty solid. You can get Mario Kart Wii running at 4K/60fps on just about anything

Of course when there's a video about WiFi there are always the two inevitable commenters. The people who don't understand the distinction between "WiFi" and "internet" or why you may want solid WiFi even if you don't have a 100Mbps+ internet connection. Presumably they've never heard of a NAS, steam in-home streaming, security cameras, whole house audio setups, smart home decives. There's also more to solid WiFi than just high speeds. Although I guess this misunderstanding is just amplified every time a video like this comes out where speedtest is the benchmark they use rather than iPerf or, you know, UniFi's built in speed tester..... 
 
(Slight tangent, how do most new TVs still only have 100Mbps ports? There are use-cases for speeds above what streaming services provide. Are we just pretending UHD BluRay rips aren't a thing?)
 
And then there are the nuts who somehow think 1 or even a dozen ~10W access point pushing out non-ionising ratiation is a concern. The same people who will happily go out every day without any protection underneath a fusion reaction that pumps out a few kWh/m^2 radiation daily a fair portion of which is ionising Ultraviolet radiation.... 
 
Not sure about other options but when I was setting up mine I just used the one built into the Unifi controller. Although it seems they've pushed it here now:
https://design.ui.com/

Definitely, although it's mostly because with access points after a certain point you're paying for capacity and range rather than single user throughput. With the Unifi example you can get a WiFi 6 Lite AP for ~$190AU which supports a connection speed of "1.2Gbps" (actually ~700Mbps in real world tests). Going upto the BasestationXG you're spending $2300AU which does connection speeds upto "1.7Gbps". Which on paper seems like a very small gap for the difference in price. But the XG has a significantly higher gain antenna, three 5Ghz radios rather than 1 and a 10Gbps backhaul. Which is usefull but isn't going to be of any value when you have at most half a dozen users....

I mean of course, a wired connection for the kind of applications that demand "solid WiFi" is preffered and having it run locally is even better. But there's flexibility you get with having content stream over a network and even stream over WiFi. With the UHD BluRay rips example I could drop them on a HDD and plug that HDD into the device I want to play the video on. Or I could drop them on a NAS and stream them over a wired connection to my TV (shakes fist at TVs with 100Mbps Ethernet) or over WiFi to a laptop or something
 
The point of having a network is that you're sharing resources. My laptop doesn't need a huge m.2 SSD because I have a multi TB NAS, I don't need a HTPC because I can just stream videos over my network. Hell I don't even need a high end gaming laptop because in-home streaming is servicable and I can just leverage the power of my desktop. Means I'm not buying gear I don't need.... which to be fair is probably less of a concern to someone who's blowing $1000s on stadium tier WiFi

Firstly, can we not do this joke? Just don't.
 
Secondly what's not to be excited about? If you are into portables this is basically what you've been dreaming of for the last decade. Speaking as someone who's more of a portable gamer, this class of product is the way forward. It has been for a bit of a while now. And it's great that Valve is not only pushing it to a larger audience but also pricing it this aggressively. This is exactly what people who are into portable devices have been waiting for.
 
I mean ok if you're not into portables it's not a product for you and that's fine. Not everything has to be for you. And other people being excited about a thing that isn't for you does not diminish your enjoyment of other stuff. So just let people enjoy this
 
I for one make no secret of being a Nintendo fanboy and mostly because they've been pretty much the only game in town for portables since forever. The Switch was and still is a pretty fantastic piece of hardware for that reason. But the prospect of a half-decent PC in the same form factor? That's a nice future. I'll gladly pay the early adopter tax for that. And because it's literally a PC I can plug a large HDD full of movies into it and use it as a HTPC when it's docked or grab my wireless KB/Trackpad and use it as a kind of super-portable laptop. It's a nice concept

Adding an external GPU isn't really practical or cost effective. The dock as it is currently is nothing much more than a USB dongle with a Display Port to HDMI adapter. I'm not even sure there are the PCIe lanes possible to make an eGPU possible. Even more to the point, the Switch isn't just lacking a decent GPU there's also the issue of CPU performance and memory bandwidth.
 
It's also worth noting that there was a hardware revision that improved the capabilities of the SoC in 2019. The current Switch SKUs including the new OLED SKU are on paper 30% faster than the original Switch. The problem is Nintendo underclocked the original Switch when docked by about 30% and then an additional 50% when in portable mode. The clocks of the original Switch remain on the SKUs they've released since. So on paper there is about a 60% gap between what the OLED & 2019 Switch SKUs can do when docked and what Nintendo actually allows. Nintendo could unlock that performance if they wanted to at pretty much any time.
 
Anyways, I don't think we'll have an "upgraded dock" to enable a performance boost. What we might get is an upgraded dock that supports HDMI 2.0, it's not entirely clear whether or not the OLED dock does support HDMI 2.0 or not at least on paper. It may do. What I expect we'll get is a new SKU next year when the silicon shortage slows down a bit. Nvidia has a new Tegra SoC they're planning to have available next year that's Ampere based. The current Switch SoC is Maxwell based so that should provide a bit of a bump

True but I'd still file this under "lies we tell ourselves when we upgrade". Speaking for myself I build myself a new machine every 5 years or so, I definitely told myself this lie for the last two at the very least. In 2014 I was telling myself that "multi-gigabit LAN" or "NVME storage" were things that I might want to get in the next few years. But other than going from 8 to 16GB of RAM I didn't actually upgrade my 2014 PC at all.
 
Most of the expansion I think I might want a couple of years into the future seems to come built into motherboards by the time I actually upgrade. 2.5Gbps LAN is starting to become common on motherboards, NVMe is pretty much the default for storage, if you go ITX in a new build odds are you'll have WiFi 6 built in. Any other expansion can be done over USB with pretty much zero downsides.

If I'm being honest with myself the only reason not to go ITX is that mATX boards don't include WiFi, which I don't need, and are therefore cheaper. That's it.

Except that running Ethernet to an access point gives you more options down the road. It also means that the load across your network is spread across multiple access points. Most of the higher end access points/routers on the market get those high numbers by adding bands together. Having multiple access points is basically the same thing... except spread out across the area you want to cover. Is your option cheaper? Well maybe in the short term. But you'd be going to a lot of effort for something that won't give you the best results now and won't scale going forward

And anyways, the most "expensive" part of running Ethernet is the time required to do it. The cabling is dirt cheap and there's no reason why you can't re-use your existing gear. You don't have to buy a bunch of new access points, you can just use it to improve the placement of your existing access point or add a single new AP in a place you don't have coverage. If you're going to the effort of doing this do it properly.
 
WiFi has more overheads than and is technically slower than Ethernet even in lab conditions. Also the way most routers are wired up the WiFi portion is actually connected internally to an Ethernet port. So I'm not sure how well this would work but even if it worked fantastically well it'd be slower than ethernet.

Neat bit. However diminishing returns doesn’t just apply to poly counts. The concept I am talking about is after a certain point improvements become a bit more nuanced and less dramatic. Then of course you run into hardware limitations when introducing or utilizing techniques to   Improve visuals.
 
Of course your post details much more of what I vaguely mentioned in the post you quoted.
 
As it is right now There is still plenty of room for visual improvements, it’s that the expectations of seeing those dramatic differences as seen in other console upgrades is unrealistic.
 

Not using Antivirus is like not backing up your important files. Of course if you're not super careless you can go for years without ever having to have actually needed it. But if you ever do need it the impact can be pretty huge. Sometimes things slip through the cracks or things that happen that are out of your control. Do you trust all the devices on your Home/Work/School LAN? Do you trust the machines you have to VPN to for work?
 
There's a reason why Antivirus exists, it's the same reason why if you talk to anyone even remotely connected to IT professionally they will (or should) rattle on about the importance backups. Shit happens and when it does it can be pretty devastating. The only reason you should ever be so flippant about things like backups and antivirus is if you have nothing to loose. And, well, I think we all have something to lose if our HDDs were wiped and accounts logged into.

Modeling thermal behavior is frankly far from trivial.
Adding a second radiator will generally increase surface area and offer more potential for the air to snatch heat from the water.
The second radiator will also add more thermal mass, but that is another can of worms since it isn't useful for all workloads.
 
Though, I can't agree with Corsair's statement that the air will be nearly the same as the water in the loop, since then one must have a fairly efficient radiator design. (Either thick radiators or low air speed, or a combination) How large the temperature difference is in practice can be measured so it can be worth while taking a look at. (Airspeed must though be taken in consideration for it to be a proper study though)

Also, placing radiators so that the warmest radiators gets to see the warmest air is usually a good idea to implement. (counter flow heat exchangers are a rather useful design to follow.)
In the end, as long as the radiators aren't restricting air flow (ie have fans), then it shouldn't be a major issue to toss in more of them.

That kinda defeats the entire point doesn't it? Of course if you are GPU bottlenecked the CPU isn't going to matter much. Even at this extreme with 2x 2080Ti it's a 10% gap. The video is about what CPU makes the most practical sense for gaming at this extreme high end. It's not about mid-range gaming, if it was they'd be once again simply saying "throw a Ryzen 3600 in there and call it a day"

For someone to buy, not literally everyone to buy. As mentioned earlier, he did a sickstream the other day with a mid-priced rig build. This is considered to be an "extreme" build that he'd recommend someone with a high budget actually purchase, as opposed to the crazy stuff they build occasionally that's wildly impractical/dumb, where this is a solid high-high-end build that makes (some) sense.
 
How many mid-price builds does anyone want? It'd be a pretty boring start, "Hey guys, let's talk about Glasswire, ok we're building with a 2600x, gtx 2060 super and solid mid-priced ram/ssds, for the 12th time this month like every pc youtube channel out there"

They did, and found that there's a couple of degrees difference on a cooler the size of the Noctua D-15 vs a 240mm AIO. So pretty insignificant even when pushed. Of course at the extremes that matters and there are bigger radiators than 240mm but as a general rule? For the average user, especially someone who's not pushing all cores (i.e. someone playing games), an AIO doesn't have much of a performance advantage and generally costs more.
 
Water isn't magic, it's all surface area and airflow.
 
I mean, of course the black one isn't faster and you could spend less on the ugly silver and brown one. Though all these tech youtubers have just done videos on the black one so they'd have it on hand. Kinda similar with the 32TB of storage, they have a enough of those Seagate drives to build a HDD fort. So why not use a couple? It makes zero impact on the performance.

I think you guys are getting into the weeds a bit too much with this one. It was really just an AMD vs Intel CPU battle in gaming at a similar (v high but not farcical) price point. Intel just barely won which shouldn't really surprise anyone at this point. Of course they could have done more to make the two machines absolutely identical.... but they also went into lockdown half way through this so, the trivial differences make sense

But I guess fanboys and cynics gotta fanboy and cynic.....

I know I'm a dude with Super Mario Kart as my avatar so you're going to ignore whatever I say anyways. Especially when you're throwing out words like "shill" and "fanboy". Even so I fail to see how Nintendo's aggressive stance towards creators, modding and fan projects hurts consumers. Do I agree with their approach? No. But making things harder for content creators is kinda the opposite of what a company should be doing if they want favourable coverage. By rubbing content creators the wrong way all they've done is ensure that a large section of people will nit-pick.
 
The way Nintendo does things one thing you can pretty much guarantee that videos like this one from LMG are not sponsored in any way. Especially in a video about running unauthorised software on it. Not saying that LMG are "shills" for anyone else but because they're clearly not being supported at all by Nintendo in the above video? When they talk positively about the Switch in the above video, it's clearly not something they're saying to get a tick from Nintendo. 
 
And if you think Nintendo's approach means they're "bullies" who push people into being positive about their products? Clearly you have forgotten about the Wii U
 
...............
 
As a side note, as cool as running Android on the Switch is as an owner of an early model Switch I don't I'll bother with it. Seems more of a "because you can" thing than something actually useful. Besides, it's not like there's a shortage of other Android devices that can fill that gap for me. Very cool, very impressive but only in the "running Doom on your Fridge" kind of way.

Just saw the WAN show, thought I'd make a comment regarding something @LinusTech said that wasn't accurate. It's definitely worth noting that, for this round of legacy devices at least, all of the devices being made "legacy" bar the boost (which is just a WiFi repeater) and the CR200 (which is a controller) DO have AUX in. Which makes sense because all of these are products that launched before 2009, before Spotify's launch in the US. When these products launched Sonos was mostly about internet radio, playing music from your iPod and playing music off a network share. Music streaming services were a novelty

The Play3 was their first "no inputs" speaker in 2011, launching not-co-incidentally around the same time that Spotify launched in the US. That speaker and every product after this is not in the list of obsolete devices. Here's a graph that probably explains why this is, only two products SKUs on this graph are part of this group of legacy devices (note there were multiple Connects & Connect:AMPs). Node that both "legacy" devices have 32MB storage & RAM. Clearly they wanted a new feature they couldn't fit in 32MB



Honestly, it's pretty easy to get a bit worked up about this one. As someone who has multiple Sonos products I certainly was when I first skimmed through some of the posts about this. But the more I dig into it the less concerned I am. As someone who cares about the Environment does obsolescence by firmware update worry me? Of course. But honestly, there are far worse offenders for far less reasonable reasons than this.