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79wjd

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  1. If the item is incorrect or otherwise damaged, then they'll refund you (or replace it if you prefer). There isn't really a need to trust them.
  2. To add to this, @sazrocks, you're thinking of a 130% increase, which would be 2.3 times as fast.
  3. Glad to help. It's fine to use globals, but there is usually a better solution. Globals are often used as a hacky solution to get around scope issues that were designed to exist for a reason. That's not to say you should never use globals, but it's not a bad habit to be in to design solutions that don't rely on them. In this particular case, it would seem reasonable for those to be members of the class. Although, that is without having seen any of the code.
  4. Yes, it's volatile and will be lost as soon as it goes out of scope -- which it will once you leave the function.
  5. rgbrood, rgbroen, rgbblauw are attributes of a class? Then do self.rgbrood = value etc... as you want to change the object's attribute, not define a new variable that happens to share the same name as one of the class's attributes.
  6. Leagues better than a car, and probably also still better than leaving lights on.
  7. Same can said of cars, except those have detrimental impacts on the planet. A significant number of people could easily switch to a bike and not be hindered in any meaningful way as their commute is short and highly congested leading to bike-type speeds. But I guess that's not against your highly judgmental nature and biased agenda.
  8. Not to mention it's not easy to integrate into an existing system (or it makes less sense than smart control bulbs) and doesn't give you much fine grained control.
  9. Well if you're using a smartphone, or any Google service, than you're already handing over far more useful information. Having the personal opinion that a smart assistant isn't worth the trade off TO YOU is fine. That doesn't mean others can't make a ln educated decision that differs from yours.
  10. You know what worked for millennia? Everything without electricity. Let's go back to that because extra conveniences are a waste of time, resources, money, and personal security. Most common thieves are absolutely incompetent. Not to mention that again, IT'S NOT JUST LIGHTS. But, you know who doesn't have full control over the position of light switches? Almost everyone that rents their house/apartment. Not to mention those that bought houses/apartments and would rather buy a $20 home assistant than spend a few hundred dollars replacing light switches and/or dealing with the hassle of an electrician, because most people aren't going to change their own switches.
  11. Hands are full. Don't want to get up to switch lights on/off. Are leaving and don't want to walk through every room to make sure lights are off. Want to cycle lights when not home. And that's still only considering that it's only good for controlling lights, which it's not. Grow up. There are plenty of benefits and reasons why people might want something like a Google Home/Alexa. Many of which are no less ridiculous than half the tech conveniences that are otherwise commonplace. Biometrics on phones, assistants on phones, smartwatches, wireless headphones, high end headphones, high end phones, the list goes on forever.
  12. Because getting a better job is easy. Imagine being so closed minded that you can't possibly imagine someone having different priorities than yourself.
  13. People still don't frequently change locks, and if they're changing to a smart lock, I the out of convenience -- just like any other biometric lock. It absolutely is more difficult in every way. When the alternative is doing a search on Google anyway, you're not hiding that much from them. The difference is general conversations that might occur in their presence, although at the moment being recorded while not talking to it isn't currently a known problem. Not to mention it is a CHOICE to sacrifice the potential surveillance (that probably isn't happening -- at least no more so than through any other medium/conspiracy -- hidden microphones embedded in TVs/phones/computers, phone/text conversations being monitored, etc...) for the convenience offered. Especially when you know where it is and know that you can easily move to a different room if you're really that concerned about what's being discussed.
  14. Reality is that most people don't have expensive high security locks. They have standard locks which are pickable in very short periods of time if not vulnerable to a bump key, which only takes seconds to use.
  15. As opposed to the strong security on easily pickable locks?
  16. And when your hands are dirty or otherwise preoccupied -- for example, in the kitchen, then you're absolutely not going to be faster not to mention the potential impracticality of freeing your hands. Or any number of lazy scenarios where you don't have your phone on you and don't want to get up, or you left the remote on the other side of the room and don't want to get up. There are lots of use cases where a smart speaker is advantageous.
  17. Light gaming is a good enough reason for me. I have absolutely no interest in having a dGPU, but I do play games on my laptop occasionally. So the best iGPU I can get is a nice touch. Dota 2 is a much better experience on Iris Pro 5200 (I believe this is still around UHD630 -- five years newer) than On HD4600.
  18. Removing the iGPU would be idiotic when the vast majority of consumers want an iGPU (or more specifically, don't care about a dGPU). Not to mention that for the vast majority of consumers, 2 cores is more than enough. The enthusiast market accounts for such a tiny fraction of actual users.
  19. Focusing solely on the case where the hammer is novel -- because otherwise, as we both agree, there is no discussion to be had. The bits used to store the content can't be used for anything else so long as the content exists using those bits the same way that the material used to forge the hammer can't be used for anything else as long as the hammer exists. But the material used to forge the hammer can be re-purposed (again, albeit much more costly) the same as the bits used to store the content can be.
  20. Not that it changes anything in this discussion, but imo another group worth mentioning is the group that bought the content because a friend, who pirated it, recommended it. In theory, clicking copy also costs materials, labor, and skill (just much less so). But there is some nuance to the 3D printing argument. A company owns intellectual property rights on the hammer design (assuming it's novel enough for that to be a possibility), otherwise they just own the name on the hammer and have no authority over the design. In the former case, 3D printing a copy of the hammer is likely akin to piracy. In latter case, assuming you don't forge the logo/any copyrightable information, you're creating your own product that also happens to be a hammer.
  21. There's a very big difference between not seeing a 'fad' becoming the next big thing and being able to market oneself. There's also a very big difference between knowing how to market oneself and not willing to make an investment to entirely switch businesses.
  22. Something tells me Intel's vast, and well funded, marketing department knows better than you do.
  23. It used to work (a long time ago), and I haven't changed anything since. The only setting I can find that sounds relevant is 'enable remote play' in 'remote play'.
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