I don’t use Haier products but a similar thing happened with Chamberlain when they blocked the MyQ integration even though it was using the legitimate API and not breaking any rules. No attempt to work with anyone in the HA community at all, just shut everything down.

On one hand, this means projects like Home Assistant are getting popular enough to have enough usage to effect these companies. So that’s great! In the long term, we’ll all figure out solutions, but in the short term it feels like an increasing fight between corporate and open-source control over smart devices.

IMO, it’s also worth the yearly cost for voice integration with Google Nest/Home or similar devices. Both can be done without paying but it’s so much easier and I know it’ll be supported over time.

you’re the arbiter of the free market now, eh

Broadcasting on TV these days is less likely to reach a wide audience than posting on the internet, but a platform is a platform.

You should feel bad for having this perspective. Reflect on that and try to be better in the future!

Are the police the correct organization to handle a potential dog bite?

You just made that shit up. This proposal hasn’t even been put in place so how could anyone know for certain that would happen??

And fully supported by Synology, too! They are pretty good at embracing the community while still keeping security as a priority.

Not sure what that has to do with the police, but they should have recommended a company to to help with cleanup at least.

I’m sure he is equally disgusted by the displays of heterosexuality in most parades, or maybe he is blind to that because that’s “normal”.

the same kind of person that voted for Obama twice and then Trump twice. I am sure they exist.

Drawing on a map with sharpie and thinking nobody would notice is definitely in the top 5.

No, the two party ‘system’ is a natural byproduct of how our current election process works. If we saw the rise of a third party, it would eventually supplant one of the existing major parties, just like we’ve seen in the past.

How would such a thing be financially viable? Once the ability to connect to any website exists, the physical cost to access everything else is essential nothing.

Israel is a country, not a religion.

Let’s not forget the prosecutors!

Conspiracy theorists always see connections where there’s nothing. Reality doesn’t need to conveniently align to make that possible.

Oh wow, that last part about wars in the middle east being a conspiracy is totally new to me. I suppose it’s no less unbelievable than the planet being a flat disc or moon landing hoaxes.

There’s a handful of kids getting real degrees that aren’t trying to go pro, but their basically the minority now.

This is hyperbolic, although certainly has a base in reality. Lots of players are getting free educations along the way to deluding themselves they will play professionally. Are there a lot of kids that don’t take academics seriously and are there ways to get an easy degree, sure, but it’s not like non-athletes don’t pursue similar strategies, too.

There are still standards they have to meet, and not every player on the team is getting a scholarship. It’s actually more common now than when I was in school for athletes to just decide to stop playing. Their scholarships (at least in the major conferences) are still honored and they can still graduate.

The majority of players that get drafted may never have taken their education seriously, but the majority of players that never even sniffed that opportunity probably did.

The main challenge is that separating will likely destroy a ton of the value. I don’t think most college sports fans, even diehards like myself, are going to be as passionate if our favorite teams are suddenly a glorified development league for the NFL, NBA, etc. That takes away any financial incentive to split, so sports would need to be kicked out, but for many universities that means academics also lose value and resources, not to mention all the non-revenue sports that won’t survive independently.

Splitting just the revenue sports (basketball and football) is also difficult, as there are outliers with profitable programs in other sports (e.g. NE has the only profitable D1 volleyball program, some SEC schools have profitable baseball programs) but everyone else doesn’t. Which model do these teams fit into in the future?

It’s all a huge mess which the NCAA never did anything to prepare for and has no idea how to handle now that pandora’s box is open.