If they wouldn't find another to help me? Absolutely. I can't imagine I couldn't just ask the server a question like "what's cheap and good?" or "I'll take the soup of the day."

>Maybe I have all the apps I need already?

>Maybe I just don't mind having an app on my phone because I know that I can set it to basically never bother me.

Maybe when the government decides you're a dissident, they can purchase the location information from all your convenient apps?

I love you.

"Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games"

Nothing makes more comfortable than not playing Ubisoft games.

Attacks on someone's culture are high cost and low benefit. Culture is important to people, and attacks on culture can foster unnecessarily-large responses given what is at stack. However, there is also very little to gain from the attacker's side.

>Microsoft 364 is down

Using the internet on a mobile phone is not advised.

Yes, but for psychological, not ergonomic reasons.

It's for psychological, ergonomic, and privacy reasons.

Depends what you mean by privacy. Most computers are a lot less private than most phones, in terms of how many people can access your data.

I think that characterization is too broad to be considered accurate.

Right back at you re: browsing internet from a phone.

I just hate smart phones so much. I need to stop commenting on HN. Sorry for wasting your time.

Almost any smart product these days starts with a couple of basic assumptions:

- All consumers own smartphones and like using them

- Consumers have no idea how their home networking works

- Consumers could not move a file from their computer to an SD card (or something similar)

So, everything is done by the app: you install the app, the smart device broadcasts a wifi network. This allows you to use your phone to give the smart device your wifi password. Then the remote servers handle everything else.

There's nothing in between. You're either an actual engineer, as mrb describes, or you're just beholden to cloud services that are terrible and also are guaranteed to disappear in 0-3 years.

There are some intermediates but they're often not that well supported. I have a door bell with a traditional app but it also exposes a normal IP camera stream and has a community (I assume) home assistant integration that lets me perform actions when one of the doorbells not connected directly to a chime trigger.

"Hey, this house between 101 Main st. and 105 st. is blurred, how will we ever find it?"

No one agrees on what "consciousness" means, so it's very difficult to debate it with anyone.