If they change it off the default password then you would need someone to actually remember the password or at least write it down somewhere. Every time I have to factory default a controller because nobody knows what the password was set to I lose a little more will to live. Luckily, the admin credentials are usually just written in marker on the control panel right next to the controller in question.

Even easier. You can still have the monitoring system online. Just don’t put the fucking controls online. To be fair to the store owners though, the controls companies push hard “everything in one place” online portals for their equipment now a days. But, if you ask me, your monitoring system should be entirely separate from the control system. That adds a bit of redundancy in case of faulty sensors. I’ve seen it plenty of times before where a misplaced temp sensor for the control system will cause a case to run too warm or too cold without anyone knowing because they’re only looking at the temp shown on the main controller. The temp sensor you’re monitoring shouldn’t be the same temp sensor that’s controlling the system.

You can have online monitoring without putting the controls online. Online controls are profoundly dumb but these big chains like it because it means that no one onsite actually needs to know how the equipment works. I’ll take an old school mechanically controlled refrigeration rack any day over one where I need to navigate a fucking phone tree with the management company to get a setting changed.

Are you thinking water heater or filter? Because I’ve never seen a water softener that can fit under a sink or on a showerhead. Unless you’re talking about phosphate feeder cartridges but those don’t actually soften water they just help keep limescale from sticking.

got stuck with one of those whole-house water softeners.

Wait, what other kind of water softener is there? Maybe it’s just because I live in an area where our water is practically more limestone than water, but I’ve only ever heard of whole house water softener.

As far as the rest of your comment. My experience is slightly different. I have several older relatives who have no known mental issues who have the same issues as your mom. But on the other hand my dad who doesn’t use social media because he has MS and it makes it hard for him to type, is still sharp as a whip when it comes to spotting scams. He’s pretty tech illiterate but he can still easily spot and ignore dogey emails and links. It seems almost like social media has conditioned most boomers to be more likely to fall for scams. Of course corolation doesn’t imply causation. Maybe it’s just that more scam savvy people are more likely to recognize most social media as being a scam so they don’t use it.

Not the worst pickup line I’ve heard.

You can already do that though. Basically any truck just has a control on the dash to disable the passenger side airbag in case you neet to put a car seat there. You can also just remove the airbags in any existing vehicle as is. It really isn’t hard to do. People are just hesitant to do so because if you screw up then you can set the airbag off.

More importantly though why would the software being foss effect the airbags? The airbags shouldn’t be interacting with the vehicle software at all.

People have been doing dumb things with their cars since the invention of cars. Making them harder to repair via locked down software isn’t the fix for that.

8000 people who were morally bankrupt enough to work for facebook.

My favorite script is the one I wrote to keep my session from timing out due to inactivity. It pressed a null key once every minute.

So I just always find it funny some pirates around some communities, get such an egotistical stroking of themselves when they make bold claims as to not having screwed up. They did, just don’t want to mention it.

To be fair, it was pretty easy to not screw up with early piracy. Just don’t download or run any executables and you were pretty much safe. Back in the day, you didn’t even need a VPN. I’ve screwed up far more recently than I did back then.

My favorite screw up was the time my mom got a C&D for me pirating the movie “Law Abiding Citizen”. Awful movie but if I still had that letter I would frame it.

But how will it effect next quarter?

Canadians that have tried it said it was good.

You could feed a canadian raw sewage and they’d still compliment your cooking just to be polite.

except maybe puppies.

I seem to remember that there is some dangerous dissease that people mainly catch from puppies.

“Expats”

Tell that to the advertizing companies.

“Expats”

I tried and couldn’t. It immediately flagged my empty account with no activity for “violating TOS” and required a face scan to reactivate it.

You don’t need to hold crypto to pay with crypto. You just only buy exactly enough to make your payment right when you are going to do so. Yes you’re still buying crypto but you’re also immediately cashing out so there’s no risk of being caught holding the bag.

If LLMs weren’t so damn sycophantic,

Has anyone made a nonsycophantic chat bot? I would actually love a chatbot that would tell me to go fuck myself if I asked it to do something inane.

Me: “Whats 9x5?”

Chatbot: “I don’t know. Try using your fingers or something?”

Edit: Wait, this is just glados.

My favorite OS is mint because I don’t care about my OS beyond it running the programs I want it to run and it staying out of my way. Similarly my favorite car make is whatever I can buy used for the cheapest and my favorite body wash is the stuff I steal from hotels.