He’s allowed to. I described an option, not a mandate.

Obvious moral takes are not so obvious in 2026. Keeping the discussions going is inconvenient to the asshooes trying to normalize atrocities. I think that’s the point.

You know I’ve found the store bought stuff is now way worse that the occasionally tempermental homeassistant stuff. I’m playing with migrating Shelly’s to esphome since they dragged their feet on thread for so long and their latest zigbee firmware is laggy and annoying.

Sir, there’s a reason nobody likes to see the sausage being made.

Excel is the 7th ring of hell

To be fair, neither does the real MS office

Also yes. My response was more about showing you can have a modern smarthome that does not talk to the internet. You can of course automate without.

Shelly outlets can do zigbee and BT without wifi now, thread soon in a firmware update or now with esphome.

Shelly smart outlet + homeassistant + dumb coffee maker = genius coffee maker.

Why?!

“I used ai so I do t have to think.”

“Please think.”

“Tell me why I should think”

This is the problem.

Are suggesting there’s a way to go higher? Was someone holding out on you?

It’s also not unusual for companies to branch out into weird things like this for one-off promotional stuff. The Guinness Book of World Records was not originally intended to impress grade schoolers in the library

That sounds like a problem for layers of ai companies, not users.

Seriously. Makes the suspension less aggressive and you have a win right fucking there

Slaves. They were slaves. That’s literally the entire point of H1-B visas.

Anyway, there is no way Microsoft will respect this. Even with remote work, it would kill them.

A mass ditch, if you will

That’s was weirdly aggressive. I’m trying to understand motive and you respond with dismissal, which means you either considered the inquiry an attack or that this project is actually dumb and that is not a satisfying answer.

Instead of chasing the dismissal and turning this into an internet slap fight among the most limp-wristed on Lemmy, let’s get back to my question: why do this?

Does this solve a UX issue? Is there some incredible performance advantage? Does it solve a problem? Is it an interesting technical challenge where something shouldn’t be possible but a neurodivergent paused his Minecraft videos and said hold my beer unconvincingly? Why was this done? Help me tune into what makes this impressive.

Omarchay disagrees in the weirdest possible way, which is why you got my updoot

Yes but no. I ask myself on any Linux package “does this solve a problem?”