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Also, everyone's solution to a problem is stupid if they're only given 5 minutes to work on it.

Combine that with it being "free" for them to query the website and expensive to have enough local storage to replicate, even temporarily, all the stuff they want to scrape and it's kind of a no brainier to 'just not do that'. The only thing stopping them is morals / whether they want to keep paying rent.

The Garmin Instinct is what I switched to when my Pebble died. Recently upgraded to the Fenix.

You can absolutely skip ahead through ads with the music controls. Automating it would be the job of the app.

Maybe instead of spending hundreds of man-hours and resources to detain someone indefinitely with no charges they could ask her to fill out the form fully instead of arresting her.

"You forgot to fill out these boxes, back of the line." would surely be more 'efficient' if that were the point wouldn't it?

Chinese stuff has largely reached the same tipping point Japanese/Korean stuff reached in the 80s, where the previous couple decades it was cheap crap and "all of a sudden" it's on par or better than domestic consumer tech.

The cheap junk is still cheap junk of course but if you look at the middle tier or better they can be very good. DJI is a prime example, there aren't a lot of alternative drones if you want it to 'just work' and work well with decent support. You can also get a drone on Ali-express/TEMU for $20 but it's going to be cheap crap, but DJI drones you can buy in BestBuy and the bigger/more professional ones get used on movie sets.

Honestly not sure there's much of a distinction between those groups anymore.

But the model number isn't really the "name" either. That would be "Alienware 34-inch Monitor", from that year, etc. That they don't call that their "Mars" line of monitors is maybe a marketing issue, but the thing people want to know first/most about a tv/monitor is how big it is.

Cars and Phones have product numbers that break down the same way but like you say the general public doesn't refer to them that way. Like the Samsung Galaxy S24 instead of "SM-S928U", which is the North American (T-Mobile?) specific model.

If there is any thought to it, it usually goes something like "Radio is/was fine because it's kilo/megahertz, Wifi/5G is gigahertz waves of electromagnetic radiation.(?!?!)"

Could always point to the Terahertz electromagnetic radiation source plugged into their nearest lightbulb socket and ask how that doesn't hurt them.

Not saying they couldn't/shouldn't but printers are a nightmare hellscape and it's a miracle, mostly of HP's marketing department, that they're a household object.

Well damn. Weird way to find out there's possibly a new Buffy.

Yes. Even with Plex I've had people just never log in. Or after I log them in and set it as a favorite they just never go to the unfamiliar icon.

Most of the problem isn't even Plex/Jellyfin/etc.'s fault, it's that the UI of smart tvs is a nightmare hellscape running on underpowered hardware and people just want to interact with it as little as possible. The absolute best thing would be to copy Netflix/Disney/etc and throw a QR code on the screen to sidestep that by throwing authentication to the phone.