That’s just so wrong-headed. How else do you expect billionaires to monetize every aspect of our lives?

Easy mistake. The M stands for Moron, not mother.

I first went online with CompuServe. I didn’t use a computer, I had a teletype connected to a 300 baud modem & an acoustic coupler. Back then, AT&T didn’t let you connect directly to the phone system. A year later, the vic-20 came out and I used that.

Every time I see one of your pictures I say “holy fuck”

Do that while explaining how that contract clause works!

Try getting a used server. You can find one on labgopher. For the budget you have, don’t expect something great but it’ll be a start.

Magnets. How do they even work?

English, I can get by in Spanish and I can do menus in French and Italian.

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Thanks, I will definitely check out both of those

It’s like Ligma but different

I’ll take a look at that, thanks. It’s been a year or so since I last looked at it but back then there was a push button that you could use but I couldn’t get it going.

Privacy issues aside, for wider adoption the user experience needs to be better. Most people don’t want to be a sysadmin for their house, they just want to live in it.

Yeah, that’s why I said I’m very hopeful. It says so in my comment.

Regarding party selection, yes that’s exactly right. It’s for the primaries, which selects the candidates for that party, and people do tend to vote along party lines.

Sure, but if I had a Pi (or similar board) with a speaker and a mic, I’d hope to be able to do the same thing. A Pi Zero would definitely be able to do the job.

I’ve dabbled a little with it, but I really want something that’s as easy to use & set up as the commercial offerings like Google Home and Amazon Echo. I want to have an interface where I can connect my light bulbs, and have little hockey pucks that will listen for a wake word and do what I ask of it, and play my music. I also want to be able to get under the covers and do something that solves an odd problem that might come up.

I’m very hopeful for the project and I do think it will get there eventually.

That makes sense. I’m a lazy guy and I didn’t want to try testing so I went with a known quantity.

You should take a look at getting sas enclosures. They’re pretty cheap, like $200 for a 16 bay. That will be so much more reliable.

I used to work at Merrill Lynch, we had a Linux desktop pilot. We were an 80k company but had less than 1k users in the program, and most of us were capable of self-support.

It’s definitely doable at scale especially since most apps are web based these days, but there certainly is a retraining effort needed for support, and Windows would still be there. For most organizations, that’s not worth the effort.