Harry Ford sounds like a very different actor.

Gentlemen! I bring you …

TIL!

He doesn’t?

I’m not being sarcastic or making a joke. I thought he won all three categories.

Fingers crossed.

My understanding is that Edge is Chromium and will also eventually be impacted by this.

I sleep better with lights, noise and distractions than without; without gives my brain time to think about things like elections, exactly how much time I have left to sleep before I have to get up for work, what troubles I’ll face at work the next day, etc. I slept so much better during the days than I do during night.

edit: For some reason my client decided to post this as I was in the middle of typing a sentence. Edited to actually finish the post.

I believe it’s only required during the pairing process, but as the other observer pointed out, I don’t know much about it. If you’re able to circumvent the process, more power to you!

Sure, removing your network from the equation is definitely a more secure option; just make sure the app isn’t using those granted permissions in the background when you’re done using it and log back into your network.

I also used GSuite for a long time. Its betrayal of its users is a big part of why I switched to Proton. Much better UX.

I knew that someone would try to convince me. You won’t convince me.

… Though your argument is pretty compelling.

I remember when Bluetooth started demanding location permissions. You’ll never convince me that it’s functionally required or provides any benefit other than furthering efforts to spy on the user.

When it started being rolled out, I avoided any app or hardware that made that demand. Sadly, that’s no longer an option if I want any Bluetooth at all.

I haven’t done an extensive survey or anything, but every modern router I’ve interacted with supports setting up a secondary WiFi network with guest isolation (so anything on that SSID can’t see any network device besides the router and itself). This is useful for apps or hardware that is untrusted and/or demands unjustified permissions.

Huh, never knew. My sole exposure to this was one quite classic car. Thanks for the information!

Disregarding the safety comments (which should not be disregarded) purely for the purposes of this conversation, in older cars the vacuum tubes that operated the lights would frequently fail, meaning that the lights wouldn’t deploy even when desired.

How did it generate that sound without batteries? Was it literally the audio from the clicking of the buttons? Genuine questions.

edit: Thanks for the several answers. They all seem prone to interference, but it is nice that they worked without power.

I used it all the way up until Google broke compatibility with it, then continued using it with a third party plug-in until that stopped being maintained.

Now I prefer Signal over Chat.

If they’re a pain in the ass I think you might be wearing them wrong.

Three stories? You’re a brave soul.