Bishma

It's an LG dryer.

I'd have to go look up the window unit. Its almost certainly a white labeled OEM who's advertised brand no longer exists, though.

Neither mentioned a network connection was required. The AC unit didn't mention it at all, and consumer reports mentioned the dryer had "smart features" and an app but never said basic controls were locked behind a network connection

How close are you to a starlink constellations orbital path, now that they can be connected to via cellular modems?

Pictures are far from the only thing to worry about.

I can't set my dryer to medium heat unless I do so with an app over the internet even though the controls exist to do it on the unit. I bought a window AC unit and the only remote control is an app - thankfully I was able to put that on a subnet with no internet gateway and it still works.

Coming soon (if not already): TVs with utility cellular connections or corpo network (like Amazon sidewalk) access that your neighbor may have not opted out of.

Giving an ultimatum to choose between the US and China at a time when the dollar's value is dropping and BRICS nations are pushing to unseat it as the world reserve currency. That seems like smart, long term thinking right there.

Oh. That's why China was fighting so hard to buy the Tanbreez site during the last administration and why the US had to exert soft power on 4 different countries to buy it out from under them.

Prisoners and people in RFKs health re-education camps. Just like Russia.

Tungston and indium (at least) from those mentioned in the article. Plus graphite, rare earths, and nickle.

You know who has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.

The Clevo OEM laptops that make up most of System76 laptop offerings are getting worse and louder over time. I've had two successive Oryx pros that both had persistent hardware issues that outlasted my warranty coverage, the 2nd of which was simply producing more heat than 3 air cooled heat pipes could ever hope to account for. I know why they stopped selling that particular model of Oryx something like 3 months before the next one was available.