Unfortunately it makes it unsuited for my use case, which is almost entirely single words, as I don't particularly want to deal with stitching/segmenting input/output.
It's actually really, really easy to get the state of a "dumb" washing machine (or any other electric machine) into Home Assistant using a smart plug. You can use something really basic like "power draw for > n seconds followed by no power for > m seconds" to detect when a cycle is finished. You can get way fancier and look at power draw curves to determine what part of a cycle it's in, or which cycle, if you really want to. You can add a door sensor (recommend Samsung) if you want to know if the door's been opened.
Unfortunately it's much harder to do the same for an electric dryer, since there's no inexpensive or good smart plugs for 240V last I checked.
I played on a fantastic MUD as a kid. It was based on the code for some other MUD, and the admins were unhappy about some things, so they decided to write their own MUD engine from scratch. They got as far as establishing a network connection to a client - all network code written in scratch from C - before they burned themselves out and quit, which pretty much killed the MUD too.
Even worse, some will simply arbitrarily silently truncate the password. But not everywhere! The sign up page might silently truncate and then the actual login page might not.
Unfortunately, traditional pinsetters are well on their way out. All of the chains now use new models with strings that are much cheaper to operate. Non-chain bowling alleys with traditional pinsetters almost all get displaced by competition from chains and other issues.
The kingpin at the top of the food chain sold the metals to a refinery. There were many levels below him of catalytic converters being bought and sold before they got to the kingpin.
I've always only bought Taiyo Yuden media since ~2000. Every CD-R and DVD-R I still have that I've tried is still readable.
Taiyo Yuden at least used to be white labeled sometimes, so you'd just look up online what white-label media at Best Buy or CompUSA at the time was Taiyo Yuden.
I haven't burned a disc in probably close to a decade at this point though. SpiderOak is my backup.
That's quite disingenuous. Entirely different circumstances and facts.
You're using the absolute maximum prosecutors were threatening Swartz with in order to extract a plea deal. They would not have brought anything near that to trial had it gone to trial, much less convicted him on it. In fact, in your link, this is what he was offered: "During plea negotiations with Swartz's attorneys, the prosecutors offered to recommend a sentence of six months in a low-security prison".
The statute Swartz was charged under has also widely been recognized as flawed. Not the case with what Shkreli was charged with.
Also, if you have a Windows Update pending that requires a reboot, attempting to install anything from the Windows Store will fail, sometimes with a cryptic error code and sometimes not even that.
Uber deals with a commodity - the variance in someone driving you from point to point is pretty low, and the qualitative parts are basically all consumer visible.
The market for contractors is basically a market for lemons. There's 10 bad to downright criminal contractors for every good one, and most customers have no way to judge the actual quality of the work until it's months later and something falls apart.
ShopRunner is also free, forever, if you ever sign up for one of their free trials - I think they tend to happen around Black Friday.
I signed up for a free 1 year trial 5+ years ago, and it's still active. I don't know if they're desperate to goose their user numbers or what, but I've never heard of anyone's trial expiring.
Unfortunately it makes it unsuited for my use case, which is almost entirely single words, as I don't particularly want to deal with stitching/segmenting input/output.