I don’t recall if it was mandatory during setup or not. I can control it locally when the internet is down, at least from the wall, I don’t think the app would work. But again, I wanted the remote features so I didn’t even try to set it up without an account.

Home assistant may work as well, but I don’t use it.

It’s really not bad. Sign in, goes to a page that just says not found. 3 dot>open in app and you’re in.

Logging in via the app. It launches the browser. If using Firefox you have to do the extra step I mentioned.

Here’s the screen.

Ecobee also requires chrome, but had a work around. Not sure if it’ll work here, but ecobee said to hit the 3 dot menu and choose open in app after the login failed and that logged you in.

We have lg washer and dryer and I just set up thinQ on my wifes new phone. It asked for location and when denied it said automations might not work. Asked my wife, she said what’s that? So location disabled app works fine. My main issue is not being able to just set a custom wash or dry from the machine. Why do I have to download a program if all I want is to lower the dryer temp without choosing delicate, which also shortens the time. Just have a full custom cycle and let me customize it.

I’d say most are frost free. Freezer in mini fridges being a big exception.

My very first place, gf at the time used a butter knife to chip out ice from the freezer. Yeah, had to buy a new one.

Knowing this, and that a coworker wanted to do the same with the mini fridge I of course warn them about how easy it is to puncture the refrigeration line. And yeah another dead fridge.

Coffee mate Cheez wiz since companies seem to like to collaborate with their stuff. Doritos taco shells etc.

I know my way around Windows, Linux and android pretty well. I have to google any time I get asked for help with an apple device.

So, while yes things have gotten simpler, if you want to do anything beyond the basics you still need to learn the device.

Water is a basic human right. You think $20 is going to water fountains? Its probably half a cent of your taxes.

As for what was the op, its probably nothing in taxes as the company plans to make money off the chilled and filtered to offset the cost of installing the units. The government your taxes pay for probably mandated the free tap to let them install them.

They have those at a lot of parks that I take my dogs to in my state in the US too. Usually free poop bags too, and yet half still can’t be bothered.

Kali was more for pen testing, hacking. Tails was a live disc that defaulted to tor and other privacy focused use.

Admittedly I’m not keeping up on this, so maybe outdated but it used to be Tails.

Similar to a joke my dad told in the 90’s

If Microsoft ever makes a product that doesn’t suck, it’ll be a vacuum cleaner.

Great value is like “kraft”. It’s the brand name. The store brand in this case.

From a quick googlebthe dollar inflation is up 33% since 2014. The lowest increase is 67%.

And here I thought faux news came up with that bullshit.

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/greedy-associates/tucker-carlson-successfully-argues-nobody-really-believes-tucker-carlson-is-reporting-facts/

Literally a magic 8 ball in a pile of bullshit making decisions would be better than trump.

Fuck that site, when I close your fucking app popup that doesn’t mean take me to the fucking play store.

Had to ublock element pick to delete the app popup.

No where did I say we shouldn’t be working towards better. That’s always the case. We will probably never eliminate murder either. That doesn’t mean I think murder should be legal, or that we shouldn’t try to prevent it.

Laws have to reflect reality though and not an ideal that can either never be achieved, or is very unlikely to be achieved. And that means women need access to safe legal abortions right now. In your ideal future, if it were to happen that we were able to completely eliminate the need for them by advances in medicine then you could look at changing the law if needed.