Random Thoughts

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Random Thoughts


The thread title itself sums it up pretty well. Any thoughts or incomplete ideas to be quickly jotted down that may not be ripe, ready, or evidently suitable at a glance for any other topic/subtopic.

It's fairly informal, and I've seen users on other forums make moderate use of such threads e.g. based on experience, I've been thinking about posting the pros and cons of buying cheap tires in my automotive thread.

Also, there was a recent proposal rejected a couple years ago that came up again that would prevent the general public from working on their own vehicles, and it was voted down again. I'd be interested to know the reasoning behind these proposals; of course I have ideas.

As we progress technically it appears that those in the "money" want to take all else away from the ones who buy things. Just look at setting up a Home Theater today. We dumped DIRECT TV for a ROKU stick and signed on for YouTube TV, Netflix and HULU with commercials and have more channels than we know what to do with. All that for $111 a month. ROKU @ $0, Netflix @ $17, YouTube @ $89, Hulu @ $7.  Just keeping all up as we have monthly WIFI outages requires me to be an AV specialist as we have two Smart TV's and the primary no Smart TV has the ROKU stick in it. 

So how about those Smart Refrigerators, Door locks and more. I stay away not because I am an OLD FART its because lt can be hacked and / or breached. 

Our new used home came with a Samsung $3000+ refrigerator. Yep, the one where the WIFI listens to you. Yep, the one where the ice maker has not been engineered correctly so the Samsung OEM water filter froze and cracked and flooded the home. We had Best Buy take the fridge away and bought a Whirlpool with NO WIFI. To date at 3+ years NO issues. 

Anything electronic is beyond 99% of the population to fix outside of a Hard Drive or a component.  Then we have cars. Thinking ahead we will have Lithium Batteries that can explode along with refrigerant in the AC that can leak into the environment. Today a car is comprised of electronic modules. Back when I was with General Motors Powertrain the modules that controlled the engine could generate unlimited horsepower. So much that we could blow up the rear end as it couldn't take the torque. That's almost 20 years ago so I get what they have today. 

Hmm so take a look in WIFI Jammers. The choice of Drug Dealers. They could either be in your neighborhood or coming to a neighborhood near you. May explain WIFI outages stuff?