I don’t use Haier products but a similar thing happened with Chamberlain when they blocked the MyQ integration even though it was using the legitimate API and not breaking any rules. No attempt to work with anyone in the HA community at all, just shut everything down.

On one hand, this means projects like Home Assistant are getting popular enough to have enough usage to effect these companies. So that’s great! In the long term, we’ll all figure out solutions, but in the short term it feels like an increasing fight between corporate and open-source control over smart devices.

IMO, it’s also worth the yearly cost for voice integration with Google Nest/Home or similar devices. Both can be done without paying but it’s so much easier and I know it’ll be supported over time.

There’s also a third audience most people don’t consider: everyone reading the thread that isn’t engaging directly.

You might not convince the direct ‘opponent’ in an internet debate, but can still make an impact on others that might be more open to listening to a new perspective.

How would such a thing be financially viable? Once the ability to connect to any website exists, the physical cost to access everything else is essential nothing.

That video is included in the article, it’s just at the very bottom for some reason.

You should, sounds like you definitely contributed more to the benefit of human society than I ever have!

Engines have to be replaced after a decade or more, that’s a huge expense that usually isn’t worth the value of the vehicle. How is this any different?

How is Apple going to monetize DuckDuckGo to make up for that $9 billion, without compromising their other efforts w/r/t user and data privacy?

Glenn Shotwell runs SpaceX and is a competent adult. Nothing to worry about on that front, thankfully.

Flying cars are the stupidest idea, especially since helicopters have existed the entire time and everyone just refused to accept that fact.

They know enough to not want to be associated with it.

From the quotes in the article, they didn’t just “not disclose” so much as “lied”. Regardless of subject matter, when someone cares enough to make sure something they don’t want to be associated with isn’t involved and then they find out it actually is, they have a right to be upset.

Did you use reddit 10 years ago or longer? The Fediverse is already significantly more stable and a better user experience in comparison.

Why would a different type of vehicle that also flies in the air not need to follow similar maintenance requirements?

The only reason cars and car drivers aren’t held to the same standard is because if a car breaks, it just stops moving. If a plane, even just a single passenger one, stops working, it falls out of the sky.

So helicopters with extra steps. Got it.

I will just never understand how so many people look at a broken down car on the side of the highway, then think “what if whatever happened to that vehicle was the same, but 5,000 feet in the air?”

So do cars and trains! They easily take people to the airport, where you can conveniently park your helicopter between uses.

How is either a better or more affordable option than a cheap helicopter? Air taxis using helicopter have existed for decades and fly around urban areas every single day.

Will people still need a pilot’s license and all of the associated time + training that requires? Because they will surely also need to have a driver’s license and insurance and everything else required of owning a car!

I do not understand the appeal at all unless it’s just a refusal to give up on a very specific childhood nostalgia.

That probably already exists, why would one of the many LLM systems out there having to re-train impact anything but that one program?

Computer manufacturers aren’t making AI software. If someone uses an HP copier to make illegal copies of a book and then distributes those pages to other people for free, the person that used the copier is breaking the law, not the company that made the copier.