I can't think of any other than potentially oil and gas (though they probably use a lot of it in head office type environment).

Has this been implemented anywhere else in the world other than China?

Do they even have advertising normally?

yes i believe so

Anna doesn't have any advertising. Their income is purely driven off donations, most of which are part of subscription packages that offer faster downloads.

yeah meant more libgen, which i believe some instances have ads.

anna's has "donations for speed" and dark pattern hide the links to the fast external websites

I just had look and seems most have a warranty of five years, it doesn't seem there are many outliers to that. Funnily though it seems the AC unit is most likely going to operate many times longer, as the OP points out just the controller isn't working properly, and how long would a consumer be willing to fight this in the summer in Perth.

I’ve used the Australian Consumer Law several times at this point and most times you say to the customer service rep “The Australian Consumer Law gives guarantees of acceptable durability that I do not think this product has met. How are you planning on remedying the situation?”

They’ll then generally go to speak to a supervisor.

The’ll then come back and say they’ve been instructed to help you escalate to ‘senior management’.

A day later they’ll contact you with how to get your product fixed for free.

I’ve not had a significant delay, but you’d be spewing if it was a heat wave in summer.

I agree, practically this would've been much more in terms of combined efforts (to collect, parse, and validate) this analysis. Absolutely bargain if McKinsey was able to create from scratch ;)

according to this page the mini (current model) will have it activated I suspect when the Homepod 2 comes out.

Ahh thanks, I checked the actual mini product page which doesnt seem to be updated yet.

been very happy with my homepod mini - doesn't seem like there's many additional features in the larger size one (except for higher sound levels?)

I enjoy the HomePod mini we were gifted in the kitchen. It sounds fine for what it is but Siri is basically a glorified kitchen timer as it fails at least 70% of the time at answering a question or even turning lights on and off.

Is it too much to ask to say “Siri turn off all lights except kitchen island” and expect it to do it? No matter how many times I have reconfigured things in the Home app it just can’t do it I have to ask it to turn off all lights then turn on the kitchen island :facepalm:

Yeah, that sort of low hanging fruit is a bit annoying... although if you find yourself doing that a lot, adding a named shortcut / scene for it is a decent workaround.

The main thing the full-size HomePod brings is more speakers for better sound.

Do they even make profit at that price point?

They were profitable at slightly lower prices than this a couple of years ago, so it seems likely.

I saw the obsidian one but what was the other? https://obsidian.md/canvas

Maybe they are talking about https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/

doesn't quite make sense given they are so different - there was this again recently posted though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34096668

I'm not sure what you mean here - to be honest I'm not sure what the strategy is with something like this. Corporates typically don't have Macs (though they will have phones)