That doesn't really follow Occam's Razor. That would require assuming that we're special in being the only planet/solar system/galaxy where life happened, even though the conditions are right in lots of places
The problem is that they could conceivably unlock themselves while sleepwalking too. They'd instead need to consent to being locked up by someone else, which seems like a safety hazard to me (fire starts in my house, do I die chained up to my bed?)
Carbon negative seems like a misnomer, since all of the carbon that a tree absorbs literally becomes a part of its mass. Since mass is conserved (mass can't come from nowhere, and it can't be destroyed), how is it possible for the trees to store more carbon than what is required to produce them?
And it makes no sense from a usability/safety perspective.
Touchscreens are harder to hit buttons right when you're being jostled about by turbulence. Not to mention how easy it is to hit the wrong button even when there's no turbulence. Have you noticed how liberal all smartphones are with autocorrect lately?
All that grandparent comment is saying is that this specific news story is a nothing burger, not that we should ignore other, bigger issues. In fact, they're saying that mentioning small issues like this is a red herring and a distraction. Presumably they agree that the recent Alaska Airlines door plug mishap and the total losses you mentioned are important.
The enterprise environment would run the more secure version of it, and the prosumer people would run the less secure version. Doesn't mean the secure version is any less secure
Opto-isolators don't transmit power per se. Since they use a phototransistor, it's more like they allow power to flow through from one pin to another, not provide a voltage across the pins.
It is technically true that devices with wake words are always listening, but that's not the whole truth. In that idle mode they're only listening for the wake word. Only once you've said the wake word does it start recording. This is evidenced by the fact that you can't set a custom wake word on them (you may only select from a small list on which they were trained).
Nobody has provided evidence that they're always recording and sending (only conspiracy theories). It's possible those theories are true, but there's currently no evidence.
Since they don't define it readily, I looked it up: A loitering munition is somewhere between a missile and a drone. Once it's shot, it stays in the air for a while until it locks onto a target, then shoots toward the target kamikaze-style, using the attached warhead to do damage.
I don't really get the point of this bed, how is it better than sleeping on the ground? The only reasons I can think of are insulation (which just a couple sheets of cardboard would do well, a 50% savings on material), and keeping away from pests like mice and cockroaches. Granted, those are decent reasons, but I wonder if spending the money elsewhere for disaster relief would be better. Am I missing something?
The sibling comment to this one helps clear this up: In short, they're not talking about the entire heat of the inner planet. They're talking about the rate at which heat that is transferred to the surface of the planet, not the thermal energy of the interior of the planet.
This seems like a bad choice. The home directory need not be on the boot drive. In fact, a lot of people put it on a separate drive, or at least a separate partition.
Isn't it also something you know? They mention that using passkeys usually requires unlocking a password manager, so presumably they're encrypted at rest