I guess someone had that idea, sold it and then contracted some poor guy to implement it, even if it is bullshit and does not work

The iPhone also had local speech recognition for quite a while now. It is available since the iPhone 6s and the iPhone SE. Both of which came out in 2015 - 9 Years ago.

You don’t understand. The end user is the importer. That’s the whole idea behind aliexpress, temu and others. They don’t need to adhere to any local laws because the customer directly shops on the Chinese website.

What? Local speech recognition is already integrated in most phones. Open source options are also freely available… I am not sure what the news is here…

Really? That’s a good idea.

A recall of cheap Android streaming boxes dropshipped from China? Ha!

If they want to hide that, why not just not print it on the box?

I wouldn’t know. All I am saying is that Syncthing would not work for this purpose.

Syncthing works on a file level basis. If files are changed on both devices at the same time, it will have sync conflicts.

Yep, that’s the beginning of climate change scientists have warned about since ages.

Don’t worry, it will get worse in the next years.

I am all for smart appliances, as long as they are local and work with things like home assistant

Spacious? That is not true for most SUVs or crossovers when compared to their non-suv variant. (Looking especially at you, Mercedes!)

Luxurious? The non-suv variants are just as luxurious, no difference there.

DNS filtering only gets you so far. An adblocker is still a very good addition