20x plan is $200, 5x is $100. Pausing $200 plan signups is effectively doubling prices (you can subscribe to two $100 accounts for the same money and get half as much usage), and that's exactly what they did.
HDMI breakout and a esp32 module flashed with esphome is another option. The tv most likely doesn’t care that the port that sent on/off command is not the same port the video signal is coming from..
I have an automation that turns on amplifier only when using certain inputs, not just when the TV is turned on. I can easily imagine people would also configure their amps to use different input depending on TV input.
Kafka himself would be proud if their unlocking process[0], but technically sure, they allow it
> Press "Apply for unlocking" at exactly 12:00 AM GMT+8 (pressing it too late will cause the "application quota limit reached" error. Use this website to check the time)
"Account Error" might show up. If that happens, retry after 10 days
I mean yeah that's why we cannot just "trust". And yes, in that case, there was nothing that could be done but its a case of mental illness and we can look into how regulations and airlines handle mental health issues in pilots. There are regulations for this across all airlines, they failed in this case. So yes, at that moment in time, there is nothing you can do if the other pilot freaking turns off the engine as you begin to climb but there is absolutely things you can do to the best of your ability to ensure such a person shouldn't be allowed to fly / be in that situation in the first person.
Until such a time where rent/paying for housing is no longer a thing and we have a good social safety net, it will just mean pilots will keep their mental health problems under wraps to avoid losing their jobs and becoming homeless.
I wonder of such regulations are in fact counterproductive if it means people don't seek out help when they can and let the problem escalate instead (since you presumably don't go from healthy to murder-suicidal in one day, and early intervention could resolve the problem).
Yes we can argue how effective the regulations are etc and yes there is a validity to the fact that they can fail since they clearly have. What I was talking about is that the concept of regulations exist because we don't just trust the pilots on any inherent basis so we need checks like regulations which try to shift the trust from the individual to the process which is much more comforting to the average passenger.
Air travel is weird in the sense that pilots do have an immense amount of power and the fact that there have been so few pilot suicide cases shows that regulations for that are somewhat working.
> which is much more comforting to the average passenger
Indeed I wonder how much of aviation-related security theatre is more for the perception of safety than any measurable safety improvements.
> there have been so few pilot suicide cases
I'm not sure it's conclusively possible to attribute this to regulations without a "control case" of a different profession lacking such regulations and that has a higher rate of murder-suicide-by-vehicle. It could just be that the low rates are because there just aren't that many suicidal people willing to kill innocent bystanders in the process.
To be clear I'm not arguing for less regulations as I'm not qualified and don't have all the facts, but bringing up a counterpoint that the current regulations might cause people to conceal their mental health troubles until they escalate (and the current low - but non-zero - rates of incidents are in spite of the regulations rather than because).
> and the likely eventual outcome will be the same for the US as it was for the USSR.
Split into a bunch of states with only one of them getting the debt burden and the nukes? and they try to invade some other 'ex-US' states a couple decades later?
US companies don't even sell consumer drones, so are they going to stay competitive by forcing consumers to buy $4000 enterprise models for their kids to play with?
That ship has sailed all of the countries that can get into space know every square inch of every piece of territory in every country of the world, there isn’t any place to hide, the local American drone makers in America for example don’t want to make civilian drones. They want guaranteed contracts from the American government selling high priced military equipment civilians be damned.
> Hobbyist drones also don't ship with lidar in stock.
Is Neo a $20 toy? LIDARs are getting cheap quick, at some point when ToF sensors add $10 to BoM they will be in all drones.. I guess except US only SKUs? Not like you can't get pretty much the same data using just a single camera, GPS+IMU fusion and structure-from-motion..
> And banning the foreign ones means they can order domestic-made drones to have firmware that prevents them from operating in certain (government) areas, among other things.
Yeah because DJI drones are well known for their easy to hack firmware and lacking support for no fly zones..right? And they would openly flaunt any US law making any drones sold or flown the US to obey the NFZs? But wait, that's exactly what DJI drones used to do even without a law on the books, before FCC banned them.
NFZ was just one example, there's no limit to what they could force other countries' software to do in their domestic versions. That was really the point I was trying to make.
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