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Would paying a fine to Russia be a sanctions violation?

There's no such thing as an impartial procews that includes humans. Biases will come out either consciously or subconsciously.

The fact that you're asking just leaves me more concerned for you.

Because your comment is so disconnected from reality that it's the only thing that makes sense to me. Genuinely concerned for you.

Did you have a seizure or something?

Is there a candidate that would help protect the Palestinians? Like a legitimate one that has even a remote possibility of winning? Nah? OK I'll vote for the other things I care about then since that one is out of reach.

In our current system we don't really have a choice. FPTP basically ensures there will only be two viable candidates and they'll come from the established parties.

I'm very familiar with homeassistant, been using it for ~5-6 years. First primarily z-wave but now primarily zigbee with a tiny bit of wifi-backed matter mixed in.

That's a lot of work to replace the sensors that are built into the fridge. 2 temp sensors for the fridge and freezer separately (I'm still not convinced I wouldn't have issues with the connection being unreliable), a power clamp (you probably don't want to use a plug since the relays fail open), 2 door sensors, and a fair bit of automation to get notified, not to mention you've now added a maintenance task for all those batteries. Especially when the alternative is to connect it to the internet and you're done. I do connect my homeassistant install to their cloud service so I can get long term tracking and whatnot but the part I need is done with just the internet connection.

Why would I risk the security of my network by giving Samsung or GE or LG a backdoor into my network

That's just it, with either client isolation or a dedicated and isolated IoT SSID (nearly all modern home routers have one of these) they're not actually on your network and can't communicate with any of your other devices, only the internet. I've been building enterprise networks for ~20 years now and this is how it's handled at that level and should be more than enough for a home network.

I do 100% agree for cameras though, that's all local or not at all.

On the other side of the spectrum packet loss is a key feature of some of the layers below tcp, like path-mtu discovery.

Refrigerators are damn near Faraday cages. Zigbee devices are going to have a hard time getting their 2.4ghz signaling out.

A failed compressor doesn't necessatily use less power. If it's simply lost pressure and hasn't seized the motor will still cycle and appear to be working from a power usage perspective.

And if the coordinator doesn't have network connectivity, how is it ever going to alert me to problems when I'm away?

I get that you're very afraid of the security implications of iot devices, but none of the ideas you're proposing are actually solutions to the problems a truly connected device can solve.

security vulnerabilities outweigh any possible gains for me

Definitely a valid choice, just not one that's for everyone. I'm content that they're on a separate IoT network and can't reach into my main network and will make that trade for the QoL improvements that it buys me.