Depends on the game. Apex, Riot, ubisoft, and EA all ban vm players. A list of other companies do as well.

Easy way to get yourself banned in online games just an FYI. Most online games will detect and ban virtual machines now since they've become commonplace in cheat/hack communities.

No, not at all, I just don't expect the level of reliability they provide with how complex the stack is, and that is a complicated stack. (For a literal light bulb).

Reddit is dead to me, and given their stance on their apis, should be dead to pretty much all hobbiests deeply interested in self hosting.

There's a difference between Matter (the interoperability standard) and Thread (The preferred matter communication protocol) and you'll see a lot of devices advertised as "Matter over thread" which is important because for those you'll need a matter bridge device to act as an edge router for the mesh "thread" network the devices create. These can be had cheaply though and if you're one of the like 1 in 3 Americans with an iPad you already own one.

Hue do be having that "it just works" track record. Which is absolutely divine magic in my opinion because if you took one small look at their back end infrastructure stack you'd never imagine it could be... Reliable... Somehow? Like.. Look at this...

Dude, you need to see how nasty the justice system in the US really is. They're not your protectors and they're literally not required by law to be so. Supreme Court decided that decades ago.

Isn't it all unicode at the end of the day, so it supports anything unicode supports? Or am I off base?

Yeah... That type of brainwashing is so commonplace now though. Just look at how the US is treating striking dock workers, people keep talking about how they make xxx,xxx and not how the ceos make xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx like it's the workers being greedy... 🥲

That's such reddit logic. You assume everyone has a perfect understanding of themselves, but people have a lot of different things internally that drive them and they're not always aware of it. When I was young I was interested in other men, and frankly, quite disgusted by it. It's the habitat I was raised in and if you'd asked me back then, I'd have told you it was because I was a sinner. The real reason as I came to discover was indeed that I'm just gay. It took a lot of steps and discovery to get there. I'm not saying this is real, I'm just pointing out that just because your logic is correct does not mean that this person if they are real has made enough discoveries about themselves to be strictly logical.

Although we don't see it, all of these developments do actually eventually make their way into battery tech. The batteries of today are not the batteries of 2014.

Just the idea that you can force yourself onto another countries road and tell them you don't need a license/etc is so narcissistic it's crazy lol.