People complain about the doorbell?

Then don't have a door bell jackasses. Being alerted that someone is at the door is it's whole purpose.

It has hardware that most cell phones don't have.

Sub-ghz
"allowing it to receive and send radio frequencies between 300 and 928 MHz. These switches, radio locks, wireless doorbells, remote controls, barriers, gates, smart lighting, "

RFID
" including plastic cards, key fobs, tags, wristbands, and animal microchips."

Infrared
" that use infrared light (IR) such as TVs, air conditioners, or audio devices. It can learn and save infrared remote controls or use its own Universal remotes"

It also has an iButton reader.

Fucking Gskill keyboard has the same issue. Maco recording buttons that are up near escape so I'd hit record without knowing it, then sometime later I'd replay it all. After the second time I just ripped the whole button off the keyboard.

Fuck that shit.

And they say we should all just switch to electric bikes like in the Netherlands. I tried showing them a comparison of the states using a map but turns out "I am just being difficult"

Puts the S in HTTPS. Free. Get an ACME client for your service. https://acmeclients.com

Get an eMMC module ($10) for the Pi or buy something similar with one built-in. Much faster and more reliable.

I'd say it was the fan that solved the overheating problem, not the zip ties.

Did someone email us about a fire?

"Chubby" meant a very different thing back then. That's the fattest girl you'd see out in public. That girl isn't even fat by today's standards.

They'd get out the harpoons if they saw the fat people today.

This is the future that Stallman warned us about. They mocked him and said it didn't matter. It's not going to get better until everyone stops buying TVs with spyware built in.

Vote with your wallets or quit bitching. Self hosted is an option these days. But that means not being lazy. And people are really lazy.

Oscilloscope can do it - https://hackaday.com/2020/12/14/dead-simple-time-domain-reflectometry-with-just-a-battery-and-an-oscilloscope/

Talk to your IT dept. They might have a student version you can get for cheap.

And btw, 3 years is nothing for software like that. All the major features are already in the software. They just have to keep adding crap to it so people will buy the new version. It's a big cause of software bloat.