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 @2bbeacdc // I fly exactly once per year for a work conference.  Didn't seem worth it for that. 
 Standing in the checkin line for a 6 AM flight and you hear someone up there say “We have 4 bags, they’re all overweight…oh, and we need a wheelchair. “ 
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Annoying though a locksmi... 
 @86ee8b2c // If you're legit considering "digital only, no physical key", then a cloud company revoking your access to your own house would be more than "annoying" wouldn't it?  

Just the idea that it COULD happen, barring the reality that it probably never WOULD, is enough to get a "nah dawg" from me. 
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"Get them for free"

Two ... 
 @d66a8056 // You can just hear it, like the old school car commercials, "We've got so much inventory we're practically GIVING them away to make room for the new models!" 
 Thoughts on smart locks?

I know there’s the cyber risk, but let me make a case for them:

1. I... 
 @86ee8b2c // Remember the Alexa story from a month back, where an Amazon driver reported a racist remark from a Ring doorbell, Amazon suspended the homeowner's service, which shut down his "smart" home?  That likely included his smart lock...  Zero chance I'd put my home's lock on my WiFi and connect it to a cloud service. 
 Does every headliner about Feinstein have to have the word "trailblazer" in it? 
 @899d9141 // Well, there WAS that one that used "pioneer" instead 🤣 
 @f0ec44dd // If my 10MM sockets have managed to escape my toolbox, my tool chest, my socket set, and and the box in my truck, there's ZERO chance that package is going to hold them 🤣