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Another warning about these AI devices. I'm probably more pro-AI than many who will read this, but if you're going to use AI it should be as open as possible and local. People spent hundreds of dollars on these devices, and as of March they won't even be good as a paperweight. There's a possibility someone can hack these and extend their life somehow, but I wouldn't hold out hope.
https://www.engadget.com/ai/all-of-humanes-ai-pins-will-stop-working-in-10-days-225643798.html
@mike Agreed! Thinking out loud, setting aside the AI element, reminds me of when Pogoplug was bricked. At least with Pogoplug, I turned it into something to telnet (Debian) into the gateway to reboot it when the internet went out.
@matthartley Yea, there's just so many cases of this happening. The ones that pop into my head are the Anki robots. We have a Cosmo and a Vector laying around here somewhere that are pretty much useless now. Also the recently killed and revived Moxie robot. We don't have any of those, but they've been in the news recently too. Frankly, anything you buy that depends on a cloud service of some kind you should think long and hard about buying, because if things don't go its way, it'll be gone.
@mike also agreed that hacking these without cracking it open is unlikely.