This is from the article: „If there are any genuine users of these drivers remaining that are still running an upstream kernel, the drivers can always be reverted / merged back but otherwise they are gone without anyone maintaining them.“

Stupid question, but do they prevent google from recreating their own browser? Chromium is mostly open source. They could just fork the project, rename it and support it much better than the open source community. This would place them again as the most used browser due to conveniences of ecosystem integration etc.

For me the question is if plants can actually hear these distress sounds, otherwise it’s not really for communication.

I think that’s still new, in terms of adoption.

IoT at home is still new and it’s good that there are explorative attempts. Just don’t expect to be there when the market found what works.