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Yes but then that would require consensus on protocol, encoding/decoding, etc., aka the things large companies are the worst at aligning on.


Plus you have to defend yourself from the neighborhood kid who thinks that it'd be a laugh riot to randomize everyone's clocks at 5:15 in the morning.


That would have absolutely been myself, wardriving at 16 (back in the early aughts). Sending nonsensical print jobs and then setting everyone’s clocks to 4:20.


I'm in my mid 30s and I still regularly tell unattended Google Homes and Alexa's to set an alarm for 4 AM.


I'm not that malicious, I just like picking up friends' unattended phones and snapping a goofy selfie for them to discover later.


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