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AJ5IRQ, this is KC2PKT. You know, you mentioned home automation that you're doing, you're building systems and stuff like that. I got my second no further support notice yesterday. I'm sitting at the bar in Timbirns in Bangor, having a piece of pizza and a glass of wine, and I'm going through my email. And I see that Belkin is no longer gonna support selected WeMo products. Now I have 35 WeMo switches in my house, which goes a long way to making it all automated. I mean, we can have things going on and off. You can talk to Alexa and have her run the whole deal. It's great, but they're stopping support. And you know, I picked them because I said, well, Belkin will be around for a long time. That was the kind of decision making we were doing when we decided to build this house, is that all the home automation stuff, we wanted to pick stuff that was not gonna go anywhere. And that's how we got Amazon Alexa's. And that's why we bought WeMo switches, because they're Belkin, they're not going anywhere, but they're dropping support for the switches. So I have to scramble around now and figure out what switches I'm gonna go with. Unless you guys feel better, it's either Leviton or Lutron. And so those are the guys who make the best ones. I'm just wondering, you know, who is gonna be around in 20 years? Because you don't wanna redo, like I don't wanna redo 35 switches. So I'm probably gonna have to have both. And when something gives up the ghost or dies or something like that, then I'll replace it. So I'll stock a bunch of replacements and then just wire the new ones in. But holy moly, that's two things. First it was the automated vacuums, and now it's the light switches. What else could go wrong? Back to you, KJ5-IRQ, this is KC2-PKG.