Groups of any kind are echo chambers. That’s why they exist.

These work great as well if you want something a bit more tactile: https://moeshouse.com/products/zigbee-round-dimmer-scene-switch

Not inlaid to the wall, but they come on a mountable metal plate and have a magnetic base. Never had an issue with one so far though.

https://moeshouse.com/products/eu-zigbee-glass-touch-2-way-light-switch-wire-optional?variant=39453690658897

I believe they have an Android app that is supposed to let you configure them I thought. Pretty sure macros don’t require software to run though.

Yeah, it’s super attractive until you realize the current conditions we can technologically handle that. It’s dangerous slave labor.

Good luck selling that to the era of kids working a MacDonald’s.

Matter comms are pretty light, and use an old 2.4G router as it’s backbone with a VLAN bridge. Haven’t noticed any problems. Most of my stuff is Zigbee as well.

As long as you have backups, the gateway can be swapped, and the Zigbee gateway swapped without a problem if using ZHA or Z2M by having the software run it’s built-in recovery steps.

I haven’t run into any other issues in the hardware<>software configs that concern me personally. I have a bunch of Matter devices now, so we’ll see what a recovery looks like when it comes time for that.

You may be in the younger side, or just not remember, but this happens almost every 20 years like clockwork.

In the 80’s it was the PC and computers at large.

In the 00’s it was robotic automation that was going to be the end of manual labor.

Now it’s this.

The sooner people realize that all of things are just about the small number of wealthy people who control resources making more money at the expense of the majority of all other humans, maybe something will get done. It’s been tried before in various movements with little to show for it, but maybe I’m just cynical.

There will need to be a major shift in how economic flow works in order to support an existing or expanding population regardless.

I think you’re missing the bigger picture here. Late-stage Capitalism. The inherent problems are only being made worse by the assclown GOP who are working for the monopolistic interests and allow/enable it to be as bad as it possibley can be.

We have the highest number of monopolistic entities to ever have existed at the same time right now, and with ZERO pushback from the government until this past week.

Lina Khan at the FTC has been working on actions to force these companies to break themselves up, but that work will be undone by the incoming group of idiots who are only out to help their buddies at the top of these companies.

None of this will end well, but as long as they get theirs, they do not care what you have. They’ll round you up and put your homeless ass into a camp, apparently. At least that’s what they’ve threatened.

There’s only like one or two games worth playing from Jaguar.

Tetris, for sure.

Anyone have the linked docs from the article? Looks like archive didn’t get them in time.

Good. Hope it gets some traction.

WOW. Sleep and rest are mistakes. TIL

I think I saw some Moe’s branded flood lights not long ago. Check them out. Their Matter bulbs have been totally solid for me.

Other people answered, but to your point, in some cases THEY CAN compel without a court order.

Biometrics don’t conform to certain laws, and it gets even more complicated if you’re entering the US through customs. They can practically hold you indefinitely if you don’t comply. Whether you have legal representation is sort of an after thought.

I fucking hope so.

Lawyer. Not true.

Example: An officer pulls someone over and suspects them of something arrestable. Then says “Do you want me to get your personal belongings from your car?”

Any person agreeing to this allows them to hold your phone as evidence indefinitely in the US now.

Well, we’ve just crossed into what will be a third-phase Corporatocracy, and a Monopoly gamed service industry.

You have other options now that are not the usual players, but then you’re giving money to Starlink.

You have the option of organizing to create a local fiber concern as a public utility, but in a few months they’ll pass laws preventing that from ever happening.

Your best option on the Internet between is an unlimited cell plan and a hotspot, and it’s not a great option, but the competition is still so heavy that your bill won’t change. Higher latency, but probably decent throughput.

For this specific example, the smaller “other” carriers could take this moment to differentiate themselves with a some pretty advertising saying they do not do this, and a TOD that backs it up.

Looking at you, Ryan Reynolds.

Maybe https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/integrations/android-shortcuts/

I’ve got a handful of the Orein bulbs that have been alright - slight delay as you mentioned. I’m really liking the build quality and performance of the Moe’s brand as well, which don’t have that delay.

Chinese spyware?

*stealing the designs for

Well they didn’t do it with Botox.

Honestly, 800 stars isn’t a huge impact anymore on its own. I think the age of the repo and frequency of updates matters more. If there is a fork that is more active, people will switch to it.

Call me when they actually show it flying.

So…let me run down the things this guy claims he’s doing: YouTuber, gamedev, student , VFX engineer, training platform founder, and business owner? Color me shocked if he’s actually good at any of those things, because where does one find the time 🤣

Desperate for no reason.

No, it’s not. They are just making money by selling it to anyone who will buy. Any alternative that doesn’t do that will immediately take all their traffic.

In everyone, I would assume.

RCS is a bundle of things. It’s not an inline protocol of just messages with attached metadata like SMS.

Software is one part on the phone, then you have transmission services at the network, and THEN you have metadata/status services which translate between carriers and such.

No idea how Apple is doing it, and they won’t tell you either, all they have to do is be in compliance with the protocol to make it work.

Things that use the camera are happening on your phone.

Voice assistants are using remote services unless you’re positive you’ve setup a local privacy respecting one.

I think it most depends on what you’re comfortable with.

If you want a lot of fancy features and dont mind corporate cloud control, there’s Nest and similar.

If you definitely want it to function off-cloud and offline, the Honeywell Zigbee ones work great. I hear good things about the Aqara ones. I think Govee is offline. There’s lots.

WOW. I’m not religious, but Jesus Fucking Christ.

Lots of people moving to Linux over Win11 anyway.

It’s not a presumption when there is no basis for it all. It’s a fucking fact.

If there was a segment of society that said “Hey, we really want to do this thing, but we really just need the highest prime number possible! Why won’t anyone find that for us?” Then I’d say OK.

You’ve got a guy out to beat a record and get his name on the books here. Useless.

Yes. The amount of effort and resources used to do this shouldn’t just be a fucking waste.

This is a fucking waste. Proper fucking waste.

Nobody will use this math in our lifetime. Probably not the next generation either. We’re incapable of using it in any meaningful way except bragging rights.

No. I understand it plenty. Quantifying shit to the Nth degree doesn’t fix anything. It makes math more precise, but math that will never be used for any practical applications.

Please inform me about the ways this information and “breakthrough” will be used in a meaningful way that matters at all.

And this helps humanity and mathematicians by…nothing. It’s absolutely nothing.