Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the fact that your home network setup for this relies on an internet connection is baffling

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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Games that require persistent internet are baffling to me… I mean the hitman games cannot store your mission achievements offline…

    But games are games… if my stove and fridge and showers (fucking showers with wifi?) Need internet connectivity than that is bullshit. They are being too fucking optimistic about everything.

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    • melfie@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Knowing a game is spying on me ruins the fun.

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      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well it ultimately just keeps score snd achievements… but why the fuck do the achievements need to be cloud based? None of the other games I have are like that.

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      • thatonecoder@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Is she fit?

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      • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        some girl who shares a huge collection of games that don’t require connectivity

        Dunno her, mensxp.com/…/171080-best-offline-games-without-in…

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Games like that are also baffling to me, thankfully I’ve not purchased one but I would return it as soon as I discovered the limitation if that were to happen

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      • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I bought just the hitman game because I am a completionist and I just want that one. I don’t care for many other games.

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• Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Was getting up and turning on the light switch not an option?

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  • Makhno@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Never.

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• cevn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sounds like someone needs HomeAssistant…

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Mostly they need to move to Zigbee/Matter or similar.

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• MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I had about a dozen WeMo devices controlling various stuff around the house, they just accumulated over the years. About a year ago, I “got serious” and ripped out all the cloud connected stuff and setup a Zigbee based Home Assistant system. It’s about 5x more capable than the old hodge podge of cloud devices, much lower lag, much better management capabilities, and when the internet connection goes down, it still works. The cloud devices would take long coffee breaks about twice a year.

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