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- Comment on SONOFF ZBMicro Zigbee USB smart adapter adds any USB device to your Smart Home setup 4 hours ago:
That’s what I figured, but I saw “high speed USB 2.0” a bunch of times and got confused.
I’ll be sticking with my smart outlets for the foreseeable future, can plug multiple USB hubs into a single one. Feels like it would only be an added benefit in a few minor things or if you’re really really space constrained.
- Comment on SONOFF ZBMicro Zigbee USB smart adapter adds any USB device to your Smart Home setup 4 hours ago:
I’m struggling to figure out the use case for this device - is it just a glorified outlet switch or can it communicate with the USB device?
It boasts “high speed” USB 2.0 data, but what devices is it actually capable with talking to? And what does it do with that info? Is there a list somewhere of compatible devices?
I assume data transmission rates over ZigBee are a joke (as they should be, it’s for low powered networking). What benefits are there to having this thing as a middle man for your data?
Not trying to hate on it, just really struggling to come up with a use case in my mind.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 4 days ago:
But lets be honest, even Duck Duck Go is better than Google these days.
I hate to say it, because I love their privacy policy, but it we’re being honest, it’s not. DDG mostly uses Bing, and I struggle to find what I’m after on that engine. I have better results with Brave search, who now run their own index (but their tech bro CEO leaves me nervous at every turn)
- Comment on Glorious Victory 4 days ago:
The refunds may have hurt, but what hurt more was the fact that in the last week HD2 went from #1/2 on the Steam global top sellers to #11. The big red “Overwhelmingly Negative” next to a title is a huge turnoff to new buyers.
Some executive somewhere has a chart showing daily sales numbers and watched them fall off a cliff in the last week.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 week ago:
Don’t forget to upload some ISOs as well! Keep the network healthy and happy :)
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 1 week ago:
Even the article about how Google’s tracking is bad is loaded with Google trackers.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 week ago:
Jargon is the little-death
Somewhere in France someone is getting really excited about learning jargon.
- Comment on Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
They’ll give you 3 free months of identity monitoring. Retail rate: $3. Wholesale: $0.01. They’re so thoughtful.
- Comment on Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got a pretty easy fix, just pass those negative rates on to the consumer. I’d be happy to teach my car to charge when the price goes negative, but noooo, utilities are the ones double dipping on negative power rates.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 3 weeks ago:
I mean I disagree with most of what the person you’re responding to is saying, but they are entering into a new stage of vehicular liability. By telling the driver they don’t have to pay attention there is an implied transfer of liability.
It probably says somewhere in the terms of use that Mercedes isn’t at fault or that you have to carry some special kind of insurance, and frankly computers have a pretty good shot at being better than your average human driver so they’ll hopefully be easier to insure, but nevertheless, people on both sides of every accident for the first few years with this tech will sue. Any chance to squeeze a few milly out of a 100 billion dollar car company.
- Comment on Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, and I’ll add, as an EV owner, none of the brands above them have anything resembling a respectable EV lineup, except maybe BMW, but that’s being generous. Toyota, Honda, and their subsidiaries make great cars, but they’ve dragged their feet more than anyone on the EV market.
As far as I’m concerned, if you’re looking at this from an EV buyer’s perspective, KIA/Hyundai top the list (which is reflected in CR’s EV ratings, giving them the top spot for the last few years)
- Comment on Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform 3 weeks ago:
Also, for better or worse, pause tells X “if you figure out how to fix this problem we might come back.” Canceled says “go find someone else who is cool with Nazis.”
Having that financial incentive dangling in a string might be more motivating for X to change. If they don’t change of course, the net effect is the same as canceling.
- Comment on Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform 3 weeks ago:
consumerreports.org/…/who-makes-the-most-reliable…
Okay how about Consumer Reports (an independent member-funded nonprofit), who put Kia/Hyundai at 10/11, admittedly showing Genesis much lower in the pack (18). Kia/Hyundai still beat out every American manufacturer on the list (not that its an overwhelmingly high bar).
They’re definitely not perfect, but more middle of the road than older stigmas might have people believe.
- Comment on Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but “My Pillow and meth” money is very different from “new car” money
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s frozen, so the best before date is pretty loose at best anyways
- Comment on Last year's top guilty favourite action game has received a big free combat update 4 weeks ago:
Wanted: Dead gets a rework
There you go. No need to click
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
The whole issue is that no Discord terms of service were violated here.
Really? I’m not a lawyer, but…
TOS:
We reserve the right to block, remove, and/or permanently delete your content if it is in breach of these terms, our Community Guidelines, our other policies, or any applicable law or regulation, or if it creates risk for Discord or negatively impacts the experience or interests of other Discord users to continue to make it available.
Community guidelines:
24. Do not share content that violates anyone’s intellectual property or other rights. This includes sharing or selling game cheats or hacks. (See our Unauthorized Copyright Access Policy for more.)
For more information on how Discord handles copyright complaints, please view our Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy.
Given that there’s a court order stating these tools violated Nintendo’s intellectual property rights, not sure how you can draw the conclusion that this is somehow not a violation of the TOS
- Comment on Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
Until there isn’t a toggle
- Comment on Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability 5 weeks ago:
Also if you’ve made a web app, let it be installed as a web app. Both FF and Chrome let you install web apps in one click.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 5 weeks ago:
or people like me who might need a phone reminder because I’ll forget I put a load in and get busy with something else
This. As someone with ADHD, it’s very helpful to get an extra alert when my washer/dryer is done.
I used to pull this off with a Zigbee Smart Outlet + HA, which is frankly an OK fix, but did not work for my electric dryer.
When it came time to replace my old appliances, I got a smart washer & dryer, said what the hell and put it on an isolated network. It’s connected to HA via the cloud (not ideal but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). It just works, and I wind up with mildewy neglected clothes less often.
It’s not perfect, but I’m willing to deal with isolating 2 appliances to cover for my attention span.
- Comment on New Law Allowing Religion into Science Classrooms Is Dangerous for Everyone 5 weeks ago:
Just to be clear, religion has never been banned from science classrooms, it just never made it in due to it’s own failings based on a complete lack of evidence, and inability to be tested with the scientific method.
No laws are needed to “allow” religion anywhere, just to force it into spaces it has not earned the right to be in on its merit.
- Comment on Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old 1 month ago:
You try being a bright ray of sunshine for everything around you all day every day. Sometimes you just get tired, ya know?
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
Probably depends on the car + alternator, but it’s not so rare for modern gas cars to have AC outlets for backseat passengers, and the ones I’ve seen are typically rated 120-150W or so. Glancing at the power meter I have on my fridge, it uses ~110W while running and only runs ~10% of the time.
Theoretically the car probably can keep up while running, BUT
Compressor startup current may blow whatever fuse is protecting that circuit.
AND
Cars are very inefficient generators. You’d be wasting a bunch of fuel so I wouldn’t generally recommend it unless it’s an emergency.
That said, in an emergency it may be worth doing for like 20 min on / 1 hr off, so that you’re running the engine only when needed, but I’m not an expert, that’s just pure speculation.
- Comment on Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing 1 month ago:
Bing is not good now.
I jump search engines regularly trying to find my happy place, and though I never use Bing directly, I do use DDG (which in turn uses Bing), and I’d say about 50% of the time on DDG I have to !bang swap to other platforms because the results just aren’t helpful.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 2 months ago:
Can you side load IOS apps? (Genuinely curious)
If no, then that’s a big nail in the coffin. They could try and make it a web app, but that’s not gonna be a smooth transition.
- Comment on What happens when two people with hyphenated last names get married? Do they hyphenate all four names and in what order? 2 months ago:
Sounds like something out of the Swedish dub of Guardians of the Galaxy
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 2 months ago:
Honestly felt this way about BioShock Infinite - the gameplay was alright, but it was the story that made it good, but you only get to explore it for the first time once. I have zero plans to ever pick that one up again
Same for the latest Tomb Raider trilogy for me
- Comment on 2 months ago:
But there’s a flip side to that as well - if you’ve got heat pump heating your whole home but you only really need to heat 1 room, you may be “wasting” a good chunk of that bonus efficiency.
- Comment on Minnesota burglars are using Wi-Fi jammers to disable home security systems 2 months ago:
Exactly. They are trying to avoid confrontation, so they don’t want people seeing someone on their security camera and calling the cops.
If you get an alert that there’s motion in your living room, you may check and would call the cops if you see something. If you get an alert that your camera is disconnected you quietly curse your ISP and continue about your day.
