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- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 5 hours ago:
Tesla, believe it or not, is doing the ai thing right.
- There’s always a control: you may not like touch screen in your car but it’s always there so you’re not forced to use voice assistant.
- The standard voice assistant still works the same as it ever did
- AI voice assistant is separate that you can choose to use or not. When it was new, it was not allowed to control anything but that is gradually being phased in as it works.
When the ai first came out all it could do is hold a conversation, and was amusingly snarky. Now it can set a destination, but is still limited compared to standard voice assistant
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 6 hours ago:
While I personally like some of the extras a smart home can do for me, we can all agree that we’re being sold a bunch of bs that doesn’t work well for anyone.
Basic rules for smart devices should start with
- local manual control still works, exactly as anyone expects. The “smart” part is man extra
- local network only whenever possible. Should never depend on the internet
- no vendor lock-in. work with my mix of devices. No I will not use a stupid vendor app to a stupid vendor portal per device to do basic operations.
- the goal is for my home to work better for me, not to feed me more ads. That will get your device thrown out
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 6 hours ago:
Don’t forget device profiles! It’s not enough for a device to be on the network but also that it must operate like expected and with the same calls.
Instead of making up what constitutes “on” for a light switch and require vendor specific drivers, the device profile defines “on” and all light switches must support that!
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 6 hours ago:
That’s usually because that’s all they know. With a bit of smarts, lights can do more than just toggle on/off when you go over to the switch. They may appreciate that if they knew.
My most automated light is my dining room/office
- I may walk over and use the switch - but I adjusted the dimming speed so I can walk out of the room as it’s dimming to off
- I may use Alexa/siri/nabu, and that’s the most convenient way to get exact dimming- I also set dimming speed faster
- on weekdays it also turns on at dusk, dims at 9pm and goes off at 9:30 to help me establish better sleeping habits and make the house look lived in when I’m away
- I’m considering ways to have it automatically turn on when I come home at night so I’m not entering a dark house
Do I need those? Of course not, but those are actions my house can take for me, to make things a little nicer
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 6 hours ago:
Home Depot used to have a bunch of z-wave switches and outlets - was actually the entire reason I started with z-wave.
But it’s been a few years now that it’s mostly WiFi dreck depending on vendor portals. Home Depot is also the reason I mostly order online and have a lot of Zigbee stuff.
I wonder what Home Depot’s next step will be, presumably to drive me to Matter/Thread. Perhaps that they seem to be getting a decent selection of smart locks?
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 13 hours ago:
Huh, I never thought about replacing them ….
- used to wash towels when they stink, and I was good about hanging them to dry so I didn’t have to wash them
- now I wash towels weekly, religiously
- beach towels never get replaced. They tend to be cheap scratchy towels anyway, rarely used and easily get lost, so keep them until I no longer have them. Actually these days they’re more likely used to dry my dogs feet
- bath towels … huh. Still on my first “real” family set and my kids are in college. They still work, but new ones are probably fluffier
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation 14 hours ago:
Is this not the test? Make it available, but you have to jump through hoops to enable?
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 16 hours ago:
That’s a really good point!
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 day ago:
Ridiculous pay for star athletes and celebrities is at least fair: they’re directly bringing in tons of money/profit, so why shouldn’t they be rewarded?
However they’re more a symptom than the actual problem. The real problem is the manipulative nature of sky high ticket prices, merchandising, ads, etc. how can these firms of entertainment command prices people can no longer afford, exploiting captive audiences, etc, to generate so much profit? The stars should get rewarded with a share of the profits they generate, but it’s ridiculous how much those activities generate.
In a sane world, I could afford to take my family to a game/concert/theme park, we can decide to bring in our own water, food and t-shirts only cost a little more than in the outside world, there are no ad timeouts, no region locking, no public funding, and the owners should be taxed at a higher rate than I am. But at every step, we’ve adopted anti-consumer policy, increased inequality, and it just adds up - society rewards exploitation, removes consumer protections and fairness. We’re no longer people, just products
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 day ago:
profit generated by teachers is too indirect, too long term. Most people can’t even seem to conceptualize it, much less quantify it, plus who’s going to stay at a job 20+ years before they get a payoff
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 5 days ago:
My speculation is a safety feature working as intended.
As someone familiar with automation and machine learning, I certainly hope most of the processing is happening in device. It’s just not realistic to have a cloud driven car.
But it makes more sense to have a dead mans switch on the safety operator. “If you can’t connect to the safety operator, you can’t go”
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 5 days ago:
Like a flashlight, or laser pointer …… or gun. “Just point this gun-like object at Hyde car you want to stop…”. What could go wrong?
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 5 days ago:
I almost tested that first example but was too slow. I had a one month free trial of self-driving and approached a similar construction site where I didn’t see the officer at first …… thinking “I wonder what the car would do?”
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 5 days ago:
I’ve seen both. Places where the lights are only intended to work at busy hours default to flashing red and flashing yellow. Lights with a power outage can be random but I’ve also seen flashing yellow in all directions. I don’t know why that’s even an allowed configuration though
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 5 days ago:
It can be tough not to. Earlier this fall I was out of town and drover through an intersection before realizing no there was a traffic light there. Since it was night and the light was out, I had no reason to expect one so I effectively treated it like a green light.
I’m probably not the only one: next time I went past that intersection the city had placed cones and temporary stop signs
- Comment on A San Francisco power outage left Waymo's self-driving cars stranded at intersections 5 days ago:
It seems like one of the first things you’d want a self driving car to do is to pull over
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 5 days ago:
Interesting, I’ll have to try that.
For a while our standard appetizer to bring places was onions and Brie on saltines. It just works and is simple.
But from that I assumed onions want a creamy cheese like brie, so hard cheeses never occurred to me
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 5 days ago:
For me even that isn’t enough. I love the taste in something like hot and sour soup, but anything more than soup is just a horrible experience
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 5 days ago:
Some of us laughed.
I was trying to extend the joke but then looked at everyone’s responses and decided it wouldn’t go over well
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 5 days ago:
Not to argue but out of curiosity, what about differently cooked onions? When I was a kid I couldn’t stand onions in pasta sauce. But I eventually realized it was the texture of overcooked onions in a place they usually weren’t. Now I love onions but since I cook I make sure they have a nice crunch and the flavor is not too overwhelmed with less interesting stuff
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 5 days ago:
Plus it’s a comment on how performative republicans are with their appeal to “law and order order”, the constitution, states rights. So much drama and spectacle about things they don’t really care about
- Comment on It's the truth! 5 days ago:
Yum, onion fritters!
- Comment on What are some cool infections? 1 week ago:
Can’t beat the classic
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
They also deserve to be judged individually for their actions and decisions, not simply their financial status.
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Misreading. I confess your post was too long and I didn’t read. I assumed you were talking about USAID, which I do believe is different.
Yes, not sending money to help others but s different from actively leading a country in a ways that causes massive deaths.
Sociopath either way but a direct cause of those deaths is different from not saving those other deaths
And believe me Im no supporter of the guy, quite the opposite. I just believe that not all of his actions are criminal. Unethical definitely and way too many are criminal and should be prosecuted
- Comment on What is the moral jurisdiction behind not wishing who're rich and in executive positions to die? 1 week ago:
Even in that case, it’s not like he’s killing them. He just said we’re not going to try to save them.
I’m against pretty much everything that guy has ever said, and would have chosen to greatly expand USAID for all the lives it was saving and misery avoided …… but there is a huge ethical distance between killing them and not going out of your way to save them. Wither way it helps if you’re a sociopath, but they are different
- Comment on Now just throw your hands in the air.....and wave em like you just don't care! 1 week ago:
Meanwhile here it’s false spring. We had a small snowfall like a week ago but ever since the temp has been 10-20°F so that little bit of snow never melted. Yesterday got above freezing so the snow is gone!
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 week ago:
If you are 20 years into your career and want to rank up to earn more money, an MBA is probably more expensive than it is worth.
Or the opposite. It’s still situational. My uncle had a long career at a large company and worked his way up to a very senior position. But he hit a ceiling where he would no longer be promoted without the appropriate degree. In his situation it was worth going back to college after 35 years in his career. Because it meant a promotion and raise, or not
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 week ago:
Sorry but it’s never a stupid idea. It’s only a situational thing where the question is whether you can make it work. That’s not necessarily age related.
Actually going through the other side of this right now with a kid not doing well at school. At what point is it a better idea to consider a gap year? The problem is any age after schooling is interrupted is much harder to get back. Some people make it work, fantastic, but once you hop off the treadmill you’ll probably stop running
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 1 week ago:
Since no one can afford health insurance, vaccines are apparently bad, and our government is prescribing horse dewormer …. We’re getting there