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- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 16 hours ago:
I’ll also vote to reconsider WiFi. Home Assistant supports a variety of local mesh networks that by default can’t connect to the cloud and whose devices are cheaper and lower power.
I use all three of zwave, Zigbee, and thread; ha works with whatever you need.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 16 hours ago:
I choose to pay for remote access, but it’s for convenience and to support the developers. You are free to configure it yourself in a couple ways (and there is decent documentation) or do without remote access
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 17 hours ago:
Not really. With this flipped around my reaction is …. “whooOOSHH”.
How is it that now even self-deprecating humor targeting oneself can get someone ‘s panties in a bunch?
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 17 hours ago:
Plus software seems to be dropping 32bit support. While I usually appreciate the benefits of 64 bit architecture, that’s uncalled for on most of the things I’d use RPi for
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 17 hours ago:
Even easier: maintain my weight then you’ll gain all you want
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 17 hours ago:
Huh, I might try that. While I like the taste of radishes, I never know what to do with them other than toss in a salad. My kids don’t like the taste so another option is bonus
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 20 hours ago:
Y’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?
Generally I plan it outside if I can but, true, that’s an exception. It’s just not worth trying to deal with that: clean before, clean after, and don’t worry about it.
Amusing story though …… new friends, kids in scouts, “pinewood derby” crafting day where we all got together to help the kids build. I automatically took my shoes off. In the workshop. sawdust, dirt and nails everywhere. Didn’t even think until someone noticed and looked at me like I was an idiot. Oh. I am an idiot
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 20 hours ago:
I also always wonder if it correlates with wall to wall carpet. Carpeting makes dirt disappear, so there’s nothing wrong with wearing shoes around the house.
But once you realize how much dirt collects there, how disgusting it is …… I no longer believe in either inside shoes or wall to wall carpeting
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 21 hours ago:
I’ve read this on the internet many times. I’m not sure who those barbarians are but it’s clear the internet believes the US is shoes on.
My experience is the opposite although I second the motion of whether it’s regional. The part of my family from the Midwest are “those people”
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 21 hours ago:
I gotta say it’s one of the benefits of kids being at college - everything constricting comes off as I walk in the door. You might not want to make a surprise visit unless you’re ok with seeing me in my underwear
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 21 hours ago:
Shoes off is both nicer and keeps the house cleaner. My family has always been on this side of things, except the folk in the Midwest, so I don’t care if this gets me on a lair somewhere. What? Are gonna send ice to deport me?
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 3 days ago:
Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style
A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs
Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 3 days ago:
You create a great story but violates K.i.S.S.
- not saying they got in means they can’t use it as evidence. Sometimes there’s still due process
- even if they can get into lockdown mode, it’s clearly harder than not lockdown. Why conspire to make it harder?
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Realistically, not only do I not want an 8k tv, but I might not get a tv at all, if I had to do it today. We rarely watch tv anymore. The brainrot is the same but we’re much more likely to use individual screens
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
I want a dumb tv with the price and and specs of a smart tv. Less is more
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 1 week ago:
What do you want from it? How long?
- I always went with a barber for anything that looked like a traditional men’s cut, and that includes a variety of lengths.
- any special requests, non-traditional or significantly longer, a stylist
- I’ve had bad cuts from both barbers and stylists, all you can do is vote with your feet
- realistically all the old barbers are gone and new barbers feature very short modern styles that I’m not interested in, so I go with one of the cheap chains
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 week ago:
If you have a concern different from the thread, please start another post.
Yes the biggest pilot customer used it to haul lightweight snack items but als yes the claimed fully loaded to the legal limit tests
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 week ago:
And an ai company with no ai product
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 week ago:
I don’t see how. This is just a continuation of what he was already doing, facilitated by a board of his friends and relatives.
Even worse I have to say I’m not totally against it. All too often ceos get excessive pay regardless of their results. While I haven’t looked in detail not at the history, the claim is these are only for Tesla meeting some extremely ambitious milestones and the payment is stock. Certainly his previous ridiculous allay was in stock and Tesla had some extraordinary growth. If the stock doesn’t go up, then he should never receive that wealth
If it’s truly contingent on the company growth and the board doesn’t throw him a life preserver, that’s not entirely bad. Excessive yes. Extremely excessive. Excessively excessive. But more execs need to have their wealth gated on actual results
- Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled 1 week ago:
Probably, but we also need to take every chance to reduce unnecessary plastic in the environment
- Comment on Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled 1 week ago:
Seems like the headline and article itself are missing the main point
printer cartridges that can’t be refilled or that don’t have a take-back program offered by the vendor.
It may be barely mentioned but I read this are requiring a program to take back cartridges
- Comment on Do people eat this? 1 week ago:
Damn, that’s like “milk toast “. My dad used to make that but looking back it’s likely from lean times on the farm when he was a kid…… put some milk on the stove, briefly dip slices of bread, then serve with a giant pat of butter. Also clearly influenced by the farm he grew up on being a dairy farm
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
Maybe the real issue is the idea of a “collaboration tool”. You could argue the only such ambitious tools I’ve tried are lotus notes and Microsoft Teams, and both were horrible: lots of services but in an ugly ui with poor usability. Teams and unreliable phone and notes didn’t have it at all.
It’s much better dealing with a set of tools containing better implementations of the feature you want. Maybe it’s just not useful trying to cram that much functionality into one tool.
And yes I’ll name names, I currently get much better results from
- zoom for calls (especially with their generated summaries!)
- slack for texting
- files in a variety of tools specific to the need
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
Keep up the pressure. We went through the same thing, but after a year of Teams misadventure, except finally realized the savings wasn’t worth it
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
Have you actually tried Teams? It stands above all the rest for number of issues
- Comment on Pixlpal is more than just a screen 1 week ago:
To take myself as an example ….
- all smart home stuff is arguably a gimmick. None of it is necessary, but for some of us it can add value or interest.
- the resolution is plenty for many applications — I always liked the idea of a moving ticker for status or info, like the stock ticker. I assume this could — I always wanted a clock large enough to read without my glasses, without all the crap on the cheap ones, or maybe configurable to my choice of crap — I’m gradually putting together a house status alert system, and this is so much more expressive than the colored LEDs I’m looking at so far
- this is so much more interesting, more of a statement than a simple screen
- it’s local. We’re not locked into some god awful vendor portal
- someone was creative, had an idea, packaged it nicely, and offered it to the world. I want to support that, encourage more of it
I’m not sure if I’ll get one but it’s definitely tempting
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 weeks ago:
I actually like this example. All too often we hear a kernel of truth, “the moon rang like a bell”, without context or explanation and can just apply logic that that seems reasonable with things we understand without questioning the result
- Comment on Im stupid but have money 2 weeks ago:
What do you want out of it? Owning adds responsibilities and costs. If you don’t have a reason to own other than you can, why take on those responsibilities and costs?
- Comment on Student Parking 2 weeks ago:
Not realistic. Taxis barely exist in small towns and rural areas. You might try to claim that ride shares could respond to actual usage and they do in urban areas, but the one time my kid tried that it was a 2 hour wait. Also not realistic
- Comment on Student Parking 2 weeks ago:
Adequate transportation is a need for anyone living independently, and yes we share expenses for common resources including needs that don’t serve us personally. If my contribution can go toward a physics lab that only serves a subset group of students it can also go toward taking that serves a subset of students
My taxes and tuition are paying for literally billions of dollars for stuff at my states public university system that I never use. It’s a great investment giving us one of the best education systems in the country.
No one said parking is the only solution. Buses work decently even at everyone else’s expense, but if you’ll read my responses you should see I advocate for going further, even at everyone else’s expense: many universities are even better served by trains. There’s a difference between advocating only one solution vs advocating for one solution that works now vs one you hope eventually works. And both are far better than just depriving a subset of people of basic transportation