th3dogcow
@th3dogcow@lemmy.world
- Comment on China's AI-Powered Sexbots Are Redefining Intimacy, But There Will Be Limitations - Are We Ready? 1 week ago:
Zero here for me. You using an ad blocker?
- Comment on The first Apple-approved emulators for the iPhone have arrived 2 months ago:
If you use a dns level ad blocker there aren’t any ads. I didn’t know there were any until I read your post.
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 4 months ago:
Thanks. I’ve found that once it is stable I just don’t bother with updates. I have to reboot the system maybe once every six months.
I am interested in home assistant and may make the switch when I move to a bigger residence. I do like the idea of having most of the logic on the HA side instead of having to script it all on the HomeKit side, which is just clunky and lacks any real backup options.
But homebridge has worked well for my first foray into home automation, and is pretty good for relatively simple setups.
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 4 months ago:
Homebridge is a way to get non-HomeKit devices into HomeKit. It’s what I am using for most of my stuff. It works pretty well in my opinion.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 6 months ago:
Wow, what a scam!
- Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are 8 months ago:
If you use the kids YouTube app then there are no ads. On tv, you can use the regular YouTube app to switch to your child’s account and then no more ads.
- Comment on Antenna TV is pretty cool, actually 8 months ago:
It is surprising to realise that this is not more common. In Japan, basically every home and apartment comes with rooftop antennas and coaxial connections in multiple rooms. No need to pay for cable TV (BS and CS) unless you want to get more channels.
- Comment on Openreach Stops Selling New UK Analogue Copper Phone Lines 9 months ago:
Wow that really sucks.
- Comment on Openreach Stops Selling New UK Analogue Copper Phone Lines 9 months ago:
That’s sucks. I’m not from the UK but isn’t there already a line rental fee she has to pay monthly or yearly? Is the “upgrade” more expensive overall?
Seems maybe a mobile phone is a better solution. At least they still work if the power is out (not if it kills the cell network too of course).
But your mum would have to change her phone number and learn a new device. And remember to charge it.
I remember getting my grandma a mobile phone for emergencies (Nokia 3310) and it was so hard for her to grasp how to use it.
- Comment on Openreach Stops Selling New UK Analogue Copper Phone Lines 9 months ago:
It kind of makes sense. I wonder if customers who only want a telephone line will be forced to sign up for an internet package anyway? Sure, there probably aren’t so many people. But still worth thinking about.
- Comment on People who back into parking spots: Why? 10 months ago:
When pulling out, we are often more distracted because we have just been doing something else. Conversely, when parking, we are already in driving mode so it is easy to concentrate. Pulling put forward seems safer to me, as I can see everything so less likely to have an accident.
Also, it is normal where I live to reverse park.
- Comment on Printers 10 months ago:
I have an Epson (not eco tank) and it has this. It is called a maintenance box. But you can get one off Amazon etc for a few dollars and it is easy to replace, just one screw off the front. The display literally shows you how to do it!
I love my Epson. I use generic cartridges and they work fine. When you install a generic cartridge it gives you a warning, and that’s it. I have it on wifi but I have disabled firmware updates in the settings.