bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
Administrator of thelemmy.club
Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you're reading this.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 25 minutes ago:
It’s also a very valid answer to a football fan. There’s two camps, Patriots fans and literally every other fanbase going for the Seahawks.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 1 day ago:
Blurays are better quality than streaming.
4K Bluray is the highest quality you’ll ever get in your home by like, a lot.
Streaming is a regression.
- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 1 day ago:
Oh fuck is this the quarterly Lemmy obsession with some food product
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 1 day ago:
Yeah at best you’d start a fire at the roof. Wouldn’t do anything to the pole
- Comment on This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026 1 day ago:
Yep. In my country 3G is shutdown. Without 4G and VoLTE you cannot make calls.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 day ago:
I feel like the US is very split on this.
Personally I have all hard floors and don’t care if someone has shoes on, but personally shoes in the house feels weird to me.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 days ago:
8 bucks is definitely 10 bucks in my book. 6.99 is 5 but above that and I start thinking 10.
- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 2 days ago:
I feel like the 00s and 10s and 20’s all had pretty distinct aesthetics, music, etc as much as the 1900s decades.
- Comment on Florida House Bill 1471, which broadens the definition of terrorist and calls for a domestic terrorist organization list, passed the Civil Justice and Claims Subcommittee by a vote of 14-3, 4 days ago:
I haven’t gone to Publix in a long time. Winn-Dixie actually seems to have gotten better post-Aldi buyout. I stick to them or Aldi if I can help it.
- Comment on lightbulbs 5 days ago:
loss of Internet connection
No. They aren’t controlled via Internet (they can be, but it’s not vital). You have Zigbee switches that control them through radio. Or you control them with your Zigbee controller which is hooked up to your network, but works locally so even if your Internet is down it works on LAN.
voltage drops/brown outs/black outs … They all turn on the full brightness for “safety”
Depends on the brand. Some do this. Most do out of the box but you can go into the settings of your Zigbee controller and disable that. I’d read reviews first.
Also Phillips Hue is actually a Zigbee bulb, which can be used with non-Hue Zigbee controllers. If I’m reading right this setting can be configured. community.hueessentials.com/t/…/720
- Comment on lightbulbs 5 days ago:
Brand/model isn’t important.
You’ll need a HomeAsstant controller. You can buy one premade premade or you can look up tutorials and make your own with a raspberry pi or old laptop or PC. Then you’ll need a ZigBee controller, this is a radio that will talk to your smart lights and other accessories.
You then get ZigBee compatible lights. Phillips Hue is the top of the line but so stupidily expensive I’d never recommend it. Innr makes good ones at half the cost. ThirdReality makes decent ones too for even cheaper.
You’ll probably also want some ZigBee switches to have physical controls for your lights instead of just by phone. They make models that replace your actual light switches. Or, if you rent like me and can’t modify that, you can get battery powered ones that stick on the wall. Battery life is like a year or more so not too bad.
That’ll do it. You can also use HomeAssistant now that you’ve got it. It’s a home automation software that’s open source and locally controlled. You can hook up much more than your lights. Smart plugs, your TV, 3D printer, fans, cameras, tons of sensors, your thermostat, robovac, etc. Then make automations that connect them. For example my living room ZigBee switch, one press up toggles the main lights. Double press for the lamp. Hold down and it turns off all lights and the TV. Some lights like my closet light are controlled by a door sensor instead of a switch, so they come on automatically. Some people prefer motion sensors so all lights are automatic. Turn off stuff automatically when you leave, etc.
- Comment on lightbulbs 5 days ago:
Imagine having both
ZigBee baybeee. Fully local, offline, forever. Nobody can stop them working.
- Comment on lightbulbs 5 days ago:
I live my smart lights for this. I can change them at my whim. By default they’re brighter and whiter during the day, slowly moving dimmer and yellow after sunset. Or I can make them whatever other color but I do that pretty rarely.
It’s also fully offline and no WiFi used.
- Comment on Alternatives to Mattermost 5 days ago:
Some drama on their licensing situation:
- Comment on China bans hidden car door handles over safety concerns 5 days ago:
China wins again
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
I mean that’s vague.
I’d say it depends on the content too. On a computer monitor at typical size/distance? Yeah probably. Small text will look much much better.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Depends on the screen size and distance.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
And piracy gets them from Bluray.
Now that that’s dying I’m afraid we’re gonna be stuck with streaming bitrates.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
There’s barely any actual 4K content you can consume
I feel like that’s not true. But you’ve gotta try. If you’re streaming it, chances are it’s not really any better. 4K Bluray (or reps of them…) though? Yeah it’s good. And since film actually has 8K+ resolution old movies can be rescanned into high resolution if the original film exists.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
I feel like on monitors because you’re fairly close getting at least 2k is good. Depending on size even 4k makes sense.
Small text on large 1080p monitors looks… Not great.
For gaming though absolutely
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Nah. On larger screens it’s good to have
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 week ago:
Yeah. A 1080p Bluray clocks in around 20GB. A 4K bluray is 60-80GB.
If you’re downloading something smaller it’s probably lower quality
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 1 week ago:
-emia, meaning presence in blood.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
Funnily enough piefed.social does not seem to block .ml
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How was the KFC
- Comment on Anyone? 1 week ago:
I took a look at your instance
It’s just you isn’t it.
- Comment on Anyone? 1 week ago:
Hi, admin of thelemmy.club here -
I’ve spoken with the other Lemmy admins in our group chat and we have decided to take this down. We made it very clear that this requirement should not be discussed. As a one time warning we will not ban you, but we will expect three photos this week.
Thank you,
- All Lemmy admins.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 week ago:
Huh? I wasn’t trying to stalk you, I you said you had run into them so I took a peek.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 week ago:
I mean, here’s a Hexbear thread about him winning.
hexbear.net/post/6637842?sort=Top
They’re skeptical that he’ll stay principled but nobody there is saying he’s the next coming of Hitler.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 week ago:
I’d love to see then link. You’ve got over 1k comments in 30 days or I’d look for it on your profile.