I also don’t want to have to talk to it, so switching to Home Assistant with Zigbee

That’s what started it all for me. I have some Hue lights for TV backlighting and started looking for alternatives when Philipps first threatened making their cloud account mandatory.

Threw out the bridge, works like a charm and I have been buying new devices and return everything I cannot setup locally but it’s annoying because they don’t always tell about their crappy app and cloud accounts on the product info.

Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

That’s the big one, sadly.

Joke’s on you - I can’t even reach my Zigbee devices in the next room, your car won’t have a chance from the street. That’ll make it easier to convince it to come back home though.

I wish. Every fucking bank has their own shitty app for 2FA instead of just using standardized and proven TOTP, no way around that.

Same about school apps the article mentioned since it’s connecting to their (one of many) proprietary system, no website for that.

And recently got into the home automation rabbit hole. Lots of devices that require their fucking app, sometimes with mandatory cloud account, just to connect! And people in reviews even praise how easy it is, it’s infuriating! I don’t need light bulbs connecting to the internet, thank you very much.

I have already ramped up on that one on their last ad ramp up.

got highlighted in a horse industry publication

Wait what?

Edit: duh, he was a jockey. I should let the moment of confusion settle before replying.

Hey now, it was carefully designed and thoroughly trained on Tinder dickpics

Probably don’t know how to get it to run.

Thanks, that’s good to know. I wasn’t up-to-date since I currently don’t run a Debian machine.

Maybe they meant of the box. You have to add additional repos to get non-free drivers installed on Debian or install them manually.

Especially not discord you mean.

I’ve been using Linux as my main driver for a couple of years now but I didn’t know the list of reserved file name characters is so short.

I didn’t believe ‘*’ is allowed. That alone is so error-prone, it’s insane. Backslash is allowed too - how do you escape that? Sometimes I think they giggled while writing the specs.

Only the early ones. By definition millenials are birth years 1981 to 1996, so the last ones were 11 when the first iPhone released.

I think every generation has their percentage of nerds and that just was a little higher in late Gen X and early millenials because computers were so new and you had to tinker to get anything working.

Funny that you chose an architect. Since they are basically document producers (also software architects), they tend to be able to type pretty proficiently.

That’s like 80% autocorrect anyway (I didn’t write a single word correctly in this sentence).

Not sure how this is a crime… breach of TOS, sure, but a crime?

What law is being broken here?

Not curious enough to actually read the article, eh?

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

One may argue about money laundering but it’s pretty clearly fraud.

My wife is T1 too and I wholeheartedly agree. The development in that area is outrageously slow and locked down (and then there’s healthcare providers with whom you have to fight tooth and nails to get your ancient pump upgraded - another story and country-specific).

What about that trunk though? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

But now we have AI! Both and many more problems will be solved any time now…

Also whole degrees. edit: no, that’s wrong, there are thermostats that allow 1/10th of degrees (I only have old manual ones). Still, you probably are not able to tell the difference between 20 and 20.1 °C. Humidity is far more relevant.

A difference of 2 °F is 1.1 °C…