On Reddit I got banned from subs I’d never posted in for participating in other subs. The content of my posts didn’t even matter.

I don’t really have enough stuff going on to need have a dashboard on the wall ATM. Maybe down the line, although it feels redundant when we both have phones. Maybe if I ever do something with lighting? The goal is really to not have to worry about manually doing things, I don’t really use it myself unless an automation went wrong.

Jesus, that’s so fucked.

It’s definitely being logged by your Telco and phone manufacturer. Police can send them warrants to ask which phones were in X area around Y time frame and go from there.

Pssh, all you need is a gravity lens to bend the light, problem solved!

I think I’d still prefer actual buttons if I went that route, but I think I kind of get it. Can this be made to work with a smart watch too?

I’m generally the only one that actually interacts with the app, home assistant basically automates things on schedules and based on temperature and whether anyone’s home or not.

So there’s stuff like:

• preheat the office on cold work days
• make the robot vacuum clean the house if nobody’s home
• turn the AC off if nobody’s home
• turn the night light on in the baby’s room and turn it off in the morning (change the colour when it’s time to wake up)

I guess the goal is to keep the house comfortable while at home, while turning everything off when not to save energy without having to think about it.

I don’t quite get the NFC tags thing. Does this mean you have a tag on your wall that you tap your phone on? Is this something you prefer doing over opening home assistant on your phone and clicking the appropriate button? Not being critical or anything, I just see it mentioned often but I can’t really conceptualise why it’s a thing, and I’m curious what I might be missing.

I mean, if they can somehow come up with something better than activitypub, that would be great, from what I read it’s actually not that efficient. But yeah, decentralisation is not something you can just tack on, so I’m sceptical too, especially since they’re trying to raise VC money, which is not something you do when you want to build an open protocol.

It’s been clear from Gen X onwards that we’ll have a worse life than our parents, of course you’ll get anxious about it. You can probably plot this on the same chart that shows the rise of income inequality.

That’s somehow worse than Mastodon’s toots.

Bluesky is supposedly working on decentralisation, but yeah, I agree, especially since Mastodon is already there. Normies are just somehow very turned off by too much Linux talk, even though free software is part of the answer to keeping our society free and stopping monopolies from forming.

Are there any creative energy sinks you could run when the price goes negative? I can only think of mining crypto or transcoding video or stuff like that.

It didn’t work for me last time I tried, but yeah, it could have been fixed by now. It’s definitely the right direction to try, it’s the perfect solution for OP.

Does it work in game mode now? I thought it was only in desktop mode.

I mean, could’ve technically been in Kursk, but yeah, they probably use that language for any part of Ukraine they’re occupying.

The unions should be the board of directors.

It’s actually still baffling to see companies like AWS and Zoom, who arguably are all about enabling remote work, go with mandates like that. But yeah, it’s probably a stealth layoff, except they’re going to lose their best employees.

I paid A$1,189.00 for the 1TB OLED one, Valve will be selling it for A$ 1,049.00. To me, that wasn’t a huge difference, especially considering there was no indication Valve was ever going to sell it here.

Creating a whole new chain seems unnecessary since chains are just public ledgers anyway. It’s always been trivial to trace trades with most currencies.