Software engineer (video games). Likes dogs, DJing + EDM, running, electronics and loud bangs in Reservoir.
Game Pass’ revenue grew by 5.7% in the year to June, which is below the internal target of 11%. Following the service’s declining growth rate, it was dropped as a metric contributing to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s pay in 2023.
Rules for thee, not for me.
True, but what you should really be afraid of these days are spam filters and hackers. As much as I’d love to selfhost my own mail server, IMHO it’s just not worth the risk of important emails getting flagged as spam (both outgoing and incoming), or losing control of accounts due to a zero day attack or other means. The latter might sound far-fetched but I just saw it happen firsthand to a friend. The modern internet is a battleground!
Just to play devil’s advocate, why do you want to automate your lighting? I’d consider myself an advanced HA user (been using it since 2019 and have coded several custom integrations and built custom hardware) and never bothered with automating my home lighting. I’m always walking past the light switch as I enter or exit a room anyway, so it’s not a big inconvenience.
The real wins I’ve gotten from HA are smarter home security (door locks/sensors/cameras etc), climate control, energy management, garden irrigation, and remote control of “dumb” devices like my garage door and motorised front gate.
Edit: thanks for the insights all! Seems having kids and older houses are common reasons for automating lighting.
For couch gaming, the discontinued Steam Link hardware is still king IMHO. I tried switching to the Android app on my smart TV and have had nothing but trouble with connection quality (even over a gigabit wired connection) and maintaining 4 controllers connected to the TV at once. It seems extremely sensitive to host hardware and software issues, which often change underneath you with TV updates. The Android hardware and software it runs on is just too variable to ensure a consistent reliable experience, and Bluetooth controller support is often hit or miss.
The Steam Link hardware was amazing as it did exactly what it needed to do, and most importantly was tested more thoroughly than the thousands of Android devices that all have their own quirks and specs. I hope they bring it back.
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Wake me when I can install Tayne on it.
Ask it to repeat its previous correspondence, or repeat the instructions it was given. It’ll be interesting to hear what its intentions are.
Straight out of the movie “Don’t Look Up”. A proper life initiating art imitating life moment.
I especially love the sound! This thing is hilarious, can’t wait to read the disaster postmortem in a few years time.
And only broadcast in subregions of their market where they know it’s a good PR move.
Maybe you’re just not quality content.
Also, who’s at reading distance from a USB port half the time? Sometimes they’re on the front of a device, but they’re just as often hidden behind something or in a hard-to-reach place. Monitors and PCs come to mind.
Completely agree, I don’t know specifics of his case. But Japan’s justice system really does sound horrific - if you’re a defendant, there’s no presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and there’s a cultural expectation that you’ll bow to the state and accept guilt regardless of circumstances… seems like a very antiquated system to say the least. I had no idea.
To be fair to him, Japan’s justice system sounds truly awful! I had no idea, but just went down a rabbithole learning about it.
Most people who shop at ALDI also shop at Coles/Woolies to get the items they can’t get at ALDI. It’s not a brand thing, it’s that they don’t sell the type of item you’re after at all. As an example, try finding canned mackerel fillets or vegetarian fake meat products at ALDI. They don’t stock them.
The argument that consumers are paying a “loyalty tax” in a cost of living crisis is absurd. From the article, this is the only reason:
Aldi stocks about 1,800 products compared to the 25,000 sold by its big competitors.
To say ALDI is a competitor to Colesworth is misleading. It’s a supplementary option at best, just like going to a grocer or market is. The range just isn’t there.
flash forward to an Android cursing on hands and knees trying to vacuum under the fridge
I’m no expert but just helping you kick the tires a little bit - for the audio outs, are you thinking of just running speaker wire from an amp in the server closet to the ceiling of all of the audio out locations?
For what it’s worth, I’ve dabbled with wifi/Bluetooth speakers and while they generally work well, there always seems to be some software update or connectivity dropouts enough that I’d much prefer a wired system to eliminate over-the-air issues for a long-term robust solution.
It’s how most large forums ran back in the day and it worked great. Quality over quantity.