chahk

joined 1 year ago
[–] chahk@beehaw.org 1 points 3 hours ago

"Hi, not mom, I'm daughter!"

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Branch out to another long-running show like Doctor Who.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 22 points 4 days ago

In every community, there is always another power-hungry asshole ready to jump on the opportunity to have a tiny bit of control over somebody else.

Mods not modding is nothing new to reddit. The only impact they would feel is if users stopped posting. I don't see that happening though.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

It's 7-D chess. He wants to use x-Twitter as a tax wire-off.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

A company I worked for a decade ago used Greek and Norse gods to name our servers. There was Odin and Thor, Zeus and Dionysius, etc. Having been a huge fan of Stargate SG-1, I kept suggesting various Goa'uld names, and one made it through - Chronos.

That's as close to mythology as I got.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

House Republicans to call on Tuesday for an investigation into whether the use of taxpayer funds for security for the trip violated ethics rules.

The gall! How dare they open up their dirty word holes to preach anyone about ethics when half of them are bought and paid for by the highest bidder! Fucking unreal.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

In other words, "conservative".

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I, for one, thank the German government for introducing me to a new site.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

I also choose this guy's dead wife.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't 3D print a gun, but you can buy one without a background check. Brilliant.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never stopped them before from still passing half-assed laws.

[–] chahk@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Let's not equate beatings and other child abuse to not having music during school hours.

 

I'm considering Inovelli Blue 2-1 switches for a new (to me) house. I'm pretty sure the electrical wiring in that place predates the American Civil War, so no neutral wires, and no plans to rip out the walls to rectify that. Would I be able to use the light switches for basic on/off/dimmer functions and have them in Home Assistant via the SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 Plus-E dongle?

I have HA up and running in my current place, but have way too many cloud enabled hubs (TP-Link Kasa, IKEA Tradfre, Lutron Caseta, just to name a few) that I want to replace with a fully self-hosted solution. Already bought and configured the Sonoff ZigBee dongle in anticipation. The only other hitch is that the gangboxes may be too small to fit larger switches and I may need to hire an electrician to replace around 20 of them.

Also it seems that Inovelli Aux switches for the multi-way setups are sold out everywhere. From what I understand, those are simply dumb switches with some extra bells and whistles. What alternatives are there for those?

 
 

I absolutely hate "smart" TVs! You can't even buy a quality "dumb" panel anymore. I can't convince the rest of my family and friends that the only things those smarts bring are built-in obsolescence, ads, and privacy issues.

I make it a point to NEVER connect my new 2022 LG C2 to the Internet, as any possible improvements from firmware updates will be overshadowed by garbage like ads in the UI, removal of existing features (warning: reddit link), privacy violations, possible attack vectors, non-existent security, and constant data breaches of the manufacturers that threaten to expose every bit of personal data that they suck up. Not to mention increased sluggishness after tons of unwanted "improvements" are stuffed into it over the years, as the chipset ages and can no longer cope.

I'd much rather spend a tenth of the price of my TV on a streaming box (Roku, Shield TV, etc.) and replace those after similar things happen to them in a few years. For example, the display of my OG 32-inch Sony Google TV from 2010 ($500) still works fine, but the OS has long been abandoned by both Sony and Google, and since 2015-16 even the basic things like YouTube and Chrome apps don't work anymore. Thank goodness I can set the HDMI port as default start-up, so I don't ever need to see the TV's native UI, and a new Roku Streaming Stick ($45) does just fine on this 720p panel. Plus, I'm not locked into the Roku ecosystem. If they begin (continue?) enshitifying their products, there are tons of other options available at similar price.

Most people don't replace their TVs every couple of years. Hell, my decade old 60-inch Sharp Aquos 1080p LCD TV that I bought for $2200 back in 2011 still works fine, and I only had to replace the streamer that's been driving it twice during all this time. Sony Google TV Box -> Nvidia Shield TV 2015 -> Nvidia Shield TV 2019. I plan to keep it in my basement until it dies completely before replacing it. The Shield TV goes to the LG C2 so that I never have to see LG's craptastic UI.

Sorry, just felt the need to vent. Would be very interested in reading community's opinions on this topic.

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