RecluseRamble

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[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Came here after the comment got deleted. Did that moron really claim that greentext dude is homophobic? He literally let himself fucked by his gay friend ffs.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

It seems to be more complicated than that

However, when the modulated light source contains a spatial high frequency edge, all viewers saw flicker artifacts over 200 Hz and several viewers reported visibility of flicker artifacts at over 800 Hz. For the median viewer, flicker artifacts disappear only over 500 Hz, many times the commonly reported flicker fusion rate.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

He's probably driving around in rural areas though. What's the cost of living at your place? Not Silicon Valley, I hope?

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes, it's inconvenient but how is your future SO going to meet you if stay at home? She's probably unsocial like you but you could still meet her family or friends by dating eventually leading to her.

Of course you could try your luck staying online too but I'd suggest something else than niche platforms where tech enthusiasts are overrepresented like the Fediverse.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Don't let selection bias put you off. These stories are filtered by "worst date" and then you'll basically only read the top ten over the top versions of those.

I guess most dates are around "fine" to "meh" and not traumatizing.

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