Ah yes. Shitting in the streets. Classically a problem caused by drugs and definitely not anything else.
Good news! Because drugs are illegal now we don't have to build housing for the ever increasing homeless population!
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Prove it
TIL ty
My knowledge of Spanish is only high school level and that was how it was taught.
And literally literally means figuratively.
A teaching my advanced linguistic classes drilled into me is "l'uso fa legge".
Or, translated, usage makes the rules.
No language is logical, and consensus is how language is derived.
Pedantry is never ingratiating.
Idk about that. EEUU is how you abbreviate USA and Estados Unidenses is how it's usually written - They drop the "of America" and just say/write United States.
But I only have schooling in Spanish - no real world experience.
For better or worse in the anglosphere America = USA.
FWIW that's also true in Italian.
It's only Spanish speakers who make the distinction afaik (maybe also Portuguese but I don't speak the language so I'm not sure).
Yeah it took a bit to get it all working. Zigbee2mqtt runs on an rasp-pi in the middle of the apartment for good coverage. The mosquitto broker is on the same box as HA but it took a couple tries to figure out how to get it to talk to HA.
Once it was set up it was pretty great. Occasionally I'll have to restart the rpi to fix some communication breakdown or another.
The main non-userfriendly aspect is that I have to ssh into the rpi and edit a text file then restart the docker container to accept new devices into the network, then change the file back at the end.
No other option though: I live in an apartment complex. I can't just blindly accept new devices.
Yeah but downside: I rent
So everything I'm doing is with smart sockets haha
Zigbee2mqtt + homeassistant = all I need at home and away.
All my zigbee devices just report in and I automate my home that way.
I have high hopes for matter but in the interim: I've got shit working great. Window sensors to automate air filters going on and off, a humidifier running in response to a few sensors around the apartment, grow lights on and off on some simple timers.
More complicated things like fans and lights for a 3d printing enclosure? Easy: octoprint has a homeassistant hook and I can listen in for printer start/stop.
Local control will always beat out the "easy solution" IMO. It's just a bit more setup.
But it's not a solution I could hand off to technically illiterate grandparents.
Of course they don't.
But you have to contend with the fact that the overwhelming majority of people are apathetic or in favor of these kind of measures.
The morality police of the Christian right are campaigning for this. Many moderates don't care.
If it's coming, and it is, we should be sure to be part of a solution that makes it at least somewhat private.
I get it: but that's a minority opinion unfortunately.
Proof of personhood will be a major requirement in the future. Age verification will only be part of the combat against llm chat bots and malicious actors.
If the government is going to do it eventually we might as well weigh in on the right way to do it. As private and easy as possible.
It's not.
Source: professional app developer who has also worked for big G