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ScreaminOctopus ,

Another account with exclusively Kagi shilling comments? Add this one to the pile.

ScreaminOctopus ,

Isn't a huge part of the point of copy left licences that an author can't change the license without rewriting the code entirely?

ScreaminOctopus ,

CCS is already required in Europe, problem is there aren't nearly as many CCS chargers in the US especially compared to Tesla's network

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

ScreaminOctopus ,

A dedicated server is needed because something needs to keep a catalog of the smart devices available on your network and ideally be accessible to many people in one household. You could make a system that went phone -> device but you would need to set up each device on each phone you wanted to use, which isn't a great user experience. You could also run into issues where devices would need to handle multiple conflicting commands from different users coming in at once. Since smart devices are usually trying to use as little power as possible, that extra complexity would hurt you in that department. The third reason is that having a separate server enables automated workflows that would depend on an always online server that orchestrates multiple devices. For example, let's say you have some automatic insulating blinds, a smart thermostat. You want to raise and lower the blinds to maximize your energy efficiency. Since you have the dedicated server, that server can check the temperature set point of your thermostat, current weather, and sunrise\sunset times. If it's sunny out, and your set point is higher than the outdoor temperature, the server can raise the blinds to let warm sunlight in, and vice versa. If only your phone could control the devices a workflow like this couldn't work when you were out of the house.

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Is it just Kbin, or does every fediverse service have the issue of being totally swarmed with bots advertising illegal pharmaceuticals? Is this just the result of limited moderation?

ScreaminOctopus ,

I've heard kbin.social is having issues since the creator has needed to step away due to personal reasons. It might be best to find an mbin instance to migrate to.

ScreaminOctopus ,

The NixOS wiki's been around for a few years at least, it just doesn't get as much traffic from search engines since NixOS isn't super popular.

ScreaminOctopus ,

Didn't realize that was unofficial lol

ScreaminOctopus ,

My theory is that Google wants to move towards vector symbolic representations for pages in search rather than page caching. It would make index storage and retrival orders of magnitude cheaper for them if they can design a scheme that works well.

Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone." (gizmodo.com)

Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."::The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."

ScreaminOctopus ,

You can also hang on to silica gel packs that come in various packaging, they do the same thing as the rice but are more effective and wont clog up your device

ScreaminOctopus ,

If you want to share a set of feeds between devices, and sync read/unread, organization, etc.

ScreaminOctopus ,

They got astronomically lucky the crypto boom fed directly into the Ai boom as it ended, otherwise it would have been 2017 all over again.

More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence (www.themarshallproject.org)

Private security footage is nothing new to criminal investigations, but two factors are rapidly changing the landscape: huge growth in the number of devices with cameras, and the fact that footage usually lands in a cloud server, rather than on a tape....

ScreaminOctopus , (edited )

There are open source solutions for robot vaccums provided you get a compatible robot

https://valetudo.cloud/

Unfortunately it's not something the average person's going to undertake.

ScreaminOctopus ,

Thanks for the heads up, fixed the link.

ScreaminOctopus ,

I've been using Logseq and syncing via syncthing, but you can sync with any file syncing service

ScreaminOctopus ,

One of the main things I feel is missing is there doesn't seem to be a way to view and track all tasks in all your pages, I generally like tasks to live with the relevant info rather than in the journals. Do you know if there's a way to get something like that?

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