But the benefit of a smart switch is that it remains “always on” for remote control, and physical actions on the switch also reflects on its state at the software level.

That said, I’d go with stuff that don’t need online connectivity.

The only smartbulb feature I need is dusk-to-dawn for my porch lights, and I found lightbulbs that actually have it builtin.

Good old electronics that don’t depend on the cloud.

Keep breaking it, it’s unredeemable at this point and it needs to go through a deep transformation.

Let’s try smuggling Kinder Surprise eggs instead, maybe that will relieve the tension.

I had Tchap in mind.

I don’t know why Italy is wasting time on this.

Tech-illiterate politicians making public actions so their corporate donators keep investing in them.

One way that their incompetency limits the amount of damage they can accomplish.

At least they kinda get the implications, with their own Matrix derivative at the government level.

Or they could like… just not be dicks and supply firmware updates without the lock-in, instead of having to trade off security to use your device however you want.

They can open up factories in Canada to sell those vehicles within, using local (and tariff-free!) steel and aluminum. Way cheaper too :)

Never heard “half bath”, and I always called those washrooms.

The grocery store I often go to had these barcode scanners you could borrow at the entrance and scan your stuff as you go, along with scales on which you could print a barcode sticker for the stuff you pay by weight.

Once you were done, you’d scan a QR card at the self-service checkout to upload all the stuff you scanned, then pay.

It was awesome, you could just pack as you go. Unfortunately they scrapped the project once they found out that the amount of theft was significantly higher with this system. So yeah, we can’t have nice things 😒

Bought and revived by Alexis Ohanian? It can only turn out into a dumpster fire. It’s probably just to diversify their data collection in case there’s an actual massive Reddit exodus and the brand name becomes too toxic.

update private_message set deleted = true from person where person.id = private_message.creator_id and person.actor_id in ('https://lemmy.cafe/u/nicole');

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EDIT: lmao cope harder, spammer. Makes it easier to find your alts.

One more reason to have actual open-source drivers instead of binary blobs…

Honestly, I’m just keeping my money in my saving account. No way I’m spending my hard-earned money on overpriced stuff, I can wait a while longer, and I’m considering a Steam Deck as my daily driver. Not a beast, but not excessively priced either.

I was dissappinted to see most of the Dems sitting in silence, with tiny protestation signs as if they were at an auction.

C’mon, make some noise, get in trouble, but do something!

I suggest whoever has old firmware files to upload them to the Internet Archive (if they allow those).

I dream of the day we can communicate over some kind of mesh network like Meshtastic. That’d be nice having a nearly ubiquitous coverage for free.

Hotdog / Not Hotdog

But yeah, having a semantical image filter could do be a good first line, of course with human oversight.

AI trends

Yeah that part kinda sucks, but it’s not all bad. For example, there’s the offline translation engine that relies on a trained model that runs entirely locally, which is kinda neat and great privacy-wise.