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spaghettiwestern

@ spaghettiwestern @sh.itjust.works

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  • Any bike app/community that allows posting personal information?

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  • It'd be a great app, but people can sue anyone for any reason at all including just being pissed off. I don't think you'd be subject to prosecution but can't imagine you'd be able to do this without eventually having to hire a lawyer.

  • My parents like Pete Hegseth. How is this possible?

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  • Fox News.

  • thermostat suitable for Home Asistant

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  • Just switched to a Honeywell T6 Zwave (model TH6320ZW2003) thermostat and really like it. It's a big step up from my old wifi thermostat. There are some nice features like a humidity sensor and adjustable backlight, but the feature we like best is the Circulation fan mode that runs the furnace fan a certain percentage of the time even if the system isn't heating or cooling. This has made a significant different in our comfort level and we notice when the fan isn't set to Circulation.

    Since it's locally controlled, settings changes take effect immediately without the delay we regularly had with our old wifi Honeywell. Programming was more involved than a regular smart thermostat, but not overwhelming. It can be powered by a C wire or by batteries. Ebay has open box, like new models.

  • Simple camera without 3rd party apps or accounts

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  • What model did you buy/return?

    I'm using multiple Tapo cameras and although I had to set up an account initially for configuration, that account is only used when I want to actually change camera configuration. Unless I need to do that the cameras are completely blocked from the Internet.

    They work fairly well with RSTP on Frigate & Home Assistant although they do lock up once in a while, but they were only $15. If I remember correctly not all TP-Link's cameras support RSTP and the company is terrible at documentation, so making sure you buy a camera that supports the protocol isn't all that easy.

    I also have Foscam and Dahua cameras and they have been bulletproof.

  • Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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  • Google Safe Browsing looks to be have been built without consideration for open-source or self-hosted software.

    IMO Google Save Browsing was built with consideration for open-source and self-hosted software, but it has nothing to do with user safety, just like blocking Android apps from 3rd party sites has nothing to do with user safety. The harder they make it to move away from their products by making using alternatives difficult, the more money they make and money is now the only objective. Even if this only adds a fraction of a fraction of a percent to their profit it's something Google will implement.

    The old social contract of businesses being of benefit to the community as a whole in addition to making a profit is long gone.

  • Today, enjoy your self-hosted home automation

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  • I've slowly removed all cloud dependency from things in my home including cameras, appliances, and thermostat, and didn't even notice the outage. After this year's tsunami of dumpster fires it's nice to watch one pass us by.

  • Running Windows 10 on a spare drive, only for games. How dangerous is it to not get security updates?

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  • Can anyone recommend a very simple and hopefully inexpensive 'system' by which a bedridden older person might be able to access music or videos?

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  • There are remote controls for Android/Ipads that should make controlling apps pretty easy, but I'd expect occasional help from care takers would be required. Here's one that can be strapped to the bed side-rail and should be usable for someone even with limited mobility.

  • Switching from Raspberry Pi 4 to Home Assistant Green or Yellow?

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  • 2nd the SSD suggestion. I switched to one after a couple of microSD failures and it is very stable and way faster. A 240GB SSD is around $30. Even if you eventually decide to go to a different HA platform the SSD will make the Pi much more useful for other things.

    The only thing keep in mind is the power limitation of your Pi. Make sure whatever you buy doesn't draw more than the Pi power supply can provide.

  • Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica

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  • Yes. I had them blocked via my firewall because of the constant traffic they generated and blocking Internet access causes constant bulb resets. The resets are known to TP-Link and according to a couple of sources they created a private firmware release that fixed it. TP-Link failed to publically release that firmware, and last time I checked deny it ever existed. I replaced the bulbs with 3rd Reality Zigbee bulbs that work perfectly.

  • Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica

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  • I didn't get that far. When they demanded I log in I just removed it. Jellyfin is working OK without having to figure out how to bypass defaults.

  • Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica

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  • When I was in the market for bulbs Hue was just starting that BS. They lost that sale and I've been in the process of removing network access for everything possible and severely restricting it when not. My old Honeywell wifi thermostat is gone, smart appliances are disconnected from wifi, and TVs are blocked by my firewall when they aren't actually being used. Next up, Graphene OS.

    Sometimes I'd like to move to a tropical island with no news or Internet at all.

  • Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica

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  • This is why it's a great idea to refuse to install everything that's possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.

    Honeywell wifi thermostats worked great until they didn't. Now their servers are often slow or down. TCP-Link smart bulbs reset regularly if their Internet access is blocked because TCP-Link desperately needs to keep track of when everyone's lights are on and off. Plex wants us to log into their servers to watch content we're hosting ourselves. Too bad if their servers are down. Security camera companies have been disabling local storage options without warning for years.

    Logitech actually planned to introduce a subscription mouse. Hopefully at some point people will get sick of this shit, refuse to put up with it and their sales will tank.

  • I am attempting to get into Selfhosting after a shockingly frightening experience, but I am very lost.

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  • I had something similar happen with Google a few years ago. Even though I had my password and access to my email they decided I was trying to hack my own account and locked me out. Like you I immediately started to look for other solutions.

    Syncthing file sharing is really easy to install and use. There are no ports to configure on your router and everything is encrypted in transit. I have my phone's DCIM directory set up to sync to my home server and PC so new photos are backed up and available everywhere in a few seconds. I installed Syncthing intending to move to another solution eventually, but it works so well (aside from one or two files that occasionally don't sync) that I've just stuck with it.

    For passwords Keepass & KeepassXC work really well on just about every platform. I share the password file using Syncthing and in years of doing this I've never had a problem that I didn't cause myself and those were minor.

    You can get both of these up and running with very little effort and quickly limit your reliance on Google, then move to other solutions if you find they'd work better for you.

  • Pop-up Amazon streaming ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.

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  • Well folks, the brainwashing's complete on this one.

  • Pop-up Amazon streaming ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.

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  • According to you an ad is not an ad when you or Amazon use the word "promotion".

    I'm curious, in your opinion when does something like this become an ad? Is it an ad if they they pop it up mid-show every hour? No? How about every 10 minutes, is it an ad then?

    Marketing departments attempt to bend reality and public opinion to benefit their company. Their efforts have obviously been effective with at least one commenter on Lemmy.

  • Pop-up Amazon streaming ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.

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  • Gotta call BS. I didn't go anywhere and happen across a promotion, Amazon pushed this ad into my home, despite charging me a monthly fee not to do so. Why not go all the way and call it a public service announcement?

    This is just like cold calls from local contracting companies claiming that they aren't violating the "Do Not Call" list because they aren't actually selling new windows, just informing the public of their new promotion.

  • Pop-up Amazon streaming ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.

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  • Yup.

  • Pop-up Amazon streaming ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.

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  • Amazon: "Oh, we didn't mean those ads. That's clearly stated on page 112 of the user agreement under "Enshittification."

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Pop-up Amazon streaming ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux Users Switching Back to Linux

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Spotify Premium "Ad Free" plan

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Excellent Home Assistant Platform

    www.ebay.com /itm/305745882247
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    A Home Assistant Supervised hardware option.