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by orev 3y ago
My bulbs use Bluetooth or ZigBee, and have never needed the Hue hub or the app, as I’ve used Home Assistant with them the whole time. Currently using the app because I need to rebuild HA, and it doesn’t seem like the change effects the bulb
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by orev 3y ago
For any app that does this, go to the App Store and give them a one-star rating and a comment on why you’re doing this. In this case, they have a canned copy/paste answer saying that it’s for “security”, so feel free to try to debunk t
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by orev 3y ago
If you install the mobile Hue app, it’s right on the main screen.
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by orev 3y ago
The message they have added to the app clearly says that the situation has changed.
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by orev 3y ago
ZigBee is the open protocol that most people should try to prefer to support open standards. But both Zwave and ZigBee are local-only, so either one is better than something that can call home on the internet.
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by orev 3y ago
Since your comment references sueing, I’m going to assume you’re in the US, where almost all employment is “at will”. They can dismiss you for any reason as long at it’s not a protected one. Telling the truth and being a jerk is not a prote
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by orev 3y ago
I would argue that it’s the “sea of other notifications” that’s the problem, and that can be easily fixed by going through the notifications settings and disabling them for anything less important than calendar reminders. Do you really nee
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by orev 3y ago
Not to defend the recommendation as they clearly have an interest in trying to get people to use as much as possible, there is a potentially valid reason for this, which is that it depends on the type of water you have. Water from a municip
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by orev 3y ago
That’s the whole point of this discussion—that the reason it’s behind the counter (which everyone already knows is because of meth) is NOT actually a good reason to have it there.
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by orev 3y ago
One could make the same argument for anything really, but it has nothing to do with why this particular drug that’s completely ineffective is being sold. And just because you’ve never experienced an extreme case of rhinorrhea doesn’t mean i
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by orev 3y ago
1) That’s just outright theft, so, great job posting that publicly. 2) Buying organic is an economic statement, not a health one (an organic zucchini isn’t vastly more healthy than a non-organic one), so all you’re doing there is screwing o
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by orev 3y ago
Sounds like a false dilemma fallacy to me. Wind turbines and cats aren’t related in any way, and if both are a problem the solutions are completely independent of each other. How does painting turbine blades have any effect on birds killed
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by orev 3y ago
I happened to run across this yesterday, and it looks nice. However, it would be nice if it could accept different common formats so they don’t need manual editing, such as having - as a separator instead of :.
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by orev 3y ago
It depends on what you mean by “traditional furnace” since there are many generations of technology in play here. The article talks about “boilers”, which are huge tanks full of fire and steam, usually in the basement of a large office or a
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by orev 3y ago
In the context of the article, they are talking about replacing old boiler systems which were generally designed at the turn of the previous century. During that time, steam systems were designed to provide heat in buildings where the windo
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by orev 3y ago
That’s quite a big assumption to think that it would be clearly labeled, and also that it would have a dedicated fuse. It’s not like that would be such a huge power draw that it needs its own fuse. Pulling the fuse would likely cause the wh
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by orev 3y ago
Even if you know that something is objectively better, if the majority of the market doesn’t agree, you’re going to find yourself spending lots of time and energy going against everyone else. At a certain point you just need to accept that
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by orev 3y ago
Amusingly, the ping of death was somewhat a result of all the other UNIX ping tools that silently truncated the ICMP packet to the “standard” size, even when told to use a larger size. It was Windows ping that actually honored the packet si
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by orev 3y ago
Microsoft is intentionally taking aim directly at IT departments by creating a situation where it’s impossible to keep up. Every monthly update adds another nag pop up, or disables, moves, or “accidentally” resets the switches to turn them
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by orev 3y ago
Something as critical as payroll needs to be reviewed by a person before payout. Doing it daily would be insane. The comment was asking why not pay monthly instead of fortnightly, which would be less frequently.
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by orev 3y ago
You should do some reading about Grover Norquist, his organization Americans for Tax Reform, and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge that most Republican politicians are pressured to sign. I think you’ll find that your assumptions about what pol
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by orev 3y ago
Going to have to go with the others and say that if MoCa isn’t working, there’s a bigger problem (PowerLine is always a bad idea). Make sure: You have the PoE filter (no “S”, there’s should only be one) installed on the entry point only. Si
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by orev 3y ago
That coax splitter only handles up to 1675MHz, which isn’t that great anymore. It’s better to use ones that go up to 2500MHz for the newer MoCa standards.
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by orev 3y ago
I suspect this is due (at least partially) to the relatively recent rise in credit card rewards. Many more cards than in the past are giving rewards, and that requires increasing the fees charged during the transaction. MC and Visa recently
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by orev 3y ago
And that insurance is paid for by higher credit card fees to the merchant, which is why they want to move people away from credit cards.
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by orev 3y ago
To make a statement. When the Prius came out it was clearly designed to be very unique so people knew it was a new type of vehicle (hybrid). If you wanted to make sure everyone knew you were being environmental, you got a Prius because it
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by orev 3y ago
Microsoft was one of the most hated companies by both IT people and users in the 80s - 90s. About the only thing people liked was the developer support (which I give them credit for; Visual Studio is great). Computers running their software
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by orev 3y ago
Maybe they fixed it in later versions, but the controllers had plastic “fingers” inside that would press down on the metal dome button, and it was pretty easy to push the stick too hard where it would snap the plastic finger. I think that’s
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by orev 3y ago
I suspect your perspective is based on using well-established open source projects that have a long history and are popular enough to have reached critical mass. The reality is that most open source projects are playing catch-up, especially
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by orev 3y ago
I understand the desire to protect your children from having bad experiences, but isn’t that exactly the time when she would need to start learning how to handle these things on her own? If you isolate her, how’s she going to learn how to h

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