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by rekoil 3y ago
Sounds about right, Flipper Devices just released the Video Game Module which has a very recognisable port that is never referred to by it's more common name anywhere. Of course, they don't do HDMI 2.1 or anything advanced like th
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by rekoil 3y ago
Hmm, perhaps I'm mistaken then!
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by rekoil 3y ago
Then isn't it better when they're upfront about it?
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by rekoil 3y ago
For me it's how user-defined search engines work. In Chromium-based browsers you can just supply a URL-template, a name, and a shorthand, and you're off to the races, it takes 10 seconds to add one. In Firefox it used to be you ne
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by rekoil 3y ago
Oh it's opt-in now? It used to be opt-out, good change.
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by rekoil 3y ago
Fair enough, but you do get paid so that isn't a broken promise or anything, it's just not that much because their ad network hasn't really been much of an ad network. I had it enabled for a while, thought it was a great idea
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by rekoil 3y ago
I really don't get this hate Brave gets on HN and other tech forums. It's a de-Googled Chromium fork which retains support for Manifest v2 extensions and has a bunch of neat extra features like first-party ad-blocking, an (underus
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by rekoil 3y ago
Been using Brave since I think around 2019? Very happy with it, love the integration of IPFS, ENS, Unstoppable domains, and the removal of all the Google trash present in Chromium. Fully end-to-end encrypted sync as well. Don't use Tor
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by rekoil 3y ago
And regular advertising (where the audience doesn't get paid for consuming adverts) isn't a grift?
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by rekoil 3y ago
Right, and in iCloud backups you can choose to include or don't include iMessage data in those, is the iMessage data included by default?
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by rekoil 3y ago
Messages in iCloud is separate from the inclusion of the iMessage database in the regular iPhone iCloud backups. Could you check what that setting is set to on your newly setup device?
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by rekoil 3y ago
Messages in iCloud (different thing, used for syncing iMessage conversations to all your devices) is off by default, to my knowledge backups of the iMessage database is on by default in the iCloud backup setting, but admittedly I haven&#x27
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by rekoil 3y ago
> and will not enable ADP Not only will it not enable ADP, it won't even ask you about it.
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by rekoil 3y ago
Ah, talking about effects (scenes, blinking lights, etc.) that run on the string lights processor, custom Zigbee commands, RGB controls is fairly standardised. But from all the praise Z2M is getting here I guess I'll have to try it! On
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by rekoil 3y ago
Oh I do have MQTT setup already, just haven't tried Z2M.
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by rekoil 3y ago
And how do they work in HA? Is there lots of setup with each entity because I have to talk to it over MQTT? I noticed that Z2M seems to say it supports effects on my string lights, do you know if that also means it'll automatically sho
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by rekoil 3y ago
That's actually a lot more of an upside than it should be...
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by rekoil 3y ago
I haven't really run across any devices that haven't worked in ZHA. I did recently buy the latest generation of Philips Hue Festavia string lights and Home Assistant (via ZHA) had no clue how to set any of the scenes on it. I wa
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by rekoil 3y ago
I've seen a lot of references to Zigbee2MQTT. If I'm going to be using it through Home Assistant anyway, why should one choose Zigbee2MQTT over say ZHA?
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by rekoil 3y ago
The sandbox and review processes are completely separate from each other. Technically if the review process was flawless Apple wouldn't need a sandbox in iOS. Yeah sure, things that attempt to break out of the sandbox will not be caugh
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by rekoil 3y ago
That's a fair argument, you've honestly swayed me.
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by rekoil 3y ago
There's scale. Spotify being dicks doesn't impact as many users as Apple being dicks. But I agree with you in general!
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by rekoil 3y ago
Because there are laws about what a driver is allowed to do while driving and for very good reasons. Infotainment systems are a natural source of distractions, and without safeguards there isn't anything stopping things like Netflix fr
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by rekoil 3y ago
"Just" make the implementation imitate some old Spotify Connect hardware that isn't being updated anymore and it would be near impossible for Spotify to realistically tell the difference. Sure, people would still worry about
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by rekoil 3y ago
That's a little different, but an interesting topic to discuss! In my opinion there are 3 ways forward in such situations. 1. The manufacturer designs the car so that the infotainment unit is replaceable when they stop updating the ori
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by rekoil 3y ago
It is shitty they killed libspotify, but it isn't hard to reverse engineer the way the app communicates with the backend, this has already happened in the form of https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot as an e
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by rekoil 3y ago
It is an infuriating state of affairs. Ironically, if the Apple ecosystem wasn't so locked down the open source community would have solved this issue by now.
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by rekoil 3y ago
> Why isn't the iPhone a smartphone, a purpose-specific device? Because it can be extended via software to support whole new categories of apps. Sure, a games console technically is a computer and the above statement is true for it
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by rekoil 3y ago
> Had they, there would be a false marketing angle to play. But they didn't so there isn't. That argument is relevant for the original iPhone, not for any iPhones sold after the advent of the App Store. > Apple never markete
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by rekoil 3y ago
> I would consider a phone as damgerous as a scooter, if not more - considering the amount of private information in it and the access to bank accounts it grants. App sandboxing protects you from apps trying to access your information wi

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