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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I see both kinds of sets for sale. I do not see ruination. Both kinds present an empire of creativity when they're disassembled and mixed up together in a box, as tends to happen with Lego. It's fine. Or, alternatively, it ma
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Ruined seems like very strong phrasing when nothing important has been ruined. They sell new Lego sets in stores every day. They might seem expensive for a few bags of plastic bits and some instructions, but then: They've never been
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Thanks! Previously, I've never thought much about the airtime required for beacon transmission, nor that it increases as SSIDs are added. Thinking about it now, I can see some ways to improve the cost of these SSIDs. Like, increasing t
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I'm at 4. What are the nuts-and-bolts reasons that would make 5 perform worse?
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
That only works if there's a better AP to roam to. It's often very easy to add more APs indoors; but hanging them outside is a whole different animal. Meanwhile: As a practical matter, shrinking coverage means "Hey, honey!
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
They've never been particularly low-power, in a performance-per-Watt sort of way compared to other offerings at whatever present day. In recent times, I've seen completely-believable reports that N150 boxes walk all over it. They
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
They'll do whatever they do. Maybe a tick-tock release cycle (one with new features and some speed, the next with the ~same features and more speed) is where they're headed, and maybe that makes sense. They wouldn't be the f
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
That's been my experience as well. My workaround for part of that is using many SSIDs. A. The SSID that covers both bands, in all areas B. Two more SSIDs, one for each band -- again, used in all areas C. Another SSID just for the
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
That works for fixed devices like a TV, but also tends to shrink the effective coverage area of the wireless network as a whole. That can mean that the portable wifi speaker-widget (which itself doesn't need much bandwidth) might go fr
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
The last time it was mentioned here, perhaps a couple of weeks ago, I tried to warm up my old last.fm account. I once used it for a long time, but that time was maybe 20 years ago now. I wasn't even sure what my username, password, or
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
There's lots of very healthy addictions. There are also lots of very unhealthy addictions. Dental hygiene addiction? Good -- if kept in check (it can go too far). Heroin addiction? Bad -- always bad! These things are all included
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I used to have a job that involved swinging a hammer over and over again. I got pretty good at it. Then the boss-man bought a minty-new Senco 650 air nailer for me to use. At first, I could take it or leave it. After all, I was proud at t
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
There probably are a non-zero number of people in the world who are afflicted with real-live AI psychosis. For everyone else, that term is being applied with disingenuous levels of incompetence.
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Thanks. If I'm looking at that right. it looks like Switchbot sells a device that talks Matter on one end, and emits infrared commands on the other end. And that it needs continuous Internet access in order to perform this infrared fun
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
It doesn't have to be universal or even vaguely popular in order to be successful. I have all kinds of widgets around me at home that are the products of successful companies of various sizes, and that are so niche that 95% of people w
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I would love do that. OSM is awesome, and basemap is a problem that I think I am good at solving. But AFAIK OSM still has no mechanism that helps me get from A to B with dynamic and otherwise-unforeseeable roadway conditions. Waze still p
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
> I spent ~2 years actively editing Wikipedia for multiple hours every day. I remember taking my laptop out at airports for 20 minutes between transfers, just to tweak an article or improve a source. While I originally started because I
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
> Unfortunately you see quite a few manufacturers implement Matter in a way where they require a proprietary hub, and the proprietary hub requires a constant internet connection to work... In what way? I don't see any of them that
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I agree with you. I really think that big-chain gas stations need to race to the top, not the bottom. If what I usually hear is true -- that they can make some money on gas but the real profit center is inside the convenience store -- t
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
The bot can do that kind of thing, too. "Show me 6 very different solutions, and present arguments for/against each one as if a bunch of angry monkeys."
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I've heard of these "works with Matter"-but-not-without-help devices, but haven't encountered one yet. I just take random cheap Matter devices out of the box, scan the QR code with HA, power them up, and they work. I g
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Sure. Most people don't have much beneath-the-skin technical inclination at all. We see this right now in 3D printing: Bambu Labs printers are popular because they're simple to use: A person can unbox it, plug it in, load some
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
You're describing those things as failures. I see them as successes. A smart device that doesn't need a subscription to feed and keep track of, doesn't consume hours of my life trying to get my attention, doesn't get sh
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
Matter is a solution to that. It's a standard pathway for things to talk to (say) a light bulb. The control interface is local, not cloud-based. And configuring a Matter device from $random_company doesn't require $random_compa
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
I have all kinds of lights automated. Lights that turn themselves off with a software timer. Lights that turn off when nobody is home. Lights that turn themselves on when I get home. Lights that do things in response to the status of ot
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
If that works (badly) in Japan, then why can't it work (just as badly) in the US? What new impediment does the geography bring to the table?
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
That's kind of what I was leaning towards. It's a problem that needs solved, but it's not necessarily hard to solve, nor does it need solved in advance. It's the kind of problem can often very nearly resolve itself. Her
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
As others have mentioned, 7/11 in the US has been owned by 7/11 (Japan) for quite a long time, now. There's some important organizational differences: Stores in Japan are almost entirely franchisee-operated, while stores in
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
How is this waste dealt with in Japan? Why can't whatever-that-is be implemented in the US?
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by ssl-3 5mo ago
It is bizarre, isn't it? My web experience has been broadly cleansed of ads for about as long as we've had a web to experience. These days, Firefox on Android indeed works great, and so does uBlock Origin. It's a superb com

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