He’s one of the rangers. Dangerous folk they are — wandering the wilds. What his right name is I’ve never heard, but around here, he’s known as Strider.

No, its actually their official job title. “Smeller of AI Tools.” It takes a very sophisticated nose to distinguish between all of the different vintages of bullshit, but it’s a living.

A couple of people mentioned sparkling water, and I want to join the train.

I got an off-brand sodastream. That and some Aarke flavor drops (https://aarke.us/collections/flavor-drops), and I have an infinite supply of la croix-esq bubble water.

I keep 2 bottles of (fridge-filtered) tap water in the fridge at all times and when I get the “I’m bored and don’t know what else I want” pangs, I go there first.

I also generally try drinking more water, especially at the start of a meal, to push back against the tendency to over eat.

Finally there’s the “just buy healthier snacks” but I struggle with that one the most

If i did mean to rape children, it’s all of your faults their fault for “dressing that way” or whatever

FTFY. 100% think he’ll go the “asking for it” route like most rapists.

Of course! From an end-user the experience between Bluetooth and ZigBee sensors is basically indistinguishable, except for range.

I have a detached garage, on the opposite end of my property from my HA controller, so the Bluetooth sensor out there specifically was a little flaky. The BT sensor is rated for ~160 ft but realistically it’s 50-100 ft if your home has walls.

Swapping that one sensor to ZigBee so it could tie into my mesh network solved the problem. All other BT sensors have had zero issues, and their AA batteries unsurprisingly last longer than the 3R ZigBee AAAs, but both last at least 6mo.

Some Shelly devices can be used as “Bluetooth repeaters” but I’m unsure of the specifics of how that works.

If the screen isn’t important, Third Reality makes a slightly cheaper version with no screen that also takes AAA - conveniently on sale now

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0D2NVJTS3

I have a mix of those and an old version of these Govee Bluetooth sensors that are also fully offline, take AA batteries, and pair well with HA

https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07Y36FWTT

Not strictly ZigBee, but cheaper, just as accurate as the 3R, and fully offline

You can edit titles on Lemmy :)

Who would be able to access my emails at rest?

If the answer isn’t abso-fucking-lutely no one, I’m not interested.

What I’m shocked about is there’s a $14M black market for rhino horns and they’re principled enough to not just sell dried glue shavings and call it rhino horn.

The news is he was responding to a question about his favorite flavor of ice cream.

How does adopting more progressive candidates in California solve gerrymandering in Texas?

Nothing like the slop of a rain drenched tennis ball on pavement

What’s the alternative, let the red states gerrymander and then just hope and pray that our new Republican-run house does the right thing and outlaws their one advantage in governing?

Newsom isn’t doing this in a vacuum, California has had a really well liked nonpartisan districting committee. Texas and other red States have gone with the nuclear option and CA is responding in kind - even more importantly, this is something that has to be voted on by the residents of CA in a special election, rather than by a set of politicians already benefitting from gerrymandering.

I absolutely hate that it has to be done, but as a CA resident I will be voting for it, and I will be pressuring my elected representatives to work towards passing federal legislation outlawing the practice and bringing things to a more even playing field.

The do-nothing alternative is not an option.

And hence, range anxiety is overblown.

Beginner question here - does HA even take sub-second polling?

This is the Spotify/Apple Music/etc model and the reason why music piracy is practically dead (yes, I know there are a few sites still going).

These services are doing their best to find ways to push people back to piracy but for now they keep it at bay through competition to provide better service.

If there was a catchall video streaming service where all publishers released and got a cut of their plays it would be game over for piracy. Fortunately that’ll never happen.

“We could have had the next Game of Thrones doing 200 episodes a year at 11:30pm every weeknight and made approximately a million billion gajillion dollars - anything less is a loss.”

CBS’s tax accounting team, probably.

And some fava beans.

Donald Trump raped kids with his pal Jeffrey Epstein.