batmaniam

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[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I can only hope, meet me at the corner of hollis and morris.

edit: seriously, from someone from a border town, we stand on guard for thee.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I can't stop laughing, it's like every inhibition has died.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

THANK YOU. I know I can scroll through it, but I get tired of waiting.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Similar. I got a vehicle that had android auto, but not wireless. Plugging and unplugging all the time I'd go through a cable every few months. Power would work, but the shielding would break and it would screw with cell/GPS until I replaced the cable.

Got a wireless android auto adapter to stop buying cables. That's great but I knew I wouldn't plug in my phone every time like normal, so I use the wireless charging.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 187 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I prefer the original artist's work

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. Whats funny is facebook could have done this in like... 2010. Like I'm fairly certain I had "group pages" back then that were a very small number of people. But you're right, the channel thing is crazy useful. Like my one group has 3 people, but we've got like 50 topics. It's gotten to the point there are archives, ie: the "thanksgiving" channel moves from the "archive" group to "general" group around mid sept.

I've also been lucky enough to avoid having it be work related. Like I have slack for work, that notification noise is the devil, where as the discord notification noise means my buddy is posting pictures of his kid.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

1000% agree. Like I use it for some spread out family (one server) and college friends. There's <5 people in each. I think eventually forums will adopt the fediverse infrastructure. I'm on an old school forum for my vehicle, and it's great. It's direct out of 2010, it wouldn't suprise me if those kind of sites brought in all the code that the fediverse runs off of. As a casual observer, that's really what lemmy seems like to me: "what if 2005 internet, where people managed their own webpages, but it ran on a common architecture that made it easier to cross-link with other sites if you wanted?"

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

They do still exist, I have a specific but popular vehicle, and there's a dedicated forum style site directly from 2011.

In a perfect world, that would be folded into the "fediverse" protocols, but like they're already paying their own hosting etc. In the end that's all reddit did: absorb some nominal hosting and IT for exposure. It made sense for hype niche communities, which is how reddit grew, but now that they're killing control of the communities... Well.. It turns out people were willing to pay for those servers back when they were expensive...

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Discord is amazing for a step beyond group messages. I have no idea how it got into a roll as a "community tool".

 

Hi All,

Looking to steer into HA, but have some questions on how data is handled.

First, I don't mean the opt-in on the scant analytics. HA is very clear about that which is great. Awesome clear policy.

Second, I understand that "integrations", which use a device manufacturer's/services software/infrastructure, are outside scope here (although I do have some questions).

My goal is to find and work a system where no one knows when my lights are turning off and on, and is only on my hardware. IE: If the internet went down, but I was still connected to local wifi, can my HA still work?

The answer seems like a strong "yes", but I want to double check. I also want to make sure if I do use an integration that there's not an avenue for telemetry beyond that integration. IE: I don't want Spotify to gain access to what temperature I keep my house just because I want to play music.

I also have questions about the mobile app, but if the rest is truly locked down, I can navigate that.

I currently have an automated bog garden, but how I did it isn't really scalable. It's all modbus components with values passed to a local server to generate a dashboard. I'd like to expand to more actual "home" automation, and this seems like a great tool!

Thanks for any clarification.