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Initially it was just curiosity when thread/matter was new. Back then it was a horrible experience, but I was using primarily HomeKit as my home automation platform (which only sup…

I have 47 thread/matter devices, alongside some 10-15 matter over wifi devices, so not quite 50, but "close enough". It's not as fast as Zigbee, not in day to day usage, and not in…

Your DNA and fingerprints are literally everywhere you go, and they don't decay as soon as you leave. Hell, even passing close by a person can transfer your DNA to their clothes. I…

> In the US there have been notorious mistakes of using biometrics to falsely recognize an unknown criminal. Does this happen in the EU too? This my major concern with biometrics a…

If you have a recent EU passport (like 6-8 years), biometrics like fingerprints are already in the chip, and you won't need to be fingerprinted upon arrival or departure, at least …

Same here, went in 2019, got fingerprinted, and went again in 2021 and 2025, and they didn't even care about my ESTA, they just waved me through. The TSA agent asked me the usual q…

Yes, it’s a Nintendo switch, but it’s not a separate device, it’s a device I’m lugging around every day anyway.

Phone gaming with a USC-C display or simply cast to the TV, and Bluetooth remotes. It might not be as bad as it sounds. My phone has 12GB RAM, 256GB NVME SSD, a decent GPU and a de…

It takes one party to start a war, but it takes (at least) two to end it. The war ends when all involved parties agree that it ends, not because one party is tired of it. The only …

It’s the wonders of the modern world. People use LLMs to write longer posts, and the readers use LLMs to summarize them.

I had a "similar" situation that also prompted me to take back my data. My heat pump had also thrown an error, but because it sits in a closet (the indoor part anyway), and we don'…

You don't really need to break the DRM in case of iTunes : https://support.apple.com/en-us/121877

This is hardly a new approach or development. A decade ago, reading Linux Journal would get you flagged as being an extremist : https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4rp5l6/nsa_c…

It's not resistance to air conditioning as much as there isn't really a need for it for most of the year. Some of that has to do with engineering and age / history. Many older buil…

Any iPhone user with a measure of privacy knowledge will experience the same. I'm using NextDNS for DNS level ad blocking as well as iOS built in tools, and I get ads for women's h…

I kinda just outgrew it. I migrated from Homey to HA, and with 2500+ entities across some 250-300 devices the HA Green performed well. It would sit at about 55% RAM usage with 5-7%…

I was recently looking for an upgrade for my aging HA Green, and I had an 8GB RPi5 with a m.2 hat, case and PSU selected, but when I checked prices I could get an 8GB Zimaboard 2 t…

I classify them even further. I have broadly the same list as you do, but stuff like WhatsApp, Messenger, and other "non primary" communications platforms have silent notifications…

I'm merely reflecting on what reality is showing. In a software house with 1000+ developer, we're using AI everywhere. We have plenty of skilled engineers to validate the output of…

Everybody is AI coding these days, and if you're not, you may find yourself out of a job soon. You still need skilled engineers to "operate" the AIs and to verify the results, but …

C++ seems like an odd choice for developing desktop apps in 2026, but I guess if it works, it works.

I've been telling people this for years. Yes, you can self host, but you'll end up with a SLA on your spare time as well as you working hours. I've long since thrown everything wit…

But did it really warrant running an openclaw machine to do that ? Claude Code, Codex or something else running on your laptop could also have done that, and with Claude Cowork / D…

Probaly this : https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1rl8rxw/aws_datacenter...

> since 1972, which is only 44 years ago Thanks for making me a decade younger :)