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You might be interested in a properly cross-platform version of this type of thing that's also on the front page just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42789323

This +1. Should be in the guidelines for submissions. Tired of clicking on interesting threads only to find they target on specific platform.

I agree it's an automation, I don't agree with it being "smart". What I like about my thermostat timer is that it's simple, local, and requires nothing else. No networking, no app,…

I definitely like the idea, and I do think it's cool. But I just can bothered with the complexity and the fact it needs to be maintained and networked, etc. Also yaml...

Timers are "smart" now? I just though they were timers. Does the timer on my cooker, so I don't need to set an external timer, make my cooker smart too? Is my outside light over my…

I just either do that manually or, better yet, make them do it.

I can assure you there's nothing smart about my 15 year old boiler and it's thermostat supports that functionality externally, though the name escapes me it looks like this [0]. No…

Beyond the "cool" factor I'm with you. I don't know what the benefits would be but I can definitely see it being a pain to maintain and the extra cost in both time and money for ru…

I've never got the reason for home automation over setting the heating to come on half hour before I get out of bed in the winter. I'm quite happy manually turning on lights, etc; …

I would like further detail about this also. I suspect that SQLite wasn't choking and it was something else. I cannot imagine a single home being able to overwhelm SQLite [0]. Unle…

No the laptops met my needs perfectly. They were cheap, and they ran fully up to date operating systems and the latest software. The issues with the university are issues with the …

I am not a developer by trade but being technically capable I inherited a system once that I kept running beyond its real lifespan. Eventually it was to be replaced and an outside …

I never buy new laptops, and I always put linux on the ones I do buy. My only issues have been running the more resource intensive applications I needed to run as a student, and th…

I would imagine a bloody long time, knowing the human race...

I love SQL. I'm not a full-time developer but always use SQL over other abstractions, which I find extremely confusing and way more complicated that plain SQL.

Donnie Darko style.

Goddammit. This gets me every-time. Click these threads expecting Jujitsu only to find source control!

I wonder how long it will be before other theories of Graham Hancock are found to be plausible or true instead of him being dismissed as a crackpot fringe conspiracy person?

I have no clue about maths beyond extremely basic stuff, but am fascinated by this sort of thing, and I need pictures to understand stuff like this. What an excellent video. During…

For local network sharing between my devices I tend to use LocalSend [0] which is absolutely brilliant, pretty much replaced my USB stick for transferring files/folders between dev…

Out of interest, why use this over rsync?