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    Comment #48477033

    Yes, that article states that as well under limitations: "Deprecation status: While functional, Apple discourages its direct use in favor of App Sandbox for developers."

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    Comment #48413573

    Cool cool cool. So to confirm, you just installed the Home Assistant APK and that worked without issues?

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    Comment #48207650

    Related: Honda's 2 Motor Hybrid System Explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_VChtMGK8

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    Comment #47283148

    $39?! I'll stick with qalc!

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    Comment #47037067

    Similar story - "Home assistant picked up my neighbours Bluetooth toothbrush and now I can see when they brush their teeth" https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1306pcw/…

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    Comment #46238024

    Also the Dacia Spring is exactly that.

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    Comment #44746022

    Slightly tangential, but there's this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/

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    Comment #44723328

    Good information, but you can already turn this off via the (quite hidden, I admit) setting that is mentioned in the article. That's a better way to turn this off completely, rathe…

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    Comment #44723293

    That does not completely turn off the federated sign-in popup you see on the top right in various websites. The solution is actually already mentioned in the article.

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    Comment #44008382

    What travel ban are you referring to? Related answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44006725

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    Comment #43473116

    You need a farm of machines that run the actual mail clients, to do that reliably. https://www.emailonacid.com/ is such a service.

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    Comment #43438578

    Two video reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbFU6KoEASU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpzZWTz1h0w

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    Comment #42186089

    This is a great article on the topic: https://hbr.org/2022/03/what-great-hybrid-cultures-do-differ...

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    Comment #40398806

    Somewhat related: NYC Rain Gardens https://home.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/rain-gardens.page

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    Comment #40106274

    For NYC specifically I've been burned many times by Citymapper. It is trying to be clever and parse the messages about service changes, but does it all wrong and in the end gives y…

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    Comment #39970872

    Pretty cool. If you have adguard home and google assistant, you have access to a switch that can enable/disable adguard home protection. So with the homeassistant app you can add t…

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    Comment #39970833

    It's not that tedious. In adguard home you have a switch on/off in the web UI. You can also expose that switch to homeassistant. And there are some other good ideas in this thread …

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    Comment #38990483

    > you get meals every week, unless you opt-out But that is what the subscription is about. There are clear options under account settings to "Cancel plan" and "Pause deliveries".

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    Comment #38734058

    You can only apply the fix to the URL field in the payload described, not to normal message text.

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    Comment #38450036

    You probably have battery issues because you are using SmartThings as the zigbee hub and it's polling the remote way too much. I have switched to HomeAssistant with a Zigbee USB ad…

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    Comment #38236652

    I clicked on one of these links in Google News, and now I get all the click-baits for the Las Vegas GP such as "Las Vegas GP cancelled?". Jalopnik is one of them, but they are all …

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    Comment #37447144

    DJI used to have the "Mimo" app in the play store. It was rated very low, 2.3 stars. The app required users to allow the permission to read the phone's IMEI. If you denied that per…

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    Comment #37351926

    Awesome tool, thank you for sharing. I made use of it already!

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    Comment #37125313

    https://twitter.com/friscolive415/status/1690281516935589888... "A large festival posed wireless bandwidth constraints causing delayed connectivity to our vehicles. We are actively…

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    Comment #37111494

    There's probably a reason why haml (and also coffeescript) didn't take off and got abandoned. If anyone knows the reason, feel free to share.