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I'm running both now, and while my Matter network seems to be solid, I can't get over the fact that it's so much harder to set up devices than on Zigbee. Why does Google need to ge…

Indeed! I have a CC1101 hooked up to an ESP32C6 that controls my Itho mechanical ventilation unit as a fan in HA. I couldn't believe it when it basically worked on the first try, i…

After all this time, I still don't know how to select a mission, or what missions are

Since you hooked it up to Home Assistant anyway, I think you could have skipped the custom firmware and just used ESPHome with a Button component https://esphome.io/components/butt…

The more I mess around with ESP32s and home automation, the more I realize that was looks like jank to a software engineer is just the way these things work. Look at the MAC addres…

See also this discussion from earlier today, which might have prompted this submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094189

Ah, I had not considered that the limitations of epubs were due to the device rather than the format. Having said that, Calibre does does the conversion on the fly when I upload my…

Ah, no worries! I keep forgetting that KOReader does more than Kobo!

> Worth nothing that KOReader doesn't replace the default Kobo firmware. It's easy to install and you launch it from the Kobo firmware so it's easy to quit and go back to normal. A…

What does directly mean? I can read epubs directly now (but more importantly, kepubs)

What makes it so good for you? I'm very comfortable with installing stuff like this in general, but I've never felt the need to install KOReader since I don't experience any issues…

I mean, I love writing with fountain pen and I do it every day, but I have _read_ Anathem.

That looks so much better than that other post!

I'm tired of talking about AI

Once you get past the first level you're never using the attack action

IKEA will send you those for free if you order them on the site, including free shipping

Indeed, I don't think that's the brag he thinks it is

I did listen to this 99% Invisible story about the use of NSAIDs in India once[1] What you describe in an interesting contrast to the situation in The Netherlands. Here, virtually …

Oof, zooming in on Fangorn Forest set off my trypophobia!

€780 is 1/5th of the price of a laptop?

I miss StumbleUpon so much!

As an example, the comment you're replying to is true for The Netherlands

The problem is that Maps API keys are now used to give your users access to Gemini, including sensitive content in that service

That's a lot of American flags in one article

Opening this page makes my (quite beefy) machine grind to a halt! Almost all CPU threads and the GPU jump up to 80% usage