howrar

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oof. What's the prognosis?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Food / cooking:

Others:

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

Reread your post and I'm still not getting it. What was the point?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Donations from one person aren't going to do much good. At best, it'll provide a bit of short term relief. The system that enables billionaires to exist is still in place, which means they'll just suck up anything that this one person donates, leaving us with one less caring person capable of enacting further change and amoral corporations becoming more powerful.

We need to change the system so that everyone contributes. It makes little sense for any single person to contribute when no one else does because you gain much less than what you put in, but if everyone contributes, then you get the opposite scenario where everyone gains more than what they put in. That's why taxes exist in the first place.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

We have healthcare figured out for the most part. The issue here is housing.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I'd add that they also have your roommate at knife point. I don't think it changes the answer too much, but it's closer to the scenario that OP is probably thinking about.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I just want predictable prices when I go out to eat. I don't want to find out after getting the bill that your idea of a reasonable tip for good service is 25%.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Sounds like we need instance level karma where instances can upvote/downvote other instances, and user karma is scaled based on that number. I don't know if it'll be healthy, but it does sound like fun, especially if users get a say in the instance's vote.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Absence of moderation is in itself a form of censorship.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

Vaguely remember that fire can be made by rubbing two sticks together.

Try to make fire.

Fail.

Get kicked out of tribe for wasting time with sticks instead of helping with the hunt.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

If you're interested in AR, you should pay attention to AI too since it looks like the two fields will be intersecting very soon, if not already. Meta has been putting a lot of work into dense point tracking models with very impressive results. It's probably safe to assume AR is their intended application of the tech given their investments in the Meta-verse.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Where did all your pipes and wiring go? What insulates the building?

 

Apparently we can register as a liberal to vote in the upcoming leadership race. What does it mean if I register? What do I gain (besides the aforementioned voting) and does it place any kind of restrictions on me (e.g. am I prevented from doing the same with a different party)?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/homeautomation@lemmy.world
 

I'm looking to get some smart light switches/dimmers (zigbee or matter if that's relevant), and one of the requirements for me is that if the switches aren't connected to the network, they would behave like regular dumb switches/dimmers. No one ever advertises anything except the "ideal" behaviour when it's connected with a hub and their proprietary app and everything, so I haven't been able to find any information on this.

So my question: is this the default behaviour for most switches? Are there any that don't do this? What should I look out for given this requirement?


Edit: Thanks for the responses. Considering that no one has experienced switches that didn't behave this way nor heard of any, I'm proceeding with the assumption that any switch should be fine. I got myself some TP Link Kasa KS220 dimmers and it works pretty well. Installation was tough due to its size. Took me about an hour of wrangling the wires so that it would fit in the box. Dimming also isn't as smooth as I'd like, but it works. I haven't had a chance to set it up with Home Assistant yet since the OS keeps breaking every time I run an update and I haven't had time to fix it after the last one. Hopefully it integrates smoothly when I do get to it.

 

Following up on another question about open source funding, how does it usually work when there is funding to pay for the dev's work, then someone new joins in and makes significant contributions? Does the original dev still keep everything? Do you split the funds between the devs? If so, how do you decide how much each person gets? Are there examples of projects where something like this has happened?

 

I suspect this is a problem with posts that have extremely long bodies like this one: https://slrpnk.net/comment/8035803

I'm trying to scroll down to the top first comment and inevitably overshoot. When I i try to scroll back up, it suddenly jumps back to the middle of the OP's body.

 

Is it possible for posts to show the domain (TLD and SLD) of link posts?

Use case: I don't want to watch videos so I want to avoid clicking YouTube links. I would like to know that they are YouTube videos without having my phone spend the next minute trying to open YouTube.

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