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peanut posted:Only if you have a high fence to hide your shameful habits. Right to dry passed two years ago, but it's full of holes and the specifics have yet to be litigated.
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Cumslut1895 posted:It's much easier to get back to sleep if you don't look at bright light Right? I generally don't turn any lights on at night if I can help it, otherwise I can't get back to sleep effectively. My last rental had motion sensor lights everywhere because the owner's dad is gay for them, but a strip of duct tape keeps that from being a problem real quick. Definitely no fun when your pets trip them in the middle of the night, that's for sure...
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Yeah I line dry now and I do around 2 loads of laundry 3 times a week. The never-ending laundry～ woaahh wowowowoahhhh. Most houses here have balconies dedicated to laundry but I can easily overflow into the yard if there are towels or sheets. Edit: lol "right to dry"
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May 6, 2017 02:14
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DirtRoadJunglist posted:Right? I generally don't turn any lights on at night if I can help it, otherwise I can't get back to sleep effectively. My last rental had motion sensor lights everywhere because the owner's dad is gay for them, but a strip of duct tape keeps that from being a problem real quick. Definitely no fun when your pets trip them in the middle of the night, that's for sure... at 11pm my bathroom lights turn down to like 10% which is JUST enough light to take a piss by without waking up at all, it's great
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May 6, 2017 05:54
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SoundMonkey posted:at 11pm my bathroom lights turn down to like 10% which is JUST enough light to take a piss by without waking up at all, it's great That's rad. I'd like switches that aren't $$$ that can go If now > 9 pm, 10%, otherwise full. The Lutron dimmer switches I just installed are pretty good for turning off when the room is still even when were in bed and they do a nice fade out. I have my closet set to auto on and off, and my bathroom has enough timeout to take a shower (15 minutes, because it doesn't detect you through glass), and turns off if we forget it.
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May 6, 2017 06:33
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Wasabi the J posted:That's rad. I'd like switches that aren't $$$ that can go If now > 9 pm, 10%, otherwise full. i use the Philips Hue stuff. the timer does its thing at 11pm but at any time, one press on the on switch is full-on, double-press is 10% for if it's late and you're asleep.
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May 6, 2017 06:34
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I use Hue too and I actually love it. The stock software is trash but has useful widgets and an open API so that could be worse. We've been using it 2 years, no complaints other than the app.
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NancyPants posted:I use Hue too and I actually love it. The stock software is trash but has useful widgets and an open API so that could be worse. We've been using it 2 years, no complaints other than the app. the app is even decent for me. i have 15-20 hue bulbs in my place right now and 4 switches. i was surprised how few switches i could get away with, the ones by the front and back door control all the downstairs rooms, bathroom is just for that, bedroom doesn't really need one, etc. i'm super impressed with it as an ecosystem, and the plain white bulbs aren't SUPER expensive.
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May 6, 2017 07:42
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Terrorists are going to hack our lightbulbs and plunge the West into a literal dark age.
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I thought it was iot based botnets waging ddos warfare on Russia critical journalists and websites?
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Splicer posted:Aren't Hues the ones that can be hacked wirelessly by each other? They were, but by the time the security researchers disclosed, Philips had already released an update that fixed the issue. Most of the articles last November (I think?) were sensationalistic crap that failed to mention that part.
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Platystemon posted:Terrorists are going to hack our lightbulbs and plunge the West into a literal  
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flosofl posted:They were, but by the time the security researchers disclosed, Philips had already released an update that fixed the issue. Most of the articles last November (I think?) were sensationalistic crap that failed to mention that part. How many people do you think take the time to install security updates to their light bulbs?
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pr0zac posted:How many people do you think take the time to install security updates to their light bulbs? I'm about 80% sure that the Hue system, like many other "IoT" type things, self-updates with no need for user interaction.
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May 6, 2017 18:59
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pr0zac posted:How many people do you think take the time to install security updates to their light bulbs? The cross section of that with people who buy wifi enabled light bulbs is probably pretty big.
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wolrah posted:I'm about 80% sure that the Hue system, like many other "IoT" type things, self-updates with no need for user interaction. Forcefully, to the point that occasionally, you'll have to sit in the dark for a few minutes while the firmware updates. Which is really embarrassing when it happens while you have a girl at your apartment.
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May 6, 2017 20:02
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MrYenko posted:Forcefully, to the point that occasionally, you'll have to sit in the dark for a few minutes while the firmware updates. Or advantageous 
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Progressive JPEG posted:Or advantageous "The only place I have to sit is on my bed because I haven't put my furniture together yet, and my lights don't work because the twenty-first century is loving weird." That is a real thing I said, and I still got laid. I'm as surprised as anyone.
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May 6, 2017 20:54
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MrYenko posted:"The only place I have to sit is on my bed because I haven't put my furniture together yet, and my lights don't work because the twenty-first century is loving weird." All that stuff is only a problem if your partner hadn't already decided to get some as well.
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One weird trick to cleaning your bathroom in one swell go, janitors hate him
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May 6, 2017 23:16
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In Soviet Russia, urinal pee on you.
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Employees MUST wash before returning to work.
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MrYenko posted:Forcefully, to the point that occasionally, you'll have to sit in the dark for a few minutes while the firmware updates. poo poo, really? the updates happen so fast half the time i wonder if they even worked, and i've never even had a light flicker. i figured the warning about that was just in case the lights all poo poo the bed on the new firmware or something. overall it's been pretty seamless.
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May 7, 2017 02:11
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I'm pretty sure they added in the ability to flash firmware without sitting in the dark. I vaguely remember people laughing at the release notes.
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TTerrible posted:I'm pretty sure they added in the ability to flash firmware without sitting in the dark. I vaguely remember people laughing at the release notes. yeah i jumped into it relatively recently but i'm appreciating the not-abandonedness of the ecosystem unlike most other options now they just need to make a loving PAR30 so my kitchen track lighting isn't drawing twice as much current as all the other lights in the house combined.
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SoundMonkey posted:yeah i jumped into it relatively recently but i'm appreciating the not-abandonedness of the ecosystem unlike most other options This is probably a stupid question, but since people are talking about the hue bulbs... I'm going to get some of those and a new floor lamp to replace the halogen lamp I have. Any types of lamps to avoid to prolong bulb life/reduce fire risk?
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Avenging_Mikon posted:This is probably a stupid question, but since people are talking about the hue bulbs... i mean the obvious answer is LEDs but do you mean something brighter / something specialty? or if you mean will hue lamps do well in it, they don't produce appreciably more heat than any other LED and way less than a CFL obviously
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also hue bulbs look cheap when you just bought $4400 in LED lamps for work. if you want PAR20-38 and dimmable, look into Soraa, but expect to pay $40-50/bulb.
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SoundMonkey posted:i mean the obvious answer is LEDs but do you mean something brighter / something specialty? Sorry, I see where I was unclear. I meant the lamp itself. Do any covers/shades interrupt or impede the function of the connectivity of the bulbs? Brightness I'm not too worried about, I can just throw up a second lamp. I'm more worried about say a metal shade blocking a bunch of signal and causing it to boost itself and burn out its wifi in 3 months.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Sorry, I see where I was unclear. I meant the lamp itself. Do any covers/shades interrupt or impede the function of the connectivity of the bulbs? Brightness I'm not too worried about, I can just throw up a second lamp. I'm more worried about say a metal shade blocking a bunch of signal and causing it to boost itself and burn out its wifi in 3 months. not at all that i've noticed. my house isn't especially enormous but i've never had a range issue. they don't actually use wifi, it's a mesh network, so the bulbs just have to be in range of another bulb, not the bridge. nothing in the hue ecosystem even has a wifi radio (the bridge connects over cat5) edit: if you buy it, buy a kit. buy the biggest loving kit you can find even if you don't really know half the poo poo in it, as long as it has a bridge and a switch and more than one bulb. the kits are cheaper like 100% of the time, usually by a decent amount, even just the switch + 2 bulbs kits. when i actually did all the rest of my lights with hue when i moved i worked out how many more bulbs and switches i needed and just bought various starter kits and paid like 25% less. SoundMonkey fucked around with this message at 05:14 on May 7, 2017 |
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I should clarify about my gripes with the Hue app; they're all usability/ui. It was clearly designed by autistic aliens who don't understand how humans would want to set up scenes. No RGB input/output really sucks. However, it's stable as hell. I've had zero problems on that front. No problems with scenes/alarms/timers not working or the app refusing to load. Zero light connection problems.
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SoundMonkey posted:also hue bulbs look cheap when you just bought $4400 in LED lamps for work. if you want PAR20-38 and dimmable, look into Soraa, but expect to pay $40-50/bulb. Whelp, I’m buying $130 worth of bulbs for a single residential fixture. It’ll pay itself back on electricity costs, but more importantly, I won’t have to change the drat things any time soon. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 10:52 on May 7, 2017 |
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canyoneer posted:Hanging laundry out is the best. I live in Arizona, and in the summer when it's 100+ degrees with sub 20% humidity, they dry faster outside than they do in the dryer. Even in the shade Line dry things in a humid place, marvel at your jeans still being damp three days later. Put them in your suitcase anyway because you're leaving Nanjing.
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Platystemon posted:$130 worth of bulbs for a single residential fixture. uh, are you sure?
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About 3 years for it to pay itself off. Less if you factor in the increased energy usage from AC. (assuming 8 hours a day in usage, 12c/kwh)
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I have Hue bulbs in one room and it owns. One caveat is that they don't do green very well.
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