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Philonius posted:I never understood the appeal of that type of thing either. a goon techbro said its great for getting high and blackout drunk and shouting "shutdown everything" before blacking out.
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PhazonLink posted:musk thinks car chargers is like phone/device chargers, just buy the cheapest one from amazon. I'm just curious who is going to install them Buying the cheapest stuff for high voltage applications sounds risky
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May 10, 2024 22:47
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Jestery posted:I recently did a bit of a deep dive on textiles and was loving taken aback at the incredible amount of water it takes to make some pants or W/E. but what if you made it a human shaped robot? (and had some tesla enegines in VR headsets off screen remoting it through sewing motions?) veritasium has a good video about sewing machines, again lol at musk and his stupid stupid as gently caress stans thinking human shapes are the next step, when the industrial rev's major foundation was figuring out how to turn complex motions into simple harmonic motions
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May 10, 2024 22:50
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Smart light globes took my job!!!
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May 10, 2024 22:51
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Elviscat posted:Also stupid as gently caress, get off the drat couch and turn the lights down. I take it you don’t use the remote for your TV?
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May 10, 2024 23:06
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Jestery posted:It's just bomb proof, metal gears, the consumable items last year's themselves and are extremely cheap parts all it needs is oiling once a fortnight and. It will stitch all day every day Get an Elna Grasshopper if you like incredible designs from the forties. Those things look great, do the job, and they don't take poo poo from nobody.
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May 10, 2024 23:12
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ben shapino posted:didnt read. gently caress you. TL;dr: technology has created a "don't have to move" renaissance for lazy forgetful fucks
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May 10, 2024 23:14
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Smart switches are great if you live with multiple people in the house who never shut off a drat light when they leave a room. When go to bed or leave the house you don’t have to walk all over the house doing their job But the smart switches I used were all kind of lovely and I stopped using them. GE/Jasco cheapened out on the capacitor they used and sometimes would die when there was a surge/power off. And when they died like this they would cycle power on and off non stop to the device until you pull out the air gap plug
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May 10, 2024 23:16
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I have a bunch of smart light bulbs. In concept they are kinda nice but in reality they are a nightmare. - The app is shoddy and buggy, keeps losing track of various bulbs or having them move randomly all around in the list right after I've gotten them carefully arranged in order of frequency of usage, or their names spontaneously blank out, that's always fun trying to figure out which one "Smart Bulb 45b7a543cfa4" is - The bulbs will arbitrarily fall off the wifi network and have to be rejoined or rediscovered from scratch, and I have to go look up a wifi password I haven't typed in months, sometimes in the middle of the night when they've decided to start blasting in discovery mode ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF at maximum brightness at 3AM right above my bed - They are advertised as being arbitrarily color/brightness programmable but they are poorly color-matched to each other and often desync when they're supposed to all be grouped in a single fixture or zone - Controlling them via the app is laggy, unreliable, and just plain unsatisfying I could go on. The point is much the same as with Tesla controls, just because something is TECHNICALLY feasible in this modern world doesn't mean it's a better user experience, or more foolproof, or safer. In 99.999% of cases what I need to do with a light bulb is doable with a wall switch; and while yes I do have to stand up and go hit it physically, I never have to do tech support about it or reinstall an app and re-enter 1000 settings or blearily try to remember a wifi password in the middle of the night.
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May 10, 2024 23:28
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Willatron posted:TL;dr: technology has created a "don't have to move" renaissance for lazy forgetful fucks It was more of a 3O;DR
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May 10, 2024 23:31
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Data Graham posted:I have a bunch of smart light bulbs. In concept they are kinda nice but in reality they are a nightmare. you have to be smart to use smart bulbs
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May 10, 2024 23:32
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Anderson Koopa posted:Apparently they are going to spend a bunch of money expanding the Supercharger network. How they plan to accomplish this without a team :?: They are just announcing it to take the heat off since everyone who isn't riding Musk's dick 24/7 recognized that abandoning the supercharger network immediately after their connector was made the de-facto standard is colossally stupid. They won't actually do it because Musk is desperately trying to strip as much copper from the walls as possible to keep the investor dream alive long enough to get his compensation package reapproved and liquidated.
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May 10, 2024 23:33
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Also I have Lutron smart switches in my house and they just loving work no matter what because Lutron is a proper electrical manufacturer not a loving app-obsessed tech company. The killer "smart" feature of the switches is that I can put a new remote switch (which is indistinguishable from a normal switch) anywhere without running a cable in the wall, so I'm not stuck with the dumb spots that some builder 80 years ago chose for light switches. The switches and remotes don't use WiFi to communicate with each other so could shoot my router with a shotgun and the light switches would still do their thing like nothing happened.
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May 10, 2024 23:59
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My personal favorite high tech piece of poo poo story is Klipsch sells some cool 2.1 PC speakers but unfortunately they've decided the new versions need to be Bluetooth enabled, which is great because you can't shut the Bluetooth functionality or put a PIN on it or anything so every so often my PC speakers would turn off because some random person connected to them with their Bluetooth device and the only way to fix it was to unplug the speakers and plug them back in again. Apparently a lot of people have this problem so I followed the most recommended solution: Opening up the control module and breaking the Bluetooth transciever chip off of the board.
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May 11, 2024 00:03
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Shifty Pony posted:The switches and remotes don't use WiFi to communicate with each other so could shoot my router with a shotgun and the light switches would still do their thing like nothing happened. prove it
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May 11, 2024 00:05
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Scientastic posted:I take it you don’t use the remote for your TV? Of course not, I use one of the 9000 touchscreens I've littered my home with, Couch Toaster 9A is my personal favorite for TV control.
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May 11, 2024 00:10
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Jestery posted:I recently did a bit of a deep dive on textiles and was loving taken aback at the incredible amount of water it takes to make some pants or W/E. Repairable goods are anti-capitalist Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 00:13 on May 11, 2024 |
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May 11, 2024 00:11
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Elviscat posted:Of course not, I use one of the 9000 touchscreens I've littered my home with, Couch Toaster 9A is my personal favorite for TV control. You still use all that outdated touchscreen tech. I control mine by electrodes I shoved into my eyes, sure it may be pretty random what my lights do now days, but as I can't see anymore with the electrodes in my eyes and what not, whatever, importantly though it means I don't have to do any of that low tech moving thing.
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May 11, 2024 00:16
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Hazo posted:Lmao I didn’t know this about Elon’s “I’ll give you some dunning-krugerrands if you can prove my daddy had an emerald mine” challenge Dunking on Elon is the only good thing that Errol has done in his life, but when he dunks, he dunks. ben shapino posted:didnt read. gently caress you. The avatar wipe fooled me this time. 
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May 11, 2024 00:17
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Oh also the bulbs only pair to a single person's app, so what happens if I want to go to a different part of the house or turn on lights in someone else's room? I can't because those lights aren't in my app. I guess potentially you could add multiple users to your app and have all of them individually register all the bulbs in their own apps and set up a permissions system and god's loving sake it's light bulbs. I'm looking for that thing and it's dark, how do I turn on the drat light in the person's room who's not home. Can't just slap your hand around next to the door and hit a switch, that would be too easy. Did I mention that trying to join the wifi network in high-intensity-flashing discovery mode has about a 10-minute timeout and it cannot be interrupted or cancelled, you just have to sit around waiting at 3AM for the 10 minutes to expire and it to give up trying to join the network and fiddle with settings or move your phone around to an area with better reception and try again, knowing you have to be up for work in 2 hours
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May 11, 2024 00:27
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Data Graham posted:Oh also the bulbs only pair to a single person's app, so what happens if I want to go to a different part of the house or turn on lights in someone else's room? I can't because those lights aren't in my app. what the gently caress brand of bulbs are you using?
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my bulbs just work like regular ones if you flip the light switches maybe you got those tesla smart bulbs
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ben shapino posted:prove it Prove what? I use Lutron too, they use a proprietary protocol called Clear Connect on 434 Mhz, their wireless controllers don't even have WiFi and scale from everything from small apartments to mega mansions. Well, also some Hue, and that is Zigbee to a hub that also doesn't have WiFi. Data Graham posted:Oh also the bulbs only pair to a single person's app, so what happens if I want to go to a different part of the house or turn on lights in someone else's room? I can't because those lights aren't in my app. OK, well, you are just buying cheap poo poo, everything in our house is Lutron or Hue with some very limited Govee mixed in for unimportant stuff (Patio string lights, under-counter lighting and outdoor wash lighting). We never have any reliability issues, everything links to a Google Home account where every device down to fans can be controlled from 7 Google Home touch screens or the Home App on your phone. We have zero reliability issues. Three Olives fucked around with this message at 00:41 on May 11, 2024 |
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I'm a former industrial electrician, specialized in automation. The only smart thing in my house is the ac unit, so I can turn it on remotely and the house is warm when I get home. There were huge issues in first gen home automation, mainly zero support for older systems. Your 4 year old system has an electronic fault? There's no spares, it's not compatible with the newer systems, tough luck. Or the company would discontinue support, shut the server down and that's it, game over. Meanwhile I worked on systems from the 60s, all contactor controlled, and they were basically bulletproof. Sure you needed a unit the size of a fridge to do the job a controller the size of a block of butter could fo now, but I don't think we ever had more than 30 min of downtime. You'd see which contactor had failed, shut down power, swap it out for a new one and back to it. Contrast that to one of the new systems which decided not to talk to the purge system one day. Took a day to figure it wasn't a hardware error, contacted the manufacturer, they said they were aware of it but didn't have a fix for that version of the controller so they'd send us a new version. Took three days to arrive. Anything more complicated than a plc running ladder logic should be outlawed.
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WhyteRyce posted:Smart switches are great if you live with multiple people in the house who never shut off a drat light when they leave a room. When go to bed or leave the house you don’t have to walk all over the house doing their job At this point instead of buying a bunch of cheap networked microcontrollers I take an extra antidepressant because my OCD is clearly creeping back in and just walk around turning lights out at random as a form of CBT.
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May 11, 2024 00:42
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I can control my lights with the app but I've also got smart switches that turn them in and off like normal lights
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Three Olives posted:Prove what? I use Lutron too, they use a proprietary protocol called Clear Connect on 434 Mhz, their wireless controllers don't even have WiFi and scale from everything from small apartments to mega mansions. Well, also some Hue, and that is Zigbee to a hub that also doesn't have WiFi. please shoot your router with a shotgun
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Maybe it's because the person I live with who put the whole system together refuses to use anything in the Google ecosystem so I have no idea what brand these are.
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Three Olives posted:Prove what? I use Lutron too, they use a proprietary protocol called Clear Connect on 434 Mhz, their wireless controllers don't even have WiFi and scale from everything from small apartments to mega mansions. Well, also some Hue, and that is Zigbee to a hub that also doesn't have WiFi. This sure is a three olives post
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I flick a light switch and then there’s light. I’m basically God because I see it’s good
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I worked with one of the OG home automation dorks at IBM back in the mid 2000s. He wired up every light switch in his house to his home network, and then twinned them all with the switches in an exact copy of his house in Second Life. I can't recall exactly how long it lasted but he pretty quickly disconnected the Second Life link because (of course) random users would spend hours and hours loving with his lights in the middle of the night.
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May 11, 2024 01:22
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euphronius posted:Google home account jfc I did but I don't see what an asian food distributor has to do with anything
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Elon will pull a Mr. Beast and ask his fans to build and maintain the supercharger network.
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Jamsque posted:I worked with one of the OG home automation dorks at IBM back in the mid 2000s. He wired up every light switch in his house to his home network, and then twinned them all with the switches in an exact copy of his house in Second Life. I can't recall exactly how long it lasted but he pretty quickly disconnected the Second Life link because (of course) random users would spend hours and hours loving with his lights in the middle of the night. lmao @ getting hosed with by Ralph Pootawn and Esteban Winsmore irl
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Tea Party Crasher posted:
I’m sure for that true believer it was very unexpected. For literally everyone else in the world it was, indeed, very much expected though
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bobjr posted:Elon will pull a Mr. Beast and ask his fans to build and maintain the supercharger network. Jimmy learned from the worst. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1043293219205787648 
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bobjr posted:Elon will pull a Mr. Beast and ask his fans to build and maintain the supercharger network. Elon* will respond to 1 tweet of yours for every supercharger that you repair and maintain *may be a parody account
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My spouse is in a wheelchair so home automation is a literal godsend for her, but lol at anyone using the vendor apps instead of HomeAssistant. Thank you 3O for subsidizing all the expensive hardware so I can get white box zwave lightbulbs at a reasonable price!
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