👍Maximum Derek👍

I haven’t touched a facebook product in almost 15 years and my life has been nothing but better for it.

Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case

A settlement is an admission no matter what Google says. Headline should read, “Google Admits To Using Its Consumer Hardware To Spy On Users.”

My old ring is in a box ready to go to electronics resell/recycling. Maybe it needs a meeting with my friend Sledge before it goes out, so it can’t hurt anyone again.

You should lock any app which you don’t want casual users on your phone to access.

children notwithstanding, what other users are people letting use their phone? No one uses my devices but me.

Yeah, I hadn’t really considered writing an integration but this is more general purpose than my universal remote.

My hope is that I can use custom sentences to send values to a script or service that, in-turn, will trigger an appdaemon app where I can do all the work in python. I’m not sure about returning the calculated value as a response though.

That’s how I built my harmony hub replacement.

It worked for Microsoft. The month after they started to force install Teams in windows they published user numbers showing how teams had sprinted ahead of Slack by that metric, and the tech press mostly ate it up.

It being dumb was a selling point. I’ve wanted to dump it for ages but my wife used it (mainly for timers and unit conversions) somewhat frequently. But as someone who spends most of her day dealing with problems caused by LLM slop, she refuses to ever use them herself.

I also promised I’d do my best to get Home Assistant Voice set up so it can do math and unit conversions (sans Truthiness engine).

I convinced my wife this was coming a few months ago and its what finally convinced her we needed to drop Prime and Alexa.

So far on my work computer I’ve had a policy to indiscriminately uninstall anything that says copilot. If I hadn’t seen this post I may have nuked it, then spent the afternoon trying to figure out where excel went.

Then stop being a slopmonger.

Every person on the internet that responded to an earnest tech question with “sudo rm -rf /” helped make this happen.

Good on you.

Makes sense, but it still makes me want to grab a coffee and order its murder.

All the streamers suck; plus Spotify definitely sucks the most and it has the most subscribers. So I do my best to support artists I love by buying their albums in some physical form (vinyl if possible because it encourages active listening), t-shirts when I need a t-shirt, fan clubs, etc. It’s all I can think to do.