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Billy, yes!!
  • Ad block is NOT piracy. And use Ublock Origin.

  • In-wall light switch recommendations
  • Doesn't Kasa phone home to China?

  • Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI
  • Based on my experience working in a call center, I wouldn't call it unnecessary. People are fucked up.

  • Trevor Lawrence agrees to $275 million extension with Jacksonville Jaguars
  • I'm so glad the Lions got the Jared Goff contract done. But by this time next year it won't look outrageous. Same thing happened the last time we resigned Stafford.

  • Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year
  • Whole point of the Hyperloop was to stop California from building out high speed rail. And it worked. Musky thought it would cut into his EV sales.

  • [Gamers Nexus] Confronting ASUS Face-to-Face
  • Steve did it with Newegg. Tech Jesus has balls when gamers/enthusiasts are getting screwed.

  • Thoughts on Space Games, Part 1: Top-5 AAA Games
  • E:D has the basics of a good game, but never builds upon them. FDev is deathly afraid of player agency. They want you to play like it's on rails in a single player game, but have it an "MMO" for the PVP.

  • A Majority of Voters Backing Biden Are Mostly Motivated by Stopping Trump — Poll
  • One of these guys is promising to go dictator, eliminate democracy, and seek retribution against those that "wronged" him. Not hard to see why so many are committed to voting against him.

    This poll isn't the knock against Biden that many think it is.

  • Steve with GN Considering Linux
  • Ironically, that is why I wanted Stadia to succeed. It would have forced many game companies to consider Linux.

    But Google screwed the pooch.

  • Warner Bros. Discovery hikes prices for Max streaming service, 12 days before the debut of season two of HBO's "House of the Dragon"
  • The potential problem is they waited too long to make season 2 and killed the momentum. Wednesday on Netflix is in the same boat.

  • Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week
  • Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.

  • GUILTY ON 34 COUNTS
  • The first domino has fallen.

  • Michigan roads are deteriorating faster than they’re being fixed
  • The states around us spend an average of three times as much as Michigan on road maintenance and road construction. Another part of the problem is we use the same low bidders who have proven track records for cutting corners and budget overruns. We don't adopt mechanisms to cut out the crap construction.

  • Michigan roads are deteriorating faster than they’re being fixed
  • It's not that, it's the freight trucks. We have a much higher weight limit than other states, and it tears up our roads. States around us spend about 3 times as much on roads as we do.

  • For The First Time In A Decade, Nobody Is Working On Cyberpunk 2077
  • Yes, but the bulk of the dev team is working on The Witcher 4.

  • 4k80

    Hey everyone, I recently acquired the 4k77, 4k80, and 4k83. However, the 4k80 one looks grainy. 77 and 83 look clear in comparison. Did I just get a bad copy, or does 4k80 have issues?

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    IP Phone to Home Assistant

    Has anyone got Home Assistant to work with an IP phone as a local voice control?

    I have a Grandstream GXP 2140, and I cannot get it talking to HA for the functionality. It doesn't have the same settings as the Grandstream pots to IP Phone device from the article.

    https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant/

    I have Whisper and Piper installed, and showing up under the Wyoming protocol. I have the IP Phone addon installed, but it never detects my phone.

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    It is starting...
    www.pcmag.com T-Mobile Plans to Deprioritize 'Heavy Data' Users of Its Home 5G

    The quiet policy change follows an equally low-key rate increase for carrier’s fixed-wireless home broadband.

    T-Mobile is positioning to act like Comcast. Can't ignore it anymore.

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    Assist Widget

    Hey everyone, I've started playing around with Assist to use voice to kick off actions. However, I want to put an Assist widget on my Android home screen. The directions from HA say to open your widgets, go to Home Assistant, then long press the Assist widget. However, when I go to select a widget, there is no Assist widget available.

    I have Assist setup and I can access it from the mobile app. But I would like a shortcut so I can quickly access it.

    Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Or is the documentation out of date?

    Phone: OnePlus 9, running Android 13. Hopefully this isn't an OxygenOS issue.

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    Newbie question: Clearnet sites

    So I installed i2p on a Linux Mint VM. I'm able to see i2p sites, but I'm also able to browse clearnet sites, which I thought would not work. Does the default Linux installer configure an exit node by default?

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    main @midwest.social Banzai51 @midwest.social
    Meta's Threads.net

    Are we going to block Meta's Threads.net? I get it if people want to keep things open. However, Meta is a proven bad actor. They claim they didn't put in ActivityPub because it was too complicated to get it done at launch, and they can't get EU approval of their service because of the rampant and invasive data they gather. IMHO, they are going to attempt to muscle the fediverse out of the equation.

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    main @midwest.social Banzai51 @midwest.social
    May be a memory leak client side.

    Noticed my memory usage steadily increasing when I leave my Lemmy tab open after interacting with everything. I'm using Firefox on Win10.

    There is a GitHub issue on it here. If you're even slightly tech savvy, keep an eye on your memory usage and see if you can reproduce it. So far it looks like a Firefox/Lemmy issue on both Windows and Linux. But keep and eye out even if you don't use Firefox.

    If you do run across it, please report it in the link above.

    Edit: Forgot to add, the workaround is to close your Lemmy tab in Firefox, and wait for the memory use to be cleaned up (~20 seconds), then you can re-open it.

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    Banzai51 Banzai51 @midwest.social
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