Exactly. At the end of the day, naming is not that relevant as long as it conveys the message of what the app does. It only gets confusing when you have a bunch of apps doing the same thing

And this is why lemmy will never get close to what reddit was. On top of the cumbersome registration process and difficulty of navigating the fediverse for the non-tech people, there is also the issue of de-federation and censorship. This is no better then reddit unfortunately. It makes me sad, this really seemed like a good idea, but the implementation is so poor.

People were saying it won’t matter what instance you choose, everything is federated and you choose what you want to see, but clearly the instance admins make that choice for you and it absolutely does matter the instance you choose.

Birds aren’t real

Unfortunately, as much as I like and use firefox on both pc and mobile, chrome and chromium based browsers dominate the market. It doesn’t help that they come pre-installed in both cases.

Superposition

Yes

Not sure if you know, but there is an app called gadgetbridge, open source that can interface with many wearable devices including pebble. I use it with an amazfit bip and it works very well. You should give it a try.

I am not sure, possibly not. Of course this isn’t the ideal scenario, this is why port forwarding is still recommended, but you probably still get away without using it, if you download mostly freeleach and popular torrents. That way you can 1:1 the ratio during the download.

You can connect to them though. Peers that have their ports open can allow seeders to connect to them

You came here asking if a vpn config is outrageous. And it may be for you, but it’s also probably the only option for that specific provider as they can’t get their own client onto the locked down apple store.

You can continue using your devices, but don’t expect people to give you solutions left and right as you are not using an open “ecosystem”, so sometimes there is no (easy) solution. All people did was suggesting a better approach that will give you a lot less headaches and you took it personally…

Beep boop ah shiet… They done got me this time… runs away leaking oil and steam

Not all bots are bad, the piped bot is nice and there are others too

You know what didn’t die yet? My 8 year old earbuds that have a wire and plugs into the jack. And guess what, I don’t even have to charge them or worry about losing one of them.

Fuck wireless headphones.

You should join some private trackers then. I am consistently getting 100+MB/s on many torrents from such trackers. That is of course on gigabit fibre and proper port forwarding configured.

Mall has security cameras

Live shouldn’t be used in a home setup anyway unless for something where interaction is required, like a teams call or twitch stream. Anything else can take a delay for the sake of preserving the meaning.

If you go the zigbee route I recommend this one, works well and supports direct binding too: https://zigbee.blakadder.com/Gledopto_GL-SD-001.html

Stay away from the Moes, takes like 1.5sec to get to full brightness when turning on and you can’t get rid of the delay.

If you are fine with relays as well look into Nous modules, I got a dual channel relay module from them that works very well, also supports direct binding. They might have dimmers too, but I haven’t used them myself.

All these require neutral though, can’t speak of their non-neutral versions.

Unfortunately you’ll be waiting for a while. SSDs were at the lowest last year to the point that manufacturers were almost losing money. So they reduced production. We will only see the prices going up from now, at least for a while.

That may be the case for you, but it’s still widely used for mobile card payment terminals, gps trackers, alarm systems and likely other applications that don’t require a lot of data but do require strong signal and reliability

Not all IoT is bad… If you decide to get some cloud IoT and keep it on the main network that’s on you, but you could have a separate vlan or even a separate protocol like zigbee and z-wave to secure these devices and control them locally with home assistant. It might not be good enough for highly sensitive enterprise environments, but more than enough for average Joe who’s not being targeted by APTs or espionage