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I've never gotten any automated locks because I've always been concerned about security around them, but also, Ive had too many warped doors in my life where I have to lean on the door to get the deadbolt to properly set. Which means that there is no way an automated lock would be able to automatically set itself.

Is the answer here: "there are just some doors this won't work on" or do the smart locks have some way of working around that?

"Set and forget" time based thermostat programming only works if your daily routine doesn't change daily or weekly or have outliers. The ability to change manually, or add other factors (is anyone home? let it get a bit colder, since it doesn't matter) is pretty great.

But I would still advocate for no internet connected thermostats from the OP. Your thermostat should be isolated to your home network (via zigbee/zwave or a quality VLAN) connecting to a server/hub you control. And your app should be communicating to your server/hub. Your thermostat shouldn't be able to report back to google whether or not you are home.

If you don't understand the desire then you don't have a use case. And that's ok. But that doesn't mean other people don't have a use case.

Properly set up home automation can reduce your energy usage. Track temperature throughout your house and open blinds, only direct heat/cooling to rooms that need it, etc. Sure a thermostat is programmable but it's limited by the ability to just turn on/off heat and a few temperature sensors. You can drastically expand what your thermostat can do (ie motorized blinds) and information it has access to (temperature outside, current weather, etc).

Or maybe someone is the type to have panic attacks about forgetting to turn the oven off. Having the ability to see oven status on the go is nice.

Or maybe someone has a larger house than you and the journey to the thermostat is more arduous than yours. Or the journey to the dishwasher or clothes dryer to see if it's done is arduous.

Or maybe someone has a disability and having quick access to various things is a huge time saver.

Maybe someone has a sensory issue and loud buzzing from a dryer finishing is problematic, so they want to disable the "finished" alert from the device and just receive a notification on their phone.

but if youre gathering that much data and making decisions with it, then from the OP "no internet connected thermostats" is a must. None of your smart home stuff should be able to phone home. Basically the openWRT argument but also for smart home. Use zigbee or zwave so devices can't just directly phone home and must simply connect through a hub (that you should control).

tl;dr - plenty of reasons to want these things, they just may not apply to you.

Nice! Then you get none of the relaxation and rejuvenation of time off, and got nothing done.

This is also what I do.

Fascinating. The wikipedia page is for shebang so clearly you are right.

But the wikipedia page also cites it being called hashbang -- citing mostly o'reilly books.

Now I'm intrigued, not that I have a lot of reason to talk about shell scripts, but I had never heard it called any other way.

TIL, thanks!

#! is "hash bang" so still hash

https://archive.org/details/wep_best-of

I mean, yeah. That is a privilege. She is privileged to be able to be an activist.

People acting like "privilege" is some awful phrase is why MAGA types go out of their way to deny their privilege.

Doing what greta has done was never an option for me. But things I've done were never options for other people. And that doesn't make either of us bad people. Just lucky.

If you have the privilege to do whatever you want, hopefully "whatever you want" is positive and not punching down

No offense to polka, but that's a terrible false equivalence. You're reducing someone's cultural impact to "award nominations" and also, "Grammy nomination for polka" and "Grammy nomination for rap" is like saying that "The academy award for set design is the same as the academy award for best actor." The Versatones weren't up against Jay-Z, Nelly, DMX and Missy Elliott for their award. Just to be included in that group of people is an honor.

Sure he's irrelevant now and has been for a while, but I feel like "formerly popular rapper" is more truthful than "low level"

https://cherryxtrfy.com/mice/mz1-wireless/

This mouse is designed to be extremely light weight. So the battery is small (500 mAh is less than half a AAA battery).

And it's designed to handle up to 50g of acceleration (ie, fast FPS twitch movements), so it has to be doing a lot of tracking.

So between higher power consumption than normal mice and a smaller battery than normal mice, it only advertises 75* hours of use (* Depending on Hz, lighting on/off and playstyle).

I could absolutely get a mouse that lasts much longer. But not one that meets all the other criteria I have for a performance gaming mouse. I wasn't attempting to come in hot about "wireless bad" or anything, just sharing my experience.

The batteries are my main issue.

12 hour battery? I charge every night.

4 day battery life? I forget to charge until it dies, and then it dies in the middle of using it.

The mouse I have is only wireless for the "less drag while gaming" aspect but the cable is actually super nice, so I dont even mind the cable... I just leave it plugged in now.

I use ethernet for everything, so even now I don't use WiFi. I only figured out it worked because my internet was out a few months later and needed to connect to a hotspot, and was pleasantly surprised that it was not crashing. I also don't really mess with RGB or bluetooth, so I cant really comment on those either. The motherboard itself always worked, it was just the integrated chips (it was new wifi 7 chip) that I wasn't actually using anyway. It may have been fixed in days, weeks... who knows, I wasnt testing it.

tl;dr - sorry, I don't have a good answer. The board always "worked" for my use case.