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Nice! I hear those are fun little cars.

My first car is a 2004 Honda Accord. I say is, because I still have the bugger as my daily!

I remember my dad had me do all sorts of safety, reliability, and cost of ownership research before coming up with a short list of potentials. It was fun, but a lot of work; worth it in hindsight. I downplayed some of the details such as 240 hp or a 0-60 time of less than 6 seconds with “uh, it’s a Honda”. Felt like I sort of got away with something for a first car. Haha!

Grr! That smug-arse thumbnail. Such a punchable face. I have no idea why it gives me such anxiety… That shade of lifelessness and pale eyes.

I hear the blog is well written. It’s just that thumbnail!

/offtopic

History shows nothing good will come of this.

It’s sort of one of those lines in the sand; you know what side you’re on if this is happening.

Yeah, just seconding your internet source recommendation. The price was right.

I use openweathermap and it works great for my needs and it’s free (they switched to an account based service recently but still free for small stuff)

For internal temp sensors, I use my ZigBee thermostat and a window AC unit that has a temp sensor available to Home Assistant.

Nothing fancy for me, yet anyways, but works for my needs.

No.

But why would the richest man in the world care in a consequence-free clusterfuck?

While I like to agree with that vision of decentralized social media, even here on lemmy we have our own pitfalls. Echo chambers are unchecked and defederation (even justified) happens.

I don’t assume everyone here is a real person. There was a article recently that AI was training “persuasiveness” using reddit subreddits. I have to believe a similar trial exists on the fediverse least I be caught off guard.

Plus, there are a lot of folks here (it seems like a majority sometimes in my personal experience) that are quick to advocate violence/sabotage in lieu of negotiation and debate. That reaks of puppeteering; there can’t be that many arseholes here, right?

I know I have some strong biases that lean towards peace, and I’m confused sometimes why a comment of mine in the fediverse gathers double digit upvotes steadily only to plummet to the negatives overnight. I get old reddit botnet vibes on some topics.

I suppose I want to like lemmy, the freedom, these communities, but it is still polarizing and influenceable by [insert tech/political/financial interests]. I don’t trust this enough to recommend to friends and family, but my presence here makes it a fraction more what I want to be.

Whoa whoa now. A comb over is just hair immigration and he doesn’t stand for that!

I use smokeping just for fun. It doesn’t measure throughput, just latency, but they are loosely linked.

I have a cheap ZigBee thermostat and some automations to control temp. Works ok, but I’m trying to smarten it up a bit in the next few weeks.

Sounds like a great idea, but a significant portion of 1-star reviews point out massive data collection issues.

More information necessary before I install this on my system.

You use more data on one iPhone via cell service than my entire family across 38 devices? Impressive! Though I’m not entirely sure which number you’re suggesting is wrong.

Those emails have warned me something was pooched in advance many times. I do find them useful.

Sad to see them go, but nice they mention an alternative.

Download the videos and watch offline. There are a few utilities for that.

Update. After installing and basic setup, I woke up to a toasty house and the heater running practically alllll night.

PG&E is going to ream me with a hot poker this month. Oopsie!

Note to others: set reminders to do periodic testing. Don’t just go to sleep like me. Haha!

Whoooooa awesome! I just started adding a ton of independent scripts for a new ZigBee thermostat and it was getting messy fast.

Can’t wait to tinker with this next weekend!

Ohh, wanna trade? We have a surplus of fire over here.

When has AI been for the benefit of the people more then a trinket to toy with.

It will benefit companies to streamline workflow (replace employees) and lock in patents at an alarming rate. Calling “First!” will cement decades of profit.

Oh, and don’t forget behavioral training. You thought invasive ads were bad now…

Fun times ahead! 😁

Ohh thanks! I just started with ZigBee stuff and reviews like this are perfect!

It’s like a computer virus but spread by a human. Everything is becoming a Trump media megaphone. Hate and arguments are now good engagement analytics.

Prepare for a wave of unmoderated enshittification the likes of which has no rival.