nekusoul

Oh yeah, statistics gathering is something I think is generally a bit underrated. Many people see it as "gimmicky" compared to the automation features, but whether it's statistics about electricity water or air quality, I've found that there's so much insight to be gained about what's happening in your home over the course of a day.

And since you're talking about sleep quality: One thing I've recently found out is that there's a addon for HA that can calculate the absolute humidity based on the temperature and relative humidity. That way you can figure out if opening the windows will increase or decrease the relative humidity and by how much BEFORE opening the windows.
Figured this out after trying to reduce the relative humidity of the bedroom by opening the windows and accidentally letting more humidity in despite the relative outside humidity being lower than on the inside.

This is now the third post in the last 24 hours where I stumble into a needlessly long thread because this user is completely obtuse and can't handle being wrong or a different opinion.

It's great that these devices finally exist. For the longest time your only option for handheld gaming was Nintendo, or maybe Sony for a short period of time, so I always went with Nintendo as a companion device to my PC.

When the Switch launched, I started wishing for a PC with that form factor, unrealistic as that was at the time. At some point in time I even got hardware-banned from anything online because I dared to install some things on it in order to transfer my save files between PC and Switch. Even lost the ability to download a game I had already bought but not yet installed.

Thankfully, around that time the Steam Deck was announced, and the only time I booted the Switch afterwards was to dump all my games and saves.

At the very least their AI Integration Philosophy has a good and nuanced view on the topic. So as long as they actually stick to that those ideas when integrating features it should be fine.

Something I've also noticed is that not only the DRM-Free version bought through Humble also got the updated, but they've also added Steam keys as well which is neat.

Although I now wonder if I the update also fixes the issue of not being able to start the native Linux version (AppImage). Though to be honest, I've never looked too much into what was causing it as the Windows version worked just fine through Bottles.

I'm almost certain it'a troll, maybe even a previously banned one. Given their username it would be very ironic otherwise, considering that so far, in the week since they've created the account, they've only commented in order to rail against things that respect user freedom.

One thing I always loved about the game was that it was not only one of the relatively few co-op games on PC, it even went as far as to support multiple sets of keyboard and mouse on a single PC. Yes, it was janky. Yes, it got cramped really fast, particularly in front of the small 4:3 LCD monitors of the time, but it was a blast anyway.

Good catch. Never used Remote Assistance, so I don't know how different it is, and if it actually requires telemetry.

Although the broader issue isn't the why, it's that it does those things at all without clearly communicating them to the user. Even their documentation has severe lack of any kind of explanation.

I thought so as well for a time, but that tool in particular is what finally made me lose faith that there might be any good debloat tool out there.

Basically, someone mentioned that it does a weird thing, so I've decided to take a look closer, and stumbled about a whole lot of dumb choices. To exemplify, I'll just repost that part of my comment from back then:

Oh yeah, I've just skimmed what else the "Disable Telemetry" script does to the registry, and I honestly can't classify it as anything other than batshit insane.

A few highlights:

• The popup delay of nested context menus and mouse hover popups
• Disables the prompt when there are open programs when shutting down
• Switches the explorer from the default view to This PC
• Enables long file paths
• Expands the file copy dialog by default
• Straight up disables RDP?????

And this is only one script out of a few dozen this "tool" has. Not to mention this is listed under "Essential Tweaks" that are, according to the documentation "Essential Tweaks are modifications and optimizations that are generally safe for most users to implement."

Yup. This is basically aimed at the people who only know that integrated GPUs are bad and they need a dedicated card, so system manufacturers can create a pre built that technically checks that box for as little money as possible.

Problem is, there are no good debloat scripts. It's all written by amateurs who don't know what they're doing, messing up the system in subtle ways that then take ages to figure out.

Quickly checking if you're an actual human or just a bot I came across this comment of yours:

I have blocked 264 users, 9 communities and 4 instances and it's made Lemmy much better for me toxicity wise. Whenever a debate gets toxic or someone starts just insulting or discussing in bad faith or I just get a bad vibe from them - I block.

Guess I'll take your advice then.