thehatfox

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In the general population it does. Most people are not using an academic definition of AI, they are using a definition formed from popular science fiction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But Pokemon was a show about a fantasy world of made up animals with magic powers. 4Kids felt kids would be able to grasp that, but not rice balls.

Kids could accept a weird yellow mouse that could shoot lightning bolts, they would have accepted some weird food they hadn't heard of either.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.

If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

It's a feature that's often been requested, but hasn't appeared yet. The best option out of the box is creating non-Administrator users and then creating custom dashboards and panes per user with only the controls they need.

But that doesn't stop a user from poking around still, because they can still access all devices and entities through features like the Logbook - which is always accessible because sidebar items can't be controller per user.

There are some HACS bits that might be able to lock things down a bit further, like Kiosk and Guest modes.

I've heard some people get round this by setting up inebriations with Apple/Google/Amazon ecosystem, only exposing the desired entities/devices, and then giving others access to those and keeping them out of Home Assistant altogether.

It's a feature set I wish they would add/expand, I'm sure anyone with a home office and mischievous children would agree.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s something I often hear complaints about. Several of the Home Assistant users I know love the way it integrates all their smart devices together, but say they find making good dashboards difficult.

Improvements like proper drag and drop and better auto categorisation and population will go a long way to help them. The old default dashboard that just lumped everything in one screen isn’t a great way to get started.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

It looks good but an open world also doesn't feel like Mario Kart to me.

Although at £75 I probably don't need to worry anyway, that's a stretch too far.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Physical game cards may also not actually contain the game:

Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview

Game-key cards are different from regular game cards, because they don’t contain the full game data. Instead, the game-key card is your "key" to downloading the full game to your system via the internet.

So you pay a premium and maybe don't even get a "real" cartridge.

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Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview (en-americas-support.nintendo.com)
 

Game-key cards are different from regular game cards, because they don’t contain the full game data. Instead, the game-key card is your "key" to downloading the full game to your system via the internet.

Pay a premium for a physical copy of your game, and the cartridge may not contain the actual game. Only on Nintendo Switch 2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I’ve got parts on order for this very project, should arrive this week.

I previously tried using one of those large pressure mats but it didn’t work under the mattress.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Also works on the GameCube, albeit with much more limited IO due to the lack of USB.

The GameCube Can Now Run Windows

I’m not sure there’s much fun software compiled for PowerPC Windows NT to run on it though (yet).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That’s Thread. Matter is an application layer standard, which currently supports running over WiFi, Ethernet or Thread.

Matter could run over new wireless systems in the future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A few years ago the hose on our washing machine split and we didn’t realise until water started coming out from under the units. Thankfully damage was minimal but it was a big pain to dry out.

I’ve had some of those Aqara leak sensors in place since as a precaution.

Just remember to change the batteries regularly! Easy to forget them when they are out of sight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Back in the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube era the SNES and Megadrive seemed to be retro while the PS1 and N64 were just “old”. So maybe 2 generations ago is the start of retro.

I think it’s definitely a lot blurrier now though. The differences between consoles and the leaps between generations are less pronounced, and there are so many y rereleases and remasters now keeping older games fresh.

 
 

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