The trouble for me was always getting people to use the controllers. I had some success with some family members using bubbleupnp on their Android phones. But the separation between sources, renderers and controllers is a little confusing for non technical people

DLNA is going to be your best bet, but it’s such a deep and convoluted rabbit hole. There’s a lot of ways to configure a setup.

They have a browser plug-in. I use it on Firefox on my desktop and on my Android phone. My uses it on Chrome on both as well.

I started using Kagi. Yeah, I have to pay for it. But we’re paying for Google too, kagi is just more honest about how.

Isn’t it more like a network of several billion dumb computers?

I have a box with 10 old laptops that I keep around, just for that. Unreal tournament 2004, Insane, Brood Wars and all the Id classics. I don’t get to set it up a lot, but when I do it’s always a hit.

That joke takes me back. Had to double check if I was on slashdot.

They don’t write sql they just use some god awful orm or cram it all into a nosql db.

First search result I got was https://github.com/pureqml/qmlcore Never used it, but seems good.

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We did it guy’s! They said it couldn’t be done. We showed them, those stupid, liberal, egg heads. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! /s

Same. It was a good read though. Getting old sucks for everyone, but I can’t help but feel like we grew up in a particularly magical time where you can remember dial phones all the way through smart phones. It kind of set the wow factor baseline a little high. I don’t know if other people in history have had a similar experience, but I kinda doubt it.

I’ve been using an open garage device I ordered from https://opengarage.io/ for years. It works great with home assistant or by itself. (their opensprinkler control is great too)

Like VRML from the 90s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML?wprov=sfla1

Yeah, strong feelings of deja vue.

That show had so much promise. I wish it would have survived.

What happened to estimating the pessimistic, most likely and optimistic times and apply that to a beta distribution? That’s how I was taught back in the dark ages.

When I first read your title, I thought it was “how hard disk drives work” like “Do you know how hard your mom works for you?” And I thought “well yeah, I guess they do work hard, and we kind of take it for granted”. Then I realized I’m an idiot.

We’ve really been enjoying Distilled a lot. It’s really engaging. The irony is that it’s really hard to play while drunk, but the theme of the game is distilling alcohol, so you have to drink while playing… Right?

I’ve also found a little indie card game called Wizards of the Grimoire that is absolutely fantastic. It scratches that Mtg itch, but without all the being poor part.