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And that’s the real reason they do it. They lure unsuspecting users in with promises of enhanced functionality, but it’s all a ploy to get their data.
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No, that denies their culpability. They aren’t insane; they’re criminally evil and need to pay.
There’s a lot of stuff that can work with Home Assistant, but it’s essentially never listed as a feature on the package, so normal people will never know it’s an option.
That’s the problem – the lack of marketing – not any lack of functionality on Home Assistant’s part.
Of course it requires some tinkering and is not accessible to all users.
Yeah, that’s the point. None of that helps normies who just want to buy the first product they see and have it “just work.”
(And I say “first product they see” because, although Tasmota/ESPHome/WLED devices are available from e.g. Amazon, if not brick-and-mortar stores, if you look hard enough, they’re definitely not what Amazon pushes at you. Amazon wants you to fall for their marketing and infest your house with Alexa so they can exfiltrate even more personal data, up to and including the floor plan if you buy one of their affiliated smart vacuums.)
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It’s not adopted widely because every single smart home device marketed to normies is infected with cloud bullshit. Go to Home Depot or whatever and look on the shelf: literally every single product will have “Works with Alexa,” “Works with Google Home,” and/or “Works with Apple HomeKit” badges stamped all over the package, but not a single one will mention a damn thing about Home Assistant even when the device actually is compatible. The closest you get is ones that mention “Matter” 'cause it’s at least supposed to be a standard, but it feels like it’s getting slow-walked harder than CableCard sometimes (and if you don’t remember how that worked out, the answer is “not well”).
I would almost call it a conspiracy against openness, but it’s really just the banal result of no rent-seeking leading to no excess profit to plow back into marketing… which is even worse.
Maybe something to do with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliance? Europe tolerates a lot less accessibility by necessity since they have so many older buildings, so maybe that translates over into having more tolerance for stairs when boarding planes?
No, they mean citing super-secret reasons that cannot be challenged and totally actually exist, just trust us.
Looking at the information directly shown in the picture? That’s cheating!
I am so tired of all the regulatory capture.
'Cause let’s be honest, it’s not just this. The US is letting every industry regulate itself, and is turning into a hellscape for it.
Some of my local government boards have been virtual since covid and this sort of thing has occasionally been a problem there, too. I remember one instance where I was scribbling furiously on a piece of paper and holding it up to my camera to stop the chairperson from unjustly censoring me.
The convenience of meeting virtually has been great, but it does have some serious potential drawbacks in terms of maintaining Democratic norms and accountability if the people controlling the software are tyrants. At least in-person, you can stand up and yell at them and they can’t do anything about it short of tackling you.
It’s existential in the sense that trans people’s existence is being threatened. As in, the US is headed down the same path as the Nazis, with trans people about to be rounded up into concentration camps and mass-murdered.
The blood libel has been going on for a while now. The registrations have already started. Pink triangles and pogroms are the next step.
(I’m saying this as a cis-het white male, BTW. Even I can see the writing on the wall.)
Pretty sure Trump has been chauffeured all his life. He doesn’t give enough of a shit about his car to appoint it to anything.
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What pretentious asshole came up with that bit of jargon?
They think they’re going to win, and so far there’s been precious little to indicate otherwise.
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Python isn’t “untyped;” it is, in fact, strongly-typed. (And is markedly different than and superior to JavaScript on that point.)
This rant feels like it was written by an OO programmer who was never able to wrap his head around functional programming.