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So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It looks like the big buttons are "accept all" or "pay for no ads", but the cookiescan still be tuned with the link under the "accept all"?

Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Roger, disregarding :-)

Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

And hopefully something that they'll be able to find reams of prior art that precede the patent

Another valuable life lesson from Elmo and friends! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I'm generally ok if somebody is charging a reasonable rent which covers their reasonable mortgage, so long as they're still taking care of all the other stuff (repairs, city taxes, etc).

What burns me is people who either a) knowingly buy in a hot, excessively priced market with full intent to charge excessive rents while providing absolutely minimal service or support

b) bought 10+ years ago but have pumped up rents to the same as those who bought at mortgages 2-3x the rate, citing "market rates" and often doing sketchy things to raise rents including renovictions etc, while being shitty - often absentee - slumlords

Maybe I'm showing my age, but there did used to be quite a good number of mom & pop type landlords who weren't shit, and while the commercial ones cost a bit more there was a decent mix.

Now, the commercial ones are actually mostly a safer bet in small cities. They'll raise rent every year but consistently, and the decent ones are pretty prompt about repairs and not fucking people over deposits etc. There are bad ones but it's pretty easy to tell which are which. The problem is of course that availability at the good ones is lower and they do cost more.

Good private landlords are increasingly hard to come by, as the best ones generally end up quitting after either getting too old or after a bad tenant experience, while the slumlords have leveraged their existing properties to finance buying more and more, leading to a market full of increasingly overpriced mould-monsters.

iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh for sure. I'm not knocking those that can do it, just that my regular soldering skills are shit enough that I'd probably be hesitant to reball something more complicated even with the right gear :-)

iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah. Other than fixing the old Xbox360 RROD , I've never needed to do any BGA work, just circuit soldering

iFixit wants to fix the soldering iron in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What's the IR bottom heater for?

Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Does M365 not run on Linux?

Company creates "solution" to address school "vaping incidents". in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Home Assistant, school gestapo edition?

E Ink faces growing competition in the "paper-like" display space - Liliputing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah, there's a reason people prefer Kindle e-ink type e-readers to just using a tablet like a Kindle Fire, even if the latter can do more stuff

Amazon forced to recall more than 400,000 products that could kill, electrocute people | Instead of recalling the products, Amazon sent messages to customers that "downplayed the severity" of hazards in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Which worked with physical stores but with Amazon where you have 100+ sellers hawking the same defective PoS under 100+ unpronouncable brand-names

Amazon forced to recall more than 400,000 products that could kill, electrocute people | Instead of recalling the products, Amazon sent messages to customers that "downplayed the severity" of hazards in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Given that there appear to be plenty of overseas sellers that will happily counterfeit a UL stamp, or copy an entire product - including UL stamp - but with different innards, how would we even know at this point?

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Remote non-deadbolt locks for inside doors and drawers (lemmy.ca)
 

Has anyone seen anything in terms of locks that could be used for smaller doors etc. For example, a drawer/cabinet style lock or something that might work for bifold closet doors etc. Also setups that could be used to automatically slide out a drawer.

I'd like to create some "secret drawers" as well as be able to lock out stuff like the "candy/snack drawer" as certain members of my household have poor impulse control and like snitch candy then not easy their dinner

(Yes I've tried hiding it, putting it up high etc, but they're sneaky and automation is more fun)

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Non-cloud wifi remote speaker/mic device (lemmy.ca)
 

While I quite like the ability to broadcast TTS, media, and other such things to Google Nest or Amazon Alexa devices, I'm trying to rein in my HASS setup so that it doesn't send data to our require cloud services.

Does anyone know of or recommend a wireless speaker service that can accept broadcast/streamed/sent audio without needing an internet connection. Bonus if it has a microphone that can integrate with something like a local Genie instance for accepting voice commands (without cloud processing)

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Parts for homebrew configs (lemmy.ca)
 

Can anyone recommend a good place to get parts for a homebrew system (available to Canada, at a reasonable price).

Full disclosure, I'm actually looking to build a large 3D scanning system but in terms of movement of the camera heads, I've been looking at my printer and thinking that it could use a similar configuration though on a slightly larger scale (rails, with a wheeled+track system for horizontal and large spiraled cylinder for vertical) , but I have no idea where to source these sort of parts.

Any ideas?

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Easily obtainable wall switches that will take Tasmota etc? (lemmy.ca)
 

I'm looking for a wall switch that I will take Tasmota firmware (so a ESP82XX chipset generally) but can get easily sourced and aren't a huge pain to reprogram.

I'm totally cool with soldering some serial jump points from the board of the appropriate Rx/Tx/GRND/3.3V and pin0 are readily available, but try to avoid stuff that requires soldering the chip itself.

I used to be able to get Globe etc dimmers from Costco that were flashable via the old OTA Tuya-Convert method, but that seems to be a thing of the past and I just need a regular ol' non-dimmer switch which is easy to find and access the required pins these days.

If there are switches which take 110VAC but don't output power, that's even better as some I'm just looking to supplement devices already have power but are inconvenient to access

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Kevin Mitnick has died at age 59 (www.securityweek.com)
 

Kevin Mitnick - the world's first famous "hacker" - has died at age 59 after succumbing to pancreatic cancer.

Mitnick gained fame for his hacking skills and eventual arrest on hacking and wire fraud charges. After his release from prison, he went on to release various books and speak at conferences on the topic of cyber security/hacking. He is the founder of "Mitnick Security Consulting" which provides cyber consulting and penetration testing services.

Kevin's influence on the world of cyber security is undeniable, as is his almost legendary reputation in the field.

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