So what are y'all thoughts about the Philip hue lightbulbs? I'm thinking about picking up a few but not connecting them to the Internet because I'm paranoid lol.
@BlackAzizAnansi I think mine are only using Bluetooth (I didn't configure WiFi, and I can only connect when I'm kinda near them, so I guess they must be) and they work fine. The app wants location info, but nothing else. It's plausible I could've also disabled that and it would still work, I dunno. Anyway, so far I've got no complaints, they do everything I want them to do, which is just variable mood lighting and the ability to turn them all off/on easily.
@mattwilcox I, too, have been on Friday all week. And not a good Friday feeling...like a too tired to make it even one more day, I need a break, kind of Friday. I should take a vacation.
@vga256 the 90s were a grim time of sullen self-involved seriousness. The same people panned The Fifth Element (a perfect film), and for a lot of the same reasons, though the critical response to The Fifth Element was more mixed.
@vga256 people are fine with the same ridiculous fucking superhero story being told every month, but a genuinely novel story with amazing world-building is a bridge too far. (Though, I think the rep of both films has improved through the years, they were just ahead of their time.)
There's a huge opportunity for a good search engine that isn't poisoned by AI lies...but, the technical challenge of keeping out the poison is maybe insurmountable without the resources of a Google or Microsoft, who seem to have no interest in removing the poison from their search results. So, the internet just sucks now, I guess, and will continue to suck for the foreseeable future, while they fight over who can shovel the most shit onto the pile.
@shanecelis it seems obvious they can't control for quality; 52% of coding answers from Copilot are wrong. Google serves up decade-old shitposts as serious answers to questions. They've decided that keeping you on their site is worth more than getting you to useful information, so they'll serve up copyright-laundered "answers" that may or may not be at all true, all derived from the pages they would have linked you to in the past, and sometimes copied verbatim. I dunno who thinks this is good.
@pixel I settled on a Bosch after reading/watching a bunch of reviews, though I don't recall what model. Works well, seems to be popular among pros. Pricey, but seems likely to last forever.
I know people love hating on #systemd but there are so many things that are great about it. The journal is among the best (and the one that people seem to hate the most for reasons I find hard to relate to). Building a service with good logging is literally free, no code required, STDOUT/STDERR goes to the journal, you're done. Ingesting those logs into something like Loki is also free. #linux
@lewiscowles1986 a few hundred lines of shell scripts spread across multiple files that are different across every distribution vs. one tiny declarative ini boi, choose your fighter.
@grimmy yeah, I mean, I get that. The docs are pretty dense and aimed at people who already understand systemd and the journal, which is a big leap for people new to it. But, the journal does a lot of things much more easily than you can do it with traditional UNIX tools. I can figure out how to find a specific time range in files (assuming the file has timestamps), but I sure prefer the one-liner with the journal (--since and --until) to the several commands needed on a plain text log.
@Green_Footballs it's wild how much she's matured as a musician/songwriter. I hadn't heard anything from her since her pop song a few years back...completely different artist as an adult. Good for her. I'm usually uninterested in nepo babies "art", but she's fantastic.
@mcc they also cause Linux crashes pretty regularly. I've come to regret switching my main desktop to an nVidia card, just because I wanted to tinker with 3D stuff every now and then and everyone said nVidia was much better supported.
If there's one thing about me, I'm gonna type that old command name, no matter how long I've known about better newer alternatives. wget, tcpdump, iwconfig, screen, ls, grep. I finally started typing ip instead of ifconfig and route habitually a year or two ago, because it's shorter and does everything.
curl is only one year newer than wget. And, yet, here we are with me still typing wget out of habit. Likewise, tmux is new. Been 16 years, but it's the new one.