They might as well say “you may not react”.

In my experience there seem to be four types of people: those who don’t have a lawn; those who have never heard of clover on lawns; those with clover on their lawns; and those who live under the unrelenting glare and iron thumb of a homeowner’s association.

I kinda feel that “plain black coffee” in it’s various forms - Americano, drip brew, whatever - is the only way to actually drink coffee. That’s not to say I don’t approve of milk coffee or lattes or whatever - I love them - but they’re drinks which have coffee in them, even if it’s a dominant flavor. A banana smoothie isn’t a banana.

Modern music is fine.

I think one of the least self-aware thoughts someone can express - and that I hear often - is that “music now isn’t as good as it was in <decade of my youth>”, then they’ll go on to name the top five acts of that decade. Go back in time and listen to the track that was at number 53 in the charts on some boring week in mid-August in that decade and it’ll almost certainly be absolutely tepid mediocrepeice made by a forgotten artist and no better than the song that was playing on the radio that caused the comment in the first place. By the time that Josephine was coaxed onto that Flying Machine pop music had long been established as a commercial product to be produced at industrial scales. No-one alive today grew up in a generation that had exclusive access to “real music”, and if anyone tries to use that phrase to describe Motown in particular you have my permission to stab them in their eyes with a spoon.

ZigBee is a fully local mesh protocol. Matter is a local protocol that can run over either WiFi or over Thread, a local mesh protocol designed to replace ZigBee. Zigbee, Matter and Thread are your friends.

I cannot even begin to recommend this highly enough:

https://sonoff.tech/en-nl/products/sonoff-zigbee-thread-usb-dongle-dongle-plus-mg24

Get one of those - or an equivalent device from another manufacturer - to allow Home Assistant to talk directly to your bulbs using Zigbee or Thread. With that, you HA can speak directly to any bulb that uses Zigbee, Thread or Matter which is 99% of the bulbs worth bothering with.

Anything that connects to WiFi without explicitly using Matter should be avoided at all costs and especially if it uses Tuya - look for the mark of the beast hidden on the packaging of kit sold under other brands.

IKEA Tradfri (ZigBee) and Kajplats (Thread) bulbs are excellent, especially for the low price. Philips Hue (ZigBee/Thread) is the gold standard but not cheap.

Devices running ESPHome or Tasmota are rarer but also highly hackable and work entirely over local WiFi. Take a look at Local Bytes for some good kit like that.

New debate: if we’re going down the route of compressing animating images as if they were movies, why not just use a video format?

Flawless.

Also Turkey, but less flavourful.

You of all people.

Something, something, descended from dinosaurs, something.

Almost certainly, which is lovely. Ohio plates are in the format ABC1234 but they’re issued alphabetically and IIRC they’re only up to K.

That reminds me that I used to live near a Lidl that piloted this. It was great! I bought reusable containers for milk, fruit juice, detergent, rice, cereal - there was so much, and the machines had a built-in scale that automatically zeroed when you put the container down so you paid for exactly what was dispensed.

I went back one week to find them disconnected. Apparently they have a problem with some of the locals coming in and drinking straight from the dispensers.

As I said to the other almost identical comment you made defending them and criticising everyone for not being as wise as you: you can’t buy Netflix for 107.88. That’s just not an price they sell anything. But you can buy a whole selection of products from these dicks for .88 prices, which is a fixed price they specifically picked. Not a coincidence, a deliberate and conscious decision. As you rightly said, most businesses would have picked a .99 price or even a whole dollar amount. These people picked .88. What kind of person picks .88?

Netflix do not sell a product that costs $107.88. There is no option to spend that amount on their website. No sniggering 4Chan gremlin set the price of Netflix to a number that is used as a call sign of Nazis.

These cunts have a whole menu of products that all have fixed prices that they specifically decided should end in 88. They could have rounded up or down to the nearest dollar, or use the same .99 price as everyone else, but they didn’t and, the more I read of these people, the less I’m thinking it’s accidental. And you’re defending them.

You want to criticise other people for their maths skills, maybe brush up on your reasoning skills first.

Uuuuhhhh… those prices… kinda have a, um, theme.

I see the issue compounding too. Back in February, 1Password raised subscription prices, taking effect at renewals from March 27. Individual plans went up 33 percent from $35.88 to $47.88 a year, and family plans went up 20 percent from $59.88 to $71.88

The plan in the UK is to start charging road tax for EVs per-mile, though there’s ongoing discussions about how that will work in practise it’ll probably be based on the mileage recorded during the vehicle’s annual safety checks (“MOT Test”). This seems reasonable enough to me since ICE vehicles essentially pay per-mile based on the amount of fuel the owners buy.

The M3 is being emulated in Excel with the LAMDA function. Timing is provided by one of those drinking bird toys.

I will be using that knowledge irresponsibly. Thankyou.

Now I’m wondering if there’s some heavily inbred guy out there constantly being accused of using AI for their selfies.

Remember trying to use an ATM with your dick? I know women used to complain about having to use strap-ons, but I actually think they might have had it better. Those Braille bumps hurt