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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Up voted for this. I have a bunch of Yolink products. It all works seamlessly. I’ve got motion lights setup. I have my bathroom exhaust fan set to turn on at a specific humidity level. I’ve got their door locks, garage door opener. Hell, I’ve got the float switch set to tell me when my dogs need more water.

    They have so many products and they all work together very well. It truly feels like a smart home now and it’s all the same brand so I don’t have to worry about compatibility problems or using a third party software. I do have them linked to home assistant for the few things I have from other brands. But I can’t reccomend Yolink enough


  • This comment reminds me of the Eichmann trial. He wasn’t inherently evil like we want to believe. He was just a man doing his job, sending jews to their death. It’s pretty chilling to think about the evils he carried out when he was just doing what he was told to do.

    Another somewhat counterpoint, I think in today’s society it’s harder than it traditionally has been. Specifically, I would love to go to protests and be more active. But for me it’s really hard to do that because I have obligations. Specifically, I can’t take a week off of work to go to DC and hold some signs. It’s not that I’m refusing to do anything, I just don’t have the time when I’m more worried about my mortgage. I do donate to charities but it’s very difficult to do much more because of debt.


  • I’ve got two:

    “The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.” by Terence McKenna

    And the other is from an old salty chief when I was in the navy. This is paraphrasing but:

    “Every fuck up comes down to a combination of three root causes: didn’t know, didn’t care, or a material problem”

    Someone gets hurt on the job? Well, did they not know they were doing something wrong? Did they not care enough about safety? Or was it simply because something broke? Maybe they didn’t know AND they didn’t care to find out.







  • It’s not super niche, but I’ve never met anyone outside of the hobby that even knows it exists.

    Anyway, I enjoy car audio competitions a lot. One version is SPL (sound pressure level) where the goal is to build a system that can get as loud as possible. Then there’s SQ (sound quality) that’s more about making the best sounding system you can, which is also fairly artsy (make it look pretty).

    There’s a lot of people who are assholes about it, they’re the kid down the street blaring his music at 10 o clock at night. Every who does it for a hobby are very respectful of other people and recognize that the vast majority of people don’t wanna hear your music.

    I enjoy it for a few reasons. Firstly, I just love music. Music is a while body experience. It’s not just your ears, but your skin reacts to the vibrations as well, and you just aren’t gonna get that experience with cheap speakers. The car is a great place to feel music because it’s enclosed and you can generally go somewhere to not bother people.

    The other part, is that its very hands on and problem solving. You’re doing woodworking, electrical design, maybe fiberglass. Lots of different engineering.





  • I agree except for third party apps. I used the iphone 12 for about a year before I switched back to android. Now I have an iPhone for my work phone and an android for my personal. Yes, some third party apps are better supported. But in my experience, it’s only the big name ones. When you start getting into “indie” apps, I think android wins. The number of time I have tried to do something with my iPhone only to discover I can’t is way too high.

    And it’s usually small things that add up over time. For instance, I use Alarmy for my alarm. With android, you can have the app lock down the phone. You must turn off the alarm the designed way (photos, barcodes, math, etc. It’s a really cool app and I highly recommend it). If you try to close it out, it’ll start itself again and start alarming. But with iPhone, I can close the app and the alarm goes away and won’t ring again. It made it pretty useless when I could still just dismiss the app anyway.

    Wanna torrent with your phone? Nope. Want a different keyboard? Sure, unless your typing in a password, then you must use IOS keyboard.

    Those are some notable examples I remember off the top of my head.








  • Easy.

    The ability to make and manipulate portals. You can travel anywhere nearly instantly. My version of this power assumes you can make the exit portal without physically seeing it. So you could make one at home, one at your work and never deal with traffic. Want to go to London for the weekend? Done.

    The cool thing is that you could also bring things to you. Craving a soda? Pop one portal under the coke in your fridge and the other just above your hand. Boom! Gravity pulls the coke through the portal and drops it into your hand. So now you can summon items to you as well.

    My version also includes manipulation of your portals. You placed them but can move them while they are active. This allows you to effectively “scan” things. Need to dig a trench? Keep one portal stationary and just pull the other through the dirt. Whatever you scan gets immediately teleported elsewhere.

    If we are assuming a world in which superheroes are a thing, you become an absolute badass. Not God like. But you can’t be arrested because you’ll just leave. You can easily make “rods from God” a reality. You could “scan” a spear fast enough that it’s like shooting it from a cannon and impale your enemies. You can use your portals as perfect shields. All attacks would just be directed elsewhere.

    I think about this power a lot. To be honest, It’s based on Gilgamesh’s powers from the Fate anime.