Whatever happens on my browser is client side, which is hardware and software I own. I can make what I own do what I want. It’s a right.

It’s like Google saying that I can’t skim a magazine in my home, and that I must read the ads. Google can do what they want server-side, and I’ll do what I want client-side.

It’s more or less a consumer version of their RA2 system, which is its own protocol. The gateway interacts with the whole system using commands issued over telnet though, so you actually have a command line for operating and configuring it. It integrates with a bunch of closed systems, and it integrates right into Home Assistant with a first-party HA integration.

It’s not like you can inspect the source code for their firmware push up pull requests on GitHub, so I’m this aspect, yes, it is proprietary. However, with tools like Home Assistant, which is something you probably should be using, this becomes much less of a concern, in my opinion. It’s robust, high-quality, and is commonplace, so you can get bits and pieces at Home Depot.

If you’re interested in something that will work with mesh networks and you aren’t interested in running software like Home Assistant, you should look for Z-Wave or Zigbee hardware. Read reviews though; I’ve had a lot of mixed experiences with hardware, even from “trusted” vendors.

Try a Lutron Caseta dimmer with a Pico remote. They work together as-is without a gateway, and the Gateway Pro will join it to something like Home Assistant in the future. Or you can simply use the Caseta app.

Imagine being so deaf that you actually believe that pride flags cause harm to straight people. Anyone here remember why we have pride month?

More like, try to get you to pay money and pretend that you don’t own your client side software.

Paying isn’t a bad idea if you want to do that.

Google creeping on your privacy and your right to view HTML the way you choose to is gross and violating.

These two ideologies don’t have much overlap, and definitely can coexist separately.

It’s a shame how obvious they’re working their corporate bullying cards simply because of money. Imagine if I created a product called Google and tried to sue Google for it. That would be ridiculous, right? Well, that’s what Facebook is doing, just with money.

If you didn’t download it, then what’s the point?

Instead of renaming it to “X,” Elon magically renamed his platform to “X, formerly known as Twitter.”

• 195g: https://www.continental-tires.com/products/b2c/bicycle/tires/competition/
• 200g: https://www.continental-tires.com/products/b2c/bicycle/tires/grand-prix-5000/
• 170g: https://www.biketiresdirect.com/product/continental-grand-prix-5000-tt-tr-road-tire
• 195g: https://www.biketiresdirect.com/product/continental-podium-tt-tubular-tire
• 180g: https://www.michelinman.com/bicycle/tires/michelin-power-time-trial
• 200g: https://www.vittoria.com/us/en/tires/road-tires/corsa-speed

It’s lighter because instead of compounds inside of the tire, there is air.

Looks heavy.

Hey look, a real photo of a hacker

Wired headphones? What else?

Every one of your points have been a solved problem for a while. We had small, light, durable, and even waterproof connectors before Apple called removing them “courage” (it was to sell more wireless headphones), and people with monetary incentives started to remove them, too.

It depends on what you’re trying to do. If you want a social media site based around videos with a variety of features with high traffic, then sure. If you’re just archiving stuff for the sake of it, then you can simply host static content.

There are also many other places to store stuff than YouTube.

While I don’t want the YouTube channel to be shut down, I couldn’t imagine that YouTube is the only place this exists and it’s the only place it can be hosted.

You should try it. Keep in mind that Valve has never sold a Steam Deck running Windows, and it’s a hit. A lot of folks never even realize that they’re gaming on Linux. It’s that transparent.

I’m a full-time Vim and Linux user when writing code. I agree with the statement that “simply switching” editors is very naive. I’m my personal opinion, you should decide on an editor that makes sense to you and learn to be very good at it. If VS Code is that answer, then great. Not everything points to Vim or Emacs.

Change banks

I don’t expect this to be a permanent place to archive this material :) I’ve been thinking of putting a website up (or even a GitHub repository) to archive this stuff at some point. This gives us a small community to share development, pictures, have some nerd chat, etc.

I’m really happy to say that someone already popped in and shared some programs from their friend’s stash of burned optical media! There were some dead links on archive.org for some of these, and now we have them!!