Basically in my experience, when it comes to smart lights it's generally just worth springing the extra for Philips Hue (and using the hub, not just in Bluetooth mode) unless you want to waste your time and money with other brands. Nothing else seems to be remotely as reliable and easy to work with—and I have zero patience for having to perform tech support on my house lighting.
I'm glad to hear you got your bulbs working though
Okay cool, but what about the games you've already had out for like a year?
Like, idk, ff7r2 on PC?
You'd have thought they'd have learned from losing the browser monopoly they had 15 years ago due to complacency
99% of their "innovation" comes from pubic sector academia or stuff NASA already figured out anyway.
IMO SpaceX shouldn't have exclusive rights to any of it, really
The only thing they're really bringing to the table is money. NASA could be doing exactly the same stuff if the government actually treated it as a priority.
I say this all as someone who often supports the greens in my own country:
If they are even entertaining the idea of Harris losing being a positive for them, they are as deranged as Trump.
Trump gets in, we might as well start building bunkers, because climate change will accelerate under him, and these next 5 years are probably the most important if we're going to stand any chance of turning this around.
I don't know who still needs to see this, but: Voting Green in this election is the most environmentally damaging thing you can do aside from directly voting for trump.
If you vote green in this election, you will be directly responsible for everything that follows should Harris lose.
That's cool for Action Retro to get featured on Tom's Hardware
This person clearly has no taste
I get highlighting England for the meme (though the modern UK has some of the best food culture in the world)
But Germany, Belgium, Denmark & Austria? I'm sorry, OP clearly has never travelled outside their hometown and eaten nothing but white bread.
Can we do the same to heroes whilst we're at it, maybe even just keep the first season
Believe it or not, that emoji didn't even exist back then
Okay but what if you use emoji in your password?
I just love how much it must be hurting him to see his initials attached to a worthless share price
Putting everything else aside:
Why do they think they have any right to be platformed by Google, a private American company?
Can I demand that anti Putin content be platformed on VK or they have to pay me genuinely absurd fines?
I think that would categorically be world war at that point. I was more going on about seriously denouncing this kind of thing as being on the road to world war, before we get to that point
When the gap was only £10-20k a few years ago, you could justify to yourself that sticking in the public sector was probably affording you some quality of life benefits.
Now the gap is more like tripling your salary and nearly everyone good has left for greener pastures. Hell, the work/life balance didn't even change much for me
My understanding is that if you're working in tech at GCHQ, you're dealing with fossils—both your colleagues and the actual tech stack itself. Apparently any kind of meaningful change has to go through countless layers of scrutiny and review, taking weeks.
You also need to basically nuke your social media and lie to your friends and family on the regular. Which IMO effectively means you need to be thinking about your job 24/7, and therefore are working 24/7.
~£40k isn't even close to the low-water mark for an entry level job given all that IMO. If they want such a specialist skillset too, they're probably gonna need to add a zero if they actually want to attract anyone good.
There are even other parts of the government that don't have all that baggage and pay more.
Uefa warns ministers that England could be excluded from Euro 2028 over "concerns" that an independent football regulator could mean "government interference".
> Uefa has warned ministers that England could be excluded from the European Championship it is co-hosting in 2028 over "concerns" that a planned independent football regulator could lead to "government interference" in the sport.
> A bill to establish a body to oversee the top five tiers of the men's game in England was reintroduced in July.
> The UK government has said the football watchdog will "protect clubs" by "ensuring their financial sustainability".
> But in a letter sent to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and seen by BBC Sport, Uefa general secretary Theodore Theodoridis wrote: "We do have concerns remaining... as normally football regulation should be managed by the national federation.
We ask 30 BBC Sport football pundits to predict who will win the Premier League title, and which clubs will finish in the top four this season.
Rocky start, but we’re here! also making this almost an hour late due to the rocky start # What’s Canvas? Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas similar to Reddit’s r/place, except it is open to (almost) the entire Fediverse! The event is going on from July 12th 4am UTC to July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 ho...
So canvas is on again this year! We could try and be a bit more organised this time if people are around
I've not started anything yet
Honestly, I will never wrap my head around how people can happily bring infants on any flight where you can expect people to try and sleep, it's incredibly lucky if they don't spend some of it screaming their heads off—I would be mortified if my choices were preventing hundreds of people from sleeping. But I'm not going to rant too hard about that.
Why on earth hasn't any airline started marketing adult-only flights?
It seems like a complete no brainer to me, I would choose it every time and pay extra for it.
Disclaimer: I may or may not be on a 36h day with only an hour of sleep right now
I originally posted it on Reddit a couple years back and people rated it a lot. I decided to share it here as well. - Jungle [early 90s-present] - the genre that predates dnb and laid foundations for the genre. It ranges between 160-168 BPM and focuses on rearranged and chopped breakbeats sampled fr...
Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher explains why Arsenal wont win the Premier League on current evidence, despite topping the charts after 13 games played; the Gunners are one point ahead (30) of second-placed Manchester City (29) as it stands
As someone who's been a wasps fan for decades, this is finally some positive news after what has felt like a very long silence!
Now I wonder where the ground they mention is going to be
I've just started Return to the Obra Dinn, so far really liking the art style and the main game mechanics. I'm interested to see how the story unfolds as it seems to be taking a "memento" style reverse chronological approach to telling it.
Also still playing Halls of Torment as ever since Vampire Survivors, one of these top down roguelite shoot-em-up games has been in my rotation.
Oh and I nearly forgot, also started pizza tower, but only dipped my toe into that one so far. Really enjoy the art and platforming mechanics so far.
Hey, I've been trying to subscribe to !audioproductiondeals@lemmit.online for a couple of days now and know the drill about searching it first and waiting for it to sync, but it doesn't seem to be doing the job.
It looks like other lemmit.online communities seem to work fine, but this one seems to stubbornly refuse to show up.
Is there something I'm missing here?
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So I browse on the desktop using the mlmym/old.lemmy client (e.g. http://old.lemmy.world) because old habits die hard.
One of the many things I found myself missing from RES & Reddit was the ability to customise the community bar at the top of the page to contain some links to my favourite communities. I had a spare minute this morning to throw together a userscript for just that:
Here's a pastebin with the script. Create a new userscript in tampermonkey (or whatever userscript plugin you use), drop the code in, change the array of communities at the top to be the ones you want prepending to the list, and you should be good.
Make sure to add the server suffix to any communities from other instances and if you want to use this on another instance other than lemmy.world, just change the match rule in the userscript header comment.
I didn't host on greasyfork as I'm probably not going to make any further changes, and I'd need to come up with something a bit more sophisticated than an array of communities. I'll update this post if I ever change my mind on that
Update
So I guess I wasn't happy with leaving it alone:
Here it is on greasyfork https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/474756-lemmy-mlmym-community-bar-customisation
I added localStorage and a simple config GUI to configure the list of favourites now, no reordering yet (without just removing and re-adding in a different order), but I imagine I'll end up adding that in time
Update 2
And another update:
I've just updated GreasyFork with 0.3
- Added reordering
- Added background fade and background click to close
- Added favourite/unfavourite button to the community sidebar