a_fancy_kiwi @ a_fancy_kiwi @lemmy.world

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I’d shell out $800 for an ultra if it got 3 full days of battery life without having to use a power saving mode. Until then, I’ll stick with my Garmin. 14 days of battery life if you don’t workout and if you workout 3 or 4 days a week, it’s closer to 10 days.

What steps do you take to create the group?

From the Settings tab in the Google home app, I can create a speaker group with multiple speakers but I can’t create a light group.

In the Favorites tab in the Google Home app, I don’t see a way to create a group. I can add the “Living Room” lights group that’s already there but that controls my lamp and all the other lights in my living room.

As far as I can tell, the only way to natively combine more than 1 light to function as one device is to create a room and put those lights in that room. The command “turn on living room lamp” would work as intended but “turn on living room lights” would not.

I’ve been using mine for about a year now. Mine are working fine even when there is a little sweat on them. See if you can get them replaced under warranty.

I hear what you are saying but what if I want to use the app because I’m trying to be quiet and not wake anyone?

What if I only want to turn on the lamp and not other lights?

What happens when I tell Google Assistant to turn on the lamp and for some reason, only 1 light bulb turns on?

What do mute people do if they can’t speak to the assistant?

You don’t have to answer any of that. My point is that, sure, there are workarounds but none of them really solve the issue and it ends up being just another papercut. For all of Apple’s faults, of which there are many, it feels like their engineers actually use their phones.

Hangouts was dope. With a Google voice number, you could also send text messages from your computer which was pretty novel for Android users at the time

Ignoring low hanging fruit answers like “iOS can use Apple apps” or “iOS gets more than 4 years of updates”; These are hardware specific but they work out of the box:

• I don’t know if this is still true and even if it is, it’s not true for much longer; satellite SOS
• LiDAR on the pro phones and faceID. Both can be used for 3D scanning
• this also may not be true anymore but I had a bitch of a time getting my WireGuard VPN to automatically turn on when I left the house on android. I remember a pixel OS upgrade breaking my tasker script. Works fine on iOS.

Edit: I know android can unlock with your face. That’s not what I’m talking about. The 3D scanning aspect is what’s cool

Edit 2: I know there are things android can do that iOS can’t. Just answering OP’s question

Google has a Google problem. Seemingly no one is steering the ship. They have a bunch of internal teams doing their own thing. How many messaging apps have they killed now, 3, 4? Allo was great. It worked on Android and iOS. I had all my friends on it and then Google canceled it. All they had to do was add sms fallback for android users, spent some money on marketing, and it could have rivaled iMessage by now. Before that, it was hangouts and regular people didn’t know about it. How many times do they think they can burn customers before people catch on?

Their pixel phones still don’t get the same amount of updates that iPhones do and iPhones retain their value for a lot longer than Android phones. Financially, it makes more sense for a parent to buy an iPhone. They can pass it down to their kid when they upgrade and know it’ll still get updates for a long time. Yes, Google can patch and update parts of the phone from the play store but good luck explaining that to regular people.

I have a lamp with two smart bulbs in it and I can’t combine them into 1 light in the google home app. The light bulbs are controlled independently. It’s infuriating.

I could rant for a long time but I’ll end with this; I don’t enjoy using iOS but my only other option is death by a thousand papercuts.

I wonder how it works considering Apple confirmed there wasn’t a U1 chip in the remote. Bluetooth alone? High frequency sound from the phone and/or TV maybe? Regardless, this missing feature cost me ~$40 for an AirTag and case to hold the airtag -____-

You can already collapse comments

In spirit, I agree with you but it would really suck for independent devs. All those bug reports for a device you may not own and for a use case you may never have intended to support. All that leads to 1 star reviews from upset users which could potentially kill an app

but it wont ever give you the unbiased best answer on those recommended threads.

I completely agree. Don’t trust everything you see on the internet

It might be useful to make sure you arent buying trash

This was the main goal. Mad people are likely to be vocal people and they are the ones that go to Reddit and complain about how the latch that releases the waste container on a vacuum broke after a few months.

Reddit wasn’t the only place to go for research on infrequent purchases but it was always a good starting point

I work at a small company and one of my many hats is “the only IT guy”. I promise you, you don’t want to self host email. You will always be in spam filter hell and you’ll never really know if the email you sent actually made it to the destination until it’s too late.

Buy a domain, pay for an email provider, and hook them up. If you ever get upset with your email provider, find a new one and switch out the connections. That way, your email address never changes but where it’s stored can be.

If you were using it to get facts to form an opinion, I would say it wasn't the best but then again, that style of research is difficult even without reddit.

Agreed. But if you wanted human opinions on say, a specific brand a vacuum, 👌

The Late Night Linux family of shows are all pretty good

It sounds like you didn’t set up gpu passthrough

I’ve been interested in Nix for a while but haven’t devoted any time to it. What do you like about it? What problems does it solve? Why learn the Nix way of doing things when I could make a container using LXD and just transfer the container around?

Not OP but recently I was in the market for a printer. I was looking at the Bambu P1S and Prusa MK4.

I’m all for open source and really wanted to support Prusa but the MK4 costs an extra $100 (more if you don’t build it yourself), doesn’t have an enclosure, and the MK4 has a 7-8 week lead time while the P1S ships next day

I’m not proud of it but I got the P1S

I’m mostly a hobbiest that does a little bit of professional dev work. For my needs, Macs are great laptops. Great power, battery life, and runs all the apps I would want when not at a desk, integrates with all my Apple devices (Apple TV, HomePod, iPhone, iPad) plus it has a terminal that I can use to SSH into other machines. It’s the best thin client out there.

But for my needs, Macs aren’t good desktops. I can build a more powerful computer/server that has more options for natively run CAD programs, can play all my steam games, and can be upgraded when new GPUs come out.

Is it just a principle thing cause I feel like a king sitting on a throne of RAM right now 🤴. Your concern is going right over my crown.

I’m curious, do you leave apps open when not in use? What’s your use case like where using a containerized app becomes a problem? Admittedly, besides a raspberry pi, I don’t have a machine with less than 16 gigs of RAM so maybe it’s just that?

>Python is interpreted

My bad, it’s late(early?) where I’m at