There are tons of other brands and the co2 tanks are standardized, I have a Phillips

No sane country is gonna accept payment in wildcat bank money, and there’s no reason to not continue to use the ruble within russia

Isn’t a huge part of the point of copy left licences that an author can’t change the license without rewriting the code entirely?

So pissed at YouTube (Google) you’re switching to Android (…)? Was this their master plan all along?

A dedicated server is needed because something needs to keep a catalog of the smart devices available on your network and ideally be accessible to many people in one household. You could make a system that went phone -> device but you would need to set up each device on each phone you wanted to use, which isn’t a great user experience. You could also run into issues where devices would need to handle multiple conflicting commands from different users coming in at once. Since smart devices are usually trying to use as little power as possible, that extra complexity would hurt you in that department. The third reason is that having a separate server enables automated workflows that would depend on an always online server that orchestrates multiple devices. For example, let’s say you have some automatic insulating blinds, a smart thermostat. You want to raise and lower the blinds to maximize your energy efficiency. Since you have the dedicated server, that server can check the temperature set point of your thermostat, current weather, and sunrise\sunset times. If it’s sunny out, and your set point is higher than the outdoor temperature, the server can raise the blinds to let warm sunlight in, and vice versa. If only your phone could control the devices a workflow like this couldn’t work when you were out of the house.

If you want to share a set of feeds between devices, and sync read/unread, organization, etc.

I got a set off ebay, Jesus christ they’re loud. I ended up returning them cause I could hear the grinding through my whole house

I don’t know if I’d really call this an issue, workers at companies generally start unions because they’re being pushed into untenable hours and subsistence living without an escape. When you can jump from a sinking ship and add 15-20% to your salary you’re just in a very different situation. There are risks to getting serious about organizing a union, especially in tech where the vast majority shops aren’t union. You could end up tied to whatever company you’re at currently for the rest of your career, since I’d imagine many non union shops would blacklist you from hiring if they found out you attempted to organize at a previous job. It’s also difficult to get enough people on board for unionization when almost everyone in your department likely has the option to leave for a similar pay bump. The benefits of unionization are much less tangible for tech workers, who generally lead pretty comfortable lives, than professions that are tipically unionized like tradespeople or factory workers.

Is this different than hosting an ftp server?

It’s definitely in part that the only marketing open source services do is “your weird computer nerd friend evangelizing” what is so baffling to me is that even my friends who are very anti-corporate left leaning won’t jump off corporate services even if I offer to host for them, I’d happily host lemmy, mumble, etc. So they can get off corporate apps but they’re completely uninterested.

A lot of sites will show an article stub in the feed, then make you go to the full site to read the whole thing.

I’ve yet to get a useful answer out of chatgpt for a technical question. It’s good for fluffing up emails, but I haven’t been super impressed with any use case I’ve tried for it.

The dynamic colors are a fucking nightmare. No, I don’t want all my ui elements to be the same color as my girlfriend’s skin tone. And the worst is even if I change it, it resets every update. I also don’t like the new quick access controls in the pull down. This is really the first Android update that’s felt like a flat downgrade for me.