SomeLemmyUser

Most smart home devices are actually not that smart. They are simply a switch with wifi, which logs in to your local wifi and shouts “HERE I AM, I HAVE TWO MODES, YOU CANSWITCH BETWEEN THOSE” into the ether.

Reasons to have a hub are:

1. Not having to open the website of every single device or send a command from the command line if you want to use it, but rather have one place which registerss all devices and bundles them up to serve you in a nice web interface or app.

2. Have more advanced/intercinnected functions (not only: send “up” to the blinds device but send “up” to the blinds device, if the time device says its later then 8:00 and the daylight sensor device senses dalight.

3. Some hubs have security features, like claiming the device and establishing a password, so not everyone in you WiFi can do everything.

4. Good ones act like a protective layer from you to the outside internet (esps and most smart home devices are simple devices, which are rather unsecure and where you don’t know which code is running (your Chinese security camera might not only send pictures to you but also to China, and you would not knowbif its connected to the internet directly). So you can only allow connections to the hub, and if you have an open source hub like HomeAssistant, you could be rather certain stuff like this will not happen as easily.

5. Do all the heavy lifting with more CPU power (user and password login, updates, scripts, voice recognition if you want stuff like this, keeping date and time recently updated, merge (in the case of HomeAssitant) different protocols (like iqtt, phillipsHUE, ZigBee, etc. Pp.) Into one coherent system.

Some other things also, and that being said: it is literally the device controlling your entire house and privacy, so get one you trust, preferable an open source one where you don’t have to accept agbs to give up all rights to Samsung or so.

Russels teapod is a good example imho

EDIT: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

I normally make a pony tail while eating (or at least brush then back over my shoulders and into my shirt to hold them there) I also have very strong hair, I recommend those silicon hair ties which look like sealing rings, they hold everything. If they break, just get thicker ones

Whats up with you guys? I’d rather have a fresh out of the gym teenager next to me in the bus then an Justus who smells like an axe factory.

How normal body odor is a tabu in some cultures and where deo ads which tell you its bothersome if you smell normal is still a thing in 2025 really grinds my gears

I second freetube

It gets broken by YouTube API changes quite often, especially if you want to Tunnel through invidious, but they update quite fast and the experience is super smooth when working

My Debian dies this everytime i Start, but it goes away after a few secs, doesn’t do that on windows, so software bug is not impossible

Hatte to be mister smarty-pants here, but empirically if your life was ruined from the start, your chances of recovery through therapy are actually much higher then for someone who ruined it himself/got Ill later on in life.

The thing is: finding therapy that works for you is a process on its own. You will likely have to try a lot of them to find a good one who has free slots. But you will find one eventually and if you have it does help!

Just one word of caution: go to to ones who actually have a Dr./major/magister in psychology and are registered doctors.

I hope you life in a country with good universal healthcare, if so you can just go to a therapist (they offer single sittings for cases like that) and discuss with him what kind of therapy could work for you and what the next address can be.

I am someone who is not religious and believes everyone should have a free decision if they want to live or not, but my galeart says: man, don’t give yourself up, especially not because of damage inflicted on you by others. All the best from germany

US becoming facist is one oft the biggest news here, as they are our hegemon.

Greetings from Germany

Also the neolibs fucked with social democrats and greens for long enough they got fired

True apart from being born around 2000

Spotydown.media worked for me, but sometimes it gets stuff so wildly wrong that i am guessing he pulls the stuff from another library and takes the closest match for the name. Doesnt seem to be YouTube though, never had intros, outros or music video noises

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Well okay. But weaker encrypted as for example WhatsApp, which at least tells you its e2e, even if meta holds the keys.

“The encrypted Telegram, with clo…”

Just a remidner that Telegramm is NOT encrypted by default (you need to Start a secret chat) and groups are NEVER encrypted

Calibre has an Export Funktion which may ve of use

Wtf where your from? Is this some murica dumbness I’m to European to understand? Is it common in Europe and I just know smart people?

But yes, hyped teenager is the only group I’ve actually seen falling for that when I was at school

But who actually does this otherwise? I have seen those kind of contracts advertised, but I never see people actually having them, apart from some 16yo who want the new iPhone by all means and this is the only way they can finance it.

Yeah, sounds like its the same. Do debit cards also have a pin (so you can’t get money put of people once you have stolen it or they put it in your terminal once?)

Well girocards will give the shop the permission to make a one time withdrawal of the amount displayed on the screen, if that money is in your account. If the money isn’t in your account, the payment will not go through. Also if the shop wants to make a second withdrawal, you need to insert your card again and enter your (secret) pin again, they can’t choose what’s charged an when (only before you insert your card an pin, and only THIS transaction will be authorized).

Its a pretty secure system, as (as long as the card terminal isn’t hacked) you can’t spend more than you have, you don’t need to trust shops to only withdraw the agreed amount, and they can’t charge you a second time. Also the spending shows up on your account balance normally within 1 or 2 days.

From what I understand credit cards just let anyone make withdrawals of any amount, as soon as you know the numbers written on the card. So not only you need to trust the shop to withdraw only the correct amount, you need to keep track over you spendings really good, because they could just charge you an arbitrary amount of money on an arbitrary company name months after you gave them your details. Also from what I understand (normal) credit cards just will always work, and if you pay more than you have you just automatically accept a credit contract you need to pay back to your bank. Also (years ago, don’t know if still true) payments get charged to your bank account on bulk at the end of the month, which makes security and not spending to much even harder.

Yeah, this sounds reasonaboe, guess I habe to check if my Bank offers something like that. Credit cards are quite uncommon where I live, most people just use normal girocards for paying in shops and stuff (or physical money)

Yeah, maybe a good idea to look into stuff like this. Do you know privacy friendly ones (who don’t sell or record your purchase history)?