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p2t2p commented on AirPods don't “just work”   philip.design/blog/airpod... · Posted by u/knowingathing
bpye · 4 years ago
Recently my Hue bulbs have decided to sometimes all show as unavailable in HomeKit, which is annoying. They normally revive themselves in a few minutes but I can’t figure it out.

Unfortunately no other home automation platform (Google, Amazon) lets you keep everything on your local network, and using Home Assistant would make using Siri for it harder, so I’m stuck with an annoyingly buggy platform.

p2t2p · 4 years ago
> Unfortunately no other home automation platform (Google, Amazon) lets you keep everything on your local network

Exactly the reason I keep dealing with HomeKit annoyances.

p2t2p commented on AirPods don't “just work”   philip.design/blog/airpod... · Posted by u/knowingathing
IggleSniggle · 4 years ago
My counter point is that I have my AirPods paired with 4 different (Apple) devices, and I’m constantly amazed that they always seem to be connected to “the right one” every single time. The handoff is seamless and hasn’t made a mistake about guessing which device I want to be driving them in the two years I’ve owned them.
p2t2p · 4 years ago
To me, that's an experience I only have with AirPods Max, Pros totally fail to achieve that.
p2t2p commented on AirPods don't “just work”   philip.design/blog/airpod... · Posted by u/knowingathing
nsxwolf · 4 years ago
I like "workarounds become a reflex". This is a very succinct way of describing one of the causes of why people often claim to have no issues using something that universally has issues.

A great example is the gaming PC vs gaming console war. PC gamers often seem to refuse to admit there's untold little quirks you have to deal with when using a general-purpose operating system and modular hardware to play games. They don't notice the workarounds they are continuously employing, because it's become a reflex.

p2t2p · 4 years ago
Apple's stuff _always_ have issues and annoying ones. My Homepod stopped seeing any HomeKit devices. Reboot didn't help. I didn't feel like digging into it so I just went to bed. Couple days later out of all a sudden they start seeing stuff again.
p2t2p commented on AirPods don't “just work”   philip.design/blog/airpod... · Posted by u/knowingathing
p2t2p · 4 years ago
AirPods Max _often_ just work. Anything else involves manual switching almost every time.
p2t2p commented on Const all the things?   quuxplusone.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
p2t2p · 4 years ago
Same in Java. People final the hell out of _local_ variables.
p2t2p commented on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying   9to5google.com/2022/01/19... · Posted by u/codyogden
unionpivo · 4 years ago
Don't have any apple devices, not sure if i even can.
p2t2p · 4 years ago
For you it is Fastmail then, they are awesome and integrate with 1Password for an-email-per-service thing (known as Hide My Email in Apple's world)
p2t2p commented on Briar Desktop for Linux   briarproject.org/download... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen
lucideer · 4 years ago
> actually solve the fundamental problem

If you consider this "the" fundamental problem you're (a) underestimating the severity of other problems and (b) wildly overestimating what technology can achieve for humanity.

Trusting other individuals in this world is not a problem that's solvable by messaging protocols. Even literal scifi solutions like Mission Impossible exploding sunglasses inherently trust the recipient of the message not to share data post-self-destruct. Recipient trust is a fundamentally implicit part of deciding to communicate at all, through any medium.

p2t2p · 4 years ago
I think what they want is censorship resistant mesh network that wouldn't require first seeding from known addresses like I2P does and most of the others too.
p2t2p commented on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying   9to5google.com/2022/01/19... · Posted by u/codyogden
p2t2p · 4 years ago
Just use iCloud. It allows you to setup custom domains no worries and give emails to everyone who’s included into your family plan. I’ve got two custom domains setup that I share with my wife.
p2t2p · 4 years ago
Alternatively you can use Fastmail but I recentely moved from it to iCloud for consolidation purposes. Don’t get me wrong, Fastmail is absolutely awesome and I had great experience, I just wanted to consolidate.
p2t2p commented on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying   9to5google.com/2022/01/19... · Posted by u/codyogden
apohn · 4 years ago
Something I just discovered is that Office 365 Family only lets you use custom domains if they are hosted by GoDaddy. If you want to use another domain registrar you have to get Microsoft 365 Business, which has a similar price as Google Workspace :(

There's no way I'm moving my domain to GoDaddy.

p2t2p · 4 years ago
Just use iCloud. It allows you to setup custom domains no worries and give emails to everyone who’s included into your family plan. I’ve got two custom domains setup that I share with my wife.
p2t2p commented on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying   9to5google.com/2022/01/19... · Posted by u/codyogden
p2t2p · 4 years ago
Are they stupid or something? Are those money worth reputation loss? Sometimes it seems as if there are malicious actors in Google that are set on taking it down from the inside.

u/p2t2p

KarmaCake day1045November 9, 2016View Original