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New comment by atrainedmonkey in "Circadian lighting with Home Assistant: Like f.lux, but for your house"

atrainedmonkey — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:20:16 +0000

To avoid vendor lockin you can run an install of Home Assistant with a Deconz zigbee USB dongle, which can then act as a hub for a massive range of zigbee devices. including Phillips hue, but I use Ikea’s Tradfri bulbs at a third of the price.

New comment by atrainedmonkey in "Gromit-MPX Lets You Draw Anywhere on Linux Desktop Screen"

atrainedmonkey — Tue, 25 May 2021 10:34:35 +0000

Such a much more helpful name!

New comment by atrainedmonkey in "Bitcoin reaches an all-time trading high of over $33 (2013)"

atrainedmonkey — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 07:37:31 +0000

Most interesting bit is right at the end of the article

> Disclosure: Upon hearing of the all-time high today, I sold my final bitcoin at a price of $32.50.

New comment by atrainedmonkey in "Ditch high definition and new tech to fight climate change"

atrainedmonkey — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 10:32:52 +0000

> “To be honest, digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions compared with, say flying even once a year – but every bit of CO2 saving is significant.“

Is it worth losing people over such a small gain? This is a 5% saving on a likely negligible cost anyway... This study wasn’t just a waste of time, it’s actually detrimental to an already hard battle convincing people they can have an impact.

New comment by atrainedmonkey in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

atrainedmonkey — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:19:05 +0000

Maybe I didn't parse the sarcasm tags, but they're opening up a whole new market of mac owners to your product with what's likely minimal effort?

New comment by atrainedmonkey in "New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers"

atrainedmonkey — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 12:30:47 +0000

In Microsoft's defence, just because its functional, doesn't mean they're ready to spend time supporting it on other clients from day 1.

They may be planning a more gradual roll out to other clients once they have confidence with Chrome.