HiTekRedNek

Thanks, yours as well.

Mine had an abdominal mesh removal.

If you can't filet fish, then fill a chair and let me teach you.

TIL Oklahoma is in Australia.

He's using Sengled zigbee bulbs, probably with their hub. And needs an actual zigbee hub.

At least that's my understanding of his post.

Yeah, this happened at the absolute worst time for me. I have 6 of their WiFi bulbs that I've been planning to replace, but the wife's car just broke down yesterday, and she had a surgical procedure today. And my kid starts her senior year of high school in a week or two, and registration is now, and she needs new clothes for school. Ugh.

Needless to say, money is too tight to replace these 6 not-so-smsrt bulbs just yet.

Thankfully, the 6 bulbs are: 3 in the kid's room, and 3 in the front porch. Ad the kid has other lighting that continues working fine, and the porch lights are only needed if someone goes out there, and we rarely use the front porch, as our main entryway is the back one. I also have several zigbee relays, and some esphome devices so it's not like my entire setup just died..

I was about to pull the trigger on replacing them the last time this crap happened, and they started working again, so they got moved to a back burner.

Yes. Google far-field wireless power.

It's not really ready for prime time, and there are a lot of things still needing to line up for it to become ready, but it's coming eventually.

It's exactly the opposite of what created Putin. He came out of the KGB state security service with control over the elite and the powerful.

How did those elite powerful get to be elite and powerful?

They were the product of a powerful central government giving them said power.

When the people are afraid of the government, there is tyranny. When the government is afraid of the people there is liberty.

You are wildly off base if you think I have any love for that monster.

You are also completely wrong in that oppression is the natural state of power.

i2p

Them: "We need a strong central government to protect everyone!"

Me: "Don't do that! If bad people get control there's gonna be trouble!"

Them: "You just hate people!" votes for strong government

Them when that strong government is then taken over by bad people: 😯

How would you stop them from doing this?

By dismantling as much of the power structure as I can. As often as I can.

Burn.

It

All

Down.

The problem is that government even has the power to do those things.

And to paraphrase you, you can't solve government problems with more government, I'm sorry, man.