dmtalon

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[–] dmtalon 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This would be pretty cool, if you build it I'll come :)

I moved away from Strava when they first started putting stuff behind a paywall, and just keep everything inside Garmin. But can't stand that they've come up with connect+ BS

[–] dmtalon 33 points 2 days ago

I won't watch it there either

[–] dmtalon 2 points 2 days ago

Ya, good to see for sure but I'll stick with my 5.7 for a bit longer!

[–] dmtalon 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They've extended the recall into 2024 models so I guess we'll see how that goes!

[–] dmtalon 9 points 2 days ago (8 children)

So, I see Toyota, expensive Toyota, and Subaru.

I'm a bit of a Toyota fanboy, I own a 2008 Tundra I bought new that's been the best vehicle I've owned, however the new one has not been fairing well in the reliability department (the new engine has issues). I have heard from a few sources (one personal friend) that Toyota quality has dropped the last decade too. If that's the case, what does that say about the others below these three?

You can still be best even if the "whole" group's quality/reliability is going down I guess.

[–] dmtalon 3 points 3 days ago

Ya, I get it, and anything smart now needs to be able to work with home assistant locally.

If we had to do it over again we'd have likely gotten something different, but the features you do get can be useful!

[–] dmtalon 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ya, hard disagree here, while 100% the new features could have been kept in device, vs cloud but the difference between our (770?) that just bounces around until it runs out of battery (and gets stuck in the SAME place Everytime it hits that spot vs. the newer one vacuums the whole floor and can be told to avoid the problematic area(s) is pretty huge.

Now, the new one has a host of its own issues but when it works it's a much better product that produces much better results.

All that said I think the software has gone to crap over the years and the newer (i7) actually is less reliable than it was the first 6-8 months we owned it.

[–] dmtalon 1 points 6 days ago

Or, perhaps we can stop funding THEM

[–] dmtalon 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd have bet against that, but good to hear!

[–] dmtalon 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, we don't buy breeds, we generally rescue our pets, our current two came from SAAP.

[–] dmtalon 1 points 2 weeks ago

Guess the food in their bowls will sit uneaten or when they get fed junk (human) food they'll just not be interested?

[–] dmtalon 10 points 2 weeks ago

Obviously there are exceptions but that's not driving fat drugs for pets.

 

Who's playing? Bought it last Sunday and have been playing it quite a bit since.

 

There's this...

 

Outside of Cincinnati and noticed I had no service around 11am. Started checking around ant it seems it's pretty widespread.

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Sunset (infosec.pub)
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Unexpected huge sunset while driving home tonight.

The sun didn't look real in person!

 

Anyone here have a new 9? I wanted to listen to some music on my Pixel Buds Pro 1s and noticed the volume was quite low.

Looked around at various settings, but nothing weird. Swapping to my 8 and I get normal volume. Switching back, low again.

 

So, I never visit McDonald's. Oddly, I have managed to visit them twice this year. Once a month ago while traveling and it just worked out that it made the most sense when we stopped for fuel while traveling.

And second last night. We were at the lake late and coming home just before 9pm. Most non chain places were closing, and the only local spot open was McDonald's. Had the whole family including my visiting parents.

The experience was pretty awful. First, they had 3 employees in the building, and the expectation was that you use the Kiosk. I didn't have 'strong' opinions of having to use it vs. speaking to a human. However after ordering 4 meals on it, it is quite the nightmare for the casual visitor. Probably took 4x as long to order our food.

My parents took their order on a second Kiosk and were not even able to complete their order (Parents are in their mid 70s). Not sure what happened, I wasn't watching them. My dad was quite irritated at this point.

After asking one of the humans multiple times for help, he took their order at the register.

<insert 30 minute wait for food>

Our food was placed in their pickup area in bags with napkins (store napkin holder empty). Nearly every burger was overcooked and quite dry. Both my buns were hard. The fry's were luke warm and not very fresh. The meal for 2 adults and 2 14yos was $40 bux.

I saw a story on Lemmy last week about how McDonald's profits were down and the general consensus was that it was the over priced food. While I'm sure that has an impact I believe the Kiosk, slow 'fast food' and overall experience has to be a huge negative.

My parents were PISSED, and they are historically huge McD Patrons. At least in their case, the price will not be why they do not return. Its the awful experience.

 

Hell of a game!!

Let's gooo!!

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Thanks FS2 (self.fccincinnati)
 

That was a joke, way to switch to college basketball in the middle of our game

 

Just got this email from Haier (US) who seems to be distancing themselves from the EU division's decision to block Home Assistance.

Hello , (I changed this)

Thank you for reaching out with your concern.

The Haier brand in the U.S. is independent of Haier Europe and operates separately. hOn is the connected IOT platform for Haier Europe. In the U.S., consumers can use our open IOT platform, SmartHQ. SmartHQ does not prevent integrations with Home Assistant.

We appreciate you reaching out.

Kindest regards,

Digital Engagement Team Haier Appliances

 

Noticed when we got home last night our outside lights were not on, but we have an automation to turn them on if we're gone after dark. Meant to check why, but forgot.

Logged into the companion app this morning to manually toggle a switch and saw Life360 integration was not connected and "requires reconfiguration"

reentering my password and trying to log in is not working. I tried removing and re-adding the integration but the problem remains. Now I cannot re-add the integration as it will not sign in.

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

We seemed a bit quick to want to start fights tonight. I believe while the ref was a bit quick to yellow card a couple of our players, others got lucky.

Moreno could have easily been carded early on. Badji could have gotten a red for his punch.

Otherwise a great game for us, but I hope those yellows don't come back and bite us.

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