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Love the cat one! That's a unique take on home automation that I have never encountered before.

The ones I use the most are:

• Turning on lights and setting specific scenes when I turn on TVs in my bedroom, living room and theater room.
• Brighten lights whenever Plex is paused or finishes playing, which is great in a dedicated home theater where the lighting is very dark when watching a movie. This has actually helped improve many hang out nights with friends because the moment after a movie finishes is less awkward, leading more naturally into a nice conversation before every heads home.
• Reminder notifications for when washing machine or dryer cycles finish, or when my garage door has been open for more than 15 minutes (unless I override that with a toggle on my dashboard).
• Turning off all of my lights and switches when I leave the house, unless a boolean variable is flipped (e.g. if someone else is at my house w/o me, which is unusual since I live alone). Well, not quite everything, there are a few devices like a couple power monitoring smart pugs that always remain on.

Federation is enabled on Kbin now.

Pro tip: saying things like "this site" without context means nothing, since your comment can be seen by people on other instances. If you hover on someone's username, the full context including what instance they are coming from will be revealed. The comment you replied to is actually coming from lemmy.fmhy.ml and the other reply to that came from lemmy.world.

It did go away for awhile, though, and it took several attempted restarts before finally sticking on something that gained enough traction to (I assume) pay for itself.

An email to Twitter’s press account requesting comment returned an autoreply with a poop emoji.

While hilarious, this simple statement in a legal filing does so much to underscore how insecure, weak and petty Musk (and probably all billionaires) really are.

Probably doesn't help their legal case at all, either!

The whole idea of a protest being pointless is pointless!

Protests often do not accomplish their stated goal in the moment. That doesn't mean there wasn't an effect, it may just take awhile (or more protests) to be noticed. Even if it doesn't ever have a measurable effect, the idea that people should just shut up and not express themselves is completely contrary to all of the ideals of democracy.

I like how this quietly but accurately calculates the result of 2+2, but somehow cannot handle 1+1.