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Re:F.lux, but for Your House on Monday November 07, 2022 @02:20PM (#33510903)
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.
Such a much more helpful name!
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.

Re:Ditch high definition and new tech to fight climate change on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:32AM (#25287573)
> “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.

Re:macOS unable to open any non-Apple application on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:19AM (#25080212)
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?
Re:New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers on Friday March 08, 2019 @07:30AM (#19336952)
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.