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Re:macOS Container Machines on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:41AM (#48477033)
Yes, that article states that as well under limitations: "Deprecation status: While functional, Apple discourages its direct use in favor of App Sandbox for developers."
Cool cool cool. So to confirm, you just installed the Home Assistant APK and that worked without issues?
Re:Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:42AM (#48207650)
Related: Honda's 2 Motor Hybrid System Explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P_VChtMGK8
Re:Math Notepad on Friday March 06, 2026 @07:51PM (#47283148)
$39?! I'll stick with qalc!
Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:35AM (#47037067)
Similar story - "Home assistant picked up my neighbours Bluetooth toothbrush and now I can see when they brush their teeth"

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1306pcw/home...

Also the Dacia Spring is exactly that.
Re:Sumo – Simulation of Urban MObility on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:26AM (#44746022)
Slightly tangential, but there's this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/
Re:Sign in with Google in Chrome on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:45AM (#44723328)
Good information, but you can already turn this off via the (quite hidden, I admit) setting that is mentioned in the article. That's a better way to turn this off completely, rather than patch it via a visual rule.
Re:Sign in with Google in Chrome on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @09:43AM (#44723293)
That does not completely turn off the federated sign-in popup you see on the top right in various websites. The solution is actually already mentioned in the article.
What travel ban are you referring to?

Related answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44006725

Re:Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @12:25PM (#43473116)
You need a farm of machines that run the actual mail clients, to do that reliably. https://www.emailonacid.com/ is such a service.
Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @12:38PM (#42186089)
Re:Tegelwippen on Saturday May 18, 2024 @09:19AM (#40398806)
For NYC specifically I've been burned many times by Citymapper. It is trying to be clever and parse the messages about service changes, but does it all wrong and in the end gives you wrong directions, leaving you stranded. Sometimes it doesn't show the alerts by MTA at all.

Now that the MTA app is so good and has achieved feature parity with Citymapper, I prefer that for 90% of the time. It doesn't have multi-modal (eg subway + citibike) and doesn't show estimates of uber/lyft prices, but those have not been very useful in my experience.

Citymapper is still ok to quickly check upcoming train or bus departures.

Pretty cool. If you have adguard home and google assistant, you have access to a switch that can enable/disable adguard home protection. So with the homeassistant app you can add that as a quick tile as well. The only caveat is that this will disable it across all devices.
It's not that tedious.

In adguard home you have a switch on/off in the web UI. You can also expose that switch to homeassistant.

And there are some other good ideas in this thread as well for android and ios.

Re:ICO fines HelloFresh £140k for spam texts and emails on Sunday January 14, 2024 @09:06AM (#38990483)
> you get meals every week, unless you opt-out

But that is what the subscription is about.

There are clear options under account settings to "Cancel plan" and "Pause deliveries".

You can only apply the fix to the URL field in the payload described, not to normal message text.
You probably have battery issues because you are using SmartThings as the zigbee hub and it's polling the remote way too much.

I have switched to HomeAssistant with a Zigbee USB adaptor and there are no more battery issues.

SmartThings are aware of the issue but do not care enough to fix it.

Re:Formula 1 didn't realize Las Vegas would be cold in November on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:26PM (#38236652)
I clicked on one of these links in Google News, and now I get all the click-baits for the Las Vegas GP such as "Las Vegas GP cancelled?". Jalopnik is one of them, but they are all pretty much trash. This is definitely not HN material.
Re:DJI Virtual Flight (iOS) has been broken for five months on Saturday September 09, 2023 @12:27PM (#37447144)
DJI used to have the "Mimo" app in the play store. It was rated very low, 2.3 stars. The app required users to allow the permission to read the phone's IMEI. If you denied that permission, the app closed. Myself, and I'm sure plenty of others, have reported this to the play store as something against the play store policies. Perhaps Google gave in to the complaints eventually and told DJI, enough is enough with your crap, who knows... And that made DJI say, "enough is enough with _you_, we're big enough to distribute these outside the play store and keep our invasive tracking and permissions".

Page visible only if you have installed the app in the past: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dji.mimo

Re:JSON Schema Store on Friday September 01, 2023 @11:17AM (#37351926)
Awesome tool, thank you for sharing. I made use of it already!
https://twitter.com/friscolive415/status/1690281516935589888...

"A large festival posed wireless bandwidth constraints causing delayed connectivity to our vehicles. We are actively investigating and working on solutions to prevent this from happening again. We apologize to those who were impacted."

Re:The complex simplicity of my static websites on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:35PM (#37111494)
There's probably a reason why haml (and also coffeescript) didn't take off and got abandoned.

If anyone knows the reason, feel free to share.

"dang near perfect" is correct!

The only issue is the font, really. I use the stylus extension to change it to:

* { font-family: Open sans; }

And _now_ it's perfect. For desktop at least.

Re:Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:39PM (#34372809)
Rancher desktop, or (my preferred) colima + docker cli.
This is not related to radio hacks, it is just a poorly secured web API.
Re:Yahoo Pipes on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:49PM (#33722299)

  - node-RED
  - n8n.io
Re:A few thoughts on Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:56AM (#33671266)
I think your perception is incorrect in both counts.

They went bankrupt and saved the app by selling it to Warner and selling IP to Live Nation.

And it doesn't seem like he was aiming for a heartwarming tale, the last message says "we gave it our best shot" and he is disappointed that there is no big, healthy competition.

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