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serious question - you think overweight people do not know they are overweight? And they don’t know it’s bad for them? They are probably overweight because they physically have trouble losing the weight (disability, hormonal issues, etc), or they have no self-control, or they are poor and don’t have the means or time to focus on their health.

if you are already fat and prediabetic, you have a lifestyle problem, not a medical problem a doctor can fix.

Re:HomePod Mini on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:06AM (#24777330)
Agreed!
Re:HomePod Mini on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @08:31AM (#24775750)
Oh I see, that stinks. I know this isn’t what you were looking for, but here are some options if you are willing to be creative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/hzc7lr/powerboardp...

Re:HomePod Mini on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @01:05AM (#24773278)
Motion sensor: https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Motion-Sensor-Installation-Fr...

Power strips: https://www.imore.com/best-homekit-power-strips

Most philips hue products are Homekit compatible, if you have a hue bridge.

As far as the “best” lighting/switch products, I would recommend Lutron Caseta. Not cheap though!

If you’d like to reliably detect when someone is home (their phone is on wifi), you can dive into Homebridge. The plug-in you want is this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-people

With the homebridge-people plugin, you can expose an occupancy sensor in Homekit, and trigger a scene when everyone leaves the house, for example. Or the inverse, when someone arrives home. This is more reliable than the built in Homekit location based triggers, because those work with GPS. You don’t always want your lights turning on just because you drove past your house. :)

That’s a fair point - the mutation speed is different. I hope you’re right, but yes, i’m feeling cautious.
I urge you to temper your positivity, and reconsider the timeline for a “2nd wave”. Note in the 1918 influenza pandemic, the 2nd wave occurred in the FALL of the following year. If history repeats itself, we may see a 2nd wave in the fall of 2020. Time will tell.

“ The influenza pandemic in the United States occurred in three waves during 1918 and 1919. The first wave began in March 1918 and lasted throughout the summer of 1918. The more devastating second and third waves (the second being the worst) occurred in the fall of 1918 and the spring of 1919.”

https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/files/pdfs/community-deve...

Re:SoundCloud raises $75M from SiriusXM on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @12:42PM (#22310849)
This is the coolest thing i’ve seen this year! Thanks for sharing.