Siri is bad but at least it has natural language processing. I think it’s so funny how CEOs have no idea how LLMs work.

Over a year ago Apple literally ran an ad showing off an “Apple Intelligence” feature that you could tell nobody at Apple ran by the actual engineers before deciding it was possible. It (of course) has still not been released.

If you can figure out a better way please let me know 😭😭

Very easy to use… once up and running. But there are other distros out there (Bazzite comes to mind as a good example) that “Just work” on a level even Macs can’t approach. Installation is the only “complicated” part but I’m sure we’ll see some manufacturers installing Bazzite by default in good time.

You’re absolutely not wrong.

But I’m still gonna clap.

Not defending the behavior in question, but Linux nowadays is MUCH simpler to understand than Windows or MacOS. It is by far the easiest operating system to change to, and the easiest to learn if you are somehow not familiar with any. From a user standpoint it’s the least “techie” OS now (aside from mobile OS of course).

What you describe about “needing to take courses” was true ten years ago, it was probably true three years ago. It is just simply not true now.

How would you do presence detection (getting home)

I have a sensor on my front door that triggers an automation that sends a text to everyone’s phones that is (supposed to) trigger a location update. It then waits ten seconds and checks everyone’s phones to see what wifi network they are connected to, it then waits another ten seconds and if nobody’s location is “home”, or nobody’s wifi is the home network, then it texts everyone an alert of a possible break in.

Only about 50% of the time does it correctly identify someone legitimately coming home lol

I was going to report to the mod but… the mod is the one who posted it. Guess I’m unsubbing.

Wasn’t a fan of their hub so I connect the bulbs directly to my ZigBee hub/dongle.

I did the same, I wish it was more widely known that it was possible (and very easy with Zigbee2Mqtt).

Thanks, I fixed my comment, the article said “similar to that found in the Kindle Colorsoft” and I didn’t read further.

This is really cool, I love that it has a gentle front light. But pricing aside, having to take off the wall to charge every three months is a dealbreaker. I wonder if a solar panel along the top edge of the frame would have been sufficient to keep the battery charged for most situations.

Regardless I hope we see more of these. Even if the Kaleido Spectra 6 screen is FAR from photo quality.

Oh my goodness automatic theme transitions finally!

I just checked and it’s in the HACS docs

I just checked and it’s in the docs but I’ve never needed it…

Oh interesting I read “atomic” and assumed it meant small. As in small updates to an immutable system.

It’s actually slightly less risk especially for someone’s PC you won’t be around 100% of the time to help fix. Immutable just means the system files can’t be edited.

The “atomic” part means it gets frequent (daily, if desired) updates but you can change in the settings to only check monthly so it doesn’t feel crazy.

I support this and would suggest Fedora Kinoite which is Fedora’s immutable version with KDE Plasma and is very very hard to meaningfully break.

Right, and I’m saying Zorin is perfect for them. Zorin exists in a weird space where it’s great for the type of person who would never really consider installing Linux in the first place.

No it’s a great recommendation.

Yes Bazzite is great I tried it out recently and loved it.

I didn’t say “average person” and end the sentence. I said the average person installing linux. The type of person who installs Linux in the first place is already extremely far from average.

I would consider act of installing Linux itself to be “tinkering”.