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🥸 well you see, you own a digital license to watch the movie so long as we have it available, have you read our terms of agreement–

Agreed that this is scummy marketing, though. The only real way to own media (legally) anymore is through physical copies, and even then maybe there’s some provision that makes a DVD illegal due to license shenanigans… but no cop’s gonna bust down your door for owning an illegal DVD of Aquaman.

Motorola ATRIX 4G (2011) from work. The one with the laptop dock, although we didn’t actually give out the laptop docks at work.

My favorite phones were the HTC M8 and M9. Great phones, felt very premium. We also had some HTC One X+ devices but there was a very particular issue with that specific phone in that AT&T SIM cards were just slightly not thick enough so there would be intermittent disconnection issues, generally solved by placing a piece of Scotch tape on the back of the SIM and cutting to fit. They also had a terrible tendency to overheat due to the Tegra 3 chip.

I’ve actually still got one of the original One X+ development devices - it’s white and has a serial number and some sort of code etched on the front, and a big ol’ NOT FOR SALE etched on the back. Holding it now, I miss how small phones were back in the day.

Let him play in the legacy code. You can just hose him off later before letting him back into the office so he doesn’t track it everywhere.

This is very true. ChromeOS will likely win out in the long term. But in the short term, it’s good for Google to have competition to goad them into improving and innovating.

At the same time though, I’m not sure whether Lenovo’s solution targets the same audience.

“The Esper solution is an android based software, it is specifically formulated for device management on an android OS running on an x86 platforms. This creates a unique opportunity for Lenovo to address this market. Specific market segments we are targeting include retail and hospitality, as well as the digital signage appliances for these industries. These segments include an abundance of Android based deployments that require a level of customization.”

I don’t think ChromeOS allows really any customization of its UI, does it? I haven’t used it in any significant capacity in a decade… (I wrote the original Chromebook Ninja call center scripts back when it was literally just a web browser on a laptop lol.)

While I agree in theory, it’s hard practically to give the ability to make private wording and typo edits without giving the ability to make more insidious changes - like pushing a certain narrative and then quietly changing words here and there to erase evidence of that after most people have read it, etc.

If news websites kept their own visible audit trail, much like Wikipedia, I could see the argument that Internet Archive doesn’t need to capture these articles immediately, maybe it should be time bound to a year after publication or somesuch, and therefore recent news could retain its paywall by the NYT without being sidestepped by Internet Archive. (While it’s annoying that articles are paywalled, news sites do need to make money and pay for actual news reporters.)

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There’s also purchasable hardware that comes pre-installed with Home Assistant and has zigbee built-in, it looks like, which is neat (though expensive).

This is very true. It does look like they’ve made it much easier lately with pre-purchasable hardware though. I know that it’s a steep price compared to Google Home, but the advantage is that you’re not tied to a Google ecosystem which can just unexpectedly shut down at a moment’s notice. (Listen y’all I’m still mad about Google Inbox.)

Here you go: https://www.home-assistant.io/

You would need to do some pre-planning before going ahead with this and it’s not as simple as Google Home for sure. For example, my household went all in on Zigbee lights and switches so we had to get a Zigbee antenna to connect to our old laptop running Home Assistant and make sure all our cool LED smart lights and other cool gadgets were compatible, etc. I’m also tagging @ISometimesAdmin who did a lot of the networking stuff in case he wants to add anything.

I’m attaching an image of my dashboard setup for my room, just as an example of what can be accomplished. (This may not federate to Lemmy so I will self-reply with a link if necessary) This shows my and my household’s location, the downstairs Sensi thermometer climate (which can be controlled), the light controls, temperature/pressure/humidity which is a little Aqara sensor from Amazon, and the Air Quality comes from my Winix air filter which can also be integrated to Home Assistant. You can really do a lot.

Oh boy, I’m looking forward to going all in on Google Home only for it to be deprecated in three years!

(Hey folks, Home Assistant is pretty cool and you can run it locally on an old laptop.)

I’ve been using the Microsoft launcher for a while now and it’s nice, but laggy. And I had to finally uninstall the Bing browser app because it just wouldn’t stop crashing.

Ricardo’s just out here doing his best. Good job, Ricardo. Your notification test was successful.

I still use nav buttons. I really liked apps that had that left slide out drawer (something Google pushed for a while and then quietly abandoned) and I kept navigating elsewhere while trying to pull out the menu drawers, so I went to buttons.

My final cool app with a drawer, rif is fun, is no longer on my phone, so I guess I can switch to navigation gestures… But it would take a lot of getting used to and “what gesture goes where?” (Note that I am particularly bad at remembering this sort of stuff - I’m the type of person who keeps a screenshot of a keybinding map on my second monitor while playing games.)

I used Chat the first time before they killed it, and then I switched to Hangouts which allowed SMS and chat which was very nice, and then I ignored Allo and Duo when they came out, and then Hangouts died and I went back to Messages and just stuck with RCS, and now what, Google wants me to go back to Chat?

Didn’t Hangouts work? Couldn’t we have just continued to improve on Hangouts? Oh, wait, that would require some actual commitment to this nightmare of an ecosystem.