Actually, yeah, I edited above but it did have a little keyhole: Except the management office said it was for themselves alone.

That’s just…eegh…

LOL relevant meme attached:

Arlen TX

Weird coincidence seeing this right after finishing an episode of King of the Hill. LOL

“Yo man dang’ol smartlock open up man left my daggum phone in there tell ya what.”

“I’m sorry, can you repeat that?”

Are you sure EA or Ubisoft didn’t already beat you to it? Lol

Honestly I’m not sure, I only got a look at it when I was helping her move.

It’s tied to a wall panel on the other side that controls the whole unit’s lighting and thermostat and such though, and shows a doorbell cam.

Educated guess that it’s all tied to Amazon. Blegh.

Allegedly they’re just supposed to rely on maintenance to change the batteries so they’re not locked out of their home. Crazy.

Okay hang on…this could be a thinly valid use for “vibe coding.”

Is the only software for a particular use case proprietary, ad-ridden, and/or subscription forced, but you don’t have time to dedicate to an entirely new project?

Quickly throw together open sourced “good 'nuff” alternatives to big corporate software!

Put their own tail between their jaws and see how they like it.

My sister’s new apartment’s front door has a “smart lock”, hooked up to Ring, naturally. No keyhole, you open it with your phone. It also runs on batteries.

Do I really need to say any more? We were baffled.

EDIT: Correction - there IS a keyhole but the actual tenants don’t have access to it. Only the property management. Creepy. :|

“Routers using OpenWRT”

Every time I research this, it seems like nothing I can reasonably acquire can run it. Especially any WiFi 6 / AX devices. It’s infuriating.

Edit: Not the fault of OpenWRT, but how stupidly locked down everything is manufactured by design anymore.

This. SO many devices, especially networking stuff. It seems like they should just do their thing after plugging in and setting a few settings. “It’s so EZ!” says the box.

Nope, “scan this code to get this app, make an account, agree to all the things, register for spam…”

It’s disgusting.

The only upside to this state of things is that it keeps alive my fantasies of one day being a Watchdogs-style techno-sorcerer that can wirelessly hack anything that runs on electrons and a WiFi signal.

… Although the nightmare is that people far more evil can probably already do that.

Hey, points for Lutris! Thanks for sharing!

I’ve had issues in the past installing stuff with Lutris, although for advanced scenarios like using community engines and stuff, that’s really cool. I definitely have both installed on my machine for different reasons. Lutris handles EA / Origin stuff pretty well. (Titanfall 2 and Sims 2 Ultimate (not the Steam one) run beautifully on Linux, truly glorious!)

Electron annoys me as well, but I will say that I appreciate how Heroic hooks into GoG APIs. It handles auto-updates, cloud saving, play time logging, that kinda stuff that made Galaxy decent and had a degree of convenience-parity with Steam.

(Maybe Lutris does this too now?)

For a complete newbie , I’d say Heroic has a bit of a smoother and expected ramp to just “Download game and run.” But if you want more control, Lutris definitely has more options!

I also can’t recommend Bottles enough for other games that aren’t from distribution platforms. Shockingly simple.

Off the top of my head:

Gmail or any email: Thunderbird is pretty sweet and I need to use it more, but mostly just use the web clients anyway.

If you own GoG games, you can use Heroic Launcher instead of GoG Galaxy. It’s gotten amazingly good, really fast. :)

That was my thought…

“Somehow they got the Plex app installed…”

Jellyfin somehow works on freaking Roku, even, and WELL. Just give the URL to connect to, they pick a profile, and boom, “Netflix who?”.

(Also, unlike Netflix, it’s not BOMBARDING my PiHole with a gazillion telemetry requests per freaking second holy crap NF calm down. It’s a treat when I have something I want to watch on my Jellyfin drives lol.)

This comment descended more into bizarre whimsical madness with every paragraph lmao.

I don’t know what to do with all that VERY specific knowledge.

Anonymously tip it to regulating authorities?

Or the news, to force a resolution and get some amusement?

Maybe I’m too much of a keyboard vigilante lol…

Yeah I find prepositional F-bombs to be annoyingly juvenile. I remember lots of people in highschool who would get a mind blank and go

“Like…fuggin… Whatever” to connect their thoughts lol.

An “um” is okay. LOL I’ve had to somewhat train this out of myself too… As my mind randomly blanks mid-thought quite often lol.

Not gonna lie before I read your handle I thought these were all named after ways of passively-aggressively clearing your throat. 😂

“error: hostname must not be left blank.” lol

I just read this as:

you’re sat in front of a CEO

the fun stops.

Agreed. Lol

“Have you been to the cloud district lately? Oh what am I saying, of course you haven’t!”

Ha! Clever and humerus!