+1 for Home Assistant

I have it running on a Pi 5 (although a Pi 4 is more then enough), with a 15€ USB ZigBee antenna from AliExpress (to connect IKEA devices).

The best thing about it is that it seamlessly integrates all devices with each other, so you can use cheap ZigBee buttons to control your Philipps Hue lightbulbs, for example.

Of you press up/down right after left/right the window will be a quarter of the screen instead of half.

On Windows 11, you can also just drag towards the top, and it’ll give you different snapping options.

Both iPhone and Android have ways to disable biometrics until the next unlock via password/code.

Iirc, on iPhone, it was pushing the power button 5 (or 7?) times. On Android, long press the power button and select “lock”.

Yeah, I hate it when people don’t use the simple shortcut Win+Ctrl+Shift+Alt+L to open LinkedIn!

I’ve noticed Chinese people doing this often. I assume that it’s to do with Chinese keyboard layouts.

I still cannot use special characters in filenames, 40 years of Windows OSes in.

That’s a good thing IMO. The benefits of using special characters in this specific case are slim, but the repercussions for every single programming language that ever touches file or folder names (i.e. basically all of them) are pretty big.

Like seriously, I’d wager that entire companies might crawl to a stop because Bernice in accounting put a “/” into some important excel file name.

I also like /wiki ezd which opens a page telling you how to quickly do the daily and weekly objectives.

It’s still a wiki, I.e. user/community written content.

The Guild Wars 2 (and 1) wiki is also hosted directly by the devs. It’s even accessible via chat command.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/

Forums: great store of knowledge and friendly, helpful people. If you ask a question in discord, nobody will ever see the answer again.

The search functions in forums are notoriously terrible though (although someone will inevitably ask you to try using it), so finding anything useful relies on “outside” search engines.

And the linear thread format has been terrible since it was invented (which is probably why discord uses it). You basically need to ignore half the posts to follow the one interesting side line that might end up with a solution.

Heat tolerance will also not help against the increases in storms, floods and wildfires that are directly caused by the heat increases.

Summer being 110°F is not even in the top 10 of why climate change is bad.

Or Louise

It’s Microsoft. For some insane reason, excel formulas are localized. E.g. German Excel uses “SUMME()” instead of “SUM()”.

It’s insanely annoying because it sport of makes it more difficult to ask for help (I.e. only Germans might know what SVERWEIS does). And if you manage to find a solution in English, you need to translate it.

And here I thought chains were only used for cricket and train tracks.

Lemmy itself doesn’t support user tags, but some of the clients like voyager, do.

What the heck is that map projection? It’s like Mercator on steroids.

In Germany, people are very concerned about Zugluft, i.e. draft from opening multiple windows.

Do you not have to actually use patents to keep them?

I would go one step further and require all companies to provide an email address that must be clearly listed on a “contact” page, including a PGP public key to allow for encryption if desired.

If they want people to use their chat bot, the chat bot just needs to actually be good.

You can literally sort issues by last activity if you want to proritize based on that. There’s no reason to autoclose issues.