We moved into a new flat with really bad lighting and I decided to buy those "AmazeFun" (or whatever generic named CN brand) "smart" LED ceiling lights. Bought one for each of four rooms.
Installed, tested them with the app, everything works, great!
Got out the remotes since pulling out the phone to use the app every time you want to turn on the light in the room is a bit much for me. Pressed Power, boom, the whole house is powered on. Dimmer, light temperature, everything syncs between all four lights. Power off turns them all off.
Wrote to "AmazeFun" support, turns out it's "normal behavior". Right.
Headscale is good. We're using to manage a two isolated networks of about 400 devices each. It just works. It's in China so official Tailscale DERPs do not work, but enabling built-in DERP was very easy.
Social media (FB, Twitter, Instagram...) - never had any, never felt the need.
TikTok etc - I strongly believe these are brain cancer.
Crypto - never had any need or interest.
Smartwatches - never solved any need for me either. Same with tablets.
Apple ecosystem - I have a Macbook but all the other stuff IMHO is pretty bad or I don't need it.
Pokemon - no interest.
Home IoT - despite working for many years in (commercial) IoT, home IoT never clicked for me, it's all really clunky and useless, at least in my experience.
VR - we have Quest 3 but rarely play it, it's just not fun somehow after the initial novelty wears off, I much prefer PS5.
I brought my WiFi 7-capable ASUS RT-BE96U to Germany (from China) and I proudly notice that my average download speed is up to ~105 Mbit from ~95 Mbit with the stock Vodafone router.
> Big Tech is spending $364B on infrastructure instead of fixing the code
You mean CrowdStrike still crashes? Spotlight still writes 26TB every night? (Which only happened in beta, AFAIK...) Of course, they are fixing the code. Conflating infrastructure spending is not helpful.
The bitter truth is that complex software will always contain some bugs, it's close to impossible to ship a completely mathematically perfect software. It's how we react to bugs and the report/fix/update pipeline that truly matters.
Seriously, every Cursor update adds another override, their most favorite seeming to be Cmd+E. If I'm not mistaken, poor Cmd+E changed what it does already 3 or 4 times. And every time I have to remove the newly added shortcut to restore "find with selection"...
That's the truth, there are whole agencies specializing in removing bad reviews in Germany. The laws are really skewed against consumers in this respect.
I was looking for a gym and went to several, multiple times, paying outrageous amounts for single visits. Then I reviewed them on Google. None of my reviews survived the "defamation" steamroller.
I guess soon we'll be like Chinese people, inventing parables to say the truth without getting censored. "This was an amazing gym for a relaxing afternoon of crowd watching", or "I very thoroughly enjoyed the company of my friends while waiting for food in this restaurant, it also left me with an overrwhelming lightness in both my stomach and my wallet"...
Installed, tested them with the app, everything works, great!
Got out the remotes since pulling out the phone to use the app every time you want to turn on the light in the room is a bit much for me. Pressed Power, boom, the whole house is powered on. Dimmer, light temperature, everything syncs between all four lights. Power off turns them all off.
Wrote to "AmazeFun" support, turns out it's "normal behavior". Right.
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