Every Google, Alexa and Apple hub support 2.4Ghz Wifi and likely can be a Matter controllers, however only a subset of them support Thread.

Makes me wonder how much of Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” is just some dude playing GTA VR with you in the passenger seat.

Is the future just having a human slave in a third world country strap into VR and carry your groceries for you?

I love the way the Tree is automatically created. Having the ability to rename the root on the occasion where it’s not intuitive, would be perfect.

The Hook Up are working on a smart lock comparison video, I would guess it be out in the next week. Cost will be a factor in his recommendations.

Lasagne - A Garfield Cartoon. Warning: disturbing content.

Rats?! I’m outraged, you promised me dog or higher!

“…Don’t worry it’s just a name”

Attacking by monkeys

“He said it was just a name?!”

“What he meant was monkey attack island is actually a peninsular.”

Not to worry, the era ended 22 years ago.

Settings > Appearance > Display Votes > Separate

“You are viewing this from bile Safari”

Oh that makes sense. I had a brain fail. Cheers!

Do you need to unblock a bunch of domains for every new site you visit?

Get a bot to do it for you, I heard that they are now better than humans at solving them.

You’re welcome, enjoy the raccoons!

Yes, posts can remain on some rogue servers forever.

Up until recently, deleted posts were stored in all server’s databases forever, just with a deleted flag next to them. It was recently changed to purge after 30 days. Even so, someone could setup a server that ignores all deletes and will still retain them forever.

For privacy, editing your post first may be useful as that seems to propagate faster. This could still suffer from the same rogue server issue not respecting edits.

This is a problem that doesn’t seem to have an answer yet.

Side note: if you’re doing it for privacy reasons, I was reading that self hosting for just yourself will allow people to see what communities you subscribe to, based on what communities are visible on your server.