The conversation topic was unintuitive aspects of HA, I’m aware hacky workarounds exist, but I find this (pretty central) behavior quite clunky.

I also find it crazy that you’ve never wanted to dim or brighten more than one light at a time lol but then again, diversity is the spice of FOSS!

LOL I knew if I put “VPN” as the first thing someone would reply before reading the whole comment

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/proton-vpn-passes-its-fourth-consecutive-no-logs-audit-heres-what-that-means-for-your-data

Use a VPN and also only share the most common, unoriginal thoughts, parrot the opinions of influencers, and never ever reveal anything that might hint at what makes you a unique soul flickering through the universe.

(basically act like a redditor)

I know how it works, I’m just saying it’s unintuitive. It’s not how any other smart home system works.

I use adaptive brightness too, actually. But nearly every time I’m manually adjusting a room’s existing brightness, I don’t want every single unpowered devices to turn on, too.

99% of the time I want to adjust the current lighting, I don’t want to first turn on all lights and then adjust all of those lights to a uniform standard before individually toggling them all individually. Powering on all unpowered lights when adjusting brightness should be the edge case, IMO (also again not just my opinion, but the industry standard)

For the record all other smart home systems treat room groups the way I am describing (like a dimmer knob and power switches). But there isn’t even an option in HA for rooms to “only adjust devices currently in use”. The smart home companies seem to have researched how people naturally intuit such things.

I would expect it to behave like all other smart home systems, or like a physical dimmer switch/power switch.

The fact that dimming a room turns ON all the lights in the room is actually wild

right lol

This one broke zigbee2mqtt for me but I’m not sure why. I rolled back for now.

Sorry what did you mean by “Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward”? A fork of what?

Is there a list of sources this pulls from?

So it’s not technically Chromium anymore? It’s a fork of Chromium?

It was my understanding that moving forward full fat UBO would not work on any modern Chromium browser, but I’m admittedly not enough of an expert to know better.

It’s Chromium based, doesn’t that mean uBlock isn’t going to work as well?

I’ve never woken up the next morning regretting greasy food

+1 for Bookstack. Very simple and easy to learn.

The highly abridged version is that Red Hat pays for and helps with developing Fedora and makes their money from providing support to companies that use it.

If they stopped supporting Fedora (would kind of kill their business model but let’s pretend) anyone could “fork” it and continue working on their own version just like other distros.

I think 404 Media publishes on Ghost which uses activitypub.

They pretty much just remove you from all those different people finder websites. Not the data brokers that Meta (etc) sell to/from.

It’s still beneficial if you can afford it, but more likely to protect you from targeted scams or stalkers etc. than anything Big Tech.