My team hasn’t gone to the Superbowl in its 25 year history so like, nah Pats fans deserve more suffering.

They, like DVDs, have a lifespan of ~20 years but can last a lot longer if kept in a cool and dry spot.

But also you can rip the discs and store them digitally on hard drives or whatever :)

And a bit of lime juice for acid will make it taste great and round out a few more vitamins.

It’s also a very valid answer to a football fan. There’s two camps, Patriots fans and literally every other fanbase going for the Seahawks.

Cowbee can you just be wrong for once? I’m good and damned tired of seeing you be right all the time.

Blurays are better quality than streaming.

4K Bluray is the highest quality you’ll ever get in your home by like, a lot.

Streaming is a regression.

Oh fuck is this the quarterly Lemmy obsession with some food product

Yeah at best you’d start a fire at the roof. Wouldn’t do anything to the pole

Yep. In my country 3G is shutdown. Without 4G and VoLTE you cannot make calls.

I feel like the US is very split on this.

Personally I have all hard floors and don’t care if someone has shoes on, but personally shoes in the house feels weird to me.

8 bucks is definitely 10 bucks in my book. 6.99 is 5 but above that and I start thinking 10.

loss of Internet connection

No. They aren’t controlled via Internet (they can be, but it’s not vital). You have Zigbee switches that control them through radio. Or you control them with your Zigbee controller which is hooked up to your network, but works locally so even if your Internet is down it works on LAN.

voltage drops/brown outs/black outs … They all turn on the full brightness for “safety”

Depends on the brand. Some do this. Most do out of the box but you can go into the settings of your Zigbee controller and disable that. Some don’t let you configure it. I’d read reviews first.

Also Phillips Hue is actually a Zigbee bulb, which can be used with non-Hue Zigbee controllers. If I’m reading right this setting can be configured. https://community.hueessentials.com/t/how-to-set-up-power-on-behaviour-for-my-lights/720

Brand/model isn’t important.

You’ll need a HomeAsstant controller. You can buy one premade or you can look up tutorials and make your own with a raspberry pi or old laptop or PC. Then you’ll need a ZigBee controller, this is a radio that will talk to your smart lights and other accessories.

You then get ZigBee compatible lights. Phillips Hue is the top of the line but so stupidily expensive I’d never recommend it. Innr makes good ones at half the cost. ThirdReality makes decent ones too for even cheaper.

You’ll probably also want some ZigBee switches to have physical controls for your lights instead of just by phone. They make models that replace your actual light switches. Or, if you rent like me and can’t modify that, you can get battery powered ones that stick on the wall. Battery life is like a year or more so not too bad.

That’ll do it. You can also use HomeAssistant now that you’ve got it. It’s a home automation software that’s open source and locally controlled. You can hook up much more than your lights. Smart plugs, your TV, 3D printer, fans, cameras, tons of sensors, your thermostat, robovac, etc. Then make automations that connect them. For example my living room ZigBee switch, one press up toggles the main lights. Double press for the lamp. Hold down and it turns off all lights and the TV. Some lights like my closet light are controlled by a door sensor instead of a switch, so they come on automatically. Some people prefer motion sensors so all lights are automatic. Turn off stuff automatically when you leave, etc.

Imagine having both

ZigBee baybeee. Fully local, offline, forever. Nobody can stop them working.

I love my smart lights for this. I can change them at my whim. By default they’re brighter and whiter during the day, slowly moving dimmer and yellow after sunset. Or I can make them whatever other color but I do that pretty rarely.

It’s also fully offline and no WiFi used. But it seems almost everything you see in the stores are WiFi bulbs you have to get an app for, where one day they might go bankrupt and suddenly your lights dont work. Or the internet goes out. Yuck.

Some drama on their licensing situation:

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/issues/8886#issuecomment-3837091846

Actually I just got my payment from an Apple class action about Siri triggering during private conversations.

It was $40 which was kinda crazy high for such a broad class action.

I mean that’s vague.

I’d say it depends on the content too. On a computer monitor at typical size/distance? Yeah probably. Small text will look much much better.

Depends on the screen size and distance.

And piracy gets them from Bluray.

Now that that’s dying I’m afraid we’re gonna be stuck with streaming bitrates.