Going this route then eliminates the free/included Google Assistant integration that comes along with using the bridge and app, correct? I really would like to ditch the hub but also want to use voice activation on a few lights.
As a point of clarification: all Pixel phones starting with the 6 were guaranteed 5 years of firmware support. Some phones only had 3 years of OS upgrades (vs 5 years of security patches). Now everything is getting 5 years of OS upgrades.
i use NPM at home. tested caddy a bit but i really liked NPMs convenience of having a Web-UI. allows me to do stuff remotely on my phone without having to dive into conf files.
anyways, what i liked about caddy was how easily it handles SSL-certs, for sure makes it easier to use! :) gonna have to look into how i can give a wildcard-cert to my rev-proxy.
The US Government has been doing deficit spending and the national debt continues to grow at an alarming pace. To fix this, we can raise revenue and/or reduce spending. The easiest thing is to just improve enforcement of the existing tax laws (which are already agreed upon) via increasing the resources available to the IRS
Scroll down to the section that mentions Americans for Tax Reform and links to the presentation: Doing taxes keeps citizens aware of the tax burden imposed upon them by the government. A Return-Free scheme would allow the government to raise revenues invisibly
The network config for out-of-the-box Ubuntu server has been stable for 6 years. You need to modify netplan's config: /etc/netplan/*.yaml (default is 00-installer-config.yaml). This renders volatile systemd-networkd configs in /run/systemd/network which, in turn, will configure systemd-resolved appropriately.
If you've opted out of netplan, then you need to configure one of systemd-networkd or NetworkManager manually (on server, NetworkManager is only present if you've installed it).
I personally used to be opposed to netplan but I had to do some very esoteric network configuration which was super easy with netplan.
Ah right, I remember I ended up writing a netplan YAML. I still couldn’t get it to persist across reboots, and just resorted to running “sudo netplan apply” every time it rebooted.
I'm guessing MasterCard is viewing this as a payment mechanism that only needs the physical customer as the payment authentication. If it's 0 friction (which I doubt), I could see people opting to just look at a camera to pay rather than fumbling to get your phone out.
Fumbling with your phone sounds like a silly statement but so did fumbling with your wallet.
> Fumbling with your phone sounds like a silly statement but so did fumbling with your wallet.
I don't think people want to look away from their phones to do anything, least of all pass a retina scan. You don't even need to swipe away from TikTok to use Apple Pay.
> due to back-room collusion between the federal government and automotive manufacturers over fleet average MPG ratings. It's out of control and has moved into the realm of corruption.
I really don't know how you're linking MPG ratings and maintenance costs as some sort of collision. Maintenance costs certainly seem like they're increasing but I attribute that to cars turning into fickle computers that happen to have wheels and require specialized knowledge to diagnose. I do routine maintenance on my car but am terrified of doing anything that touches the 480V system.
The computers and vast onboard networks, and mostly the screens, are definitely an issue.
What I'm talking about is far more subtle and hidden and insidious. Engine tolerances and pressures have been maxed out. They throw on a turbo charger or two after that. Then they add automatic start/stop.
All of this combined makes these engine systems very needy. For instance, you must use a certain type of synthetic oil and change it often. Most people are going to take thier car to a quick lube and choose a value grade of oil, the wrong one for their engine. Those who have been doing their own oil changes will likely choose the wrong oil based on their experience and, now outdated, knowledge. When this happens, or you let the oil change interval go too long, it causes severe component wear. Cam phasers get clogged and starve the rest of the engine for oil as the engine begins to eat itself with exponentially increasing wear.
That is one thing.
The start stop "feature" causes a dry start many times during each trip. Not only is that $1000 starter getting worn out, the timing chain is digging into the guide each time the engine fires back up (the special oil for the turbo charged 12:1 compression ratio engine with extremely tight tolerances is so thin it doesn't provide enough residual lubrication on surface areas to prevent excessive wear like guide gouging). This nessesitates the timing change maintenance interval. A service that will set you back $2000-3000 every 100k miles because the job takes two days by a senior-senior technician. Not something you and cousin Chad want to tackle on a Saturday over a few beers.
I could go on and on. But there is a waterfall of this shit balling up in our economy that is going to bite a lot of unsuspecting people.
All of this because the manufacturers are being paid to yield CAFE standards and they engineer it all so that the costs are passed silently to the consumer. The limit on the balance of affordability, MPG, emmissions and maintainability was reached and then greedily exceeded in a way where one was substituted for another. With the way people are accustomed to maintaining their vehicles, these are not going to last. More environmental impact. Ultimately being caused by government regulations and industry coziness (like Boeing) that has outlived its usefulness.
Wow, what a great summary! I was a little put off by your initial political commentary in the first comment, but this is exactly what is happening. The point about the water thin OW oil is exactly on the nose. Oh you save $300 in gas a year, but got an $80 oil change how many times? And people are buying brand new Japanese cars, since they see 20 year old ones still kicking, but time will tell.
HN crowd of course is interested in all the computer-on-wheels aspect, but the basic hardware is being stretched to the limit because gasoline has a finite energy density and a practical limit on combustion efficiency. So it’s just pushing the costs under the rug. And there is most definitely a corrupt relationship with the whole “fleet average” thing.
