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  • Rockstar games have some pretty spectacular stories and acting and they're just getting better, ever since GTA IV/RDR/LA Noire. RDR2 was one of the most heartbreaking and melancholy stories I've ever been told, game or otherwise. It's a different genre, of course, but I have high hopes for GTA VI.

  • There's not a week goes by where I don't wish Expiration Date got a sequel.

  • "Stop!... Don't o-pen... that door!"

  • Okay, so which cat gets the corpse?

  • Yeah, my rule is that any Tuya device that uses Wifi is to be avoided. I've got plenty of Tuya bulbs and power meters that use Zigbee, though, and they're alright but they talk directly to Home Assistant.

  • To confirm the suspicions, yes, it is Tuya. It actually says so on the box. I'm still going to grab one, though: quite often the chipset can be reprogrammed and the fact that the specs say it's 2.4GHz only make me think they're using something pretty old-fashioned like an ESP32. Tuya stuff that advertises being dual-band generally isn't worth bothering with at all.

  • Lidl's smarthome kit - specifically their lightbulbs - comes around once in a blue moon but is very good quality. Not up to the standard of Phillips, but on a par with IKEA.

  • I've never seen these used for condiments, but I used to see these being used all the time on soap dispensers in workshops.

  • The YAVNXLT unit offers "elegant and productive for optimum serenity", but the WZNGLPO says it can "bringing security for the family, business and happiness".

  • 🤓 ACKSHUALLY

    It's not possible for a heat pump - or anything - to even be 100% efficient, let alone 400%. Efficiency is measure of how much of the input energy gets converted to useful output energy, and since heat pumps don't actually create heat the useful output is the compressor's ability to pump refrigerant about. The Coefficient of Performance - the ratio between energy put in and useful work done - is 400% for a heat pump (give or take).

  • 2kW is a LOT of production. That'd be enough to run most homes. If it's able to produce that for five hours a day they'd hit that 17000km figure no problem.

    2kW × 5h = 10kWh 6km/kWh × 10kWh = 60km 60km/day × 365days = 21900km

  • When you're not home it becomes part of the alarm system. When you are home it can turn on the lights or heating (or extractor fan in the bathroom) and you can aggregate it with other sensors to measure occupancy to turn those things off again. If you use Home Assistant (or something like it) you can use it to go anything that can be inferred from a door being used.

  • Jon Benjamin Has A Van.

    Edit: actually, shit, that wasn't Adult Swim. Still, though. Also not on Adult Swim: Drawn Together.

  • Sealab 2021 crawled so Frisky Dingo could walk so Archer could run.

  • IGNORE ME!

  • And the Xtacles. I still say "Bon Jovi Friday".

  • Don't listen to him. Sure it may take a few hours a day over the course of a month or so to get right, but with the time you'll save from all that automation you'll break even in a few hundred years - and then it's all gravy!

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  • Knew what to expect. Clicked anyway. Wasn't disappointed.

  • I switched to Qobuz about six months ago after also trialling Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music and YT Music. Highly recommended. Their curated playlists are excellent and I can't believe what a different the higher quality and lossles bitrates makes. They pay artists way more than the other platforms though, remarkably, they're the only (major) platform to actually publish per-stream figures, even if they're only averages. Based in France if that matters to you. They only offer paid plans but do have free trials and provide users with a code for a third-party migration service to bring your playlists over.