Or an accident that they try to pass as an assassination attempt, or an internal attack they try to pass as a foreign attack. Who knows. We certainly do not.
> From what I can tell, Siri is still a dumpster fire that nobody is willing to use. I have no personal experience with Alexa, so I can't speak to it
I use both (albeit more Alexa than Siri, both just for a really limited functionality set), and FWIW, I believe Alexa is worse than Siri. It can do two things at the same time though (just as your example: "turn on X and turn off Y", "turn on X for Y seconds", and things like that).
I also feel that it has gotten worse over the years. I read about the possibility of microphones getting dust and therefore capturing worse audio, so I got a dust blower (for other reasons, too), but it didn't solve anything.
After listening in the app what Alexa picks up (from an Echo and Echo Dot, both 4th. Gen), I have to say that they use really shitty microphones. Furthermore, I have been testing Whisper extensively last month, with audio coming from low-quality sources, and I think a similar model would interpret a lot better my voice than whatever Amazon is using.
I doubt the consumer mass that actually matters to manufacturer's earnings understands RAM value and if the computer they are buying is RAM-upgradable or not.
They are going to buy the 800$, any of the two, complain when it inevitably "works slower" in a couple of years (if they are lucky), and buy a new 800$ once again then. I don't see the manufacturer's motivation to offer upgradable RAM.
They don't have $800 to buy another one so soon. So they take the one that "works slower" to some tech who knows the deal and tells them this machine sucks because you can't upgrade it, and now they think your brand is crap (because it is), curse you for the next however many years until they have the money and then buy the next one from someone else.
They are probably referring to the Ubuntu Pro (previously Advantage I believe) notices that appear when you login via SSH or do apt updates. They can be disabled/hidden anyway, but they are still conceptually invasive.
Never mind, parasoll costs like $12. I mean something like HLK-LD2420 which should be around $2. ESPHome lists many similar sensors and I was asking which one is better. Curious if anyone had any experience with any of those
Generally, a lot more Zigbee devices are compatible with Zigbee2MQTT that to HA's own "ZHA" Zigbee implementation. But Zigbee2MQTT and HomeAssistant work EXTREMELY nice together, very well integrated.
And if you have your Zigbee devices in Z2MQTT, then you can also use Node Red or similar tools for some automations, if you prefer that over the somewhat weird YAML-based automations of HA.
(Tip: use a cheap x86 PC, install Proxmoxx, install Zigbee2MQTT, install HA.OS ... done!)
> I have a friend who is a postdoc stats guy in the biology field. There's actually a deep need for numeracy in biology, people just don't seem to know it when they're in school.
I was always amazed about a past acquaintance whose PhD thesis included game theory applications, as she was studying the breeding and feeding behaviors of some random bird.
