Basically in my experience, when it comes to smart lights it’s generally just worth springing the extra for Philips Hue (and using the hub, not just in Bluetooth mode) unless you want to waste your time and money with other brands. Nothing else seems to be remotely as reliable and easy to work with—and I have zero patience for having to perform tech support on my house lighting.

I’m glad to hear you got your bulbs working though

Okay cool, but what about the games you’ve already had out for like a year?

Like, idk, ff7r2 on PC?

Lotta greek mythology/philosophy on lemmy this week…

What’s going on

You’d have thought they’d have learned from losing the browser monopoly they had 15 years ago due to complacency

99% of their “innovation” comes from pubic sector academia or stuff NASA already figured out anyway.

IMO SpaceX shouldn’t have exclusive rights to any of it, really

The only thing they’re really bringing to the table is money. NASA could be doing exactly the same stuff if the government actually treated it as a priority.

A roguelite with metaprogression?

I’m in

Well I’m glad someone has done this so everyone else can see for sure that this is a dead idea

That’s cool for Action Retro to get featured on Tom’s Hardware

That thumbnail lol

Can we do the same to heroes whilst we’re at it, maybe even just keep the first season

Okay but what if you use emoji in your password?

Putting everything else aside:

Why do they think they have any right to be platformed by Google, a private American company?

Can I demand that anti Putin content be platformed on VK or they have to pay me genuinely absurd fines?

I think that would categorically be world war at that point. I was more going on about seriously denouncing this kind of thing as being on the road to world war, before we get to that point

It does, I first saw it on ebaumsworld

When the gap was only £10-20k a few years ago, you could justify to yourself that sticking in the public sector was probably affording you some quality of life benefits.

Now the gap is more like tripling your salary and nearly everyone good has left for greener pastures. Hell, the work/life balance didn’t even change much for me

My understanding is that if you’re working in tech at GCHQ, you’re dealing with fossils—both your colleagues and the actual tech stack itself. Apparently any kind of meaningful change has to go through countless layers of scrutiny and review, taking weeks.

You also need to basically nuke your social media and lie to your friends and family on the regular. Which IMO effectively means you need to be thinking about your job 24/7, and therefore are working 24/7.

~£40k isn’t even close to the low-water mark for an entry level job given all that IMO. If they want such a specialist skillset too, they’re probably gonna need to add a zero if they actually want to attract anyone good.

There are even other parts of the government that don’t have all that baggage and pay more.

Chllng vrything

So when do we start seriously saying this is looking like we’re escalating into world war here?

In a roundabout way yes I think it is

Petrochemical companies are lobbying hard with politicians able to be bought because science is basically suggesting we essentially kill the entire industry off as expediently as possible—they are doing anything they can to stave that off for as long as they can, and they have a shitload of money to use on that goal.

If a politician can be bought, particularly over something as urgent as climate change, they are clearly going to value personal success over collective success—which pretty much always leads to right-wing authoritarianism.

Right-wing authoritarians are very good at propagandising rubes who don’t pay enough attention to the big picture when they’ve got the funds to do so.

And here we are with the current situation.

And people will be going to prison for this, right? Ballot boxes will have definitely been put in view of CCTV, right?