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Cake day: November 1st, 2023

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  • Well I guess I wasn’t the only one.

    Only took about a day to get it figured out and reset.

    For reference, I only have 3 devices attached. 2 lights and an outlet that is basically another light as it’s connected to a dumb LED strip (aka I can’t use Assistant to control it or change the colors or pattern of changes, I just control the outlet to turn on do I can turn the strip itself effectively on and off- I still need the manufacturer’s app to change the colors and brightness- and as fucking terrible as that app is, at least it works; it has ads and needs an account, but it does function).

    More often than not I turn on/off the lights at the same time, and the strip separately, or I turn all 3 on and off together.

    When I do them all together, I use the command “bedroom off”.

    When the issue affected me, the symptom was that only my night stand light would respond.

    In the Google Home app, all 3 were still associated with the bedroom, but only the night stand responded to the spoken command.

    I changed the other 2 items to another room and then signed them back to the bedroom, and it’s fine now.

    There is one other oddity that might be Google’s fault, or maybe the light itself. The other light (not the night stand) will occasionally register as “offline” and doesn’t respond to commands at first.

    Then the Nest speaker starts to announce “(that light) is offline and can’t be (something or other)”

    But it usually triggers while the message is still being said (which is why I can’t remember the rest of the error- it usually fixes and it stops saying the message when the light finally heard the message and changes).


  • Removable battery is #1. My old Galaxy S3 (not even my first phone-yes I’m old) has absolutely godawful battery life but I had I think 4 total batteries around to make sure I could always have it even on a heavy use day. That sucked, but at least it was doable with a really easy process (peel off plastic back, pull out and swap battery, snap the backplate back on).

    I keep an old phone around and sometimes use it to play like a video for my cats to watch if they’re laying on my bed when I’m not in there. But it has to stay plugged in because it loses the first 20% in about 15 minutes.

    And that phone in particular (a pixel 2) is particularly a pain to replace the battery in the first place.










  • Finally, an actual good use of the “chainsaw of bureaucracy”.

    But yeah, this needs to be said more.

    The problem for me is that it’s hard to see them being more than a potential child molester.

    Maybe not so much if it’s like just “the forbidden kink”, but if it’s more of the main show it feels like they’re just so much more likely to do it eventually.

    Now I haven’t read any data on it, but it does naturally raise concern to be wary.

    But people at large really love an easy target to dump rage on. And I get it, I’ve been in that crowd.

    I may have been saddled with a really weird collection of my own kinks, preferences, and desires, but at least all of mine are kid free. And at my age I still call 20-somethings kids.