lhamil64

I'm lucky enough to work at a place that gives us actual offices. Some offices are larger with two desks (so some people share) but I have my own office. There's apparently some plan to improve our site and I'm really hoping they don't move us to an open plan or something.

I'm having a hard time understanding what you are saying you Google.

Or open up a local API so Home Assistant users don't even need to hit their servers in the first place, which is preferable anyway...

> If it's on your LAN, you probably have physical access to it and that's basically a factor in itself.

Just because it's a LAN doesn't mean you have to be physically present to access the device. Another device on your network could be compromised, giving an attacker access to anything that the device can access. For example, say you get tricked into downloading something nasty on your laptop. Now they have remote access to your laptop, giving them access to your NAS. Ultimately it comes down to your threat model. For an average home user, it's probably not very likely that not having 2fa on LAN-only devices would be a huge risk. But for a business with thousands of employees that could plug who-knows-what into your network? Much higher risk.

I recently switched from smart lights that used a cloud service to local ZigBee lights controlled via Home Assistant. One of the first things I noticed was just how snappy they are. You tap the button and they immediately turn off, almost like you're just killing the power with a physical switch. Plus they're more secure & private to boot!

What about on mobile?

No I don't, do you know if you can buy the truSDX pre-assembled, or does it just come in a kit? I'm visually impaired, so soldering is difficult for me. But I'd like to try getting on HF.

I got my license about a month ago and ordered a QDX to try FT8, but they're super back-ordered. The orders page shows that they're just now fulfilling orders from May.

My area has something like this, but it's very limited. Basically you can call a number to schedule a time for a bus to pick you up, and they plan a route around everyone. But you have to give I think 2-3 days notice, and they only run certain days of the week and from like 8-4pm. It is fairly cheap though, like $3 per ride.

How is downloading a video "giving it away"? You're already consuming the content.

I guess the one angle I can see is that by watching the local copy, you aren't seeing any ads that might be on the page/video. But the website could embed ads into the downloaded video.

Really, how is this any different than recording TV on a VCR (or DVR)?

They do have the cloud version of Office which is "free".

I'm not surprised you had issues with that wifi repeater. The way those kinds work, they just take an existing wifi signal and repeat it back out. This kills 50% of your bandwidth for devices connected to the repeater. A better option is a mesh network system (like anything on this list https://www.wired.com/story/best-mesh-wifi-routers/). These are much smarter and can tolerate things like a node being taken down, so should work better than that repeater.

We used Notes at work until a few years ago and it still had it IIRC. I never stopped to think about why the pictures changed, that's interesting. Another annoying decision is that they prevented pasting passwords, which is very inconvenient when using a password manager. I ended up having to use one that simulated keystrokes.

I'll echo this. I've been legally blind my whole life, and I received a ton of assistance throughout school and college. This was mostly via my state's Commission for the Blind but I think most states have something similar. They not only can provide assistive technology devices, but also things like Orientation & Mobility (O&M) training to help with navigation, life skills (like cooking), etc.

I was initially confused by the headline. This is not Starlink. This is a satellite for HughesNet.

> you typically fly by a tower and have them make visual confirmation

I've been wondering for a while when I read stuff like this, why don't modern airplanes have exterior cameras that cover every surface? I watched a video recently about a flight where one of the engines literally detached and the pilots didn't know the extent of the damage until after. Why not just have cameras they can quickly pull up to check stuff like this?

They actually did change it. It used to be much more readable. There's a comparison screenshot in this article https://css-tricks.com/apple-messages-color-contrast/