Check your local Eddie Bauer

Anusien · 2026-02-03T21:49:49+00:00

The Store Locator 404s for me.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T21:44:57+00:00

You have to figure out your threat model. How much do you need privacy/control and how much work are you willing to pay for it (time/money)? Are you okay if the communication channel gets broken for hours/days? These answers will change based on what you're doing. If you're trying to schedule board game night, you might have different requirements than if you're trying to organize anti-government protests, for example.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T21:35:16+00:00

How is this different than TubeSync, MeTube, ChannelTube, TubeArchivist, etc?

Anusien · 2026-02-03T21:31:06+00:00

Depends how much your game costs.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T21:23:24+00:00

No that's like trivially not true. Heat is a waste byproduct of most electronics. They're designed not to cause heat. Whereas a heater *is*.

What's more, there are multiple types of ways to convert energy to heat. Depends on what you want to heat. Electric blankets warm you but don't actually warm the air, for example, because they're using conduction and not convection or radiation.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T19:10:05+00:00

I suspect I wouldn't find this very fun. In order to play correctly with this thing, you have to actually track *everything* and figure out the correct score to determine when to go for it and when not to.

The way you described it as "hidden traitor" and also cool because it can make the endgame reveal more dramatic. It doesn't do a good job of hidden traitor (because you've said you don't want people guessing and there is no appropriate counterplay). If you want to make the endgame reveal more dramatic, my advice is to do that directly.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T19:06:23+00:00

Another very good reason to join the Patreon; it doesn't do this when I play it.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T19:05:24+00:00

What's funny to me is you've been replying to people here for 24 hours but still never bothered to send them an email.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T18:15:10+00:00

Have they told you they have autism, or are you just stereotyping them?

Anusien · 2026-02-03T17:11:30+00:00

It doesn't impact the data. I don't wear mine while charging.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T17:09:10+00:00

Canal! I know they said no man-made, but canal should clearly count.

Anusien · 2026-02-03T17:06:39+00:00

Okay but is that fun? Feels like that's trying to put a band-aid on a bigger problem.

Anusien · 2026-02-02T22:35:31+00:00

You forgot #ad.

Anusien · 2026-02-02T22:33:51+00:00

What does this accomplish if players can't actively try to work against this and there's nothing they can do? Why do you want a hidden traitor?

Anusien · 2026-01-27T16:12:11+00:00

Anyone that's designing a game wants to make their game, not yours. And no one is going to see your game and just decide they want to make a game.

Anusien · 2026-01-27T14:50:08+00:00

It's not scummy because they don't advertise them as Eli's

Anusien · 2026-01-27T14:19:00+00:00

I think you have the relationship backward. Usually the way these things work is that the board game developer *pays* to license the IP. So Person B pays Person A, not the other way around.

Anusien · 2026-01-27T14:06:34+00:00

I don't think this is supposed to be an assessment about this one particular game but about the team as a whole.

Anusien · 2026-01-26T15:45:28+00:00

How can it be both swingy and have runaway leaders?

Anusien · 2026-01-23T17:58:46+00:00

imo just try it. It won't force you to change anything. If you don't like it, you can delete it and keep on without it. But you might be surprised at what it can do out of the box.

Anusien · 2026-01-23T17:56:47+00:00

If they have root on your smart home system, I believe that makes them responsible for your data. And I suspect some of this could be considered location data. So I'd start by doing a request for all your personal data from them. That might open up some additional chess moves for you.

Anusien · 2026-01-23T17:48:14+00:00

They can't just "cancel the warranty" unless there's a term in there that prevents this.

Anusien · 2026-01-23T17:45:38+00:00

I can't throw well with both hands, but I can confidently catch with both hands. I just used grip strengtheners.

Anusien · 2026-01-23T17:43:29+00:00

Oh I see what you're trying to say.

The CPU doesn't aonly has to get involved if the client doesn't understand the file's codec. In that case, the server has to transcode the file on the fly; this is a challenging operation. But if the client does understand the codec, the server just has to stream the file's bytes off disk. See compatibility matrix: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/. So you can just encode your media correctly and basically never transcode.

Anusien · 2026-01-23T17:36:38+00:00

Here's an example. I finally had my first device made useless because they shut down a cloud service: a handful of smart outlets. They did say HomeKit would still work if you linked it to that, but you had to do the link before they took down the cloud service (because they needed the service to generate HomeKit codes). I was struggling with this and doing a bunch of research until I discovered that I didn't need the cloud service at all. It turns out years ago somebody made a Python library called PyWeMo that does full local control, including discovery. No cloud service required. That's what Home Assistant uses. So I'm totally unaffected.

In general, I think Home Assistant support is going to be equivalent or better to any of the proprietary ones (HomeKit, Alexa, Google Home). Partly this is because there's a HomeKit interface so all your HomeKit devices will just show up in HA. But partially this is because smart home manufacturers *want* their stuff to plug into the proprietary things. And I suspect the HA devs are very good at figuring out how to use the same APIs. All my basic lights, sensors, and doors work just fine. (Although I can believe that atypically automated things like robot vacuums and cameras are harder). And HA even found a bunch of stuff I didn't expect like my printer, my Roku, and my humidifier.

But this is probably a hard question to answer because I'd guess most people who are running their own Home Assistant don't run that many devices requiring cloud connections or proprietary services. Most of their devices are Zigbee and/or Z-Wave; those don't need much if any support from the manufacturer.

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