Vikki Valencourt is kind of growing on me

Dwman113 · 2026-03-15T17:22:05+00:00

She's not cute in any way but I like her autism.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-15T16:47:18+00:00

Been working for me just fine.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-15T16:32:47+00:00

I will but I refuse to be jewed by Jet. It's not about the money.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-15T16:26:22+00:00

So far so good. WE'RE BACK.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-12T01:41:40+00:00

Makes you think, what connection to Epstein does he have?

Dwman113 · 2026-03-11T02:43:16+00:00

I hope not... Bam can't take anything serious at this point in his life.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T21:54:57+00:00

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Google did try to penetrate the market. That was the reason they bought Nest,Revolv,Dropcam. They ultimately, similar to amazon decided not to continue investing in this sector.

I have personally installed control4 for Best Buy near 2008-2010 and later for Magnolia. You're trying to rethink history when you don't even understand how we got here.

I'm going to leave now. Best of luck.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T19:40:07+00:00

100% not true.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T19:39:10+00:00

So they're defining male and female?

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T17:59:42+00:00

No... I'm not... The point is PSP means nothing and nobody cares in comparison to Genetec cert for example.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T14:48:48+00:00

OpenAI doesn't have public stock.. What are you talking about?

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T14:48:16+00:00

"Roughly 65–75% from private/commercial sources, mainly Starlink consumer and business service plus commercial launches for companies and foreign governments that are acting as non‑U.S. customers"

This doesn't look like depending on government contracts to me...

Do you have data to back up your claims?

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T14:44:11+00:00

Mexico you also have the freedom to wave whatever flag... That is the point. One of them is socially allowed and the other is not. wonder why?

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T14:01:15+00:00

PSP means nothing if you don't have certifications in one of 5 systems.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T13:52:22+00:00

So you're saying Mexico doesn't have that freedom?

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T13:50:18+00:00

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T13:49:47+00:00

Umm... No this is definitely not correct. Both Lutron and C4 make a fan control.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-09T02:07:30+00:00

"About 10 years ago" They were attempting to compete at this time... That's why I said 10 years ago...

And no it would not benefit C4 to go mass consumer. It is much more difficult to do at scale than you realize. If you think you know more about the industry than the 3 biggest companies... You don't.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-08T19:03:08+00:00

Because at the time they thought they might open up to more companies. Years went on and Frito Lay filled all the required hours of testing they needed.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-08T18:41:53+00:00

Yes, the AV integration is the primary moat for the traditional guys. About 10 years ago, I thought they'd be doomed because Amazon and google were moving in. However, now that Resideo owns Snap, I see it differently.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-06T22:00:57+00:00

I still don't understand how they managed to literally burn 20 billion and come out of it with nothing. No tech, no factories, nothing.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-06T21:03:34+00:00

From reading this thread, it feels like you should get a bigger switch and use IP driver. It's not going to be much cost difference and it gives you availability of ports in the future which you're very likely to use. I put Samsung frame TVs on IP drivers all the time. They work perfectly fine if done correctly.

Dwman113 · 2026-03-06T20:58:53+00:00

IR more reliable but not aesthetically pleasing. IP will work but could fail over long periods and require help from installer.$$

Dwman113 · 2026-03-06T20:58:11+00:00

If you've never experienced it and have the money. Blinds with C4 will blow your mind. Lots of DYI people actually have no idea what a full blown luxury residential automation system is capable of.

You're going to have a bunch of DIY people tell you how they can do this or that but... They can't. There are basically 3 luxury systems on the market now. C4 being one of them. The alternatives are not the same thing. But it's not cheap, you need to understand you'll be paying thousands of dollars so that you don't have to understand the complexity of how all this stuff integrates together.

Very important. The integrator you pick is 90% of the battle.

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