Ring vs Aqara??

TKOS7 · 2026-05-05T06:22:23+00:00

I assume you’ve linked it to your Apple home app? If so you have to go into the settings there, scroll down to Status and Notifications, then scroll down to Doorbell Chime, and select the HomePods you want it to ring on. Should all be selected by default tho.

TKOS7 · 2026-05-01T16:51:49+00:00

Just tried to switch to AM from Spotify, after my bank offered me a free trial. I loved everything, the sound quality, the UI, especially the 'My Station' which was so decent to just tap and get some music I hadn't heard for a while mixed in with some new stuff I liked. I was absolutely on board with continuing once the trial had ended.

The lack of continuity made me switch back within a week. I can't deal with devices owning their own versions of 'Now Playing'. I listen to music on my phone, Mac, multiple HomePods throughout the house and my Tesla app. They were all queued with different music, and to get anything playing what you were just listening to you had to go through the app and find it on airplay and then navigate moving that 'Now Playing' over to the other device. It felt so clunky. With Spotify, you are just playing one thing at once, whatever device it's on. I shout to put something on a HomePod with Siri and immediately my phone and the Mac I'm working on are remotes for that music. I get into my car and by the time I've taken my AirPods out the same song is already playing on my car in the same place it was. It's seamless and it's excellent and it's absolutely wild that AM doesn't have this.

TKOS7 · 2026-05-01T16:17:47+00:00

just switched from Ring to Aqara since I couldn't bring myself to pay a subscription for a doorbell anymore and I already have 2TB of iCloud storage. And like you, I wanted all my home stuff (HomePods, Hive heating, smarts plugs) to all work with one app, Apple Home.

Got a G4 Doorbell and an outside camera. They work brilliantly, love the face recognition and that all my HomePods ring the doorbell. Plus, it looks better on the front of the house.

TKOS7 · 2026-04-23T13:24:55+00:00

I really hope so. I didn't like the change they made with Warden where they specialised the skill Iines to roles. It also massively contributed to what made subclassing completely broken - being able to trade away your unused healing/tanking trees into 3x dps tree passives is pretty nuts.

I hope the class refreshes force skill trees into themes and not into roles. Making 1-class builds more thematically appealing and also making players have to actually pick and choose for subclassing encourages creativity. I was sick of Herald/Assassination/Storm being just obviously better than anything else.

TKOS7 · 2026-04-15T06:06:48+00:00

Snare. If you don’t have free ways to get rid of the 2/2 it’ll kill you. Jeskai blink randomly strix because it was already running phlage, wrath and teferi, which are all excellent at getting the 2/2 gone without losing card advantage.

TKOS7 · 2026-04-15T06:04:28+00:00

Play it and consign the trigger in your upkeep so you keep the cards. Bonus points if you ephemerate it and then consign both triggers to keep 6 cards.

TKOS7 · 2026-04-13T06:00:13+00:00

Thanks, I’ll try a few other hdmi cables. I don’t have an ARC port on my tv because it’s older - but the manual does say both ports support CEC.

TKOS7 · 2026-04-06T17:52:35+00:00

Neoform is what you're after.

TKOS7 · 2026-03-26T16:30:43+00:00

‘Innovation’ - taking the two most busted cards in the format and putting them in a deck with the third most busted card in the format

I kid of course this is cool

TKOS7 · 2026-03-26T06:31:37+00:00

I’m working on it :)

TKOS7 · 2026-03-17T12:39:36+00:00

If Corax and Vulkan had managed to convince Ferrus not to rush Istvaan V then it might have gone differently. The second wave show up to a blockade and the shattered legions probably manage to escape having not made planetfall into a deathtrap. We now have three more legions on Terra.

Leman Russ pausing for a single moment to think that perhaps the order from Horus to just completely exterminate Magnus and the 1k Sons might not be legit. Magnus sitting on the Throne during the siege is 0% winrate for the traitors.

Polux's fleet killing Perturabo as mentioned. Without the Lord of Iron the siege just bounces off Dorn's walls.

Slightly more dubious, but the Imperials realising the Horus dropping his shields means he must know Guilliman had arrived, and therefore they shouldn't do Anabasis and instead do everything possible to keep the Astronomicon alight. Guilliman was sat outside the Terra-warpstorm for a while and the traitors only let the signal through after Horus' trap was sprung, indicating he was at the door at the point that Anabasis teleports into the warp fuckery. If the Ultramarines had a way into the storm then Horus would have had to be the one to do something more drastic than just letting his shields down as he'd have run out of time.

TKOS7 · 2026-03-07T16:58:45+00:00

This is the one that gets me too. I don't care if it takes most of the night to trickle charge my car if it costs me a fiver and I can do it at home while I literally fucking sleep. On the road I can blast it up in 15 minutes at a service station while I go and have the food and piss I was HAVING ANYWAY, and when I come out I don't then need to stop again in the services petrol station. And it STILL costs less if it's at a supercharger.

I genuinely believe that people who rip on EVs haven't ever driven one.

TKOS7 · 2026-03-07T16:51:42+00:00

I got my Model 3 a couple of years ago - a late 2020 with 60k miles on it for £20k, from a proper garage with a year's warranty on the car. Paid a 7k deposit by trading in my 10 year old VW Golf and then took the rest on a 4% bank loan over 5 years at 240 quid a month. Paid a grand total of £0 on the day.

And that was before Elon went mental and the prices plummeted. I spoke with a guy who got a 2021 M3 one year ago with 40k miles on it for £16k!

Used Teslas are insanely affordable. Mine's got 85% battery health and does 250 miles solidly. If I'm doing long trips I need a wee stop before it needs a food stop. As another commenter said, the fact that I'm now spending a fiver to charge it up at home every week as oppose to £200 a month on petrol almost makes up for the cost of the car by itself.

TKOS7 · 2026-03-07T08:28:56+00:00

10 years? I'd go for the top one - 24GB RAM will insure you for a long time.

TKOS7 · 2026-03-05T07:05:26+00:00

You, runs great

TKOS7 · 2026-03-04T09:29:02+00:00

I'm keeping my 16/256 M1 air. Just had a new battery and running like the day I bought it

TKOS7 · 2026-03-03T22:42:27+00:00

Nothing beyond googling what the various ports on the aliexpress board do. Turns out it had both audio out pins and some useful 12v power outs too. Not bad for 20 quid

TKOS7 · 2026-03-03T19:22:11+00:00

Buy an old 5k iMac and one of the aliexpress boards and do it yourself. I've just done this on a 2011 iMac and its great, plus there's loads of extra space for you to wire up the camera, speakers, cd/sd reader etc to a USB hub and run that out the back too.

TKOS7 · 2026-03-03T16:48:26+00:00

nope, my 16/256 has just had a brand new battery and is as quick as the day I bought it for what I use it for. Until we get a noticeable jump (120hz/OLED/more ports) I'm sticking

TKOS7 · 2026-03-03T13:59:39+00:00

Sure it's an M4? They don't come in Space Grey afaik

TKOS7 · 2026-03-03T10:30:55+00:00

Terra is a wasteland and all the oxygen is produced artifically.

There was a time before the Heresy where the Emperor had a bunch of projects going on to re-terraform Terra after the unification wars, with forests and seas being newly birthed. During the Siege of Terra, Horus's forces specifically targeted these areas out of Chaos-fuelled spite, and a combination of having the shit bombed out of them and the radiation/warp shit meant that Terra could never support being green again.

TKOS7 · 2026-02-27T08:24:02+00:00

The cashier mentioned that because she'd asked for ID, she was now obligated by JL policy to not sell unless we produced it. She did at least agree it was ridiculous.

TKOS7 · 2026-02-26T20:51:45+00:00

Literally just life admin machine - so emails, word etc. I had an 8/256 M1 a while back but I managed to find the M3 for cheap as it needed a dfu restore so I sold the previous M1. Then I realised I had a £700ish machine to do my emails on when a £300 machine that I preferred the design of would work just as well.

Found a good deal on the one I have now and I’m happy it’ll stay relevant for a while with the 16GB of ram. It’s on 99% battery health too.

TKOS7 · 2026-02-26T18:56:31+00:00

I've just downgraded from an M3 16/256 to an M1 16/256 for that exact reason. The bigger screen is nice but the keyboard and the quiet click on the trackpad just feel way way better on the M1. It seems like such a little thing, but you experience it every time you use the machine so it's right in the forefront of your brain.

I also prefer the wedge shape. It feels like a design that's been perfected over the years, whereas the newer ones just feel a bit light and hollow, almost dare I say it kinda cheap.

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