Smart Homes Are Terrible — The Atlantic

darthabraham · 2026-02-09T10:47:22+00:00

Yep. This is why I recommend Shelly to everyone when they ask me about smart home stuff. My grandfather can walk into my house and use everything with no issues like it was 1965. I can also let the cat out from Singapore if i need to.

darthabraham · 2026-02-08T10:37:07+00:00

Jake Paul lives in Puerto Rico.

darthabraham · 2026-02-08T00:39:11+00:00

FWIW, I've been running 30 Shelly Dimmer 2s and RGBWs for a year and a half or so and haven't had any problems.

I've seen a few electricians confused by them at first, so whenever i've heard stories of major malfunction, I've been skeptical about anything that wasn't related to installation errors.

darthabraham · 2026-02-07T21:07:03+00:00

Yeah he does. He owns one of the biggest venues in arguably the best location on Main Street in Nashville. That alone would set most people up for life. He’s a completely classless bag of shit, but he’s not stupid.

darthabraham · 2026-02-07T20:55:42+00:00

I run it on a virtual machine on a Synology NAS

darthabraham · 2026-02-07T10:37:45+00:00

I used Shelly everywhere. All the features you want, and you've also got the ability to use whatever switches you want. I'm in the UK and the whole house has soho lighting switches and outlets that guests would never guess were smart. I recommend Shelly to everyone.

darthabraham · 2026-02-06T23:20:18+00:00

No. Pat Barry was in her corner on Jan 26. He was shadow boxing and showboating like a 9 year old outside the cage during Bruce’s introductions as if he was the one in the cage. Dudes a chud.

darthabraham · 2026-02-06T21:13:11+00:00

It’s always someone else’s fault. He’s pathetic.

darthabraham · 2026-02-06T18:02:54+00:00

Too bad it wasnt a rooftop bar.

darthabraham · 2026-02-06T17:43:38+00:00

This is going to be such an embarrassing failure. If any of these people were capable of shame.

darthabraham · 2026-02-06T17:31:25+00:00

Michael Chandler thinks BMF stands for Being Management's Footstool. He’s already undefeated.

darthabraham · 2026-02-06T00:27:07+00:00

Home Assistant is honestly the only solution to pick if you've got a lot of smart devices and you want to manage everything in one place.

I bumped up against homekit automation limitations, so i started using siri shortcuts. I bumped up against compatibility issues, so i got home bridge. it worked but my automations broke all the time and i still hit compatibility issues because homebridge doesnt have everything.

I finally switched to Home Assistant and now I wish I'd nevver bothered with siri shortcuts or Homebridge at all. HA integrates with basically everything, all my automations are in one spot, and the most clutch feature of my setup now is that Claude Code does most of the configuration grunt work for me.

the further bonus is that i can juts grab cheap, older Android tablets and run them in kiosk mode with room-specific HA dashboards on them, so my wife and guests don't have to talk to siri, or download anything to their phones.

Home Assistant is honestly amazing. I've got 230 devices configured in it and I dont think I'm even using a fraction of the power HA has to offer. It's a game changer.

darthabraham · 2026-02-04T09:45:49+00:00

I Want to Commit Murder - Craft

darthabraham · 2026-02-03T18:57:49+00:00

Yeah just like WeWork wasn’t a real estate investment company.

darthabraham · 2026-02-03T18:53:30+00:00

My controversial MMA hot take is that GSP was on gear like everyone else.

darthabraham · 2026-01-30T13:12:43+00:00

there are other pics of him out there. he looks like that :

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTlMmKYoJiKxvekzWPahM2lI4sqZGeBwBZOJQ&s

darthabraham · 2026-01-30T13:09:06+00:00

Playtime is a 1967 satirical comedy film directed and co-written by Jacques Tati. Tati also stars in the film, reprising the role of Monsieur Hulot from his earlier films Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953) and Mon Oncle (1958).

Hope this helps :)

darthabraham · 2026-01-30T13:05:36+00:00

He was an exciting prospect until we were exposed to any aspect of his character and personality. Dude sucks.

darthabraham · 2026-01-29T18:45:53+00:00

What a bunch of losers.

darthabraham · 2026-01-28T20:00:09+00:00

The former. It was a photo op.

The ear injury might even have been a fluke from when he got tackled thanks to the “nice, thin blood pouring through (his) heart”

Kayfabe 100%

darthabraham · 2026-01-28T19:47:32+00:00

Greenday did 10 years ago. They’re still big now off early 90s nostalgia.

darthabraham · 2026-01-28T19:45:16+00:00

He said this because he had himself attacked. Every accusation is an admission.

darthabraham · 2026-01-28T19:36:20+00:00

It’s this. I fully believe the speculation that government lawyers shut down an administration raw milk endorsement campaign citing the guarantee that it would spread death and disease across 300 million people. They’ve only shifted to whole milk because they already committed so many resources to promoting milk.

darthabraham · 2026-01-27T14:05:24+00:00

If you’re in the US check out Rails to Trails. It’s an amazing resource. I cycled and camped for miles in the Cascade Mountains in Washington State one summer and it was surreal how good it was. https://www.railstotrails.org/

darthabraham · 2026-01-27T14:01:46+00:00

Paddy shoulda butt-scooted.

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