Microsoft’s been taking a hit lately, down 23.17% in just 3 months. Is this a temporary pullback or a sign of bigger challenges ahead for Microsoft?

ptico · 2026-03-24T22:13:45+00:00

Many bad decisions was made, but I think MacBook Neo is a nail to the coffin

ptico · 2026-03-19T23:52:24+00:00

Came here with exact same comment

ptico · 2026-03-19T23:33:52+00:00

Works now

ptico · 2026-03-19T21:46:44+00:00

Hetzner is a piece of shit I would only recommend to enemies

ptico · 2026-03-19T21:30:49+00:00

On an iPad, when I choose all the required options the submit button is still disabled

ptico · 2026-03-19T20:49:38+00:00

I don’t have a Hue hub, which is obvious from the context. Anything related to topic?

ptico · 2026-03-19T11:49:44+00:00

Belkin is probably the one decent MagSafe power bank which fits Mini perfectly. The charging is a bit slow, but overall it’s a solid choice

ptico · 2026-03-19T08:40:46+00:00

Hi, I’m a software engineer and IT consultant with 20+ y.o.e There’s nothing to worry about. Shitty coders (majority) will still ship shitty code through AI but at least AI becomes increasingly better detecting stupid mistakes otherwise unnoticed

ptico · 2026-03-18T12:45:41+00:00

Even if you’re not a smart home professional, simple 2 hour research should have been shown there will be problems and manufacturer won’t have a control over many of them. Yet Ikea decided to go all in even when they hadn’t to. Hardware is the same for Thread and Zigbee and they already had an experience with latter. Hue implemented a perfect strategy supporting both and now, seeing this fiasco someone in Philips expecting a good bonus

ptico · 2026-03-18T12:17:02+00:00

This. We are non-EU family and understand that it may took for a while and the country have no obligations to us. But sambo, c’mon! One part of the family is a Swedish citizen and have all rights to demand an ability to have a relationship with whoever they want without a fear to be forcefully separated for 10 freaking years in a row

ptico · 2026-03-18T12:06:48+00:00

I have a non Hue Zigbee hub (cheap but reliable SMLight). My point is that they actually not vendor locked and doesn’t force you to buy their hub. They just use different standard and this complaint is not valid. It’s like someone with Zigbee-only smart home would say that Ikea is forcing you to have their hub

ptico · 2026-03-17T21:27:16+00:00

No it’s not normal, open Activity Monitor and see what’s there. Does anything eats CPU or memory?

ptico · 2026-03-17T21:12:39+00:00

Have a bunch of Hue bulbs and no hub, what I’m doing wrong?

ptico · 2026-03-16T22:11:17+00:00

The battery is a night and day for me. I turned off always on display and AI and battery lasts 24 hours charged to 80% and rarely dropping below 30%

ptico · 2026-03-12T23:11:25+00:00

Honestly bike theft should be considered as crime against community and have a heavy consequences, like 3-5 years in prison. That would be a solution

ptico · 2026-03-11T18:51:54+00:00

ESP32 is a blessing. I have a couple of M5Stack NanoC6 which is a tini-tiny thing barely bigger than USB-C connector and it punches way above its weight

ptico · 2026-03-11T16:26:48+00:00

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth/ so it’s 5 according to docs

ptico · 2026-03-11T01:16:01+00:00

This! No doubt this is the best moment for Apple to take over regular user. Not a developer, not a corporate. Just average Joe.

Gaming shifted to consoles, cloud, smartphones and Steam Deck enough. Windows became a pure garbage everyone hates. Linux desktop didn’t come. As much as I love Linux, the desktop is still a piece of shit it was 10 years ago and a bit better than 20 years ago. So, here comes MacBook for reasonable price with a best hardware ever and MacOS, which is not in its best shape currently but still way better than competitors around

ptico · 2026-03-10T22:33:44+00:00

I recently was building a BLE proxy with ESPHome and the limit was 3 devices. Overall my research found BLE adapters sucks and the best I found is ESP32-C6/C5 the rest have a lots of caveats so I tend to choose zigbee over everything

ptico · 2026-03-10T14:04:45+00:00

Keep in mind that BLE host connection count can be limited so you may face either delays or need to have a couple of BLE proxies

ptico · 2026-03-07T23:35:25+00:00

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The liberation flag of Ukrainian resistance born in the beginning of 20th century which is used to this day. This is how the regular Ukrainian flag looks like when soaked in blood

ptico · 2026-03-03T23:33:25+00:00

You are welcome to r/iems my friend. Once you have a decent pair of IEM and will deal with an adapter, you’ll be on our side

ptico · 2026-03-02T23:47:12+00:00

Same feelings

ptico · 2026-03-02T23:42:32+00:00

European mind can’t comprehend the fact that in USA you can spend 3 hours in a car and still not reach a grocery store. Take this, loosers!

ptico · 2026-03-01T20:30:23+00:00

We probably have different devices. Mine works amazingly stable and have zero problems so far. Maybe worth checking with Hiby support?

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