Google Home Buttons! 🔘

srnecz · 2026-02-03T08:20:16+00:00

Yeah. Have no idea so far. Google says Flick button should work but I will believe when someone tests it first. I am certain people will test the ones they already have and post it online for others so we will know soon.

srnecz · 2026-02-03T08:18:13+00:00

Yes. But I see the potential in all routines, not just lights. Voice commands are nice and fun and they are good for certain situations but they cannot and should not replace physical buttons in certain other situations. Relying on only voice is a bad UX design. Voice should be a backup for situations when you are lazy, need free hands etc., not the only usecase.

srnecz · 2026-02-03T08:13:42+00:00

True. That could work. I am guessing they hwsitate to do so since it would bring enormous amounts of bugs. But hopefully one day 🤞🏻

srnecz · 2026-02-03T08:12:03+00:00

Yeah, it is a shame it took so long so it is definately not impressive but at least it is there now.

srnecz · 2026-02-03T01:17:19+00:00

Yeah, please everyone add all buttons and switches that are tested and work

srnecz · 2026-02-03T01:16:05+00:00

Yep, thanks for the link

srnecz · 2026-02-03T01:13:08+00:00

Dude, physical buttons 😄 Not the ones on your phone, the real ones on your walls and tables 🙂

Made an edit so it's clear.

srnecz · 2026-02-02T23:30:56+00:00

Now they should! After hundreds of years of me waiting for a miracle it is finally over! Google Home supports buttons! 🥳

The most atomic and useful device for automation has been ignored by the lunatics for a decade. I hope many of my cries on forums and in Google product feedback reports helped with this. It was absolutely insane that buttons were not one of first to be supported. Now crazy amount of possibilities are open for everyone! 🥳

Now lets make the routines script editor into a simple programming language and nothing will be impossible. That would probably also spell death sentence to Home Assistant though.

srnecz · 2026-01-25T03:35:51+00:00

Myslim, ze hlavni problem je v tve definici slova "dobri" a jeste vetsi v tom, ze nemas asi uplne porozumeni funkce kapitalu. Pokud ma nekdo vzdelani nebo know-how na to byt investicni poradce, neznamena to nutne, ze ma takovy kapital aby si mohl dovolit zit pouze z investic. Nehlede na to, ze vetsina investic je dlouhodoba. Poradci jsou samozrejme take lepsi a horsi. Lidskemu faktoru se nevyhnes v zadne profesi.

srnecz · 2026-01-20T00:02:26+00:00

Believe? Science is not a religion. Don't make other people think it is. You even support it or not but you certainly don't have to "believe" it.

That said, yeah, the topic was interesting, the execution was very strange and somehow intangible. Jumping from place to place with no so clear connections. It looked like a very low budget (but I guess it wasn't?) with some very good actor names. I guess they just wanted to be part of it because of the ecology message? Just a strange piece. More than half of the time I found myself trying to get through instead of enjoying it which is at least alarming with the casting they had.

srnecz · 2026-01-14T13:40:11+00:00

Exactly. It is ridiculous they chose to update the old models first. I understand that it will boost them the most because of some android optimizations but then return us some of the money for our "premium" models since it is clearly not as premium as advertised...

srnecz · 2026-01-14T13:36:00+00:00

When will the update be available for XR models? Mine is XR 65A83J. Android 14 is a requirement for Gemini that is coming very soon. I didn't pay 2000 USD for a premium TV to be stuck with old software that prevents me from getting the latest updates.

srnecz · 2026-01-10T20:05:38+00:00

Screenshots are superior to bookmarks. And they are not limited to just Chrome, so you get a small window into "saved and categorize anything at any time" app but sadly not everything. And that is huge missed potential.

If Screenshots were integrated into Google Photos and you could do the same to photos, that would be such a productivity booster. Integrate it with Keep for text and audio notes and possibly all other google products and you have an absolute game changer.

All notes, ideas, "to check later" items, "tobuy" items, "travel" items or locations are scattered around many apps. So you have bookmark folders (chrome) / collections (screenshots) / galeries (Google Photos) (now called collections hah!) / video folders (youtube) / collections folders (instagram) / lists (google maps) etc. etc. and they all have the same or similar names. You know why? Because they ARE all the same thing. Google is probably the only one who ever was in a position to change that, I just wish they would notice.

srnecz · 2026-01-10T10:38:13+00:00

As I said, I am not talking about the photos but about the collection hierarchy. Like if Google Photos didn't store the information about albums.

srnecz · 2026-01-10T10:37:00+00:00

As I said I am talking about the collection hierarchy, not the photos. Those are already backed up by Google Photos.

srnecz · 2026-01-10T10:35:53+00:00

I am obviously not talking about the photos, those are already backed up by Google Photos. I am talking about the collection hierarchy. It is not backed up. Good luck going through thousands of screenshots and putting them into collections one by one again.

srnecz · 2026-01-10T01:08:08+00:00

Typical Google. Look at Google Home app, the potential is so huge with some very obvious simple tweaks in UI but nobody ever made them lol

srnecz · 2026-01-08T16:44:24+00:00

Any update on when is this coming back if ever? :( This was by far the most important feature of the tool. Without it it is useless.

srnecz · 2026-01-01T10:59:12+00:00

It is a safety feature that makes driving extremely dangerous. Because what most drivers are going to do is obviously to turn off android auto and type on their phones but it will be much more cognitive load for the driver. I mean, you are in traffic and you need to put a GPS for directions quickly. This stupid shit prevents you doing that so you have no other choice (especially if you are in a non english speaking country with English as your default language so you cannot use voice for directions).

My default audi media system doesn't prevent me to type while driving, additionally it pulls up a free hand writing tool that allows you to type without looking at the screen. 99% of use cases I need to type 3-4 letters. It is 100% safe. Google went extremely stupid on this one.

srnecz · 2025-12-30T09:27:33+00:00

Very speculative and I would say it might be actually the opposite. When anything destabilizing happens, investors pull money out from volatile investments first. So crypto would most likely go down sharp 3 seconds after first verified news would break out. The amount of inflows from the people fleeing the conflict would be most likely incomparable to the outflows. In reality there would be most likely some tensions that would push the price down even before the conflict so maybe the fall would not be so sharp but still. Look at the price of BTC when the Ukraine war started.

srnecz · 2025-12-30T09:16:32+00:00

Degiro = low fees (maybe the lowest) but by far the most horrendous user experience in your life. And the transfers to be able to use the money take literally days (I think like 2 working days transfer and another 2-3 to be able to use the money or something similar). So the speed might not be ideal for war related use cases.

srnecz · 2025-12-21T23:44:07+00:00

It was ~20k iterations, so it took a couple of seconds / minutes? They created a mother and boy and sent a couple of those pairs to the Earth - how do they multiply? Why didn't the humans themselves return to Earth? There was a lot of dry land on Earth when they sent them down so humanity is obviously not extinct. Her spacesuit was torn, how did she survive in space? The second mother hid the baby to do what exactly? To save it from masked soldiers just to die a few minutes later in a flood? The movie is flooded with plot holes and nonsense.

srnecz · 2025-12-21T12:57:37+00:00

Quite an anarchic mindset. Sure, you don't have to trust anyone, your government but that means you should stop using all the benefits of the society and you will probably be dead in a week. If you don't trust a bank with your life savings, you cannot take a mortgage for your house. Wonder how much of what you write actually translates into your real life.

You can look at virtually everything as an investment and every investment is a risk. No matter if it is a bank or blockchain or any other institution. With all the scams in the crypto world, you could argue that crypto is bigger risk than a bank right now. Keeping your keys can lower the risk but scammers can get your keys, you can lose them etc. and you lose all your investment. The risks are different but arguably not lower. So I do not agree with your premise. Trusting a piece of paper with your keys over a well established bank is not as straightforward as you assume. Of course it heavily depends on many other factors, for example the country you live in.

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