Thanks, yours as well.

Mine had an abdominal mesh removal.

If you can’t filet fish, then fill a chair and let me teach you.

TIL Oklahoma is in Australia.

He’s using Sengled zigbee bulbs, probably with their hub. And needs an actual zigbee hub.

At least that’s my understanding of his post.

Yeah, this happened at the absolute worst time for me. I have 6 of their WiFi bulbs that I’ve been planning to replace, but the wife’s car just broke down yesterday, and she had a surgical procedure today. And my kid starts her senior year of high school in a week or two, and registration is now, and she needs new clothes for school. Ugh.

Needless to say, money is too tight to replace these 6 not-so-smsrt bulbs just yet.

Thankfully, the 6 bulbs are: 3 in the kid’s room, and 3 in the front porch. Ad the kid has other lighting that continues working fine, and the porch lights are only needed if someone goes out there, and we rarely use the front porch, as our main entryway is the back one. I also have several zigbee relays, and some esphome devices so it’s not like my entire setup just died…

I was about to pull the trigger on replacing them the last time this crap happened, and they started working again, so they got moved to a back burner.

Yes. Google far-field wireless power.

It’s not really ready for prime time, and there are a lot of things still needing to line up for it to become ready, but it’s coming eventually.

It’s exactly the opposite of what created Putin. He came out of the KGB state security service with control over the elite and the powerful.

How did those elite powerful get to be elite and powerful?

They were the product of a powerful central government giving them said power.

When the people are afraid of the government, there is tyranny. When the government is afraid of the people there is liberty.

You are wildly off base if you think I have any love for that monster.

You are also completely wrong in that oppression is the natural state of power.

i2p

Them: “We need a strong central government to protect everyone!”

Me: “Don’t do that! If bad people get control there’s gonna be trouble!”

Them: “You just hate people!” votes for strong government

Them when that strong government is then taken over by bad people: 😯

How would you stop them from doing this?

By dismantling as much of the power structure as I can. As often as I can.

Burn.

It

All

Down.

The problem is that government even has the power to do those things.

And to paraphrase you, you can’t solve government problems with more government, I’m sorry, man.

Rofl. Your god can eat a dick. I’ve seen exactly what your god does.

It’s easier to start a competing company than it is to start a competing government.

You need a powerful standing army for the latter, and standing armies are part of why we’re in the trouble we’re in.

How naive can you be? You think your vote matters here?

When every single district has been gerrymandered to death for 100 years, nobody’s vote really matters anymore.

So you want Trump and MAGA politicians to be able to deny your payments instead?

The problem with “just let the government do it” is when the government is run by people like this.

Did you even read the article? It clearly states a core SOFTWARE component. Not hardware.

“I know millions of people use their service because it’s the only real option they have, but because it’s associated with this one guy I don’t like, they can all eat a dick!”

Insane that it wasn’t, “Oh, you’re trying to blackmail our government? Here, have an airstrike.” TBH

Thing is, the Senate wasn’t supposed to be elected by the people as that’s the states’ reps. The people’s reps are the House.

Changing that screwed things up, too. It was originally set up so that smaller states couldn’t have their wishes completely drowned out by the more populous ones.

We also have lost sight of the fact that the president wasn’t supposed to be elected by the people, but by their representation, similar to how a prime minister works in many Euro nations.

The nation was designed to be controlled bottom up, with the most control being the people themselves, then their states, and finally the feds, who while they had the overall lead, only had a few enumerated powers, and EVERYTHING else was to be by the state or lower level. Hell, that’s the entire point of the 10th.

But we’ve corrupted the entire thing.

There are more guns than people in the US, and contrary to belief, they’re not all owned by the magagotts…

What I find most disturbing about the Republican party is how quickly they shift from “small government is good” to “we need more government so we can enact our brand of authoritarianism! But those guys over there? They’re the big government ones!”

Which is nuts, because you can’t have an authoritarian government without a government large enough to enforce said authority!

I’m at the point where I am leaning more and more into the “just burn it all down and start over” side of things.