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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • lemmy activity volume

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  • Personally I think of myself as holding space and keeping the current communities active while waiting for the software to mature. The devs have been making big strides with Lemmy 1.0, I think in a year or two we'll begin to be a viable competitor to "normie" Reddit users similarly to how Linux achieved new levels of mainstream adoption in 2025.

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • The conversation topic was unintuitive aspects of HA, I'm aware hacky workarounds exist, but I find this (pretty central) behavior quite clunky.

    I also find it crazy that you've never wanted to dim or brighten more than one light at a time lol but then again, diversity is the spice of FOSS!

  • How can I use social media anonymously?

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  • LOL I knew if I put "VPN" as the first thing someone would reply before reading the whole comment

  • Does Proton track its own VPNs?

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  • How can I use social media anonymously?

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  • Use a VPN and also only share the most common, unoriginal thoughts, parrot the opinions of influencers, and never ever reveal anything that might hint at what makes you a unique soul flickering through the universe.

    (basically act like a redditor)

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  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • I know how it works, I'm just saying it's unintuitive. It's not how any other smart home system works.

    I use adaptive brightness too, actually. But nearly every time I'm manually adjusting a room's existing brightness, I don't want every single unpowered devices to turn on, too.

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • 99% of the time I want to adjust the current lighting, I don't want to first turn on all lights and then adjust all of those lights to a uniform standard before individually toggling them all individually. Powering on all unpowered lights when adjusting brightness should be the edge case, IMO (also again not just my opinion, but the industry standard)

    For the record all other smart home systems treat room groups the way I am describing (like a dimmer knob and power switches). But there isn't even an option in HA for rooms to "only adjust devices currently in use". The smart home companies seem to have researched how people naturally intuit such things.

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • I would expect it to behave like all other smart home systems, or like a physical dimmer switch/power switch.

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • The fact that dimming a room turns ON all the lights in the room is actually wild

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • right lol

  • Home Assistant 2026.3: A clean sweep

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  • This one broke zigbee2mqtt for me but I'm not sure why. I rolled back for now.

  • Has r/redditalternatives gone full authoritarian?

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  • My tinfoil hat tells me that Reddit keeps that community alive to give the impression that there are multiple viable reddit alternatives, because if it was honest it would be just "Go to Lemmy, mBin or Piefed"

  • Thoughts on Helium browser?

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  • Sorry what did you mean by "Helium is a fork, so they can keep compatibility going forward"? A fork of what?

  • Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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  • It is truly astonishing how a company with their resources could have a program like Teams be so terrible for so long. Matrix/Element have advanced faster than Teams.

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  • Is there a list of sources this pulls from?

  • Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

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  • Microsoft is using Discord and not Teams?

  • Thoughts on Helium browser?

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  • So it's not technically Chromium anymore? It's a fork of Chromium?

  • GrapheneOS Collaboration With Motorola Mobility

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  • Hard to believe it's real, hopefully Motorola is committed to the long term.