I have a Zigbee antenna. Will have to double check. I’m pretty sure the lights work with the antenna, but scenes are only possible if you’ve integrated them (generally via hue through something like Homekit).

This is why it’s a great idea to refuse to install everything that’s possible, including smart switches, cameras, lights etc. that rely on the good will of some company to keep running.

Even then you can get fucked over. I’ve used Hue smart lights for years, and back when I bought them, you didn’t need an account to use them, just an app and network connection. Years later, they forced an online login for the app, requiring you to be online to interface with the bulbs. You can kind of work around it with Home Assistant, but you still need the account now to add the bulbs, and I don’t think scenes work without an account either now.

New eyewitness photos, surreptitiously captured from inside The White House:

Move forward, not backward. Not sure about the red flags, but could be you were just comfortable in the old job, and the new one is stretching your comfort zone.

If you want to go back to the old company, grow and apply later in a new role, from a position of strength. If you go back now you’re negotiating from a position of weakness and admitting you will accept less.

I cancelled Netflix years ago and never looked back when they released Cuties, because I don’t want to see (or support) 11 year olds shaking their asses.

Some of these fuckers would probably sign up just for that content.

designed to save coffee enthusiasts more than $1,000 annually

Trust, coffee enthusiasts were already not drinking this swill, and a tone deaf advertising campaign isn’t going to change that status quo.

I listen to Japanese rock in my car on the way home. So is the real me an eccentric, or someone who’s accommodating of others?

No clue, but Tricot and Man With A Misson are perfectly good rock out tunes.

in the Bible it’s very clear that all that stuff will happen… and that these things are necessary for Christ’s ultimate victory over Death and Evil. So why would you try to prevent the rise of the Antichrist? In the “best case” you’re just kicking the can down the road and delaying the Return of Jesus a little.

You’ve put a lot more thought and consideration into it than these folks. That’s why they’re all “this bad, that bad, oh no Anti-Christ!”

To be fair, the end times isn’t likely to be good for most. God’s people for salvation number only a few:

Revelation 7:4 - Then I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.

That ain’t much. There are billions of people on the planet. At the end, the Christian God will only protect a small number from the events of the end times. The rest of us will have to just suck it up and live and suffer through the apocalypse, as it were.

I’m not a believer so I can only guess. But my guess is, despite being “Christian” (in really big finger quotes), I think deep down, a lot of these folks know they are Hell-bound (according to their own system of belief), or at the very least, hell-on-Earth-bound. They’re far from Christ-like in their behavior and existence, and I can’t see why they’d be among the chosen few of God’s protection in the end days. Especially since many of them aren’t Jewish, and actively despise Jews (despite also supporting Israel? I dunno, these people confuse the hell out of me). So postponing the end serves to postpone their own damnation.

I married her nearly 20 years ago. And sometimes we’re still up til 3 am talking. No regrets.

Eww gross.

Who the hell is that supposed to be?

Goddammit, I thought this was going to be an Onion type article. It wasn’t.

I already hate how much tech is in my 2020 model. I’m going to drive the thing into the ground.

I dunno, Qobuz seems pretty fucking solid, and still allows for purchasing your music directly in FLAC and other formats. What drama is there about them?

Yes. mid-40s, no kids, and I work from home.

Wife and I play RPGs on the weekends (currently enjoying Last Epoch and waiting for the next Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader DLC), and during the week I usually play single player games (right now in the middle of Lies of P and Fire Emblem: Awakening).

If you haven’t already, check out Upgrade, by Blake Crouch. Good book, similar premise.

Hell if I know. I suppose that’s one of the multitude of possibilities of “what’s coming.”

All I know is I’m fine with getting out of the way while they get it. Preferably far away, where I won’t have to hear the bitching and blaming later when they find out what they asked for, what they voted for, and what they actually wanted don’t align.

Get out of the way and let us get what we have coming

Say no more fam.

Props for the Hiromi recommendation, though I’d personally choose Seeker from the Alive album.