agoramachina

joined 1 year ago
[–] agoramachina 6 points 8 months ago

Yeesh. This is why I started self-harming as a very young child. I was trying to train myself to bear as much pain as possible. We were told that we were living in the End Times and that any day now, the evil god-haters would be busting down our doors forcing us to recant our faith under threat of torture. I wanted to get used to burning alive so that I would be strong enough to avoid the fires of hell.

Hooray Christian Fundamentalism!

[–] agoramachina 5 points 8 months ago

Raises its hand

[–] agoramachina 5 points 11 months ago

Spamton EX has left the chat

[–] agoramachina 3 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily, there are infinite numbers between 1 and 2 and yet none of them are 3

That said, there is absolutely a universe out there where we have hotdogs for hands

[–] agoramachina 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Love, Death, Robots; Black Mirror; and The Good Place.

Each of those is comfort media for me in their own way.

Edit: Oh! And Star Trek, particularly TNG

 

WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SOUP STORE??

[–] agoramachina 1 points 1 year ago
[–] agoramachina 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"I'm going to grab a Hot n Ready pizza, you want some?"
"Is it good?"
"It's HOT and it's READY"

[–] agoramachina 18 points 1 year ago

Excellent article. I am completely against federating with Meta, and this does a great job of explaining why.

[–] agoramachina 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly? I just grabbed the cheapest stuff I could find online, hah. Everything I use is basically a mishmash of whatever was on sale at the time. Home Assistant has worked with every device I've hooked up so far, and even when they're different brands I've been able to group them up nicely in Home Assistant's interface.

Can't speak to security, unfortunately. While it's certainly an important concern, my budget has been pretty limited to whatever I can find in multipacks for under $30 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] agoramachina 22 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Home Assistant is nice! Have it integrated with some smart lights and smart plugs. Makes it easy to monitor and control everything locally.

We have it set up in our room so that one widget controls the lights, one controls the fans, one controls the monitors, then there's a master button that we use to turn off everything that doesn't need to be always on whenever we leave the room.

Want to play with some fancier stuff with it too, but that alone is incredibly convenient.

[–] agoramachina 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup, I remember the absolute outrage when Ellen Pao became CEO of reddit, though it is nice at least to finally see her vindicated on there now. I hadn't heard of the glass cliff until long after she left, but people have been referencing it left and right on reddit recently. Turns out, Ellen Pao wasn't the problem...

[–] agoramachina 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta have someone to push off the glass cliff

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