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  • That’s kind of telling in itself to be honest. Services for most people these days mean subscription (or some kind of recurring cost). The nature of the overwhelming majority of businesses means they will be looking to increase profits. One extremely common way is to degrade the service you provide slightly. Increasing ads, lowering quality, etc.

    One of the only exceptions I would say is Steam. But people could argue that Steam isn’t a true service because it’s closer to a store front, at that point you’re arguing semantics though.

    There’s also self hosting a service to consider? How would that count in this instance. I self host a few things like nextcloud, Plex, and others. Yes it’s still a program and technically a service as well?










  • I’ve put a few smart lights/switches/sensors/power points in at home. Definitely helps mum as we can have wireless switches for the lights, and motion sensors to turn the hallway lights on automatically as well.

    For ALL of them, I make sure there is a manual control that will work as a backup regardless. Even if a smart light is “off” due to the motion sensor not detecting movement, all you need to do is turn the old regular light switch off then back on and the light will default to being back on.



  • SGG@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world"Joe Biden's fault"
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    9 months ago

    They are, until it happens to effect them directly.

    “He was supposed to get rid of all the slackers and cut off people abusing the system, not fire my entire department!”

    “He was supposed to put in tariffs to make China pay more, not to make the price of our goods go up!”

    Classic leopards eating peoples faces party behaviour.