FrederikNJS

Quite a lot of young women jumped on the grey hair trend where I live. But of course it might not have been a trend where you live.

Here's a bunch of examples: https://www.latest-hairstyles.com/color/silver.html

You are aware that there were an almost global trend in 2024 of dying your hair grey, even for young women, right?

My home Kubernetes cluster started out on a Core i7-920 with 8 GB of memory.

Upgraded to 16 GB memory

Upgraded to a Core i5-2400S

Upgraded to a Core i7-3770

Upgraded to 32 GB memory

Recently Upgraded to a Core i5-7600K

I think I'll stay with that for rather long...

I did however add 2 Intel NUCs (gen 6 and gen 8) to the cluster to have a distributed control plane and some distributed storage.

I have never experienced that my dishwasher didn't fully remove all the traces of coffee... No matter whether it's black coffee, with milk, espresso, café latte, with or without sugar/syrup...

The depth perception also makes quite a difference. The side of your face can clearly be seen in a mirror to be the side of your face, but depending on lighting, the side of your face can look as if it's part of the front of your face in a picture as you don't have the depth perception. The result is that photos make you look fatter than your mirror image would.

Nope, but I trust the ones that lack the hardware for dialing home.

But generally I don't buy devices unless I have reason to trust them.

As the other poster said, both Zigbee and Zwave devices do not talk to the Internet. They can't even connect to your Wi-Fi anyway. They need to connect to a device that acts as a router but specifically for Zigbee or Zwave, usually called a Hub or Coordinator.

There's many different hubs around. Many commercial ones do indeed connect directly to the WiFi and therefore internet. But nothing is stopping you from buying a USB Dongle Hub with open source firmware and plugging it into a Raspberry Pi, if you want to eliminate the potential spying.

The Zigbee and Zwave networks inherently cannot communicate with the Internet. So the only risk of spying is if you installed something in the Raspberry that spies on you.

Both Philips Hue and IKEA Trådfri and many other vendors simply use Zigbee, which means you can bring your own Hub and completely eliminate the risk of spying.

Yeah... 1212 hours in Factorio, and I only just started Space Age

Agreed, if music labels start making their own streaming services, then it will go just like it has with video. Where there is now more streaming services than a regular person can feasibly pay for, and every service only has a small subset of what you want to listen to... Imaging needing to switch streaming service to listen to music from a different artist because they happened to have signed with a different label, and being unable to make a pplaylist that incorporates songs from artists from two different labels...

You are correct, and I use it myself, right up until you aren't on the same local network...

I actually haven't tested whether it works if you make a mobile hotspot... But being out in a bar that doesn't offer WiFi, would then require you to first set up a mobile hotspot, get the other person to connect, then download localsend before you can actually transfer the file. And even if the bar offered WiFi, you would kinda hope that the bar has enabled client isolation on the network to avoid spreading malware... But that would in turn defeat Localsend.

With Airdrop you don't need any of that, given that both people have iDevices

I don't own an Apple device, but the few time I have interacted with Airdrop it has basically been:

• Press button to share something with Airdrop
• Select the device to send to
• target device receives notification to accept.
• Press accept
• Done

And this has just worked regardless of which combination of Apple devices I had available at the time.

In the ideal case this is just as simple for Androids. But I have tried many different combinations of the technologies that was mentioned above and different types of devices, different brands. And sometimes it just works. But way too often I see a failure for the devices to discover eachother, or once discovered the file failed to transfer, with no obvious explanation of why.

Airdrop is a little bit less friction than all of the other technologies you mention, but the real problem is that Apple has declined to implement any of the technologies you mentioned, and decided to only support Airdrop for transferring files between devices.

So it you want to transfer a file from iPhone to iPhone, than Airdrop is easy and frictionless.

If you want to transfer a file from Android to Android, then you have all the options you mention and many more to choose from.

But if you want to transfer a file from iPhone to Android (or Android to iPhone), then there basically isn't any options. Airdrop doesn't work on Android because Apple doesn't allow it. And all the options you mentioned doesn't work be cause Apple has refused to implement them.