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Strava Just Sued Garmin: Demands Garmin Stop Selling Devices in c/running@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 1 points 5 hours ago

Ya I've got a Fenix 8 amoled. But as I said it might be my last. I've looked at Corus and Suunto and both offer decent watches. Garmin makes great hardware, the company is just falling into the more more more penny pinching phase of their existence which annoys the hell out of me.

Strava Just Sued Garmin: Demands Garmin Stop Selling Devices in c/running@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

They're both doing the same thing. And Garmin probably impacts users negatively (financially) more

Garmin watch prices have gone through the roof Garmin doubled the price of their marine chart plotter app for me (Formally Navionics,), so I switched to a competitor.

Garmin added connect+ to their fitness platform so after spending $1000 for a watch you can pay an additional subscription to get the rest of their services

Strava put half their stuff behind a paywall a half dozen years ago causing me to stop sending them my data for free and deleting my account Now they're trying to bite the hand that actually feeds them data by going after Garmin. Pretty sure Garmin users would be 90+% of the data coming into Strava.

Garmin just has to sever syncing to Strava and it would all but shut them down.

It's greed, to keep growing yearly getting fatter and fatter at the consumers expense.

I've been using Garmin watches (runner) since like 2013 and had Navionics since sometime around the same time. I only know how to protest these companies with my wallet or data since they won't listen otherwise. Not sure if I'll buy another Garmin watch when this one is due for replacement. Depends on how much stuff is behind "connect+"

Security camera recommendations? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 1 points 4 days ago

Luckily I live out where nobody rings my door bell :)

Security camera recommendations? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Unless it changed recently if you already have 3rd party cameras, it's all but useless for any of those features. I am using Blue Iris/amcrest cameras and when I upgraded to a UDMP I was excited to try it with the new 3rd party camera support, but I can't really do anything but record. No detection stuff. Ended up only adding one camera and giving up.

And their cameras, are damn expensive. I have 6 cameras outside covering most of my house. Entireity, swapping over to unifi ones is not in the budget.

Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

If true, that's depressing

Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 15 points 5 days ago

Not this guy. I'm ok with one less subscription.

Shhh. Don't tell it that fall is here. in c/pics@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It was 86° here... Crazy

Looking for Recommendation on music player for children's room in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 0 points 6 days ago

I know JBL has wifi enabled bt speakers that would be an all in one. You'd still need your phone to initiate it. But being wifi it should be fine to walk away after starting the stream.

Any assistant (assuming they're still available) would be able to play music at night (a used Google mini) or similar.

We were building our house when my wife was pregnant, I put ceiling speakers in all the bedrooms so that is what we used. I built a diy whole house audio system which we did use to play sounds/music at night in my kids room.

Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] dmtalon 7 points 1 week ago

I'll be waiting by the mail for my piece of that pie.

Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] dmtalon 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Which in turn creates a self fulfilling prophecy that they created themselves.

And I also wonder, will it only allow app installs from the app store like they're supposed to be doing on Android for phones?

Disney Sure Picked an Interesting Week for a Big Streaming Price Hike in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] dmtalon 11 points 1 week ago

Or they figure those remaining can take up the slack

Pressure mounts on Disney over Kimmel suspension as some boycott calls spread in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] dmtalon 44 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

If I cannot fight with my representation, I will fight with my wallet. Cancelled my Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ account yesterday.

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Pocan to Introduce ELON MUSK Act to Ban Federal Government Contracts for Special Government Employees, Similar To Bans For Members of Congress, Many Other Federal Employees (pocan.house.gov)
 

There's this...

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Massive Verizon outage — live updates and what to do with iPhone in SOS (www.tomsguide.com)
 

Outside of Cincinnati and noticed I had no service around 11am. Started checking around ant it seems it's pretty widespread.

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Sunset (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dmtalon to c/pics@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink
 

Unexpected huge sunset while driving home tonight.

The sun didn't look real in person!

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Pixel 9 low Bluetooth audio (self.googlepixel)
 

Anyone here have a new 9? I wanted to listen to some music on my Pixel Buds Pro 1s and noticed the volume was quite low.

Looked around at various settings, but nothing weird. Swapping to my 8 and I get normal volume. Switching back, low again.

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McDonald's Experience by non McDonald's patron. (self.mildlyinfuriating)
 

So, I never visit McDonald's. Oddly, I have managed to visit them twice this year. Once a month ago while traveling and it just worked out that it made the most sense when we stopped for fuel while traveling.

And second last night. We were at the lake late and coming home just before 9pm. Most non chain places were closing, and the only local spot open was McDonald's. Had the whole family including my visiting parents.

The experience was pretty awful. First, they had 3 employees in the building, and the expectation was that you use the Kiosk. I didn't have 'strong' opinions of having to use it vs. speaking to a human. However after ordering 4 meals on it, it is quite the nightmare for the casual visitor. Probably took 4x as long to order our food.

My parents took their order on a second Kiosk and were not even able to complete their order (Parents are in their mid 70s). Not sure what happened, I wasn't watching them. My dad was quite irritated at this point.

After asking one of the humans multiple times for help, he took their order at the register.

<insert 30 minute wait for food>

Our food was placed in their pickup area in bags with napkins (store napkin holder empty). Nearly every burger was overcooked and quite dry. Both my buns were hard. The fry's were luke warm and not very fresh. The meal for 2 adults and 2 14yos was $40 bux.

I saw a story on Lemmy last week about how McDonald's profits were down and the general consensus was that it was the over priced food. While I'm sure that has an impact I believe the Kiosk, slow 'fast food' and overall experience has to be a huge negative.

My parents were PISSED, and they are historically huge McD Patrons. At least in their case, the price will not be why they do not return. Its the awful experience.

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Cincinnati vs. Toronto (self.fccincinnati)
 

Hell of a game!!

Let's gooo!!

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Thanks FS2 (self.fccincinnati)
 

That was a joke, way to switch to college basketball in the middle of our game

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Haier response to my feedback after Louis' YT video. (self.homeassistant)
 

Just got this email from Haier (US) who seems to be distancing themselves from the EU division's decision to block Home Assistance.

Hello , (I changed this)

Thank you for reaching out with your concern.

The Haier brand in the U.S. is independent of Haier Europe and operates separately. hOn is the connected IOT platform for Haier Europe. In the U.S., consumers can use our open IOT platform, SmartHQ. SmartHQ does not prevent integrations with Home Assistant.

We appreciate you reaching out.

Kindest regards,

Digital Engagement Team Haier Appliances

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Life 360 Integration failing to connect. (infosec.pub)
 

Noticed when we got home last night our outside lights were not on, but we have an automation to turn them on if we're gone after dark. Meant to check why, but forgot.

Logged into the companion app this morning to manually toggle a switch and saw Life360 integration was not connected and "requires reconfiguration"

reentering my password and trying to log in is not working. I tried removing and re-adding the integration but the problem remains. Now I cannot re-add the integration as it will not sign in.

Anyone else experiencing this?

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Chamberlain shuts off access to MyQ’s APIs, breaking smart home integrations (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by dmtalon to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
58 comments fedilink
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Match Thread - FCC vs. NY Red Bulls (self.fccincinnati)
 

We seemed a bit quick to want to start fights tonight. I believe while the ref was a bit quick to yellow card a couple of our players, others got lucky.

Moreno could have easily been carded early on. Badji could have gotten a red for his punch.

Otherwise a great game for us, but I hope those yellows don't come back and bite us.

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Pixel 8 Pro - studdery scrolling and moving back to main feed (self.liftoff)
 

Was hoping this would sort itself out, but after a couple weeks it's still there. Scrolling not always smooth, and swiping back from a post is always very studdery.

Wondering if others are experiencing this? Phone is 2 weeks old, came from a Pixel 7 Pro which didn't have this problem.

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