I always thought since the cast button on Spotify/tidal/etc. is a Google thing it would only ever work with the Chromecast protocol.

My Roomba doesn’t connect to the Internet – I use the clean and dock buttons

Slightly off topic but how are y’all at replacing the parts that get worn out?

I’m still on the 2nd filter it came with and I haven’t replaced any of the brushes, etc.,

I kind of wish I had a maintenance schedule where I just had the parts delivered and replaced them at set intervals rather than having to guess when it’s worn out.

But I also don’t want to overspend.

That’s why I only bought the basic model – didn’t want a cloud company to have a map of my house lying around

I really don’t like vacuuming, so to me it doesn’t matter how long it takes; I can set it up and then leave the house

What evidence do you have? I’m going of of what experts are saying on the fediverse:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexs-starlink-could-cause-cascades-of-space-junk/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/

It does work this way, and Starlink is waging a PR campaign that it’s no big deal.

Yeah that’s like any 3rd party repository

On the contrary, I think it is something to avoid. Imagine letting a single person ground all space launches for 9 years. And all the pollution that adds to the atmosphere. All the junk landing on people’s farms or houses.

Yes you are trusting them, and the developer. Just like you are trusting F-droid if you download from them. You also have to trust that the compiler program doesn’t do anything fishy. It’s trust all the way down.

The good news is that lots of people are working on making the systems trustworthy, and you as a consumer can learn to distinguish between what can be trusted for your usecase and what can’t.

Bye bye future space launches once we have full or partial Kessler syndrome.

Bye bye earth based astronomy.

But dang this tech is so much better than Hughesnet

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I just gotta say.

Photoshopping is such a great skill to have. Thank you for making my day better.

In the play store you’re trusting Google and the developer.

I’m not sure how obtainium works. But if you download binaries from GitHub, you’re trusting the developer to accurately build their source code into the binary without adding anything. You’re also trusting GitHub implicitly – way back when, source forge was sometimes adding malware to downloads iirc.

F-droid is kind of cool in that they are saying, “we will ensure for you that the code you execute is the same as the open source code you can read”. But this added level of insurance comes with downsides – like sometimes it’s harder for the developer to make their code build properly, or maybe updates take longer.

The main difference is of philosophy of trust. With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers’ source code. With Accrescent, you trust the developers to build the binary from the source code.

Who can say

Patents have gone too far. I just want to stream Spotify to my home speakers; I shouldn’t need proprietary bullshit to do that

I bought a Chromecast Audio right before they were discontinued, trying to get in while I still could. It’s the only way I cast to a wired speaker system from the 80s that works reliably.

I loved the convenience but I will not go along with their cash grabs. I will not buy their new product because they took away the old one that was still working.

I have a cheap wireless hygrometer in the house… I don’t know which chip gives it its capability. I just know ESP32 is the most common one.