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Philips Hue bulbs won't get Matter support when promised
Ive begun to move away from Philips. They've gotten stale yet still think they command premium pricing.
The new Nanoleaf Essential line just announced should trounce Hue in price/performance.
The new Lytmi box is clearly better than the Hue Play at syncing lights to video content.
I'm not bullish on Hue being able to stay ahead of the led market in general. Goveee is eating them up from the low end
the higher end wants 0-10v or DMX support.
There's less of a reason to need to buy into the Hue ecosystem. I might buy one or two more Hue products but that's about it.
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Amazon slashing 9,000 more jobs in fresh round of layoffs
52 here. I wholly agree. I skip 99 percent of ChatGPT articles filled with puffery and nonsense. Wake me up when AI can get in my crawl space and re-route some plumbing or get on my roof to get some work done. I'm throughly over the ideal that some stiff in a cubicle is going to change the world more than the person with boots on/off the ground getting the labor done. I have an 8 and 9.5 year old and they will not graduate HS without knowing how to operate workshop gear and how electricity works amongst other things. I'll be damned if I let them fall for Suckerbergs 2nd Life remix. No desire to live even partially in some virtual world ..we've already been there and done that with illegal drugs.lkrupp said:So millennials are finding out how the world really works, that no job is secure, that all this talk about how companies value employees is bullshit. You didn’t want to come back to work at the office but wanted to remain cozy working at home with your pet cat on your lap. It’s the BOTTOM LINE, baby, the bottom line. Get used to it, You’ll be switching jobs every few years for the rest of your lives with no security, no perks, no free lunches and lattes. Think joining a union will make it all better? Hardy har har. The SCOTUS is likely to shitcan your hopes of getting your student loan debt laid on the backs of taxpayers. $400 billion? Think again.
The world will continue to need electricians, plumbers, brick masons, welders, carpenters, big equipment operators for the foreseeable future, not so much programmers, data entry workers, marketing types, even certain engineering fields as AI will see to that. It’ll be awhile until Boston Dynamics comes up with a robot that can wire and plumb a new home.
End rant from a 73 year old curmudgeon.
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Facebook also launches blue-check Verified program
Klout 3.0. Appealing to the vain never goes out of style.
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YouTube TV will cost a lot more per month in April
I turn the bigger services off after football season anyways. Folks like me "fairweather viewers" are probably an underlaying cause of price hikes. I've got an itchy cancel finger
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Apple will launch HomePod with 7-inch screen in 2024, says Kuo
Ideal product to me would be a device that looks barely more than a thicker display. The speakers would be hidden to the point where you wouldn't really know they exist.
People may make the assumption that Homepod's must be dedicated to music but nothing in the name "Home or Pod" suggests that Audio must remain the primary focus. This device will likely have a Facetime camera with Center Stage, function as a Homekit Camera display and be the device that Apple needs to push Shareplay functionality forward.
Is Apple "late to party" here? Yes, very late I absolutely love my Google home hubs. While they haven't made using Google services more appealing (I often dream about having the same form factor but leveraging my Apple services) they have confirmed to me the value of this form factor.
My home, we'd buy at least 3, probably 4-5 and they'll make great Matter Border Routers or network extenders
