Riven

@Riven@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So begins the great smart bulb saga!⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience, if you want to use smart home stuff you really need a hub of some sort rather than connecting everything directly to your phone.

  Smarthings is popular, or Hubitat for the more tech-savvy. Or just an old PC with HomeAssistant or OpenHAB installed. All have ways to expose their connected devices to HomeKit/Siri.

  If you go the old PC route, just make sure not to buy any ZigBee or zWave devices since they’d need additional antenna dongles (built in to the standalone hubs) to function.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Artefacting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the idea is to build a habit of checking, so you don’t even need to have that “hold on, am I dreaming?” moment. You just habitually do that thing you always do, and then “oh it seems I’m dreaming. I didn’t notice”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electrons are easy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually that does have a confusing name: Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. WIMPs. Yes, really.

  It’s a common misconception that Dark Matter = WIMPs because it’s the leading theory right now. Dark Matter really just means “whatever happens to be the cause of certain cosmological measurement discrepancies” even if that cause isn’t in any way “matter” at all. It’s a very misleading name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Accepting that the reality of a story is as described. Magic is real? Sure. FTL? Sure. The colour red makes you fart? Yeah why not? For the sake of the story, I Believe.

  BUT the term often gets hijacked by rabid fans trying to justify plot holes, self-contradictions, and nonsensical gobilygook. Suspension of disbelief doesn’t mean I should also suspend all semblance of reason, unless of course there’s a clearly established in-universe justification for doing so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot take: Users without a profile pick are mildlyinfuriating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  you can use a gif

  This is the comment I needed. You’ve convinced me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  New? They’ve been around since the 90s. Original Sin was like the 5th or 6th Divinity game.