X-Istence

I run the "Matter Server" app, and added it to Home Assistant.

I reflashed one of my dongles to the Thread firmware, and fired it up with the OpenThread Border Router app in HA.

Had it join my existing Thread network by sharing the network credentials with HA from my iPhone, so that it would join the same Thread network as on my Apple TV/HomePods. All devices now work as before.

I too use Battery Notes, and that is how I know they are only lasting like 3-6 months. There are outliers, some of them have lasted a lot longer, but most are much shorter.

Yep... I have had the same issue with the Aqara ones (on top of the battery life being the worst).

I got a bunch of the Aqara WSDCGQ11LM's around my house, and every single one after 3-6 months the battery is dead. The Zigbee network in my house is strong, and stable and yet they keep running out of battery.

Once out of battery, replacing the battery means you need to re-pair them to the network since they don't rejoin automatically. Thankfully Home Assistant sees it as the same device, but it has been a pain, and the batteries get expensive really quickly.

I've been slowly replacing them with Ikea's Matter sensors instead, they have a display that comes on when you tap them, and join the rest of my Thread network. Slowly over time I am likely to replace all of my Zigbee based devices with Matter/Thread based devices because it seems to be far more stable for my use cases than most of my Zigbee devices, especially battery powered ones seem to last much longer when using the Matter/Thread based versions.

Yep, you can do a DFU recovery on a Mac from another Mac over USB. Same as if it were an iPhone/iPad. Which makes sense since it's basically the same hardware.

Where fable has blown me away is converting entire code bases and or refactoring across many different segments.

It’s far more careful than opus and puts far more effort into testing and validating by default.

Switching back to opus at work was a downgrade. Similar requests felt more clunky and needed far more hand holding.

This is an issue I am running up against on Safari (Version 26.5 (21624.2.5.11.4)) on MacOS 26.5.

I keep getting the turnstile and having to click the "I a human" button.

Where is the proof for that? I am interested in learning more about the network plugin! I was under the impression it did not use any AGPL code at all, and that it basically just talked HTTP.

I've been comparing Claude vs Codex using GPT and Claude consistently is better than GPT about reasoning, about writing code, and using the tools as appropriate.

GPT for instance had a lot of issues using git worktrees, and didn't understand how to correctly use it to then merge stuff back into a main branch, vs Claude which seems to do this much more naturally.

GPT also left me with broken tests/code that I had to iterate on manually, Claude is much better about reasoning through code. Primarily Python.

That page (and the rest of the book) is far less pornographic than the actual porn I and many other kids I grew up with had access to, and regularly shared between ourselves, and is incredibly tame.

I also find it very telling that you'd consider what is on page 168 pornographic in the first place, sexually explicit maybe, but it is not intended to arouse or cause sexual excitement, it's meant to portray a lived experience.

The sexual repression in the United States is part of the reason why so many people grow up with the wrong ideas around sex and why teen pregnancy is such a big thing. Open discussion about these things (including gender and gender identity in that) is the best way to allow kids to grow up to be functional adults that are well informed and able to have critical thought about how and what they do and are far less likely to fall prey to predators and people who want to do them harm due to their lack of experience.

I already pay Apple for storage, please just back up my chats/media to iCloud.

This is one of those cases where I am glad I don't have my soundbar connected to the internet...

I moved my Hue sensors to my primary Zigbee network and left the bulbs on the hub, especially since I have some of the gradient strips that don't work unless they are on the Hue hub, and my motion sensors have been rock solid.

Hue bulbs currently are stock standard Zigbee compatible light bulbs. You can pay them into ZHA/Z2M without any issues and control them without any Hue hub or app.

If Hue were to suddenly switch to something proprietary their existing bulbs will all continue to function without their app or hub.