It has certain advantages compared to the clapper, like you can give aliases to groups of things, like 'fucking lights' as well as 'all the lights'. So when you need emphasis, it still listens.
Alexa is just a voice interface, you still have the insteon app. Also insteon lets you have a switch act as a master to other switches, so when they put in way too many light switch circuits, you can have all the independent switches in each room turn on and off all the lights in that room. So whatever the drunk builder/electrician though made sense when building the house, you can fix without pulling wires through walls.
A side benefit Alexa adds to the Insteon features, is that it can talk to different bands of device, so you can buy Wemo gadgets or Philips Hue lights or other things and it will be able to control them all, but on your phone you need a different app for each brand. I expect someone has developed an all in one app, but I haven't seen it.
Before or after you suddenly get packet loss eight years later because one of the punch-downs didn't hold the wire quite well enough inside the wall, and suddenly you're having to take a panel off the wall behind a bunch of equipment?:-)
But seriously, yes, wires are good, and for the most part, fairly easy to set up and maintain. With that said, what the heck are people building their walls and floors out of that they need a mesh network in a house!?!
Why do you have punchdowns behind the wall? Stick in a wall box.
My 3 story house, built in 2000, came wired! 1 or two wall sockets with coax, phone and ethernet in every room, all going back to a closet under the staircase, where the FiOS come in as an ethernet wire. It was my problem to put the router and 32 port switch in the closet.
I may never move. The thought of dealing with an unwired house does not appeal to me. Maybe if I had a 'back to the studs' fixer upper, I would consider it because I could put my own comms wiring in with more ethernet and less coax.
Yet you happily continue to buy Apple products, instead of putting your money where your mouth is and going for a different brand.
Is making up random assumptions about people you don't know healthy?
I've owned plenty of Android phones. I have an iPhone right now because I wanted to try it out. I don't see other manufacturers compromising on thinness either.
"Many consumers" does not equal "Apple customers". That, right there, is the fundamental problem. Apple customers want thinness at all costs. And so many companies, like Samsung, are sooo jealous and envious of Apple's cultist customer base that they somehow think that they can replicate this level of success by copying Apple's impractical and user-hostile design decisions.
I see too many people sporting iPhones in bulky protective cases every day to believe even Apple customers actually want thinner phones.
I didn't put mine in a bulky case for its protective properties. I put it in a case so I could hold it without dropping it. The shiny rounded edges are slippery and significantly more difficult to hold securely while juggling other things. A Thule X3 case has nice, easy to grip sides. So that's what I put on it.
>I've never had an issue with FedEx or UPS drivers like that.
We have that issue all the time. Business downstairs with big sign declaring that the business is right there. We live upstairs. Packages to the business usually get taken upstairs and packages to the home usually get taken downstairs. It's frequent enough that it has to be deliberate. On the other hand, when the Amazon van comes around (as has happened a few times in December) they always look at the label and take it to the right place.
You have a -1 for technical comprehension. There are passthrough charging products so you can both charge and use another peripheral through the same C port.
On Apple's web store, check out the number of 1 star reviews about the various USB-C adapters which out number all other reviews combined. The reviews about their many of their charge adapters are not any better.
And your point is what? You can charge and use data on the same port at the same time. That was my assertion and it's true. Apple's user rating have no bearing on whether you can or you can't.
My point is that Apple's poor product quality makes this a poor option. "Use our poor quality adapters so make up for the features we removed from our products!"
I wasn't talking about Apple products, at least not on the passthrough adapter side. All the cool type-c passthrough products I've seen are not Apple products. As a participant in the USB standards body, I've seen a quite a few. You can observe that a large number of the one-star reviews were due to the failure of monitor detection using their video adaptor dongles. That's got little to do with passthrough charging. On the Apple web site (where I had not gone looking before) I only see combo units with passthrough, SDs, audio and the kitchen sink. I don't see the nice cable passthroughs I've seen elsewhere.
You have a -1 for technical comprehension. There are passthrough charging products so you can both charge and use another peripheral through the same C port.
On Apple's web store, check out the number of 1 star reviews about the various USB-C adapters which outnumber all other reviews combined. The reviews about their many of their charge adapters are not any better.
And your point is what? You can charge and use data on the same port at the same time. That was my assertion and it's true. Apple's user rating have no bearing on whether you can or you can't.
You have a -1 for technical comprehension. There are passthrough charging products so you can both charge and use another peripheral through the same C port. Also there are type C hub products into which you can plug both a charger and a device and the laptop will charge form the charge through the hub.
What's the best hardware nowadays to run MacOS/X? Ahem, one with HDMI and normal USB ports. And magsafe.
A one or two year old Mac.
Phew! That's what I have.
In fact I'm getting the battery replaced in my MBP to extend its useful life. I tried the new keyboard on the new MBPs and did not like what I felt under my fingers. That's an issue when my primary use of the MBP is writing and programming. I can adapt to USB-C and touch bars, but the keyboard is non negotiable.
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It has certain advantages compared to the clapper, like you can give aliases to groups of things, like 'fucking lights' as well as 'all the lights'. So when you need emphasis, it still listens.
Alexa is just a voice interface, you still have the insteon app. Also insteon lets you have a switch act as a master to other switches, so when they put in way too many light switch circuits, you can have all the independent switches in each room turn on and off all the lights in that room. So whatever the drunk builder/electrician though made sense when building the house, you can fix without pulling wires through walls.
A side benefit Alexa adds to the Insteon features, is that it can talk to different bands of device, so you can buy Wemo gadgets or Philips Hue lights or other things and it will be able to control them all, but on your phone you need a different app for each brand. I expect someone has developed an all in one app, but I haven't seen it.
They can ask for it back. I haven't installed it yet. But if they wait too long they will need to send an electrician to remove it.
>I'm still waiting for the digital "assistants" to be able to do much.
We use ours to control the insteon switches. That's about it. It's very handy to be able to say "turn off all the lights".
I still have it. I don't think they know. Someone picked up five instead of 4 and dropped them in the box.
I'm waiting for the AI Rust players.
>Amazon is a cesspool.
They sent me 5 Insteon switches yesterday when I ordered and paid for 4. A rare screw up in my favour.
"Delayed Refreshes By Long"?
Long what, exactly?
It's was just bad grammar. It was supposed to read "Delayed Refreshed Longly"
By "panel", I meant the front cover plate on the wall box.
OK. I have a low rack in front of my wall box so I can reach it.
Before or after you suddenly get packet loss eight years later because one of the punch-downs didn't hold the wire quite well enough inside the wall, and suddenly you're having to take a panel off the wall behind a bunch of equipment? :-)
But seriously, yes, wires are good, and for the most part, fairly easy to set up and maintain. With that said, what the heck are people building their walls and floors out of that they need a mesh network in a house!?!
Why do you have punchdowns behind the wall? Stick in a wall box.
My 3 story house, built in 2000, came wired! 1 or two wall sockets with coax, phone and ethernet in every room, all going back to a closet under the staircase, where the FiOS come in as an ethernet wire. It was my problem to put the router and 32 port switch in the closet.
I may never move. The thought of dealing with an unwired house does not appeal to me.
Maybe if I had a 'back to the studs' fixer upper, I would consider it because I could put my own comms wiring in with more ethernet and less coax.
Yet you happily continue to buy Apple products, instead of putting your money where your mouth is and going for a different brand.
Is making up random assumptions about people you don't know healthy?
I've owned plenty of Android phones. I have an iPhone right now because I wanted to try it out. I don't see other manufacturers compromising on thinness either.
>Who's stupid enough to make a handheld computer with a glass back?
Like the Nexus 4?
That was a crap phone. The 5 was great. The 4 was their practice run.
"Many consumers" does not equal "Apple customers". That, right there, is the fundamental problem. Apple customers want thinness at all costs. And so many companies, like Samsung, are sooo jealous and envious of Apple's cultist customer base that they somehow think that they can replicate this level of success by copying Apple's impractical and user-hostile design decisions.
I see too many people sporting iPhones in bulky protective cases every day to believe even Apple customers actually want thinner phones.
I didn't put mine in a bulky case for its protective properties. I put it in a case so I could hold it without dropping it. The shiny rounded edges are slippery and significantly more difficult to hold securely while juggling other things. A Thule X3 case has nice, easy to grip sides. So that's what I put on it.
> Apple customers want thinness at all costs.
Way to go with the unsupportable generalizations.
I'm an Apple customer and I want a phone that it robust and has long battery life and I'm entirely happy to compromise on thinness.
on how far down the rope you want to go
I used to program in BASIC, then assembly on an Apple ][
30 years later I've regressed to making new CPU instructions.
In another 30 years I've be making new types of logic gate I guess.
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>such as a refreshed Settings app,
It's important to keep moving things around in the settings app. You don't want people becoming too familiar with where things are.
>I've never had an issue with FedEx or UPS drivers like that.
We have that issue all the time. Business downstairs with big sign declaring that the business is right there. We live upstairs. Packages to the business usually get taken upstairs and packages to the home usually get taken downstairs. It's frequent enough that it has to be deliberate. On the other hand, when the Amazon van comes around (as has happened a few times in December) they always look at the label and take it to the right place.
You have a -1 for technical comprehension. There are passthrough charging products so you can both charge and use another peripheral through the same C port.
On Apple's web store, check out the number of 1 star reviews about the various USB-C adapters which out number all other reviews combined. The reviews about their many of their charge adapters are not any better.
And your point is what? You can charge and use data on the same port at the same time. That was my assertion and it's true. Apple's user rating have no bearing on whether you can or you can't.
My point is that Apple's poor product quality makes this a poor option. "Use our poor quality adapters so make up for the features we removed from our products!"
I wasn't talking about Apple products, at least not on the passthrough adapter side. All the cool type-c passthrough products I've seen are not Apple products. As a participant in the USB standards body, I've seen a quite a few. You can observe that a large number of the one-star reviews were due to the failure of monitor detection using their video adaptor dongles. That's got little to do with passthrough charging. On the Apple web site (where I had not gone looking before) I only see combo units with passthrough, SDs, audio and the kitchen sink. I don't see the nice cable passthroughs I've seen elsewhere.
You have a -1 for technical comprehension. There are passthrough charging products so you can both charge and use another peripheral through the same C port.
On Apple's web store, check out the number of 1 star reviews about the various USB-C adapters which outnumber all other reviews combined. The reviews about their many of their charge adapters are not any better.
And your point is what? You can charge and use data on the same port at the same time. That was my assertion and it's true. Apple's user rating have no bearing on whether you can or you can't.
You have a -1 for technical comprehension. There are passthrough charging products so you can both charge and use another peripheral through the same C port. Also there are type C hub products into which you can plug both a charger and a device and the laptop will charge form the charge through the hub.
So of the 3 ports left, 3 can be used.
However losing the SD slot of HDMI still sucks.
You can charge through a type C hub.
But..
Try to plug in the headphones that come with the new iphone 7 (with a lightening plug) into your laptop. You can't. Their ain't a dongle for that.
What's the best hardware nowadays to run MacOS/X? Ahem, one with HDMI and normal USB ports. And magsafe.
A one or two year old Mac.
Phew! That's what I have.
In fact I'm getting the battery replaced in my MBP to extend its useful life. I tried the new keyboard on the new MBPs and did not like what I felt under my fingers. That's an issue when my primary use of the MBP is writing and programming. I can adapt to USB-C and touch bars, but the keyboard is non negotiable.
>But he's a possible murderer for doing weird stuff with a phone while Egyptian!
He's a definite thief.
>Next time some innocent brown person
He's no so innocent. He's a thief.