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Can confirm. I hate that this still seems to be the only answer! 

I haven't even signed in. When the TV is on and it thinks that it hears the word "Alexa," the TV jumps into the Alexa app, which just shows the screen to scan a QR code. 

So I have to sign into Alexa on my TV in order to disable the mic activation because I have privacy concerns about it. It's backwards.

Yes and no

I had the regular oven for a couple years, gifted it to a friend whose convection oven died and started a new subscription with the Pro.

The bass version does air frying better. Neither of them are true air fryers, but the Pro lacks the more powerful convection fan that the base model uses. (It also replaces the Air Fry button with the Steam button, and it tells you to use Bake if you want to air fry.)

Since neither is better than a real air fryer, I'd lean toward the Pro because it's so much better at reheating food without drying it out. But if you reheat a lot of food you probably also have a lot of frozen food you'll want to air fry, so the base model works fine too.

it was! Great to see some of those OG players are still here!

yeah, please send a bug report, and reply to the email with a screenshot, we can send that to our ad partners to fix! it's not the experience any of us want.

Wrong. It's free, you just have to watch a 30 second ad and then it will mute. 😉

Wondering what the least used button on this remote is. 

Sling or Alexa or AI?

Eh? My remote doesn't have a heart button 

this post is great for figuring out how to decrease volume by more than 10 steps without automatically triggering mute and stopping the volume decrease slider, but it's still boggles my mind that there isn't any kind of physical mute button. or am I missing something?

Getting mugged on a busy street is not the risk.

The risk is getting hit by drivers or walking into the path of a bicycle or a scooter

Haha, well put

Nicked my finger? This is the end of my life now

this is an interesting one to me that I hear pretty often.

do people regularly use antibiotics on small cuts today? do a lot of people go to the doctor and require antibiotic pills due to a small cut getting infected? they say to use something like Vaseline rather than a topical antibiotic like Neosporin

Prior to my current house, I spent 5 years in an apartment from 1895.

It's definitely much nicer to live in a home that was built after electricity.

im new to Ubiquiti but I see a lot of comments like this here

can I ask why folks tend to have half a dozen APs and over a dozen cameras?

does this subreddit just attract networking enthusiast, or is it a professional thing, or are you installing gear in enormous properties?

I've already over-complicated my personal deployment with half a dozen VLANs, but I'm stopping at two U7 Lites until I see problems.

For me, just two APs and a couple managed switches are a big upgrade from Eero. 90% of my troubles there stemmed from IoT devices getting confused by 5 GHz WiFi (if I wasn't a home automation junkie, I probably would have kept the two Eeros or switched back to Google WiFi)

it's nice to be able to set up DHCP reservations and .local domains, definitely helps with stability of Home Assistant and some TVs

At sea? Chance in a million!

1. the TV pauses when I get off the couch, and the front downlights turn on. it then unpausees when I sit back down and turns off those front downlights

2. my Inovellis start pulsing yellow when my dog needs to pee, and flash red when he REALLY needs to pee

What are the rules?

Is it, though?

Over the years they've added more features that are essentially ads (by the way, check your privacy and ad targeting settings).

They also keep gating more features beyond your acceptance of their extended privacy policy, relating to how they store, share or sell your watch history.

Most of the big names in their app store still regularly release updates for their apps, like Hulu, Apple TV, Prime. So what are you gaining from updating the TV's firmware and OS?

they've probably added more stuff for audio and set box integration over the years, but for me anything I want beyond HDMI Arc requires newer hardware.

what makes you say that, did the front fall off?

I will make it legal.

are those your keys or are you just happy to network with me?

Wi-Fi 6 is one of the most confusing releases in the history of consumer tech.

The fact that it, or its successor, add support for the 6 GHz band make the situation extremely confusing for people who aren't networking gurus

that last part is literally the entire reason I bought into UniFi this year

I don't necessarily need all of the management features, but I was tired of Google Wi-Fi and Eero Pro having virtually zero configuration options. they don't even let you toggle the 5 GHz frequency band off.

between that, the sheer number of IoT devices I've installed, and my house apparently having ethernet everywhere, it's a great setup. But when I was an apartment renter, way too frustrating. sometimes I had to walk a block away to reconnect a Wi-Fi device that didn't work if your phone wasn't using the 2.4 GHz band.

new to all this. less air time utilization because of the higher frequency enabling shorter transmissions, or is it mainly just that very few devices are using or broadcasting at that frequency?

I need a photo of this COVID lamp, did you really screw in 48 smart lights to it? color, I hope? or else... why?

I've got about 60 Philips Hue devices. I think they're the top tier of Zigbee-esque IoT things, and I have the Pro version that supports a ridiculous number of devices

which all work fine in the Hue app, but when I'm using home assistant, some lights get "stuck" where HA and Hue think they're in one state, but they're actually in another

My assumption is that 60 generic Zigbee devices would be even less robust

just catching up on the series now, but I don't think it particularly matters when Star Wars kills off a character.

they keep releasing shows and films set anywhere from 100 BBY to decades after Return of the Jedi.

If they want to make more Cad Bane episodes, there are plenty of upcoming live action options. He doesn't need to be resurrected -- just to show up earlier in the timeline.

Doesn't seem fair to blame limited parking on arbitrary residents.

At least in Chicago, we have very narrow lots -- a 3-flat can easily house 12 people from three families, and there's about 1.5 car lengths of street parking available per lot.

the letter is a dumb way to try to solve the problem, but it doesn't mean anyone of your neighbors with cars is blameworthy.