Thanks, clicking submit disabled the binary sensor call_in_progress. But the main VOIP is set to assist_satellite.

Workplaces are all about the apps. If those apps you need only run in Windows, that’s what you run. Believe me, businesses would LOVE to cut license costs.

I was getting a couple of pop up ads in my Win10 install, and I switched a couple of months ago. The more I looked at gaming, the more I realized it could be done.

Doesn’t Kasa phone home to China?

Ironically, that is why I wanted Stadia to succeed. It would have forced many game companies to consider Linux.

But Google screwed the pooch.

Affordable? LOL, no. Affordable doesn’t maximize shareholder value! Capitalism!

Those apps are already proven insecure, you might as well use SMS and take advantage of the interopabily.

I don’t mind paying for things when the value proposition is there. Just in entertainment, the prices get skewed way outside value.

Find the tracker group you want, then seed and suck up to them. It’s a shallow system.

Meh, they don’t exactly crow about where to find it in their other apps. They mentioned the “shop” in Google TV and mentioned YouTube, but didn’t say where. Not like they made a store in YouTube to make it obvious. They can’t be assed to be clear about it because they have so many different apps that have the functionality.

Just looked and you can’t access your purchases on a brand account. That’s causing issues. They may have announced it a while ago, but they didn’t think it through at all. This is looking more and more like the YouTube Music fiasco.

Google’s problem is they reward bringing new product to market, but they don’t reward steady stewardship or iteration to improve existing products. That’s why you see Google release multiple products that do the same thing.

This only highlights and strengthens my decision to never buy a Samsung phone. They so desperately want to go their own way but don’t quite have the guts.

DIY Netflix is the one I like.

Thanks! I’ll give that a shot.

Only issue I’ve had with mpv is that everything is darker. I’ve recently gone back to VLC.

And a lot of hubs are USB sticks that plug into your home automation system. They’d have to navigate that system to get to the internet. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.

I think it highlights how much data these iot companies are attempting to collect, and is tied to their planned monetization. They don’t want to make Matter devices.

Wifi congestion for one. The other issue is a lot of people don’t want these devices on the Internet. Don’t want them phoning home with your personal data. Don’t want them to stop working just because your ISP sucks. Z-wave, Zigbee, and Threads/Matter keeps it local, is faster, and is more reliable.

But in order to do that, they don’t harvest every bit of your personal data for sale or ad generation, but instead you have to subscribe to individual creators (ie pay).

How are you supposed to use Waze without having the phone in your hands? Picking up a phone while driving is illegal in my state.