Yeah possibly. The article doesn’t specify it but I’ve seen systems that would give you the automated message but still put you through if you stayed on the line.
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I, on the other hand, prefer to do it online and wouldn’t mind this. Horses for courses.
Why even have a phone number if it is useless?
Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?
To answer the question, no - you’re not the only one. People have written and talked about this extensively.
Personally, I think there’s a lot more nuance to the answer. Also a lot has been written about this.
You mention “communities that are security conscious”. I’m not sure in which ways you feel this practice to be less secure than alternatives. I tend to be pretty security conscious, to the point of sometimes being annoying to my team mates. I still use this installation method a lot where it makes sense, without too much worry. I also skip it other times.
Without knowing a bit more about your specific worries and for what kinds of threat you feel this technique is bad, it’s difficult to respond specifically.
Feel is fine, and if you’re uncomfortable with something, the answer is generally to either avoid it (by reading the script and executing the relevant commands yourself, or by skipping using this software altogether, for instance), or to understand why you’re uncomfortable and rationally assess whether that feeling is based on reality or imagination - or to which degree of each.
As usual, the real answer is - it depends.
Your hardware is not very different from mine. Maybe there’s something in here that helps you?
I don’t know which small phones have been released recently but I’ve used an iPhone Mini and decided against it. Not because it’s small but rather because it’s not small enough.
See, I do like a big screen more than a small one. That said, the phone is something I carry in my pocket so there’s a balancing act to be done there. What was really great about the original iPhone’s size was not that it had a small screen. It’s that it was small enough that I could reach all corners of the screen with my thumb.
None of the recent small phones I tried had that advantage. In that case, since there’s no clear usability advantage to the smaller model, I’ll take the larger screen instead.
Bath water … baby ?
I mean, the logical step is to go to Debian
sid, which, despite its alternative nameunstable, is really not. I’ve been running a gaming rig on it for over a year with nothing more than vey vey minor hiccups, mostly because I’m impatient and runapt full-upgradefrequently.
The problem is that some of the block lists are just too eager on the blocking.
I don’t see how the author can claim that NextDNS or AdGuard are any better in that regard though, as they rely on the same lists. 🤦
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50887893
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/94042/alcohol-most-harmful-drug-based-multicriteria/
Alcohol is a lot worse than “sleep, sloppy fighting and risky driving”.
I have high hopes for Matter but as it stands today it’s a pretty big mess and usability is generally horrible.
HDR shines the most on OLED. Pun not intended. 😅
Ah yeah of course. That makes sense, thanks!
Can you not just avoid the problem by not binding any end devices to the bulbs?
A Shelly RGBCCT isn’t going to control a GU10 bulb.
Ok I’ll admit my ignorance. Why not?
Ah got it.
What do you mean, happened to you yesterday? What happened exactly?
There’s Qubino Z-Wave devices, and some Bluetooth ones though my experience with those has been a bit dubious. And integration outside of their own ecosystem is still via WiFi (except for sensor beacons which are BLE).
The issue was that using the old mechanical switch would shut down the router in the bulbs. A relay absolutely solves that.
In any case, it seems to be possible to use a Shelly RGBW2 in CCT mode. Here’s an example of how to do it in Home Assistant’s native Shelly integration though OP says there’s also tutorials around showing how to do it via MQTT.
Or a relay switch and keep the existing mechanical switch on top. I like Shelly but there are tons of options.
Have you got any references to that?
Another commenter posted an article from over 5 years ago with something close to what you describe, but I don’t think they’d be reacting now to something that happened that long ago.
Sorry I’m out of the loop. What did they get caught doing?
money is meant to change hands and should never become an asset worth holding.
Forgive my admitted ignorance. If money should never become an asset worth holding, how can inflation be better than deflation for the working class?
Proportionately, the rich hold a lot more money assets than the poor, who generally don’t hold any or very little.
Of course it is. I’m not disputing the fact that different people have different preferences and needs. I’m disputing the idea that a restaurant should never have a phone line unless it’s used to take reservations.