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homeassistant@lemmy.world•Matter 1.5 update brings support for smart home camerasEnglish
1·3 months agoThread.
Threads is the Twitter like social media platform run by Meta that has some ActivityPub (mastodon) support.
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•Matter 1.5 update brings support for smart home camerasEnglish
2·3 months agoHell yeah.
Thread and Matter. I only started getting serious when HomeKit started supporting thread. And then when matter came around I started only getting things that support both.
It’s the future, but it’s not something I would encourage anyone with working systems to upgrade to. It’s perfect for new people to get in on. And perfect to slowly transition to. But matter still has a long way to go to support all possible device types and functions.
If you are asking Home assistant users, then your response will be more mixed. But for people using HomeKit and Google Home, it’s the future and promises more interoperability and more options for affordable accessories that don’t require using Homeassistant or vendor apps.
I hate vendor apps. And even with homeassistant making lots of progress in usability, it’s still a bit of a no-go for your average person. I say this as someone who owns official home assistant hardware for supporting needs. Most of my day to day interactions and automations still happen via HomeKit native tho.
The thing is, you need to make proper PDFs with properly structured content with proper metadata for screen readers to be able to access the content in the PDF in a logical and sane way. This is what the OP is tasked to do, and why they are looking for help. So I’m not sure what you mean by “try just using screen readers.”
I’m dealing with this right now too.
My advise is to ditch the PDFs where possible, and go with HTML documents. They are far easier to make accessible. The down side is you can’t easily pass them around in a self contained way that isn’t a bit wonky compared to a PDF or DOCX. But if you just link to them in a course, or otherwise expect students to just access them in a browser, HTML pages can work well.
PDFs have always been a nightmare, and the new accessibility rules are making thousands of people in education finally realize that.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Ubisoft's new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a 'creative house' that will take over development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six - PC GamerEnglish
13·4 months agoI didn’t realize all of these franchises were considered dead. The comments in this thread make it sound like Vantage is a nursing home for these franchises.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Discord doesn't crop their emojis correctlyEnglish
9·5 months agoThis looks like bad scaling actually. This is something that might end up being variable between different android versions and screen resolutions. This is why others on android see theirs as looking fine. And it lines up with the artifacts you are seeing. The artifacts look like blocky scaling of anti-aliased alpha channels to me. This is why some of the emoji appear to have slightly pointed heads. And this is why single yellow pixels appear in the corners of some.
There is poor scaling going on, and or screen resolution/pixel density is dictating a bad scaling factor producing artifacts.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for thisEnglish
2·5 months agoI appreciate the effort!
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for thisEnglish
3·5 months agoThings have been slow for me off and on in recent weeks. And today it’s quite slow.
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•Any ideas on how to automatically open a finished dishwasher?English
19·5 months agoAre dishwashers meant to do this? I’ve never known one to open when done.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit cardEnglish
62·5 months agoSome people get really judgmental about credit cards. Either about not using them, or about using them wrong.
This poster clearly explained how they were maintaining a healthy relationship with one, and you came in to argue with people about how they are “doing it wrong” and shouldn’t be part of the people using credit cards.
Did you know that credit card rewards disproportionately punish the poor? The rewards come out of the credit card terminal fees. And stores increase their prices appropriately to cover credit card fees. If you insist on someone not using credit cards when they are managing it fine, you may be suggesting that they be forced to pay more for their purchases.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?English
41·5 months agoI’ve seen people arguing. On Mastodon, weirdly enough.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are usingEnglish
7·5 months agoLook into it, it’s pretty good.
And Apple updated hundreds of millions of devices to it from an old file system without losing any data. Imagine Microsoft pulling off such a migration. It was silently done in the background with a normal OS update. Really impressive.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are usingEnglish
8234·5 months agoEvery person using a computer should know what their filesystem is and what database they are using. Otherwise they are fools.
Can you believe kids don’t know what NTFS or APFS are these days?! Stupid iPad babies.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?English
2·5 months agoIs there a machine that looks like this? Complete with glowing curved top?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?English
44·5 months agoIndoctrination.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification lawsEnglish
38·5 months agoDoes the law in Mississippi apply to the geographic region and airspace, or only residents?
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•🧩 ChartDB v1.15 - Open-Source DB Diagram Tool | Now with Views, Auto-Increment Fields & Improved FilteringEnglish
2·6 months agoWhoa, this looks awesome. Great job on the UI.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Petition against payment processors who forced Steam games ban roars past 140,000 signaturesEnglish
252·7 months agoSeems like this petition is getting faster traction.
Someone write down “Stop Killing Porn Games” for the future.



Sony made efforts to improve that because people like you complained about the process. And now here we are.