LordOfTheChia @ LordOfTheChia @lemmy.world

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https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/what-is-tasmota-and-how-to-use-it-with-esp-01-to-control-smart-home-devices

Tasmota is a very clever open-source custom firmware that runs on any smart home device, which uses the ESP Wi-Fi chip. It provides local control of the smart devices through MQTT, HTTP, Serial, or WEB UI.

I just learned about it and now I'm really interested in it as well

a system allowing shoppers to pay with a mere flash of their palm

Imagine people misunderstanding how the technology works and instead slapping their cashier when asked for payment...

system ideally escalate to the next tier of (human) support when it detects something complicated?

Why escalate when you can hallucinate!

One point I would make, is that Japanese manufacturers focused on "continuous improvement" (Kaizen):

https://www.chegg.com/homework-help/questions-and-answers/american-automakers-finally-caught-japanese-terms-product-quality-35-years-us-auto-industr-q55211533

American managers believed that once a production system achieved stability, it should be maintained at that point. Japanese managers, on the other hand, believed that production stability was just a starting point, and from that point onward, the continual improvement must be applied.

The Japanese also believed in a harmonious relationship between managers and workers. That too was contrary to Detroit’s historic adversarial relationship between management and labor. Japanese managers actively encouraged all workers to suggest ways to improve processes. Detroit’s managers adamantly prohibited workers from suggesting changes.

Edit: A better source on the Kaizen method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen

It is also a process that, when done correctly, humanizes the workplace, eliminates overly hard work (muri), and teaches people how to perform experiments on their work using the scientific method and how to learn to spot and eliminate waste in business processes.

That would work. In either case, the best course of action is to start documenting the cases of wage theft, start looking for a new job, and then report the employer to the NLRB (in the US).

Usually they don't even have to go far with collecting evidence as many employers that engage in wage theft are pretty brazen about it.

The good that can come from this (imo) is that unlike Activision, Microsoft discounts their games on Steam according to their age while Activision (historically) has been very stingy on sales of old Call of Duty games.

To my knowledge, there are zero Blizzard games on Steam. Microsoft has been open to putting new games on Steam (starting with the Halo: Master Chief Collection).

So if MS follows it's current practices with Activision/Blizzard games, it could be a good thing for gamers.

There's quite a few brands under Techtronic Industries (TTI):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techtronic_Industries

TTI's brands include:

Milwaukee

AEG (Under license from Electrolux AB)

Ryobi (Under license from Ryobi Ltd)

Homelite

Empire Level

Imperial Blade

Stiletto

Hart

Hoover (In US)

Oreck

Vax (In UK and Australia)

Royal

DreBo

Dirt Devil

Would be cool if all their brands could use the same batteries...

Not the OP, but my speculation? The new folks in charge didn't like the founder and the people who looked up to him and wanted to take the company in a completely different direction.

They likely already knew who the loyalists were before the funeral, but if not, those who self identified by wearing bowties would work just as well.

It also helps that the Genesis/Mega Drive was designed after the System 16 arcade board that many of these games used (and was also not a far stretch from the System 18).

Also theres the "1% of users generate all the content". It may take a bit for that 1% to get pulled into the community. Gotta keep that 99% entertained somehow in the mean time.

I think it's an important difference if the bot posts are grabbed from (say the all time top posts from that sub in Reddit) vs reposting from the same Lemmy community.

One helps preserve a historical top posts for others to enjoy if the primary community goes dark (or the image/video hoster link expires), the other just adds annoying repetitiveness.

I sense a post mortem business opportunity for Belle Delphine.

Thanks, added the official link

It's free on Steam and available in most Linux software repositories and from the website below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241950/Warzone_2100/

It was open sourced (2004 and 2008) and released for Mac and Linux in 2012

Edit: Looks like the version on steam isn't the official or most up to date version.

Indeed, the SMS port looks pretty good:

https://youtu.be/dQc_hkTEb4s?t=26m

The best ad I saw for Reddit (back before the grand Digg migration) was one day, everyone agreed to stop posting direct links to articles and instead post the links to the Reddit discussions for said articles.

Suddenly, one day, the entire Digg feed was links to Reddit.

We should do the same thing (on say 8/1) to give time for the different federated instances to get accustomed to the higher traffic, more activity on the feed, and more people to welcome the future Reddit refuges, just like Redditors once welcomed us during the Digg 4.0 exodus.