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Comment Home Assistant already does this (Score 5, Insightful) 31

Rather than trust a perhaps fragile truce between cloud companies who are otherwise fighting for your data, keep everything in-house with an open source privacy-first solution that does so much more than avoid having to log into different 'ecosystems' just to use the stuff you buy. https://www.home-assistant.io/

Comment Start early for maximum benefit (Score 1) 191

After the cold war ended, I took one look at the IT sector and clocked the keyboard as the main bottleneck for human-computer interaction. I decided to learn touch typing on an original PC with the IBM Typing Tutor software. I have never regretted this decision and it has been of great benefit in and outside work, e.g. typing up community meeting notes while still keeping eye contact and participating in the discussions.

Comment Only when in college (Score 1) 192

Ours was a PDP-11 with a room full of terminals, mostly TeleTypes in noise dampened alcoves but one glorious Beehive CRT. Security consisted of short passwords and locking up the manuals. My uncle's department used the same model and I asked him to send me a copy. Unfortunately the internal mail sent them to the computing department without looking at the recipient and I had some explaining to do. One april fools' day we printed all user passwords on a long fan-fold paper banner and pinned it to the wall headed 'in case you forgot your password'

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