Honestly my trusty chef’s knife cuts bread no problem. And on my homemade bread it keeps it from being too crumbly unlike my “bread” knife.

I also have full faith that it would work just fine on Nazis

Banana for scale

Unnatural. Should be illegal.

Yeah I got the Third Reality ones, they take AAA batteries instead of the coin cells that most take.

I have a button on my bedroom wall and two others one on each nightstand.

Pressing the one on the wall once turns on the main lights. Double press controls the lamps.

On the nightstands it’s opposite. One press for lamp, two for main light. Long press any of them to turn everything off.

My living room has a similar setup, but like you I have a dual light/fan. I keep the fan controlled by the pull chain and the lights are smart bulbs that are controlled by the wall button.

I just took some Zigbee buttons and stuck em on the wall. I rent though, so I can’t mess with the wiring. Works well. I have Zigbee bulbs so I just put little 3D printed covers on the real switches to keep the power going to the smart bulbs.

But can’t you get a smart switch with physical controls? What tech do you use to control your lights/switches/relays? Zigbee? WiFi? Matter/Thread?

I’d do something like this: https://a.co/d/022pOcJo if I could. (Not recommending this brand… Didn’t research it.)

WiFi ones exist too but I wouldn’t want to permanently install WiFi smart home stuff. If you’re going this far invest into a Zigbee or Matter over Thread radio. It works great with Homeassistant.

Maybe that metaphor would make sense if technology hadn’t already completely saturated the world before we had this new process.

Maybe coding isn’t as hard as making artisan hand made paper…

And a bit of lime juice for acid will make it taste great and round out a few more vitamins.

It’s also a very valid answer to a football fan. There’s two camps, Patriots fans and literally every other fanbase going for the Seahawks.

Cowbee can you just be wrong for once? I’m good and damned tired of seeing you be right all the time.

Oh fuck is this the quarterly Lemmy obsession with some food product

Yeah at best you’d start a fire at the roof. Wouldn’t do anything to the pole

I feel like the US is very split on this.

Personally I have all hard floors and don’t care if someone has shoes on, but personally shoes in the house feels weird to me.

Sure I get that just not sure why cats are the 2nd best Gandalf (with tits).

I don’t have Gandalf with tits in my photo library but if I did I’m sure my Immich search would bring it up.

Edit: I now have it in my library and it comes right up :) it then only pulls up cat photos after that for some reason

It’s default installers aren’t as newbie friendly IMO. And the defaults/theming are a bit bland out of the box.

loss of Internet connection

No. They aren’t controlled via Internet (they can be, but it’s not vital). You have Zigbee switches that control them through radio. Or you control them with your Zigbee controller which is hooked up to your network, but works locally so even if your Internet is down it works on LAN.

voltage drops/brown outs/black outs … They all turn on the full brightness for “safety”

Depends on the brand. Some do this. Most do out of the box but you can go into the settings of your Zigbee controller and disable that. Some don’t let you configure it. I’d read reviews first.

Also Phillips Hue is actually a Zigbee bulb, which can be used with non-Hue Zigbee controllers. If I’m reading right this setting can be configured. https://community.hueessentials.com/t/how-to-set-up-power-on-behaviour-for-my-lights/720

Brand/model isn’t important.

You’ll need a HomeAsstant controller. You can buy one premade or you can look up tutorials and make your own with a raspberry pi or old laptop or PC. Then you’ll need a ZigBee controller, this is a radio that will talk to your smart lights and other accessories.

You then get ZigBee compatible lights. Phillips Hue is the top of the line but so stupidily expensive I’d never recommend it. Innr makes good ones at half the cost. ThirdReality makes decent ones too for even cheaper.

You’ll probably also want some ZigBee switches to have physical controls for your lights instead of just by phone. They make models that replace your actual light switches. Or, if you rent like me and can’t modify that, you can get battery powered ones that stick on the wall. Battery life is like a year or more so not too bad.

That’ll do it. You can also use HomeAssistant now that you’ve got it. It’s a home automation software that’s open source and locally controlled. You can hook up much more than your lights. Smart plugs, your TV, 3D printer, fans, cameras, tons of sensors, your thermostat, robovac, etc. Then make automations that connect them. For example my living room ZigBee switch, one press up toggles the main lights. Double press for the lamp. Hold down and it turns off all lights and the TV. Some lights like my closet light are controlled by a door sensor instead of a switch, so they come on automatically. Some people prefer motion sensors so all lights are automatic. Turn off stuff automatically when you leave, etc.

Imagine having both

ZigBee baybeee. Fully local, offline, forever. Nobody can stop them working.

I live my smart lights for this. I can change them at my whim. By default they’re brighter and whiter during the day, slowly moving dimmer and yellow after sunset. Or I can make them whatever other color but I do that pretty rarely.

It’s also fully offline and no WiFi used. But it seems almost everything you see in the stores are WiFi bulbs you have to get an app for, where one day they might go bankrupt and suddenly your lights dont work. Or the internet goes out. Yuck.