One of the updates I was waiting eagerly for is collaborative playlist as I am driving in a carpool and didn't want to just play my music. I also didn't want to mess with my suggestions which Shareplay answered for most part.

The nice thing I with Shareplay was that the other people in my car didn't need to have a music subscription when I have one and they could add songs to the queue.

I made a carpooling list and hoped that they could add to it but they needed subscriptions for that. I suggested they shareplay and then look if they could add to my carpooling playlist, but they didn't manage to.

Has anyone been able to do this?

So far I could only see matter support officially announced for the S8 MaxV Ultra.

But when the matter 1.2 standard was announced I read in one of the articles that the S8 Pro Ultra would get it. I have not seen an announcement on that at all.

I would have thought that this would have been a much bigger deal at CES but all the reviews have just mentioned this in passing. I have been holding out until matter support came out and used my cheaper robot vac till about a month ago when it stopped working. I am sweeping daily now and I can't seem to keep my house as clean.

The only one's I have seen with matter support so far is: -Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra -Switchbot S10

But more might have been announced in CES that I didn't see.

The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010, and for 2023 it is now Apple

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10154897

Looks like they plan to have the blue line extension ready to go in 2029 mentioned in the embedded video not the article.

The plan is to have 55% of the population within 800 meters of public transportation stations by 2040.

A little bit old, but I always like to watch the video linked below: Youtube - Dubai Progress by MetroCucumber

Looks like they plan to have the blue line extension ready to go in 2029 mentioned in the embedded video not the article.

The plan is to have 55% of the population within 800 meters of public transportation stations by 2040.

A little bit old, but I always like to watch the video linked below: Youtube - Dubai Progress by MetroCucumber

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10082732

I am currently in the UAE and was looking for a solution to some things to do with setting my home and work on Apple Maps, but it seems that that part of the maps wasn't fully provided or something so I will not be able to set those.

Searching for a solution let me to this on the place that shouldn't be named, but Joseph (u/KickNo5073/) said we can use his map. So I just hopped on over here and subscribed to share it over here. I hope it is okay sharing pictures from there as I didn't see any rules about it in this instance.

Looks like a few new countries are coming in 2024. I was actually surprised because in the UAE we still have a few features not working yet.

I am currently in the UAE and was looking for a solution to some things to do with setting my home and work on Apple Maps, but it seems that that part of the maps wasn't fully provided or something so I will not be able to set those.

Searching for a solution let me to this on the place that shouldn't be named, but Joseph (u/KickNo5073/) said we can use his map. So I just hopped on over here and subscribed to share it over here. I hope it is okay sharing pictures from there as I didn't see any rules about it in this instance.

Looks like a few new countries are coming in 2024. I was actually surprised because in the UAE we still have a few features not working yet.

I recently purchased a small studio flat and thought that it is the perfect place to make a smart home since I will only need to control a few things.

I have already ordered my light switches and am still contemplating my blinds.

But my biggest concern is my airconditioning as I stay in the desert and it becomes quite unbearable during summer I normally left the AC on the whole day in my rental apartment.

But since this AC works on electricity only I figured I wanted to make it smart and only want it to cool a 15 minutes before I normally arrive back home.

My thermostat though is a communicating one and so far the only one I am seeing is the Lennox iComfort S30, but I don’t know if it is compatible with what I currently have. The videos I looked at said the companies should be sister companies for compatibility but I couldn’t find out how to check that.

This is my current thermostat

Has anyone else tried to do something similar?

Edit: This is what is on top of the roof of the apartments and each has 1 or more of these

Commentary: I don't use Journal every night, but even opening the app and looking back helps put time into perspective.

Botim is one of the preferred allowed alternatives of UAE for video calling and messaging.

I just recently saw that the messages and calls are end to end encrypted which I thought was one of the main reasons that Whatsapp calling isn’t working here?

Also, I would want to get get rid of the adds but I don’t want to indefinitely subscribe to do this. I wish there could have been a once of purchase for this.

For most part the app works quite well, but trying to get the people from my home country to download it has been challenging for me.

I would normally look for i formation on these type of things on reddit, but I figured it would be good if this community could also have some information on it.

Player of the year: Ardie Savea

Coach of the year: Andy Farrel

Breaktrough Player: Mark Telea

Try of the year: Duhan van der Merwe

7’s player of the year: Rodrigo Isgro

Special Merit Award: John Smit

Well done to all the winners

I recently did the jump from Reddit to Lemmy and I found this community here while I was still looking for subjects to follow. I have been following rail specific subjects (more the construction and operation of) in the few countries that I have lived in since about 2004 so some of the posts here really drew me in.

Since moving to Dubai, I wanted to go carless but my work is too remote so I did opt to get a car. I also like travelling by train so I just thought I would give an anecdotal case study of the difference between driving and taking the metro here. I also thought this would be quite interesting as the Metro system is quite young and the roads in the UAE is generally the best I have seen from Europe/North America/Africa and the Middle East (of course, I didn't see all of the roads).

Last weekend I found myself parked walking distance from Al Furjan Metro station and wanted to go close to the Metro station in JBR. This immediately made me think which option would be quicker and I checked the train schedule and it said the ride would take 11 mins and the train is running every 3 and a half minutes - 15 minutes worse case scenario including the bit of walking. I took the car and parked and walked and it took me 12 minutes to get to my destination, which would be the same as the best case scenario. The train stops at 4 stations in between, which is probably what makes this comparable.

This made me consider the other variables as well. So I decided to compare the cost. Just taking the fuel in account the trip would have cost me $0.6 for the trip in the car and this would be $3.27 for two people in the train (gold class). But I figured that isn't a very fair comparison. Lucklily I have a detailed log of my car fuel expenditure and I also log the depreciation and other expenses on my car. My car is not the cheapest one in the world, but I am also comparing it to the highest class ticket so I am just comparing it from the type of car I would want to drive and type of service I would want for the train. Adding in what my roadtrip app calculates my total cost per km. The car trip would be $2.80.

So for this trip the car came in a little bit cheaper than the gold class tickets. But if it was a solo trip it would be significantly cheaper to just take the train ($1.64). Also you could opt for the normal ticket that is $0.82 for this trip.

If you need to walk around outside the walkways, the Metro also has a nice feeder bus and tram system that is drops you 50-100 meters (55 - 110 yards) away from most points that I would be interested in.

So in conclusion, if I travel solo in Dubai, the Metro would definitely be my first choice. The ticket for two is also worth it for me as it just reduces the stress by that much.

Edit: I should probably also mention that this would probably be a harsh comparison on public transport as fuel is very cheap here and there is no tax on cars (or almost nothing if there is something)