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Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Reportedly Has a $280 Million Budget, Making It One of Netflix’s Most Expensive Movies
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You'll be glad to know she's starting with one of the books that's never been adapted before.
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Greta Gerwig’s Narnia Reportedly Has a $280 Million Budget, Making It One of Netflix’s Most Expensive Movies
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You'll be glad to know she's starting with one of the books that's never been adapted before.
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Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS
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Not the same company. Lenovo bought only the name of the mobile division and slapped it on their products. Google bought Motorola Mobility first, stripped it bare of all the people and IP of value and sold the name to Lenovo.
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Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS
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I believe the play services agreement Motorola Lenovo signs to get the play store on their devices would forbid that.
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Dolly Parton RIP
Don't skimp on the donations to her book program for kids. The enduring scum have started to cut funding in US states they control.
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YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe
It will never be enough. Line must go up.
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I got my paycheck in the mail today, but the envelope was just full of parsley…
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I feel attacked.
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20 and don't know how to enjoy life anymore — is that normal?
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AliExpress accused of fingerprinting shoppers with silent audio trick that also muted a dev's headphones
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It's actually an old one.
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Play Store Requirement
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Nobody said it was an F-Droid restriction.
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Question about mystery spots
Under the pit, do you use a harness that wraps under that part of their legs?
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Possibly. There's also the consideration that the Companion app dev is a paid employee. Does enough of the community demand this feature to be googless to justify the development of building a new system from scratch instead of using the drop in service module?
I would love a fully function play services free version of the app. But is there enough demand for their limited resources to be applied?
Maybe someday Google will push enough people too far. But here on Lemmy we are definitely not the majority, even in the home automation hobby.
I'm not sure how how the hardware works with the matter software. It's possible that they are even already working on someday for the Bluetooth proxies to work which would be a good compromise even if the phone Bluetooth is impossible to use without play services.
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Question about mystery spots
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It could have just been that they tugged too hard and caused a bruise or that it's rubbing and causing irritation.
My dog has sensitive skin and we had a harness cause irritation. But the ultimate solution was to switch to a food that contained salmon because the natural oils helped his skin more than anything.
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Its likely because it uses some Google service to complete the transaction with the device. I believe this is a known limitation of the f-droid version, not sure if it's something the are able to work around or not.
Edit: yes under the android instructions it states the Google Matter UI takes over the process. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/matter/
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Honestly this has completely set back my opinion of matter. I was already really hesitant to jump on board but was still optimistic about it. Now I'm very unlikely to ever embrace it.
Edit: Apparently you can use a dedicated Bluetooth adapter for provisioning if it's installed on your server. It can't be used for the Bluetooth integration at the same time.
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It looks like you can use a a Bluetooth adapter plugged into your server as long as the normal Bluetooth integration is disabled, the matter integration needs sole access. Then you'll just use the browser interface to provision something.
Much less convenient to provision things but worth it if you can avoid Google lock in.
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It don't matter. None a this matters. (From Booster Gold #13. 1986.)
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Supposedly a show is in development.
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Dell PSU is “PD3” but cannot do PPS. Isn’t that non-conformant? OTOH, there is no USB-PD indicator to begin with.
Where does it claim to do PD3?
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Mini, spoiler free review of *Dungeon Crawler Carl*, by Matt Dinniman
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All the "magic" is technology though.
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Mini, spoiler free review of *Dungeon Crawler Carl*, by Matt Dinniman
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Magic alien space goo, psychics, etc...
Your distinctions are arbitrary and purely a function of how you feel about certain properties.
Enjoy your gatekeeping purity tests, I hope they bring you comfort.
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Week of action planned against license plate readers
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Yeah, take home the solar powered GPS device with a built in cellular connection. See how that goes.