baseless_discourse

baseless_discourse, 1 year ago

Let us know when it is setup. I would appreciate some shitty map in my day.

baseless_discourse, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago)

Not “job”, these are “volunteering contributions”, that are not only time consuming, mentally consuming, and unpaid as well.

baseless_discourse, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago)

Finally, the rail system U.S. deserves, old, loud, slow, never on time, and is under maintenance EVERY! F**KING! WEEKEND!

baseless_discourse, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago)

In their gnome version, during the setup process (first boot, not install), they would prompt for third-party repo and codec (Enabled by default, IIRC).

I think you might have unchecked that? or KDE not offering such experience?

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EDIT: NVM, I just checked, and I have never installed the codecs… LOL.

Fedora is notorious for avoiding shipping proprietary software with their distro even at the cost of new users.

I think this might stems from the fact that fedora used to be a distro aimed for advanced users. It is slowly getting better at being new user friendly.

baseless_discourse, 1 year ago

Yeah, I was wondering why I have desync issues couple days ago watching videos with my wife.

Modern YouTube videos are generally fine, but many other site has poor support for popular codecs.

baseless_discourse, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago)

I also started with LTS assuming they would be more usable, but the extremely outdated package have later driven me away from linux for a while.

Now I realize I can just run normal Ubuntu to get reasonably up-to-date packages. But I like the latest (non-graphical) software that is offered by fedora.

baseless_discourse, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago)

EDIT: sorry, I read it wrong, I thought the reply says the addon “doesn’t” use the remote API.

I digged a bit on the code, and every command indeed go through the cloud. So even if you use this addon, Haire can still collect a fair bit of data about you, since there is no way to communicate locally and directly to the AC.

But the addon only sends the minimum amount of data to achieve functionality, so definitely not as much data as using Haire’s app.

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Can you link to where the documentation that specify they don’t use API?

Because I am looking at pyhOn (dependency of hon, and also being taken down), it seems like when executing a command, they do contact the cloud. Specefically

<span style="color:#323232;">url: str = f"{const.API_URL}/commands/v1/send"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    async with self._hon.post(url, json=data) as response:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        ...
</span>

github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn/blob/…/api.py#L215 . The call to API is later used to send command:

<span style="color:#323232;">result = await self.api.send_command(
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                self._appliance,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                self._name,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                params,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                ancillary_params,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">                self._category_name,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            )
</span>

github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn/blob/…/commands.py#L14…

And the API_URL indeed points to a remote API:

<span style="color:#323232;">API_URL = "https://api-iot.he.services"
</span>

github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn/blob/…/const.py#L2

baseless_discourse, 1 year ago (edited 8 months ago)

Likely no, and fortunately the developer has legal insurance and plan to fight the case if it happens.

github.com/Andre0512/hon/issues/147#issuecomment-…

So this repo is not going down any time soon.