Ah, no worries mate. Almost got excited for a minute there.

Are you sure? I went looking after I upgraded and I still only have Assist; Scripts; Actions; and Open Page.

Cheers! I certainly hope it will be. We’re traveling the Aussie outback - want my wife and daughter to have a whole bunch of life experiences on this trip.

Awesome. Literally about to leave for a three week caravan trip. This will make a nice addition to the playlist for those relaxing arvos around the campfire.

Hoping someone more in the know can explain this to me. Could commissioning an art piece feasibly mean you’ve paid for that art to be yours? Are there types of contracts available when commissioning art pieces where, conceivably, the person commissioning the piece gets the rights to use it for other things?

I’m not across the legal and ethical aspects of commissioning art pieces, and neither the article or the DA post gives any additional detail. Just wondering if the “Josh” who the artist named in their DeviantArt post be someone who was involved in the Nerf gun somehow…

Well, thanks for the fall down that particularly horrifying rabbit hole. I can only imagine the pain these women went through, given this was at a time that predates anaesthesia.

If your strategy as an employer is how to keep your people in indentured servitude, that makes you a cunt. Be a good boss - help your employees achieve their goals and get to the next step in their career. That will help you attract newer talent when you need it.

I use Shortcuts with NFC tags to automate some stuff with HA, and could probably achieve something on an entity by entity basis.

My point is that we used to have the ability to put a widget on the screen with about 6 or 8 entities on it, for simple, single-click access. And now we don’t. Seems silly to have taken it away from us.

lol - what abuse? He said these things in an earnings presentation, probably to board and investors.

All I’m saying is that the headline itself smacks of outrage reporting, and there’s no more substance in the article itself to add context to what he said, and how. So, I choose to engage a little critical thinking and consider that he might have been responding to a investor question along the lines of, “This is a mining company - why the fuck are you spending money on a restaurant and childcare centre?”.

And I don’t see any evidence anywhere that his people are enduring shit jobs. Their building has a restaurant, a gym and a childcare centre. Putting aside his choice of words, it sounds like he’s investing heavily in trying to alleviate employee pain points, so he gets the best out of them. I’m not seeing anything anywhere where he’s forcing people to work long hours, or for shit pay, or under any number of other shitty circumstances.

Like I said: outrage reporting.

As the one calling the shots, he’s entitled to run the business that way.

As employees in a free society, his people are free to leave if they don’t like it.

If he turns out to be wrong and the arse falls out of the company as a result, the board will hold him accountable.

No one is forced to do anything here. Everyone is able to make decisions that change their outcomes.

Honestly, this headline is outrage reporting at its finest.

It sounds to me like this guy was simply paraphrasing (in an earnings call) his desire to encourage people to stay in the office for a more complete day. He’s backing that up by alleviating a lot of the reasons for people to spend time away from the office: restaurant, gym, and even a childcare centre with doctors and nurses.

It’s not like he’s locking the doors until 5pm each day.

The casting bit is the missing piece for me.

I’ve built a RasPi with Kodi for our caravan, to use Plex and stream our free-to-air TV here in Australia (using Musk’s space innernets). I just miss being able to cast from my phone, for the occasional thing I can’t do with a Kodi add-on.

It possibly would, but I don’t have any Homekit devices, and I just feel hat this is a simple thing a home automation app should offer, it’s almost conspicuous by it’s removal/absence.

Yep, that’s it. One of my most frequent uses of this widget was to turn the kitchen light off - the teenagers are forever walking in to the kitchen while we’re watching TV in the loungeroom nearby, then forgetting to turn the light off when they leave again.

Having a quick access widget for it just made it such a non-issue for me to turn it off. No fumbling and swiping for the app, and no interrupting what we’re watching to issue a voice command.

Disappointing that, if this was a thing, they removed it. Seems like the very definition of regression to me.

At least I know I’m not imagining it. Or that I’m not the only one. ;) Cheers!

Nah - not a widget per light. Per my OP, I had a widget that had a number of lights on it. The number varies based on widget size. I think mine had about 12 entities on it.

So you can’t possibly conceive that a single finger tap on a home screen widget to control a light is far simpler, and takes less effort, than having to open the app each time, potentially scroll to the location of the entity you want to control, then tap?

Yep, but I’m talking about widgets that you place on your phone’s home screen - not in the app directly.

Yeah, fair enough mate. I clearly didn’t read it as intended.

I value critical thinking so, when someone else is able to point out how I haven’t engaged mine, I’m more than happy to accept there’s alternate perspectives I hadn’t considered.