Episode 604: Grandpa's Automation
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🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: After settling some confusion about Anna Borg, the boys settle into an amble about the state of voice assistants and the future of the theoretically smart home. As ever, Merlin is pretty excited about music, but he also needs your help figuring out where in the hell he got this new software keyboard.
Links:
- Spotify – Mindhunter Season 1&2
- A House by the Park
- Spotify – “To say, ‘Hey, I love you.’” — Hit shuffle for a quick tour of some of the ineffably disturbing songs that obsessed Merlin as a kid.
- Spotify – “Icicles Instead of Tears”: Merlin’s 1979 — I was a very nervous 12-year-old Ohio boy who listened to the radio a lot. My family moved to Florida and sent me to military school. What a weird goddamned year.
- Build With Matter | Smart Home Device Solution - CSA-IOT — One protocol to connect compatible devices and systems with one another. Smart home devices should be secure, reliable, and seamless to use. And with Matter, they are.
- Introducing Matter devices | evehome.com
- What is Thread and how will it help your smart home? - The Verge — Why the low-power mesh networking protocol is poised to become the backbone of the connected home
- Common Gateway Interface - Wikipedia
- Ivory for iOS
- HOOBS™ – USER FRIENDLY HOME AUTOMATION FOR EVERYONE
- Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
- Steve Ahlman on Twitter: "Never forget what they took from us. https://t.co/oSyi7No4nD" / Twitter — "Never forget what they took from us."
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, oh, hi, my man. How are you doing today? I'm fine. Dan. How are you I'm alright? I can't complain who would listen? |
| 0:09.6 | Who would listen? |
| 0:11.6 | I would I |
| 0:14.3 | Would here, but I don't know if I would listen you hear and obey |
| 0:19.6 | What is that one from that old movie? I hear and oh, but what is that? Oh wait? I feel like I know this |
| 0:24.6 | Who is that? Torg. Torg. Maybe it's a star trek. I'm thinking of I was gonna say I was gonna say I don't know it feels a little bit |
| 0:34.0 | Borg |
| 0:35.7 | I think it's I think it's original star trek. I love that actress. Yeah, it's a Landrue. I think Landrue |
| 0:42.8 | Landrue I don't know me the voice of Landrue. I don't like you |
| 0:49.5 | Oh, oh too powerful |
| 0:51.5 | I feel like I get it. But I don't know man. Maybe maybe I just I don't know when his episodes come on |
| 1:01.0 | I'm always like oh I love him again with this guy. I love the actor. Yeah. Yeah, he I saw him in something recently |
| 1:07.4 | We're really good. I said you know like like Leonardo DiCaprio like Rick, you know, I pointed the screen and I go |
| 1:14.8 | That's cute. Yeah, yeah, that's a hat on a hat joke |
| 1:18.7 | Dan I have questions. I have mysteries. I have |
| 1:24.7 | I've prepared but what I've prepared is something far less satisfying probably even than odds and soids |
| 1:29.8 | But you never know that this could be an h.o.f episode who knows |
| 1:35.2 | Give you everything give everything you're excited about right now hold on hold on. Yes, h.o.f. h.o.f. hold |
| 1:42.2 | Hold on Fanny. Oh |
| 1:44.2 | I mean something different in the in the UK and the UK means you mean |
| 1:52.0 | To cook Keith you are through to Keith. Hello |
| 1:55.4 | I |
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