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Factorio's SR Latch Fixed My Flapping Dehumidifier Automation
My basement dehumidifier switched itself on and off 47 times on one damp Tuesday in March.
A homeowner sent me a clip from her doorbell camera last autumn. A man walks up her path, takes a parcel and leaves. The camera caught all of it, in colour, at night. She could not identify him at all.
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My basement dehumidifier switched itself on and off 47 times on one damp Tuesday in March.
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Ask a smart home owner what they fear and it is rarely a hacker.
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A game minimap is a small miracle of information design.
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Invite a friend into a game party and something clever happens that most smart homes get badly wrong.
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Spend an evening in a game with a convincing day and night cycle and something nags at you afterwards, the lights in your own...
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Share a game console and the first thing you set up is separate save slots, so one person's progress never overwrites...
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Three people who actually live with the gear they write about: a reviewer who buys new devices the day they launch and keeps a running list of what has failed him, a former security systems installer who now writes about what cameras and sensors actually protect against, and someone who builds absurdly complex home automations for fun and then writes the simpler version everyone else actually needs. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not set up themselves.