Well I guess I wasn’t the only one.

Only took about a day to get it figured out and reset.

For reference, I only have 3 devices attached. 2 lights and an outlet that is basically another light as it’s connected to a dumb LED strip (aka I can’t use Assistant to control it or change the colors or pattern of changes, I just control the outlet to turn on do I can turn the strip itself effectively on and off- I still need the manufacturer’s app to change the colors and brightness- and as fucking terrible as that app is, at least it works; it has ads and needs an account, but it does function).

More often than not I turn on/off the lights at the same time, and the strip separately, or I turn all 3 on and off together.

When I do them all together, I use the command “bedroom off”.

When the issue affected me, the symptom was that only my night stand light would respond.

In the Google Home app, all 3 were still associated with the bedroom, but only the night stand responded to the spoken command.

I changed the other 2 items to another room and then signed them back to the bedroom, and it’s fine now.

There is one other oddity that might be Google’s fault, or maybe the light itself. The other light (not the night stand) will occasionally register as “offline” and doesn’t respond to commands at first.

Then the Nest speaker starts to announce “(that light) is offline and can’t be (something or other)”

But it usually triggers while the message is still being said (which is why I can’t remember the rest of the error- it usually fixes and it stops saying the message when the light finally heard the message and changes).

Removable battery is #1. My old Galaxy S3 (not even my first phone-yes I’m old) has absolutely godawful battery life but I had I think 4 total batteries around to make sure I could always have it even on a heavy use day. That sucked, but at least it was doable with a really easy process (peel off plastic back, pull out and swap battery, snap the backplate back on).

I keep an old phone around and sometimes use it to play like a video for my cats to watch if they’re laying on my bed when I’m not in there. But it has to stay plugged in because it loses the first 20% in about 15 minutes.

And that phone in particular (a pixel 2) is particularly a pain to replace the battery in the first place.

I was just thinking that sounds pretty bad. Everybody wanted to shit on Zuck for that very thing but would be ok with a gender swap version?

At least it’s not that. So a fucking nightmare, but at least we’re not retreading ground.

Just once? Amateur.

JFC what is taking so long? I thought this was over and done with a long time ago.

Yeah, I’m trying to work on it specifically.

I haven’t seen the other threads (when I first replied, there was at most 1 other reply), but I was ready to drive that meaning at you, but when I went to get the evidence to back it up, the evidence surprisingly didn’t favor it.

So I had to go back to the drawing board. Even as far away as the drawing board was. By which I mean my assumed sexuality’s definition.

Hmmm I wanted to say you’re adding qualifications to the definition of straight, but I had to check myself and the definitions I found did indeed say “sex”, not “gender”.

I hadn’t ever looked at it before and I thought it meant gender. Maybe I’m more queer than I thought. 🤔

I like metal, but know very little about him. One of the first things I knew about him was about him buying something’s head off, so I kinda put him in the “ignore intentionally” bucket.

And really that’s all I need to know.

I’ll just appreciate what he gave to music without liking him.

This sounds like stretching the word “celebrity” pretty far.

Fucking bye, you stupid fuck.

Pride covers a lot more than gay anyway, so I might be at some event sometime.

It was more of a wishful comment

There gotta be some kinda check on a president using a pardon when he is personally tied to the case.

Finally, an actual good use of the “chainsaw of bureaucracy”.

But yeah, this needs to be said more.

The problem for me is that it’s hard to see them being more than a potential child molester.

Maybe not so much if it’s like just “the forbidden kink”, but if it’s more of the main show it feels like they’re just so much more likely to do it eventually.

Now I haven’t read any data on it, but it does naturally raise concern to be wary.

But people at large really love an easy target to dump rage on. And I get it, I’ve been in that crowd.

I may have been saddled with a really weird collection of my own kinks, preferences, and desires, but at least all of mine are kid free. And at my age I still call 20-somethings kids.

I’ve always thought that women who look like they can kick ass are hot AF.

My awakening to that was Alias. I never actually watched the show itself, but I saw a clip from one particular episode that really got me going. At least I’m pretty sure it was Alias. But if you watched it, I’m pretty sure you know exactly the clip I’m talking about.

Now I’m not really into actually having my ass kicked, but just the look of capability. Oooo weeee.

I don’t know about it being spicy, but I disagree. People are not their genitals.

To clarify further, do you think being attracted to trans men (assuming you’re a guy) is gay?

The mental exercise here seems to either go one of two ways for me. Either you just consider gender, or you have a relationship orientation that’s separate from physical orientation.

I honestly don’t know where I fall on this particular topic. I’ve known very few trans people at all (at least in person- obviously I’ve seen tons of them in different movies and shows and YouTube channels), so I haven’t really had a chance to figure out how I feel about them for the sake of relationships.

I think either would understand me in different ways (since they either are or were treated as guys).

But if I had to guess, I think I would still prefer trans women to trans men as far as being in a relationship with one.

The one thing I do know is that if I ever did fuck a dude, it would be a trans dude.

But really I’m more concerned with how I feel about the person than I am about their junk. There so much more to a relationship than how fucking works and I’d much rather just be totally in love with the person vs in love with their crotch.

I’m not that picky. This is probably the best outcome possible, but I’d settle for a well-documented assassination.

And Kari Lake.

This article is how I found out Cleveland’s baseball team changed its name.

Whatever kills him, I really hope it’s on tape and preferably broadcast live to help stymie a cover up.

I really wanna watch his life leave this existence.