atrainedmonkey

To avoid vendor lockin you can run an install of Home Assistant with a Deconz zigbee USB dongle, which can then act as a hub for a massive range of zigbee devices. including Phillips hue, but I use Ikea’s Tradfri bulbs at a third of the price.

Such a much more helpful name!

Most interesting bit is right at the end of the article

> Disclosure: Upon hearing of the all-time high today, I sold my final bitcoin at a price of $32.50.

> “To be honest, digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions compared with, say flying even once a year – but every bit of CO2 saving is significant.“

Is it worth losing people over such a small gain? This is a 5% saving on a likely negligible cost anyway... This study wasn’t just a waste of time, it’s actually detrimental to an already hard battle convincing people they can have an impact.

Maybe I didn't parse the sarcasm tags, but they're opening up a whole new market of mac owners to your product with what's likely minimal effort?

In Microsoft's defence, just because its functional, doesn't mean they're ready to spend time supporting it on other clients from day 1.

They may be planning a more gradual roll out to other clients once they have confidence with Chrome.