Mark Stevenson, lead artist of DK64, has already said in an interview with Nintendo Life that the use of the Expansion Pak to fix a bug was just a myth. This kind of bug did exist but was fully outside of the context of the Expanion Pak:

That story has become more-or-less accepted fact, although Stevenson believes the truth is more complicated. “This one’s a myth. The decision to use the Expansion Pak happened a long time before the game shipped, in fact we were called in by management and told that we were going to use the Expansion Pak and that we needed to do find ways to do stuff in the game that justified its use and made it a selling point. I think the bug story somehow got amalgamated into the Expansion Pak use and became urban myth.”

“There was a game-breaking bug right at the end of development that we were struggling with,” he clarifies, “but the Expansion Pak wasn’t introduced to deal with this and wasn’t the solution to the problem. My memory is that, like all consoles, the hardware is constantly revised over its lifetime to take advantage of ongoing improvements in technology and manufacture methods to essentially make the manufacture more cost effective and eventually profitable. I think there we’re something like 3 different revisions of the internal hardware by this point and the bug was unique to only one of these versions. We did eventually find it and fix it, but very late in the day.”

Source: Nintendo Life - Feature: Donkey Kong 64 Devs On Bugs, Boxing And 20 Years Of The DK Rap

Stevenson later in an Games Radar Interview explained that the Expansion Pak was used for having bigger maps as well as being able to do more advanced lightning techniques:

Artist Mark Stevenson remembers it being beneficial in terms of standard things like level size in Donkey Kong 64, but there were also more creative uses. “One thing I remember that we did use it for was that we had a lot of dynamic lighting in there, which was hard to do and expensive,” he recalls. “One of the engineers wrote a system whereby you’d go into a cave area, and there’d be a swinging light - the first swing of that light, it’d record all of the colour changes on all of the vertices in that area, and then save it as data and just play it back as an animation rather than going on to calculate the lighting constantly. You’d get a little bit of slowdown when you went in, but after that, it was nice and smooth.”

Source: Retro Gamer - How the N64 “confidently signposted our way into the 3D future”

They incorrectly assumed that when Fairphone was working on the A14 feature update that they halted any and all security updates for existing versions which is not true.

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Agreed! On a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 X, I also had a big, big boost of battery life. It’s really great how far it came in comparison to a few months ago!

In the article, it specifically mentions “Business users” and I can torally agree on that. Not many people use iMessage here in the EU or Switzerland anyway and for business I would say practically zero. I have seen bussiness use Threema, Wire, Telegram, Slack or Google Meet.

And heck, if businesses here have customer live chat with messenger, it’s either WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.

I personally never had to use iMessage after the rise of WhatsApp - neither privately nor in bussiness.

As far as I know, since 2019 the Hue bulbs or lights are Zigbee + Bluetooth. I haven’t heard of a Bluetooth-only bulb yet

Since the Hue bulbs are using the Zigbee standard, you can still safely buy them in the foreseeable future and just connect it with something like SkyConnect, zzh!, Conbee, etc. and use it with Home Assistant

That’s totally true, though, in this case with LEDs I feel like the rebound effect is less of a problem here. The LEDs are not only using less electricity, but they’re far brighter with addition to using less electricity for that brightness. It means that even if somebody decides to fill their room with 5 LED lamps with 806 lumens instead of 1 incandescent bulb, they’ll still waste less energy - in addition with 5 LED lamps of 806lm making your room look like the sun is shining inside.

Linux can be run on an Nintendo 64. Mainline Kernel support has been added in v5.12

At least with Firefox Quantum (v57) they have tried to continuously bring in optimizations to bump the performance. In the meantime there has been lots of work with WebRender, a newer and more robust Javascript Engine and better CSS engine which made it get faster every update. Being quite fast and snappy isn’t just a placebo since Firefox has lately started to get better Speedometer scores than Chrome

What you could do is have one of the HAs install the custom integration remote-homeassistant. However, even then it would mean that you have to somehow make your instance available outside e.g. VPN, port forwarding, cloud service, …

This one connects with the instance directly via a long-lived token and allows you to control and read date from the other instance. The good thing though: The configuration.yaml way allows you to specificially include or exclude entities. So with that you could technically only send the entities from slimmelezer+ without having to pass the other info.

I would say the only caveat would be that because the long-lived token is somewhere on the other house’s instance, they could technically take it and send commands randomly to your instance :P Maybe with an extra user you could maybe limit the permissions or something similar and create the long-lived token there - haven’t tried it though, just a thought.

I personally used it for writing my thesis and for creating presentations. It fit my needs perfectly as there are also extensions supporting it like LangaugeTool or Zotero. For personal usage, it is perfect. In my former start-up, we used Nextcloud with Collabora (now just called Nextcloud Office) and that worked out perfectly fine as well.

I agree that it can be tricky if you have to collaborate with others that use MS Office, unfortunately. For that I use Office Online or worst case whip up my MacBook and run the normal MS Office suite. But I didn’t have to use it for quite long time now.