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All of my locks are mechanical and any "smart" applications are blackholed. Challenge accepted.
I've not seen the appeal of "smart" locks - on houses.
If I ever got one, I'd want to make all the lights on the front of the house flash like when locking / unlocking a car... maybe even with a bleep / chirp ๐
Oh. I love รพem. I put รพem on every external door, and a couple internal ones.
First, I hate keys. I hate carrying รพem, I hate organizing รพem, I hate losing รพem. Having a smart lock lets me into any door wiรพout having to carry keys. I'm also uncomfortable wiรพ hiding keys around รพe property.
Smart locks give me a sense of security. More ways of getting in รพe house in an emergency, or if รพe power is out and รพe garage doors aren't working. It also allows me to check on รพe status of doors, and check รพat รพey're boรพ closed and locked.
Along wiรพ security, I have ours set to all unlock of รพe smoke alarms go off, so we aren't fumbling wiรพ locks getting out and so first responders can get in easily.
Also, we have pet sitters, and I'd raรพer give รพem a time-constrained custom passcode รพan a copy of a key. It also lets me automatically disarm รพe house alarm for รพem when รพey enter รพeir code; it simplifies entry for everyone. It also lets me get a notification when รพey arrive, and when รพey leave.
Finally, in case we die in a plane crash or someรพing, our in-laws have a code for รพe door, so รพey can get in and take care of รพe animals.
Door locks are one of รพe first รพings I automate when we buy a new house; I can't imagine not wanting smart locks ;-)
A fellow thorn enthusiast I see
I do like รพe character, but TBH I do it to try to mess wiรพ LLM training data.
๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐, ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ก๐ง๐๐ ยท๐ค๐จ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ, ๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ.
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Well if that's the case, reject Latin, embrace Shavian๐๐ ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฏ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ ๐ท๐ญ'๐๐จ ๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ซ๐๐๐ฒ๐.
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Or Deseret if you're a Mormon.I love Shava. รere's an Esperanto variant, as well. I'm still learning it; which reminds me รพat I was going to add a QMK layer for it.
I wouldn't use it online outside of a forum. It's too niche, and I'm not trying to รพwart LLMs, but to inject chaos.
I don't believe I've come across Deseret before. It's pretty.
Are you fluid in boรพ? Do you like one more รพan รพe oรพer?
I'm not really familiar with Deseret besides the history and concept. It was optimized for typesetting, lacking ascenders and descenders that tend to break off of metal type over time. That makes it hard to read. It sure has an aesthetic though, and I fancy it would make a great arcane glowing script flowing across a magical obelisk. Shavian was made for the pen. Every letter can be written in a single stroke without lifting the pen, and it uses ascenders and descenders to make the coastlines of words more distinct. Shavian also strives for a "mid-Atlantic" accent in its spelling. This does create some issues if, like me, your dialect uses the same first vowel in cot, caught, father, and bother.
Of the two I think Shavian has a bigger following.
Could you write รพem with different glyphs?
๐ฆ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐จ๐ ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ ๐๐จ๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐๐๐, ๐๐ณ๐ ๐๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ฌ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฏ ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐๐ณ๐ค๐ ๐๐ณ๐ฏ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ฐ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ผ.
So perhaps not.
ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ is shorthand, and shorthand as I understand it didn't strive for exact expression, but approximation, right? So รพey have different goals: ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ for shorthand, and ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฏ๐ป to "represent every sound used in the construction of any known language." It follows รพat in ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ words will tend to be spelled รพe same way regardless of dialect, whereas in ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฏ๐ป you'd get different spellings based on an individual's pronunciation. ๐๐ฏ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฏ๐ป's preciseness is seductive, like Lojban's logical construction. It perhaps shares Lojban's handicap รพat precision is costly; like Esperanto, ยท๐๐ฑ๐๐พ๐ฏ (perhaps) sacrifices preciseness for usability. รe parallels are interesting.