u/captainsgrok

Case in point:

I ask, "Hey, siri, do more people part their hair on the left or the right?"

Siri responds with the exact same comment 90%+ of my queries are met with: "I can answer that question if you ask again from your iPhone."

WTF?!? Where is the "intelligence" in this? The most bog simple query to ANY search engine will return a simple, singular, answer: "left" or "right" (or possibly, "in the middle"). How is this too difficult for Siri on my HomePod to deal with? I don't want to leave the room, go find a (pocket) computer, type in my query, and finally get an answer to a simple, merely passing, question.

Worse, Apple seems to prioritize my "Address Book" data over all else, so if I ask something about a celebrity, in 99% of cases I will get an answer about someone I know whose name is similar (or not even close in some cases!) to that celebrity's name. This is worse than Eliza in the 1970s!! 🤦

I think that I've figured it out, but since there is not a single hit for this via the usual web searches, I thought I'd make a post.

I was hooking up a new IoT device and wanted to *ensure* that it didn't talk to anything else outside the IoT VLAN, but when I went to configure the port on the Unifi Dream Machine (Pro/SE) I discovered that I could not make any changes to the port configuration without *first* "activating" the port. I thought that seemed like a really bad idea, as the port's default is to pass *all* VLAN tags. After futzing with it for a while, I think that I realized that you can "activate" the port, make all the changes, like restricting it to IoT only, and only when SAVE is clicked does it all get pushed into "production". It's still pretty scary to have to "activate" a totally open port, without an explicit statement that nothing will go live until the final SAVE button is pushed. If this is an incorrect conjecture, please, someone, correct me! Thanks.