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This is probably the most interesting feature of the Ace Ultra over the original Ace.

One press sends whatever’s playing on your speakers – a playlist, movie, vinyl – to Sonos Ace Ultra. Another press sends it back. No other headphones do this.

This feature is available in Early Access. Push and pull music between compatible Sonos products by pressing the Content Key. Control your headphones in the Sonos app when you are at home. Stream music over WiFi from your favourite music services and stations.

The Ace Ultra is not a full stand-alone member of the Sonos system, which people have long been asking for, and I suspect people will initially misinterpret this as (emphasis mine):

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Anyone following the Apple rumour mill will probably be aware that at a ‘HomePad’ device is apparently imminent:

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/08/apple-homepad-snap-to-wall-feature/

It’s not clear from reporting so far if third-party software will be supported at launch, but if it is I’m really hoping Sonos releases a version of their app for the device. It would be very cool if a device like this could be set up with controls and playback information for speakers in a given room, alongside Apple Home controls for things like lights and climate.

If Sonos doesn’t (or can’t) offer official support, then it may s

So I think I found a funny bug while looking into this post. It turns out if you downsize all Naval Administrations you immediately stop paying military wages to sailors, but the ships remain fully crewed until their fleet returns to port. This means that you can force sailors to be prisoners on their ships working for free until the fleet needs repairs.

1. Construct some naval administrations and ships.
2. Let the ships be fully crewed.
3. Put the fleet out to sea.
4. Delete all naval administrations.
5. Crew are stuck on the ship until you return to port.
6. No wages are paid to unempl

The latest update to the iOS update added support for App Intents, which allows the creation of shortcuts for controlling a Sonos system. This presumably also lays the groundwork for supporting Siri AI in iOS 27. It's a very welcome addition.

I've already set up a few shortcuts and it seems to work surprisingly well. It lets me do something I've always wanted from the Sonos app, which is the ability to create 'scenes' of specific content on a pre-defined group at pre-defined volume levels. If one were so inclined these scenes could be combined with scenes from Apple Home in a single shortcut.

There is however some points of frustration and room for improvement, so these are some ways I'd l

I've only completed two campaigns and a couple of aborted campaigns on Immortal and I'm probably doing something wrong but I'm finding the economic scoring to be incredibly unsatisfying. At least in the first age.

If I focus hard on resources and trade, maximising resource slots and trade routes, I will be very quickly filling what feels like a lot of slots with imported resources, throwing tons of cash around, and unlocking all of the economic triumphs, but then it gets down to the last few turns and I look at the economic victory scoreboard and I'm... at the bottom. When I look at the other scores it seems like the AI is just raking in points from Gold Buildings, and very little from an

Cross-posting from the Discord:

Every time there’s a rocky release somebody suggests an open beta, but I think this would be pointless 99% of the time. If 1.13 had an open beta nothing would be different today. The beta would have the same bugs and people would play 1.12 if they didn’t want to put up with them, just like they can today.

Not to mention the reaction to the fundamental design of the new systems has actually been quite positive, so it’s not like an open beta would’ve led to something completely different on that front. Some QoL and UX feedback would’ve been useful, but there was no risk of needing to start over.

An AI update is different. While there’s a lot of things about

Just sharing a realisation I've had after looking at this thread from the forums. The key takeaway is that when the game talks about the Shopkeepers Investment Pool contribution as being "How much of their profits Shopkeepers will invest", it's not telling the truth. This implies that Shopkeepers receive their share of dividends and then contribute 20% of those to the investment pool, reducing their dividends income accordingly. That's not what happens.

What actually happens is that a building receives its profits, calculates reinvestment based on ownership share so that 20% of the Sho

So a big mechanic in this game is town connections, since towns send food to cities, but the game doesn't explain what connected means. All this time I had assumed it meant one of two things:

• Towns are connected to any cities on the same road network.
• Towns are connected to the nearest city accessible by road.

I never really looked into it much further, but I just decided to try some mods and one of the mods I installed was City Hall, which lists connections in the details panel. To check it out I opened an in-progress save and found that neither of those assumptions was correct. Only a 'direct' road connection counts, but the game does not communicate whether a connection is direct.

Every other post here gets a nagging comment about Rule 5, but it's usually not necessary. A post can include an image and body text, but the bot doesn't recognise it unless the text is posted as a comment. I don't see what the point of this is. I assume the motivation is that at one point it wasn't possible for an image post to have body text, but that's not the case anymore, even when viewing the posts on old Reddit.

Can the rule be updated, and the bot fixed, so that it only addresses image posts without any body text? In its current form the bot is frequently deleting image posts that have perfectly good explanatory text in the post body.

I bought a brand new apartment a few months ago and I've been working on adding smart home stuff. So far I haven't had to make any alterations but now I want to make the main overhead lights smart. My plan is to add smart relays behind the light switches and swap the toggle switches for push-button switches so there's no disagreement in the state of the light between hardware and software, and to keep everything local. I'll obviously hire an electrician to install everything, I just want to make sure I buy the right things.

For the relays I'm leaning towards [these](https://smartguys.com.au/product/hauslink-matter-over-thread-dimmer-puck-relay/?srsltid=AfmBOoqFautkJhp9U9IhYthmVTkzfGK5dgdKJh

So for a long time I've liked the idea of smart lights, but most solutions don't work the way I'd want.

I don't want a solution where the light switch always had to be on but the bulb was controlled by another device. I also want to avoid a solution where the light switch could be in the on position while the light was off; I already dislike 3-way switches for that reason.

My goals are:

• Push-button light switches that are stateless, so there can't be a mismatch between the physical switch and the light.
• If somebody else was staying here the lights would work physically without needing to know anything about the smart setup.
• If my network went down, or it was removed entirely, or I

This seems kind of obvious, but it's probably worth saying anyway. The change in administration at Sonos is an opportunity to smooth things over with Google and they should try and take it. Bringing Google Assistant back to recent models and adding Google Cast support is an easy win that will make customers happy and they need as many of those wins as they can get right now.

The cat is out of the bag on multi-room audio. AirPlay and other competitors are coming to eat their lunch and that's not a situation they can sue themselves out of.

I got my new UniFi gear today and I've had it set up for a few hours, so I thought I'd share my experience so far. I got:

• 1x Cloud Gateway Ultra
• 1x Lite 8 PoE
• 1x U7 Pro
• 3x Flex Minis

As some background, I went with UniFi for a couple of reasons:

• I hate my Google Nest Wifi Pro.
• I'm in a new place with Ethernet ports in several rooms and I wanted PoE-powered switches in some of them so that I can keep the number of needed cables and power outlets under control. It was weirdly hard to find devices that could support this in Australia.
• I've been adding more IoT devices lately so I wanted a system where I could put them on VLANs etc. for a bit of extra security. As far as platfor