#the-water-cooler

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clear ferry
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I bought a namron zigbee rgbw too, but I haven't had time to install it yet

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it was $12 too

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but I don't use rgb at all in general, so it was more for testing purposes

prisma briar
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I don't use the RGB a whole lot but I do sometimes and I like that it's available.

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I had my lights flickering like a candle on halloween and I'm going to set my porch lights to alternate between green and red for christmas.

clear ferry
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I considered buying gledopto RGBW GU10 for my outdoor lights

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but I've been so happy with my tradfri CT GU10 outdoors

prisma briar
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I went with 100w equivalent WiZ bulbs for my outdoor blubs

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And 60w equivalent ones for indoor use

clear ferry
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The tradfris I have are 5w led

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whatever that equates to in old numbers

prisma briar
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And my kitchen/bathrooms are on warm white zigbee bulbs that only dim

clear ferry
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5 is apparently 50w

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oh it's that easy, x10

prisma briar
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I also have 6 hue dimmable floodlight bulbs for my yard lights.

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I should have just got a zigbee module like a zbmini for those.

clear ferry
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are you lighting up the entire state whenever you turn on the outdoor lights ?

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My front would be 6x50w, that I run at 50% power roughly, back of house is 4x50w that I run at 50% power, and I have motion floodlight now that is 20w led, so 200w for the driveway

prisma briar
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One fixture covers my driveway, one covers my front yard, one covers my back yard. Each fixture takes two bulbs.

clear ferry
prisma briar
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My driveway light waits for my garage door to open before it turns on and the other two are on motion sensors and are also controlled by my front/back doors opening

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My motion sensors also have lux meters on them so I have them set to only turn on when it's dark outside

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I have my windows set to turn on the closest floodlight when they're opened too

umbral cliff
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And that's why I've got the unifi controller using docker. Update is one script. Not had any issues there (well except when I set another container to the same port as their identifier port lol but that's user error)

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If something breaks that's based on the install blow it away and just recreate it

prisma briar
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That blows away all my configuration too though.

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Updating it wouldn't have been as annoying as it was if not for the update I wanted to run trying to skip a major version of MongoDB and failing because the version it wanted to use couldn't update a database created two versions ago, only from the previous version. I did eventually think to look for a settings export/import in the controller, but I still ended up having to factory reset and re-adopt my APs to get the reinstalled controller to connect afterwards.

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Basically all the settings export/import managed to keep was my ssids

umbral cliff
prisma briar
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Yea, but all the weird issues I get with the controller are with it corrupting the database or with version mismatches, that's what needs recreated.

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Or restored from backup anymore

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I guess I could have stepped through the docker container versions to update the database

umbral cliff
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Probably would've been fine to jump anyway, or given its docker an update is 2 lines to run, can stay even more up to date

prisma briar
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I assume I just didn't update for forever and their installer is too stupid to figure that out, and they didn't actually skip that many major versions of MongoDB in one go.

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The point of putting it on a locked down vlan with no in/out access was to not need to manage updating it though. >.>

umbral cliff
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Locked down vlan yet still has a connection to the internet via the devices it talks to lol

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Otherwise how else would it know to force you to upgrade

prisma briar
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It doesn't unless I let it connect outwards.

umbral cliff
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So how did I know to force an update

prisma briar
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The app on my phone updated and is now refusing to connect.

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I can vpn in to that vlan from my phone.

umbral cliff
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Ah

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Just don't use the app think

prisma briar
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Yea, but the app generally is more convenient on mobile than their browser interface.

umbral cliff
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I rarely use the browser interface either. Only if I want to set a static IP for a device, otherwise it just works in the background

prisma briar
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And it also had my randomly generated password for the interface stored in the app that I don't know offhand

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I don't connect to my controller often, I was just trying to see if this wiz bulb was connecting at all.

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So I wanted to look at the client list

umbral cliff
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Honestly if youre having trouble with unifi then look at the tplink omada

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They're the next best thing iirc

rapid plinth
dusky plank
clear ferry
clear ferry
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Hoe hoe hoe

umbral cliff
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Those look like old cars

clear ferry
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That is a 2005 V70 and a 2005 Saab 9-5

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The V70 is since retired and was replaced with the 2020 Leaf

umbral cliff
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So new compared to my car, but still old

clear ferry
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Daily driver, cheap to have old car

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Now that I seldom leave the house my daily driver can be more expensive

green inlet
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All my cars (5) are at least 10 years old, except for one, which is like 8. I dislike car payments.

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My driveway looks like a used car lot when everyone is home 🤣

clear ferry
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Classic trailer home

clear ferry
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nvme1n1           259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk 
├─nvme1n1p1       259:2    0   260M  0 part 
├─nvme1n1p2       259:3    0    16M  0 part 
├─nvme1n1p3       259:4    0 475.7G  0 part 
└─nvme1n1p4       259:5    0  1000M  0 part 
nvme0n1           259:1    0 476.9G  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1       259:6    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2       259:7    0   488M  0 part /boot
└─nvme0n1p3       259:8    0   476G  0 part 
  ├─Debian-root   254:0    0   475G  0 lvm  /
  └─Debian-swap_1 254:1    0   980M  0 lvm  [SWAP]
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oh yes

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mirror me baby

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like one of your french mirrors

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lvm go brrrrrr

green inlet
clear ferry
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Oh lala

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Mr fancy pants

clear ferry
finite atlas
clear ferry
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You don't recognise Trent reznor?

finite atlas
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no

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neither do i recognise the conflict

prisma briar
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Trent Reznor deleted his Twitter because the platform is becoming an unstable cesspool, Musk threw a petty temper tantrum over it and started calling him names. That's about it.

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And because it's Musk the media freaked the fuck out and all wrote an essay on it.

finite atlas
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Ah, the usual shitshow
rich guy does stupid shit like a normal person, media blows it big for clicks

glacial knot
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who's trent reznor?

dusky plank
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i know what a musk is

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now someone explain twitter to me

forest edge
static schooner
clear ferry
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I'm amazed at how few people know who Trent reznor is

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Then i remember you are both genz

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https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Trent_Reznor

DoomWiki.org
Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor is the frontman of the band Nine Inch Nails. As a fan of id Software and vice versa, he was asked to design the music and sound effects for Quake. Quake's nailgun ammo boxes also feature the NIN logo on them.

dusky plank
orchid rose
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I only know Reznor from making an appearance in Twin Peaks season 3. In that episode as well

last cedar
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@clear ferry

orchid rose
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Nice

scenic radish
scenic radish
static schooner
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Pretty Hate Machine was all the rage while I was a freshman in college and Head like a Hole was on permanent repeat in my head while I was lying in bed sick with chickenpox and feeling like garbage. It did not help me recover

night zodiac
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I got invited to a preview for some Google Home shit

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Public, I guess

last cedar
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Scary

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Tinfoil hat

glacial knot
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what? Google seeing your cams, or streaming cams into the internet?

orchid rose
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Hot takes on best type of mustard? Pun intended

glacial knot
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emptyset

orchid rose
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Bland take

glacial knot
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I prefer ingredients/condiments that actually improve the taste of food

orchid rose
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Which ones would those be? And don't dare say ketchup handgesture

glacial knot
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depends on the food

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and I do like smokey honey sauces 😅

orchid rose
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just not honey mustard 😛

glacial knot
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Yes. Mustard sucks

orchid rose
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I feel sorry for you

glacial knot
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you seem to actively put mustard on food. So I have no respect for your dietary choices

orchid rose
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Only when it's suited, which is most of the time

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has meat or sauce -> add mustard

glacial knot
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🤢

orchid rose
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well actually not nearly every sauce now that I think about it. But it works so well with meats

glacial knot
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do you cook for torture chambers?

orchid rose
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Usually only for myself. I wonder why that is 😂

glacial knot
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it's the mustard

orchid rose
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I wish

clear ferry
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I like a lot of the polish mustards I get at "marts"

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but heinz french mustard is good too

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and regular dijon is always great

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I do enjoy the clumpy dijon too

night zodiac
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I like it all

orchid rose
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too many good options

clear ferry
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I like spicy mustard

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like, making my nose hurt when I breathe it

orchid rose
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It's definitely very enjoyable

forest edge
night zodiac
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I did that one time on a cam years ago

clear ferry
forest edge
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@last cedar looks like the new guardians of the galaxy 3 movie is gonna touch on rockets past. will be your chance to see a cgi baby racoon get tortured and mutilated

tidal bronze
forest edge
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who needs store when you can have super cheap chinese pieces delivered to your door by mule

harsh heath
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I've had a big brain moment. I'll be adding a microphone to the existing smoke alarm in my room instead of buying a new zigbee smoke alarm

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Strangely, there's a huge market gap for zigbee smoke detectors in Germany

last cedar
last cedar
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And can you just import a zigbee smoke detector?

harsh heath
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The idea was to observe decibels; it's the loudest thing in the room when it goes off

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Thinking about it feasibility

harsh heath
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Also idea is not just having a decibel threshold, since it's always beep-beep-beeping, the automation could watch for that pattern above some decibel

night zodiac
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I soldered some stuff backwards today for what I needed. unsoldered it. cleared the header holes. soldered it back together the same way.

forest edge
tidal bronze
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@forest edge so you only got LA love 🎉

green inlet
green inlet
rapid plinth
umbral cliff
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That's why it doesn't become the main device if you do

last cedar
glacial knot
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the main issue here is insurances. So I'd have someone install a kit that's well known here just for financial safety

finite atlas
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Simple solution, dont waste your money on expensive house insurance

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its not mandatory in germany

glacial knot
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banks will stipulate it if it's used to back a loan

rapid plinth
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in the US it can create problems if you want to sell the property later, and depending on the property type and the local ordinances you might face escalating fines until you "fix" it (even if you're not trying to sell)

finite atlas
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probably in germany aswell, but we want to keep the house and not loose money on seeling it and buying a new one

glacial knot
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my parents mentioned that there was an update and there are some requirements in personal homes as well now
used to only be rented spaces

clear ferry
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laughs in double house value since I bought it

forest edge
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two carp.. not bad

finite atlas
glacial knot
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generational wealth D:

forest edge
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house triples in value in a decade? was it the only one left standing after an earthquake?

clear ferry
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Damn Germans, always wanting a final solution

finite atlas
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no but my grandparents bought it just before the prices started to skyrocket for houses

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and since construction gets unpayble, the value just keeps on rising

glacial knot
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is still hoping prices drop significantly with the new interest rates

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'cause otherwise it's just gonna be even worse

finite atlas
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the only way to currently build/get a house, is to do the majority yourself

clear ferry
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If I sell in a few years I should be at three times what I bought it for, then I can move cross country and buy a mansion for the same price

forest edge
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assuming your home doesn't devalue by that point

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this whole inflation thing has to end at some point and will

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and when it does there is a good chance any gains made during will lower

glacial knot
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Moving into an area that nobody ever wants to live in is the easiest way to get cheap houses

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I wonder if your kids will appreciate half a year of winter o.0

clear ferry
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Yes, kids love snow

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And you mean 9 months

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I lolled

finite atlas
glacial knot
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I meant night, not winter =.=

finite atlas
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you are just playing the cards into my hand here buddy

clear ferry
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We only have 3 months of perpetual darkness

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But also three months of midnight sun

finite atlas
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i've been there for 4 days and i want to stay there forever

clear ferry
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This is great btw

finite atlas
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my only issue with winter/snow

umbral cliff
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My issue with winter is it's cold

orchid rose
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I listened that a while back. Carmack is always interesting to listen to even for someone who doesn't code or anything

finite atlas
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cleaned the solar panels, half an hour later they are covered again ):

orchid rose
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automate a system that cleans it

umbral cliff
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Heated solar panels

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Obviously

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Or wiper blades for solar panels

finite atlas
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already thought about a solar panel wiper like for a car

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the manual works well, but requires labour

umbral cliff
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Or just get a cover for the panels lul

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Totally works

finite atlas
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smart!

umbral cliff
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May not be efficient

orchid rose
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If the angle is high enough, some sort of wire running across the panels might be enough to get it to lose friction and fall down?

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looks like yours is fairly flat though

umbral cliff
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Just hire @clear ferry to sit out there and clean it regularly

Feed him raw meet and he'll be happy

clear ferry
finite atlas
clear ferry
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I can't code for shit, but his ideas are great

finite atlas
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a wire dosnt to the job, it needs to be a wiper

orchid rose
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hmm okay

clear ferry
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Same with John Romero, great story teller

finite atlas
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would not be hard to automate, just require wörk i'm not really willing to do

orchid rose
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Would you run it constantly when it's snowing or what's the idea?

finite atlas
finite atlas
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less snow = more power

orchid rose
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that's probably the best way yeah

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what about at night?

clear ferry
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Just get solar panels with integrated water loops, and use ground heat pump to circulate it

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Problem solved

finite atlas
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not really worth it, as it uses energy

orchid rose
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Yes, buttttttt. You won't have the power to wipe off a lot of mass

finite atlas
glacial knot
# finite atlas yes

You could use a combined metric of light level and power generated to figure out if it's necessary

umbral cliff
umbral cliff
clear ferry
finite atlas
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deal

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i'll dm you my adress

umbral cliff
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I'm sure @last cedar would do it for a handfull of doormats

finite atlas
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i'd be fine with both

clear ferry
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Could integrate it with my DC if I brought home a water cooled rack i guess

forest edge
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those things even work on cloudy days

finite atlas
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wellll

umbral cliff
finite atlas
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first of all, i need to finish my battery...

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and wire the system up to our home electrical grid..

clear ferry
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You mean what I've been installing and maintaining for 15 years @umbral cliff

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Linus is a poser 😉

finite atlas
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who would have guessed

umbral cliff
finite atlas
umbral cliff
finite atlas
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i have a very neat home server

clear ferry
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Thankfully no, that would mean I have to interact with people

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Also made no sense until 2012 to install it in homes since it required ice water, these days we can do water cooled racks with 60c degree inlet water

finite atlas
umbral cliff
umbral cliff
finite atlas
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just the legal bare minimum

umbral cliff
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Oh yeah forget other countries you actually have to go out of your way to buy the legal bare minimum. Here it's just included with registration fees

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But interesting

finite atlas
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"Haftplichtversicherung" is it called

clear ferry
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Pflicht oder liebe

finite atlas
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to you, liebe

umbral cliff
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I just do third party fire and theft. Covers me if I hit someone, or if my car is on fire or stolen. Only costs me $350 a year so not a huge expense

clear ferry
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Viel danke

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Oh nice, HPE stock is spiking

finite atlas
umbral cliff
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*fixed with my own money

finite atlas
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is the damge to other property like cars also covered in the registration fee?

umbral cliff
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No. Just person

finite atlas
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meh

umbral cliff
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You can usually get a lot from it. Friend got hit whilst riding her bike, $40,000 payout

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She couldn't work for 2 weeks, and had not that many issues

clear ferry
clear ferry
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Damnit Finland

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Bested us again

glacial knot
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Did they have a war around then? Most of them are related to wars

orchid rose
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We were still under Russian rule at the time. There was the first-wave feminist movement prior to it in the western world

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Even the US wasn't far behind the civilized world in this one

glacial knot
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Also, that's active voting rights, not passive iirc

clear ferry
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Watching Carmack, sleeping baby

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Fun times

finite atlas
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comfy

last cedar
# clear ferry

There is a raccoon behind the red thing on your fridge/ freezer

static schooner
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Today's edition of Where's Michelle?

last cedar
scenic radish
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And their cotton candy

static schooner
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Disappointingly, that's just sugar water

night zodiac
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neat, mmwave sensor detects my legs through 2 inches of wood. (desk)

glacial knot
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That's odd and creepy

night zodiac
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it's lying on my desk while I mess with it

glacial knot
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Does it reflect mainly off of water? I'd expect even older wood to still have some of that

night zodiac
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I don't know much about these things

glacial knot
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is that esphome?

night zodiac
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yeah

glacial knot
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neat

night zodiac
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especially because a lot of the comments in the config are not english

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I think I'm missing a few settings yet but happy that it works since this is the one I soldered fucky twice. 🙂

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it got some heat

orchid rose
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from what I saw they bounce off almost everything so they can see around corners etc quite easily

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might not always be what you want though might have to think about the location when setting them up

night zodiac
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yeah, they have a bit of tuning you can do. we will see how it goes. I have to solder the other 4 together still

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and print the cases

clear ferry
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Quite cumbersome doing UEFI mirroring without hardware raid tbh

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I'm doing LVM mirror for data drive for OS

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then I'm doing md raid for /boot

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and /boot/efi is a script that does rsync between drives when a change is detected

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because, why should ESP support md raid

late gate
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Any suggestion for a development laptop with windows? I was thinking a thinkpad, but thats just out of what i used before. Need to be quite strong as I will do C# on visual studio so a resource hog

clear ferry
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I've loved my zbooks

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But I run linux

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They run windows most of the time

glacial knot
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pfft, HP

forest edge
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HP is complete crap anymore. that company keeps buying smaller shit pc companies like hyperx

night zodiac
pallid willow
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I love node-red

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It's so cool

harsh inlet
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So.. I just started playing to the openai chat feature.. and asked a question to build me an automation

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My question " Can you create a home automation in homeassistant that when there is motion on my camera it plays the video on my google home hub"

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It was very polite and gave me example code

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automation:

  • alias: "Play video on Google Home Hub"
    trigger:
    platform: motion
    entity_id: camera.front_door
    action:
    service: media_player.play_media
    entity_id: media_player.google_home_hub
    data:
    media_content_type: video
    media_content_id: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
YouTube
Rick Astley
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)

The official video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley
Taken from the album ‘Whenever You Need Somebody’ – deluxe 2CD and digital deluxe out 6th May 2022 Pre-order here – https://RickAstley.lnk.to/WYNS2022ID

“Never Gonna Give You Up” was a global smash on its release in July 1987, topping the charts in 25 countries including Rick’s nat...

▶ Play video
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IT RICK ROLLED ME!

static schooner
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Still, that's amazing

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I'll soon be out of a job 🙂

harsh inlet
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I'm just learning about this.. and I'm in awe

static schooner
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On the other hand, some folks can't find the 'a' key on their keyboard, so we'll just get them

scenic radish
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i only see white and black keys on my keyboard, no a keys

harsh inlet
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Heres my follow up response

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Can you please do this without rick rolling me?

Of course! In the example above, the video that is played on the Google Home Hub is the famous "Rickroll" video, which is a popular internet prank. If you don't want to be "rickrolled," you can simply specify a different video to play in the automation.

Here is an updated version of the automation that will play a different video when motion is detected on the camera:

umbral cliff
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Surely we implement it into HA. Tell it what you want and job done

scenic radish
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So here's a question for you guys: why is my cat so fucking weird?

static schooner
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Cats are well known to be inscrutable creatures prone to curious behavior

umbral cliff
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Because cat

scenic radish
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I mean, I love him, but damn he is a mystery wrapped in fur

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I'm pretty sure his bones are springs

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Or maybe he just doesn't have any

clear ferry
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Just like me then

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I lolled irl

finite atlas
clear ferry
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What have you done @last cedar

finite atlas
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AAAAAH

last cedar
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Sorry

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I realised later that I should have attacked an adult, so much more meat

prisma briar
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Books for Examination of Electrical License in West Bengal

I think YouTube has given up showing me relevant suggestions.

vague ginkgo
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if ya'll haven't played with openai's chat bot... you should give it a try..

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It can even do requested modification

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pallid willow
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that's neat

clear ferry
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Nice, alpr now works at the gas station

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No need to pull out my card anymore

glacial knot
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I should check if I can use Google pay at gas stations

clear ferry
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We've been able to do that for years already

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I was a bit perplexed filling gas in the us a few years ago, had to go in and pay first, the fill

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At least I was in a state i could fill myself

last cedar
clear ferry
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I didn't say that

last cedar
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I did

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🤣

clear ferry
night zodiac
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@clear ferry my state lets you pay after still, lol

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get pinged

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which is always a bit confusing, when we go out of state, for a split second

clear ferry
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I've only filled gas in new Jersey, new York and Virginia

night zodiac
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they don't let you very far inland, eh?

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smart

clear ferry
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Didn't have a rental for my two weeks in Georgia

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Lyft everywhere

night zodiac
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wtf

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I wanted an airboat

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not an action scene

clear ferry
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Bar mitzvah in Louisiana?

night zodiac
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band name

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I like when I forget I'm printing something and it's not spaghetti

clear ferry
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I've been in 20 countries, but I've only driven a car in 6 of them

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I should try more countries

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Not India thank you

night zodiac
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that's neat. I've been in two.

clear ferry
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That's twice as many as the average American

night zodiac
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I planned on travelling a lot and now we have a dog with attachment issues

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so Idk how that's working out atm

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going to have to bring dog/dogs

dusky plank
night zodiac
clear ferry
forest edge
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like bragging about being able to speak some made up language like klingon

glacial knot
orchid rose
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European countries shouldn't really count for Europeans. It's like Americans saying they've been to a different state

clear ferry
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But they hardly do that!

last cedar
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Love it

clear ferry
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Better Stall Paul

last cedar
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Exactly

clear ferry
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Better Maul Cole

orchid rose
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BCS is one of the best shows ever made. It just gets better towards the end

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Their podcast is also excellent

pallid willow
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successfully reduced the amount of pylint errors to 62 from 176, I feel accomplished

clear ferry
late gate
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What is the odds for that it actually was pulled a cat from first to the roof in the second floor. Wanted to use it for an AP. Such small house I dont think I would need more than one AP. Only problem is getting from the switch (behind the wall with the round circle) to the roof box in a WAF matter. Visible cable was not the most accepted

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glacial knot
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It's quarter past midnight and this train is packed D:

late gate
forest edge
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think he's referring to the fudge express

last cedar
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Seen the youtube videos of Thomas doing tricks?

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Top quality

clear ferry
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Seen the video of Thomas doing fe.... No wait

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I'll message you directly michelle

last cedar
dusky plank
fallow glen
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This abomination....

UStoAUS.jpeg
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I suppose it's called Natural Selection really...The gene-pool needs some chlorine...

umbral cliff
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An adaptor is a lot cheaper and easier too

Or just bend the pins lol

clever mortar
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Please read the channel topic @gloomy bronze

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And yes, image posting is blocked by default - use an image hosting site

silent doveBOT
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The topic of this channel is:

@gloomy bronze There's no support for Home Assistant here - please look at the other channels for that. If you can't work out which is relevant, start in #general-archived.

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fallow glen
last cedar
late gate
#

I just reset my whole Home Assistant installation. No need trying to repair the one from the old house. Hopefully I can get rid of "old sins"

last cedar
#

Now you can make new sins, instead

scenic radish
#

I couldn't do it

#

When we moved I just edited or removed automations

last cedar
#

When I moved || I was still using the jank 0.96.5, so I just plugged in my ikea hub and because I was shit and hadn't sorted HA, everything just worked ||

late gate
#

It feels good to start fresh too. The current home assistant config is years old

last cedar
#

|| 🦝 ||

clever mortar
#

||pong||

glacial knot
#

||🦝|| indeed

last cedar
#

My daughter wanted to know how to hide text

#

so I showed her

glacial knot
#

"Text"

midnight adder
#

Hi guys, I would like to build a closed HA system (without permanent internet access).
From what I read most devices, lights, switches, sockets, ... require some sort of cloud integration.
Do you know which brands/models of devices support offline integration?

orchid rose
#

No HA support on this channel (read the topic). There are tons of devices that have offline integrations. #hardware-archived is the channel you want

silent doveBOT
#
The topic of this channel is:

@floral surge There's no support for Home Assistant here - please look at the other channels for that. If you can't work out which is relevant, start in #general-archived.

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midnight adder
#

Thanks, I was unsure where to post my query...

clever mortar
#

If in doubt, on any server, read the channel topics as well as the names 😉

clear ferry
#

I lolled irl

last cedar
#

Looking to make a change @clear ferry ?

glacial knot
#

working with more wood 😄

last cedar
#

Not just his head, you mean? 😉

glacial knot
#

^^

#

the other thinking tool

clear ferry
last cedar
#

This gif made me LOL in real life

clear ferry
night zodiac
#

the arm movements of that cat remind me of this lil' guy

late gate
#

Good I turned off NVME caching yesterday or this could be fatal

Screenshot_2022-12-04_at_23.00.14.png
clear ferry
#

Caching where?

umbral cliff
#

The important things for travel, passport and alcohol

171a1253-8b0f-451b-bac0-b1eed3024dc4.jpg
forest edge
#

don't forget the mace

umbral cliff
#

Not travelling to the USA so I'm all good

clear ferry
#

Damn, you really don't wanna get shot

late gate
# clear ferry Caching where?

Synology nas. It eats up an nvme in less than 6 months. I wont run cache anymore at least. Wont have much performance difference anyway. Not risking loosing the array cause the nvme is dying overnight

clear ferry
#

yuck

#

that's a shitty implementation of cache if there is potential data loss if cache dies

#

but I'm not suprised with Synology

glacial knot
#

that's always the case with write caches

clear ferry
#

Let me tell you about my friend CoW

glacial knot
#

yea, it shouldn't destroy old data. But new data can always be lost with write caches

clear ferry
#

I read it as Synology causing corruption of existing data

#

😉

glacial knot
#

which would be supremely stupid

clear ferry
#

But not surprising

#

Also, jesus christ this is a large overview

finite atlas
glacial knot
#

yes, supremely stupid is sadly expected

clear ferry
#

Optane, is that the poor mans version of Optane DC you say

late gate
#

I hear synology will let us use the nvme slots for storage soon so that will be better thab their built in cache

clear ferry
#

LOL

#

how nice of them

#

Narrator: It really wasn't

late gate
#

Hehe well they work well but i dont like the holding of hands

clear ferry
#

I'll keep my ZFS for now thank you

#

I did look at mergerfs+snapraid

#

but I can't be bothered with that nonsense just to gain some storage

finite atlas
#

why not just get a normal nas and install open source software onto it @late gate

clear ferry
#

A small ITX box will easily fit 4-6 3.5" drives and run zfs without a hitch

late gate
#

I ran unraid before, but this synology has been stress free, plex and everything working, good surveilance studio and such and small form factor. The only complaint I have is the eating of NVME drives

clear ferry
#

yuck unraid

#

propritary software raid nonsense

late gate
#

yeah, but nevertheless a NAS works for me purposes. Yesterday I reset the NUC that runs HA. Was thinking about use ZHA, but switched to Z2M after an hour

clear ferry
#

z2m is the only sane option

late gate
#

Only thing I struggle with Z2M is that is update OTA to 80% then just quit updating. Maybe I need more routers

clear ferry
#

I've done hundreds of updates

#

never had issues except for the Aqara VOC sensor

#

had to do that one twice

late gate
#

Im working on a Popp Zigbee radiator thermostat that just failing

clear ferry
#

Battery devices are sometimes slow as heck

#

2h for one of my hue remotes once

#

compared to 25m for a tradfri bulb

late gate
#

Yeah. I started it yesterday, but it just failed. But I dont have many routers yet, so might be low lqi. Im impressed how much data I got from that Popp thermostat though

last cedar
clear ferry
#

_laughs in 80+ routers _

last cedar
#

Not everyone has the whole of Norway as their zigbee mesh network

glacial knot
#

combining my and my Mom's attempts, we found one of four zigbee radiator thermostats actually working well

clear ferry
#

I'm currently attending a tanzu grid training, while watching YouTube and trying to get a baby to sleep and entertaining you knobs, who said men can't multitask

glacial knot
#

I'll probably get the Aquara ones, since I think the one that works for my Mom is just a rebrand of that one

#

tanzu? o.0

clear ferry
#

VMware, ja

#

Supercool, ja

#

Baby sleeping, lunch in training, just me, YouTube and you knobs left

clear ferry
#

nice, HPE stock keeps rising

#

6.31% up last 5 days

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15.66% up last 30 days

finite atlas
#

pump and dump

turbid stirrup
clear ferry
#

I have been multitasking for 30 years, I'm fine

#

started using 3+ monitors 20 years ago, these days I wish I had 5

#

but I'll have to make due with 3x4k

finite atlas
#

whats stopping you?

clear ferry
#

Max number of 4k monitors on my dock

#

2x4k there + 1x4k via hdmi

finite atlas
#

get a proper computer?

clear ferry
#

yuck, desktop computer

#

what is this, the 90s ?

finite atlas
#

yuck, stick to your glorified raspberry pi in a tin can

clear ferry
#

I can do 6 1080 monitors though

#

and if I had display port daisy chain monitors I could probably do 6 4k monitors too

finite atlas
#

all showing the same

clear ferry
#

nope

finite atlas
#

what scares poor atx of a desktop system?
the upgradability or is it the versatility?

clear ferry
#

I like bringing my desktop with me everywhere I go

#

And i get it replaced every 3 year

finite atlas
#

oh so wörk pays for it?

clear ferry
#

Yes

#

I haven't paid for a computer or mobile device in 15 years

glacial knot
#

just use cloud pcs

#

and you'll have your system everywhere as well

clear ferry
#

I used to do that, I had a work desktop in a VM for a decade

#

and connected to that from anywhere

#

but meh, I prefer the physical box dedication

glacial knot
#

🤷 I like the cloud native stuff for work. Not so much for my own setup

clear ferry
#

I'm a mission critical consultant

#

I natively don't trust cloud

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😄

glacial knot
#

mission critical
consultant
doesn't match

clear ferry
clear ferry
#

-26.2c coldest in Norway last night

#

Hello winter

umbral cliff
#

Too cold for me

clear ferry
#

+26 is too cold for an Aussie

#

Interesting point

#

Good boy petro

finite atlas
#

was very adorable

static schooner
#

might have to wear a windbreaker

tidal bronze
#

Send some rain this way

static schooner
#

got some sprinkles last night, expecting more tonight

orchid rose
#

I guess that's where our water rained down 😦

tidal bronze
#

Got some rain last few days. Expecting more, hopefully

static schooner
#

drive down to San Diego and get you some of that 250 million gallons

#

put it in your gas tank

tidal bronze
#

You mean drive a hybrid?

clear ferry
#

I think -52 is the record here @finite atlas

finite atlas
#

):

last cedar
#

It was when Atx took his servers down for planned maintainance, country lost all the auxiliary heat generation for a few hours and everyone froze to death

clear ferry
late gate
#

I think I will go with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G10 Core i7 32GB 1000GB SSD - I like the keyboards in Lenovo, just a bit pricy (3500USD)

orchid rose
#

bit

late gate
#

Not me paying

clear ferry
#

About the same as my zbook

#

Acceptable

#

But I have 11th gen intel

late gate
#

Lets see what work say. I dont know if they expected a 10k NOK computer or a 35K one haha. I added a lot of extras too as I only program on MX keyboard (I love it and the MX mouse)

clear ferry
late gate
#

I could not have a mac as they had issues with them before

clear ferry
#

Shitty IT departments are a thing for sure

late gate
#

Its no IT department where I start working. Its a mini business where probably I need to be IT too hehe. At least dont need a preset PC with a lot of company crap. When I reinstalled my old mac my old company (Bouvet) automatically took over the install and installed a lot of crap, even if I bought out the laptop when I quit. I had to block all IP to the admin system on the router

clear ferry
#

Yikes

#

Pass

late gate
#

Or even worse. Forced Norwegian OS

#

I had to had database exam in Norwegian in NTNU. "Tupler" ftw

clear ferry
#

Lol

#

I haven't seen norwegian OS in probably 15 years

late gate
#

When I worked as a consultant I HAD to use norwegian once. I quit after 4 weeks. I just could not take it

cedar chasm
#

Having come up in a tech support/customer service context, I tolerate Norwegian language OS but it is shit for googling, that's for sure

late gate
#

And shit for exams in english topics. Thats why I always roll my eyes when people use norwegian terms in mysql and other databases that is SO different that its horrible

clear ferry
#

I had to fix a windows xp computer for a Finnish friend once

#

I navigated soly on icons

cedar chasm
static schooner
#

I used to work with a Japanese phone maker and could usually find the "English" item in the language menu (assuming that I could find the menu at all), but the hard buttons...

clear ferry
#

I had never heard "sequel" before I moved out of Norway tbh

clear ferry
cedar chasm
#

just look for the 言語 menu, and you're all sorted, mate

#

init

static schooner
#

Japanese phones back in the early 2000s were often giant flip phones with a million buttons

cedar chasm
#

Love the flipphones

clear ferry
cedar chasm
#

I had one, but let the pay-as-you-go service lapse, so it's a brick now

static schooner
#

apparently they're still releasing them!

#

I don't know if I can wait until Spring 2023 for that beast

cedar chasm
#

they need to be a bit long, cause Oneseg

clear ferry
#

Digino kettai

#

I love it

cedar chasm
#

gotz to have my weird digital wireless regional TV

clear ferry
cedar chasm
#

I have a lightning connected oneseg tuner for iOS that hopefully is still servicable

#

going back in april

#

must binge linear Japanese TV

static schooner
#

It needs some AI to detect random clicking around and pop up a dialog with "It seems like you don't know what you're doing. Switch to English?"

clear ferry
#

I remember in Nokia days of yore

#

We used to change to Mongolian for some reason on phones

#

To piss people off

#

Also holy shit

#

Today has been 345NOK in power so far

#

Spent 90kwh

cedar chasm
orchid rose
#

It's been relatively windy too so the high prices are a bit oof right now. My old cheap contract at 0.004€/kWh ended yesterday and went up 10-12.5x today

clear ferry
#

This week is supposed to be -25

#

Gonna be fun

#

-11 tonight is the forecast

orchid rose
#

oh damn, we still sitting steady just below zero

late gate
orchid rose
#

no rgb, I pass

dusky plank
#

det er greit

late gate
#

I bought a gaming keyboard when I upgraded my PC (that I have not turned on for 6 months), and you could see the RGB from the street. I rather have a nice white backlight

orchid rose
#

What's even the point if you can't automate it flash to the beat of music

#

I should upgrade my mouse. It's not integrated to HASS

late gate
#

What should you integrate it for?

orchid rose
clear ferry
#

Backlight keyboard, pass

orchid rose
#

how do you even find the right keys without a backlight smh

clear ferry
#

kids these days

#

I still remember removing all my keycaps on my keytronic

#

and randomly placing them

#

to learn touch

orchid rose
#

I hope you didn't remove F and J

clear ferry
#

I sure did

#

never use those irl as guidelines

#

I jump between different internationlization keyboards too, I just place my fingers and see where the finger hits, then I adjust left or right based on that

#

I still hate the american small enter keys

#

put me off every time

pallid willow
pallid willow
#

I'd prefer to have no letters on my keyboard because it would look cleaner

forest edge
#

I like how he addressed the pee issue the LR4 has

#

whisker should ship the new guard to preexisting customers in feb '23 imo

static schooner
#

I've had no pee issue, that I'm aware of. What's the issue?

forest edge
#

well like his cat has kidney disease but I would imagine any sick cat would do the same, they pee looking inward which shoots the pee at the joined seperating between the base and the globe

#

so pee gets inside the unit

#

the unit is designed exclusively for the cat to stick it's head out the opening. on the LR3 it wasn't an issue cause it was one solid enclosed tub

static schooner
#

Oh. I think my cats turn around and face out

forest edge
#

I have a cat with kidney disease and the pee thing was apparent instantly

#

he did a really good job highlighting a lot of the faults of the design, he missed a couple i would have added tho

static schooner
#

I don't make a habit of watching them either

forest edge
#

the pee thing you wouldn't notice till you pulled the globe off for a deep clean

#

I like how he told whisker about it while he was beta testing it and they said it wasn't an issue then when the unit went public they found out it was a rather big issue lol

#

I just hope they send us the new guard for free

night zodiac
forest edge
#

what kind of horror scene is that

static schooner
#

I've found that the HA integration has stopped reporting faults and just says "cycle in progress" now, too. There's no indication that anything is wrong in the integration status entities, but the Whisker app has the right status

#

I wonder if something changed with one of the firmware updates

forest edge
#

no idea. not had any errors. just crap loads of cat interrupts

#

I know for the ha integration i had made my own template sensor cause the unit spits out way more than what the integration covers in terms of what means what

static schooner
#

even the status code just says "ccp" even though it's in an error state

#

and yeah, I get tons of sensor faults. I finally just got rid of the rug in that room to let it sit flat on a hardwood floor

#

the guy in the video went into how he liked all the safety features and I'm 100% sure that my cats will not tumble in there like a clothes dryer

#

the 4 is much more sensitive to weight to stop

forest edge
static schooner
subtle pasture
#

Updated from 2021.9 to 2022.11. Time to un-break all the things 👀

forest edge
subtle pasture
#

Oddly enough, the litter robot integration is one of the few things that didn't completely break during the upgrade. lol

static schooner
#

in any case, I've seen several cases where the status code doesn't correspond to the state of the device, and the app is correct somehow

forest edge
#

not looked but there didn't use to be an official api for whisker so it makes sense for some things to be a little off

#

but I haven't noticed anything

#

all i get is cycles, ready and interrupts lol

#

and the weights

static schooner
#

I'll have to force a fault and test

upbeat star
#

So about this whole Eufy drama, isn't it pretty obvious that if you want to have remote access, unless you setup your networking and forward the port to the proper camera, you basically need a cloud connection? I see this as absolutely nothing unless Eufy doesn't have a way to keep things local only.

pure vine
#

it would be nothing if it's storage of the things was temporary.

but also they could do what homeassistant does which afaik doesn't store any of the notification data in a bucket and simply acts as a proxy

clear ferry
finite atlas
#

JA

clear ferry
#

Ja

glacial knot
#

NEIN

clear ferry
#

I need to get those new drives picked up soon

glacial knot
#

sdae D:

#

not even nvme255n5

clear ferry
#

😦

clear ferry
#

I haven't shaved my head in almost three weeks

#

it's about time, I look like I actually have hair now

#

bbl kids

clear ferry
night zodiac
#

can you hear the wind better when you walk?

clear ferry
finite atlas
#

why do you shave your head?

#

you no like hair?

clear ferry
#

I like my skin

finite atlas
static schooner
clear ferry
last cedar
night zodiac
low harness
#

Finally got my new work computer! Three months after ordering. It was delayed because the IT guy didn't read my order and just assumed I wanted a max performance luggable. I wanted something for travel.

#

Got a Surface something or other. Seems pretty decent, actually.

pallid willow
#

max performance luggable. Just like 90% of Dell laptops!

low harness
#

Also learned they are not allowed to give permanent admin privileges anymore 😦

#

Instead you can request three hours of local admin from the internal app store. You just have to give a reason and it's auto granted. I guess I can li(v)e with that...

cedar chasm
#

That's the NANI?? State for you

night zodiac
#

defuck

pallid willow
#

I haven't a clue of what "NANI" means

cedar chasm
#

play on nanny state

#

with the anime trope of dramatic exclamations of the word for "what", being Nani

#

It's more fun when it's explained in minute detail

static schooner
#

I don't know whether it's gotten better, but it used to be impossible to use Windows without some amount of admin

low harness
#

It sure ain't easy. Can't even enable ssh-agent.

#

I think I managed to set up most of the important stuff, installing docker-cli, git, ssh-agent, autohotkey, TURNING OFF THE SICKENING ANIMATIONS IN WORD 365 🤢, etc during my three hours of "installing Logitech Options and mouse drivers".

night zodiac
#

some of the logitech mice can be managed with a utility they have without installing ghub, depending on which mouse you have

static schooner
#

Logitech Options is like a needy virus

low harness
#

mx master. Second best one they ever made

#

Need logitech options to disable it's worst mistake, though.

pallid willow
#

Oh I hate Logitech options

#

At my workplace we have a dedicated laptop that we use to set up all that garbage, so it stops complaining when we give it to people

low harness
#

That stupid gesture button in the thumb rest sticks and makes the mouse entirely unsuable.

pallid willow
#

MX master 2s my beloved

night zodiac
#

I have a fave logitech mouse too

pallid willow
#

I've been using mine forever

#

I switched to the 3 for a while and 2 of them broke

#

I eventually went back

#

The build quality is oh so much better

#

I wonder if the 3s is any better but I like my current one so no need to buy another

low harness
#

I have two MX master 1. Both gesture buttons are broken. In my home one I opened it up and removed it.

next ferry
#

I just saw Linus has another video up with Home Assistant and MQTT

pallid willow
#

And the new "bolt" receiver thing is problematic with debian.

low harness
pallid willow
low harness
#

They explain that. Apparently you need to install MQTT to use MQTT.

next ferry
#

It sounds like his children have been freezing thanks to improperly configured tasmota, but I just started the video

night zodiac
#

@low harness let me write tthat down

low harness
#

You better

pallid willow
#

I don't understand mqtt just worked for me.

#

I don't know why so many people have issues with it

#

That's why I love zigbee2mqtt

low harness
#

Me too. Rock solid.

#

But you need a broker.

pallid willow
#

Mosquito ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

night zodiac
#

it's hard to have issues with your broker when you don't have one

pallid willow
#

Lol

next ferry
#

I haven't gotten the MQTT to work on my Fully Kiosk tablet yet, but otherwise it has been pretty idiot-proof. It took a second to realize I needed to re-aim the tasmotized devices at my HAOS after the router changed the LAN address though

scenic radish
#

time to set a DHCP reservation or use a hostname (or both)

clear ferry
#

Fancy, one of Norways largest consulting firms sent me a personal message on LinkedIn asking if I wanted to come take a coffee and discuss options

glacial knot
clear ferry
#

Buy them a coffee?

glacial knot
#

Their options

#

Invest

cedar chasm
#

Buy them a broomstick so they can go F*** themselves, eyyy ooooh

clear ferry
#

I never invest in anything

#

Oh wow, that autocorrect was dangerous

#

I'll wait till my manager gives me my raise, bonus and other numbers in a week

#

Then we'll see

finite atlas
#

i do invest, in wasting more time of my life

clear ferry
#

I waste no time

#

It's important that someone is here making fun of you guys

#

And i take that task very seriously

finite atlas
#

You are making more fun of yourself than anyone else

clear ferry
low harness
clear ferry
#

also, no admin for you

low harness
#

I was surprised it took you this long

clear ferry
#

I laugh extra because of the chip shortage my laptop got delivered out of the regular internal delivery process

#

so my laptop isn't in the internal IT systems

#

so I'm not nagged to run corporate software

#

laughs in linux

low harness
#

The IT guy also asked me to write down my password on a post-it so he could set up the computer.
"Umm... no?"

clear ferry
static schooner
#

Ha! I was just testing you!

clear ferry
#

unless you like that stuff hehe

low harness
#

I wish. They keep sending "urgent" requirements to fulfill phishing awareness trainings from non-company email addresses...

#

I actually reported them once.

#

I also reported SAP for unsafe practices when it told me my new password had to differ from the last one by at least three characters. And now that's being replaced.

#

We're getting out of SAP!

finite atlas
clear ferry
#

9️⃣

scenic radish
#

9️⃣

finite atlas
#

JA

sullen bluff
#

How goes it peeps

#

I have an HP Proliant DL320e Gen 8 V2 that I'd like to install HA on but it's loud lol. Anyone got recommendations on quieting down a 1U?

night zodiac
#

find a nice room with a door

rapid plinth
#

The box for this simple PoE injector is an elaborate full color thing that's almost as big as the box for the WAP it will be powering

#

and shrink-wrapped! It's like they thought someone would put this on a shelf at a B&M

harsh heath
#

What are the chances of us having tunneling between two HA instances in the future

static schooner
#

You can already connect two instances

harsh heath
#

I've found the "Remote Home-Assistant" custom component, was wondering if that would work with tailscale add-on on both instances

#

Because last time I tried SSHing into some device in my Tailscale network from my HA via Terminal add-on; it was a big sad

harsh heath
static schooner
#

Or MQTT state stream

harsh heath
#

Oh god no please no MQTT

static schooner
#

Ok

harsh heath
#

Everytime I try to do something with it, I lose a month from my life, because I suck at understanding it

forest edge
# night zodiac

why do so many of the pics you post lately look like you live in a brothel?

#

or strip joint. guess they are colored that way too

clear ferry
#

-11c today, nice

glacial knot
#

Hold a broomstick, so we can pick you up as Popsicle

clear ferry
#

At least I don't have an attempted coup to wake up to in the morning

#

I'M LOOKING AT YOU GERMANY

glacial knot
#

HEY!

#

also, they didn't attempt anything. Just got packed up for some conspirating

#

Reichsbürger are an amusing breed

orchid rose
#

are these the guys that want to return the Keiser?

glacial knot
#

Pretty much
Or at least the Kaiserreich. Which is where the name derives from

orchid rose
#

lol nice

clear ferry
#

Hey, I saw this in a Wolfenstein game

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It didn't end well

glacial knot
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Isn't wolfenstein return of third, instead of 2nd reich?
Not that it matters exactly

clear ferry
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well, the first "remake" of wolfenstein has the SS try to recive keiser wilhelm the II

glacial knot
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kk. So third trying to revive second. I only knew that Wolfenstein is censored here, because back then they didn't consider computer games art, thus it wasn't allowed to use Swastika

clear ferry
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https://wolfenstein.fandom.com/wiki/Heinrich_I

Wolfenstein Wiki
Heinrich I

Heinrich I is one of the main antagonists of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. He was an evil warlord who launched a campaign of conquest in Medieval Europe and had studied the black arts and used them to his advantage by raising an army of undead warriors, the Dark Knights. In 943 AD, a benevolent wizard by the name of Simon the Wanderer confronted...

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Sorry Heinrich the first

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Wolfenstein games are some of my favorite games of all time tbh, I grew up playing Wolf3D and played RTCW:ET in the EU leagues

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the newer remake series is also very very very good

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Wolfenstein: The New Order is probably my favorite

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But The old Blood is also good

glacial knot
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well, that's HRE(GN) era, so first and only 1000 year reich 😂

clear ferry
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THE Reich you say

glacial knot
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zigbee

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Also, isn't there a #zwave-archived channel? Probably the place where more people care about that protocol

late gate
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True, but I felt it was more of a non support topic. I can move it over there though

clear ferry
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Now I'm really invested in kubernetes after 3 days of tanzu grid

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I should get my kube lab up and running again

last cedar
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Kube lab... you mean truenas scale 🤣

clear ferry
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Yuck

static schooner
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clear ferry
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at first I thought it was a decomposing skunk

last cedar
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I counter with this

static schooner
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...what happens when you squeeze an entire cat into its head

clear ferry
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is that steve jobs in cat form ?

last cedar
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Quite possibly

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She got her bits removed, so had a VERY tight body on

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The poor thing

clear ferry
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Cat (She/Her/Them) now

last cedar
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Cat 4 technically

clear ferry
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4 hire ?

last cedar
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Cat 3

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Cat 6 on top of cat 5 🤣

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Thankfully his aim wasn't great

clear ferry
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Have you started collecting cats again ?

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Damn racoons

last cedar
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Well

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It looks like I am collecting cats

scenic radish
finite atlas
scenic radish
clear ferry
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cats and hitachi

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classic internet

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I've seen it before

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daughter starting kindergarten, I'm ready to discord in german while doing kubernetes going forward

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JA

finite atlas
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JA

clear ferry
scenic radish
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Damn, is everything okay man?? Blink twice if you're in distress

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static schooner
dusky plank
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rate my setup

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night zodiac
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1/1

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it's there

clear ferry
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I had a wall mounted desktop like 20 years ago

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that was always fun to explain

orchid rose
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I think it could use some RGB lighting but otherwise a decent 8/10

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extra points for not wasting a USB slot for the keyboard

scenic radish
clear ferry
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Looks to be more stable than the US of A at least

orchid rose
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Dude even color matched the CPU cooler bracket and the case and all you do is laugh... smh my head

scenic radish
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that is indeed a nice touch

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or something

finite atlas
fickle cloud
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I was looking for Home Assistant and ESPHome stickers for my IoT club that I admin. I found several but they are all from 3rd party sticker makers. Are there official stickers I cna buy that support HA?

low harness
last cedar
clear ferry
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JA

keen bridge
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PASST

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Sorry, I spent 5 years in Austria, it's hard to get certain words out of your system 😛

finite atlas
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PASST SO

keen bridge
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Stimmt!

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Darn it, now I need to re-enable a German keyboard 😛

clear ferry
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9️⃣

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No qwertz for you

static schooner
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Z is for Zebra, and little else

orchid rose
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German is not as bad as Polish I imagine. They would immediately just seize to exist if you removed the letter z

static schooner
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zebras come up a lot in casual conversation?

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they're pretty much confined to zoos here. hey, another one!

clear ferry
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Finnish isn't better @orchid rose you guys look like you left sticky keys on in windows

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Riina

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Roope

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Maalata

orchid rose
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When has "i" been on the left side of your keyboard

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and it's not our fault y'all just randomly decided when to make the vowel longer, rather than just writing it down twice like any normal person

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So many bits could have been saved if instead of oh it would just be o

clear ferry
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Let's not forget my favourite Finnish word

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Megapussi

sullen bluff
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crashed before I could even hit "Graphical Install"

sullen bluff
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my poor GPU-less server is STRUGGLING in this graphical installer bruh lmao

keen bridge
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Headless ftw 😛

sullen bluff
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this is torture

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the virtual mouse isnt even CLOSE to my actual one

keen bridge
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You wanted server anyway, why do you need a GUI?

sullen bluff
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Idk, the video did it so I figured it would be easier 😳

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i never claimed to be smart

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look at the position of my actual mouse

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vs the virtual one

keen bridge
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Video? ohno

sullen bluff
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listen

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linux is weird

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and not straight forward at all lmao

keen bridge
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So why are you using it? 😛

sullen bluff
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cause it makes me feel smarter than i am

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and

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its lighter weight than windows

keen bridge
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True true.

scenic radish
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Debian MeowHeartCloudflare

sullen bluff
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which means 1u doesnt go REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE when im tryna sleep

keen bridge
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Important secret truth about videos: They go out of date insanely quickly

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At times before the creator has finished editing them

sullen bluff
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L

keen bridge
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For installing any Linux OS, look for a guide from somewhere reputable like Digital Ocean

scenic radish
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Linux file paths make so much more sense IMO than Windows' silly drive letters

sullen bluff
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ehhhhhh

keen bridge
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They won't get everything right 100% of the time, but you can copy and paste the commands and it's all documented nicely.

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And honestly, the install guide on the Debian site should get you through

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It's kind of a litmus test, if you can work your way through it you'll be fine. If you're Tech Tips Linus and screw up PopOS, god help you.

sullen bluff
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ive used ubuntu for years (technically)

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mainly for just hosting web/game servers lmao

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(I still suck with it but it is cool)

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seems like ubuntu just doesnt like my server hardware or the way my raid is setup or something, every time ive installed ubuntu it took literal DAYS of troubleshooting

rapid plinth
static schooner
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at least we can all agree that using a backslash to separate path components is the devil's work, right? right?

rapid plinth
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windows drive letters have a (mostly) direct relationship with the physical hardware of the machine, but, are not descriptive at all aside from some very minimal conventions dating all the way back to DOS

static schooner
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that ceased being true long, long ago

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now they're just 26 letters representing various mount points

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you might have one that represents your boot drive, but the rest? mostly arbitrary. and network shares?

rapid plinth
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the convention is, or was, "A: is your floppy disk, B: is a second floppy disk if you have one, C: is your OS drive, and everything else is D: and after"
In modern day practice it really has become "A: and B: don't exist, C: is your OS drive, and everything else is lettered sequentially from D onward in order of when the OS first becomes aware of them, unless you specify otherwise"

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Some companies have informal conventions for mapped network drives but that's about it

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*nix FHS and derivatives, by contrast, completely dispense with the idea that anyone should care about the physical shape of the machine (with the sole exception of removable devices mounted in /media...sometimes), which rubs me the wrong way tbh, especially when network shares get involved

static schooner
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mounting things into a directory in a useful place in the filesystem, named with its purpose, such that it's just part of the larger filesystem, seems way more intuitive to me

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and regarding the drive letter assignment, I think we're in agreement on that

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C: is the only constant, the rest are largely arbitrary

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but in contrast, the letters themselves mean nothing

rapid plinth
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when it comes to directory structure, Windows and Linux both have very similar problems where 99% of the folder hierarchy is de facto reserved for the OS to do whatever, and that remaining 1% is all kinda crammed into 2 or 3 folders with no formal structure

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Windows has Program Files and Users etc, Linux has /opt (sometimes /srv) and /home

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Which, if your OS is in and of itself quite large (by the standards of the permanent storage media at your disposal) or you have some esoteric benefit to splitting up the OS itself across multiple volumes, yeah it's useful to be able to mount a volume to any arbitrary folder, but there really isn't a useful place in the filesystem for a volume dedicated to user data, so it winds up under /media or /mnt or /run/user/1000/gvfs depending on the user's technical aptitude and laziness levels

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I suppose it's still better than drive letters

midnight adder
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Does anyone have recommendations for:

Buttons: To use as doorbell
Some kind of sensor to detect my mailbox being opened?

I have zigbee and good-range-wifi. I'm hoping for something with really good battery life.

frail jewel
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Thank you all for the amazing new release. Can't wait to upgrade.

midnight adder
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@elfin pebble ChatGPT?

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Yeah, it was really fucking cool

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Basically going to do to the internet what Google search did

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Don't tell anyone, but i started using it for my job.

I get writers block, so I appreciate it giving me a bit of direction on what to write next. I have to sanitize the output ofc

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A lot in the world isn't origional, just increments 🙂

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For chip design, for example, as processes get smaller, math and rules just need tweaking according to the new constraints. But the fundamentals are still there.

Though i'd rather not dox myself, so not going more into that aspect

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But anyways, the pace that things are changing is terrifying for me.

rapid plinth
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and it's only gonna speed up

midnight adder
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At some point i'd expect a limitation of human imagination at the least

rapid plinth
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That's the scary thing about AI. It takes human limitations out of the equation entirely.

midnight adder
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Maybe its my imagination thats limited :X