#the-water-cooler

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gleaming crater
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Yeah they just want you to think they're trash pandas and not our secret overlords

static schooner
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<mentally replace with raccoons and trash>

primal laurel
gleaming crater
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Okay this one is a thousand times better

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primal laurel
gleaming crater
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Trash pandas in space would be a great game

red rock
primal laurel
orchid rose
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Raccoons can into space. Those look great

finite atlas
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your random stuff always gives me a smile :D

bitter ocean
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I rolled with this in the end.

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blazing musk
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Sometimes the cheese wins 🧀

red rock
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Lif laf lof

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😂

bitter ocean
# red rock Lif laf lof

A friend gave me a "live long and prosper" and I swear half my colleauges think it's live laugh love

red rock
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Lmao

iron granite
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🖖

keen bridge
primal laurel
solar zealot
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how gentle it picks up the donut

keen bridge
primal laurel
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it's so fast

solar zealot
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blazing 🚀 memory safe (its priority)

primal laurel
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that's a big bonus

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but the speed is also very impressive

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everything is natively parallelized as well, can't do that in pandas

static schooner
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Hard to fight instinct, but there's a right way to eat a donut

gleaming crater
static schooner
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I confess that the last box of Krispy Kreme donuts I bought was from the grocery store

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I'm not that crazy

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A microwave can work wonders on a donut

gleaming crater
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I remember when Krispy Kreme opened here, they had a line so long they paid their mortage in like 4 hrs

static schooner
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Or turn them into molten lava

solar zealot
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microwaving will make day old donuts great again

gleaming crater
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I think that's the official recommended method lol

solar zealot
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It works nearly too well

gleaming crater
solar zealot
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Probably because of it being mostly fat and having not a lot of density

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Black magic

gleaming crater
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steam cooking

solar zealot
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magic.

solar zealot
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Let's see if bambu lab can be convinced of handing out a student discount...

prisma briar
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I don't believe they do that

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Saw a convo about it on their discord a couple months ago

last cedar
glacial knot
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That's a cat

prisma briar
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cats never ripped my trash bags open

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Though shoutout to my trash company for cleaning it up both times that's happened before I even woke up

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First time a bear went through them, had a family of racoons go through them a couple weeks later

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Cleared a space in my garage for them afer that, lol

rare socket
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@prisma briar

prisma briar
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That's me

rare socket
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Did you clear out your garage for the raccoons?

prisma briar
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Yea, I keep them in the trash cans out there like oscar the grouch

rare socket
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Sorry for the ping I accidentally touched the reel of cotton icon with the plus sign

forest edge
primal laurel
solar zealot
solar zealot
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Is it actually this uncommon to have a ground wire available at a light switch? Like why is this a feature they try to sell for smart switches that this isn't needed

primal laurel
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it's quite common

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I dont know why

solar zealot
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Super weird

primal laurel
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not that weird, many appliances require grounding for safety

solar zealot
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No, that they offer a lot of smart switches without neutral

primal laurel
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neutral =\= ground

solar zealot
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Might not have explained myself properly with the question

glacial knot
primal laurel
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I think many sockets were installed only to house a light switch

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and then you don't need a neutral, because the neutral is connected to the bulb already

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so then it makes sense

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if you want to retrofit that with an actual socket, you need to run an extra wire

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but im not an electrician so what do I know

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(in fact you would need to run 2 extra wires, because you also need ground)

glacial knot
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It's about smart switches more so than putting a socket there

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And if all surfaces a human might touch are plastic, no PE/Earth is required
Then Neutral/Ground is enough

primal laurel
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yes, that's why the switch doesnt have it

green inlet
solar zealot
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This is less me questioning the requirements and more about the style in which someone would have wired it

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I totally can see old houses just have a single wire being pulled to the socket because it's been cheaper

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But I can't imagine this being standard now not having the entire three wire bundle in each socket

green inlet
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Well, read the link I posted. I am guessing you are not in the US

glacial knot
solar zealot
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Either that, or they did not survive the experience and weren’t around to complain about it.
;D

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That's one way to put it lol

primal laurel
gleaming crater
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Yeah even if it’s code to have neutral now, since most light fixtures don’t need it you’ll find the neutral wires angrily shoved as far back in the switch box as they can be

crisp oriole
primal laurel
gleaming crater
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Yeah I was the first to use them in my house, 40 years after it was built

solar zealot
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I don't know about the code around here, but it isn't uncommon to switch both line and neutral as well as having them wired into the same wall insert. They just run the same 3 wire cable for everything everywhere

gleaming crater
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I don’t even know how I’d wire a neutral to the light fixture lol

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My neutral was bundled in the back of the switch box capped off going nowhere haha

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I guess I had to have neutral in my ceiling fan

solar zealot
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The thing that hopefully is not up to code but very well could be is chaining switches on a circuit

gleaming crater
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Oh that’s totally up to code here lol

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Or I’ve lived in enough houses that did it

solar zealot
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They did it for us as well

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It's all fun and games until neutral is no longer that neutral because someone in another room turned on the lights

gleaming crater
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I had one house that a single circuit was 2 bedrooms a bathroom, and exterior deck outlets

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I mean the neutral is just another return path that doesn’t normally get broken by switching

solar zealot
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They at least were nice enough to wire light and sockets to different circuits

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But they couldnt figure out a fourway with relay

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It did everything but turn on the right lamps

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Can't trust professionals sometimes

gleaming crater
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Lol isn’t that how it always works, the pro is like “who the hell did this last work”

glacial knot
solar zealot
gleaming crater
glacial knot
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The wire that's usually Green/Yellow

gleaming crater
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Heh what country

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I get black/white/bare copper in my boxes

glacial knot
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Yea, bare for you

solar zealot
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They call it brass when it clearly is black

gleaming crater
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Yeah new stuff is green for ground but all my boxes are bare ass copper lol

solar zealot
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I heard in the ol days, telephone wires were paper insulated

prisma briar
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So glad my house was built with actual separate neutral/ground (though still no neutral to the light switches)

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Ground in the US can be green, green with a yellow stripe, or bare

gleaming crater
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Yeah I just imagine whoever wired my place 40 years ago thinking “why the hell are we running neutral to all these switch boxes” when not a single one was wired to actual equipment

glacial knot
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Most places here run all wires that go to the fixture through the switches these days
So you just get 3 wires in there, with 2 of them being in the back of the in-wall box, and the 3rd being interrupted and switched by the switch

prisma briar
dusky plank
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for the old farts here

prisma briar
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Looks like a sysadmin job with zero chance for WFH

static schooner
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And yeah, 35 years old

prisma briar
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My house is 50 years old, switch boxes aren't even grounded here.

gleaming crater
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Yeah back then what the heck even drove the code to require it?

prisma briar
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Literally just have load running through my switch boxes

gleaming crater
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I mean that'll technically work with a no-neutral switch

prisma briar
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Yea, I know, but it's annoying.

gleaming crater
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And no exposed metal doesn't require ground in every code

static schooner
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Unfortunately they didn't have the foresight to install boxes that could hold all those wires plus a smart switch

gleaming crater
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The worst was multi-gang boxes

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Have to break off tabs and shiz on these smart switches

prisma briar
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I'm pretty sure that running a new light switch requires the box the switch is in to be grounded here. Hasn't actually came up for me though so I never looked into it.

gleaming crater
gleaming crater
prisma briar
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I get not running a neutral to switches but imo a metal box should always be grounded in case a wire inside ever comes loose and makes contact with the box

gleaming crater
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All my boxes aren't even metal in my house

prisma briar
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All of mine are

gleaming crater
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Prob old enough to predate any good non-metallic options lol

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I have a friend who lives in a 1920's house and hates the wiring

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He's got fabric covered wires in his boxes with no ground/neutral

prisma briar
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The shit they used to consider safe is absurd

gleaming crater
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Some of that is depression-era stuff that probably didn't even comply back then lol

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Man I might be job hunting here soon, the funding for startups has basically evaporated entirely

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Everyone is like "what's your sales" and we're like "we're trying to build a brand new product?"

static schooner
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Points to Kickstarter

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I can haz money now?

primal laurel
gleaming crater
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I must love the "will we get funded or fold into a hole in the ground?" feeling every year or two

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But it's fun building new things from scratch instead of working as a cog in a megacorp that barely knows you exist

primal laurel
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I think want to experience that at least once too

gleaming crater
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I've been on both sides of the coin, my first one I worked for almost 8 years, from < 20 people to acquisition

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Then I went and worked for one that I'm pretty sure is going to be the next theranos, what they're building basically seemed like snake oil once I got far enough under the hood

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The one I'm at now is actually another company by the owner of the one I worked at for 8 years, dude has a pretty solid track record but is getting disheartened by how much funding has dried up in the current market

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anybody got a spare 15M they want to invest in a guy who's got a perfect track record on successful exits?

primal laurel
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that's sad

gleaming crater
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Lol which

primal laurel
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funding drying up

gleaming crater
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Oh yeah the funding market is crazy right now, most of these VCs were running on nearly zero interest loans

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And now that they have to have thier OWN cash or pay finance charges that are noticable it's a different story

primal laurel
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Same thing is happening here

gleaming crater
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Most of the speculative investors are too busy making eyes at AI companies right now

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Which I'm sorry but I'm not looking forward to the number of dumb places companies are going to be trying to shove LLMs where they don't belong

prisma briar
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Oh yea, flashy tech and managed services are going to get stupid for a while

primal laurel
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they support a lot of the tech startups in NL

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but their funding was more than halved this year

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fun fact, it's run by the prince of orange

gleaming crater
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Lolwat that's a place

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I knew y'all loved orange over there

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Tho I guess that's the dutch army lol

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Max max max super max max max

primal laurel
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yeah, house of orange 😂

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not a bad colour

gleaming crater
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I'm patiently waiting to hear the dutch national anthem in a month lol

glacial knot
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why would you hear that? o.0

gleaming crater
primal laurel
gleaming crater
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Lol what a banger 😂

red rock
glacial knot
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Hm. It does mention that y'all are just Swamp Germans.
but it's still not a good song

primal laurel
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swamp germans??? are you trying to start a war

gleaming crater
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Ahahaha what

glacial knot
red rock
gleaming crater
iron granite
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How many Germans do you need to change a lightbulb?

gleaming crater
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Nein?

glacial knot
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depends. Are you making a bureaucracy or efficiency joke?

iron granite
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One - we are efficient and have no sense of humor

red rock
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How many Mexicans do you need to change a lightbulb?

gleaming crater
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Something something Juan

red rock
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Juan

glacial knot
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I should go to the dutchlands at some point...

primal laurel
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if you learn dutch then you also learn to speak really bad german

red rock
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Where do you come from anyway?

glacial knot
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nah, no interest in learning lesser German languages

glacial knot
iron granite
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Oh. Almost Germany

glacial knot
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Jup. Not quite run down enough to fit in with the country D:

iron granite
primal laurel
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I like germans more than belgians

glacial knot
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It's amazing when I got west. At the BaWü border, roads go to shit 😂

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OTOH going East, at the Austrian border, the internet starts working =.=

primal laurel
gleaming crater
# primal laurel

I remember hearing the phrase "the roads are of belgium quality"

primal laurel
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it's based on the truth

static schooner
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The roads are like the waffles?

prisma briar
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Oh, syrup is what those holes are for?

glacial knot
primal laurel
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LOL that's gold

blazing musk
gleaming crater
primal laurel
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do those startups have technical founders or is it some MBA idea guy?

blazing musk
gleaming crater
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The snake oil one had a technical founder lol

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But he spent all his time trying to pump up his share price instead

primal laurel
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my startup idea would probably just be me working on it for at least the first year

gleaming crater
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The owner had always tried to take created for a specific invention, only for me to do the research and find out he invented the 3rd kind of this invention lol

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Yeah he co-invented a new type of this tech but the other two forms still completely have as much or more use still today lol

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So yeah the bad places, you keep lifting the covers and finding stuff that doesn't add up lol

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When I left they still couldn't get clearance on their 1st gen hardware because they couldn't pass basic electrical safety tests... the device died if you shocked it with static lol

primal laurel
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to have a truly unique idea is very rare I think

primal laurel
gleaming crater
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Where I'm at now they all know the standard before a single circuit board is ordered

primal laurel
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tbh it's a very difficult problem

gleaming crater
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Where it's gonna get fun for us is building a device that completely breaks out of the bounds of the standard

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And having to explain all the ways the standard doesn't apply to our device and why

gleaming crater
primal laurel
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I wasn't part of it but my teammates at philips built their own wifi module which is now in several products

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they had some obscure emissions issue and they were on a deadline

gleaming crater
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That's pretty hardcore lol

primal laurel
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it's tough

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never saw so many people so stressed lol

gleaming crater
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Yeah that's outta scope for what we're working on now thankfully lol

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Nowadays a med device is often running a whole linux system just to drive it's display

primal laurel
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Yep very cool stuff

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Wish I could share all the things I saw at Philips

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No idea how much of it actually made it

gleaming crater
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That's why I can't work for a megacorp

primal laurel
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But damn there was some cool tech

gleaming crater
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They'll shelve some shit like it's the end of indiana jones

primal laurel
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Yup

gleaming crater
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Saw that at my last place that got bought actually, we were in the middle of building an implant that had never been done before and would have entirely upended a whole segement of healthcare

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And they're like "meh cancel that project"

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Now they're just sitting on a pile of patents stopping anyone else from building it

primal laurel
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I'm not sure how much that would bother me. After I finish building something I'm always, alright off to the next thing

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As long as you get paid and have fun

gleaming crater
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In that case they didn't get to finish building it, it's driving one engineer I know crazy lol

glacial knot
gleaming crater
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I had that thought while typing that, shuddered, and left it out

prisma briar
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Windows CE runs too much crap, tbh

glacial knot
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Easier to get validated
Because MS pays for a lot of certifications for windows

gleaming crater
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Lol windows for arm is gonna restart that train

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Watch windows start showing up again in places it entirely doesn't belong

ocean oar
# prisma briar Windows CE runs too much crap, tbh

Yeah it is wild the places it shows up. At work we have one of these: https://spectralogic.com/products/tape-solutions/tfinity-exascale/
The UI on the front touchscreen control panel is CE. I'm not sure that they have told us the plan to migrate away from it either

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prisma briar
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I've always thought Windows PEs had a lot of promise in embedded systems

prisma briar
gleaming crater
prisma briar
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edgy

ocean oar
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I mean I don't care what it is, but it's just weird to see it there

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Also the nearly identical control unit that runs the robots is Linux

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Just the UI, which is basically a web page shown in a browser

prisma briar
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Doing nothing but show simple embedded web pages was one of the strong points of Windows CE.

primal laurel
gleaming crater
prisma briar
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Linux's poor support for HDR is still keeping me from trying to move my gaming PC back to Linux.

primal laurel
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Valve will save us all

prisma briar
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Unless they get bored and move on to some other flashy tech next year

glacial knot
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Valve wasn't too deep into the entire wayland dev stack until quite some years in

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And then mainly went for things that made proton easier

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Valve as a company is weird

prisma briar
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I honestly couldn't care less about Wayland. I liked the message-based design Xorg used.

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I never got how x forwarding isn't huge among Linux desktop users, I always loved it.

solar zealot
prisma briar
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Yea, any other company would have given up after the first wave of Steam Machines

solar zealot
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steam machines, steam link and the steam controller

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Later sold for a couple cents included in some game bundles at the end

prisma briar
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tbh the steam link largely failed because it was a buggy half-baked device

glacial knot
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X11 core hasn't been used in a decade
And DRI is neither really message based, nor a good idea to forward 🤷

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A lot of the mechanisms that actually worked well for forwarding (like front servers) are mostly defunct these days

prisma briar
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Tons of general apps work with X11 core just fine

solar zealot
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I did manage to sell my steam controller tho

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While I have big hands I do not have big enough hands to utilize this chonker

prisma briar
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I should buy a steam controller

solar zealot
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They are interesting

glacial knot
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Steam controller was interesting. But didn't have enough critical mass to actually benefit from its quirkyness

prisma briar
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idk if it even connects to Steam still but I do have a Steamlink

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Haven't touched it since probably 2018

solar zealot
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The touch pad thing was a nice idea but the haptic feedback wasn't enough to make this a good replacement for a stick

prisma briar
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Yea, that's why I never got one, I'm not sure if I'd actually care for it or ever use it.

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It's going to be hard to beat the Xbox Elite controllers with an Xbox USB dongle on PC

solar zealot
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It's not even in the same league

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It's like significantly larger

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But the experience is like 20ish bucks used so why not have that kinda fun

prisma briar
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I think it'd push me over 90 controllers if I ordered one

gleaming crater
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That’s like a small fortune lol

prisma briar
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I probably have 6-8K worth of retro video game stuff at this point

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I might have gone overboard during covid

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Hard to exactly price some of my consoles because I've done a bunch of mods to them and a couple are somewhat unique

gleaming crater
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I want a pinball machine, but I don’t want to store or maintain one lol

prisma briar
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I have a Nomad with a Mega Everdrive Pro in it on the shelf above me that's worth like $600-700

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Lol, right

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Restoring a pinball machine always looked like restoring a car level of a project.

gleaming crater
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I almost bought that virtual pinball table during Covid

prisma briar
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I built an old PC I could run a DOS pinball game from my childhood on during Covid

gleaming crater
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But even that is a money pit of accessories

prisma briar
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Among other games

gleaming crater
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I already went thru a whole phase of rebuying retro snes/n64 games I grew up with lol

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But really I don’t play em lol

prisma briar
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I just bought flashcarts and ODEs for all my stuff

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I had an N64 already going into this too, I did mod it for RGB output and bluetooth controller support

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goddamnit discord

gleaming crater
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Lol that’s dedication

prisma briar
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Oh, I guess I had the esp32 for the bluetooth adapter out in the second photo, but you can see the bundle of dupont connectors for it still

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Er, nevermind, it's just upside down and hard to see, lol

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I added another 12v->3.3v regulator to the system too because the built-in one was getting really noisy powering everything

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I did that after I took this photo though

gleaming crater
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I’d have more fun putting the mods in vs actually spending much time playing retro games lol

prisma briar
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I kinda did too

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I did a PS1 mod that has this as one of the steps

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solar zealot
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Didn't one of you guys have an bambu p1 ?

prisma briar
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I have a P1S, yea

solar zealot
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Their filament seems to identify via nfc tags

gleaming crater
solar zealot
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Can we replicate those for non official filament so you'd not have to type the details when switching rolls

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Ie make our custom ones

prisma briar
gleaming crater
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I guess burning discs is dead lol

prisma briar
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Basically not really but you can clone existing ones

solar zealot
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Sad

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I was hoping for this to be possible, that would have been pretty cool

prisma briar
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There was some pressure on them to open it up but they've said they don't really have interest in opening up the AMS

gleaming crater
prisma briar
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idk which one, but I watched a youtuber interview their ceo and he said the AMS was their main market advantage right now and was concerned opening it up would hurt their position

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Or something along those lines

gleaming crater
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Real answer: money!

prisma briar
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That's basically what he said

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He didn't really hide anything

solar zealot
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At least they are honest

prisma briar
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It pretty much came out as 'This position is where we think we'll make the most'

solar zealot
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What kinda features do I loose by not using their spools

prisma briar
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Their spools auto-detect the filament

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That's it

solar zealot
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It still does the weight tracking stuff?

prisma briar
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Even then it's not perfect at detecting so you still need to double-check it

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idk, I never looked into that

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I just look at my rolls to see how much is left

solar zealot
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Fair enough

prisma briar
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I have them all laid out on a shelf so I can

last cedar
iron granite
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The German railway (Deutsche Bahn) is looking for Windows 3.11 for Workgroups admins. Someone interested? 🤣

prisma briar
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This was how I set up my filament

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Had it in a different room before this but still on those filament shelves

solar zealot
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I stack dumped mine above a distribution panel

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But I am never able to guess how much is still on there

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At least the bambu filament doesn't seem to be outrageous expensive

prisma briar
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The Bambu spools have a gauge printed on the side you can look at to get a rough idea

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I have been off a couple times though

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I just did a print that's 90% green 10% silver because I ran out of green and used the last bit of a roll of silver to finish it

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Left me with like 1m on the roll of silver, I just tossed that.

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I've tried keeping stray bits like that and splicing them, it's a crapshoot if they work and I wouldn't want to put that through an AMS.

prisma briar
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Or at least a good chunk of them

solar zealot
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Never had luck with splicing stuff together

prisma briar
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The first PS1 I did that mod to ended up having a failed decoder chip on the board and would read everything as an audio cd. That was super fun to rip out and move to a new PS1.

prisma briar
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Heh, that was stupid. Just had a brief power flicker and my first thought was to check what my power meter says. It says nothing because it has no power.

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So used to having my stuff just work when the power is out, lol.

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yay now all my appliances are blinking 12:00

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That reminds me, I wanted to put my garage door opener on a UPS

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Need to see what it pulls to see if that is feasible

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inb4 they make battery backup garage door openers, I have UPSes on hand to spare already.

gleaming crater
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Mine only respond to the remote tho, the wall button won’t work for some reason

prisma briar
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I have a 700va/500w UPS I think I can just set on top of the garage door opener

gleaming crater
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I wonder what kind of load that motor is tho

prisma briar
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mfgr rating says 400w

gleaming crater
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Is it inductive motor tho

prisma briar
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idk if it has a spike at the start

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Never took apart a garage door opener before

gleaming crater
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If the UPS dies, it does lol

prisma briar
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Looking up parts, probably inductive, yea

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w/e, if it burns out a UPS I have spares without batteries I can move the battery to.

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I wonder if the motor will care about pure sine or not though

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I care more about the opener

tidal bronze
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Unfortunately, unlike the coasts, middle earth has no bearing on food. So I will let you slide.

ocean oar
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I would have assumed a lot of door openers just have switchmode power supplies these days, but looking at the spec sheet for mine it says "230-240V 50Hz", so perhaps not?

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It does say the motor is 24VDC 100W

gleaming crater
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All of the openers that have battery backup are using a 12VDC SLA battery internally

forest edge
tidal bronze
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Ale is high on carbs no bueno

ocean oar
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Mine apparently supports charging its backup battery with a solar panel wired directly to the opener, too

gleaming crater
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Save that for the apocalypse lol

prisma briar
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I don't think I care enough about being able to open my garage to worry about getting a new opener if the UPS won't handle it

gleaming crater
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You have the handle release right

prisma briar
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I can just open a normal door and walk in through the house

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Yea

red rock
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Can confirm

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tidal bronze
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I thought all openers came with backup battery

prisma briar
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My garage door even has a little plastic cover at the top to prevent people from poking a hanger in and getting to the handle

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I've never had an opener with a battery

gleaming crater
prisma briar
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Not sure when mine is from

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My guess is mid 90s

tidal bronze
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All my operners are jackshaft and they come with batteries

gleaming crater
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For tech

prisma briar
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Looks like the main issue with pwm emulated sine wave for powering a motor is it generates a lot of extra heat in the motor

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Not sure I'm worried about that in a garage door motor, it gets hours to cool after a few seconds of running.

tidal bronze
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Do they still use traditional track driven openers?

prisma briar
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That's what mine is, I assume new homes still use those

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I had to get a spring replaced on it when I moved in because it was cracked

ocean oar
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The other thing I'm really curious about is inside my opener there's some sort of serial port. I emailed the company but they wouldn't tell me anything about it.
There is one of the programming tools for sale on ebay but I'm not sure if I $250 USD care to find out what it does https://www.ebay.com/itm/334777269241

eBay
Automatic Technology 69782 Auto Programmer & Diagnostic Tool Garage...

Remove the guesswork from garage door repairs and ensure you know exactly what's going on inside the operator with Automatic Technology’s advanced diagnostic tool. Includes: hard case with foam insert, interface cable, extension cable, and quick reference guide Will only works on Automatic Technology Garage Openers.

tidal bronze
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What are you trying to do ?

gleaming crater
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I swear everything in the US here is chamberlain/liftmaster

tidal bronze
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lol it is

ocean oar
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Amuse myself. I've already automated it by wiring a LoRa controller with a relay output to the 2-wire button input on the opener

prisma briar
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I wired an old broken garage door opener the previous homeowner left to an esp8266 to open mine

ocean oar
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But I was hoping if I could interface with it by serial that could issue explicit up/down commands, rather than just a "move" command

tidal bronze
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If you want speed ramp up and down, soft close, etc that's jackshaft.

tidal bronze
ocean oar
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I have one of those too.

tidal bronze
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Then you can do anything you want

prisma briar
gleaming crater
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I'm super happy with the ratgdo on mine, I didn't expect to be able to open it to a % value

prisma briar
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My smart garage door opener

gleaming crater
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Or get the obstruction sensor data

static schooner
ocean oar
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This is what I've got. It's even powered from the opener which is nice.
Also has control of the lights on the roof of the garage, so when the door opens it turns those on too.

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prisma briar
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I have my garage light sockets on a zb-mini that turns on when a contact sensor on the garage opens

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Or the motion sensor out there or either of the interior doors to the garage

tidal bronze
prisma briar
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I considered setting an automation to close my garage door after 30m if it was open but I decided the chance of the contact sensor reporting a false value or going offline in the wrong state then having it open the garage door instead of closing it was too high

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So I just went with notifications to my phone instead

tidal bronze
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Good point. Although I wouldn't worry about it too much since the line break sensor and door-opener is running in its own loop.

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My worry is not open/close state but harming someone.

prisma briar
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Yea, the line break sensor is hard wired to the opener on mine

tidal bronze
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Same here

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So no matter what HA thinks ain't going to close on something so I am not worried.

gleaming crater
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That was the one nice feature of the (shit) cloud built into chamberlain openers, if you remote closed them they play an obnoxious beep and flashing lights before doing it

prisma briar
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I mostly don't want my garage door opening on a cold night and letting stuff inside freeze

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Though the heater I just put in should mostly remove those concerns

tidal bronze
prisma briar
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Hmm, I have some piezo modules. I could put one on my esphome opener.

gleaming crater
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Safety codes have the beam cancel and the auto-reverse if blocked

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They shouldn't take a ton of pressure to auto-reverse

prisma briar
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I can stop mine opening with my hand

tidal bronze
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But it's always a good rule of thumb to calibrate reverse-force now and then. That's the most important!

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Then, for that to work the door needs to be super balanced. lol

prisma briar
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I've grabbed it before to stop it from going down, if it doesn't think it should be at the bottom it'll go back up

gleaming crater
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I remember someone automated a super old opener themselves and posted it on HA reddit all proud, till everyone was like "that thing has zero safety features and was called the childkiller"

prisma briar
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Even without the beam tripped

tidal bronze
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lol

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If the door is balanced you can fine tune even for a tiny dog.

prisma briar
#

I'd consider a dog running free near a garage door to be enough concern to just not use the door

gleaming crater
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My beam sensors are very low for that reason lol

prisma briar
#

I always close my door before I let my dogs out of my car

gleaming crater
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But same

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Mostly cuz they're terrorists tho

tidal bronze
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Closing garage doors is not a concern for me. lol. I might be the wrong baseline.

prisma briar
#

I'm more worried about my dogs seeing a squirrel or something and running out of the garage before the door is closed

tidal bronze
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For me it's wild rabbits and racoons but they come back or a neighbor will text asking me to pick them up

prisma briar
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Or literally any living creature

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There's a field by my house I've let my dog off leash in a couple times and when she's done she just walks home, but I've always been near her

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And I know I can run her down if I need to

tidal bronze
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Sadly both are seniors no more running they still walk fast at first sight. lol

prisma briar
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I'm not sure exactly how old my dog is, from what the vet guessed she's 7 or 8.

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I got her from a shelter when she was about 6

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And one of the people I live with has a little barky terrier that's about the same age

tidal bronze
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Mine's 14 old for a big dog.

prisma briar
#

My dog's only about 35lbs

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Not tiny but definitely not a big dog

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She had a herniated disc when I first got her, I had to keep her crated and tied up for 6 weeks while it healed

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Humane Society didn't tell me anything about it, had to go spend a couple hundred on xrays and vets to get it sorted

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Had to feed her pills for 6 weeks too, that sucked.

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Couldn't find anything she wouldn't dig the pill out of and spit it out

tidal bronze
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I don't want to even get started about vet bills. The eldest survived 2 cancers and trying out a new drug for the 3rd and still kicking it. I am going to give him the best chance possible but there's only so much meds can do.

gleaming crater
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Lol, I had a 6lb pomeranian need a dime surgically removed from himself on a sunday night at the emergency vet

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It was 5k before the insurance lol

prisma briar
#

Heh, my roomate had to go have vomiting induced on his dog because he fed it a bunch of grapes

tidal bronze
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lol

prisma briar
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Thankfully the stupid dog didn't chew any of them and they were all whole still

static schooner
#

Did you get the dime back?

gleaming crater
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They tried to make my dog puke the dime and was like "it's all blood coming out we need to do surgery"

gleaming crater
static schooner
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They are delicious

gleaming crater
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Thankfully he's past the "I eat everything" phase

tidal bronze
#

Why not have some gummies next to the dime?

prisma briar
#

I've heard dogs often have a thing for money

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Lots of weird flavors on it

gleaming crater
#

Lol I bet

gleaming crater
prisma briar
#

lol

tidal bronze
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lol

prisma briar
#

Unless they ate a ton of chocolate edibles just let them ride it out in comfort

gleaming crater
#

People will just drop them on the ground in seattle I swear

prisma briar
#

Oh, if I didn't know my dog ate an edible I might be more concerned

gleaming crater
#

Oh totally, our dog (unknowningly) ate a butt of a joint as a puppy and we thought he was dying

tidal bronze
prisma briar
#

If I knew and it was too late to scold her over it I'd probably just give her a few strips of bacon and a pat on the head though, lol.

gleaming crater
tidal bronze
#

Oh no. Please tell her that it's not the case all over.

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The exists are crazy, close to impossible to fine MRI techs and Internists

gleaming crater
#

Yeah my wife's clinic has had to shrink services due to lack of staff

tidal bronze
#

After covid it's a shitshow.

prisma briar
#

I had a hard time finding a vet, I ended up going with one I think is slightly overpriced because I couldn't find anything else.

gleaming crater
#

Yeah there was a huge wave of new pets during covid

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And vets all got overwhelmed with new patients

prisma briar
#

That herniated disc issue ended up costing like $600 for all of it and all it was was a couple x-rays and a bottle of pills

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No surgery was required

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They wanted like $120 for a heartworm test too

tidal bronze
#

They add everything and anything to the invoice, I am used to that. Just how shit goes.

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My concern is getting the right person in time which is harder and harder to do

prisma briar
#

Yea, the place I've been going seems to have been doing a good and competent job so I've been sticking with them

tidal bronze
#

They have MRI no MRI analysist. CAT not Analysist Ultrasound no Analyst. Oh the surgeon can't decipher so you need to go through ER to get in line to get an MRI consult. I've heard everything under the sun. But I still think it's worth and I wouldn't do anything to change it.

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But hey, free vallet parking, who can complain 🤣

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prisma briar
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My vet barely has any parking, let alone free valet parking, lol

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I think there's 6 spots in their lot

iron granite
#

Also valid for dog sleighs?

tidal bronze
#

Of course.

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I wish my GP had a Office like this. 🤣

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iron granite
#

That's why you are visiting vets now?

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Here GPs are less expensive

tidal bronze
#

Yes sir. For the office space and number of front desk staff. lol

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Oh and Nespresso

static schooner
#

I've been to a vet with a really nice lobby like that

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nothing like it close to me, though

ocean oar
#

Our local vet is in the middle of suburbia, and is just a converted house.
Pretty sure the lobby / waiting room would have been the lounge at one point.

primal laurel
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dont have to take my dog to the vet often luckily

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quite odd for his age

prisma briar
#

My vet was once a row of condos they bought and put doors between

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3 small condos in a row

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townhouses, idk what to classify them as

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They were tiny so townhouse feels generous

tidal bronze
primal laurel
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what? I dont understand

tidal bronze
#

It's ok. I figured

primal laurel
#

???

prisma briar
#

I think he meant to respond to Jorg

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Otherwise I'm confused too

tidal bronze
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Sickness are random and in the unknown. And yes I was replying to him. And, for me, luck is not a business model.

forest edge
#

poor dogs, probably just smelled your cooking and had to run out to the yard to relieve the sickness

tidal bronze
forest edge
tidal bronze
#

You would drool over the menu.

iron granite
tidal bronze
#

Share and make it better.

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primal laurel
dusky plank
static schooner
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Whoa

young sigil
static schooner
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I coulda handled being a newt or something

blazing musk
red rock
primal laurel
#

yeah

last cedar
solar zealot
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We know

#

That's more people than the 0 that should ^^

orchid rose
#

First impressions of the apple vision pro goggles are out and it seems underwhelming. Issues like chromatic aberration and motion blur and also lower field of view than other modern headsets. The avatar thing is creepy and looks absolutely terrible

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I was hoping they would get the hardware right, but that's not the case it seems

solar zealot
#

It may simply take more time to refine both the hard and software

primal laurel
#

I also read many people complain it's too heavy

orchid rose
#

I'm sure they'll refine it and quite quickly, but some of these issues like CA have been figured out by other competitors so it's surprising to see that in a 3500$ headset

solar zealot
#

What kind of other competitors are there

orchid rose
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In that price range there's Varjo. The biggest player in the VR in general is Meta with the Oculus Quests

primal laurel
#

I think the entire concept is ridiculous

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so I hope it fails

solar zealot
#

Those are VR headsets aren't they

#

The avpro should fall more closely to a Hololense than those

orchid rose
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no it isn't, it's a VR/AR headset with apple marketing

solar zealot
#

Oh

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Thats not something I would have expected

orchid rose
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The difference between hololens and these AR headsets is that these use cameras to "pass through" the real world

solar zealot
#

Always figured it's like like non digital see through from their advertising

primal laurel
#

do you really want a headset that is ...always... looking at your hands

orchid rose
#

lol yeah that was a good line in the Verge review

solar zealot
#

Now I am heavily disappointed

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They invented the vr headset

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Just a decade late

primal laurel
orchid rose
#

I mean AR with passthrough can be really cool if done right and this is probably the best version of it. Need to hear from people who have been using the Varjo to know for sure

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my cheapo chinese headset has "AR" mode and it's absolutely worthless since the world scale is all wonky, there's distortion everywhere and the image noise is horrible even with decent lighting

gleaming crater
#

For me about the only killer app for an AR headset would be to have massive virtual desktop setup, but not with a Mac lol

#

Ditch the desktops and just let me toss program windows anywhere I want virtually

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The Vision Pro is like “nope you get one virtual 4k display”

primal laurel
gleaming crater
#

If the displays have the same or better pixel density how could it be worse, at least visually

orchid rose
#

Resolution is getting there, but lenses are still not quite sharp enough and the goggles are quite annoying to wear for a long time

gleaming crater
#

Yeah the weight is the dealbreaker

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And price lol

primal laurel
gleaming crater
#

More the utility of it

orchid rose
#

The screens in a virtual world can float and you can just move them around as you need to

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and it doesn't have to be your physical space where you work. Just work at a virtual beach and all you really need that is physical are the keyboard and mouse for input

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Virtual environments can be surprisingly convincing and it only breaks down when you try to touch things

gleaming crater
#

I just want to be able to expand my workspace beyond my existing monitors, and not get just more monitors lol

orchid rose
#

This reminds me that I need to check what peoplat at /r/VRtoER are up to 😄

gleaming crater
#

Doesn’t the Vision Pro aggressively disable VR if you walk more than 2 feet?

orchid rose
#

No clue but sounds about right since they are trying to distance it from being a VR headset

prisma briar
#

I've stopped to do something on my desktop while in VR before then noticed an hour later I was still using my HMD

prisma briar
#

I kind of get the vibe Apple hasn't figured it out yet either.

primal laurel
prisma briar
#

It depends a lot on the HMD. It's not that great on my Index because the pixel density is really low but looks a lot better on my Pimax 8kx.

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Not that I'm recommending Pimax.

solar zealot
#

@ netham45 may need to ask some more stuff about those printers ^^
I found that there seems to be a lan only mode but the forums are full of older posts of this somewhat limiting the capabilities of using their software. Is this still correct or has this been resolved

prisma briar
#

Never tried it but I believe the camera on the P1 printers are inaccessible if you use lan mode

#

I think everything else works

solar zealot
#

i see i see

#

kinda weird that this isnt the default mode

prisma briar
#

There's an HA plugin for Bambu's too

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My printer is off right now but here's the page I have set up for mine

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solar zealot
#

👍

prisma briar
#

Oh, last I heard the mobile app didn't work with lan mode at all

#

I only ever use that for checking the camera feed though

solar zealot
#

That wouldn't be too important to me either I guess

prisma briar
#

Their mobile app seems mostly centered around starting a print directly from their printables ripoff

prisma briar
#

The camera built-in to the P1S is honestly kind of crap. It's really low framerate and the app often refuses to open it. I was considering putting an Rpi Zero W in there to stream a camera feed from my printer and removing the P1S camera.

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They did finally add the ability to download timelapses through the bambu app a few weeks ago so you don't need to pull the SD card to get at a timelapse video anymore

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I was thinking I could set Frigate to record it all and hold footage for a week or something if I want to review a print that failed and I could also get my own spaghetti detection running somewhere then call it through HA to pause a print if it detects it

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Since the P1S doesn't have that

#

Timelapses are kind of useless from what I can tell. If I'm reviewing a failure they don't keep enough frames to make any sort of determination and, other than looking back on a print fondly, I don't know what else they'd be used for.

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The P1S camera feed is specced at 3fps when it works right

gleaming crater
prisma briar
#

But timelapse only records one snapshot per layer

#

I'm pretty sure they're limited by using an esp32 as the wifi chip on them

gleaming crater
#

I never understood why people cared about Timelapse print videos so much

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Like yay I have the thing I don’t care how it got here lol

prisma briar
#

Yea, exactly

gleaming crater
prisma briar
#

No

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It's all proprietary Bambu

#

The X1C was recently opened up to custom firmwares, but all that people have done so far is modify Bambu's.

#

I'm not even sure if that all has been made public yet or if it's just news stories still

gleaming crater
#

Don’t you have to agree to void your warranty too lol

prisma briar
#

Yea

solar zealot
#

very much stuff to learn about ^^

prisma briar
#

Voiding a warranty to mod a device the way you want is not really new though

solar zealot
#

just need to make sure this is a good buy for the money

gleaming crater
solar zealot
#

i dont think so

prisma briar
#

There's a Bambu Labs Discord too, though their mods are quirky.

gleaming crater
prisma briar
#

They censor all cuss words in like 20 languages, lol.

gleaming crater
#

This one should have plenty of bambu folks on it since it’s the new hotness

prisma briar
#

Yea, I've talked to people about Bambu stuff there before

gleaming crater
#

It’s a pretty chill server when I’m in a printing mood

prisma briar
#

Most 3D printing places are pretty chill I've found

gleaming crater
#

I can’t with the 3d printing subreddit, I can only take so many benchies

prisma briar
#

The Bambu Labs Discord isn't bad as far as the people on it go, their mods are just clearly from a different culture than me.

gleaming crater
#

There is a lot of tribal knowledge on that main discord, they’ve been hammering away at perfecting prints for years now

prisma briar
#

You don't really need to do much to get basically perfect prints on the P1S

gleaming crater
#

True lol

prisma briar
#

Mine did an excellent 15m benchy out of the box

gleaming crater
#

Tho if it’s like my own printing experience, the quality is all downhill from the first print if you touch anything lol

#

But nowadays printers are pretty much feature complete outta the box instead of being some barebones rig

prisma briar
#

I haven't really changed anything on my Bambu

#

I changed the nozzle, that's about it

#

I guess I replaced the filament slicer too

gleaming crater
solar zealot
#

it looks easier to do than the screw on ones where you need to burn your hands ^^

prisma briar
#

If you buy a new hotend get the combo that comes with the heater and temperature sensor on it, it's only a couple dollars more and moving the heater and probe over is messy (reapplying thermal paste) and generally kind of annoying.

#

It'd be a lot more convenient to switch nozzles if I had duplicates of all that.

gleaming crater
#

I mean the nozzle is the only wear part

#

But yeah changing just that incorrectly is a huge risk

prisma briar
#

I haven't had to change a nozzle due to wear yet, I was changing between stainless and hardened and between nozzle sizes.

#

Though I should probably check how it's wearing now that I think about it

gleaming crater
#

As long as it’s not brass lol

prisma briar
#

I think you'd have to go for a third party hotend to get brass on a bambu

#

There's third party stuff for things like the PEI plate and the hotends, but none of my Bambu parts have gone out so I've never tried any of that.

gleaming crater
#

Idk if I got another printer id prob just get the prusa

prisma briar
#

If I were to get a new one I'd go for a voron, but I also just kind of want to build a voron

#

If I had the space for it I'd probably already have one.

gleaming crater
#

I just don't print enough to justify another lol

#

I really should get my resin one going again, I do want to print another set or two of keycaps

prisma briar
#

Same

#

I hardly ever have my Ender and Bambu both running at the same time

#

Generally only if I'm doing a long print on my Bambu and want something quick on my Ender

#

But it has to be a long print on my Bambu or the Bambu will finish it's current print then the next print before the Ender can just do the next print.

gleaming crater
#

Lol if I cared about speed I would have installed klipper already

prisma briar
#

I'd hate to go back to Marlin, lol.

gleaming crater
#

Yeah marlin is pretty kludgy at best

#

The header config is completely insane

prisma briar
#

Klipper does so much and allows for absurd flexibility and Bambu's stuff just works

#

Oh yea, I hated trying to tweak variables on my printer with Marlin

gleaming crater
#

I mean I do custom build my own marlin firmware to the point where I'm quite happy with it

prisma briar
#

Especially on the stock Ender board that didn't have a bootloader that could update the firmware so you had to hook up a programmer to flash it

gleaming crater
#

Lol my ender is on it's 3rd mobo

prisma briar
#

Flashing custom Marlin firmwares over and over to get things how you want sounds like a lot more work than using Klipper, tbh

gleaming crater
#

Heh I probably haven't built marlin in at least a year or more at this point

prisma briar
#

With Klipper you just update a config file and hit restart

gleaming crater
#

I get why they got to that point, it's all legacy from 8 bit controllers with super limited ram

#

They had to excise things from the code to make it even fit

prisma briar
#

Yea

gleaming crater
#

But now that legacy just makes it look like the cobol of firmware lol

prisma briar
#

Old crap that couldn't even think of doing things like input shaping

gleaming crater
#

Oh I'm pretty sure someone bolted that onto marlin if you dive deep enough into the headers lol

#

I vaguely recall seeing that config scroll by

prisma briar
#

The latest versions have it, yea, but it doesn't run on the 8 bit avrs that old printers used to use.

gleaming crater
#

Which at this point the only reason to support 8bit is to keep cheep chineese printers around lol

prisma briar
#

Even then most of those that are remotely respectable are shipping nicer boards.

gleaming crater
#

WHIRRR WHIRRR WHIRRR I CANT HEAR YOU OVER MY 8-BIT STEPPERS

prisma briar
#

I've found those steppers are quieter when they run faster, lol

gleaming crater
#

the number of people mindblown how quiet their machine COULD be once they replaced the shit board lol

prisma briar
#

I'm running mine fast enough that I had to disable stealthchop but unless it's making slow movements I don't really hear it

gleaming crater
#

I'd have to walk out to the garage to hear mine lol

prisma briar
#

I just redid a pantry and moved mine into it, but it's got a water heater and furnace in there too so there's an air intake grate I can hear the printer through

#

But it's quieter than the furnace and still way better than when it was in my office with me

gleaming crater
#

My garage is too cold in the winter to print I'm finding, I was getting some pretty bad warping during a cold snap

prisma briar
#

I was toying with the idea of moving mine to the garage

#

I have a heater out there now so I can keep a minimum temperature

gleaming crater
#

I would almost need a heating pad under mine in the winter

prisma briar
#

Yea I wish I could insulate the floor in my garage

gleaming crater
#

Don't people install snap-together flooring in the garage?

prisma briar
#

I got https://www.amazon.com/Frienda-Insulation-Reflective-Aluminum-Greenhouses/dp/B0CC2M54D8 and put it on my garage door and it seemed to help

Frienda 24 Pcs Garage Door Insulation Panels Kits Double Bubble Ref...

Features: Practical to use: Using this thermal insulation sheet, heating and cooling system works efficiently, effectively reducing the heat transferred to the home in the summer and outside the home in the winter. Easy to clean: These bubble insulation films shields are easy to clean, you just ...

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idk, for it to be a worthwhile insulator I imagine it'd need a raised floor that trapped a pocket of air between it and the cement

gleaming crater
#

I used to have an inflatable hot tub and you cannot put those things on a concrete slab and expect them to keep up

#

Just putting a 3/4-1" dense foam board down was enough to make a huge diff

#

You can get dense foam panels with a decent r-value

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Then just put some snaplock flooring over it

#

Not sure if you could park a car on it it, you'd have to check the specs lol

prisma briar
#

I can heat my garage to a 70F for a week and the ground is still only like 40F.

#

Yea, that's what I want to do

#

I just use my garage for cars and laundry and a storage shelf right now

gleaming crater
#

I mean I put a hot tub on it but that's pretty spread out weight, but still quite a bit

prisma briar
#

I don't think there's any way a hot tub would approach the psi of a car tire where it contacts the ground

gleaming crater
#

True, it may be 3000lbs of water but a large surface area

prisma briar
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I imagine a car gets maybe a sq ft of ground contact

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Kind of crazy when you think about what they do with that sq ft

gleaming crater
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According to this you'd need a subfloor on top of the foam

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Tho if you're doing foam board you'd prob want a vapor barrier layer under the foam since the slab is liable to breathe

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Or seal it

prisma briar
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I have other house projects I need to finish before I tackle that so that's probably at least a few months out if I decide to do it

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In the middle of redoing my kitchen right now

gleaming crater
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Prob a better project when it's not cold AF

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Yeah I want to rip out my entire kitchen, but I gotta worry about siding first

prisma briar
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Heh, my heater had no problem keeping my garage at 75F when it was -10F outside

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It just cost like $20/day to run

gleaming crater
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Damn gina

prisma briar
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It pulled 65kWh by itself that day, lol

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Which I guess was probably only about $15

gleaming crater
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I remember when my heat pump was dead the first winter I moved in, I spent like 800 in January on my power bill

prisma briar
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I have a natural gas furnace too but it's not zoned and I couldn't think of a way to have it keep my house comfortable and the garage hot at the same time

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One or the other was going to be way out of where I wanted it no matter what I did

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And the electric heater itself was definitely easier and cheaper to install

gleaming crater
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Yeah I have my furnace configured to not use it's electric backup heater unless it's realllly cold

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so much more expensive to run

prisma briar
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My heat pump will drop down to resistive heat when it gets cold too, it can pull nearly 10kW if that and my garage heater are going at full blast.

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I switch the heat pump off and go with natural gas when I hit that though

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My heat pump will work off of resistive heat down to like -10F but only is really efficient above freezing

gleaming crater
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My thermostat lets me set the emHeat set point

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how much warmer you're going for vs actual

prisma briar
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I wired a second dumb thermostat in parallel with my smart thermostat on my natural gas furnace and I have that set to 60F.

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So if my smart home stuff ever goes out stuff won't freeze

gleaming crater
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My smart thermostat has a fallback if I stop talking to it lol

prisma briar
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Mine is basically a dumb thermostat I can control the temperature and mode of over Zigbee

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But it also is only magnetically stuck to the wall and has became detached before

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I don't tend to adjust my gas furnace much, I keep it about the minimum comfort level for the season and if I want a room hotter I'll turn on the minisplit

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The gas furnace tends to get some rooms way hotter than other rooms so if I make it comfortable out in my office some of the bedrooms are way too hot, but I can set the gas low and just use the minisplit in my office to keep it hot.

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Keeps everything comfortable and just using the heat pump for a single room is a lot cheaper than using it for the full house or keeping the entire house hotter with natural gas

gleaming crater
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I wish I had more than one central furnace for this giant house

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I do have a fireplace in the living room but I've gotta get the chimney inspected first before I trust a fire in it

prisma briar
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I never use my fireplace

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I had it checked right after I moved in and used it like 4 times, heh

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It's kind of inconvenient and the one time I lit it near my dog I kept having to shoo her away from it

gleaming crater
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There used to be another fireplace in my basement but they just walled it off and deleted the hearth

prisma briar
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Mine was originally wood furnace that was converted to gas at some point

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I'd probably use it more if it was wood, tbh

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The gas one doesn't really produce a lot of meaningful heat and I'm not leaving a gas fire burning just for ambience.

gleaming crater
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At that point get an electric insert lol

prisma briar
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I was toying with the idea of just removing it all

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Or at least the indoor part of it

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The fireplace is ugly as hell, it's got an ugly concrete hearth

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The stones around it are held in place with giant mortar gaps in between them

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Someone drilled holes into the mantel

gleaming crater
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My house had a natural stone fireplace....that they painted over with white paint....

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I'm sure if I burned a fire it would look dirty in 5 seconds

prisma briar
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The ones they used for mine look like the most generic grey rocks they could have found mortared together by a toddler who just globbed it on.

gleaming crater
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Lol is it like fake masonry stuck to a board?

prisma briar
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Pretty sure they're real rocks

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They might be thinner than I think and mounted to a wood pillar though

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They stick out from the wall like 8-10"

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It's mostly just a bunch of space I can't use in my livingroom

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If the previous owners hadn't ruined it it would be nice but as it is it's just an eyesore and a place to stub my toe on

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I also might only get rid of the interior part of it, the chimney adds a bit to the look of my house and unless there's something wrong with it I don't see a point in removing it

gleaming crater
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I mean the alternative is it's new construction and you find out it was made out of paper mâché

prisma briar
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My house is 50 years old this year

gleaming crater
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My house was basically finished building when I was born lol, we're both 1980s babies

prisma briar
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I was born in 91, my house was built 17-18 years before I was born.

gleaming crater
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Your house probably cost less than a luxury car now when it was first sold lol

prisma briar
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Probably

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My parents bought a house pretty comparable to mine in the late 80s for only 60k

gleaming crater
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Values are finally cooling off here in seattle, things aren't selling immediately for over asking price anymore

prisma briar
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I had a hell of an issue with that in Denver when I bought my house at the end of 2021

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Like 8 offers I put in were rejected as house already sold minutes to hours after viewing the property.

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A couple my viewings were cancelled for because they sold

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My current house I was literally the first person to view it and made an offer right there

gleaming crater
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I think I only got my house because the owner hired assclowns for a relator

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They had the worst description on the listing

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And actually knocked on the neighbors doors and asked "so, would you say you have a view here?" (I can see the olympic mountains from my back window lmao)

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If they had listed this place properly, developers would have been all over it like flies on shit, I could totally subdivide this third of an acre

prisma briar
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This is the view from my bed, heh. Everyone around here can see mountains.

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And my tiny-ass backyard that was 2/3 converted into a covered sunroom

gleaming crater
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Seattle is a crapshoot, you can have amazing waterfront or terrestial views, or have some house 5 feet away from your house

prisma briar
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That's the one bad thing about this house, I'm really close to my neighbors.

gleaming crater
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Plant more bamboo lol

prisma briar
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It's also not the most efficient use of the plot it's on, this house could have the same space with 2x the yard if they made it two level

gleaming crater
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Lol some houses here go crazy, I've seen 5-story townhomes

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Like how is it not just all stairs at that point lol

prisma briar
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Between the garage, house, and sunroom I have about 2400 sq ft of land covered by a roof and maybe 400 sq ft of yard space

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Though there's also a huge field two houses down so space hasn't been much of an issue

gleaming crater
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Yard = more work lol

prisma briar
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First thing I did was rip everything living out of my yard, put down weed barrier, and then cover it with rocks and mulch

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I'm going to put fake grass in my back yard once it warms up

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I don't have that tree anymore, lol. Cut that down and threw it away last summer.

gleaming crater
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I'm too much of a sucker for real landscaping

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If I don't have multiple trees on my lot there's a problem

prisma briar
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All the trees and bushes on my land got mutilated by the previous owner

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That tree was the best looking and it was still half dead and over trimmed

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A good chunk of the bushes were just brown because they trimmed it back to sticks

gleaming crater
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My neighbors had a pine tree delivered that was already 10 feet tall and it's grown like a maniac

prisma briar
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evergreen bushes don't grow from sticks, they grow from the green ends

gleaming crater
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Somehow one of the trees on my hill is already budding like it's spring

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I really want to rent a herd of goats this spring and see if I can clear enough my property to actually walk my whole lot

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The greenbelt below my house is so overgrown and steep I've got like 10 trees I've never been able to touch

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I've got like an 80 foot madrona on the edge of my lot that I think I need to save from the vines

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I tried clearing my way down with a sawblade weed whacker and after a whole tank of gas I only made it like 10 feet down the hill lol

prisma briar
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A couple gallons of gasoline and a book of matches are cheap

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Cut a fire break, burn the rest

static schooner
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🐐

prisma briar
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If you can in your area

gleaming crater
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Lol I live uphill from the thicket

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That sounds like a good way to burn my own house down haha

prisma briar
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You might be able to get the fire department to do it as a training exercise

gleaming crater
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A herd of goats isn’t that much

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Shit is wayyyyy too green here for that

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Plus the goats eat down to the roots

prisma briar
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Granted it was in a town of 3000 people but my grandpa had the fire department burn out a plot of grass, and later burn down an old mobile home he was renting out when it got too beat up to rent out anymore

gleaming crater
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Imagine a forest with a 10 foot layer of vines and blackberry bushes on a steep slope

prisma briar
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They called it a training exercise and handled the cleanup for him too

gleaming crater
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There is like a tree every few feet down there

prisma briar
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You'll probably have more ecological diversity in the area if you just leave it as it is

gleaming crater
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Lol the pheasants down there might get pissed

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I kinda want to build a hillside garden

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With paths cut into the side of the hill that you can’t see unless you’re on them

orchid rose
# primal laurel I can't believe that will ever be as good as a 4K multi monitor setup like I hav...

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Overall he was more hyped about it than most reviews I've seen but I'll still wait for the full reviews

prisma briar
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'4K window inside of the headset' Come on, resolutions mean nothing in VR

static schooner
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I wonder where the purple, blue, and other not-in-humans colors come from

gleaming crater
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on the mac

prisma briar
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Probably, but I'd still argue it's pointless to even mention the resolution. You should be able to set it to whatever you want on a VR headset.

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I can with Steam

orchid rose
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Resolution doesn't technically mean anything in real life either, so yes it's just the resolution of the virtual screen and what you care about is how many pixels there is in arc-whatever they are called

gleaming crater
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they've always been stingy as hell with external monitor support on the mac

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You basically have to have a pro to even do more than one external display

prisma briar
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I've done four screens at once with SteamVR too

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And I can set them to 10k if I don't care about actually showing that screen on a real monitor

gleaming crater
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It's really about the computer trying to push out that many pixels I think

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or keep a framebuffer going for that many large desktop areas

primal laurel
gleaming crater
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not for that weight for sure lol

prisma briar
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There's a point around 6k where my desktop seems to switch to using multiple framebuffers for a single display and it gets way less performant but it'd still be fine for desktop apps.

primal laurel
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on the plane is a different story, but that's rare for me

orchid rose
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The max resolution of the AVP is 3660x3142 per eye so in order to get 3840x2160 the screen would have to fill 36% of your FoV unless I made a mistake with my maffs. Then there's the lenses, optics, overscan etc to further complicate things

primal laurel
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I work on my laptop on the train all the time, I dont care if somebody looks at my screen. It's just code

gleaming crater
prisma briar
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The lenses on VR headsets cause uneven pixel density across the field of view so the center of a VR headset is generally really sharp and the sides somewhat blurry. You're expected to move your head to use multiple monitors to put them in the center of your vision.

orchid rose
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Indeed

gleaming crater
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It's about information arrangement, not single fov density really

prisma briar
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If I'm looking straight forward in VR I don't even notice the blurry edges

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But if I move my eyes to the edge of my vision it's really blurry

gleaming crater
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That's really the problem with vr in general is the fixed FOV

prisma briar
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Most decent games will let you rotate your camera with an analog stick too

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Not all though, Doom VR doesn't for example

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To rotate in game you have to rotate in real life

primal laurel
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I also wonder how it affects your eye sight. If you wear this thing 14 hours a day (and some people will do that) it can't be good for your eyes

gleaming crater
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Trying to not look around but instead move your head while keeping a neutral focus

orchid rose
prisma briar
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VR is established enough I think we'd know if there were strong risks to eyesight

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Close to eye headsets have been available in one form or another since the 80s

gleaming crater
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The virtual boy was like the only nintendo console I never owned lol

orchid rose
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These are focused into infinity so they should cause less stress than a regular monitor

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it makes objects close to your eyes look a bit weird though

prisma briar
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You've been able to get basically LCDs on glasses to use as a personal TV for a long long time

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FPV RC HMDs are old too

primal laurel
prisma briar
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I've never heard about VR causing anything beyond some mild discomfort after putting the headset on or taking it off

orchid rose
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To your eyes these displays are as far away as the sun. I don't think there's any evidence that they cause any side effects and I can't think of a reason why they would

gleaming crater
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I thought we were already becoming myopic because of screens lol

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If you never focus to a distance eventually your eye muscles can weaken

orchid rose
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They are pretty low brightness too because of how the lenses work

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Sure there might be a problem if you never take them off I suppose

gleaming crater
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But yeah the focus is different in a headset vs a screen

prisma briar
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Worrying about eye damage seems rather baseless to me.

primal laurel
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Hard disagree

prisma briar
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Hard [Citation Needed]

gleaming crater
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Who knows, the worst eye problems comes from UV damage with age

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Maybe wearing a headset will cut down your UV exposure haha

prisma briar
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I'd be more worried about the loud-ass speakers on the Index damaging your hearing

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Can't turn those things up over 50% without going deaf

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Or at least it being uncomfortable

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They have these weird over ear speakers mounted to the headstrap that sit like 3" away from your ears

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They do sound really good though

gleaming crater
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How obnoxious are they for others around you haha

static schooner
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I had my phone to my ear a few days ago when a critical notification came in from HA and it felt like a dart hit my eardrum

prisma briar
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Kind of annoying, they're definitely not aiming for privacy

gleaming crater
prisma briar
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Mine does at least

gleaming crater
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At least the iphones do

prisma briar
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I have an S21 Ultra

static schooner
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I would think they'd use the proximity sensor to avoid what I got

prisma briar
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Then it wouldn't go off in your pocket

static schooner
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Hmm

gleaming crater
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I have weird friends

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solar zealot
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The back side of energy drink cans be like that

gleaming crater
solar zealot
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Possibly

gleaming crater
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Lol that's the universe telling you to drink more water

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According to that poem it's just "destiny in your hold" lololol

primal laurel
gleaming crater
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Lol, the guy who started it is probably the most unique individual I've ever known

gleaming crater
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Google street view being the good guy and protecting this street sign's identity

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static schooner
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They just don't want to show a dead sign

gleaming crater
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RIP

primal laurel
gleaming crater
umbral cliff
static schooner
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"No parking!" or "Free parking!"

gleaming crater
static schooner
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I thought it looked like maybe a railroad crossing, but 🤷

gleaming crater
static schooner
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I'm sure it lived a good life

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or maybe it's waiting to be installed and its life hasn't yet begun

gleaming crater
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Naw the construction workers knocked it over while working down there, street is still a dead end lol

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but you would have to live here to know that thanks to google

primal laurel
dusky plank
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friendship ended with firefox

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now chromium is my best friend again

torpid glacier
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anyone a bit of keyboard hardware "nerd"? I'm in need of a new keyboard, I have a mechanical that is broken and needs replacing. I tried out this mechanical because they're all the rage, but i find occasionally, after pressing a key, and then as my finger moves to another key, it hits the side of the next key. Like there's so much travel on the keys that I'm already moving my finger sideways while I'm still at the bottom of the stroke, so I collide with another key

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wondering if this just means I should avoid mechanical, or is is not normal for a mechanical to have so much travel or?

hidden torrent
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Hello! Is it possible to hire an automation/smarthome expert to install a custom project for me? I live in Austin, TX. I need a bed sensor (weight/pressure or infrared motion detect) which can be scheduled to only be armed during certain times of day, and when triggered, plays sound through a speaker.

forest edge
prisma briar
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I see a cat waving at a shark

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umbral cliff
dawn moth
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anyone here familiar with traefik and podman?

glacial knot
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No

primal laurel
steep kindle
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I'm looking at options to fetch energy (electrical) consumption from main meters in Sweden/Norway. EnergiNet in Denmark has centralized this as part of the open grid and wireless meters and provides data for every installed meter quite easily. Is there alternatives to this in either Sweden or Norway? Perhaps any Swedes or Norwegian in here can enlighten me on how/if their supplier provides consumption in some way?

young sigil
primal laurel
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vscode update broke all dev containers

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and now the update website is down because people are trying to download the previous version lol

steep kindle
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What is broken? I have version 1.85.2 and devcontainer + remote host works as usual

primal laurel
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1.86 breaks dev containers, something with deprecated options for electron

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you can install the dev containers pre-release, that fixes it

gleaming crater
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I’m a complete sucker for the moonlander version of that keyboard, I have two in case one breaks lol

gleaming crater
orchid rose
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primal laurel
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he saw the 2024 car and was 'nope'

gleaming crater
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I mean the last car was a lead ballon lol

red rock
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it did nail the barriers quite well

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our latte boy found that out at least

gleaming crater
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Does this mean Ferrari needs to invent brake magic??

orchid rose
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He's always wanted to drive for Ferrari and it's unlikely that either Ferrari or Mercedes are going to beat RB in 2025 anyway

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It makes sense and we get to watch how he does against Leclerc

gleaming crater