the-water-cooler

[midnight adder]

damn I remember dual channel ram from when I built PCs two decades ago 😄

[stuck anchor]

the only one i might forgive - smoke detectors that say "10 years is enough. replace me"

[loud pike]

Oh that's ANOTHER thing.

Google's devices understand Kelvin values.

Amazon devices? Don't.

[last cedar]

I wouls like a more modern , very efficient ecc box for truenas though, current one has 10gb sfp, 14 sata ports, uses 47W without drives at idle, an old V3 E3 xeon (intel 4000 series, very old!)

[loud pike]

I have to keep two different home assistant systems running just to make sure I can use all the features in the stuff I have.

[last cedar]

Wondering about throwing together a low end ryzen system

[loud pike]

Also one of them had a hilarious jack in the box I accidentally discovered a bit back. Lenovo makes a Google Home based alarm clock looking thing.

It has a light in it.

I did not know this until I accidentally turned that light on by voice command somehow.

[stuck anchor]

i have a ryzen 5800h nuc on its way home to me. still somewhere in europe.

[loud pike]

Key reason I keep the alexas is they tell me amazon delivery stuff more efficiently, and with the program I'm on with amazon, I need that.

lol have you accidentally turned on the light on the back of it yet? XD

Oooh, different one. XD

This is the one I have.

That ring around the USB and switch on the back lights up.

Like a nightlight type thing.

[stuck anchor]

bright enough to be a wake up type light that comes on before the alarm?

[loud pike]

(I found it in a goodwill, so documentation wasn't... great.)

heh. My phone doesn't have QI charging because it was cheap, so none of the QI chargers help me anyway, so that wouldn't do me much good. XD

[deft pewter]

Nice, it has a built-in chopping board

[loud pike]

I've never actually used a wake up light. I have a cat, so I don't need an alarm clock. XD

[forest edge]

you load HA on that yet?>

[deft pewter]

Clocks understand daylight savings time. Cats don't 😄

[stuck anchor]

i had an automation that picked up when i started my sleep cycle app to do light dimming, and also picked up the alarm time and turned the lights slowly up to full a while before the alarm. i have to see if i can find and fix that. moved, changed equipment, never remebered to fix it

[loud pike]

Weirdly mine manages. Breakfast is 6AM sharp every morning and he's weird about somehow knowing. I think he gauges it by the busses that pass by the window somehow. XD

[deft pewter]

Smart cat

[static schooner]

Sounds like cats are more evolved

[forest edge]

I mean, you make the dashboard a clock lol

mine is pretty basic

but can swipe left for more weather detail

[tidal bronze]

Butt ugly. What are those icons?

[forest edge]

mine pop up with activity

[forest edge]

show us yours pro

silly not to put HA on it since it's an option. what you can do at that point is as advanced or basic as you want

mines been solid too for whatever the amount of years we had these since QF brought them up

this is next to the bed

[tidal bronze]

See how fly?

[deft pewter]

-10 points for the fan icon being out of alignment.

[forest edge]

and you judged mine so harshly? you may wanna relook at what you posted!

[deft pewter]

Slick otherwise

[tidal bronze]

I wrote a complaint to mushroom, no response yet 🙂

I don't use them anyway

[weak musk]

isn't it just because you have the state displayed for that?

[forest edge]

see i'm not using that. mine is card modded lol

[stuck anchor]

it's not cool unless it has a star trek theme. that's what i have learned from youtube.

[static schooner]

That larger 'Fan Off' button is annoying

[deft pewter]

Screw all that LCARS nonsense. So cringey 😂

[lone dagger]

I told him to block you.

[tidal bronze]

Hey you might be right. I have these for guest rooms. Rarely check them but let me see if me and my genius was the cause.

Me like.

Wish that was the case with guests

[stuck anchor]

yeah. a few panels could be a good idea for guests even if i never use them myself. hmmm

[weak musk]

lights, fan, blinds

[tidal bronze]

It's surely useful, they have access to some cameras, laundry status, music controls and pool/spa temps.

[stuck anchor]

maybe in some instances temperature/ac

[deft pewter]

If guests are staying long enough they need to do laundry, they've stayed waaaay too long.

I don't even like my family that much

[stuck anchor]

my ha is still going offline, but only on the local interface. weird.

i'll look at that tomorrow. nothing found in the logs at a first glance.

the only new thing is a new door sensor glued to my mailbox 😄

[tidal bronze]

How about guests having guests over? LMAO

[forest edge]

I have one of these too and one of the segments is already starting to flake out lol

also this one loses wifi randomly for some reason

[midnight adder]

can your guests have guests over?

[tidal bronze]

Happens,

[midnight adder]

does that mean you make a grumpy face but accept it 😄

[tidal bronze]

I blame my wife. I just get calendar entries with a "ok right?"

[midnight adder]

btw all good at your places? didn't you say you got places in LA?

[tidal bronze]

Yes, except one. Thank you for asking.

[forest edge]

except one?

you didn't also have a room in the james woods house did you?

[tidal bronze]

lol.

[forest edge]

still hadn't seen the comfirmation of the status of his house. his interview bounced back and forth with a neighbor spending the whole night trying to protect it while he fled to a friends house?

was odd

[lone dagger]

James Woods is odd.

[forest edge]

the neighbor apparently kept bringing buckets of water down from his pool or something

thats some neighbor

[midnight adder]

haven't seen that ... apparently it burned during an interview?

[knotty seal]

yea his house is gone

[midnight adder]

the question is: why would you give an interview in burning hell and not pack everything important as long as you can?

[lone dagger]

Exposure.

[midnight adder]

oh he was sitting in a hotel already..

[forest edge]

yea he was somewhere else during that

said a friend gave him codes to a vacation house they weren't using

-# rich people

[midnight adder]

@tidal bronze you are probably the one to estimate this... how many billions of damage is caused approx.?

I mean... it's pretty "interesting" for every news outlet ... mostly known hollywood stars they can base their news around...

[tidal bronze]

Dwelling amount is not market price. So the damage is not as big as they say. There will be loads of heartaches for people who didn't time adjust their dwelling values.

[midnight adder]

what do they say?

[grizzled gull]

If you're not keeping up on your rebuild costs, shame on you

[forest edge]

I hate that about home insurance

[grizzled gull]

home value and rebuild costs are 2 different things

[forest edge]

if you don't stay on top of that your shit won't even cover anything

[midnight adder]

isn't the ground the most expensive?

nobody lost ground

[tidal bronze]

Yes

[grizzled gull]

I believe for our house our rebuild costs is 50% higher then our taxable value

[loud pike]

All of that is taking another assumption into account...

The assumption being that the insurance companies will actually pay out what they claim they will.

Anyone who's ever dealt with insurance in any way possible will tell you. They will find EVERY excuse to not pay out that they can.

[forest edge]

curious if they actually prove what started some of them. they are currently holding the homeless as top suspects

[midnight adder]

but still.. what are the estimates for/from the insurance companies? must be trillions worth of damage more than billions?

[grizzled gull]

That is why I don't post my home remodeling stuff on facebook 😛

[tidal bronze]

Oh they will if you are with the right company.

[midnight adder]

no idea how many homes were destroyed

[tidal bronze]

1k for now

[midnight adder]

but I guess also lots of infrastructure

[tidal bronze]

I feel bad for commercial property owners like stripmalls.

Insurance nightmare

[loud pike]

Any "Right company" is one shareholders' meeting from becoming the Wrong company at any time.

[tidal bronze]

Hmmm not for me. That's why you do your research prior and have attorneys on a retainer, as important as insurance.

[loud pike]

Vids I saw point to line strike. Those lines were not built to handle high winds like that, and all it takes is one inclement wind storm to turn simple electric lines into spark generators. Couple that with dry ground and high wind and you have a recipe for disaster.

Similar happened here. HV line strike during a freak wind storm. Knocked out power for the better part of about 12 hours.

[forest edge]

on retainer? whats that costing you?

[tidal bronze]

A bit

[forest edge]

i bet

[loud pike]

Surprisingly didn't start fires, because the spark shower was pretty impressive, but we were lucky that the wind came with rain so the ground was too moist for it to catch.

Moist is always better. Mmmmmmmoist.

[forest edge]

only been in one situation where I was asked if I wanted to keep a lawyer on retainer and heard the $ and was like f that lol

[midnight adder]

never heard the term lol

[grizzled gull]

My work offers it actually

[midnight adder]

what does that even mean?

[quiet onyx]

The legal assistance thingy?

[loud pike]

Careful with an employer offering a lawyer on retainer, because that lawyer works for the employer.

[grizzled gull]

yes

[midnight adder]

are most lawyers (without being "on reatiner") not picking up the phone?

[loud pike]

Community colleges do that a lot too, offering "Legal assistance"... until you need legal assistance against the college. Or the business.

[tidal bronze]

That's not how that works.

[deft pewter]

I really doubt they're offering you their lawyer. It'll be a scheme where they put you all in touch with someone.

[grizzled gull]

its a serivce they offer, its limited scope

[midnight adder]

so they check all the mail and look for problems all the time?

[quiet onyx]

Yeah its mostly aimed at wills and stuff

right?

[grizzled gull]

Its like adoptions, real estate, wills etc

[midnight adder]

and what do they do exactly?

check for new laws / how to avoid taxes? no...

[tidal bronze]

Depends on your plan and monthly dues, some handle anything

You can.

[grizzled gull]

Its not companies lawyer so they have no skin in the game if you want to sue your employer

Its no different then say STD or LTD, Aflack etc

[loud pike]

Always remember who is paying them.

[grizzled gull]

You

[loud pike]

Sometimes.

[tidal bronze]

They have nothing to do with the employer.

[loud pike]

Sometimes the "free service" ain't free.

[grizzled gull]

I never said it was free

[loud pike]

If your boss or your college is offering "free legal service", they're the ones paying them.

[grizzled gull]

its a post tax deduction

[loud pike]

And just like with HR, the work for them, not you.

[tidal bronze]

@warm helm do you share your 401 even though they contribute?

[midnight adder]

I'll just hire QF to get me a reclined laywer when I need one I guess

[tidal bronze]

Would be more than happy to help.

[midnight adder]

or retained 😄 what ever is better

[lone dagger]

Reclined lawyer lol

[tidal bronze]

I actually am!

Almost 2PM I must be

[grizzled gull]

so I'm confused

[tidal bronze]

HA so yeah

[grizzled gull]

Why does QF-KELP not show up on the mod list in discord in this channel? Discord being stupid?

[forest edge]

i laughed out loud when i read that reclined lawyer remark lol

[midnight adder]

he's undercover.

[lone dagger]

He’s “offline”.

[midnight adder]

don't blow it!

[forest edge]

it's not far off from true either.. bastards are always reclined lol

[tidal bronze]

You never fail to show love!

[forest edge]

you saying i'm wrong? or was this not towards my comment lol

[weak musk]

https://tenor.com/view/muppets-muppet-show-statler-waldorf-dancing-gif-26475338

[lone dagger]

Absolutely these 2 fools.

I say this with love. 💕

[tidal bronze]

The only thing I am not ok is with auto insurance. Per incident rates never made sense to me.

[forest edge]

you don't think those who often crash into shit shouldn't have to pay more?

[lone dagger]

And it’s worse than American healthcare?

[tidal bronze]

That brokers don't inform people or people are not informed. Like 30k per incident starting and if you own property, you hit the right person and you are fucked!

[forest edge]

well "you are fucked" has always been at their digression

[tidal bronze]

Yep.

[quiet onyx]

Yupppppp. Just finished fighting car insurance for almost 8 months last year.

Was a nightmare.

[midnight adder]

you mean they pay only 30k per incident but the victim you ran over has hospital bills of a few hundred thousands?

[tidal bronze]

Only thing I can recommend is if you own property, best have umbrella.

[midnight adder]

that's not an insurance we have in germany thank god

[tidal bronze]

Would start at 1.5m

[forest edge]

what does this have to do with auto?

[midnight adder]

lol USA is quite a difficult spawn point

[tidal bronze]

Auto will not provide the coverage in a WCS

[midnight adder]

imagine having paid tons of money for education and then hate your field 😄

and then you buy a house and run somebody over and start basically from 0

[forest edge]

if your car is parked on your property and someone slams into it or whatever, your auto insurance most certianly covers that

[rapid plinth]

what the hell is the personal injury liability for then?

[midnight adder]

Umbrella? 😄 I don't get it 😄

[tidal bronze]

Even if you are not at fault, if the accident caused injury you better have deep pockets for defense. Unless you have an Umbrella

[rapid plinth]

could've sworn most states require your auto insurance policy to include coverage for the other party's medical costs

[tidal bronze]

Sensible medical costs, yes. Not attoney laced costs

[midnight adder]

I think in germany it might even be split ... car insurance for the other car and personal insurance for the other party (human)

but not sure... anyhow... we are safe from becoming bankrupt by accident

kinda

[tidal bronze]

Here's in a blink of an eye.

[midnight adder]

do you think it will be more "social"? Now after United Healthcare lost its CEO

...I mean healthcare is only one thing that makes people that kind of angry... obviously auto insurance is the same 😄

[tidal bronze]

Beautiful! That's the minimum

[midnight adder]

can you show me pleaaase a picture of an umbrella'd house? 😄

[tidal bronze]

Even with all that I don't like to drive, Uber always. I don't even prefer to walk my dog. Getting an insured walker is much better!

[midnight adder]

ah so you cook meth in it then?

[forest edge]

was on the phone. you talking about if someone hits your car and dies while it's in your driveway?

[midnight adder]

like a walther white operation

to get the money for insurance

??? 😄

[tidal bronze]

Depends on what the other party can sue you for.

[midnight adder]

lol ... oh man ... I should start a business "Holidays for stressed americans? Want to walk dogs without fear? 100% insured, safely possible on this beautiful German island"

[tidal bronze]

They already have it here. My walker is covered up to 6mil

[forest edge]

your liabilty only stretches so far lol

[midnight adder]

SO YOU CAN WALK FREELY AGAIn

like Free Willy

[rapid plinth]

I thought you were joking

[forest edge]

people can "try" and sue, dosen't mean it's going to happen

[tidal bronze]

No I am not. Part of my work is risk assessment. I have to think 10 miles out all the time.

[midnight adder]

with all the different lawyerbusinessmodels ... I'd be hesitant to provocate 😄

[forest edge]

yet you speed.. always

lol

[tidal bronze]

You got me there lol

[midnight adder]

140? ^^

[forest edge]

mi not km

[midnight adder]

yeah... that's not full send 😄

[tidal bronze]

I maintain 125mph , I think it's alright.

[midnight adder]

neeeeeds moreeee powwwerrrrr

i mean speedo has to go to 200 at least ^^

more like 220 so it easily reaches 200 😛

[forest edge]

now when you plow into someone else on the highway, your umbrella can't help you lol

[midnight adder]

I mean let's ask QF: What's the highest number on your speedo?

[rapid plinth]

That level of risk mitigation is comically far from fhe realm of possibility for 99% of Americans. Rich people can bleed you dry in the courts, don't need a car for that, don't even need actual liability for that. It's a risk you live with because affordable mitigation doesn't exist.

[midnight adder]

don't modern cars do that automatically nowadays?

[tidal bronze]

Never checked.

[quiet onyx]

OH this whole time I was so confused why ya'lls swimwear was going so fast

[midnight adder]

• strobo flashing headlights to flash everyone away from the fast lane

[quiet onyx]

speedo = speedometer

im slow

[midnight adder]

we have predictive driving

the car knows before you know

[tidal bronze]

Valentine + JBV1 + Stinger + cruise = bliss

[forest edge]

thats why you dump everything you own under someone else's name and make the rich person sweat

[tidal bronze]

Used to have ALP

[midnight adder]

are those jetfighters or cars

[tidal bronze]

Honestly JBV1 + Valentine is enough.

[midnight adder]

never heard any of that

[tidal bronze]

My worry is Cessna tickets.

[midnight adder]

we call our cars M2-M5 or 911-992 ^^

[tidal bronze]

If you have android try jbv1 standalone. You can thank me later

[forest edge]

or you could just not speed..

[tidal bronze]

Yep it was free for sometime. Now you will have to pay a small fee. Jbv1 works without that

[forest edge]

I had a radar detector when i was a teenager.. never had one since

[grizzled gull]

Kinda like the people who complain about getting pulled over and given a ticket for tinted windows

[midnight adder]

what are you talking abouuuut 😄

[tidal bronze]

Have tried going 80mph hwy? Like crawling

[grizzled gull]

80mph in florida gets you run over

same with Illinois

[forest edge]

well there are state restrictions.. so blacked out that you struggle to even see out deserves a ticket lol

[midnight adder]

is it tech to avoid speeding tickets?? ^^

you go right to jail for that here 😄

I mean probably not. But I know it's not pleasent to get caught

[forest edge]

i set cruise at 75mph

[tidal bronze]

Sorry. Valentine V1 is a radar detector. JBV1 is an open source app for android that works with BT with V1. Additionally it aggregates all the alerts from gmaps, waze and highway radar plus it gives you coverage from tickets given using a plane. Tracking FAA flight paths.

[midnight adder]

so you got a big community of people using the same protocol for any potential "radar threats"?

[lone dagger]

Real Californian Driver right here.

[tidal bronze]

JBV1 maintains a DB of tail # tickets. Most planes are rented. So much more accurate alert of the plane.

[forest edge]

it's the bumper to bumper normalcy. once they see free space in front of them thier foot knows only full extension

[midnight adder]

what car do you have?

sounds like I'll hit you up when I'm around to have some fun 😄

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeand all these years you never once got tagged?

[tidal bronze]

Not even a parking ticket!

[midnight adder]

so like a Rally car?

[silk flower]

is it just me or is the Alexa/HACloud not syncing up? Alexa can't see any of my devices that come from HA, but it's own devices (like echo dots) are still seen.

[midnight adder]

what bike?

[forest edge]

I would say something like, one of these days your luck is going to run out but in reality what is likely going to happen is, once you slow down your going to get back to back fucked with just bad luck while on the road lol

[midnight adder]

but you can't run from the police with those, can you? 😄 only in small communities with lots of shortcuts or in the desert because you can go offroad? oh you can't even because super moto wheels 😄

[forest edge]

i got a few speeding tickets when i was younger. thankfully always had a lawyer to keep my insurance down lol

[tidal bronze]

I see you!

[midnight adder]

I saw a doc about street racing in New York with BMWs ... wow ... wild stuff 😄

real problem nowadays with crashing

[forest edge]

look at those steps on the pole. rotf

[midnight adder]

it's like they play Assetto Corsa on the streets

[silk flower]

hmm. nevermind. looks like there was a hiccup maybe on Amazon's end. it's seeing everything again. it was also not seeing my govee stuff either, which I do not serve to it through HA yet but those started working again as well.

[midnight adder]

haha R1 here too

nope

backing in?

like wheelying?

ah like powerslides

I don't know any of those moto nerd terms 😄 sry

haha actually I've been thinking what to buy next for some funsies... thought about S1000RR or something

but it's just so expensive

[tidal bronze]

@warm helm 1/4 mile warnings and directions bogey alerts with number of thumbs up. Can't get sweeter than this. 😆

[grizzled gull]

Oh I just figured out how the fires started in LA..... watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood... flamethrower incident

[midnight adder]

lol that looks like what every corvette driver has 😄

[forest edge]

looking at that screen instead of the road...

[midnight adder]

Time To Shift to the next gear? 😄

😄

[forest edge]

@warm helmwhere you live i don't get how any of that would benefit you at all.. the police force likely already knows you by name and everything you drive lol

[midnight adder]

you know we in germany have one hole in our car laws. We can't mod our cars like people in the US ... but ... people from the US can bring their car for 6 months to Germany and drive it there on the Autobahn (legally how fast it goes)

[forest edge]

they only need to hear you

[grizzled gull]

None of my vehicles are modified to go faster..... :/

[midnight adder]

but I guess your police gps stuff is good enough 😄

[tidal bronze]

Well taking screenshots at 100mph. I think it's fine.

[midnight adder]

well, start with level 1! 😄 some nitro injection

[grizzled gull]

I doubt the 38" tires would like going over 100 to much.... maybe teh 35's on the other jeep, smart car... welllllll it can go 80 down hill with a tailwind

[midnight adder]

depends on the exhaust and the wind direction 😄

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge I forgot to ask you. So how many miles from your place to the nearest freeway? 100 miles?

[midnight adder]

haha I think we have no place where a free way is that far away 😄

[forest edge]

only a couple

[iron granite]

Is it really free? We aren't using freedom units but real ones.

[forest edge]

unless you are refering to like toll-free highway

[tidal bronze]

We don't have tolls here. What's toll-free?

[midnight adder]

it's free! 😄 you can come and drive! it's fun!

just don't block the left lane

[forest edge]

er toll highway not toll-free lol

i70 has a toll section where there generally isn't an cops

[tidal bronze]

Middle earth got tolls?

[midnight adder]

probably 😄

[iron granite]

Except you are on the A2 - daily accidents.

[forest edge]

they exsist

[tidal bronze]

Where are you going anyway?

[midnight adder]

yeah... better go A1 😄

[wide plinth]

I love driving trough Germany, last year managed to cross 200km/h with my new EV first time in my life - that was fun 🙂

[forest edge]

i70 outside of KC is likely the closet thing you are use to in terms of vast stretches of little turns

[midnight adder]

and then got flashed away by a BMW being faster I guess? 😄

[forest edge]

across the plains of kansas lol

[wide plinth]

Yep 😅

[tidal bronze]

Come to California we only got freeways 😆

[iron granite]

Almost everything is better than riding on train in Germany.

[forest edge]

you got bumper to bumper or vast spaces of nothing.. nothing inbetween

[midnight adder]

just add 50-300% of the estimate time for traveling with Deutsche Bahn

[iron granite]

If you don't miss your connecting train somewhere in the nowhere.

[tidal bronze]

Trains?

[wide plinth]

But I don't get the ones flashing when I'm not in the left lane, and generally speaking keeping right. In CZ there are lot who do that

[forest edge]

we have real trains

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/deutsche-bahn-thank-you-travelling-gif-25985432

[midnight adder]

in theory! but only the ones going to swiss are more or less on time 😄 (they fine the germans for every late train - so they try to avoid that)

[tidal bronze]

I do take the bus sometimes.

[forest edge]

lies

[tidal bronze]

Wife said the same thing, but I do.

[forest edge]

you couldn't handle the cabin enviroment

wouldn't be "conditioned" enough

[deft pewter]

And buses don't have first-class seats.

[forest edge]

some do

[deft pewter]

With a divider between you and the plebeians?

[forest edge]

depends on the bus

[midnight adder]

guess a police trooper bought them a ticket to drive to another place 😄

yeah, I think I've seen this in docs

yeah, USA kinda needs to add more social to their agenda

[tidal bronze]

It's great!

[midnight adder]

money is not the problem ... just take some from the rich 🙂

[iron granite]

Let's not get too political.

[tidal bronze]

I have no idea. That's what i got in. loved it!

[midnight adder]

I didn't say communist!! 😄 well I kinda said, right?

[forest edge]

well that's just flabbergasting considering you have to sprint from your conditioned car to a conditioned building while likely holding your breathe to prevent from experincing the outdoor air as much as possible lol

these buses must be in your neighborhood

[midnight adder]

are you living in Dubai?

[forest edge]

is that what it is? a service that drives you to your neighbors? lol

[weak musk]

lmao

[tidal bronze]

Yes they are!

[deft pewter]

Just round the corner in Bumfuck, Nowhere, USA

[tidal bronze]

Wife calls me crazy but I don't see why not the bus.

[midnight adder]

it's a viable option

[tidal bronze]

It is!

[forest edge]

well good for you. had me worried there

next you might consider buying a bicycle

[tidal bronze]

Nopes sold my moded e-bike, 80mph on that was too much.

[forest edge]

i hate buses. i like trains but buses can suck it

[midnight adder]

only problem we have here: Most busses have too good breaks and motors. And the people driving it ... love the G forces

also EVERYTIME in winter they put on heating to 30°C (100°F) and in summer they make it super cold

[tidal bronze]

Ah like the subway

I love the subway.

[forest edge]

NY subway was nasty

[tidal bronze]

Nopes

[midnight adder]

haha I loved NY subway ... with the conductors

[tidal bronze]

huh?

[midnight adder]

they have one person in the middle of the train

the conductor

kinda has the feeling of a last century subway

[forest edge]

when i last visited NY i stayed with a friend who lived like an hour or so away and it was weird the subways went above ground to those towns way out from the city and you could ride them in

it was nice for commuters for sure

[tidal bronze]

You sure?

[forest edge]

but was weird

[midnight adder]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrtUToXqbCE

[tidal bronze]

That's the train engineer

[midnight adder]

because of the glasses? 😛

[forest edge]

says conductor right there lol

[tidal bronze]

I have no idea how that came about but MTA calls it train engineer. lol

[forest edge]

but your projector might be out there

[midnight adder]

I think they even have it written on the outside "CONDUCTOR" ^^

probably from old times when they actually had to conduct all the time...? conduct is the act of splitting / connecting trains, right?

[forest edge]

don't trust the tracking

[midnight adder]

wait for the robots to be ready 2026

[tidal bronze]

Ah the good life. Winds have died down

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzeyou still under that boil advisary?

[midnight adder]

maybe it's just that his dogs doesn't like walking with him? 😄

[tidal bronze]

You know it.

[forest edge]

neighborhood kids or do you pay someone to drive in to walk them?

[tidal bronze]

Service. I use Rover

[weak musk]

My neighbor used Rover exactly once

[forest edge]

thats crazy

[weak musk]

came home to a trashed house, dog poop in their bedroom (because the person just sat and watched TV with the dogs locked in the primary bedroom). Totally messed up situation.

[forest edge]

yea people suck anymore

I wouldn't trust any of those services

[tidal bronze]

Been using them for like 10 years I think. You got to do your 3 or 4 meet and greets before deciding.

[forest edge]

unless i knew the person personally

[weak musk]

Same.

[tidal bronze]

I use house sitters, drop ins and walking. Never had an issue.

[weak musk]

We have friends watch our dog. I've heard too many bad experiences

[weak musk]

They did. Took 6 months to get a resolution with Rover too. Not great.

[tidal bronze]

Must have not had an attorney on a retainer 🙂

[weak musk]

🙂

[forest edge]

probably cause you got cameras everywhere inside and out lol

[weak musk]

I'll pass along your contact info 😉

"I know a guy who knows some guys"

[tidal bronze]

But I never check them.

[forest edge]

they don't know that

but would be curious to see what house sitters do in your home lol

[tidal bronze]

Most of them spend their time in the backyard. I don't know why but they do.

[forest edge]

afraid of a lawsuit

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/better-call-saul-breaking-bad-saul-goodman-jimmy-mcgill-bob-odenkirk-gif-2092653457981477968

[forest edge]

man that yarbo has me so tempted lol

00f 6k

i don't think I could bring myself to spend that

[wild rapids]

I got my preview edition! it's really nice, a big improvement over S3-BOXes I have. Good job team!

[lone dagger]

Or a recliner.

[loud pike]

I mean, they say they know a guy who knows some guys, but none of those guys are bringing me yakitori right now, so what good are they!?

Sans Serif fonts are the woooooorst....

I saw the website for LA Fire Department(LAFD), but because it was lowercase, I thought it said IAFD, and that's a very, VERY different site.

[quiet onyx]

you take that back right now

[forest edge]

https://www.yarbo.com/

it does more than snowblow

junk

[shy comet]

@tidal bronze now you got one closer to you

[tidal bronze]

Yep

Did already

[forest edge]

not checked in a bit. has nothing changed in terms of them getting a handle on things?

[weak musk]

Doesn’t seem like it. The high winds were supposed to continue through tomorrow which isn’t helping anything.

[forest edge]

@tidal bronzedo you think it could actually impact you?

[lone dagger]

I use Watch Duty, which is both a website and free app, that tracks this stuff.

[forest edge]

cameras on that site kind of suck.

[quiet onyx]

It is voluneer ran/operated, I wonder if more folks knew about it/that they could add more verified cameras

[lone dagger]

I only ever use the app and I just look at the map. My bad, I didn’t know about that.

[lone dagger]

Related. https://bsky.app/profile/fastly.com/post/3lfdv7mup6c2e

Fastly (@fastly.com)

Sending love to everyone in LA 💙 +Kudos to Watch Duty on their incredible work supporting those affected by the devastating LA fires.

Bluesky · Jan 10, 2025, 12:01 AM

Oh damn there’s a Gizmodo link in that lol.

https://gizmodo.com/watch-duty-hits-1-on-apple-app-store-as-wildfires-rage-in-california-2000547740

[quiet onyx]

Hmmm no WatchDuty integration with HA

...yet

[lone dagger]

@red rock a fun project for you.

[tidal bronze]

Well, keeping an eye

[forest edge]

which one is that

everything is red. how can you tell how big the fire has spread

lets save the mordor jokes till after

[ocean oar]

https://tenor.com/view/the-it-crowd-moss-moss-it-crowd-it-crowd-fire-gif-25242200

[lone dagger]

The red center is the fire perimeter on the map. Surrounded by lighter red with❗.

That is the evacuation level.

There’s a legend.

[forest edge]

i see the avacuation zones

evacuation

[forest edge]

but its all garbled together

[lone dagger]

Yeah I’m zoomed in closer.

That’s weird to see it different like that though.

[forest edge]

it confusing

i can tell by the legend which fires are still raging

[lone dagger]

Are you on desktop?

[forest edge]

just can't tell spread

yes

[lone dagger]

I think they might prioritize the app because people need it the most often on that rather than desktop.

Yes.

Please do.

[shell basalt]

i dont think my snowblower will reach

[lone dagger]

So glad you have the technology.

🙏

[forest edge]

6 million peso man

[shell basalt]

whats the worst thats going to happen? accidentally teleporting 60 ft of snow from a mountain?

i got insurance

yeah poor kitties 😦

(Stoopid the tabby showed back up this morning, in case anyone was worried)

maybe they got crushed by the teleporting snow

[lone dagger]

I think it’s dinner time.

[shell basalt]

oh so they're strapped into their feeding seat?

[lone dagger]

[shell basalt]

uh oh spaghetti os!

[lone dagger]

Omg my niece has one of those and they are a lie.

[midnight adder]

Missy? I need a vape-buddy

last blast before bed 😄 2 am already

[lone dagger]

I just did my after work smoke.

[quiet onyx]

Oof one of my buddies out there is in an evacuation warning now :/

[midnight adder]

so funny for you guys ... probably since you all hate Elon. He had a talk with our ultra far right extremist party on "X" (to disrupt germany kinda ... and say "old parties need to go away") – but nobody said to him that they basically hate Tesla/EVs and are pure nationalists who wanna "protect" our "carnation" from Tesla 😄

[midnight adder]

I'll hurry 😄

[midnight adder]

are you far away from each other?

[quiet onyx]

Yeah I'm way over in MN lol

[midnight adder]

wow I guessed right! Minnesota? 😄

[desert cave]

yeah, a friend of mine just got one too

[quiet onyx]

Howd you guess?! lol

[tidal bronze]

Yep. Reup the wine.

[midnight adder]

first my brain started to think about states starting with M. Was actually the first one coming to my mind 😛

[tidal bronze]

Buy. Thers like 2 wineries that can't ship to CA my buddy helps me with it.

[midnight adder]

so you're in your Cessna going to NYC? 😄

[lone dagger]

What a nice buddy.

[midnight adder]

he knew he could drink a bottle of the best on the way home 😛

[tidal bronze]

Believe it or not, there's one winery in Kansas, One, uses old bourbon barrels and makes about 100 bottles. Crazy good. Kansas can't ship to CA. Lol.

https://www.gracehillwinery.com/ Come on now

[honest sail]

Will local voice assist now be usable on Yellow with cm5 installed? It was too slow to use in cm4 before

[dawn badge]

probably better results but you might be better off getting something else. (if you want further info better to move to a support channel)

[weak musk]

#1284966915055288530

[tidal bronze]

Looks like they got it under control. Thanks for the heads up bro. Appreciate it ❤️

[shy comet]

This is nuts with the amount of fires in a short time frame

[tidal bronze]

Tell me about it.

[lone dagger]

Perspective

[tidal bronze]

Already dropped my dog off at a vacant house, gotta pick him now.

[forest edge]

not a really good comparison. chicago in 1871 only had a few hundred thousand people

the city was small

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1hwqyt3/two_men_and_a_dog_trapped_as_the_palisades_fire

[static schooner]

Looks like they needed a lot more cows this time

[loud pike]

Big wind, big dry, big PG&E fuckery, all make big fire.

[fiery stag]

Anyone have some type of integration in which it tracks your health through other apps or maybe just weight and water intake? Looking for something i can track water intake and reminds me. More automation than anything i suppose

[young sigil]

#1284966582375813201

[red rock]

What's watch duty

[quiet onyx]

Volunteer-ran fire alert & mapping app

https://app.watchduty.org/

[sharp girder]

hmm anyone update z2mqtt and its failing to start?

i cant control anything now...

[quiet onyx]

If you recently upgraded to 2.0, there were quite a few breaking changes. Take a look here: https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt/discussions/24198

(In the future, check #1284966582375813201 )

[sharp girder]

thank you sir.

For anyone that stumbled upon this i added adapter: zstack to my config

i dont know what else broke but my lights come on for now

[agile jewel]

Are there any crazy people with GSM modems to receive/send SMS and perhaps even calls? There's a lot of legacy and dead software as well as a lot of new projects. I was wondering which one is the best for future-proofing in case I decide to do some automations and whatnot

[clever mortar]

Why SMS when there's a load of other, simpler, options?

Personally Apprise makes it easy to support a bunch of notification backends

[deft pewter]

I was going to ask "why not Discord, Signal or Telegram?" but I see Apprise covers all of those and more 😄

SNS as a target?! Now I can trigger my serverless routines from Home Assistant 😂

[stuck anchor]

a 4g (LTE) connection and a local integration to send warnings would be nice when internet is out. gsm will be pretty much dead here when 2g gets turned off. 3g is gone already.

2g has gotten a prolonged life due to a lot of car manufacturers still using gsm for the ecall service in their cars (as well as checking if you have a subscription to open that sun roof)

[stuck anchor]

router with 4g backup still requires your internet services to be up and running through the isp. in case of some major fuckup'ery sms directly over 4g may be more robust. i see some people have been using waveshare hats and usb dongles to do tts services on pi's so they should work for sms as well i presume.

[solar zealot]

you can get 4/5g only routers but using the old surf sticks with that connectivity works easier

unfortunately huawei was kinda the only company that made them so they are basically all second hand now

(dont get the ones with a wifi hotspot)

tho theoretically you could also just use any android phone

its the same thing

[stuck anchor]

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sms/ seems to require any kind of attached modem with AT command interface, and lists some known to be compatible.

[clever mortar]

The last time I checked that list none were being made new, it was all (as Horst said) second hand or old stock

That said, I may just see if I've got one of the supported phones in the drawer of junk here 😄

[stuck anchor]

their online database of adapters and phones had the last entry in 2016 i see.

[solar zealot]

theoretically netgear makes 4 and 5g ones as their nighthawk line ("mobile router")

but those are $$$$$$$ (other brands have cheaper ones but no eth out)

and you would still need to have the ability to configure a failover somewhere

[stuck anchor]

are we doing support at the water cooler now? oh, no!

[neon ether]

This might be a weird one - is there anyone in Rotterdam that wants to borrow a Home Assistant Voice for about a month?

I bought too many of them by accident and my own HA setup is going through some trouble so I ended up not having a use for them all right away.

[solar zealot]

[clear timber]

Ordered on the 19th and now its finally here.

F U DHL

[red rock]

what a clean keyboard

[clear timber]

The family cat uses my office desk as a short cut to the window in my office to get in and out of the house. So my keyboard is prone to cat hair. So I have a battery powered vacuum on hand at all times.

But the keyboard itself sucks

[primal laurel]

Mfers

Even more ads!

[clear timber]

what is that on?

[primal laurel]

android 15

[young sigil]

At least they give you a switch.

[stuck anchor]

the problem i had yesterday with ha not working on the local web interface - just through cloud... today i installed 2025.1.2 update to see if that helped. still the same initially (local interface connecting but stuck loading, cloud gave me the initial dashboard). so i plugged in a usb stick with ssh key to enable port 22222 and tried to load it from ssh login. and ssh login didn't work after i installed that update. neither did most entries in the web interface i then discovered (accessed through cloud). so i tried a full reboot from the gui and just got an error. at least shutdown didn't complain so i did that and then turned off/on physically. and now - everything is back to normal and i have ssh to port 22222. even the local interface is happy again. 2025.1 sure is a rocky ride. 😄

[fathom sparrow]

nothing that you're talking about has any relationship to HA though.

everything you've mentioned is controlled by the OS of HA or your network

all of which are separate from 2025.1 and 2025.2

[stuck anchor]

it's running on haos, so...

[fathom sparrow]

right, but the OS didn't update with 2025.1, 2, or any other HA update

[stuck anchor]

and since the cloud interface is happy the network is fine

[fathom sparrow]

All i'm saying is correlation does not mean causation.

[stuck anchor]

it was just the local web interface that was just giving me short bursts of functionality once in a while, and spent most of the time spinning

nothing in the logs i could see from the gui. that was why i tried to get 22222 up

and i checked the logs in every add-on as well.

[fathom sparrow]

Set up samba share so you can access HA files when HA is off

[stuck anchor]

the problem survived full reboots yesterday with 2025.1.1. but with 2025.1.2 today it went away.

but needed a full poweroff to come up properly

anyway - back to z2m. i think i want to test with legacy triggers turned off. see how deep water i am in 😄

[midnight adder]

I feel you... 😄 had this now for a few dockers that I couldn't reach the webUI of some services

sometimes networking is weird

waiting for the new docker ai automated network helpers 😛

honestly... I hope this will become standard in linux ... soon?? 😄

[stuck anchor]

docker will not become standard in linux. the licensing will stop that. podman on the other hand?

[midnight adder]

I'm talking about automated ai helpers that just figures networking out on its own 😄

just as one example

[stuck anchor]

that would be vewwwwy dangerous in corporate settings

[midnight adder]

ofc it could write you a bash script quickly as well 😄

[midnight adder]

welp, I imagine a very well functioning ai made by the people that rant about bad ai today 😄

but yeah probably ai just sux and they figure out alternatives

but I want more smart automations and not have to go to school again to learn about unix networking 😄

[stuck anchor]

imagine your ai just hallucinating up a way to get your container connected to a service it just cannot reach. 😄 and the crazy network setup it would do then

linux networking isn't hard. just complex since it gives you full access to do anything it can do

[midnight adder]

like for example ... I'm struggling to understand pipewire now for a few weeks 😄 still have no clue. What if there were smart terminal UIs with smart autoconfigure scripts that go hand in hand with the code base where that's implemented to be used

[stuck anchor]

when i do complex setups i use the ansible role for linux networking and describe what i want i yaml

[midnight adder]

no AI just userfriendly auto configs... guided by a cool UI

I mean I am using macOS ... I don't have to learn AudioKit to get sound. They made interfaces and well working configs "that just work". Linux only has this a tiny bit 😄

[stuck anchor]

but then - when you want pipewire to also work with jack clients, and you want desktop sounds in your desktop speakers and usb connected electric guitars, audio port mics and midi drums routed to jack and jack output routed to a different audio output with a guitar amp? i can't see ai getting that right. 😛 but you can do it manually

[midnight adder]

yeah that sounds like the setup I have 😄 or rather want to be able to run

I have a PiSound DAC

[stuck anchor]

i had it here, but got rid of most of the instruments

[midnight adder]

running it on the other Pi right now - but with jack only

which took me like 1 year to fully "understand" 😄

and then I learned pipewire is the new cool thing 😄

[stuck anchor]

not on a pi though. a 6 core 12 thread ryzen to have anough oomph to run jack based processors, daw etc.

i had it set up with jack, and with the old pre-pipewire sink and source plugins for the desktop. and it kind of migrated over to pipewire with far less fuzz than expected

[midnight adder]

I mean ... lets be honest ... it's quite complex 😄 basically it's all plunging stuff together. And at the end is always ALSA. Which gets fed by PipeWire? Which has a plugin for jack / pulse ... and then you need to do some conversions on the way 😄

[stuck anchor]

yup. pipewire + jack + alsa spans from bleeding edge to efficient to oooold tech. far more complex than linux networking 🙂

[midnight adder]

for me as a dummy 😄 both just as complex

anyhow learned a lot on the way. but it's just tooooo badly documented.

[stuck anchor]

agreed. the technology moves way faster than documentation

[midnight adder]

everyone who understands it is already too deep in the rabbit hole 😄

[stuck anchor]

and since ai loves to do thing the old way (that is better documented in training material) it will not be helpful at all

[midnight adder]

in general I have the feeling that good tutorials are getting sparse more and more

[midnight adder]

yeah, as I said... probably the software needs to be build with better UX in mind

[iron granite]

The problems with tutorials or YT guides are, that they are outdated quickly and then they cause lot more trouble.

[midnight adder]

so config scripts can jump in and follow predefined paths that get fed by system variables etc. pp.

[midnight adder]

hm, I haven't even found ONE good tutorial about pipewire solving any of my issues 😄

actually b1r63r is the fist person I meet with similar hobby in pipewire 😄

[stuck anchor]

i think people maintaining daw oriented distos (or spins like the fedora music one) should be better at facilitating for inexperienced newcomers and work on extending the existing setup tools to handle new kinds of setup

that way more people would come aboard and help move the project

[midnight adder]

using macOS tho for that kind of stuff. but I have my main monitor speakers connected to my Pi ...and I use the Input of the DAC to feed in synths etc.

but I mainly use it for AirPlay music / audio 😄

[stuck anchor]

i had 2 "dumb" midi over usb keyboards connected in addition to the drum set over the midi interface on the dac. so i needed to run the synths in software

my cheap chinese guitar to usb interfaces just contained a headset chip where only the mic port was active. 😄 not the best quality, but when the kids just want to feed it into effects anyway...

[stuck anchor]

when ai then learns from those and tries really hard to make you use outdated info... do not trust ai to tell you what to do. but use it for details once you have found the way yourself.

[midnight adder]

sounds like a very time consuming hobby to work with linux software synths 😄 I use Norns for that

my Pisound also comes with this pedalboard VST hub ...which is okay'ish - should try it again now that I upgraded to Pi5

was always a tiny bit too slow on Rpi3/4s

[stuck anchor]

guitarix was quite easy to get into for guitars.

and there was one for drums as well

and with jack and the patch panel you could easily get instruments plugged into them correctly, and the outputs from there into your daw/mixing board

[midnight adder]

https://blokas.io/pisound/docs/modep/

do you know this?

[stuck anchor]

nope. looks fun.

way, way back... late seventies or early eighties we needed some electronic sounding instrument for a performance. and all we had was a grand piano. stuck a microphone in there, closed the lid, ran it through a fuzz pedal... 😄

[midnight adder]

also you're a dinosaur 😄

[stuck anchor]

i used to play with baby dinosaurs, yes.

[midnight adder]

anyhow ... I can recommend checking out blokas pisound stuff! easy to setup (at least when you use their OS 😄 as you know if you DIY all the stuff you need to dive deep into linux to get it working properly)

[stuck anchor]

it uses standard lv2 effects. cool.

[midnight adder]

I'm living more in a VST3 world 😄 so can't say how useful that is.

I guess the good lv2 effects they have already included...?

[stuck anchor]

at least it means you can find a lot of ready effects out there

patchbox os looks like a very nice thing to know about

[midnight adder]

well, they had a very old kernel for a long time... that changed now but I moved away from it 2 years ago and tried to understand what they did in the OS. basically they configured the rtkernel and let jack run with rt ... so you need to change just a few things to get it running properly.

And then you probably still need to hack a asound.rc 😄

but I think now that it got updated to a recent kernel it's good to use again probably

[floral fjord]

No more live support? Am I missing the channels where people are talking? Its all forums

[midnight adder]

didn't you get the memo? your question has to go as a TPS report now to the support team

[floral fjord]

Hahaha

I missed all 8 bosses reports

And yes Ill be in because I heard were playing "Catchup"

[midnight adder]

Heinz Catchup?

[floral fjord]

Haha, great movie.

[stuck anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/ketchup-adam-gif-27359310

[floral fjord]

So not just me all good, I have a simple very simple question. Anyone know where I can change the name of what google home imports names as?

[midnight adder]

I think that's too philosophical for this chat 😄

didn't even know google home existed

[floral fjord]

All good i dont wanna get in shiit

[stuck anchor]

would that be in integrations?

[floral fjord]

We went from icq,msn to mirc, back to phpbb and forums, to discourse, to discord back to forums in discord

Im getting to old for this

[midnight adder]

we can only hope some billionaire buys ICQ back so the circle closes

[floral fjord]

Name from hassio, need to change that

[midnight adder]

"UH OH"

[stuck anchor]

dialup bbs with uucp based email...

[floral fjord]

Hahahah can you imagine

[midnight adder]

😄 using only one little tiny wire?

[floral fjord]

My soul will leave my body...

[iron granite]

You can change the name in Google Home independently as well.

[floral fjord]

I remember someone on ebay selling the icq number 12345678 for like 3k or something

[iron granite]

I had a 6 digit ICQ number back then.

[midnight adder]

probably the same problem I have that the names of the devices you add are getting handed over instantly before you give them a good name?

[floral fjord]

I want to change at source incase I ever need to unlink and relink

[floral fjord]

Good times!!!

[midnight adder]

thought about cutting the network when adding my zigbee devices

[floral fjord]

I did too still remember mine sadly

[midnight adder]

that's like saying "I had 10 bitcoins back then" ... go login and show proof or it didn't happen 😄

[floral fjord]

Shots fired

[midnight adder]

I wonder if I could find out my old ICQ number again

[iron granite]

There is no login anymore 😝

499630

[floral fjord]

896552 was me

[midnight adder]

thought like 100 people were still using it 😄

[floral fjord]

Late bloomer

[midnight adder]

I had 139.... so probably a few more decimals than you

[iron granite]

It is shut down and moved to VK now.

[midnight adder]

VK? VKontakte? or

[iron granite]

I think so.

[midnight adder]

let's bring back ICQ 😄

[stuck anchor]

should merge with aol

[midnight adder]

exactly

and then distribute ICQ with free USB sticks 😄

[floral fjord]

Haha what we need is p2p messaging that using UWB

The hive!

[midnight adder]

totally.

I am looking into it...

[floral fjord]

Still cant find where to change it

[midnight adder]

why google tho?

[floral fjord]

Do I have to give it a name?

[midnight adder]

if you want a proper name

[floral fjord]

I know because i sometimes use it in my motorcycle helmet

[midnight adder]

is that a rat door?

[floral fjord]

Or when needing to adjust my 8 chromecasts that do my whole home audio

[fathom sparrow]

You can't change the source

[floral fjord]

Hey petro, nice to see you again dude

Thanks for all your hard work supporting over the years

[iron granite]

We/you could have something like ICQ. You can run a XMPP server.

[midnight adder]

I did once! 😄

[floral fjord]

I run rocketchat/nextcloud talk

Tired of all this google non sense

[fathom sparrow]

I don't recognize your name, have we spoken before?

[midnight adder]

that burns... don't you remember when you helped him with that big thing 3 years ago 😄

[floral fjord]

On the forums, yes!

[fathom sparrow]

I'm almost at 10 years on this, it's alot of people

[midnight adder]

I KNOW!!

thank you for your service, sir

[fathom sparrow]

and i like drugs and alcohol

[floral fjord]

Support has made my day on more than one occasion

[fathom sparrow]

well thank you

[floral fjord]

I need coffee, cant change at source got it

[midnight adder]

is that meant as an excuse that you forget sometimes or do you want me to offer you some 😄

[fathom sparrow]

yes

[floral fjord]

I will rename in google and hope to never have to relink

[midnight adder]

thought so 😄

I am really happy tho that home asssistant is obviously only a hobby for Dads and or people 30+

because sometimes I'd be worried when I knew there would be kids here reading this chat 😄

[iron granite]

-# There are...

[midnight adder]

(they're in school rn)

[floral fjord]

Hahah

[midnight adder]

hopefully! KIDS??? WHY ARE YOU NOT IN SCHOOL??

[floral fjord]

Dude i used to skip school and do programming and play ut2k3

That paid off quite nicely

[fathom sparrow]

Do I have some NEWS for you

[midnight adder]

petro is a 12 year old alcoholic, being a programmer for 20 years

reading this chat 😄

[fathom sparrow]

I know of at least a few below 15

[stuck anchor]

back when i went to school you had calculators with a very limitad basic and a one line display. that was it...

[fathom sparrow]

and none of them like creating topics so they only post here

[midnight adder]

pretty cool 😄 but since I often don't understand any of what the people here writing they probably got bored early enough 😄

[midnight adder]

haha do you know ONE person who prefers the forum thing? 😛

it's such a big hurdle

[fathom sparrow]

just keep saying riz and you'll annoy them away

[midnight adder]

you need to think about your problem first ... that's tough!

[iron granite]

Hey! My track record of educating them how to behave isn't too bad.

[midnight adder]

hahaha I just recently learned rizzzz 😄

may I post a video

[fathom sparrow]

there's so many stupid sayings now

I was annoying the shit out of my nieces and nephews purposely using them all wrong

they were most upset when I was using ohio wrong

[iron granite]

Is there a certain way to use Ohio correctly?

[fathom sparrow]

I think it's slang for bad, but I was using it willy nilly

[keen bridge]

The best way

[fathom sparrow]

skibbidy riz ohio

[keen bridge]

It's giving gives

[primal laurel]

this is some 40 year old dude in his basement with a voice changer and an anime profile picture

[static schooner]

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34622478.amp

[stuck anchor]

i think ohio is kind of weird or abnormal?

[midnight adder]

still qt af!!

[fathom sparrow]

yeah, whatever, the point is to use it however you want to see them squirm

[stuck anchor]

nice to know what it really means so you never use it right

[midnight adder]

OHIO is like well... zombieland

[fathom sparrow]

only the good ones will survive anyways

[midnight adder]

you know eerie indiana the TV Show. That's OHIO now... it's spreading

[coarse horizon]

Woke up to a ton of snow in Georgia, USA. Nice.

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-scott-sad-upset-steve-carell-the-office-gif-7141481

[fathom sparrow]

did everything shut down again?

[midnight adder]

then go sit on the bay and make a photo!

[fathom sparrow]

my last visit to georgia was an icestorm that grounded me there for 3 days in a hotel without power

loved that shit

[coarse horizon]

My wife already sent pictures to relatives from our perspective.

We might make a snowman later. But I don't feel like it lol

[midnight adder]

did you start telling stories to each other at the fire?

[fathom sparrow]

oh, that is more than normal

[stuck anchor]

so ohio rizz means cringy flirting... got it

[midnight adder]

ah come on... felt qt, might delete later -kind of opportunity

[forest edge]

great. more snow

[fathom sparrow]

no, I was bored af tho

We've had a foot of snow since a week before christmas and it hasn't done anything but go up

[midnight adder]

the muscle memory on the laptop, knowing battery is drained soon ... to check you fav website... then think "okay then I'll do the kernel updates now I wanted to do ... sudo apt get upgrade "no route to host" - dammnit, I forgot no internet" 😄

[forest edge]

you had snow "before" xmas?

lucky you!

[fathom sparrow]

We had alot of snow over christmas

southern winds

[forest edge]

it waited till after new years for us lol

[fathom sparrow]

er, northern winds

[floral fjord]

in D&D 5e "rizz" is useless haha

[midnight adder]

so why is LA burning and everyone else is having snow?

[forest edge]

because it's la

[fathom sparrow]

we have a giant lake above us, so all it takes is the wind direction to shift to head southward and the temperature to be below ~35F

[floral fjord]

my life is such a technological nightmare, is technological organization ever truely possible?

asking for a friend

[midnight adder]

we now use Kelvin since we have a lot of international folks here (and kids learning metric only in school) 😛

[forest edge]

you are in indiana?

[floral fjord]

I have an excahnge on prem server and my wife still uses gmail... like ffs

[fathom sparrow]

NY

[primal laurel]

number of extreme weather events is climbing rapidly because of climate change but we're all going to continue burning coal and oil and pretend everything is fine bc why not

[fathom sparrow]

lake ontario

[forest edge]

oh

[fathom sparrow]

oh, and we have erie to the east, so fast winds fuck us sometimes

[midnight adder]

Eerie Indiana?

[fathom sparrow]

lake erie

[stuck anchor]

nah. you slay. tidy tech only existes in ohio

[fathom sparrow]

I live around Buffalo

[midnight adder]

haha man all I know from the US is from TV Shows (like Eerie Indiana) 😄

[fathom sparrow]

about an hour

[fathom sparrow]

Niagra falls, we live close to that

[forest edge]

@tidal bronze you still with us?

[midnight adder]

he didn't get an evacutation warning, did he?

[floral fjord]

Im on the other side of the pond is cold ass Canada

worst case Ontario

[midnight adder]

didn't know the niagra falls were because one lake was dripping into the other

[static schooner]

Like a perpetual runny nose

[fathom sparrow]

yep, ontario to erie

[midnight adder]

Buffallo 66 played in that area?

[fathom sparrow]

well it was filmed in buffalo

[midnight adder]

do you have like a border where it becomes warmer all year?

like everything south nashville or something?

[static schooner]

It's snowing in Atlanta...

[fathom sparrow]

there's a line around northern florida ish

the pan handle

[static schooner]

San Diego is beautiful pretty much year round

[fathom sparrow]

like right now in florida it'll be between 68 and 80ish on the east coast

[fathom sparrow]

every time I visit, it's clear skys and 75

There was 1 visit I did where it was 70 and overcast for a day

everyone who lived there was like "this is weird"

and everyone had sweatshirts on 🤣

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/i-have-no-idea-butcher-the-boys-i-don't-know-not-sure-gif-14579771562916104105

just brushed the new snow off my truck

big and flaky this round

its like 31F outside so it will take care of itself

https://tenor.com/view/craig-robinson-the-office-the-office-memes-nope-nope-gif-gif-5972899769551718403

neighbor has a pond that he stocks across the street. only guess why they keep making that trip

[fathom sparrow]

at least they aren't licking your camera

[quiet onyx]

Now that would be cute to see

[fathom sparrow]

scroll up enough

[static schooner]

It's the equivalent of petro giving it the middle finger

[fathom sparrow]

it's somewhere

[iron granite]

#the-water-cooler message

#the-water-cooler message

#the-water-cooler message

Three examples.

[quiet onyx]

Well damn

Curious little fellas

[forest edge]

had to clean that camera like 2-3 times before I took it down

was crazy they were so interested in it

[static schooner]

Apparently dissatisfied with their cleaning job

[forest edge]

was like they licked mud prior to climbing that tree

[solar zealot]

They will starve from the lack of camera consumption

[static schooner]

Hard to commit crimes when being watched

[forest edge]

now they got drones in the air for the water dropping planes to hit. wtf

drones are so going to be on the chopping block at some point

[floral fjord]

drones are the worst thing to happen to america

literally one can fly outside my window while I change and cant do jack all, because airspace isn't owned by anyone

I should be allowed to net catch and keep 🙂

[crisp oriole]

Best crimes are made while you think you watch them.

[forest edge]

well there are privacy laws lol

[floral fjord]

lucky the only law in my area is living within 5k of an airport so 0 drones allowed

[stuck anchor]

here you need to obtain a license and insurance. and still must stay 150m away from buildings and people. unless you go for a full commercial drone pilot certification

[tidal bronze]

Well evac 2 ready but got it under control.

[forest edge]

if a drone is purposely spying through people's windows that operater will get in trouble

[deft pewter]

Not guns? Or a certain orange fella?

[floral fjord]

those are topics I stay away from

haha

[deft pewter]

That's too smart. Stop it.

[crisp oriole]

In the netherlands your not allowed to fly your drone in urban arias

[forest edge]

you are still with us.

[tidal bronze]

Still around.

[forest edge]

you see that reddit post I posted last night that shows what the fire suppression looks like? #the-water-cooler message

[midnight adder]

how many levels / stages are there?

[midnight adder]

so I hope you bought enough wine for all the sad souls in your area that lost anything or have friends who lost everything

[midnight adder]

that music tho... I guess I'll buy a few xanax to have on me at all times and get a good ambient playlist for these kind of situations

[tidal bronze]

2 ready, 3 GO

They accidentally sent 3 messages out to many communities yesterday created some panic too. But looks like everything is good and holding for now.

[midnight adder]

probably soon everywhere in the EU... now after those became n°1 option for military

[midnight adder]

that means? how far is the fire away?

[tidal bronze]

About 3 miles

[midnight adder]

how's the wind?

[summer depot]

A relative's house is miraculously still standing in Palisades and untouched surrounded by an apocalyptic scene that looks like a WWII city bombed into oblivion without craters

[forest edge]

saw they caught some dude on a bicycle with a blow torch going around trying to start new ones

[midnight adder]

can you show the last week as well? had been high as 20-30 probably in the peak?

[midnight adder]

nice

[tidal bronze]

Yes 30+ peaks

[midnight adder]

the images I saw reminded me of that yes

or Terminator II

[summer depot]

A lot of fires in SoCal are started by arsonists ... note most of he fires are near populated areas

[tidal bronze]

Palisades they say backyard mistake

[midnight adder]

what does that mean?

[tidal bronze]

Like the drone that hit the scooper

[midnight adder]

what scooper?

[summer depot]

Yeah ... the city and people don't do proper brush clearance around homes that border on brush covered areas.

[midnight adder]

scooper = reporter?

learning two new vocabularies per minute here 😄 arsonist was also new 😛

[summer depot]

Somebody flying a drone hit a water dropping planse and put it out of commission

[midnight adder]

damn

[forest edge]

only for the rest of that day. it's ready to go today

[summer depot]

Yeah ... I didn't know how bad but still lost a lot of water drops

[midnight adder]

can't we just add those collision avoidance systems to drones?

I hate drones being overly regulated ...

[forest edge]

@lone dagger I see the perimeters now. dunno why they weren't showing last night.

[midnight adder]

but I also see the danger ofc. I wonder what kind of drone this was? Must have been a DIY drone because most commercially available drones have software that would deny starting when there is a no-fly zone?

[summer depot]

The best maps https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents

[static schooner]

Is there nothing that duct tape can't do?

[forest edge]

no https://youtu.be/yaWFyxhj99U?si=2deYLQN5kzkFtQ6W

[static schooner]

That was a great episode

[summer depot]

10,000+ mostly homes burned down

[tidal bronze]

The wing was patched with tape.

[static schooner]

They actually have special tape for stuff like this

[static schooner]

(I'm sure you know that)

It came up when a passenger was complaining about tape on the wing and there was a whole discussion about it being standard and normal and approved

[forest edge]

that is a good site but chrome barfed on it. had to open it with firefox

[summer depot]

I use chrome with no problems [?]

[tidal bronze]

Watch duty is best.

[primal laurel]

why use chrome at all when they've effectively banned ad blockers

[stuck anchor]

a year in prison and the repair costs on the plane? 😛

[forest edge]

I think it was scriptblock having the issue

firefox just sucks in normal use

[stuck anchor]

"but i must have those clicks on tiktok!"

[forest edge]

I installed it, tried it for a bit. hate it but kept it installed for shit like this

[tidal bronze]

I am pretty sure there are 1000's of drone reels but no one is uploading.

[forest edge]

yea cause it's illegal to fly them now

isn't the whole county under FAA lock down?

[primal laurel]

network level blocking missing a lot of stuff

that doesnt even block YT ads

[tidal bronze]

Yep. I know how it is even during a set. You start flying for the set and all the neighborhood "kids" wanna follow the drone. 😀

[primal laurel]

ublock is no longer working, only ublock 'lite' or whatever they have now is working on chrome

[forest edge]

yea ublock origin works fine

[primal laurel]

then it will be soon

[forest edge]

I also run scriptblock and that thing hangs up on some sites. which is the issue I had with that .ca site

when that borks, it borks.. not much I can do other than turn it off lol

[gloomy canyon]

As a yaml boomer, is there any possibility to edit UI generated lovelace cards with a text editor? Not sure what will happen if edit the files in .storage

[forest edge]

yea not gonna be happy when I can't use chrome at all anymore

firefox just blows

[primal laurel]

I think you have till midway 2025 and then it's GG

[nocturne orchid]

how are "unique_id:" and "config_entry_id:" generated? im making a script to convert a bunch of switches to lights with helpers but they wont show up im suspecting that the ids are wrong or generated incorrectly

[clever mortar]

#1284965988642590891 can help, but you can edit the YAML in the UI too

[primal laurel]

not in firefox, doesnt have the same perverse personal tracking incentives as google has

[weak musk]

😳

I read them all. I’m not a quitter.

[static schooner]

It's annoying when you want to respond to a message from 8 hours ago, though

[iron granite]

We get presents?

[primal laurel]

just do it, who cares

[static schooner]

I think the green alternative is a personal windmill or solar panel

[weak musk]

Summary: icq, support questions in the wrong spot, Ohio riz, raccoons licking cameras, 🔥 update, QF safe with wine, snow reports

[quiet onyx]

But do they integrate with HA

[primal laurel]

coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste, poisons the air and emits a ridiculous amount of CO2

[midnight adder]

this button is sponsored by "Eckhard Tolle"

[primal laurel]

personal windmills do not produce any meaningful amount of energy bc of the quadratic scaling with blade radius

[rapid plinth]

Not with that attitude

[primal laurel]

sorry, physics can be a bitch

[rapid plinth]

I was making a joke about how far one can stretch the definition of "personal windmill" with enough money, ingenuity, amd spite

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simspons-homer-nuclear-correction-nucular-gif-17370221

[primal laurel]

there are communities that crowd sourced one large wind mill

[forest edge]

what about personal windmills?

one of those is enough for my barn

thought seriously about putting one up

[primal laurel]

do you have 30k lying around?

[forest edge]

they are not 30k lol

400 at menards

[primal laurel]

anything below 30k is useless

[forest edge]

maybe for you

[last cedar]

The 29999 ones are really shit

[rapid plinth]

I really should look into solar... the south part of my roof is perfect

[primal laurel]

no, it's purely cost vs benefits. Below 30k they're useless

[rapid plinth]

But like, money... maybe if there's enough incentives to somehow make it $0 net

[primal laurel]

solar is extremely cheap right now

82% efficiency of what?

[rapid plinth]

also I'd need snow clearing heaters or something. I don't have the enery to wipe them off everytime it snows

[last cedar]

Solar has always been cheap

[primal laurel]

lol

[forest edge]

just get @last cedar to do it for you

[last cedar]

But not turning it into electric 😉

[primal laurel]

at my previous job we had a 3D modelling tool that automatically recognized trees and stuff from lidar data and then calculated panel shading

always cross check with google maps data

[last cedar]

I meant, sunlight is free 😛 until the government tax it

[forest edge]

solar is hit or miss here

[last cedar]

Oh god, they are probably patenting it as we type

[forest edge]

now that I cut down most of the trees around the barn solar is an option there too but batteries for solar is ass

[last cedar]

Depends how DIY you want to get with it

[forest edge]

panels that last 25-30 years and battery packs that last 10-15 years is stupid

[last cedar]

These latest lithium phosphate ones are good for 3000 to 5000 cycles right?

[forest edge]

so far nothing on the market goes beyond 15 years on a good run

[mental peak]

Is DH-IPC-HDW3649H-AS-PV-PRO good?

[last cedar]

So even if you fully discharge and charge 10x a day it should still be at a good % life

[iron granite]

Maybe, maybe not.

[forest edge]

still won't outlive or be on par with the panels

[mental peak]

I want to use with Frigate

[clever mortar]

#1284966353798697001 can help there

[last cedar]

I use 7x 5449 domes and they are brilliant, but that doesn't help a lot

[last cedar]

Batteries are a consumable though, unfortunately

Also depending how cold it gets, you may need a heated battery, so it can be quite tricky

[summer depot]

I can 100% guarantee if all power was 100% local solar, the government would tax it to recover the taxes lost for levied for grid power

[last cedar]

They would tax the air we breathe if there was an easy way to measure it 🤣

So I have no doubts about that

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/spaceballs-air-fresh-air-breath-of-fresh-air-smog-gif-24193063

[summer depot]

They kinda already do indirectly. The California Air Resource board is funded by taxes