#the-water-cooler

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solar zealot
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Optimize this building and deconstructing homes.
Energy is needed = people better get back to work

loud pike
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heh.... So Japan called. XD

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They basically took the Sears Home concept and refined it to a slightly psychotic degree. XD

primal laurel
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there are still companies working on hyperloop. TU delft is still wasting money on it and using it in marketing material

loud pike
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(for those who are not old and/or don't have a weird eye for history, you uesd to be able to get full homes and otherwise basically like Ikea furniture, all ready to be assembled on site.)

solar zealot
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Broether they have the løøps

loud pike
primal laurel
next cave
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Is there any place to get live interactive support for Home Assistant and just not a forum post?

solar zealot
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Best you ask your questions in the right channel

primal laurel
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honestly I don't know why they keep putting students on this

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waste of time and money

loud pike
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It's like putting money into rockets that can land themselves, it's a massive waste of money. Not only do you have to carry extra fuel for the landing(and with a rocket launch, every OUNCE of cargo is a ridiculous amount of potential cash), but you still have to go over the entire thing with a fine tooth comb anyway.

glacial knot
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education is a giant money sink already 🤷
Giving the students some fun projects to practice on is nice

loud pike
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But it makes certain shitheads who shall remain nameless millions in government contracts. So of course they promote it as much as possible.

next cave
loud pike
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Meanwhile, old boosters were a tube. A big hollow tube filled with a shaped tube of aluminium and iron rust powder packed together. Light on fire, it goes until it don't go, it fall down, recover tube from ocean, melt down, make new tube.

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Nothing particularly complex. It goes until it's empty. Then it doesn't go no mo.

glacial knot
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sometimes I feel like I should just start a support consulting company...

loud pike
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Now we're building motors and fins and fans and extra fuel and extra crap and extra nonsense into a disposable booster because we might wanna eventually reuse the disposable booster.

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It's like those dorkuses whose cabinet is full of used takeout containers because "They're still good, I can clean them"

primal laurel
loud pike
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Sounds like corruption to me.

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Shouldn't be using public funds for public education to fund private interest.

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Also we all know that what education Really needs is for Scandinavia and the World comics to become part of the curriculum so that people can know all about how Denmark's mouth is full of potatoes.

glacial knot
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still a tiny number of total assignments 🤷

solar zealot
primal laurel
solar zealot
glacial knot
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Funneling student work into their private enterprises that aren't part of the teaching position?

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how does it not sound like corruption to you?

primal laurel
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doing something useful is corruption?

glacial knot
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or rather, misappropriation.

loud pike
# primal laurel lol, how?

"You are required to do this specific assignment that Me and My company specifically profit from or you won't get your degree".

glacial knot
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can be

loud pike
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That's pretty textbook corruption stuff.

primal laurel
loud pike
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Yeeeeeah, any time there's a "list", there's definitely encouragement for specific things on that 'list"

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To say nothing of the fact that internships are all too often used to replace paid work and almost never result in any real positive benefit for the student.

primal laurel
loud pike
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Great example. College I used to go to, I was in an AV program. They required an internship. The internship they consistently "Encouraged" as the "Most prestigious and most likely to get you work in the industry"? Was as a check-in clerk for the company the dean's husband owned.

glacial knot
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Are they graded by the same professor?

loud pike
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20 hours a week, 6 months.

primal laurel
solar zealot
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Depending on your region this can be illegal and you can sue against it

loud pike
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Oh it was Incredibly illegal.

solar zealot
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Then why did no one sue

loud pike
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The school had an arbitration clause.

primal laurel
loud pike
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Which meant they got to hire their own judge for any legal issue brought to them.

solar zealot
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Sounds like they can have whatever they want, if it's illegal it's illegal

loud pike
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Which meant they got to get a guy they paid to claim they did nothing wrong.

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Barring a much, much louder lawsuit and a lot more stink raised, companies in america get away with a LOT. XD

solar zealot
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American things I see hehe

loud pike
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I wonder if the guy who built a system that tweeted every time he pooped would have benefitted from HA...

solar zealot
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Poop ass istant

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Yea maybe

static schooner
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Worst. Blog. Ever.

solar zealot
static schooner
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The Log Blog. Okay, okay, I'll show myself out...

terse stag
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Imagine the sensor data

lone dagger
loud pike
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I wouldn't be shocked to be honest. I love how the smart watch invention made us all slightly insane for meaningless data XD

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crisp oriole
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loud pike
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My hope is to have a Star Trek Computer type of smart home and data stuff, but the level of integration is still not quite there.

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Also I don't own 1000 single-use tablets, so star trek might not quite work XD

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(My favorite maybe-not-quite star trek prediction of all. They predicted tablets... except they didn't predict that a tablet could have multiple text files on it. XD )

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i think pads could do multiple things its just it was hard for people to relate to so it was written in such a way that they were single use

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in "The Ascent" (DS9) jake was playing "computerized Dom-jot" on one instead of "working on a story"... so they probably got that bit right

raw flax
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Funny translation bug found

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sounds like a front end issue is in your future

raw flax
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raw flax
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only 1 way to learn

raw flax
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Make a TikTok video and hope to go viral?

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yup, in the same way that "failure is always an option"

lone dagger
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Sitting at my computer responding to some emails, completely forgetting that my right arm is covered in heart stickers because my 17 month old niece stuck them to me. 😂

clear ferry
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I too have this problem with two daughters

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Waltzing into my office while I'm configuring a storage system worth $20m and just putting hair clips in my beard

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clear ferry
lone dagger
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Topic piece!

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I will absolutely walk around looking ridiculous if it makes the kiddos happy. lul

clear ferry
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I'm gonna say that, having been in 80 weeks paternity leave my customers and my coworkers all have loved my kids in meetings

solar zealot
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Must have been better than you not being in those meetings;D

lone dagger
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Speaking of meetings, time to set up these overly blinding key lights for my camera set up.

solar zealot
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OnO

lone dagger
clear ferry
solar zealot
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Missy blinded by the liiiights

clear ferry
solar zealot
lone dagger
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It's so bright.

solar zealot
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Lol

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I tend to just put frame rates down and exposure up

lone dagger
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I am implementing them into HA with the elgato integration. Gonna automate things, hopefully.

polar zenith
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i need help regarding ha green anyone willing to help

lone dagger
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Just showed my son the difference and he laughed so hard.

solar zealot
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Did I just hear

clear ferry
solar zealot
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El gato

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clear ferry
lone dagger
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One day I am going to have to get off of this SD card.

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Today is not that day.

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😦

static schooner
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Has it hatched yet?

clear ferry
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@glacial knot

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lone dagger
static schooner
glacial knot
lone dagger
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This is hilarious. Lights as they have been on the left, new lights on full blast on the right. 😂

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SO MUCH LIGHT

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I AM SO PALE

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🤣

clear ferry
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I love those glasses

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Also you have all the same Legos I've bought my wife

solar zealot
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What kinda knowledge does unfold here

clear ferry
lone dagger
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The wild flowers took 6 hours to strategically stack.

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Could I have used foam? Probably. But I was already balls deep in it when someone suggested I do that.

weak musk
lone dagger
weak musk
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I’d imagine a similar effect as the big orange ball in the sky

peak slate
lone dagger
lone dagger
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The worst part is the shine my nose ring does. lul

loud pike
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Shiny. 🙂

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Also funny thing with those lego lights... they show up on vine a lot XD

lone dagger
loud pike
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Surprisingly there is only one on vine at the moment, one for a "Wicked Elphaba" set.... which........ okay. XD

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But there IS a set of easter faux lego sets in eggs. And another set for a character from the Skibidi Toilet series.

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That last one just reminds me that the human race is a mistake. XD

lone dagger
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We need to remember that we had some dumb shit we said in high school, too.

loud pike
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Oh 100% but at least some of our dumb shit is still funny. XD

lone dagger
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They think it's funny - that's really all that matters when language evolves. 😄

loud pike
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Like half of my class was talking about things being Crunk, whatever that means... XD

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(I still have no idea)

lone dagger
loud pike
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I was also an anime and D&D nerd in HS, so that excluded me from that even more XD

lone dagger
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I don't think it's the phones more than it's social media in its current form.

peak slate
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Lol

loud pike
peak slate
loud pike
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But yeah, no, I was the dork in the full length Reverend coat from Hot Topic, back when they had interesting clothing XD

peak slate
lone dagger
lone dagger
loud pike
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XD The just-before-emo-was-a-thing phase XD

lone dagger
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Why yes, I am very familiar with the same phase.

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she says with a unicorn skull and Harley Quinn in her camera frame

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she says after she used an Invader Zim gif

loud pike
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XD

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I love that zim came back as a stupid little red imp XD

lone dagger
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Did I do my senior year photos with a t shirt that said "Chick Magnet" and a long sleeved shirt under it for that excellent Pop Punk look? Why yes, yes I did.

loud pike
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XD I can neither confirm nor deny that I owned a "FBI: FEMALE BODY INSPECTOR" shirt at the time.

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Also a camoflage shirt that said "HA, now you can't see me"

weak musk
loud pike
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Nowadays that'd practically be the most polite thing on the site XD

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loud pike
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oh lord.

lone dagger
loud pike
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So slight whiplash thing... one of the things on vine available to review was, and always is, a lot of gummy vitamins... one of them basically just being a bunch of leucine... supposedly. Most multivitamins don't contain what they say they do, but we'll work past that...

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So I was checking on the risks just in case based on the dosage they were offering...

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Apparently Leucine overdose can result in something called "Maple Syrup Urine Disease"

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I think I'll pass. XD

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loud pike
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Oh god, no. XD No gamifying poopin'. XD

lone dagger
loud pike
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XD

lone dagger
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Awfully manual.

loud pike
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Isn't that one of the rules of cards against humanity, whoever did last goes first?

lone dagger
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NORMALIZE POOP TALK

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lmao

stuck anchor
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the log log!

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automation is needed!

lone dagger
loud pike
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It's bad enough that my cat's litter box tells me every time he poops. XD

lone dagger
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Change this channel's name to the log log and we can only post rainbowpoop

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air quality sensor -> esp32 -> HA -> discord
seems like a workable flow

loud pike
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Though I AM amazed at how well litter robot's stuff integrates with HA... even if it is a bit of a mess, which is entirely the manufacturer's fault.

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Actually, that's.... an interesting thought.

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Does anyone have a source for a HA-integratable thin panel scale? XD

lone dagger
loud pike
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The main problem is that I have a model 3, which only dumps into half of the dump drawer, so it falsely triggers its full sensor constantly.

lone dagger
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"Rhys, check out my lights now." turns them on to show him how bright they are
Rhys: TURN THEM UP
FLASH BANG

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I put them in a light group to adjust the brightness together. lul

loud pike
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I know this is probably venturing into the territory of "Oh that's just silly" but part of me really wants a slider deck that I could link up to HA and light groups...

lone dagger
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You should be able to do that with a stream deck.

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My audio deck might be able to do that.

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I want to set one up for lights and also mic muting.

loud pike
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For buttons, perhaps XD

lone dagger
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Don't make me dig out my audio deck. lul3d

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I AM ALREADY DOING SOMETHING

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😂

loud pike
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Ooh! Speaking of random tech questions..... Has anyone made a way to hook up a USB headset so that it relays off of the wifi instead of its own stupid little short range dongle? XD

static schooner
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loud pike
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Went full sitcom pratfall with it at one point too, completely unintentionally. XD

weak musk
loud pike
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Brooooooo

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was finishing my vine lookthrough.... and the last thing I saw.... a clamp for Hotwheels tracks.

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I had those as a kid. XD

lone dagger
wooden egret
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it's ⭐ cinematic ⭐

lone dagger
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It flashes occasionally, which isn't easily captured in image. I've had exactly one comment in the past say "not a fan of the nose ring" from our live streams.

My response to those people is always "good thing it isn't on your face then".

clear ferry
lone dagger
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That is ....a gif I suppose.

clear ferry
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Barto is my spirit animal

weak musk
loud pike
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(favorite reaction gif bee tee dubs. Best fourth wall break, also the show has zim in it. XD )

lone dagger
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Okay, Google Calendar set up in HA, now time to mess with automations for my lights. BongoCatEyes

iron granite
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Here they removed all birthdays from the Google Calendar which have been set up in Google Contacts. shksRly

lone dagger
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We have our colleagues' birthdays set up our work calendar. nice

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I don't use Google Calendar outside of work. 😄

iron granite
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I have to look up all birthdays in Google Contacts now and transfer them to the Calendar by hand.

lone dagger
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Oh my gods my HA Calendar looks like a hot mess now. blobyikes

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lone dagger
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Do I need to make a better Drake Yes image???

loud pike
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I kinda wanna set up google calendar in HA, but also I'm really REALLY bad at remembering to actually put dates into things.

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Though I wonder if HA has a package tracking system... that's like 90% of why I keep the echo devices onboard, they tell me beat by beat when zon packages are coming.

lone dagger
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I think some of the EU countries have it. I swear I remember some people talking about it...

loud pike
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Biggest tricky is that I really don't wanna have to manually enter stuff. Really wish I could just link my zon account to HA as a Skill and let it pluck all my tracking for packages that way directly.

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there gotta be something to automate off emails? could use "dispatched" and "out for dleivery" emails?

clear ferry
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Running ha on a soc nonsense machine

Vs

Running ha on a dual socket xeon

loud pike
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Google does it(or did it) by grabbing tracking numbers from emails.... which works for like 2 carriers.

lone dagger
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I feel like this could be done by using Alexa through Assist.

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Not 100% on that, though.

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Just sounds like something that could be possible lol.

simple solstice
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I'm curious I'm slightly confused on how binding in Zigbbe2mqtt works. Does it only work on certain devices or you can do it any zigbee devices as long its bulb/plug and remote?

weak musk
loud pike
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I mean, clearly you're going to need to set up an uplink through a flux pin throughput.

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Though honestly I dunno how you're gonna set that up with the framjet interrupt in play.

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Okay this is funny. XD

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So I opened the litter box thingie in HA, which I have never had cause to do until now because it's throwing an error...

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Turns out the "Cycle the litter box" command? Is labelled as "Vacuum".

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For a thousand reasons I ask WHY. XD

ocean oar
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I think the answer is "not re-inventing the wheel"

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Robot cat toilet has about 80% cross-over in function with robot vacuum, why make something custom

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yeah "stock hardware/software"

loud pike
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That's fair, though the robot vac page is also hilariously goofy. XD

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Does the drawer full indicator tell you if it's Full or not?

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same reason my door sensor shows up as a window sensor

loud pike
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No. It tells you "On or Off". XD

ocean oar
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The LR3 didn't exactly have precise science behind its "level" value anyway; just increases the percentage by 1/24 of 100% for each cycle until it gets to 90%, and only when it trips the IR breakbeam sensor does it suddenly jump to 100%

loud pike
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That is not a joke by the way. XD

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Someone did not set up the binary on/off setting properly. XD

loud pike
ocean oar
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Sure, but the value is fake

loud pike
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I mean, you're not wrong. XD

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For SO many reasons.

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"Let's make a litter box that dumps only to the back part of the really big drawer and thinks it's full when the very back part of the drawer piles up. No sloping to the front or anything."

ocean oar
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Well I don't know about you, but about every third day I shake the drawer, press the reset button and walk away. Takes 10 seconds. Still better than scooping turds

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static schooner
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The 4 is way better at pretty much everything

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Time to upgrade

loud pike
static schooner
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I have my own 🙂

loud pike
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lol I haven't seen an autobox on vine yet but yeah, those are kinda horrifying.

ocean oar
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Damn, LR4 is out of stock in NZ right now anyway

loud pike
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Do they even sell a LR4 that works upside down?

static schooner
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Seems physics would make it impossible in the southern hemisphere

loud pike
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Obligatory "do litter robots cycle in the other direction in the southern hemisphere" joke here...

ocean oar
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Alternatively, the "right hand drive" model 😄

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TBH while the LR3 isn't perfect, by far the worst part of the experience is lugging heavy-ass buckets of clay litter down the stairs from the garage to the house.

loud pike
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So at least I only have to carry it from my front door. XD

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or build a wallace and gromit style train system

ocean oar
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RiYXI1Tfu4

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Thanks to all the team at Forterra: https://www.forterra.co.uk/
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It would be hilarious to go the full Colin Furze option though, tunnel underneath the uphill neighbours' house and come up inside our garage

clear ferry
loud pike
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I mean, it works well for me through amazama. XD

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Not the world's most Amazing prices across the board on every single thing, but the other options near me are Safeway-adjacent, so they're somehow even worse.

weak musk
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Looking at the roborock website-- I have no idea how people figure out what to buy. SIte is a hot mess

ocean oar
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More money = more better, right? IT IS YOUR DUTY TO CONSUME

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Holy crap they've gotten to the point that there's one of those that has plumbed-in water and drainage, rather than tanks

weak musk
ocean oar
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Pretty cool if you do something like this (also from their site):

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Would be nice to have a piece of cupboard space I could sacrifice like that, but our house ain't big enough

weak musk
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I've thought about making a built in wet bar with that functionality in it too

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having the big docking station out in the living space is a big downside for sure

weak musk
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I've heard good things about narwhale

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There is a lot of long hair in my house so I think I need something with the split roller brushes or I'm just going to be maintaining it constantly

loud pike
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lol meanwhile, me over here with my 600 series with no mapping, no emptying base, and very very broken guidance that I found in a goodwill. XD

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XD

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Truth be told I never really run mine, I'm kind of a cluttery mess on a good day so running it chances it trying to run over a sock and having a fit.

forest edge
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that is so old but it's funny how it's coming back around as if it's new. been seeing it pop up more and more over the past couple of weeks

loud pike
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Though that Does give me an idea...

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Imagine a bot with just a simple squeegee-type arm on the front. Let it know where integrated vacuum ports are and give it remote control over the system to turn it on and off.

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If you had no-transition hardwood floors, it could just sweep to the ports and turn on the vac to run out the dirt wherever.

weak musk
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I have a friend that was given a couple of the older irobot models (they had a friend at irobot) and they were awful.

loud pike
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I feel like if you were gonna do a home integrated vacuum system, central suction is probably a better thought than "empty a counter block for a robot."

weak musk
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I would rather just vac manually

loud pike
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Install it on a wall. Use it as a fireplace and/or giant fish tank for the cats.

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Also the parts to repair one of my vacuum cleaners arrive soon, which has me a bit excited. XD

weak musk
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time to purge

loud pike
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heh..... (looks under desk at projector that is also collecting dust.)

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I use it in the studio occasionally, but it's rare.

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As someone who was somehow short on C13s recently, I feel that.

static schooner
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Sometimes you need that 1" wire

loud pike
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Was seriously one of those "I have no C13s... that's... that's never happened to me before." moments. XD

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i have a selection of monitors i really should get rid of but i cant help but think "i could use these to make a magic mirror" so i keep them all

loud pike
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There are two older 27 inch monitors in my closet... and a slowly growing pile of portable monitors in a bag because vine gets silly sometimes.

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At some point I will find a use for the little 7 inch one they sent.

static schooner
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I use one of those for the server in my closet

loud pike
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I thought about that, but I just wired it to one of my main monitors and switch the source back and forth.

static schooner
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Useful in a pinch, takes no space

sudden crest
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Hi everyone, sorry if I haven't got this in the right channel, but I'm completely new to home assistant.... I'm looking to get a cheep ish set up going to begin my home automation journey 👍 currently only have security cameras, video doorbell and some lights.
Hoping to have a dhasbiard of sorts and I have no idea where to start.
Preferring not to spend the earth... Where do I start? Feeling very lost 😂

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most of mine are 24 i think. one of them is 16:10 which is almost a collectors item these days

loud pike
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I haven't gone full Serial Experiments Lain yet, so I don't wanna mount all the monitors. XD

sudden crest
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Thank you, first thing I'm lost on is the hardware... What's a good, reliable but cheep option to Run home assistant on? Can it just run on an old laptop?

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loud pike
clear ferry
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Anything can run esxi

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If you are brave enough

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loud pike
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I still haven't made a wall panel for HA... At some point I want to, I have a crappy tablet that will probably do the job just fine. But also I don't wanna drill a bunch of holes in walls for a mount. XD

clear ferry
weak musk
forest edge
loud pike
clear ferry
weak musk
loud pike
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I'd probably just set it up as a "Control the lights from here" thing.

forest edge
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if i had HA to do all over again i'd still run it on an rpi4

clear ferry
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@lone dagger give me a funny role btw, white is so boring

weak musk
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the same price as a rasp pi even!

clear ferry
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Or less@weak musk

forest edge
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but so overkill with HA alone and can quickly become lacking once you try and utilize the rest of it

sudden crest
clear ferry
loud pike
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There was a smart light switch that I picked up from a giveaway for a friend(She never used them because she was a pill). Hard(ish) switch but an LCD attached to them that worked with smart home stuff. I wonder who made those. XD

forest edge
weak musk
loud pike
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Idea being that from any switch panel, you could control lights in any other room.

sudden crest
weak musk
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not typically after you get an ssd, ssd adaptor

ocean oar
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loud pike
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I like multiple options. XD

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Voice good, Panel good, both better.

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Although holy balls I want it.

sudden crest
loud pike
ocean oar
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I bought one of the Minisforum S100 https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-s100
Prime day, $183.
N100 CPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage (it's UFS which is basically a faster eMMC, but perfectly usable), and PoE.
They are known to overheat a bit when using the PoE in high-CPU applications, but HA doesn't use enough CPU for it to be a problem

Minisforum
Minisforum S100

Intel® N100 & PoE

loud pike
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7 inch wall panel, knob control with its own panel, links up to bluetooth speakers... mmf....

weak musk
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wall panels do absolutely nothing for me

lone dagger
loud pike
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Yeah, that's basically why I can't have one of those. No neutral in the panel, and also apartment where they whine if I start dicking with the electricals.

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i have high hopes for the newer bigger displays from shelly they showed at ces

forest edge
# sudden crest Good advice ! Thank you. Once I have the home assistant green for example, I'm a...

take some time and really think about what all you might want to do with HA.. you can search for intergrations/addons etc now that work with HA to give you an idea of what you may want to use. Decoy's suggestion of using a n100 can become the better buy should you know out of the gate you want to hook your cameras into it, or other things. best to plan it out now then to buy something then be stuck upgrading shortly after

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(I may not be able to get a food replicator yet that can make me lattes, but I can hope for the rest. XD )

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That was the link it sent me to

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looks like its unique

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loud pike
ocean oar
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It asked me for my email address (was possible to fill it in anonymously), so I don't think so. Just an ugly URL

forest edge
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i like visual feedback of status of things, and its really useful in some cases

loud pike
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I like that it can do both. Also it can be used as an intercom panel. XD

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Also I don't have the money for a bunch of sensors that may or may not be able to continually sense me when I sit still in my chair too long.

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Or that think my cat is me. XD

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Hell, I already have enough trouble with my tplink cameras thinking a mannequin in the studio is a person.

ocean oar
loud pike
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Yeeeeeeah.

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Like, dgmw, I'd love a fully intelligent house that can make choices based on knowing where I am and do stuff based on that, but like.... I know tech too much to trust it to work right that often XD

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(pretty sure whatever logs Azamon has of me trying to talk to echo devices involve enough cursing to get the movie of my life an NC17 rating because holy crap.)

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And I'm sure at least half of them are "What the shit I WASN'T EVEN TALKING TO YOU YOU DAMN PAPERWEIGHT"

forest edge
loud pike
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(and at least half of those also involve me having to follow it up with "No, google, I wasn't talking to you either!"

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i need to find places to install my "stock" of shelly stuff i picked up in random sales so i can justify buying more when new stuff comes

loud pike
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Also with my luck, having a house with too much "smarts" would wind up like the house in Eureka for me. XD

ocean oar
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Sadly as I'm not - and have no desire to ever be - Youtube famous enough to be given it for free, I'll take 15% over nothing

forest edge
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the only reason I have is to swap them from wifi to zigbee.. that just not enough to justify some shellies sitting in a box unused

loud pike
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I dunno what it is, if people hand me their stuff and say it doesn't work, it immediately works when I touch it. But if it's MY stuff, it's like 75% guaranteed to develop a... personality.

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Usually the personality of a Brat. XD

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There is no one source. You really need to make google search your friend. Youtube has tons and tons of videos on HA as well as incorporating different devices etc. The idea is to get a sense of what will want to do and how well of an experience you will get from it. Stuff like camera ingestion, ai detection is resource heavy on machines and devices like the Green will choke so it's best to get an idea just how far down the rabbit hole you may wanna go early on than after.

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once you have a solid list and still unsure, you can come in here and ask if the Green can handle this, or if your old laptop can handle that and people will have more info to give a more accurate response to

forest edge
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you leave your trash can out for multiple days?

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shouldn't there be a few more "chores" in that list like, attend hoedown.. tend to the moonshine....

loud pike
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lol nsfw just reminds me of how kodi will integrate with stash, Partially integrate with Plex(sort of), plex won't integrate with stash, or Kodi in interface(or at all), and HA will Only see Plex.

forest edge
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be awesome if there was a way to dynamically train our own installed models through the frigate ui. slowly training each camera to it's own custom thing

young sigil
loud pike
# young sigil HA see my Kodi boxes just fine.

I moved from kodi to plex because I got tired of trying to "teach" kodi to properly scan and tag files, and then having to go through like 12 different scrapers just to get it to KEEP scanning and tagging files properly

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Also the interface for kodi may be beautiful, but it's also a Mess. XD

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Tell you what I wish would happen. I wish someone would take the old WD-TV Live Hub devices, those set-top boxes Western Digital made for a while? Take that system and interface, and just make that the media interface.

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Seriously, something I don't understand about kodi and stash both, if the wdtv saw a media file it couldn't tag or that wasn't in the perfect syntax or layout? It'd just... leave it as its filename but keep it visible. So you could fix it in situ anyway.

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Meanwhile plex is like "NOPE THIS FILE DOESN'T HAVE ITS SEASON NUMBER ON IT EVEN THOUGH ITS FOLDER DOES, THAT MUST MEAN IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SEASON"

young sigil
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I think I've only ever had to choose an alterantive scrape twice in my entire collection but I do agree the menu system is complete balls. I gave up on Plex many years ago when I couldn't stop it trancoding files it did not need to. Haven't looked at it since then.

loud pike
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The struggle on media interface nonsense is real.

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Kodi: "We're gonna be the most elegant trainwreck you have ever seen. It's gonna feel like using a Wii if all the options were put in places the literally have no purpose being by drunk weasels. Also our scrapers for international content are ass and for some reason the option to allow them to search adult content just doesn't exist for some reason."
Plex: "Hey, you should use our agent for scraping instead of the two well known media site scrapers that pull accurate data in all languages. Why aren't you using our agent instead? Oh you turned our agent on? Let me now retag every file you have with incorrect data that makes no sense."

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last cedar
forest edge
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not had any issues with Plex yet knock on wood. did have to learn the naming scheme so you could have more than one media with the same name

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curious where kodi stands these days

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without all the "perks" kodi just wasn't as appealing when I did switch

last cedar
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and it broke like 2x a year, so I ended up moving to plex

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my only complaint with plex is that (this is completely my fault) it doesn't restart when windows updates nuke my temporary (been temporary for close to 3 years iirc) machine and restart it

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Does anyone else have one of those temporary multiple year things?

ocean oar
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You mean technical debt? Yeah I have lots of that 🙂

last cedar
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I am currently planning out my move from 2 switches to 1, and then to a new home assistant/ plex box (currently 2 boxes) and a new truenas (with as little downtime as possible), think I have it figured out now

stuck anchor
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technical debt makes it sound like it was actually working as intended and is now on a schedule to get fixed/updated/decommissioned. so technical debt is always a good phrase

last cedar
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It has only taken a few months

last cedar
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I don't think you can ever get away from it

stuck anchor
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the worst kind is when a new project with strict timeline has to cut corners, know it, but forget to hand over the known technical debt to the operations team. yes, in the corporate world there is debt from day 0

hidden lion
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Just confirming, assist sentence triggers do not support single quotes for abbreviations am I right

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Like I'm having to put it's as its

iron granite
crisp oriole
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Yes howdy face reconnission is working on my linux laptop.

main falcon
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Hello to all.. and apologies for asking a noob question that's probably answered... and i could find the article (not for lack of trying). I'm a HomeKit user with an established smart home, Unifi networking who's decided to 'try' HA.. So I installed this on my Synology in a container (aka docker). My MAIN reason for doing this was to try to webhook into some matter devices... Instead, I'm stuck just trying to activate the matter (beta) plugin.

Could someone please point me to in the right direction?

Thanks

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rich gorge
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Hi, question if someone happens to know;

If I update a file for a blueprint in place in the filesystem for the HA install, will the automations based on it change with that as I save the blueprint, or do I have to re-do the automations based on the now changed blueprint?

Thanks 🙏

primal laurel
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rich gorge
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Ah crap

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Thank you for the responses, sorry for spamming here ❤️

fringe dagger
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is zigbee 3.0 still the gold standard

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i just ordered a dongle and realized hopefully its not outdated lol

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thanks

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sorry i didnt want to make a whole post for a yes or no question lol

tidal bronze
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@forest edge you guys ok? Sunny?

forest edge
tidal bronze
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You pirate the weather too?

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Its that bad huh?

forest edge
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@tidal bronzeshould come visit. i'm breaking out my auto stir hot choclate mug again lol

tidal bronze
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I am good bud, thank for the invite

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Although I gotta get to EC tomorrow 🙄

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thats a lot of temperature units

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that would make more sense

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i was a bit worried about QF for a moment. wine tastes terrible this hot

shell basalt
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thats why you stick the pinky out.. cools the wine down just a smidge

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not THAT pinky

deft pewter
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Sticking your pinky out for anything but tea is uncouth.

urban mica
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Is anyone else having issues with pressing the update button in the companion app

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Whenever I press it, the popup for actually installing the update doesn't show and all other buttons stop working

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forest edge
unborn merlin
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we all know I was talking about imperial units like that. 😉

forest edge
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well your assumption is wrong

loud pike
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Curious, can I have a system that sets everyone else's HA voice assistant to the Minions?

unborn merlin
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if you want nobody to use the thing; yeah

frank salmon
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If I'm connecting HA to like Google nest that doesn't expose my proxmox instance to the Internet per say right?

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loud pike
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Ah yes, Gunther's new hit single, "Ooh, you touch my proxmoxmox"...

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(And now there is a very specific part of the chat that has a certain song stuck in their head that I'm still not sure to this day wasn't a parody.)

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tho I did just expose a proxmox partially recently (behind authentik as an auth proxy tho)

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Is this a bug or just me. If you go to integrations->helpers select a group, when you type in the entity field there is no auto complete to find entities

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works for me:

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I installed it on my series x. I’m trying to stop using a 2017 nvidia shield for local media and Kodi is a great solution, especially for Dolby Atmos. But I don’t know of any Xbox apps that can replace my sideload ad-free YouTube and Twitch apps.

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does govee2mqtt still work?

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dunno. does it?

clear ferry
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of all the names that look bad with that color atx... yours is the worst

primal laurel
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You're just jealous

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unborn merlin
reef stream
unborn merlin
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yeah I checked it is

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# forest edge dunno. does it?

i mean i used it until today, now my docker on mac is broken and also my govee leds with govee2mqtt say they dont work anymore

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made by the same person, their older one that is https://github.com/wez/govee-lan-hass/ is the one that doesn't entirely work so well anymore.. the replacement is https://github.com/wez/govee2mqtt

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GitHub - wez/govee-lan-hass: Control Govee lights via the LAN API f...

Control Govee lights via the LAN API from Home Assistant - wez/govee-lan-hass

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Govee2MQTT: Connect Govee lights and devices to Home Assistant - wez/govee2mqtt

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maybe soething went up with it? 🤷‍♂️

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last update a month ago; so looks still active-ish just maybe something broke perhaps?

reef stream
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all this says they are not being provided

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then go check the addon and see whats up with it..

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logs?

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its an addon. it has its own page.. unless I am thinking of things wrong?

But this isn't support either so uh 😄

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i mean

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it was off

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one sec

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FTP brokered for me today too out of the blue.. must be something in the digital air

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You are using... FTP? In 2025?

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cutting edge technology

shell topaz
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how do i set a terminal location to the girhub reposotoie? ie. for git commit

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can i have an example

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FTP is one of those addons I think frenck kind of forgot about cause the issue I am having now sounds like the same issue that has periodically happened a few times before after an update. I been fortunate to skip over the past ones but this time it's caught up to me

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clear ferry
# primal laurel The Germans still use fax machines

Yes, Germany is almost as technically advanced as the us, remember when I started in HP in 2007 I was shocked I had to use a fax machine to send stuff to the main office, because I hadn't used a fax since 2003

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hm? was SFTP actually different? Not just FTP over ssh port forwarding?

clear ferry
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That is SFTP yes

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You are thinking about ftps

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Which was.. fun

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Fxp was also interesting at one point

glacial knot
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FTPS was dead by the time I cared

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I started out with warez on BBS, then moved on to DCC, then FTP and then FTPS

forest edge
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and now it may as well be called vpnftp

tidal bronze
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BBS DCC, old timer!

clear ferry
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Yes

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I started online in 91

glacial knot
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wdym you didn't get bootleg CDs?

clear ferry
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I made those

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And sold them

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"online" before late 90's was shiet

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when online multiplayer games came out around 98 then it started to get interesting

clear ferry
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I already had broadband by 98 and had had self hosted stuff for years by then

primal laurel
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We get it, you're old

clear ferry
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Then you realize I'm not really that old

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what was broadband in 98? I can't even remember what the speeds were lol

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3mb?

red rock
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if you were born after 2000, then he is considered ancient

primal laurel
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Age is just a number. What we should really judge you on is whether you use tuya

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forest edge
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Then 3Mbit ADSL around 00

glacial knot
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Yes

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Then I got FTTH in 2004

glacial knot
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I remember when we had 384DSL rooSuffer

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I skipped over telephone modems for as long as I could. first experince of seeing an image take 5 minutes to download lead me to go outside and see the world instead

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but took them way too long

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might get fiber soon™ though

glacial knot
forest edge
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we weren't fancy enough to have dual isdn either

primal laurel
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You are so far behind lol

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My German friends are still on 40Mb/s

glacial knot
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yea, Telekom trying to get every bit of subsidies they can rooD

forest edge
glacial knot
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😂

glacial knot
primal laurel
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40 is a long time ago for me

forest edge
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before you were born

red rock
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Ze Germans

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i was a quite heavy user of my local bbs, bergen by byte, from their start some time in the eighties. they got big enough to get x.25 and start offering business oriented solutions.

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nice user interface (not graphical) running on qnx cluster. access to not only internal services, but also uucp email and usenet news

forest edge
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late 90's was actually pretty eventful with a lot of big changes now that I think about it

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RIP 2pac

clear ferry
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Had 20 and 50 in the meantime

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Then 300 from 2012

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And 1000 since 2015

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Just waiting for 10g now

glacial knot
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I still don't have any hardware >1G at home rooD

forest edge
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00f 10mbps fiber lol

clear ferry
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I've had 10g hardware since 2008, and 40g since 2012

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But my primary server is still only connected with 1G

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Only thing that does 10g currently is the link between my lab box and the production box

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For iscsi volumes

forest edge
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have any idea how often they change out those fiber lines?

clear ferry
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Never

forest edge
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the sheething around them made back then did not last lol

clear ferry
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My father has the same fiber line since 2004 still

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Heck, even the cat5 I installed to the garage there is still fine, in arctic climate, with no insulation or pipes

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Just free hanging

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Since 2005

forest edge
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the sheething around cat lines was diffrent

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more rubbery plastic

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but think the fiber lines was more like what was used on coax

clear ferry
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Have you ever cut open a fiber cable?

forest edge
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seen it o a video

clear ferry
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It takes 19 tries with a sharp pair of scissors

forest edge
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but 2004 fiber?

clear ferry
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Best regards someone who has cut a few thousand

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Same fiber today

forest edge
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noway were they made that durable over everything else during the same time period

clear ferry
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There is no difference except quality of glass and optics

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And modern fibers are thinner

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The older were even sturdier

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OM1 is a nightmare

forest edge
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if they were that robust the initial cost of those lines had to be astronimcal

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while they did tend to use better materials back then.. it didn't come without a heafty price tag

clear ferry
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Yes, like everything military at the time

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You should read up on TEMPEST

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Military moved to LCD and fiber optic for every desk in the mid 90s

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You can read a crt monitor from 4km away with free sight

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And wiretapping is easy with copper and induction

glacial knot
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I was told that the mixed used sites here (Airbus) have rules that fiber cables from military and civilian use are only allowed to cross perfectly perpendicular and straight

clear ferry
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That's pretty weird for fiber, but I'm more surprised that military and civilian can even be in the same conduit

glacial knot
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I don't think it's for conduit, but some PoC room in the local DC

clear ferry
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Even worse

forest edge
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year transition updates for opnsense take forever

unborn merlin
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their only weakness is of course

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backhoes.

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and their mysterious ability to find fibers.. 😛

forest edge
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supposedly there was half a million americans with fiber to the home here back i those days but none of it was military

ocean oar
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@unborn merlin The people here tend to favour the directional drill

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Back in late 2020 we lost one of our internet connections at work for the best part of 3 days because of this

forest edge
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they had the ability to lace those lines with a detector chaser for decades and decades

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even watched them put the tracer line in the orange conduit google fiber runs thier fiber through here

unborn merlin
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what a shame it doesn't make very big holes

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because you can't go out and shiv the man running it;a nd push him into the hole..

forest edge
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i'm surprised Z2M doesn't have a way to auto update a device based on when a state changes on it. These ikea thigs have to be active before you can push an OTA to it and you have only x amount of miutes to do it

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Fiber is the only thing sold here really now

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No new copper lines sold since 2009 or thereabout

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And no copper fixed since 2017

unborn merlin
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basically yes

unborn merlin
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unless you're a big mfr

Then it means

"Quality is irrelevant just overcharge"

clear ferry
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or "I'll buy this now to keep it in storage for 4 years because we have to use our budget this year or our budget is lowered next year"

unborn merlin
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not that they probably need to buy it all that frequently

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since y'know.. dark fiber was laid fucking everywhere

clear ferry
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no need to shame the americans

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they love their copper lines

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and landlines

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they even call businesses for some reason

unborn merlin
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as someone who worked in a pharmacy for 5 years.

Mostly boomers.

forest edge
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my cat 5 in this house is military used. the box had no brand, only specs. the cable has only specs. doesn't even refer to cat 5 at all and it's about the cheepiest cat line you can find but the airforce base near me used the shit out of this junk

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I have seen rg6 coax marketed with Military Grade that came with a much thicker sheething as well as a baked in tensioning line where as standard RG6 dosen't have that

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so there is a diffrence between military grade and military used

clear ferry
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trust me, they use the same as everyone else

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you start to see different stuff in aerospace, but that is for different reasons

forest edge
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on youtube I see a lot of fiber with different colored sheathing and the shit those techs use to splice the fiber connections for residential dosen't look nothing like "military grade" to me.. not what I would expect it to be at least

clear ferry
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youtube PU_PepeYum

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source of truth

forest edge
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i mean.. it's not like it's wrong..

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it's techs making side money video'ing thier job lol

clear ferry
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lots of people on youtube who have never seen the inside of a DC who present best practices about networking

forest edge
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we're talking about residential tho

desert cave
forest edge
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which you say is the same stuff.. just saying nothing about that looks military grade to me lol

desert cave
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You'd be amazed what passes for military grade

clear ferry
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you'd be amazed what passes

forest edge
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not amazed by what throws that label on products

desert cave
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Go into a fortified bunker server closet to find a Linksys router and a dell desktop PC from 2005 running whatever service is there

forest edge
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nothing wrong with that

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making use of old stuff is good

desert cave
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Military grade lol

forest edge
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military "used"

clear ferry
desert cave
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Lmao

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DOGE is stupid enough to not understand where the cloud is

clear ferry
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cloud, what is that, like some other computer or something

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not ours at least

forest edge
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now now.. if @iron granite can get upset over the M word, you two can't be throwig around the D one

iron granite
desert cave
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We need to know the line between politics and comedy I guess

clear ferry
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it's a pretty broad line

forest edge
clear ferry
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something about size of yo momma etc etc

desert cave
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A lot of overlap

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Okay well not politics. My previous job was at a smaller cloud backup company. We had a few cages in different data centers. New boss came in, was really vocal about being a really technical guy. He wanted to move everything to AWS

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The concept that we were the cloud he wanted to move to was too much for him

clear ferry
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN

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like when my customers were ranting about cloud in 2012 and I said "you mean, just your dc that someone else manages and you have no control of?"

forest edge
stuck anchor
# clear ferry You should read up on TEMPEST

the oldest sunos i have worked on was at a tempest facility. they had a line printer for declassified information, so that printer had to be located outside the tempest room. had to use centronics to fiber converters at both ends, as copper cable crossing the boundary could be used as an antenna into the tempest area

iron granite
clear ferry
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😄

stuck anchor
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fun fact: to format a new disk on sunos 3.x you had to boot a diagnostic kernel from qic-tape

desert cave
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Before I left he started a pilot project of spinning customers up in AWS and it was a 10fold cost per tb increase, lmao

stuck anchor
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even after aws training people often do not understand the pricing model until they receive the bills...

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there are big differences between cloud providers. at least a decade ago any internal traffic between your geo sites was free on ibm cloud but cost money on aws.

for the stuff we run in public cloud we have a dedicated team offering cloud agnostic services and tooling, making it a ton easier for the cloud dev teams to spread or move services to the provider that costs less for the workload

stuck anchor
glacial knot
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isn't even 30 and the back complains

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bloody desk work all day

clear ferry
glacial knot
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All of them?

clear ferry
stuck anchor
loud pike
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Knees weak, mom's spaghetti on his spaghetti already, mom's spaghetti?

clear ferry
loud pike
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Mood tho.

clear ferry
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I recommend bringing down an airline booking system at least once in your life

solar zealot
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theyd bill you for too heavy packages

loud pike
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Knowing the hardware airline booking systems run on, I feel like that's one of those things that can be done by putting a fridge magnet on a wall three buildings away...

clear ferry
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my package is quite heavy yes @solar zealot

solar zealot
loud pike
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Don't make me post ponies, I'll do it.

clear ferry
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brb cobol -150

loud pike
clear ferry
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that's just the end user interface, not the actual backing system

loud pike
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My state's DHS office was super excited about new computers. I thought that meant they were finally getting off the old big iron they'd had since the 80s.

Nope. New desktops. Still telnetting in to the exact same system.

stuck anchor
# clear ferry I recommend bringing down an airline booking system at least once in your life

i did regularly reduce the oil production rates in the north sea by 10% when doing maintenance one one particular server. But that didn't bother me. That one time i was replacing a power supply in a hospital router (old school, not modular) and they told me it would start do be a danger to peoples health if it took more than 1 hour... that stressed me a little. work fast, but do not make any mistakes. 😄

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"Okay on this screen, press f6, then press f2, then press 4, then press -, then press (insert eldritch undertongue language here), then turn the monitor upside down four times... now you can type the name. To switch fields... (gets out roll of instructions)

clear ferry
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aye, we did oil platform unix support in the old days, before my time, but the overtime pay was great

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I've built two of norways biggest digital hospitals come think of it sus_think

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digital as in the vision was to make them modern and bleeding edge

loud pike
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And here I thought you'd set up a triage unit for the Angry Birds.

stuck anchor
clear ferry
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noise

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Haukeland needs a refresh soon though

stuck anchor
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they used to be pretty bleeding edge. made their own radio handsets/walkie talkies that could operate on a wide variety of frequencies and ops central that could connect land line, police, helicopter radio etc into one conference call. nobody else could do that back then. but now i guess all that is gone

loud pike
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....wat.

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Like, I feel like you'd get in hot shit with door dash for doing that, as they want your make and model of vehicle and might tend to frown on that sort of rental, but also it's weirdly genius?

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Maybe if doordash pays better than the mileage cost for the uhaul in your area, if you can't afford a car, you can at least rent a uhaul to do orders all day or something.

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The unfortunate truth is when they say it's one person and it's someone else, it's often someone who was banned from the app for one reason or another using a family member's identity.

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Or people with a record that would otherwise exclude them from using the app.

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Hell, you're technically not even supposed to have multiple people in the car, they have to be able to do a CBC on everyone who comes near your food for insurance reasons.

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Also today in wild shit on vine... "Hey, you want a solar powered chicken coop door?" XD

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The other day they had one that was app controlled as well, which..... why. XD

loud pike
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I stand by tuya being just fine. XD

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Now Woox on the other hand.... has no reason to exist. At all. XD

primal laurel
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Tuya is ewaste

loud pike
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Eh. It runs, it does what it's told.

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Could be far worse, could be Lotus or whatever that stupid ass chinese RGBLED app is called.

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The one that's been remade like 40 times now because they keep getting caught data harvesting 😛

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Or Yi. Yi is an absolute shitshow.

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(I joke, but eh. Also tuya is broad enough in spectrum that it covers some of my lights, but it also covers my smart-home integrated immersion circulator cooker and, and I still cannot believe I own this, my wifi-enabled meat thermometer. XD )

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Although speak of that, it's a little tragic that the inkbird integration doesn't work.

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I feel like devices like the immersion circulator are basically Perfect for smart home HA integration since they're very much a "Send a script of things to do to the machine with timing, etc" type thing.

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(I mean, it works with the thermometer, but not with the sous vide)

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Also having a local server space you can save a ton of recipe presets to for the sous vide would be so nice, since the inkbird app's preset system is..... kind of broken. XD

simple gazelle
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I assume some of my stuff is Amazon slop (an "Innr" and an "Candeo") but it's what fit the bill

primal laurel
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The only advantage is that it's cheap

lunar remnant
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Some Tuya stuff is Zigbee, some is WiFi. You can use their Zigbee stuff without their hub or app, I use some of it direct in Home Assistant with a Zigbee dongle

It’s a platform rather than just a brand - their own stuff is good, other manufacturers that make kit for their platform can very in quality

So you can’t say their stuff is good or bad because it’s both depending what you get

I love the cheap $2 sensors off AliExpress for prototyping - eg I get a cheap presence sensor, try out my idea for automatic lights and see if it works, then get a better quality one as the permanent fixture

glacial knot
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it's the sort of thing tinkerers can buy, but isn't well suited for customers 🤷

weak musk
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So you can’t say their stuff is good or bad because it’s both depending what you get

We can pretty easily say it’s inconsistent though. And that might be worse.

primal laurel
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It's not worth the troubleshooting

clear ferry
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tuya zigbee is great

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I have half a dozen of those

glacial knot
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out of how many?

weak musk
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We all make mistakes atx

glacial knot
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that's be impressive if you had 8 devices 😂

clear ferry
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new house currently isn't that many devices, probably only 60 or so zigbee devices

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looking to buy 25+ downlights and 10 floor heating modules soon

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so 10% tuya zigbee then

primal laurel
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Xiaomi has quality stuff. Too bad its always sold out

clear ferry
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I have tons of aqara

loud pike
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Meanwhile, Yi is a data security nightmare(it's why none of the cameras I have are allowed to be plugged in anymore).

stuck anchor
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i have had no problems with tuya zigbee devices except some have really cheap plastic. tuya wifi i have learned to avoid 😄

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sonoff sensors - i bought a pack with one of each with pir, temp/humidity and door. and they are all crap.

static schooner
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Example of bad UI design on the FedEx trashing page:

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clear ferry
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Lol

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That is horrid

static schooner
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They let you try a new site design, but am I seeing it now? What would happen if I flip the switch off?

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It's clearer (sorta) when you turn it off:

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loud pike
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Also one more point in the column for tuya, I can't tell you the number of times I find Amazon garbage that refuses to connect over a 2.4 GHz signal if there is also a 5 gigahertz signal present. You have to completely turn off that part of your network just to get the connection to work the first time.

Meanwhile, tuya stuff just connects right away and doesn't tend to complain about it.

clear ferry
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This is why I have a dedicated 2.4ghz ssid

loud pike
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That's the annoying part though. It will stay connected even if you turn the five gigahertz back on, it just won't connect the first time if it's on.

hidden vale
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Anyone clued up on local only control for Tado? They’ve completely lost me as a customer after the latest idiocy in my app today. 🫤

clear ferry
clear ferry
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I have two of those that were €20

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Oh no wait

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Tado, I have Tapo

ocean oar
# primal laurel Xiaomi has quality stuff. Too bad its always sold out

At this point it feels like our local importer is doing it on purpose.
The standing fan especially, in early-mid spring each year they seem to get a thousand or two of those, always sold out before summer arrives and never re-stocked.
The last time I bought one, their local store had ~50 in stock in the morning when I did an online pickup order, and 9 left by the time I went in to collect it in the afternoon.

clear ferry
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I just order from AliExpress, even with added tax it is still 50% of local price for aqara

hidden vale
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It’s central heating controls, not cameras

weak musk
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clear ferry
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Apparently you can do tado local with homekit

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But yet another great reason why noone should buy a product that doesn't have native local support or can be flashed

last cedar
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I do hope that local control doesn't become like expensive watches or fountain pens, or such

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Long live z2m and such

clear ferry
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Zigbee is lyfe

last cedar
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I still want to make z4m (zigbee 4 mosquittos)

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Network every mosquitto

clear ferry
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Bzzzzzz

last cedar
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Like that, only higher frequency

clear ferry
last cedar
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We had a final door test today, 70 doors.

Had 1 function on 1 door that didn't work, and I am a bit disappointed

solar zealot
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minisforum just sent the best email design ever

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its not even a non basic width aspect ratio, how can they make the content that small

clear ferry
clear ferry
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I still have a $550 transaction in lock on AliExpress because I pressed one time too many when I wanted to check the price of a Minisforum

loud pike
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Reason number (insert comedically high number here) why aliexpress/temu/wish are not a wise place to shop.

weak musk
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fun fun fun. Light strip channel comes loose from ceiling. In process of reinstalling traces break. Light strip smoked.

clear ferry
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Lol i would never put a Minisforum as a server

weak musk
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do you get your money back from ali or do you just do a chargeback?

clear ferry
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Both, cancelled order is chargeback, broke item is usually from Ali

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Either way, the payment will go to Ali outgoing always,.and they forward the money to the seller

weak musk
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got it, I've never ordered from ali/temu/wish before

clear ferry
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Ah

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I've probably had 300 orders on average the last 6 years

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Per year that is

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So far I've had 4-5 items not show up and about the same be broken on arrival

weak musk
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that's really not horrible

clear ferry
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Better than my average on ebay tbh

weak musk
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I don't think I"ve made 300 orders period in 6 years

clear ferry
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Average delivery time is about 11-14 days

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When shipping is free you don't care if you make 1 or 4 orders in a day

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And I always have projects going on

forest edge
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yay now ftp is working again

clear ferry
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Don't tell Sonoma to do anything modern

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His landlines will cry

loud pike
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So you're saying we have to run a train on Sonoma?

clear ferry
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I've tried for years, unfortunately the American dream is sleeping in the 80s

loud pike
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That's what the kids call it, right?

deft pewter
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Trains?! They're too modern too! Stick with dragging him along behind a good old-fashioned tractor and he might be happy.

loud pike
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Sadly I don't think HA has integration for a horse and buggy.

clear ferry
loud pike
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More fun dumb shit in amazon news... "Hey, do you want a set of drill bits?" "yes." "Ten of them" "Sure." "And they're all the same size." "...... hol up Why."

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Seriously, who tf sells a set of drill bits where it's just 10 of the exact same bit. 😛

deft pewter
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People with zero confidence in the strength of their bits

loud pike
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Which is WEIRD to me, they're cobalt bits, they should be sturdy. 😛

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Eh. Not like I need more right now anyway, they keep sending me conical bits that refuse to die XD

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Recent project involved coring out a hole in some square steel tubing for a rivnut. I expected it to be fussy. Cut right through like butter. Which was.... mildly terrifying.

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(Also no, it was not galvanized square steel with eco friendly wood veneer, built to last for ten thousand years.)

deft pewter
loud pike
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I may be an ordained minister, but I'm not clergy.

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So I don't require becoming Holey.

forest edge
unborn merlin
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the train with civil war era braking technology? /s

forest edge
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as the old saying goes, It's colder than a witches titty outside

forest edge
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@tidal bronze Fires, mudslides and now plane crashes left and right.. you just can't win can you

red rock
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This plane crash is interesting

narrow marlin
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Hello great people, I seem for the god of me not be able to flash my Skyconnect away from ezsp. Where would be my best bet in order to look for help here on the channel?

unborn merlin
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damn we're exporting our incompetence now? good to know.

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... also a plane flipped upside down just looks so wrong

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... like how the hell does that happen with the wings (even the broken parts) sticking out..

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unborn merlin
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so.. probably a barrel roll of some sort but like.. how the fuck with the wings in the way?

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see at least one snapped off seemingly in the images; can't see the other side.

tidal bronze
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are the wings not designed in a way to be the point of failure so they snap off instead of scrapping along and setting on fire (with fuel in them)

unborn merlin
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I don't.. know? 🤔

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i am sure a video will surface soon enough

unborn merlin
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but like; I assume the pressure of being pressed up like that is about the same pressure it experiences during flight?

forest edge
unborn merlin
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also tiny plane judging by some video of people next to it.. still wild

tidal bronze
forest edge
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unborn merlin
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relatively speaking

shell basalt
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it just wants belly rubs!

solar zealot
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it didnt boing

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i feel like this is false advertisement and people should sue

keen bridge
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But aside from the missing wings and engines, it looks to be mostly in one piece?

solar zealot
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have fun explaining that to the insurance

unborn merlin
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depends.. is this a boeing again?

keen bridge
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I'm not saying it's in good condition, but it could be worse?

shell basalt
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"that'll buff out"

solar zealot
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brand new, i know what i have no low ball offers

unborn merlin
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ah nope, not boeing

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so boeing can breathe a sigh of relief for onmce.

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keen bridge
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Yeah, that's about as good as it's going to get isn't it?

unborn merlin
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well.

There's also the option of "not crashing" as well.. but judging by how regulatory bodies are going over in the USA right now I doubt thats gonna be the thing we do. 😛

keen bridge
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For a crash, obviously not crashing is the ideal

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plane crashes tend to be mostly "all or nothing" either all hands are lost or everyone is okay aside a couple of broken bones.
if you were to look at "people involved in a plane crash" thee chance of fatalty is probably lower then you would think

ocean oar
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Given that most of the people walked off the plane, say that went mostly as well as a crash landing can

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That photo is a still from this passenger's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oez5ARLtxdI
Can see people being helped down out of the doors

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Fuck that looks cold though. Snow on the ground, wind chill, and firefighters spraying the plane. People did not look dressed for it

red rock
solar zealot
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They will not receive a refund as they reached their destination

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are we at the "nobody is dead its okay to make jokes" position? i firmly beleive in "no such thing as "too soon"" but this gets me in trouble sometimes

sage cedar
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I'm going to have to bring my beer inside soon 😕

ocean oar
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Yeah that wind chill figure ain't no picnic

shell basalt
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tell ya what tho ... if I learned anything from this plane crash... that seat belt is staying the fudge on until we get to the gate!

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(still refuse to put my phone in airplane mode tho)

simple gazelle
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Yuuuup, and make sure it's properly tightened too

shell basalt
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i wonder if those that were seriously hurt had seat belts on or not

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morbid curiosity, but I doubt they'll release that info

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shell basalt
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it really depends on the length of the flight and how soon I can get a charger too, because leaving the phone in the mode that seeks out cell service can drain the battery pretty quick

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to add to the tackiness, I AM playing Rush's YYZ ..

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ah good, i was just wondering how long the passengers that walked away are going to have to wait for their luggage.

tidal bronze
shell basalt
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get hammered anyway

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thats what the secondary oncall is for

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"weather uh interefered with me getting the page"

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speaking of oncall.. they're gonna put me on the oncall rotation soon 😦

forest edge
shell basalt
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previous job, I was on-call 24/7 .. but the number of incidents were extremely rare

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well the former, you discuss with your team.. the latter... thats your own damned fault

tidal bronze
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On call is not a valid reason for not to be hammered

shell basalt
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"dont use that printer"

forest edge
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nerds oncall.. what a funny concept

crisp oriole
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I had a system dev that keept a dieing disk beeping because it was raid and he had other stuff to do. 2nd disk died 2 hours after the 1st one.

same could happen to the printers

tidal bronze
ocean oar
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Our printers are (mercifully) a service. Just like when Office 365 is down (again), when someone calls out of hours you can say "I'll make a ticket with the vendor during business hours"

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As they should be too, infernal fucking devices

forest edge
dusty gale
shell basalt
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giggity

ocean oar
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Work ones are Sharp. Being only an occasional consumer of the printers (other people in my team manage the print server, and dealings with the printer service contract is another team entirely), just don't have to care

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I push button, and most of the time it delivers what I want

tidal bronze
forest edge
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true dat

tidal bronze
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I don't have a single thing that's gold. Well, other than an index lol

shell basalt
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covers up his bullion

forest edge
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got a few things that are gold. gotta have something to barter with once the economy tanks and paper money is no longer worth anything

shell basalt
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ie, next week

tidal bronze
normal moon
tidal bronze
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39F what am I doing here?

normal moon
ocean oar
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Your commitment to the scientific process is commendable, nevertheless

forest edge
normal moon
forest edge
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oh i remember the evening. hard to forget lol

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don't eat Italian before you get that shit faced.. the scene in the bathroom looks horrific

tidal bronze
forest edge
forest edge
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@tidal bronzeare you ready to fly over yet?

static schooner
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Fortunately he'll streak across the sky and not even notice you

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Little ant blur on the ground somewhere in flyover country

forest edge
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he will be flying the wrong direction

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be more like flying at a stand still

tidal bronze
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Door dash and midnight beef soup

peak slate
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Confuse the land dwellers

forest edge
civic citrus
clear ferry
civic citrus
forest edge
civic citrus
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Only Celsius exists Kappa

forest edge
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so about 10 degrees warmer than me.. lucky you lol

civic citrus
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So about 6C difference

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😉

forest edge
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we're talking about ambient temps.. not some pc part.. so we use fahrenheit

civic citrus
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Rest of the world

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Celsius

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MURICA Fahrenheit

forest edge
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we want our numbers to match what we are feeling.. not overinflate the reality lol

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Celsius is really only useful for keeping our part temps down to 2 digits

clear ferry
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Imagine having a scale that goes below zero when water freezes and above 100 when water boils

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Such nonsense

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We don't need that kind of logic in our lives

forest edge
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you must really hate Kelvin then

clear ferry
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No, but noone uses kelvin for day to day life