the-water-cooler

[static sluice]

Quoth the raven: "eat my shorts"

[high remnant]

welp tomorrowland is cancelled

[low niche]

Did you have any issues updating viz z2m? This is my first Hue update I've received since ditching the bridge last year, don't really want to update if it might break something

[fathom sparrow]

I've never had any issues updating hue devices

[fringe bramble]

Howdy

[arctic quarry]

just updated like 17 devices via z2m, mostly Hue I think. did them 2-3 at a time

[fringe bramble]

I'm starting my small-ish home automation journey, beginning by finding dimmable RGB lightbulbs! Next step, probably coding something with an arduino to control a LED sign that lets me write whatever custom garbage I want on it, like "Knock before entering, live on Twitch, we need more toilet paper" and other dumb phrases

[scenic radish]

https://tenor.com/view/shitter-shitters-ful-snow-unclogging-gif-17419118

[fringe bramble]

Or yeah shitter's full I guess could go on there

Right now I'm comparing the different prices for RGB dimmable lightbulbs and from my research Phillips Hue is the most recommended but a 3 pack is like 169.99$ CAD

[dawn badge]

can start a thread in #1284966353798697001 with the recommendations tag.

[clear ferry]

I've updated a couple of hundred devices via Zigbee2mqtt for the last 6 years, never had an issue

[high remnant]

wait you guys update zigbee devices

[clear ferry]

Yes

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/view/bye-felicia-hiding-humiliated-leave-me-alone-girl-bye-gif-21567771

[clear ferry]

Gr8 when an update makes a device 3.0

Thanks ikea

[high remnant]

3.0?

[clear ferry]

Yes

You heard me

[fringe bramble]

All I know from home automation I've learned from LTT videos and, I'ma be honest, I didn't learn much

[clear ferry]

Condolences if you have to watch that useless piece of megabyte for anything

[fringe bramble]

I just watch for entertainment really. Usually if I have any tech questions I go in other corners of the internet

[clear ferry]

If he only was entertaining that would make sense

[visual walrus]

Thank you for being a Nest Aware subscriber. We wanted to let you know that the price of your Nest Aware subscription for xx will soon increase from $80 a year to $100 a year (plus applicable taxes).

So uh... anybody done the shift from Nest Cameras to something more HA friendly lately?

Frigate and..... Reolink? Any other contenders?

[clear ferry]

You guys pay for IoT?

Frigate and $30 Chinese ip cameras go brrrrr

Throw in a google coral for good measure

[visual walrus]

legacy Nest Cams from 5+ years ago, but they've doubled the cloud storage price over 5 years with no value added

[primal laurel]

LTT doesn't really know anything

[fringe bramble]

That's why I watch for entertainment 😉

[scenic radish]

Dahua / Amcrest

[dawn badge]

I didn't learn much
sounds like LTT 😛

[visual walrus]

Amcrest as an alternative to Reolink, or does it work better with Home Assistant?

[scenic radish]

alternative to reolink

[weak musk]

I mean “what not to do” is valuable

[dawn badge]

fair point

[hoary canyon]

Another vote for Reolink here

There is a little compatibility issues with Frigate NVR if you plan on using that afaik with some cameras though

I haven’t had really any major issues with my Reolink doorbell though

[visual walrus]

I need to learn about running Frigate. I have a HA Green and a low spec raid5 media server.

[scenic radish]

yeah I like the Reolink PoE doorbell, but there is about a 3 sec delay with two-way audio in frigate

all of my wired cams are Amcrest flashed with Dahua firmware

[visual walrus]

Nest doorbell is about the same with that delay.

As a tl;dr question, I would run frigate on docker somewhere and have the NVR input content to it? Or have the cameras directly input content?

[hoary canyon]

The speaker on the doorbell gets pretty loud also so I’m not really worried about a slight delay, I figure they’ll hear it worst case if they start walking away

[hoary canyon]

Frigate would be the NVR

the cameras would stream directly to it

[visual walrus]

so buying the reolink nvr wouldn't get me any closer to utilizing frigate.

[hoary canyon]

Not really

you have to self host frigate

[visual walrus]

got it. thanks.

[hoary canyon]

Probably best to make a thread in #1284966353798697001 so the off topic channel doesn’t get derailed also 😛

[visual walrus]

yeah sorry. this is going to be the hot topic of the day as of about 45 minutes ago.

[fringe bramble]

Good call, done that just now

[zealous fog]

hoping this is a quick fix, I can make a post about it if it is preferred, but is there a way to get the name text to wrap?? Thanks!

[scenic radish]

#1284965988642590891

[zealous fog]

merp ok

[solid sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/im-here-for-moral-support-ash-tulloch-olympics-im-here-to-support-you-im-your-supporter-gif-24959068

[zealous fog]

i despise the thread style lol. i just want to chat with people!

just posted. thanks

[solid sorrel]

100% agree but no chatting HA here or the pitchforks come out. I wonder if a "self support" room would help or would it just become a nightmare, I don't know. Would be nice to have somewhere, if not here, to chat with others

[zealous fog]

i agree. for instance if I am working through a panel or something I will have a few questions about multiple things. flooding the dashboards isn't gonna entice people to help me...

I have also posted questions that get 0 response which is frustrating

[solar zealot]

if no one can help, then no one can help

[zealous fog]

I think it is a visibility thing for me.

I'm not arguing with you just seems like there is more engagement when there is a common place to talk.

[solar zealot]

more engagement without it being focused on helping specifics is as good as no engagement

the threaded variant exists because it more easily keeps people on topic and cut out the noise

[zealous fog]

i can see and agree with keeping that topic both searchable and concise.

[minor bobcat]

Most topics can be answeredby search

[peak slate]

It was such a flood of questions that like 90% went unanswered

Because the torrent buried them immediately

[minor bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/sacha-baron-cohen-great-success-yay-gif-4185058

I've had great success with a search engine called google

[zealous fog]

I'm not a coder so while google usually gets me close my yaml is still broken lol

[static schooner]

no need to be a coder

[solid sorrel]

oh I totally understand the need for it in here, I'm just wondering if an additional room for those that do wanna try that way but I get it

[solar zealot]

an additional room would just make it the regular room and we be back at where we started

this is also why the channel is specifically not called general

[low niche]

Thanks!

[solid sorrel]

I get why you're saying that, couldn't you just not go in it? haha

[peak slate]

Though #raccoons would be a good name for it most days

[solid sorrel]

but yeah, rules come from reasons, I get it

[low niche]

Thank you!

[minor bobcat]

The additional room would have constant reminders to stay on-topic

[solid sorrel]

Maybe someone else can make a free for all server for the chaos

[solar zealot]

no we like to help people with little chaos

[solid sorrel]

you know what I mean haha, the current threads approach I just find a black hole but maybe that's just a me problem

[minor bobcat]

We learned yesterday that everyone has enough chaos at home lol

[solid sorrel]

very true

[arctic quarry]

I wouldn't be opposed to naming it Chaos Assistant

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-stay-on-target-y-wing-gold5-gif-5204982

[solar zealot]

I'm not really seeing how it would be a black hole. It's not as good searchable as the real forum because Google doesn't index discord chats, but it is quite easy to figure out wether you have the knowledge that one of the unanswered threads needs

and if people don't know how to help you, you get no answer as opposed to something that is potentially unnecessary or dangerous even

[static schooner]

do not lick the raccoon

[solar zealot]

sounds like big dumpster doesn't want us to

[solid sorrel]

Totally, I understand that, like I say, it's partially due to me getting used to Discord. Of the 5 things I did post in the support channel, it unpinned them all so it took me ages to even find my own posts to update them... yeah, I know...me problem

[lone dagger]

Big Dumpster trying to devalue the precious babies.

[solid sorrel]

An impossible dream would be a room where you can chat about HA issues to sound things out and learn from how others do it but that is 10000% impossible to do without it becoming a support room lol

Anyway, back to the racoons

https://tenor.com/view/pike-raccoon-clap-happy-gif-16415223

[static schooner]

make a post and it becomes a chat for exactly that

anyway, indeed, the raccoons

[solid sorrel]

yeah, not quite the live discussion I mean but yes, racoons damnit!

Show me those racoons

[primal laurel]

Nobody makes forum posts to discuss particular topics, it's all support

[weak musk]

You could be the first!

[primal laurel]

nah I dont want to make it seem I support the current layout 🤣

[weak musk]

https://tenor.com/view/raccoon-drinking-beer-raccoon-meme-raccoon-beer-raccoon-drinking-raccoon-gif-11108347521867034834

[dawn marlin]

At the old place we rented there was a really chunky raccoon and my partner loves them as much as I do so she tried to toss a hotdog to it and it got scared and we never saw it again :(

[minor bobcat]

Unsolicited hot dog

[simple gazelle]

@last cedar 🍞

[robust flicker]

Yes. It's raining. Yes it's still 93F (or 33.9C)

[high remnant]

[flint jungle]

Lol thats like someone is just dumping lukewarm bath water on you

Edit, moving to #1284966353798697001

[hidden vault]

the channels here arent marked very well @flint jungle i ran into that too

they want to be able to tell you where to go

[flint jungle]

There used to be more general chats until we moved to threads. I understand the thought process but this doesn’t seem to warrant an individual hardware thread 🤷‍♂️. I’ll post there so I don’t derail water cooler talk haha.

Shoot yeah just saw Rob’s message above

[static schooner]

The one about not licking the raccoons? Yeah, definitely don't do that

[dawn marlin]

👅 👉

[clear ferry]

[minor bobcat]

My heating just turned on because it dropped under 16°C 61°F lol

[lone dagger]

It's only 87F (30C) here right now.

[ocean oar]

"only"

[weak musk]

we're going to be wishing for 87* in a few years

https://tenor.com/view/makes-me-feel-young-again-fogell-superbad-brings-back-the-good-old-days-mclovin-gif-13728976562036270904

[lone dagger]

Time to go live in the moon lava tunnels.

[weak musk]

or hell, the Earth's lava tunnels

[fathom sparrow]

you're all lava tunnels

[lone dagger]

No, we don't deserve that.

[static schooner]

🔥 literally

[weak musk]

can we vote on that?

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-office-politics-political-deangelo-gif-24986051

[lone dagger]

YOU BROUGHT IT UP

[weak musk]

I"M SELF CORRECTING OK

[static schooner]

I was about to say -- we...did

[fathom sparrow]

I vote you guys go check the temperature in the lava tunnels

[weak musk]

What unit do you want us to measure in?

[fathom sparrow]

doesn't matter, just try to get the temperature

[weak musk]

https://tenor.com/view/george-michael-sad-walk-walk-of-shame-gif-14543703

[peak slate]

Ignite Yellowstone volcano, black out the sun, become urukhai, invade gondor

That's the real plan we should take

[ocean oar]

If you fail with Yellowstone too, we have a nice backup here in NZ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taupō_Volcano

[peak slate]

Let's light them both up at the same time for the glory of mordor

[ocean oar]

I grew up in that part of the country, so pretty much 80% of school field trips were to the volcanic fields

[forest edge]

I do nothing for the glory of california

[ocean oar]

Big takeaways:
a) we really don't install adequate fencing around holes in the ground (in public locations) with water in the bottom of them that's close to 110C
b) there's a sudden, horrible realisation when you're standing on the lakeshore and the horizon is not flat in any direction of "oh, I'm in the volcano" 😄

[lone dagger]

I've been in a volcano there's nothing horrifying about that!

🤩

[ocean oar]

Visiting volcanoes was a popular activity here. Then 22 people died when one of them went off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island_eruption

[peak slate]

We watched a show about that, the most horrifying part is it is something the wife and I would've absolutely done

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge is this the bubble you always talk about?

[forest edge]

@tidal bronze oh here we go

lol you all get B12 shots when your sick?

[tidal bronze]

Is there anything else?

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/dumb-and-dumber-uh-yeah-jim-carrey-durr-gif-17557827642477210431

[static schooner]

1-11, duh

[forest edge]

almost read that as 9-11..

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge did you get "your" labubu?

[forest edge]

wut

[static schooner]

That can't not sound dirty

[tidal bronze]

I think GTS is more like Exciting Macaron

[forest edge]

assume this is some stupid california thing you are refering to

[tidal bronze]

Come on man, I thought you already grabbed your labubu

[forest edge]

yea no. the dumber a trend is in california the shorter the distance it expands outward

course decoy probably has the whole set

being the cali fan boi he is

[desert cave]

If it helps, I'm in cali and I have no idea what QF is talking about lol

[tidal bronze]

You should get one to ease your jealousy 😁

[forest edge]

don't think they are allowed outside your state

[static schooner]

looks like future landfill material

[unborn merlin]

i have the 40ft ladder I need now..

now I can put my heat pump in tomorrow.

fuck the weather. 😄

[lone dagger]

PLEASE DON'T DIE INFINITE

YOU'RE ENTERTAINING

[static schooner]

it's hotter as you get closer to the sun on your 40ft ladder

[unborn merlin]

I don't do stuff when its not safe. will be ratchet-strapping the ladder into place.. 😄

[static schooner]

BTW, 40ft looks a whole lot different from the top

[unborn merlin]

i'm fully aware.

probably only going up.. 30 or so?

probably less.

currently trying to figure out why someones goddamned ACME is failing to get a goddamn DNS thing going..

[west glen]

Currently trying to make some WiZ matter bulbs actually work

[elder ivy]

Oi guys do you think I could rig some kind of smart speaker to one of these things as a Halloween deocration?

[dawn badge]

probably, might be more of a discussion for #the-workshop though

[elder ivy]

Got it thank you 🫡

[elder ivy]

Also you would consider these to be insanely cursed?

[dawn badge]

probably 🙂

[forest edge]

yay to the WFH movement
https://youtu.be/0JlDzlX0Uqw?si=HDSbM_yPX98KHw9X

[clear ferry]

The thing with "stealing" a job is, you can think AI will just do your job for you, but good luck trying to replace actual IT skills with an AI

Regular first line stuff, sure, why not

but then again those can be replaced with an excel macro

[clear ferry]

why don't you have a pair of these @lone dagger ?

[molten glacier]

Have any one build a "Night Stand Alarm clock - look alike" that is a full HA - client... I am thinking to use a PI som some sort.. a E-ink display, temp-humit censor mayby a pm2.5, speeker, mic..

[clear ferry]

Seen lots of people do that with WS2812 or similar arrays

[ocean oar]

Just for one night stand, or both sides of the bed?

[molten glacier]

my plan was for one.. but now you got me thinking 🙂

no only one.. I do not think money let me build for 2.

[ocean oar]

Alright I should have done better with the joke 🤣

Was hoping the double entendre of "one night stand" would land, it did not. Sorry

[molten glacier]

sorry my Dislexia led that one slip by..

[clear ferry]

I don't have dyslexia, and it slip by me too

so it was qupadas poor joke

[high remnant]

I keep procrastinating creating my "button" to turn everything off at my house. I want it at my bedside, I have everyting I need I just need to solder and print stuff

pls someone force me to

[molten glacier]

@ocean oar I am to old, to think that much about S_x

@clear ferry do you have a link to some one that has made a description of there project ?

[clear ferry]

https://github.com/Resinchem/LED-Matrix-Clock_WS2812b

Lots of examples out there

esp matrix clock

with esphome you can easily pull in data from HA to the matrix too

[molten glacier]

🙂

[forest edge]

damnit shelly is going to make me have to make a damn post

[last cedar]

Probably raised with cats! ❤️

[last cedar]

I can confirm this is great advice

[crisp oriole]

Little kiddo: playing with my home assistant.
Repeating question.

• oke nabu. Why do you sound like a train if you start?

[clear ferry]

DING DONG

NEXT STATION

WATERLOO

GET OFF HERE FOR THE PICADILLY LINE AND CIRCLE

[primal laurel]

duiven = pigeons

[forest edge]

first forum post I have made in awhile

[stuck anchor]

i need an ac unit that can cool at least one of my home assistant areas. preferrably the one called "outdoor"

[forest edge]

here you go

https://www.amazon.com/TORRAS-COOLiFY-Cyber・2024-Conditioner-Rechargeable/dp/B0CWV1WJ7F

[stuck anchor]

the dogs want the whole garden cooled. when border collies say it's too hot...

[primal laurel]

try a tree

[stuck anchor]

i have trees. lots of trees. but border collies are made for running, not sitting under a shade tree. 😄

the schäfer/labrador mix loves grass in the shade under a tree

[forest edge]

invest in canine VR

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/bnHpb.gif

[solid sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-it-have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-on-again-telephone-on-call-gif-15495555

[dawn marlin]

I need to make a giant matrix sign at some point

[solid sorrel]

yes, turning humans "of" isn't a good plan

turning them "on" can also have unexpected outcomes

[dawn marlin]

[clear ferry]

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-cat-bunny-shake-head-gif-24738682

[stuck anchor]

turning them on again seems to cause either apocalypses or religions.

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/EotZ.gif

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/that-felt-so-good-randy-marsh-south-park-informative-murder-porn-season17ep02-gif-19529906

[solid sorrel]

New season coming soon...it's gunna be an interesting one!

[iron granite]

Well... actually...

This is basically what a defibrillator does.

-# Well - the off part. The on part is by itself or drugs.

[crisp oriole]

If you try use a defibrillator to turn a human off 1st. You go to jail.

Well you should go to jail.

[iron granite]

I did that several times.

Not doing it would have been a death sentence for those people.

[crisp oriole]

But then they arnt in a proper on state

[iron granite]

That's more a philosophical question.

[crisp oriole]

Anyway the most automatic defibrillators dont zap you if your heart is oke

[crisp oriole]

Omg are we in agreement?

Mental support is allowed in this channel. Life should be great.

[scenic radish]

[lone dagger]

You read what he said.

[robust flicker]

The best way to determine mental state is to ask for two letters to complete this: "Life's a b__ch." If they say E A, then they don't need mental support. But as it always does IT always implies a need for mental support....

[peak slate]

As an IT worker, the only answer is always IT

[iron granite]

Try to be an EA worker.

[scenic radish]

life's a bench

[peak slate]

I technically work in EA, but not the one you're thinking of

(our branch is under the EA main branch at our company)

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/lolol-gif-19769086

https://tenor.com/view/sports-ea-sports-madden-madden-26-madden-2026-gif-4471051563626893774

[elder ivy]

Bet it's going to be another dumpster fire

[robust flicker]

ate wayyyy too much So we have this contractor who maintains all the UPSs for the county. And when he's in town, he always wants to buy lunch for the whole department. And about halfway through the lunch I brought from home, one of our coworkers says he's here today, and I'm like "crap" because the guy is old enough to be my grandpa, and he's gonna be insulted if I beg off.... So needless to say, I ate two lunches today, back to back....

And I know, from looking at me, that it looks like I can do that with no issues, but, oof. I ate too much. 🤣

[solar zealot]

you sure he maintains the ups and not the lunch ;D

[ocean oar]

I always look forward to the pre-Xmas lunch with our UPS service vendor, they obviously charge us enough that they always splash out on it

[dawn marlin]

Reminds of me going to tech conferences for education and vendors racking up $20k liquor tabs

[ocean oar]

Most hilarious lunch definitely was definitely the time I was going out with our TSE from Arista at the same time the datacentre team were going out with the managers from the electrical supply company. They were being picked up a vehicle you might describe as a bit bogan (look up the word, it doesn't exactly translate out of NZ/AU English); a Holden Commodore. My guy came in his Maserati 🤣

They admitted to some jealousy

[iron granite]

Uninterruptable protein supply

[solar zealot]

[robust flicker]

The US word is "a bit redneck"

[ocean oar]

I don't quite see them the same, but it's probably the closest you're going to get

[clear ferry]

I loved the Opel Commodore

And the Senator

Albeit 80s models

[ocean oar]

Yeah, nothing so retro. This generation

[primal laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aweFS-qQz9o

this is one big r/DiWHY

[unborn merlin]

a good chunk of that is poorly firmware supported switches he already has and etc.. 😄

[primal laurel]

sunk cost fallacy

rip it all out and start over, you fucked up

[desert cave]

and he can certainly afford to

[unborn merlin]

I mean he's getting those kickass innovelli mmwave switches early and etc..

[primal laurel]

https://youtu.be/aweFS-qQz9o?feature=shared&t=572

^ at least he's honest

[young sigil]

And the rest is Jake's shitty templates. Guy does not do jinja well at all.

[ocean oar]

TBH at this point I can only assume they're doing it wrong deliberately because you get at least three videos out of that

One doing it wrong
A second complaining about it being broken
And a third fixing it

[lone dagger]

I actually think this is the third one. Because he last did a video about his wife hating his smart home.

Yeah that was the same video.

😂

[primal laurel]

you should do a collaboration video with LTT where you fix all his dumb garage, climate and light controls and setup a proper HA system

[lone dagger]

Do you mean me personally?

[primal laurel]

I meant whoever from NC would like to

[lone dagger]

(we're at the foundation now 😅)

I'd do it just to prove that they really do suck at it if I can fix and improve things. 😆

[primal laurel]

you know like Homestead Rescue

but Home Assistant Rescue 😂

[high remnant]

there’s always that single light bulb that doesn’t want to turn off

it’s driving me insane

[primal laurel]

tuya

[high remnant]

nah zigbee ikea

it’s always one of three

https://tenor.com/view/always-alwaysyouthree-harrypotter-rascals-hooligans-gif-21933813

[unborn merlin]

good news missy I managed not to hurt myself installing the indoor AC unit! /s

.. now the outside unit's turn.

[leaden summit]

hey yall real quick, which is the configuration which shows longer term history? Is that the recorder, or influxdb?

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/cabbit-speech-bubble-mrow-cat-bunnie-gif-5318105111208430918

officially the best gif on the internet

[forest edge]

new Tron movie actually looks promising

not too sure about Karl Urban playing Johnny Cage in the Mortal Kombat sequel tho

[scenic radish]

Ah yes, "fiber-speed" internet

Saw this in an apartment I delivered to tonight lol

Is it 1000 Mbps? Is it 200 Mbps? No clue, but regardless it's fiber so it's F I B E R S P E E D

[scenic radish]

C O T T O N S P E E D

[robust flicker]

stares in alabama fields

[static schooner]

Those fibers famously wick away moisture. Who knows how fast they convey bits

[forest edge]

the not needing a modem in the unit is kind of nice.

[scenic radish]

Yeah it's becoming more common these days around me

[forest edge]

they must mount those fiber to lan boxes in a massive boxes outside the building and run a single line to each unit

[robust flicker]

In other news, I should have my new-to-me server case, and other related things to rebuild my proxmox/HA/plex server.. My plan is to eventually have 6x8TB SAS drives, but at first i'll only have 3x8, and i'm trying to decide if I go ahead and create a 12TB-usable capacity raidz2 using 8x3+3x3 drives, or a 16TB-usable-cap raidz1 using just the 3 8TBs, and set the 3s aside...

[forest edge]

skipping that convo. my server is long overdue for a drive issue and while I have a backup it's still not fun dealing with swapping out the drive

[robust flicker]

@forest edge Yeah. I feel you there, that's why I have a 3bay hotswap cage... which is why I"m leaning towards the 3way raidz1 until I get another cage

[forest edge]

even bought a replacement drive like 3 or 4 years ago in anticipation of an issue and now all this talk is going to give me bad luck

[weak musk]

And you can always break some bones even if you don’t fix the setup.

[unborn merlin]

welll this is what I get for waking up late..

not having time to finish before its too dark to be doing drilling at the next step..

[scenic radish]

INFINITY

[lone dagger]

I'd love to break a bone on a large content creator's channel 🤩🤩🤩

[scenic radish]

BE CAREFUL

[unborn merlin]

indoor units mounted and lineset is attached..

[unborn merlin]

do you not see the ratchet straps that are holding the ladder?

[forest edge]

so you have a window right there

[scenic radish]

BE

CAREFUL

[forest edge]

why bother with a split unit

[lone dagger]

Logged on to Infinite being a loon again.

[unborn merlin]

a loon? 😛

its perfectly safe. 😛

[scenic radish]

I hate ladders

[unborn merlin]

as do i

[scenic radish]

Extension more than a frame at least

[unborn merlin]

I needed help to get the ladder into place because that bitch is a 40ft ladder

[scenic radish]

Yeah that's wild

[unborn merlin]

but after that I'm good alone

because its ratchet strapped down and is going nowhere

[scenic radish]

Did you pull on it and say the magic phrase?

that's not going anywhere

[unborn merlin]

I'm reminded of this meme now

https://vxtwitter.com/CenturiiC/status/1795107744258666652?

centurii-chan (@CenturiiC)

What to do when an OSHA inspector tries to steal your license

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 27, 2024, 3:00 PM

[scenic radish]

Get forked, idiot

[unborn merlin]

funny part was in one of the replies.

https://vxtwitter.com/MouseyMedic/status/1795110190649344018

Dr Frederik Priskorn (@MouseyMedic)

↪️ Replying to @CenturiiC

@CenturiiC Perfect ad placement

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 27, 2024, 3:09 PM

would it be safer to have a pro come do it? sure

would it cost more than the fucking unit itself costed?

Almost certainly.

[forest edge]

could you have just used a window unit and it be cheaper, easier and just as efficient? for sure.

[scenic radish]

Back at it again lol

[forest edge]

should use an ash tray. you are getting burn marks on the bar

[scenic radish]

I like bars for the social aspect, but I do enjoy being able to drink for cheaper at home

[forest edge]

no happy hour?

[scenic radish]

Wut?

Oh yeah it's happy hour at this place now

[forest edge]

been so long since I been to a bar where I had to pay that not sure if they even do those kinds of events anymore

best kind of people

[scenic radish]

90 min before close with a special food menu too

Place right next door to me

[forest edge]

just ask the people at the bar. they will back me up

[clear ferry]

all the men were buying you drinks ?

[clear ferry]

You should come to norway then, last I checked a beer at a bar was $17

excuse me what

[forest edge]

just got to the age where I had friends who owned the bars. shame though cause by that point I was older and not so much of a vistor

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/qDleGjtWKua.gif

[forest edge]

listening to a german girl complain about their own illegal immigrant issues on youtube is fucking hard to follow. even with closed captions turned on

[high remnant]

Its a motorcycle meme

something about americans

[clear ferry]

yeah I found the knowyourmeme article eventually

like wtf, OH NO GRASS ON THE ROAD

https://tenor.com/bXhNJ.gif

[high remnant]

yeah I don't want to be rude but american motorcycle culture is weird

most of the "influencers" spew nonsense and cannot ride to save their live.

[forest edge]

lol

[high remnant]

hur dur dont start on a leeeeeder bike

https://tenor.com/2TXT.gif

[forest edge]

the "bikers" you see on youtube/tiktok are nubs

[high remnant]

ikr

but also the majority on /r/motorcycles

[forest edge]

but at that age, not so sure it's any diffrent in any other country

[high remnant]

Yesn't

Ofc we have the local equivalent of gixxerbrah but we also have some semi-decent requirements for a motorcycle driverslicense

[forest edge]

like what

our motorcycle test isn't exactly a breeze

least it wasn't when I took it

[high remnant]

What country ware you from

[forest edge]

american

[high remnant]

I may be misinformed but when I compared to the German or Dutch test it was a breeze

[forest edge]

no idea what the diffrences would be

our test is a dumbed down version of the police motorcycle test

you gotta really get through those cones lol

[high remnant]

2 practical exams and 1 written exam. You have to perform a whole bunch of motorcycle ability tests like slow slalom, turns, stops and evasion exercises

[clear ferry]

I checked a few years ago when I went to the US if I were to rent a caravan

[forest edge]

we have that

[clear ferry]

apparently I can drive a 18t caravan in the US

[forest edge]

the riding part is not split into 2 things

[clear ferry]

with my 3.5t driverslicence in norway

[high remnant]

its split in to three parts :)

and its also split into CC/Kw requirements

[forest edge]

is it combined with what we would call a motorcycle training course?

cause that is an option here

[high remnant]

probably

[forest edge]

that is a multiple day, multiple maneuvers whole course

[high remnant]

yep, but its also mandatory lessons

[forest edge]

we have the option to skip doing that and just do the written and riding part

[high remnant]

nope you have to pass all three

[forest edge]

but you gotta know how to ride to pass

[high remnant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aheM31K45k&t=399s i think this explains it pretty well. At least one part of the entire exam

[forest edge]

when i was younger the best way to pass was to ride like a 250 cc bike. when you get into the bigger bikes it gets fucking hard lol

yea that looks like ours

that guy is riding what I would call a 250cc lol

[high remnant]

the other exam is legislation and the third one is verkeersdeelname traffic participation

I think he just took the A2 bike

[forest edge]

now picture doing that on a bike fatter, longer and probably 5x as heavy

[high remnant]

its doable :)

[forest edge]

oh i know it is

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/bn89a.gif

[high remnant]

Oh nah

I just find american bike culture funny and annoying at the same time

[forest edge]

motorcycles these days are smaller and thinner as is but most of the "influencers" you see on on social media are riding at most as 1000cc or even under

and those are the ones who can afford the insurance

all the other twats who can't have to riding a touring bike and not a sport bike cause the insurance is cheaper

[high remnant]

I mean the shouting about not starting on a 1000cc is such an american thing to do

[forest edge]

personally I liked my old honda 600

it was light, and fun

[high remnant]

yeah

[forest edge]

i like my R1 as well, but it's way heavier lol

[high remnant]

hehe

I didn't like the R1 tbh

the gear ratio annoyed me

[clear ferry]

I remember wanting a Honda Shadow when I was 16

but then I just waited and got a car instead

[high remnant]

the thing SUCKED to drive "slow"

which is fair enough

[forest edge]

may have been the year

mine is the first raven they made

I need to sell it

[high remnant]

Its probably that combined with our city speedlimits

[forest edge]

you mean the phantom?

I think shadow was the color

oh no i guess you are right

I didn't even know they made that

wtf.. why would you want an old man bike at 16?

[iron granite]

I still regret to have sold my Kawasaki GPZ500S. Was so nice to ride.

[high remnant]

buy it back!

[iron granite]

I would have to pay more than I did back then for a 30 years old bike. Mine was from 1994.

[forest edge]

be better to go from a 500cc to an electric bike anyways imo

[iron granite]

I got it (barely) used for 1.4k

[high remnant]

I ride too much to go to electric

[clear ferry]

I've been old since I was 12

[iron granite]

Back then, when the dinosaurs were invented.

[clear ferry]

Unlike when Jorg was 12 and the big bang was just around the corner

[iron granite]

Good old times.

[primal laurel]

t was a bit cold

[forest edge]

fat does not mean old

[mystic crescent]

But you can be both, dont let your dreams be dreams

[forest edge]

pretty sure @clear ferry is already living the "dream"

[mystic crescent]

Nice, im halfway to fat

So like 10% of a american

[robust flicker]

Not our fault we have good food like gumbo, jambalaya, macaroni and cheese, loaded BBQ baked potatoes, brisket tacos, and chili.....

[primal laurel]

it's the fast food and sugar drinks, not the regular stuff

[clear ferry]

Yes, I don't live in america, my dream has come true

[clear ferry]

gimme gimme gimme

[robust flicker]

I had a fried oyster poboy for lunch yesterday. Today I have grilled chicken breast with a baked potato, roasted asparagus, and a bit of sour cream for the potato.

Poboy is basically like a sub sandwich, but on French bread/baguette and will usually be fully dressed, with tomato slices, tartar sauce, a pickle slice, and lettuce. In addition to the sandwich I had Cajun rice. Which is basically rice, but with a bit more kick in it.

When Euros typically think of "American food" they usually leave out the most quintessential American food ever. Everything coming out of the upper Gulf Coast, usually associated with Louisiana, but tend to forget that when Louisiana food first started, "Louisiana" included all of the upper coast, including all of the Alabama and Mississippi coastlines. Hell, Mobile, Alabama was the original capital of the Louisiana colonial French territory.

[mystic crescent]

Some of it is good yes, but damn learn some moderation

[primal laurel]

we have (versions of) those things too, we just use different names

[scenic radish]

And sedentary lifestyles

[mystic crescent]

That is my main issue these days. too much time tinkering at my desk and not enough walking lol

[primal laurel]

and you need a car to get basically anywhere

anything under 10km I take my bike

[scenic radish]

Depends on where you live

[primal laurel]

and the way you zone cities also doesnt help. Big walmarts with massive parking lots

you dont find those here

[robust flicker]

The biggest issue here is a lot of cities didn't really start expanding until after the proliferation of the automobile. That's the problem with being a fairly new nation.

[scenic radish]

I can walk, bike, or take transit to pretty much anywhere I need/want to go

[primal laurel]

we had the exact same problem but around 1990 we started reversing all the space given to cars. It can be done

[scenic radish]

(US, Chicago)

[robust flicker]

But there's a pretty big push, nationwide, to undoing that. But it's not that easy to do to a city designed around the automobile.

[primal laurel]

look at my home town for example. 95% of kids would go to school by bike. If you came to school by car the other kids would look at you weirdly

[robust flicker]

It's happening here too, just not quickly.

[scenic radish]

Except that most US cities weren't initially designed for the car

They were demolished for it

[primal laurel]

same here

[robust flicker]

@scenic radish Oh, absolutely. my hometown used to have trolleys that went EVERYWHERE.

[scenic radish]

Such a shame too because it's possible to build communities where driving isn't the only option and where it's not at a level of density that some people are apparently so scared of

[robust flicker]

That's my hometown of Mobile.

[primal laurel]

oh there's an update, more trees now

[robust flicker]

And here it is, today

[primal laurel]

i've been to US but only NYC and surrounding area. I know that's like visiting NL and then only going to amsterdam. Seems like the perfect city to make walkable/cyclable, but you already have a good metro system

[robust flicker]

Yeah, NYC is ... Different from pretty much everywhere except other MAJOR cities in the US

And yeah, we're proud of our oak trees here..

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Hos6ETaBGRzF79oe6 feel free to explore. 🙂

[primal laurel]

trees are very important to any city

makes a massive difference in the ambient temperature

[robust flicker]

Yep. Makes our downtown much more comfortable, even during our sweltering summers. And we're on the coast, so there's usually a decent breeze coming off the water. Our biggest issue here is rain. Our yearly average rainfall is 66 inches. that's about 167cm of rainfall...

Almost all of which comes in the form of a daily thunderstorm during the warm months. 🤣

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT62JhWEY/

[clear ferry]

I remember when I went to Atlanta, and all the cab drivers were talking about they had discussed building a train system in atlanta for 20 years, but nothing happened

I even had to jaywalk to go out eating since I didn't have a car

and crossings were 4km apart

[dawn badge]

<@&330946878646517761>

[clear ferry]

don't tell on me @dawn badge

you ass

[iron granite]

Atx AGAIN?

[clear ferry]

[iron granite]

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/9YUR.gif

[primal laurel]

@ mod

[clear ferry]

@mød

one of the things I hate most about using american applications is that sometimes they just decide, fuck it, week starts on sunday

and I have to redo whatever I was doing, because I just selected the first day of the week

like, our time reporting software didn't do this, until now

I've clicked first day of the week for years

and now, it is sunday

hah, I put a space in the date field, and I couldn't use it anymore

little bobby drop tables

[crisp oriole]

Well the romans said fuck it we banned the sabat lets make sunday the last day when they adapted Christianity

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/bu59u.gif

[lone dagger]

Monday week starting is superior.

[abstract burrow]

Saturday and Sunday are both part of the weekend

[lone dagger]

Gonna create a role that is something stupid like "Thinks Weeks Start on Sundays" 🤣

-# for legal purposes, this is a joke

[primal laurel]

F fan vs C enjoyer

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/rick-and-morty-jerry-smith-gif-24816697

[clear ferry]

Classic indoctrination, blasphemy in the name of the calendar gods

https://tenor.com/view/agenda-let-me-check-my-agenda-whack-it-may-may-calendar-gif-13341497

https://tenor.com/view/purplecrumbs-thats-confidential-confidential-that-is-confidential-classified-gif-25667385

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-creed-bratton-loving-the-debate-great-minds-front-row-seat-gif-25644475

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/home-alone-home-alone2-lost-in-new-york-concierge-tim-curry-gif-27290801

[clear ferry]

He probably thinks fahrenheit is a superior scale too

[primal laurel]

go sit with the other F users

[clear ferry]

Ah, a Chimera

https://tenor.com/view/fma-nina-edward-gif-5031517

[iron granite]

Metric time

[primal laurel]

12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. still confuse me

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/coffee-vodka-betty-betty-white-5o-clock-gif-3634353940053562060

[primal laurel]

you swapped this somewhere in 2000s

[iron granite]

Schroedinger's hours.
12:00 is neither before nor after midday, 00:00 is before and after midday.

it should be 12 and 12ampm

[forest edge]

don't get why non americans have such a hard time with 12 hour clocks lol

confusion?

and how is 2pm confusing?

think about it logically in regards to a human's normal operation time frame

we spend most of our awake day during a 12 hour shift

using 24 hour clock makes sense for military but not traditional civilians

[primal laurel]

there are zero reasons to have a 12 hour clock

luckily most of the world figured that out

[forest edge]

must be why it still exists

and why even clocks made abroad offer it as an option

oh hey look. something i didn't know this convo brought to light. 18 countries use the 12 hour clock

[lone dagger]

18

lmfao

[forest edge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1eyg916/world_map_showing_the_usage_of_12_or_24hour_clock/

the 12 hour (orally) cracks me up lol

[clear ferry]

Reminds me about that US military missile or something that had a 12h internal clock and didn't function properly because the time was set by a sensible military operative that understands 24h clocks

Everything should be 24h, and Zulu time

[forest edge]

was it linux?

[solar zealot]

Yuck zulu

[clear ferry]

Probably, 99% of embedded systems are

[forest edge]

see there, thats the problem

[solar zealot]

Wouldn't have happened with windows 98

[forest edge]

like most euro's, linux gets stumped by am/pm

[clear ferry]

Spot the guy who doesn't know Linux

[solar zealot]

Me on my way scheduling a service appointment at 3 in the morning

[dawn badge]

yup, there is no reason for timezones to exist

[solar zealot]

You can schedule mine if you want

[clear ferry]

Timezones are fine for Regional adaptation, but logs and systems should always work in Zulu

[forest edge]

i'm all for doing away with time zones

as long as my state is the starting point

norwats don't need them anyways.. usually always day or always night anyways

[primal laurel]

aren't you living in like 1840? what timezone is that

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/rfk-rfk-jr-you-have-died-you-have-died-of-dysentery-oregon-trail-gif-8874670067573768562

[dawn badge]

UTC-185years

[static schooner]

Where they set their clocks to when the cows need to be milked

[forest edge]

actually cattle farmers rarely ever use clocks

[dawn badge]

the cows don't care what the clock says

[static schooner]

Neither do my cats

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/milking-the-bull-gif-6220916808569021369

[forest edge]

ishmal

[clear ferry]

I love that movie

[forest edge]

bill murray will be another good actor to bring back to life with future advanced ai

[clear ferry]

But he isn't dead

[forest edge]

yet

[clear ferry]

You are about the same age though

[forest edge]

I wish

[dawn badge]

if you still wanted to use a 12 hour clock after removing timezones. you could do it. you just set meridiem where it "should" be. you don't have to change meridiem at 12.
e.g. if meridiem is at 1700 then 1600 would be 4am and 1800 would be 6pm.
you could even rotate your clock and put that at the top if it makes you feel better. in this example putting the 5 at the top

[forest edge]

noway, europe should just be am right now

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/wentz-eagle-gif-10052648623344344969

[stuck anchor]

am? pm? wtf?

[forest edge]

it's like fractions.. things get a little too complex for some

no wonder those same people cannot spell the word color correctly

[glacial knot]

Americans?

[primal laurel]

what's the highest level of math you have completed?

[forest edge]

brown

[robust flicker]

@forest edge please, stop. You're making the rest of us old white Americans look bad.

[primal laurel]

don't worry, we know how special he is

[forest edge]

don't tell me you are a metric fan boi as well?

[robust flicker]

Yes. I love my 10mm.

[forest edge]

explains everything

[glacial knot]

numbers to 10

[forest edge]

you and decoy need to stop calling yourselves americans

maybe refer to yourselves as "lost" or something

[primal laurel]

you need to sniff some more asbestos

[forest edge]

here we go

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/metric-metric-band-bully-game-naughty-dog-gif-26272397

[robust flicker]

https://www.smith-wesson.com/product/performance-center-mp-10mm-pistol specifically, this one.

[glacial knot]

there's 10mm? I thought guns are 9mm o.0

the more you know

[primal laurel]

it's now about how many mm you have, it's about knowning how to use it

[dawn badge]

so it occurs to me that if there was an infinite amount of timezones. a specific time would move around the equator at about mach 1.35. so a supersonic jet could "freeze time" at least until they hit the dateline.

[high remnant]

my answer is the same anyway… im putting it in my mouth

[robust flicker]

True, but the only 9 I have found that actually fits my hand is a Ruger p89d.

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-kitten-suck-sucker-sucking-gif-13638182052461067209

[forest edge]

well this convo took a twist

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/vorzek-vorzneck-oglg-og-lol-gang-gif-24901093

[robust flicker]

Reminds me of my cousin
Did I mention I'm from Alabama today? 🤣

[high remnant]

im sorry

[high remnant]

everything reminds me of her?

[robust flicker]

Now I'm seeing that clip from Naked Gun playing in my mind. 🤣🤣😭😭

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/creed-the-office-creed-bratton-whos-your-worm-guy-worms-gif-23840202

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/enough-sister-margaret-son-of-a-critch-109-quiet-gif-25125627

[high remnant]

nice buns

couldnt find the gif :(

https://tenor.com/view/naked-gun-the-naked-gun-intergalactic-quality-intergalactic-naked-gun-nothing-to-see-here-gif-26797008

[stuck anchor]

a former colleague of mine studied mechanical engineering in the us. he was always one of the fastest solving problems in class, so his fellow students thought he was a math wiz.

his secret weapon? converting all inputs to metric and use the sane formulas, then converting the result back to weirdos.

[primal laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/saturday-night-live-maya-rudolph-snl-the-horror-horrified-gif-4550434

you... adjust... formulas.. for... what

[primal laurel]

this is how you crash rockets

[robust flicker]

To be fair, even nations who have never used the imperial system have still crashed rockets..

[primal laurel]

oh yeah, ESA ariana V5 crashed because of integer overflow

[robust flicker]

My family has hosted numerous exchange students over the years. Hell, for over a decade my parents were the southeast regional coordinators for the Educational Foundation for Foreign Exchange.

So I learned, over the years, to do quite a lot of C to. f and vice versa in my head. But I still find F better for temps relating to weather... Because the difference between 20C and 21C is pretty big compared to say 70 to 71.

[clear ferry]

I found Sonomas Twitter account

[forest edge]

oh?

isn't it X now?

[forest edge]

must be torture living in the states having to deal with all the imperial measurements in use

[robust flicker]

And meters to yards is, for all intents and purposes, a 1:1 ratio. So in my head to do feet/inches to metric, I just up it to yards and then move the decimal. 🤣

[forest edge]

thankfully people with more common sense remain in charge of those decisions lol

[robust flicker]

@warm helm Fun fact, the equipment that was going to be used was stolen by pirates en route to the US.

@forest edge so tough.

[forest edge]

i'm not against mixed labels

we learn both all the time

[robust flicker]

You learn? Huh. Amazing.

[forest edge]

ok then

one day we may move past some intolerances

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-enterprise-tpol-awkward-tea-gif-26124331

[peak slate]

Wait they didn't use metric by default? All my classes used metric units for everything except on occasion the problem text just to screw with you

[stuck anchor]

it was quite a few years ago. all those nice formulas butchered to work with units not designed to cooperate 😢

[primal laurel]

I study quite some material from stanford and MIT on EE topics in my spare time and I have never run into imperial units

[glacial knot]

are there even imperial units for EE? iirc. the Ampere is defined relative to the meter

[forest edge]

much of that stuff has always been metric

[clear ferry]

megawatts per football field

[solar zealot]

I don't think they use watts

They use murican thermal units

[clear ferry]

megachonks per mcdonalds

[forest edge]

?

[clear ferry]

forgot about that one

[solar zealot]

oh yea like the large boulder the size of a small boulder

[forest edge]

but you use megachonks..

[solar zealot]

Or 4 washing machines

[robust flicker]

I am an electronics systems analyst. We use watts, amps, and volts. Plus farads and ohms.

[forest edge]

the rest of the world must suck. not a single win?

[robust flicker]

And of course, we use k, M, m and the funky u which I have no keyboard equivalent for in this phone lol

[solar zealot]

How many rotary raccoons per square store does that make?

[glacial knot]

µ

[clear ferry]

You analyse in the prison ?

[robust flicker]

About 3.5 rrs to the megaohm

[clear ferry]

p

[scenic radish]

ű̵͆

[clear ferry]

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[robust flicker]

Jail. Prison is for long term convicts. Short term, and people awaiting trial are at a jail.

[clear ferry]

TIL

I'm not sure we have a distinction

We have something called varetekt, which is basically just sitting at the police station

[robust flicker]

But yeah. We have a lot of older analog access control stuff that can be finicky.

[primal laurel]

still not SI units! doesn't count!

[robust flicker]

@clear ferry that's basically what a jail is. But some of the larger cities or counties may also house short term inmates as well.

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/bONvt.gif

[robust flicker]

This is a county jail, located in the county seat (think capital city of the county) of a county with half a million people in it.

While not major, compared to some, it's the 3rd or 4th largest county in the state, and historically was the 2nd largest until finally surpassed by Huntsville and we play with Montgomery to tie for 3rd.

[clear ferry]

this sounds like math

https://tenor.com/reOzLSvXQqX.gif

[robust flicker]

Only a few cities in the county even maintain their own holding facility these days, just using the county facility. Certainly Mobile does, which is why it is called "Mobile County Metro Jail" because it's for both the county and the metro area.

[clear ferry]

[primal laurel]

it's fun!

[forest edge]

electric weed eaters sound like powerlines cooking at a distance especially when you don't have los on the person using it

[solar zealot]

Alright that seems reasonable

[robust flicker]

Of course it is, you think I'm just pulling numbers from my nether regions??? How dare you!

[static schooner]

I only understand furlongs per fortnight, please convert

[robust flicker]

Oh, sorry, there's no easy conversion there. First you have to convert to toenails per slipper. Which can vary depending on the season.

[civic citrus]

When you wanna crack a beer friday night: Thread + matter stops working

AngryArthur

[forest edge]

still have yet to check out matter

[stuck anchor]

i saw something about ikea moving to matter over thread instead of zigbee?

[scenic radish]

They do have a line of Thread devices, but they still sell zigbee stuff

[forest edge]

we should consult our local ikea expert Mr. @clear ferry

[scenic radish]

I do wonder if thread will eventually replace zigbee entirely or if we'll just have two competing standards forever

[stuck anchor]

so maybe i should look into thread. it seems to become unavoidable

[forest edge]

i never tried thread cause i keep reading about horror stories

[scenic radish]

I know I'm certainly not replacing my zigbee stuff anytime soon

[stuck anchor]

it's more that it seems to become unavoidable for new gadgets.

[stuck anchor]

i know some people have had big issues with matter when running virtualized

[forest edge]

pretty sure they still recommend matter over wifi rather than thread

[clear ferry]

I refer you to xkcd

Companies swear they will adhere to standard

Then make 46 addendums

That aren't cross vendor friendly

[solar zealot]

Sounds like dell

[forest edge]

people always trying to reinvent the wheel?

https://tenor.com/view/reactions-gif-12900002073893207744

[civic citrus]

I wonder what the fuck happened been working wonders for months and then baaam

Susge

[scenic radish]

It do be that way sometimes

[forest edge]

not had a single hiccup with zigbee (knock on wood) but then i've only ever known 3.0

now some zigbee devices cough cough ikea is another story

[peak slate]

What is matter and thread for 100 trebec

[civic citrus]

Aqara u200 why you do this to me

You were the choosen one

[forest edge]

gross https://youtube.com/shorts/HGuGHR-xTDM?si=9sSzS5nqqTca-32o

[robust flicker]

No, we'll create another one that combines the two....

[civic citrus]

It works but damn I have a ghost lock

Friday shenanigans

[scenic radish]

That covers everyone's use cases? Brilliant!

[primal laurel]

you didn't pet it enough

[clear ferry]

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/candid-scholarly-amphiuma.png let me try this AI thing

It actually isn't bad

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/scarce-lame-australianfreshwatercrocodile.png I thought It would recommend putting it in 2 automations but it didn't

[solid sorrel]

I don't want support, I want to scream 🤦‍♂️ 🤢 this is going to be a long night... rebooted HA and, well, all my automations have vanished because of some yaml issue... never touched automations.yaml manually before, this is going to suuuuck 😭

[high remnant]

do you want to talk to our lord and saviour backups?

[solid sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/that-makes-me-a-sad-panda-sexual-harrasment-panda-southpark-panda-gif-11434807

[solid sorrel]

I do, that's who I'm praying to right now

awesome, got one from 15 hours ago. now to go read on what the hell I do with it

[high remnant]

restore it?

[clear ferry]

Y'all don't have a quad site rotational backup going on?

[high remnant]

and not do what you've done

[high remnant]

I clone myself to be sure

[solid sorrel]

lol I clicked download before clicking on the backup

yes, just restore is the waaaaay

thank fuck for the new backup system, it's been great

[high remnant]

just be sure you keep a backup of your backup :P

[solid sorrel]

3 2 1

[high remnant]

GO!

[solid sorrel]

Ideally but yeah, 2 local, 2 cloud at the moment

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/failing-pastel-backswimmer.png

[solid sorrel]

living life on the edge

oh, manual ones

[high remnant]

I create backups using PBS

[solid sorrel]

I should put my glasses on

[high remnant]

So I dont really care all that much about home assistant backups

[solid sorrel]

ah goddamnit, I'll need to repair some ZigBee endpoints to Z2M... so be it

aaaand it's off

[high remnant]

ngl it would be better if I were to loseall my automations

[clear ferry]

I just do zfs snapshots everything 15/60m 1/7/14/30d and send those snapshots offsite, and then clone them to google drive and Jottacloud alternating days from the secondary site

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/fake-scary-africanporcupine.png this is a mess

[solid sorrel]

amateur

[clear ferry]

[solid sorrel]

thank jebus I changed my raid array to SSDs recently... only SATA3 but still a huge step up from spinnies

[clear ferry]

Reminds me, I have 24 spare 1.92TB ssds i should use for something

[solid sorrel]

it's rebooting already... fingers crossed I don't need to go back a whole 24 hours... shock horror

[high remnant]

insert copy pasta about raid not being backuo

[clear ferry]

Not even close

And hardware raid less so

[high remnant]

berrrr

there was that hoster that got RAILED by the raid iirc

its been a decade

[solid sorrel]

hell no, it's just habit

[high remnant]

I have no right to speak because my hardware is whatever I could steal from my employer and some really REALLY run down spinning disks

[clear ferry]

Very few things are as fun as watching drive latency spike during inergen release

[high remnant]

I am a CISO, I am just going to pretend I understand those words

I have decided that all automations that haven't been used in over year are getting deleted

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/i-know-some-of-these-words-mhmm-clueless-words-i-know-gif-5609882

[high remnant]

Hey I just cosplay as an sys admin

[clear ferry]

To be fair, 7/10 cisos are knobheads who have a degree and no idea what they are doing

If you can better that

You are alright

[high remnant]

fun fact I used to be an software engineer (for whatever thats worth) and an ethical hacker for like a decade so 🤷‍♂️

OSCP

[solid sorrel]

oh damn it, my "Reddit Detect" automation isn't working now obviously... that's what stops me from doom scrolling reddit 😂 after 30 mins of detecting reddit usage it loads google.com and acts all passage aggressive over the speaker

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/bOCXF.gif

[clear ferry]

I considered doing the ethical hacker certification, just for lulz

[high remnant]

you need help

48 hours of pure hell

[solid sorrel]

Never liked networking

[high remnant]

never liked working either

[solid sorrel]

fair

[high remnant]

there's a meaning behind my screenname :D

[solid sorrel]

Mass deployment was my thing, loved me some automated deployment

It was pretty SCCMy

I'll get my coat

[high remnant]

I just got important by accident

now I am stuck due to lifestyle inflation

[clear ferry]

I don't kink shame my little ponies

[clear ferry]

Condolences

[solid sorrel]

Thank you, thank you for your kind words. I managed to escape in the end

Come on Supervisor... start damn you

[clear ferry]

I was a windows admin, 19 years ago, never again

[solid sorrel]

I did XP/2003 to Win 10/2016

[forest edge]

too advanced?

[high remnant]

bruh

[forest edge]

ugh

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/fabulous-hard-amazonparrot.png

https://tenor.com/view/scream-loud-scream-girl-kid-hispanic-girl-gif-3761151244536557927

[desert cave]

6 years ago for me, and same

[static schooner]

lol, I learned how to say "man cave" in Dutch (I guess)

[high remnant]

neither is man cave

werkkamer is best translated as home office

[static schooner]

Rommelkamer is what I had to look up

[high remnant]

oh

[static schooner]

and yeah, I got that "werk" is "work"

[high remnant]

its probably storage room or pantry?

[static schooner]

also found "junk room", but I like "man cave" better

[high remnant]

XD

I get the connection between junk room and man cave

[solid sorrel]

Mine's a Junk Cave

[high remnant]

the man cave is where my bikes are stored

[scenic radish]

fabulous-hard-amazonparrot

[clear ferry]

I store my junk in my mancave

[solid sorrel]

Jebus, what the hell did I do to this install. even the backups not booking... might need to do a clean OVA and restore... euuuugh

[clear ferry]

[scenic radish]

Time to start OVA

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-gta-sa-cj-gta-again-gif-20425950

[solid sorrel]

it'd be quicker than working anything out

[clear ferry]

laughs in docker

1s rollback

[solid sorrel]

meh, wanted a full VM

[clear ferry]

Disgusting

[high remnant]

i both hate and like docker

[clear ferry]

Let me introduce my friend Kubernetes then

[solid sorrel]

Can't remember why now. usb passthrough? something was easier at the time

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/tCf6rRgLVgQ.gif

[solid sorrel]

Oh, I heard my tagreader beep... looks like it's started up!

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/paltry-tangible-africangroundhornbill.png

[solid sorrel]

huzzzzaaah, we have a gui

[clear ferry]

Love me some docker cluser

https://tenor.com/view/loser-gif-15418711646267857780

[solid sorrel]

I should get set up with docker but I just... I'm just old and lazy about it for some reason

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/view/old-man-yells-at-cloud-yelling-old-man-news-the-simpsons-gif-17741451

[solid sorrel]

Damn clouds

[high remnant]

I mean its a VM having a metric ton of dockers?

[clear ferry]

But why do you only have one cluster node

And one cluser node

[high remnant]

difrerent requirements for those dockers

its called a cluster its not actually a cluster

[solid sorrel]

I just do the best of all and run docker desktop on top of Windows and connect whisper and piper over wifi

[clear ferry]

But thats not a cluster

[high remnant]

I KNOW

[clear ferry]

It doesn't even have odd number of hosts

[high remnant]

its only called that because I had to give it a name

[clear ferry]

Unless you count 1 as odd

Weirdos

[high remnant]

hey no kink shaming

[clear ferry]

I will shame that

[high remnant]

its running 20 containers on that host

[solid sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/shame-bell-game-of-thrones-walk-of-atonement-cersei-lannister-gif-16635977892557113898

[clear ferry]

Oh, so a small test instance then

[high remnant]

its home automation

https://tenor.com/5d51.gif

[clear ferry]

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/2ng0.gif

probably docker-host would've been better

docker-host-001 woudl;ve been even more betery

[clear ferry]

Room for 100

Good

[high remnant]

i didn't know this would cause battery

[solid sorrel]

docker-host-00a is better

[high remnant]

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/tan-warped-antarcticgiantpetrel.png no room

[solid sorrel]

Aaaaaand I'm back, full restore in 30 mins or less

[high remnant]

yay

[solid sorrel]

now to rememeber what the hell I changed and added today

[high remnant]

I bought an really expensive camera and now all my pictures are grey

[solid sorrel]

future me can deal with that

[robust flicker]

WhY are you running sonarr and immich in a VM instead of an lxc?

[high remnant]

isolation

[solid sorrel]

if you ever need to talk...

[high remnant]

🤣

I should've added: VMs add more isolation than LXCs

which is what I prefer at a cost of having more overhead

[minor bobcat]

It's not like you'd notice with sonarr

[high remnant]

or with immich

[minor bobcat]

Yeah once it's got your backlog registered it don't do much

[high remnant]

sometimes i ingress a ton of big photos but I am fine with the slight performance hit

[minor bobcat]

What's the hardware?

[high remnant]

shitty rundown server hardware

8 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz (1 Socket

[solid sorrel]

You should all check out "Tunarr" - that's lots of fun if you're in to that sort of thing...

[high remnant]

this is a cobbled together server that used to be a PF sense

[solid sorrel]

Let's you make a TV station from Plex/jellyfin/emby and add adverts/filler etc for that old authentic experience

[minor bobcat]

Aah so Core i 5000 series

Not too bad

[solid sorrel]

you savage, tsk

:)

[high remnant]

I mean it was free and its fairly power efficient

[solid sorrel]

Not for everyone I know but I want my MTV with music videos damnit

[high remnant]

it runs jellyfin just fine

[robust flicker]

I wouldn't wanna run all VMs on my system: E3-1275v3. 😭

[minor bobcat]

Setup ErsatzTV ages ago. It just populates itself with new stuff and I love it.

[solid sorrel]

i wish the integration was a bit more mature, then I'd leave plex behind

[high remnant]

I mean it does what it's supossed to do

[solid sorrel]

yep, Tunarr's basically the exact same end result :) slightly less complex

[high remnant]

can't complain really

[solid sorrel]

sure, just lacking options found in the plex integration

[high remnant]

I mean I dont know what I dont knkw

[minor bobcat]

Had a skim, if I'd need that today I'd go for that

[high remnant]

idk what is there to miss?

https://iwillnotbuynitro.com/u/failing-quaint-africanwilddog.png its running fine

[solid sorrel]

just things like telling it to play the next unwatched episode of a specific show etc

[high remnant]

hmm

I have no issue with that

I run in browser and mostly infuse on iOS or AppleTV

[solid sorrel]

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/plex/ - jump down to Examples

[silent dove]

@solid sorrel I converted your message into a file since it's above 15 lines :+1:

[high remnant]

o I have 0 integrations by home assistant

Jellyfin is completely isolated from my entire network. Apart from the shared disk with Sonarr

[solid sorrel]

I only use HA to trigger media from NFC tags tbh

[high remnant]

ah

fair

[minor bobcat]

Ah that's sick. WAF level 100

[solid sorrel]

Amiibos are fun to use too :)

[solid sorrel]

the Tags page talks you through where to get the inkjet printable ones and the stupidly expensive bit of plastic I needed to use them with my printer

[high remnant]

Whacking the Stranger Things NFC tag to the reader and the entire room goes red and ST S1E1 starts

or am I just not getting it

[minor bobcat]

Exactly

[high remnant]

I might want that

[high remnant]

fuck

that's hilarious

[solid sorrel]

NFC stickers are fucking awesome, they are tiny. you can stick them in anything

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/bxXf3.gif

[minor bobcat]

Printing cards or sourcing them isn't the problem for me. I work with industrial printers daily and we have our own print shop too. I love printers lol

[solid sorrel]

Pop them inside old tapes/cds/what ever - I would have done that but went the card route

[solid sorrel]

Nice, the inkjet ones are a bit...sticky lol you'll want those other ones that need a special printer!

[high remnant]

I have an 3D printer

https://tenor.com/oljWpT4FzS8.gif

[solid sorrel]

I have a 2D printer

[minor bobcat]

UV resin is what you'd want

[high remnant]

yeah

no

[minor bobcat]

Could print in 2.5D

[high remnant]

I have no more room in my werkkamer

[solid sorrel]

Make NFC Minidiscs, obviously

[high remnant]

the actual minidisks?

brrrr

[solid sorrel]

minidisks were fucking awesome tbf

[high remnant]

yes

[high remnant]

O i was confused with the mini CD

[solid sorrel]

superior format

nah, the were mini cds INSIDE a little case

[high remnant]

yeah excuse my confusion

[solid sorrel]

hardy, could do long play so you could have hours and hours and you could record to them

why the hell they didn't last as long as they did in Japan, I don't know

[minor bobcat]

PSP discs are king