#the-water-cooler

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wanton axle
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Someone almost stole the cats off my parents extra van. Some random guy was eating lunch in the parking lot and saw it happening and stopped them with a machete then chased them down the road to get plate numbers.

forest edge
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good to see there are still some people who care lol

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-# turns back to mbruce

stuck mortar
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Why yes, I am also concerned by your focus on a single incident involving two people instead of the still ongoing civil war in Myanmar

forest edge
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I don't recall that post being directed at you tho..

stuck mortar
forest edge
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well you inserted into issue on your own free will

stuck mortar
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K

forest edge
stuck mortar
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Middle earth likes aggrandizing about isolated incidents in Mordor while ignoring the evils in their own backyard and elsewhere in the world

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But that’s not news

forest edge
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again, it wasn't directed to you..

stuck mortar
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You didn’t have to respond to my joke in the ether, and yet here we are

forest edge
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there was a joke somewhere?

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I admittedly missed that

tidal bronze
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Maybe there's hope for TTS 😀

forest edge
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and look who the cat dragged in

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is that an ai driven podcast?

tidal bronze
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Customized, aggregated news from custom topics. It's using NotebookLM podcast voices. Loving it. Just the topics I want.

forest edge
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...

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catered news to only stuff you want to hear.. does it just repeat the words "it's x degree's and sunny today" over and over?

stuck mortar
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That’s just the weather report

minor bobcat
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Be stupid, be happy

tidal bronze
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Whether outliers, market and interest rates. I don't think anything else is news worthy

minor bobcat
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Anything else seems like reality TV tbf

forest edge
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I guess when you hear the market has crashed you will at least have somewhat of an idea something bad is happening lol

minor bobcat
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Here everyone's just asking, what did the orange do today?

primal laurel
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The only reason the market is crashing these days is if the orange man threatens tariffs. Tell me how I know

tidal bronze
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Why read all these. Let Gemini read everything and TTS important parts podcast style 😁

forest edge
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shit made me sleepy just looking at it

minor bobcat
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In germany we have "Tagesschau" wich is state funded and generally has everything covered that happens in the world

tidal bronze
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Usually try to stay away from any news. 😀

minor bobcat
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Rough translated site, but it give you an idea what they cover multiple times a day

tidal bronze
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Exactly I am counting on you to report on all the drama.

forest edge
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it be too late, you'd be dead before I could properly tease you about about dying lol

minor bobcat
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You'd just see typing........

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What an annoying way to go

tidal bronze
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Heatwave incoming 🙄

forest edge
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ya it finally went west

tidal bronze
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But it's going to be a nice weekend in Toronto 😀

static schooner
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Walmart wouldn't be my first choice for buying any kind of shrimp, but this seals the deal

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forest edge
scenic radish
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Spicy bois

primal laurel
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frozen crap is tasteless anyway

scenic radish
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Frozen precooked shrimp maybe

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Frozen raw is good

static schooner
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Yeah, generally flash frozen seafood can be good quality. Just don't buy any from the Chernobyl exclusion zone, no matter how cheap it is

primal laurel
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its not good quality if you compare it to fresh fish

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taste is completely different

scenic radish
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ur completely different

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Also I just noticed your profile picture is longcat

forest edge
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not really

scenic radish
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Wish that looked better on mobile

primal laurel
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only had that for like... 10 years

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its part of me now

forest edge
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just captured a kitten in my shed

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what a day this will be

static schooner
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train it to eat raccoons

scenic radish
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There's a resident cat in our alley that we want to capture

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AND LOVE

forest edge
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might have been mice fur

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gotta wait another 30 mins till I can take it to the vet to get checked

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good thing i put an ac unit in the garage lol

primal laurel
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selected by the cat distribution system

robust flicker
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Not me, having an annoying day at work, and coming back to the county shop/parking area and seeing another county vehicle half in a parking spot, but with still enough room to park my assigned van inside it...

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I'll happily go out the back if I need to. And I did. Learn to park!

forest edge
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this is what happens when a coworkers dislikes you lol

robust flicker
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I think I'm gonna buy a few packs of crayons and some children's coloring books. Start leaving them under the windshield wipers, along with a note saying "Use these to practice staying inside the lines."

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Maybe it's just my tism tisming, but I can NOT stand lazy parkers. If this former trucker can squeeze it in, and keep it inside the delineated parking space, I by-God will..

static schooner
forest edge
unborn merlin
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all the asshole ones anyways.

weak musk
primal laurel
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if you buy it from the supermarket yes

sudden ember
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almost all fish is frozen to kill parasites

forest solstice
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asdgfkj;asgdasg guh
I hate big numbers

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Utility company reports that I gave them 248kWh but Solar App says 188 and Panel App says 177

sudden ember
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kWh is a cursed unit

forest solstice
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The entire United States is cursed tbh

static schooner
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Should be something like liter feet of electricity

forest solstice
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Cubic Square Liter Feet per Mole Minute of Electricity

simple gazelle
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Acre-Feet disturbed me when I learned of them

forest solstice
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That's just feet without shoes no?

simple gazelle
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It's a unit of volume, often in water management, because if you have a 200 acre reservoir 30ft deep then you have 6,000 acre-feet. Apparently an acre-foot was ~1 year of consumption for a suburban home, so was handy for planning

forest edge
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what were the issues people were having with thingino? this thing seems awesome so far

weak musk
primal laurel
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that depends on the type of fish and how far you are from water

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here, you are never far

sudden ember
forest solstice
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Am I reading that right

sudden ember
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per megaparsec

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thats the expansion rate of the universe

ocean oar
peak slate
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kG/kFt^3

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My favorite density unit

forest solstice
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can't you just divide each side by 1000?

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G/Ft^3

peak slate
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Well you're no fun, you get to deal with the furkin/furlong/fortnight unit set now

forest solstice
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Kin/Long/Fortnight

robust flicker
primal laurel
forest solstice
primal laurel
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Square feet to acres. Now that's cursed

woven turret
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Im just setting up my smart home, ITS ALL TUYA HELP

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Like its all just rebranded

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Havells, more like tuya

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Wipro, more like tuya

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I mean on one hand its a good thing

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Cause I can connect it to home assistant more easily

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Homeassistant doesnt have wipro or havells integrations 🙁

unborn merlin
minor bobcat
ocean oar
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Bad things have happened here

lucid atlas
iron granite
crisp oriole
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😮 i can enable a discord auth on home assistant

glacial knot
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Uhh, there's oauth now?

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Or is that just for the cloud?

crisp oriole
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Authentication reverve proxy before home assistant

solar zealot
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But why

crisp oriole
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Because im building up community software so that groups can manage them selfs. In my 1st try discord is leading. Wordpress nextcloud home assistant all accessible with out makeing a password

solar zealot
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Seems odd

glacial knot
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otherwise I'd have the oauth-proxy in there already

crisp oriole
primal laurel
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You got something black transparant? What is it

high remnant
primal laurel
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yeah I mean which part is transparent

high remnant
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Oh

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the bezel

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for the screen

primal laurel
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aah

high remnant
primal laurel
pallid cobalt
# minor bobcat Ah...

I think what bothers me most about this is that you hacked up the good shielded connectors for it.

pallid cobalt
# high remnant the bezel

Did you see the videos about the 'prison laptop' that were popular a couple months back? I'd seen the same laptop for sale on ebay, maybe even the same auction all the youtubers were picking it up from, and I regret not buying it then. I could tell it was something special, but it wasn't what I was looking for at the time...

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(The connection being that it was entirely transparent, 90's style)

high remnant
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but that sounds fun

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but after googling the laptop: that actually makes sense and looks really cool too

robust flicker
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Prison laptop? How do they get it in? Via Prison Pocket??

high remnant
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but if you want to put a 14" plastic thing in your...

robust flicker
high remnant
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lolz

pallid cobalt
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Yeah, some ebay seller had them for like, 30 bucks a pop

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I would have enjoyed the challenge, that sort of thing is a lot of how I cut my teeth

high remnant
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but yes the bezel is transparant

primal laurel
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nice

high remnant
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same like this

primal laurel
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I want to buy framework too. But I upgraded my laptop with more memory, replaced the battery and added an extra SSD

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props to MSI for making that so easy to do 😄

high remnant
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don't replace what is not broken!

pallid cobalt
pallid cobalt
# high remnant don't replace what is not broken!

My laptop has an 7th gen i5 with 8GB of soldered-on memory.
Which is about 8 times what I need for what I actually do with it, but it's getting to that age where even if yeah, I can make it work, turn down some eye candy, close some tabs... I'm having to take a more active role in resource management and ehhhh, that sounds an awful lot like my day job, and I will pay to not do that.

minor bobcat
pallid cobalt
minor bobcat
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That's part of the cut off, wouldn't trust them anymore lol

pallid cobalt
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And I can't lie, I've cut literally thousands of network cables

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I get sent to on-prem server rooms my employer is decomissioning or moving and go ham with a pair of utility shears

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It's not worth what they pay me (and what it cost to send me to the job site) to have me standing there unplugging them one by one to save a bunch of mismatched copper cables

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And I'm glad management agrees because your thumbs get tired after about a hundred of those...

pallid cobalt
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Someone does eventually have to do that with the gear they intend to reuse, but that ends up being less than half at most sites - and they can do it at a leisurely pace, not

you have today and half of tomorrow to get all of this onto pallets

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My boss and I used to joke that we might be the best paid moving crew in the country. 🤣

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But like, you can't send a regular mover into a server room with a pair of shears and a screwdriver and expect good results.

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And hiring a local who might be less qualified ends up costing more than letting me take a little mini-vacation.

primal laurel
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# pallid cobalt But like, you can't send a regular mover into a server room with a pair of shear...

I know someone who got a callout for everything in a network/server rack being down.
they turned up and went to the server room only to find it no longer there and the room being used for another purpose.
upon enquiry the server room had been "moved"
rack had wheels and there was a service elevator so they didnt straight away forsee it being more than needing to rewire the networking.
got to the new server room and the entiry thing was fucked and smashed up.
more enquiries later they found out the "movers" didnt want to wheel it all the way to service elevator and opted to take the stairs...
this went as well as could have been expected and after about 2 steps the rack toppled and took itself down the rest of the stairs by itself. they just dumped it into the "new server room" and then fucked off.

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they apprantly thought taking it 1 step at a time careffully between them would be quicker then wheeling it across a building to then wheel it back on the floor below

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i dont think they realised the weight of a fully loaded rack because it has wheels and was easy to move on them.

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obviously not the sharpest tools in the box

peak slate
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Getting the thing to start and stop rolling should be enough for them to guesstimate the weight to be a metric ton

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you would have thought...

lone dagger
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May be interesting to some here?

tidal bronze
lone dagger
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I have friends who work there, so I'm being supportive. 😄

static schooner
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do they have intersting emojis?

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gotta bring the value

woven turret
# lone dagger

My friend has a tailscale shirt, its honestly one of the highest quality shirts I have felt.

dawn galleon
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Hey all, i got quite an odd question that doesnt fit in the general support directories afaik, but basically: is there any way to run vms on top on hassio os?

dawn galleon
primal laurel
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yes

dawn galleon
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Cuz i dont mean configuring hassio to work on a vm

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You understand that right?

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I mean if there is a way to load vms on top of the os version of hassio

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use proxmox and run haos in a vm and other vm's alongside it

dawn galleon
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Hence my idea on building it on top of it

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make a backup store it and the encrption key then move your install and restore it and everything will still be set up 🙂

crisp oriole
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I moved to ::1 more space

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And i use ssh remote ip redirects so 127.0.0.1 are many places

woven turret
pallid cobalt
pallid cobalt
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pallid cobalt
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Now what'll really cook your noodle is thinking about how from a photon's perspective, it never moved. It popped into existence at one place, then it was in another place, then it stopped existing.

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but... obviously it moved lol

pallid cobalt
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They're on wheels, sure... so you can move the empty cabinet

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Loaded? Well, we saw how that worked out.

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Honestly surprised they got as far as the stairs.

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And it's not like they're big wheels, either - I think they're like 3" on my APC cabinet?

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If that.

dawn badge
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something like that, it was years ago and I was hearing it 2nd hand so I don't know know the specifics.

pallid cobalt
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I don't know that our DR plan really covers 'unauthorized moving crew dropped the rack with the main cluster down the stairs'

I guess there is a plan, but I think it kinda assumes the loss is transient - like... the power to the COLO went out and the disks are corrupted, but we still have the hardware...

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Someone can still go poke it with a stick

primal laurel
dusk pier
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I am new to Discord so I have no clue what the heck I’m doing but I am here to try and get support setting up my new Home Assistant Green… is there a specific area I can look for help?

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I think I messed something up already 🙁

scenic radish
dusk pier
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Thank you

scenic radish
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@long oak inspired me to make my own version of this

surreal spruce
peak slate
minor bobcat
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People that can openly say i don't know i have to look that up are worth so much

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Keeps you from chasing BS someone else might say

tiny beacon
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I haven't really used the discord since they changed it to topics. Is there anywhere to chat with people who might know about the voice assist pipeline? The short of it is I have a sensor called Google Travel Time. When I say What is google travel time it says "Google travel time is" and leaves out "38 minutes" even though the value is 38, and duration_in_traffic is 43 mins. Is there a place to easily configure this?

static schooner
median minnow
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Has anyone here had any success with getting Wyze Bridge to work? I have some Wyze V3 cameras on the latest wyze firmware, and I can't get these to work with Wyze Bridge at all.

silent doveBOT
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forest edge
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How the hell do I not have a usb-a to usb-a cable

ocean oar
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No-one should ever have one of those

forest edge
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apparently they use to be used for connecting external drives at one point in time

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I need it for a uart connection

ocean oar
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Only the bottom-of-the-barrel garbo ones

forest edge
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since appartntly usb c can't passivly power the device

median minnow
forest edge
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@tidal bronze how you recovering from the bubonic plague?

primal laurel
forest edge
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it's slow as hell. and what do you think those batteries on the side will do if they get struck?

primal laurel
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have you ever watched endurance racing? pitstops can take minutes. Sometimes they do full repairs

forest edge
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wouldn't want to imagine how much longer it would take if they had to repair anything lol

crisp oriole
primal laurel
primal laurel
tidal bronze
tidal bronze
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Finally in LA for 2 days. ❤️

forest edge
static schooner
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What's funny is that started with the Automat many, many years ago

An automat is a type of fast-food restaurant where food and drink are served through a vending machine, typically without waitstaff. The world's first automat, Quisisana, opened in Berlin, Germany in 1895.

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I had no idea that they were international

primal laurel
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We have the automatiek

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Put in money, open little door, get food

static schooner
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makes me think of vending machines that you'd find in a government building

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Egg salad sandwiches don't ever go bad, right?

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In any case, the first one above is basically taking something that already exists and adding But with Robots!!

primal laurel
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You typically find these at high througput locations. Like big train stations will have one or malls

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Stuff is not in there for more than a few hours

pallid cobalt
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Like, there's reinventing the wheel, and then there's deciding it'd actually be better if your bicycle were maglev or something equally impractical, y'know?

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I recognize that the flaps offer limited frontage, but you can belt feed in new stock or hell, use one of those corkscrew feeders like in the snack vending machines that have been around for decades.

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There's just... so many more robust ways to solve the problem before you need to get to expensive solutions like a gripper arm

kind narwhal
static schooner
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I also loves me some conveyor belt sushi

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At least you get to see the people making it

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Usually

pallid cobalt
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which yeah, is cooked, but... barely.

mellow cairn
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I don't mind pineapple on pizza although I wouldn't say it is a great topping choice considering all the other options! and its water content can ruin an under cook pizza. But I really don't get what all the heated debate is about!

pallid cobalt
scenic radish
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I'll stick with supreme, thanks 🤌

ocean oar
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The problem with pineapple in my book is people pair it with all sweet ingredients.
Ham, bbq sauce, it's all just more sugar.
Add some jalapenos or something to provide contrast, can be just fine.

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Still wouldn't be my first choice, but I don't hate it, when applied appropriately

austere anchor
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Pizza place near me has a pizza called Hawaiian Punch. Tomato sauce, mozzarella, rosemary Italian ham, pineapple, red onion, pickled jalapeno, chives. Very good.

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Has the sweet, spicy, tangy, all up in there.

copper kindle
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Haha I’m screenshoting that ingredient list to do it at home sometime

pallid cobalt
ocean oar
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I had pizza for lunch at the local pub. Was a white sauce with olives, sundried tomatoes, basil and chorizo

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Considering it's just a neighbourhood pub, to have actually decent brick oven pizza is surprising

desert cave
robust flicker
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Meh.

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It's almost 4am, and I've been at work for an hour. The reason I was called in early has been fixed, but it's an hour round trip to go home and come back, and my normal start time is 7am. Not even worth going back home.

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All I had to do was restart the access control system for a specific building. But as the building is part of a county and city jail complex, there's absolutely no remote access to any of it.

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30minutes of work. 4 hours of OT. Let's get paid..

robust flicker
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Walked past one of the work-release inmates pushing a laundry basket, he remarks "you're here early " to which I responded, "yeah, been here since 3am" .. his smart ass says "well Ive been here since May so if we're competing...." Lmao

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stuck anchor
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one of my favorite pizzas at a local italian restaurant was one with bacon and gorgonzola 😋

iron granite
fathom sparrow
glacial knot
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Banana and kiwi are kinda neat
But nothing with a rind please

summer depot
static schooner
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This is what they call 'moving the Overton window'

forest edge
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watermelon dessert pizza might not be so bad.

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don't like watermelon?

scenic radish
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i only like the white part

forest edge
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you would

scenic radish
static schooner
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Not really a fan, but it's okay along with other wet ingredients in, say, a fruit salad

forest edge
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dessert pizzas are made with dough like what funnel cakes are made of and then it's just some type of filling then fruit on top. so not much different than like a streusel

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national shotage of data cente workers.. wtf

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must be the people who do the heavy lifting part of the job lol

solar zealot
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They haven't heard of the concept of a crane or forklift yet!

forest edge
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the drive forklifts between acks of seves?

static schooner
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They should stop carrying bits in wheelbarrows and use cables like civilized people

forest edge
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oh the key between e and t

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gonna be one of those days

solar zealot
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Or for condensed ones there also are belts

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Satisfactory told me so

forest edge
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lol

summer depot
forest edge
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you cook watemelon?

summer depot
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never ...

solar zealot
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Americans the moment something is fitting into the mouth of people

static schooner
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Watermelon - the water

solar zealot
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puts it on the bbq

forest edge
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don't hate

scenic radish
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on a related note, i've grilled cucumber before lol

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it's actually good

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and broccoli actually, but I prefer oven roasted

forest edge
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did it take like cucumbe?

scenic radish
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cucumber i hardly know 'er

primal laurel
scenic radish
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basically lol. The skin gets a nice char though

weak musk
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I hate this conversation so much

scenic radish
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M A I L L A R D R E A C T I O N

lapis cairn
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I think I might need therapy after reading this chat.

scenic radish
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or whiskey?

iron granite
forest edge
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finally caught the mama of the kitten I caught the day before last night and that mama did not go without a fight lol

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guess in 10 days i'll see if I have rabies

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forest edge
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yea. it verry unlikely this mama cat has it but you never know

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well. will know in 10 days

static schooner
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I had to grab a cat with a big towel the last time I needed to stuff an uncooperative one in a carrier

scenic radish
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I'll stick with urban cycling, thanks 😂

static schooner
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Get your urban parkour on

forest edge
scenic radish
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Looks way more scary than fun

forest edge
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Gnarliest splinters ever as and alternative title

forest edge
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Fingers crossed the vet doesn't come back in this room with bad news

iron granite
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Are vets cheaper than normal docs?

forest edge
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Normal doctors won't see animals

solar zealot
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But horse meds work on humans aswell

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Just use like half a dose because you know they are larger

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So it's cheaper

forest edge
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And no unless you actually fork out for pet insurance everything is out of pocket

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Steroids are the same for humans and animals too and way cheaper off chewy than the pharmacy well if you don't have insurance that is

solar zealot
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No downsides at all

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If its good for animals it's good for you

forest edge
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Scary to think about those labs vs ones pharmacy's use

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Prob looks the same as a line making shoes

solar zealot
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The gif where it's bread and then drones

forest edge
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lol

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iPhones then medicine

solar zealot
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It's just like satisfactory

lapis cairn
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<i guess where making drones now meme>

scenic radish
keen bridge
forest edge
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thingino is really kind of neat. brought my bricked wyze pan back to life. I like how you don't have to have a memory card like one of the others needed it for extra file space etc

arctic quarry
high remnant
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welp unfortunately the screen that came with my framework is a DOA

unreal crystal
solar zealot
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It's been in beta for 20 years???

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Omg

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eww unraid

scenic radish
dawn badge
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I dislike it conceptually.
don't get me wrong, if someone uses it and is happy with it then power to them. its none of my business

scenic radish
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Yeah I don't care either heh

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although... its better then synology

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which is not a high bar

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again, if people are synology enjoyers. i am not hating on you. if it works for you then great.

primal laurel
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I am a synology user and I hate it .

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synologys target market is basically - "somebody told me i need a nas and i dont understand what that is or why I need it"

scenic radish
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do you even RAID bro?

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unraid is more - "i need a server but i dont want one. i dont know how to server and i dont want to learn because i dont actually want one but i still need one"

primal laurel
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it's like buying apple. Way too expensive, difficult to upgrade or repair, your non-tech friends will think you're cool, but it also just works. Until they broke USB support for no reason that is.

scenic radish
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I didn't even know what unraid is

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scenic radish
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scenic radish
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I can understand why that would appeal to some people though

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oh yeah, i do see the flip side of it. i just dislike it conceptually

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if truenas was more friendly less people would use unraid.
although making truenas friendly is another project called HexOS which is a simalar thing to unraid but its built on top of truenas and you can still access truenas ui for "advanced" stuff etc...

white kiln
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what's the story behind Rule 11?

Do not discuss punishments given to others or yourself outside of private messages

My literal interpretation means saying something like i got muted for x hours for doing y is against the rules - is that true?

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i dislike HexOS for the same reasons but it gets some points for not totally cutting the user off from truenas ui and also some of the stuff they made for it is being upstreamed into zfs and stuff so its helping its source projects

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iron granite
dawn badge
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Jorg reveals all 🙂

white kiln
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fair enough, but as written the rule seems way to broad

iron granite
#

To use your example:
i got muted for x hours for doing y
alone would not be a discussion, as long as it is just stating the fact in a non-complaining way.
If the reason, the disciplinary action or the one issuing is debated - that would be unwanted behavior. As well as making fun of others.

forest edge
#

someone say they wanted unwanted behavior...

iron granite
scenic radish
white kiln
#

can you edit or clarify the rule? it really stands out on a first-read-through

iron granite
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I will forward your feedback to our community manager.

white kiln
#

👍

lucid atlas
#

Sam, is that you?

sage vessel
#

I find chatgpt is a decent starting point but it makes a bunch of mistakes and needs to correct itself often. Leads me down incorrect roads too. It's still one of the best teachers I have though

scenic radish
#

Okay DankPods was right. These are amazing

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And wow that photo is off center

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Not even a rule of thirds thing either

thick dragon
#

Staple here in AU. But shrinkflation keeps hitting them hard.

lunar remnant
#

The only gap I've ever found in my Frigate recording.... the 3 minutes where we arrived home from the hospital after my daughter was born. What are the odds?

(Luckily I caught it on another camera, not as good a view but at least it's not entirely missing)

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(Not looking for support on recovering it or anything, just thought it was weird)

thick dragon
#

Random one: is there anywhere aside from here, the HA forums and the HA subreddit to seek help? I've got a very annoying problem that I can't find a solution for. Even resorted to the HA Facebook group of all places.

lunar remnant
#

If you can't get help here or on the subreddit, I doubt there's many places people will be able to help you - most "experts" are in one or both of those two places

mighty rose
#

Is that energy, configuration, hardware or integrations? 😐

young sigil
mighty rose
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hmmm unless I have the wrong energy config......

young sigil
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Likely when you changed the config it glitched the energy sensor. Check the sensor's history. and post in #1284966582375813201

mighty rose
#

It seems constant though - if I turn the reporting period to anything other than 60 seconds, it seems to exponentially increase the actual figures

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so either the integration is configuring HA wrong for it somehow, or something is weird with how HA is interpretting it 😐

young sigil
mighty rose
#

Or, I should be using a better measurement device lol

young sigil
mighty rose
#

eh - not worth the splattergun stuff, I'll just try and figure it out....

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I only stay here for #memes tbh hahahahah

forest edge
young sigil
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The best kind.

scenic radish
#

What kind of name is Oreo? Or Tic Tac?

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Or || deez nuts ||

forest edge
#

"mm these tic tac's sure are good.. oh I know a name for this sheep's turd!"

scenic radish
runic cape
#

I love the convenience of Zigbee2MQTT because when I want to dim my lights, all I have to do is unlock my phone, open the HA app, go to the Zigbee2MQTT tab, click my bulb, go to the exposes tab, and drag the handy slider, presto

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I don't even have to get up, it's all 5 taps, a pattern lock and a slide away

scenic radish
#

This seems like sarcasm lol

young sigil
earnest pivot
#

Anyone else having problem loading logs from addons?

#

This is driving me nuts

static schooner
unborn merlin
#

... except they elected to use the most fucktarded possible way to configure it

#

MDNS

#

which does not always fucking behave itself on some routers.

#

with no fallback.

#

then again ending up not using it since I wouldnt be able to virtualize my igpu yet without way more effort than it should be and etc./

glacial knot
#

what do you use your igpu for with HA?

unborn merlin
#

... a small vm or two; frigate; etc.

#

plex.

unborn merlin
#

can be done with proxmox.

cannot be done with truenas scale at all that I've been able to see so far..

forest edge
#

whats the deal with onvif? in frigate it seems to just link to the main stream.. I thought onvif (outside of ptz controls) was suppose to be like all fancy and provid both main and sub

mild cedar
#

Works fine with AMD iGPU on TrueNAS

forest edge
#

siren what?

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onvif provides emergency services?

runic cape
arctic quarry
#

huh

grizzled orbit
#

odbc2 reader for HA?

last cedar
last cedar
#

None of us are allowed on site, there is a leak on the cooling system and fire bregade is here

#

I swear I didn't do anything 🤣

high remnant
#

using AI to turn operate your house is like having a toddler turning on the lights (or the heater lol) for you

spiral kraken
#

Anyone notice the pihole integration being a bit wacky on first setup, in like the latest version of HA?

Just that I had all the info correct, but got a auth error from the app password. Though clicking "submit" or whatever a few times got it to go through. Just seemed odd, but maybe its something with my PiHole instance or network

crisp oriole
young sigil
runic cape
# young sigil Which light dimmer is that?

It's a philips hue bulb, not trying to start a support thing in the water cooler, I just thought it was funny cause I've been living like this a few days thinking hoho technology every time

spiral kraken
young sigil
#

And if so, which one?

runic cape
#

What do you mean by exposed? I don't get the terminology in this area

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It sounds like mixing up 2 concepts

glacial knot
#

I still need to set up a luminance sensor outside and then make some lookup to control my living room lights...

runic cape
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The brightness is exposed, that's how I am editing it in my convenient 5 taps, pattern lock and slide

runic cape
#

not actually pursuing it because it doesn't seem terribly important but still

#

my dream is fully automatic sort of sunset cancelling (minus colour temp, probably)

#

We must stand up to nature

glacial knot
#

I haven't decided on the hardware yet
But I want an outdoor weather station that does at least luminance, temperature, rainfall, windspeed
And then tie some stuff to it

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Oh yeah, my plan is more comfy/fitting to the outside than cancel it out

runic cape
#

do weather stations come with luminance?

glacial knot
#

When I looked into it like 1-2 months ago I saw one that does

woven turret
#

My EPL arrived today 🙂

#

Also can someone pls help me out

#

I want to know the advantages of Tasmota on tuya devices

young sigil
runic cape
#

good to know

#

maybe one day I'll find it

young sigil
last cedar
runic cape
#

yeah the bulb is, just can't change brightness

civic citrus
#

Hmmm what to upgrade this month

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young sigil
fathom sparrow
forest edge
#

yea they bought into the phillips ecosystem

fathom sparrow
#

So have I, they are hands down the best bulb out there

#

(that's not wifi)

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and fuck wifi

fathom sparrow
#

I know you joke, but it's really nice for watching TV

forest edge
#

"can't see shit in my own house" gave me a good chuckle

fathom sparrow
#

It's very true 🤣

solar zealot
#

That's poor man's talk for you can't afford the 1600lm variants

fathom sparrow
#

oh shit, they have a 100w now?

minor bobcat
#

They have a 3000lm outdoor strip now i think

solar zealot
#

Unfortunately not indoor bulbs

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Id want more brightness

scenic radish
#

they should make one that's bright enough to light up your entire house all at once so that you only need one

forest edge
#

they do

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it's called.. the sun

scenic radish
#

at night

runic cape
runic cape
#

though, from the sound of it, it still is better in some important ways

rich ruin
#

is there a (relatively simple+) way to get a dashboard display from the HDMI on a green or something?

(+it's linux, I know it could be done, technically)

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would be cool to have a status dashboard or something booted up in a kiosk browser on it, in this place an HDMI runs from the rack to the main TV and the only thing in the rack righ tnow with HDMI is HA lol

iron granite
#

No.

rich ruin
# iron granite No.

Ah, okay, dang. Usually when I think of stuff, it's already been hacked up.

I'd probably have to make a custom image and fun stuff like that then. Ah well, no big deal.

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Thanks 🙂

iron granite
#

HAOS has no UI to show dashboards. Another OS with a container install could work. But I am not aware of an out-of-the-box image available for the HA Green. #1284966540617449515 might be able to help with details.

stuck anchor
#

stuff a chromecast in that tv and cast a dashboard whenever the chromecast has been idle for 2 minutes. works fine.

iron granite
#

-# Spammer be gone.

scenic radish
#

WANT

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except that it doesn't have a proper numeric keypad or home/page up/page down/end keys 😩

#

it's also completely overkill for my needs anyway lol

#

then there's this which does have that, but it's ARM TT_chiyo_cry

glacial knot
#

arm is just fine

#

just make sure the SoC works well with mainline

primal laurel
desert cave
#

They gotta get that copilot button

scenic radish
#

I'm only concerned about ARM because of software compatibility, but maybe there's less of a gap with that than before

scenic radish
#

I'd replace wondows with Ubuntu immediately anyway

scenic radish
desert cave
scenic radish
#

I will admit my mindset about x86 still being more compatible than ARM might be outdated now

glacial knot
#

depends on what you need

#

proprietary 💩 is less likely to work though

unborn merlin
primal laurel
scenic radish
unborn merlin
#

its good to keep the disney-made slur rolling.

#

🤣

desert cave
scenic radish
#

I laughed so hard at the original clankers meme

unborn merlin
#

I think its one of the only cases in history where a slur doesn't actually hurt people

#

... just ai bullshit and techbros.

#

and we both know those aren't people.

primal laurel
scenic radish
unborn merlin
#

or 2005.. from the game. 🙃

scenic radish
#

oh wow

unborn merlin
#

so yes

#

this is a Disney approved slur

#

🤣

scenic radish
#

that explains your original message lol

primal laurel
#

That's also what I know it from

#

Great TV show if you haven't watched it

scenic radish
#

Now that's a steal

#

Save $2 on two six packs of Midnight?!

desert cave
last cedar
#

This is literally my kid, every cat he sees

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"Can we take it home, it has no collar"

#

We have 3 already, no more

solar zealot
#

You don't have enough

last cedar
#

We had 6 when I lived with my ex

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A fluffy wanker who attacked the 2 little ones

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A void

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A long tortoise shell who never shuts the fuck up

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A seal

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A cat who always hides in its paws

#

And this fucking thing

#

I got the best 3 cats though

#

But yeah, maybe we should have more

#

Sorry for my degenerate ramblings

#

I just have verbal diarrhea today

scenic radish
last cedar
#

It rolls around on the floor with its paws tucked in

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Like a seal

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It might even be a seal

#

I can't even tell them apart

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This is my fake robotic arm to prevent people from seeing that I am a raccoon btw

cyan island
#

so restoring a backup from before the new backup system invalidates the key for the new backups... that was nice to figure out 😭

last cedar
#

Buy it a time machine

coral spear
#

Hi CasitaHappy

last cedar
#

Hello!

coral spear
#

I have a HA setup running...

#

Well, I am technically messaging from my HA server

static schooner
#

So many raccoon-free messages

primal laurel
coral spear
#

@static schooner I said technically...

coral spear
dusty mica
#

powteejdow

coral spear
#

Patate

coral spear
#

HI

dusty mica
#

HI Jack Ed

arctic quarry
coral spear
#

:partyxcode:

scenic radish
#

@coral spear say potato

coral spear
#

__ ... Nostalgic logo

scenic radish
coral spear
arctic quarry
iron granite
#

I am missing the telepathy option.

#

Or trained raccoons.

#

Or trained telepathic raccoons.

primal laurel
coral spear
#

What are you talking about?

iron granite
#

-# We might or might not get a Neuralink integration.

weak musk
solar zealot
#

would be a shame if one would violate the tos

coral spear
#

I was asking why Jorg referred to Michelle

#

Almost everyone is talking about Michelle

scenic radish
#

the lore runs too deep

peak slate
iron granite
coral spear
last cedar
peak slate
#

Learn to stop worrying and embrace the trash panda

last cedar
#

I can do one better

coral spear
last cedar
#

I also got custom engraved tags

primal laurel
coral spear
# last cedar

Is this impossible or you put an icon on this contact on this phone?

last cedar
#

Door entry keypad that has a display 🙂

coral spear
#

But, look at my profile

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@last cedar Look at my profile details. Something feels off, right?

#

What posting?

coral spear
weak musk
#

Say potato

coral spear
last cedar
#

You took the words out of my mouth haha

scenic radish
#

@coral spear fill out this captcha

coral spear
#

deez nuts presses enter

scenic radish
#

damn, turing test passed

weak musk
#

PotatoGPT detected

coral spear
#

I can resolve it in a matter of minutes

#

חאר rneume

#

I tried typing it correctly

#

Uh, sorry, I need to sleep for now. See you tomorrow

simple gazelle
#

"and to the racoon God gave hands, but not shame"

timber stirrup
#

I've just tossed my 3rd sd card after my reolink doorbell corrupted the card after power outages.

forest edge
timber stirrup
#

can the reolink push recordings without an sd card?

forest edge
#

they have rtsp abilities. so they just push the feed

timber stirrup
#

ahh, but then you lose the notifications don't you?

forest edge
#

yes.. the reolink notification?

timber stirrup
#

ya

#

besides the doorbell. I mean like motion alerts

forest edge
#

I mean if you intergrate it with HA you can make your own and not use the reolink app

timber stirrup
#

I'd have to scrub the footage manually

forest edge
#

and if you use something like frigate you will get alot more options

timber stirrup
#

frigate, ok. I'll take a look

#

ty

static schooner
#

You're not my real dad!!!

timber stirrup
#

I have to tell you something RobC. Your mom and I ...

unborn merlin
#

reolink doorbell can be a little.. bit of a pain in the ass

#

but it does work

timber stirrup
#

ya, it recommends not using wifi cams

unborn merlin
#

I mean you can use like.. one

#

Ive used that one before it does work

#

just make sure its stable

#

preferably on a 2.4ghz wifi

#

because its weird with other stuff

timber stirrup
#

gotcha, worth a shot. thanks

peak slate
#

Gotta sell it like a feature

forest edge
scenic radish
#

Ah shit, here I go playing Dark Souls III again

lavish badger
#

My friend bought me that game years ago just to watch me fail

forest edge
#

I have a friend who tried to get me to play that and I told him where to stick it lol

scenic radish
#

It's so good

#

I can reliably beat it solo, unlike Elden Ring

tidal bronze
peak slate
#

Sir that's a soup and wine

#

Also this is a Wendy's, where'd you get the wine

tidal bronze
#

I used to dig the Asian chicken salad way back in the day.

tidal bronze
#

Maybe, came with dole mandarin in syrup. Yep this was before learning that anything orange is not good for consumption

dusty mica
#

AI still sleeping?? lol

forest edge
#

twig man walkin

tidal bronze
forest edge
tidal bronze
#

I will eat plastic before sugar.

forest edge
#

hate to break it to you.. even the process of turning grapes to wine still leaves sugar in the mix

tidal bronze
#

Hate ro break it to you, 0 sugar been here for ages. News will hit middle earth soon!?

forest edge
#

lol 0 sugar.. you been mislead

scenic radish
tidal bronze
#

Used it so many times, got old and small

scenic radish
#

It was in the pool!

tidal bronze
#

Uh huh

forest edge
#

it's going to be like those videos/image you see of those huge piles of unused bicycles and electric scooters in china cept all EV's lol
https://youtu.be/MCBdcNA_FsI?si=btVGO5FDQyqB_d_r

Ford’s CEO says China’s EV industry poses an existential threat to global automakers. The country’s dark factories, which have robots run 24/7 with limited human interaction, aim to further widen the gap between Chinese car manufacturers and everyone else. As China grapples with overproduction and Trump’s trade war with Beijing continue...

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last cedar
forest edge
#

no, thats a cat. silly sweden

solar zealot
ocean oar
#

Lol, I got one of those too

dusty mica
coral spear
#

Hi

dusty mica
#

you slept well? lol

robust flicker
static schooner
#

That cat is just waiting for the right time to attack. Watch your back

proper swift
#

I think people are unhappy with the reolinks because they don't buy the nvr

#

without it, its jsut another fiddly camera

#

like my garbage tuya cam that dropped off the network and now wants cloud creds so i hate it

scenic radish
#

I like the PoE doorbell

#

Of course, it seems like the only one in existence

proper swift
#

I wish I ran POE instead of 2-wire power + coax to all my cam locations

#

i dunno wtf i was thinking

#

nobody to blame but myself tho

last cedar
#

The reolink poe doorbell is great

#

The only thing that is (understandably) bad is the lack of room to connect the cable, I ran stp cable to be able to use a surge protector on it, no room for the plug, or to enter with the cable (that's what she said)

proper swift
#

I'm not seeing problems with the wifi cams so far, but also, I don't talk to them directly, I talk to them via the nvr

scenic radish
proper swift
#

last time I looked at cmaeras, the nvr's were in the thousands.. so the idea of "nvr" is a scary word

scenic radish
#

IIRC I don't think a cable with a strain relief boot would even fit

last cedar
#

Next small job I have to sort at home....

proper swift
#

all hail the 19" rack

last cedar
last cedar
proper swift
#

well I have one small complaint. no rack ears. But I'll live

scenic radish
last cedar
#

Did you just reply

last cedar
last cedar
static schooner
last cedar
#

It is like your internal monolog

last cedar
proper swift
last cedar
#

I love it

proper swift
#

I think my next major worry/freakout/mass replacement ha wise, is my logitech harmony, which I worry will just stop working one of these days..

last cedar
#

All the cool kids just get up and press buttons, like the old days

proper swift
#

the idea of using a phone to control the tv somehow annoys me tho

scenic radish
#

You mean like a peasant

proper swift
#

grandpa wants his tactile buttons on his digital remote

last cedar
#

I just used wol to wake the tv, and use the amp to swap inputs

#

But I only have an nv shield, so all I really needed was volume

primal laurel
#

me opening the water cooler

last cedar
#

Apex predator

primal laurel
#

wait that's a self burn

last cedar
#

Welcome, fellow trash lover

primal laurel
#

F*CK

scenic radish
#

Great show btw

last cedar
proper swift
#

HA could totally replace my logitech harmony, I just have no reasonable input device.

#

dear universe: please make a remote with an esp32 in it i can just reflash, love, me.

scenic radish
proper swift
#

I have also come to the conclusion, after mucking about with voice, that I don't want to talk to my house.

static schooner
#

my house is s smartass

proper swift
#

I feel like it's a unix brain thing. I could have hit a stupid button by the time I said "turn on the light", I just need the button in the right place

#

so now I just need more buttons... moar buttons.. buttons everywhere. a chaos of buttons.

#

I don't doubt that, but I'm using them only outdoors and not seeing any issues that bug me

#

again, would def use POE if that was an option

#

part of it is I live on an acre, so I don't have 6 other houses crowding my RF

#

yeah, I can see like 2, barely. sometimes a third

#

omg

#

I mean, mine looks like that, but thats because I have 4 of my own... so...

scenic radish
proper swift
#

jeebus

#

I would cry

scenic radish
#

yeah i really need two APs in this place (long but narrow loft), but one centrally located is good enough

#

and i'd have to run cabling in a nonsense way to do it how i want since we rent

proper swift
#

I'm thinking of dropping one of my networks, but then I have to go around and find all the devices that are locally programmed to talk to it and reconfig htem

scenic radish
#

FAST

proper swift
#

my internet is poo because boonies

scenic radish
#

1200/300 here

tidal bronze
#

3gig, hmm

#

You must be running an epic YT channel.

static schooner
#

OF

tidal bronze
#

Now that makes perfect sense. Kudos to you for admitting 😀

#

You do you bro! Just as long as you know what it is. 👌

stuck mortar
#

My provider only offers 10, and for less than att’s 1

robust flicker
#

cries in Starlink

stuck mortar
#

Did I need to upgrade the router to 10Gbit too earlier this year?

#

Yes, yes I did

tidal bronze
#

I think 250 is plenty. Unless you do site to site backups etc.

#

Wowza torrents. Haven't heard that in a minute

forest edge
#

so says the person who just made the statement that they are an idiot. lol

tidal bronze
#

Oh boy I am confused between replication and deduplication. 7 AM bloody Mary is too early I guess

#

I let syno handle all that. Just that I AM lost for words.🤣

tidal bronze
#

No idea about fingers but I know for sure I landed in Toronto

forest edge
static schooner
#

They're in Ground Transportation

tidal bronze
forest edge
tidal bronze
#

Here for my buddy's birthday tonight. Boy this is going to be eventful. Gotta be back at the airport at 6AM.

scenic radish
forest edge
#

you never saw that southpark?

#

what the hell kind of sheltered life do you live tediore

scenic radish
#

I've only seen a handful of episodes

#

I've been meaning to watch it from the beginning

coral spear
#

Hi

forest edge
#

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soon all you'll have is online shopping lol

high remnant
#

shes a bit hot

tidal bronze
forest edge
# high remnant

standard bikes look weird compared to their original counter parts

forest edge
#

that headlight assembly

high remnant
#

ahh

#

they all look like a praying mantis

#

lol

forest edge
#

prior to "futuristic" areodynamics the bikes had a flow to them.. now they look like mutated chickens

#

or praying mantis

high remnant
#

yes but also jo

#

no

#

cafe racers still exists or super sports

#

nakeds aren’t aerodynamic tbh

forest edge
#

not seen a "modren" cafe racer.. not sure if they changed in looks or not but sport bikes don't look like that they have more flow

high remnant
#

they have changed tho

#

things change :>

forest edge
#

that they do. turbo and superchargers on off the shelf motorcycles is proof that shit certianly does change lol

primal laurel
#

Not everything that 'flows better' is more aerodynamic

#

Proof

proper swift
#

hrmm.. swapped my pi3 for a pi4, hoping this dashboard stops crashing now... 🙂

unborn merlin
proper swift
#

well.. ha wasn't crashing, the browser i ran on this pi was

#

or the whole pi, either way

unborn merlin
#

why are you running a browser on it too?

proper swift
#

im not

#

its a dashboard

solar zealot
#

It's maddening that they still don't feel the need to put proper displays onto them

#

Like you get '5.5" tft'

#

surely they couldn't just like, get something real the size of a smartphone?

proper swift
#

yeah. this one is a normal 21" monitor, no touch screen, just a ever-running dashboard

forest edge
#

thats more borderline with what I could call a standard bike than cafe

solar zealot
forest edge
#

cafe are usually lowered

proper swift
#

wait, the bike has a display?

solar zealot
#

Sigh

forest edge
#

lots of them lately it seems

unborn merlin
#

lots of elon stans are very stupid motherfuckers

#

it makes it very likely to succeed.

solar zealot
#

I can't ping the role on mobile

#

thanks discord

unborn merlin
#

i cant seem to on desktop either? 🤔

forest edge
#

me neither

#

you admins broke the permissions lol

solar zealot
#

That looks like a terrible ride

forest edge
#

yea but I usually see that lowered

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sport bikes for the urban crawlers

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I guess standard and naked are diffrent classifications now. use to be one in the same

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which is dumb. they make sport bikes without fairings and class them under naked lol

solar zealot
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that do be correct

last cedar
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This is the best bike though

forest edge
coral spear
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How do I message in Discord on my HA server?

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fathom sparrow
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I was trying to send some ASCII art

static schooner
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There's a handy channel for that: #botspam

fathom sparrow
silent doveBOT
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The topic of this channel is:

There’s no support here - only chill. Come in, grab a drink, chat with your fellow community members! This is a space to talk to other smart home enthusiasts. If you’re "just asking a question", you're asking for support. Head to https://discord.com/channels/330944238910963714/1284968640189304913 to help you find where you should post your question. No politics, religion, or any other obviously contentious topics! Please ensure you've read the Code of Conduct (https://www.home-assistant.io/code_of_conduct/), and #rules.

last cedar
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now that was art

static schooner
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#only-bubble-wrap

coral spear
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I got this idea when I typed __

stuck anchor
minor bobcat
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Look down and see your needle pinned at 250 but it's been there for half a minute

crisp oriole
coral spear
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ASCII art or an image?

crisp oriole
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mage. my main laptop is called blue mage of the ff job title

dusky marsh
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https://meh.com/. <-- Any opinion on these 8-Pack: Etekcity Smart WiFi Switches for $30? Are they HA friendly at all and not total junk?

static schooner
ocean oar
split grail
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I have a question but I have no idea where to put it

dawn badge
split grail
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ok

trail apex
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I'm trying to upload an image throug the file editor addon for use on a card.

I went into file editr>back as far as i could(/homeassistant/)>www>created a folder (custom-images) > then uploaded my photo.

when i try to navigate direclty to the image in browser i just get a blue ? icon.

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what a i doing wrong here

static schooner
forest edge
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that meh.com site sure does love tracking lol

ocean oar
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I kinda miss the 200x era where those clearance deal websites were all the rage.
Most of it was trash, but there was the odd deal worth having, and consumables like blank DVDs were always cheap

forest edge
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thats what this site is. think those switched are discontinued

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can slap tasmota on it so proba esphome as well so they have that going for them

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capacitive touch light switch is meh tho.. pass lol

ocean oar
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There's a logo on the RF can of the ESP in that FCC doc that leads to an official integration, too

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IMHO larger issue with discontinued hardware is unless you buy a whole lot of extras, once they start dying you have to find something else (that doesn't match, visually) to replace them

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I mean that's a problem with everything, but even worse in this case

forest edge
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well you run that risk with everything. why we should support products like shelly lol

scenic radish
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a large number of manufacturers moved away from ESPs years ago

forest edge
ocean oar
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Seems like a shit system if they're allowed to change the RF hardware without re-certifying it and getting a different FCC ID

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I mean at this point I wouldn't be surprised, but feels like that defeats the entire point

scenic radish
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pretty cool honestly

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also are you sure the logo isn't...

ocean oar
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Lol why does that look like a butt wearing a hat

ocean oar
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If I ever win the lottery, I'm bringing it back as a social experiment

dusky marsh
ocean oar
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The schtick will be that everything is sold by weight. Because I want to see what the most ridiculous thing I can get someone to buy a kilogram of is

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Socks? Kilogram. AA batteries. Kilogram. USB cables? Kilogram.

dusky marsh
ocean oar
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We've got a great source for those in NZ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7uq04fEjs

Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns out that "brain-eating amoebas", naegleria fowleri, are a real, if rare, thing.

Thank you to Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles! Here are some of the references used ...

▶ Play video
static schooner
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Between NZ and Australia you've cornered the market on deadly things

ocean oar
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We have environmental causes, Aussies got animals. A great pairing

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NZ: volcanoes, earthquakes, etc
AU: snakes, spiders, sharks, jellyfish, crocodiles, etc

dusky marsh
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Yeah, just about everything in the outback tries to kill you. Kind of like Arizona in the USA.