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It's supposed to be used publicly
yes
cool
I dont see those here. Public chargers are either proper stations or embedded in lampposts
I think there aren't a lot in use right now
But I have never seen a lightpost installation around me either
bad parkingjob
lmao
I'll call handhaving
HENDHEVING!
can I share in #1284960456880029707 my blog post explaining why switch 2 home automation will be difficult and not as good as it could be
like it will kinda suck
it sounds like that’d be fine considering the whole point is self promotion
Sounds fine to me, as long as the general rules and the CoC are followed.
Do you mind just checking the end? Because I do criticize a switch hacking discord server for the way it treats people in the end
You can send me a link via DM.
tbh I haven't had much of an issue with Apple Music
though, I use android, iOS might be a different story
No the issue is that it does not work with last.fm the website
I can not track my music
have you looked into lastfm scrobblers?
the apps?
yeah, including community-made ones
oh whats up?
I have to have both apps running and sometimes it will get 'killed' so I am missing srobbles
i'm assuming you use iOS
ye
yeah thats a difficult one
you can probably take a look at https://stats.fm
hmm
this thing uses the apple music api to grab your listening stats instead iirc
TIL
its a whole different platform though
Easy answer do they scream?
i dunno i was never able to sign in 😭
yeah I'd have to somehow move 10+ years of stats
https://support.stats.fm/docs/import/spotify-import this would probably help you
How to import your Spotify streaming history
you can import your lifetime spotify streaming history
nice
it'll take like 30 days for spotify to send you the data but you could look into that
never tried it though
the sad part is that a bunch of data still predates Spotify
nor have i ever used stats, just remembered it exists
thats fair
yeah its a good alternative tbh
I just hate how vendorlocked i am lol
(for useless data)
yeah
what is this 2003?
Dawn of the Brown Zune. 'Twas a simpler time
Plug it into your 360 and play some tunes
Anyone knows if the tailscale addon in home assistant can't be used as a "router" to route traffic for another subnet over the tailscale network? I want to set my HA IP as a gateway for static routing of my remote subnet.
I set it up and I'm able to ping and wget resources from the other subnet from within the HA terminal, but unable to do so from other devices on the network. So wondering whether this is even possible
yeah but probably jorg or another yellow is going to shout at you 🥺
😂😂🫶
Didn't want to create a thread as I was looking for a simple yes/no answer. But fine.
Nice jiff, it doesnt load
skill issue
also nice Scrubs is coming back
Im No super the scrubs theme with all the lyrics
Its gotten so bad we are recycling middling network comedies
cant I just be happy?
Can't I be grumpy 😛
Didn't one of the main cast die?
yes
its never lupus
I miss House, only because it was almost always self contained in each episode and you could play random and it just worked
yep
MASH was kinda the same way
True
I'm NOT a boomer 😉
didnt say that
I just grew up with them 😛
Ppl How are u? Im new here, I have a question about a smart device, a smart knob, that I can not configure well. Where is the best place in this server to ask for that?? I want not bad use the channels.
whos going to say the line
Yes I am old, but I nearly smacked my nephew when he used the "Ok boomer" phrase on me
unc
<3
I an "xennial", best microgeneration 😛
#1284966353798697001 for general device questions or #1284966582375813201, if it is a problem with a specific integration.
Sooo millenial 😛
I think so
I am from the generation who is either that or whatever comes after that
small rant but WHY do I still have 198492357897450987345 bazillion small flies in my house
Lucky" or "cusp" generation: The term "xennial" was coined to describe this group that doesn't fully identify with either Generation X or Millennials. Their unique position is often seen as having experienced major global events without having their entire lives documented or impacted by the constant pressure of social media.
Nobody knows what I did in highschool 😛
My radiator control valve has a -8 to +8 scale, and moving it from about 0.05 to 0.07 raised the temp out to the house by 1.5C so it will be like a furnace, why is stuff so infuriating?
Well maybe geocities and my quakeworld clan might still be out there
That is for the weather compensation for all radiators, not per radiator, by the way
I found a guy I played UT2003 with about 15 years later, same name
What are the odds haha
Yeah my handle has changed, only because I got sick of explaining it
So in some way, your old clan might still be going 😄
Can you explain that?
Was Kornchild, but I didn't know Korn the band when I made it, I just liked the movie Children of the Corn
he's a twink
cream filled twink
LMAO
Twinks are a World of Warcraft thing
not only in WoW
Thats where it started though
Its my knob that I can configure for single click to On a light but I can not do another click to switch off 😂 Im dumb
so you're saying I satarted in WoW
Well given Wow is over 20 years old
Well, what type of twinks are we talking about 😛
WELLL
I'm referencing Twinks for PVP and gearing
There's other twinks out there
yes, yes there are
In a gaming context
Definition: A low-level character who is outfitted with high-level gear, typically by an older or more experienced player.
Origin: The term likely originates from the "twinkling" or shining effect of high-end gear on a character.
Usage: The term can also refer to the act of outfitting a low-level character with powerful items to give them an advantage.
NOT A "twink" is a slang term for a young, slim, and attractive gay man with a youthful appearance and little to no body hair, often in his late teens to twenties. The term can also refer to a low-level character in a role-playing game who is equipped with advanced gear from a higher-level character. While not a slur, the use of the term can be objectifying or misunderstood, and it has evolved to be used more broadly within some queer communities to describe individuals who fit the visual archetype regardless of their gender identity.
LMAOOO

No I know what the second one is
but calling a gamer a twink ingame will always cause errors for me
🤣
In CoX you couldn't give money to your own alts, so you needed a middle-man, usually you'd pick someone high-level as they were less likely to run off, often they'd refuse payment to spoil you.
"Hey can you help me move 2M from my alt?"
"Here's 3M, have fun" *flies off*
This was often called "sugar-daddying"
cox
City of Heroes/City of Villains
Aww, I remember that game. There was this annoying bug where if you used a particular costume part on female villains and went swimming, it disappeared.
I thought of this https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Chambers_of_Xeric
The game was fairly simple, so the fashion was where it was at
Yeah, but I don't think they expected full rear nudity
I dunno have you seen what Psylocke wore for most of the 90s?
There is something going on w/ my system. The WebUI stops responding, but everything else still works.. So I can't use the mobile app, or the web page to do anything, but if I have a device setup w/ voice control, or other automations, they all work..
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What support section would be good to use to open ?
Well, this is a first
One of the cats has got shit on my server rack
At least I don't think it was me
And you though raccoons were disgusting
At least they wash their poop first

These cloud companies need to stop overplaying their hand in convincing people to not rely on them: https://www.techradar.com/pro/live/microsoft-down-major-outage-hits-azure-365-and-more-even-minecraft-affected
Even Minecraft
First AWS then MS what next?
I see a printer
HP LaserJet?
Canon laser
Good stuff
brother4lyfe
iSensys stuff is decent
probably AWS
I wanted duplex scanning with feeder and was sick of our inkjet always being out of ink
That was the cheapest option
I don't recommend Inkjet at all anymore
Not out of ink, it was always dry, sorry
Yeah that
Heads were clogged or blockage somewhere
Only ones that seem to survive longer periods of inactivity are Epson Eco-Tank
Trying flushing again
whats wrong with inkjet? I still got two going strong in this house
They consume ink all the time. It's a profit center
museum pieces really
We all thought you would say dot-matrix @forest edge
I thought a printing press was about to be mentioned
Which one? I might be able to tell you why exactly they survived
Moses and his stone tablet
thats ok I mixed up inkjet for laserjet
There are some older inkjets that have printheads separate of the tank. Those live long and prosper lol
Which is what these Eco-Tank are now again
we have a cannon upstairs for colored prints and the fold down door thing for the tray broke the second we unboxed it
other than that it's been working fine for about 5ish years now
just realized since switching to frigate 16.1 I guess the global entry for record no longer applies. all my cameras that didn't have it added themselves were only retianing like 2 days worth of general recording
freaking annoying
what’s an printer
Things i like to talk way too much about
I've seen machines actually going that fast full color lol
you do printer repair?
Production stuff
what is that
Large format or high speed laser
like banner printing?
yea that top machine is what I was picturing
think that same machine does vinyl prints for automotive. like buisness decals etc
looks very similiar anyways
I wanted a huge poster 2x3ft sat image of my farm one time and the cost of having that printed was just (imo) stupid as hell
Should be about 30€
at the time I honestly think it would have been cheaper to have an artist do a render by hand of the same size
this was nearly two decades ago. imagine it has gotten cheaper
And expensive again during covid and Ukraine conflict
Paper at some point more than doubled in price compared to before covid
not for us I don't think
just like the idiots here thought toilet paper was going to become a rarity and didn't realize we source that stuff locally lol
A lot of wood for paper came from eastern Europe
4.5 feet per 100 tablespoons?
17 and 127/ 128 cheeseburgers per bald eagle
That last 1/128 cheeseburger was just too much to handle
What’s the airspeed of a bald eagle carrying a cheeseburger 🤔
metric
not freedoms per fake cheeseburger
That is very economical
and i am currently doing not that
Ooooh!
I had a Kia something for a month, it had no heatpump, and it warmed the engine even when battery was full
yeah that’s bizarre
So it "used" like 1.6l/100km even on (what should have been) full electric power
They said that if you were traveling at 120km/h, and it needed to fire up the engine it would have been cold, so it preheated it
But I believe it was just their way of getting round putting a heatpump in them
It was a works car, I did not like it
The lights were amazing though, led matrix, it was like having the sun on the front of the car
this cat has an heat pump
I love cats with heatpumps
but this is probs a combination of audi overestimating the efficiency, cold weather and me driving like an audi driver
meh it’s fine. if i were to driver normally id probably do better
it was the same with my previous car
but even more
Was it better in the summer?
Hehe, like my Volvo 😄
you're gonna be bankrupt 2027
why
ETS2
Euro Truck Simulator?
no CO2 tax for fuel suppliers
Yes! That is why I am not bothered lol
EV wasnt an option for me, nor was public transport
but hey I don't eat meat, don't have or want children 🤷♂️
Totally has it's impact vs everything an EV (no more trucks delivering to gasstations, less oiltankers on the sea and less km's done by people because they just can charge at home)
Hey we need more children otherwise by the time we retire the only care available will be robots
go at it then!
Robots are not tasty
I just dont want kids!
Yes my mobile home assistant for playing music in the park with voice assistant and stuff like that is working.
Park assist but then diffrent..
"Hey Home Assistant Homie, Play bird chirping sounds"
that and slowly the music lowered till it dies out and you have my sleep assist
sounds like a homeless intergration
“Play ‘poisoning pigeons in park’ by Tom Lehrer” 
where do you fine people recommend I ask for help with automating my steam powered radiator?
steam powered made me picture a locomotive
1840?
But #1284980040940912641 probably
Or #1284966353798697001 if you need to hook it up first
I said "where", not "when" haha. USA is still a bit behind...
behind? oh because we have centeralized heating?
omg I need to read more
ADHD brain processing only reading 50% of the words but getting the answer right 90% of the time 😛
Behind in terms of bad insulation and steam heating instead of heat pumps and so on 🙂
In which channel should I ask?
eh? heat pumps don't work worht a crap in cold places
When you live in a temperate climate they are great
oki
But nothing screams inefficency when having to resort to a resistive heating strip to keep your house liveable
And also hot water heat is quite efficient, more so then forced air. As the there is both convective and infared heat
Depends, they can in allot of cases
The zwave alliance is having an event down the hall from my office.. I'd much rather be down there I think 🙂
Agreed in certain climates, here it gets to -35F
Just watching the streem and Mike mentioned something that sounded like "parakeet" - but can't find it. Was related to STT. Anyone know what that was?
I didnt see the stream but probably nvidia parakeet
many thanks
sorry that's rubbish. The coldest countries in europe like norway and sweden have the highest percentage of heat pumps
I use the model with macwhisper - its pretty good
Very popular in Denmark too. I got heatpumps last year and the first installer was trying to talk me out of it 6 ways to sunday - super weird. Went with another guy and best decision i ever made (but not in dk right now I should say, much warmer area).
But to be fare, that's speaking about the newer models
Allot changed last 4 years
Europe is nowhere near as cold as continental US/Canada
Due to proximity to the water
-30 or worse
So in which channel should I ask for tips on making my steam radiator smart?
modern ones can handle it
Any requests ? 🙂
not europe. Norway. All nordic countries have a very high percentage of heat pumps
im just saying that this idea that heat pumps don't work in cold weather is antiquated
There is an optimal window though isnt there?
fundamentally the compressor technology really hasn't changed that much the past years
most things have one but how important it is is the point. and its much less important now than it was for this case
Brine or air?
air to air and air to water
can someone please help me out? If I have a question on how to automate some old piece of equipment, where should I go to?
Brine is just water and glycoll
When you look at cost per BTU even with a heatpump natural gas still wins
thank you
I got heatpumps both for AC and for water heater - when you have solar/batteries its almost like a cheatcode..
my cat just pooped on the stairway, stepping right into it
only in the UK because you have a ridiculous tax system on electricity
We pay 3-3.50 per million BTU in US for gas
great
That has to be location dependent or ? There are areas (/ times) when nat gas was crazy expensive.
it is location dependent, but when you don't have to compress it, ship it and then uncompress it, it tends to cheaper
electricity price, gas price, supply temp, and ambient temp are the most important variables
transport it in sabotaged pipelines probably doesnt help
Our heating bill for last year was about 150-200 USD a month for a 3000 squarefoot house with a non condensing boiler
for the whole winter I think we pay about 1000, we also have r60 in the attic and new windows, not all US houses are energy hogs
if you want other people besides americans to understand you you need to use metric
278 square meters
We went hard on solar, then declared war on our power/gas company because we the have most expensive power in all of the US.
Cali?
or Hawaii?
SDG&E, cali yeah. Pretty sure we win. Its insane.
Doesn't help that Cali sue's itself for wildfires
41 panels, 3 powerwalls and heatpumps wherever we can and basically dont have a gas/power bill anymore minus connection fee
I mean seriously yes fire's suck, but sueing the power company just makes bills even higher...
Solar wouldn't keep up for heating here, days are to short in the winter
They turn off the power preemptively when theres a lot of wind now (not just a breeze but happens)
FYI I fully support heatpumps, I even have one in my camper, my issue is they aren't always teh best solution
My long term plan for my house is to eventually do mini splits in the bedrooms and main floor livingroom/kitchen/dining room combo and use that until temps get below freezing to keep house warm
Here 30 eur
I can't say whether 200 USD per month is a lot or little for that kind of house. Too many variables. For my parents house the air-to-air heat pump did 800 kWh electric for heating and cooling for the entire year. A large part of cooling was powered by solar
Whats teh delta in temp changes where your parents live?
Yearly highs and lows
it's allot
Double that and for 30 eur a month
This year our lowest reading from my personal thermostat was -26F(-32C) with a high of 102F(39C)
WIthout batteries or solar
Most of Europe is quite temperate and a lot of the world because people were smarter back then and lived where the temp's didn't suck and their was good access to transportation
extrema don't matter much and vary too much as well. Need to look at degree days
Only reason I live where I live is because some German needed farmland and came here as an immigrant lol
flyover country is named that for a reason
But those don't matter if your insulation is good, can be as cold as it wan'ts to be
What's teh coldest temp you've ever experienced?
There gets to be a point that upgrades to insulation/windows has diminishing returns
Not sure if its your area, but was in wyoming and south dakota a few weeks ago - was blown away by the nature there, wanted to spend more time.
-25c or so
Hmmmmm 🤔
Granted, sun was out and beautiful sunset.. then i talked to someone in deadwood who said a few years ago the city was under 10-12 ft of snow, people died and it was 10k to get rescued if you left your house against stay in orders...
If cold air can't come in and hot can't go out ...
No house is airtight
yes. But you also have ridiculously large houses that are poorly constructed because otherwise they would be too expensive. So lots to win there
And it shouldn't be either
Have you experienced -10C to -15C temps for a week straight? If air is that stagnent that you would die of CO2 poisoning
No such thing as a perfectly sealed house, yes there are heat exchangers etc, but guess what, they use energy
What we build here is, hence the rule that we need to place D system for the ventilation
Do you think the heat exchanger's are free of energy use? Because heating up air uses BTU's
was a thing, years ago. Then climate change
idk what heat exchanger has to do with this
A d systems doens't heat, it recovers heat
Stehan repled to teh wrong message 🙂
Does it use electricity to recover said heat?
not really
I'm not aruging that US houses especially older ones are less efficent, what I am saying is its not so caveman like Europeans believe, there is a middle ground
It mostly has the same power usage as a C system
We have air gaps built into our window frames lol
You would be suprised when visiting Belgium homes
C system
Not the case with D
And? so do we, filled with nobel gasses
Vents not allowed
You're thinking double pane glass?
its where the air gets sucked into the home
Not familiar with C or D Systems
C gets fresh air trough windows and just blows out
My house is sealed up so well that when running the hood vent, I have to open up a window otherwise it backdrafts from the fireplace or boiler flu
D gets fresh air from outside and mixes the heat from what goes out and blows in the fresh air but less cold
Our atttic was sealed when I put in new insulation
But that requires it to always run or atleast monitor the air inside? Otherwise mold could be a problem?
We had to install bath fans after we sealed our house, as we got mold just from showers :/
If the rest is sealed shut
always run or more expensive run when needed
Interesting
There is a point where a house can be TOO tight unless you have forced air replacement
bathroom always window open or atleast a decent fan needed, has nothing todo with insulation, but yes the better the insulation the worse it gets
Exactly what system c and d do here
It's a requirement
Has nothing to do with insulation, has to be how tight the house is, new contruction where I'm at requires r20 in the walls and r60 in the ceiling, they also must be so airtight that they need an air exchanger
Because it is insulated so much ...
Insulation is NOT airsealing
If you can't understand that concept you have no place in this conversation 😛
I'll give you an example, make a giant house made out of glass with no seams that is very airtight but only has a R value of 1
You'd have moisture problems because the moisture would have nowhere to go, you'd also have condensation issues when cold out, but thats a different topic
So you could have a well sealed house with crappy insulation
or vice versa
Now will new windows address both air infiltration and insulation value yes, same with doors
House wraps on houses, vapor barrier's all of that contributes to how well a house is sealed, but if said house had no insulation in the walls, you'd just have a cold damp house that you'd eventually from co2 poisoning 😛
if you want to have a well insulated house that is liveable you have to follow the passiv house standard
Whut? By insulating you airseal the house ...
No insulation is NOT airsealing
A fether filled jacket is great at insulating but not air tight. A plastic bag is air tight but not a great insulator
On a related note, I like the sealing system that I've seen on This old house, where they spray stuff in the air and pressurize the house to fill in tiny gaps
Those are awesome
I particularly like data where you can see it working
Get some stoner friends and smoke a lot in your house, then turn on the ventilation lol
I'm going to guess when you say inulation you're refering to foam insulation?
Familiar with cold bridge?
nope
I am quite familiar with cold bridging, I feel it every winter as our houses are not double framed contruction
But that again has nothing to do with insulation
It has but nothing todo with the air thightness
The whole purpose non foam insulation is to provide an airgap as air is a good insulator compared to solids
This is correct, but no matter how much insulation you put in a house unless you have inside walls and outside walls with insulation between, you will always have a cold bridge
Weird, We never have a coldbridge :p
Do your inside walls attach to the same framing as your outside wall?
They don't
So you'r outside wall is completely indepentdent from your inside wall
Btw, we build houses and apartements
except for some screws, yes
So it goes outside wall || foam/insulation || inside wall?
omg wtf is that stupid discord
Wall - Foam - wall with no studes inbetween?
a plug that is in the inside wall yes (but still on the outside) and those bricks are insulated
So the inside walls attach to different stud then teh outside wall?
it's an eboard
wallstrips on the outside
And it foam inbetween? Tell me what about your houses built in the 70's? or 80's?
Did they use this technology?
If not then the argument is invalid as teh majority of US homes were built in the 40's and beyond, how efficent are european houses built in those times?
Or do you tear them down and build something new
Lol, older, it's an old castle plus has been renovated just now 😂
So you lost internal space by adding that thermal break
you can't have your cake and eat it too
If you put in a thermal break then your inside space is reduced, not saying thats a bad thing
no internal space lost, the insulation is o the outside
Only done when renovating
like creppie, same story
all we know is that in europe back in the times they build way thicker brick walls then after some time they noticed insulating is cheaper then thicker walls
meanwhile in us they just used wood?
Also not saying what we need todo is a rule trough the whole EU, Belgium tends to be strict (Elek rules in Belgium are for example ridiculous)
@tidal bronze enjoy your traveling during Halloween. https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-22-2023/39O-iX.gif
My GF wants to move the TV but my presence sensor is mounted to that... I don't want to setup that aqara mess again... #complain
We need a complaint channel where we can just rant but don't expect help from anyone
this is that channel where complaints fall onto deaf ears
Command strip it to the wall
I don't want a white cable running down my painted wall
Living Room and kitchen
fish it behind the wall
Stone wall
even better you can mesh wires into those walls like that and brick to where you can't even see them
may have to get a longer cable to snake it around
usb c or micro usb for power?
Usb c but i don't feel like punching two holes into that wall tbh
why would you need to?
Ah you mean into the 'seams' between the bricks?
yes
this is two rolls sure there is a single for even cheaper
just paint the cable after you place it
and it goes poof
assuming it needs to be something other than the same white
It's wallpaper, plaster then brick
wut
Idk if plaster is the right word
But yeah something like that
There's a layer of about 0.5 inches above the brick
And then wallpaper above that
so you are saying the wall is plaster with brick underneath?
I guess that's the term
is the plaster stuck to the brick or is that what you mean by 0.5 inches above? as in it's seperated?
It's on the brick
well you could carve a channel in the plaster for the wire and just replaster over it and repaint
plaster not thick enough?
When I hung some pictures I guessed half an inch
But I'd have to carefully remove a strip of wallpaper
is it near a corner?
i guess it would be if you had it attached to a tv
so the wire could ride up the corner and be pretty unnoticeable
The red dot is where it sits now. The TV and couch are currently 90deg rotated compared to the drawing. But my gf wants it like that drawing. The sensor is placed there exactly, to see into the hallway
so a long enough cable ran up that corner and across the cieling to the red dot would work. I would go with a round cable than flat
paint the wire that runs into the corner over the wallpaper the dominate color of the wall paper
and it should blend right in
Most stuff is wireless
battery operated presence sensor would suck
a mmwave one.. obviously they made pir ones last long enough but still batteries in general just suck
The only sensor that's below 100% is my outside temperature sensor, which isn't made for outside so I'll give it that
Had everything for more than a year
battery readings on sensors are anything but accurate
I noticed
Li-MnO2 ("CR") batteries do fun things if the temperature goes below freezing
It doesn't help though that even when they're working normally there's about a tenth of a volt difference between 95% and 10% of their capacity
These are ones I'm most curious about in my house. All Li-SOCl2; PIRs have one 2/3AA (ER14335), temperature/humidity ones two AA (ER14505).
Only another year until the lowest one should be due to reach 0% 😄
I want to get a hue outdoor sensor at some point, it's got PIR, Lux and Temperature. Powered by AA batteries
what software is that?
That's the PDF plan I got from my landlord lol
Well call up your landlord and ask what software they used
landlord..
"use software"?
But parasites can't do work!
they should rename to Googe and have like a doge doodle as their logo
their slogan can be "do not care"
Google Doodle
The outdoor motion sensor that runs on AAs is 4 years old at this point, on 70% battery (original)
that's cause there are no racoons to constantly set it off. aren't you thankful?
hmmmm enterprise ssd @ 99% 1.92 TB or brand new 2TB SSD consumer..... both QLC(yes I know it sucks)
Uhh is there a difference
In price no, one is used 1 is new
My experience with ssd storage is that stuff lasts forever
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ohhh more toys
POE cameras last forever
Looks at my zwave antenna I haven't migrated to yet
to be fair my voice pe is also currently not hooked up
its pretty good timing about a week before black friday. in case you want to buy some new stuff to use with the new stuff 🙂
Don't worry I know that pain too 😛
There aren't really good black friday deals anymore
yeah thats not unfair, although shelly store on amazon uk usually have some deals. thats when i stock up for future projects
uggg you know I'm getting serious about spreadsheets when I change my ultrawide from my personal computer to my work computer :/
Truth
I have a stack of esp32s waiting right now
I have 3d printer arriving tomorrow so I need to get some new dev boards for as yet undetermined projects so i can print boxes to put them in...
Is ha team still at the github universe thingy majiggy?
They are likely on the way home.
so tempted to reach out and be like can you do $0.50?
I'd love to live in an open warehouse
there's some things that'd be nice about it, and some that suck. A lot
heating it for example
drafts and cost to heat
or cool
heelys to the kitchen from bed
holy shit heelys
have not thought about those in YEARS
i got yelled at so often during school for them
I remember they were banning them at the mall, back when those were a thing 🙂
I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but malls are still a thing
are they?
we still have a few here, they're just becoming less about big anchor stores and more about high-end shops and restaurants
we lost one big one completely and the anchor stores have mostly left the remaining ones, leaving giant empty buildings
also, most of ours are actually outdoors and not enclosed
land of sunshine, after all
I think the concrete sidewalk architecture of our malls are probably less interesting for heelies than the smooth indoor commercial tiles
such a novel way to crack your skull
Most of the ones around here either are leveled or converted to strip malls.
I have no idea why I'm so excitied to get an excel spreadsheet working.......
I even clapped.... yeah.... I'm a sad human being
Judging by the pitchforkers in the beta channel, better to do a detour
..... is a mob forming!
We had worse times.
Spent two hours trying to do the most basic 3d modelling and I can't even get a simple thread done. I don't know if it's just me being dumb or if this is needlessly complicated in Onshape. I would have thought this was two clicks away in 2025, but apparently not
If only I had any skills or creativity, it would be so cool to use all the tech we have available today 😔
At least you accomplished something
I want to get my pitchfork out but I just see a parent abusing their power
We offer a variety of pitchforks now.

Which one is the longest. I don't want to have to walk too far to stick someone

Is it a pitchfork and a torch, or a combo unit?
Pitchfork in front of a lovely bonfire perhaps, used to help move the logs around safely
You really want to be able to grab your prey with the tines before cooking them, so I think pitchfork + controllable flame is where it's at
purely for practical reasons
Just attach the pitchfork to the end of a flamethrower, bayonet-style.
Torchfork
But don't forget to make an HA automation for said flamethrower.
Otherwise, what's even the point?
Need an integrated thermometer in the torchfork so you know when your food is ready
And track long term statistics in case there’s an issue
Well that was a wasted day, my OMV installation shot itself
<@&330946878646517761> spam
Until a raccoon steals it
We had one at work that died because the building got hit by lightning
The PoE circuit was just exploded, there were not enough pieces of capacitor in the bottom of the case to match what was missing 😆
Killed the PoE on the switch too, amazingly it still switched
I have learned that you don't mess around with lightning
angry pixies
Maybe I should setup a smart plug to flip a light switch every few seconds rapidly for Halloween
try to get people that way
If you are having a bad day, remember that some degenerate thought this was good enough
did a rodent do that?
The handyman rodent.
reminds me of Picobello BV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjf5E-Ol8rs
Hebbie der zelluf aan lope te hannese?!
never seen a better metaphor for "user-hostile design"
"wanna turn on the lights? HAVE SOME SEVERED NERVES MUAHAHA"
DNS not working?
Seems like that could be your fault
Figured it out. I'm old (under 40), so Discord isn't as smooth for us elderly folks, lolol.
Is that an albino raccoon?
I saw it as a ghost raccoon for extra Halloween spookiness
what the hell am i hearing lol
pff I'm 48 and I know all the tricks
Haha, only BARELY under 40, I'll have that cross to bear here real soon. Old enough to prefer IRC chat, but young enough to know that Discord has yanked up the chat realm.
soo, 30? 
Okay which of you fuckers made this? https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsactuallyverycool/s/Q0LJps996Y
@junior forge imagine putting the camera you had with us in the head of this with facial tracking so it will turn when it sees a face 😂 😂 😂

is it breaking the rules if i forward a post from #1284960456880029707 here? is it meant to only stay there?
it does involve donating to the open home foundation so i figured it would slide
make sure to enter in the free giveaway!
I didn't even read the post, just the title and knew it'd be fine to share. 😂
@hollow glacierthat was a lot of hoops to jump through!
expecting old people like myself to do such complex stuff to enter a giveaway.. pssh /s
i have a 'skip and directly enter giveaway' button
why not use that lol
you missed the exploding pumpkins
then had to agree to let that dyno thing do whatever
we do the giveaway through a discord bot i think it's required to join the discord first.. we could probably find another way to do a giveaway
this bot broke months ago and seems to be held together with glue but i cant make my own so kind of at the mercy with the tools i have
this or make them have an account on the apollo site is really the two most common ways
I was being sarcastic.. people can't complain about free stuff for realz
they try not to make people make an account with us first for stuff just cuz they dont like companies doing that in general
ah ok
Challenge Accepted
tbh for $17.99 the h-2 is a decent price for what you get.. 8MB c6 mcu
does the winner get announced on the discord via announcments channel? cause I will not remember to check this dyno site later lol
maybe they show up at your door with a big check
theyd' have to not accidentally fly over
yeah in the https://discord.com/channels/1126966963206361199/1339717013307920537 channel
the bot is supposed to comment with the winner's name but it stopped doing that months ago
i swear dyno is a super broken bot held together with duct tape and glue
lol
I now have 4 home assistant installations.
holy crap those 16TB Baracuda drives are chunky
They’re just big-blocked
lmao
don't add them all to the companion app I find it wigs out with multiple servers unless they all on same network
Well i fix that with self managed dns servers. Only the companion app doesnt like that also. I think it remembers the ip
too small
nah theyre fine
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talk about easy pickings
floater ip and distributed routing
oh, not many people do bgp routing madness
@forest edge
I just got a Home Assistant Voice PE, and running into problems during the setup. I'm not sure where to start, or where to ask about it?
tyty
Ironically, it started doing something different now 😄 I think it's making progress
Happy Halloween! Figure you nerds will appreciate this!
This is beautiful
@thick dragon Merry Xmas!
halloween
Oh great. XNOR continues to melt my brain both in the philosophy of binary logic and in artistic representation
Atleast not a dark void as AND
Production car that costs 55k. Has 1500 HP 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJA8UiZW7lk
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In term...
but is it any good
Sure looks like it
idk i am still on the fence with chineese cars
esp dealer network but also CCP is a big BIG red flag
They innovate more. Cost less. Perform better. Don't ask ridiculous money for options. BMW: y u no buy diesel in 2035?
What ccp?
what do you think lol
I don't get it
was that your dinner tonight?
theres plenty concern to distrust the EVs alongside other tech pushed out by china
this is one of the reasons i will not ever buy one :P
What exactly is the connection between the two? All the other stuff you own is also made in china
me adjusting the phone
And the wind or something
and only last for 1/10th the time!
big difference. For one: Chinese companies are required to cooperate according to CCP and their intelligence laws. There's also healty distrust about having certain hardware in core networks due to said laws and evidence of spying :
so there is a difference
(and that is also ignoring the economic reasons not to)
They never found any evidence for spysoftware in core network equipment. If you're talking about the Huawei stuff
What?
the term chinesium didn't just spring up for nothing
also a reason why thier cars can't cross the great sea
No direct evidence,but that doesn;t mean that we should ignore it
The fact alone that you cannot fully trust the hardware was reason enough to block them, I do the same with EVs
(and phones)
so no Tesla then?
it's amazing how we, up until a few years ago, could say "at least you can trust US-made products"
at this point, I''ll be happy if a company at least pretends to care about privacy
that's what I'm saying. the rest have just gone full yolo
"my drive, my data" basically
its bizarre
what are you accusing?
This is a very outdated opinion though. The Chinese do manufacturing with much higher quality and lower cost than we can do in the west or in US
don't worry about it
maybe compared to your local shit but do not clump us in on that
how much of it is heavily state sponsored (more than we do) and how much of it is questionable labor?
Your shit is even worse
that is also how they wage economic war :P
You can't produce anything anymore
example?
well when it comes to automitive here everything has been a mixed bag
only percentages of the parts were made here
mixed is doing some heavy lifting
and again, Tesla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY you gotta watch this to understand
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not only can you not make the thing. You can also not make the machine that makes the thing
thats very narrow lol
can china pump out plastic stuff cheaper? sure
and something ketamine something
honestly tho, I think the rot goes a lot deeper for a company like Tesla. Their quality is fucking laughable, and their assumptions about the "future car" are based purely on vibes
like, have you sat in one? jesus christ
its all based on a ketamine high and the vibes they had when they were pioneering
this in itself is a complex issue. there is a lot of stuff we don't want to make here
I did. I drove a few
there are some things that should be brought back to be made here
it's like sitting in a Blender file
and people do fight for that
they used to be BAD, gotten better and now are BAD again lol
its dated at best tbh
yeah and just so... cheap and janky
and the fucking touchpad, good grief
"everything's computer" really summed it up
I mean the biggest gripe I have is the faux leather on the seats and the steeringwheel
and the lack of buttons
"let's democratize how to open a fucking car door"
yeah its distracting
oh yeah
its actually sad
this is what I mean, I had no clue you could build shit like this and not get laughed out of the room
it could've been much more
but instead, it "transformed the car industry" somehow
tbh they did kinda do. Started the whole EV deal
only the older car makers REALLY dropped the ball
VAG really REALLY screwed it up
the first generation etron is abysmal
no I get that they did, I'm just amazed that they got away with not building an actual car, just the Blender version of a car, right
yeah
every "new" car manufacture is going to run into issues but when I look up stuff compared to the amount of comments people in this server make about them it just dosen't fit lol
tesla went big fast
right, but the issues I'm enumerating here were by design
all these other starups are slow
the most bizarre thing is that they never actually developed another model
only "facelift"
since when is anything brand new never done before flawless?
that's a pretty poor defense
also, why scale up when your product isn't ready?
hire designers, do the job
They could've gone joint venture lol
but nah, ketamine and vibes
🤣
anw, it's just an example of the larger idea that "US-made" isn't like a royal seal of quality
well according to data there are fewer tesla ev fires compared to any other ev company
thats something
well, they tend to crash first
and they produce more up till BYO or whatever just over took them
because somehow we got suckered into thinking they can drive themselves
which is factually untrue
Full self driving! (actually not but ok)
using one thing in the grand opera is a weak jab lol
I mean, let's talk FAANGNetflixDisneyWalmartClearChannel then 🙂
tiktok?
yes?
what do they produce?
not much of value
not anything at all
frustration and a boom in piracy
not sure what faang is but that other stuff aren't manufactures lol
wasn't really limiting the conversation to only manufacturers, we don't get much US-made stuff here except iPhones
and Teslas ig
us made is tangible stuff
yeah I get your point, I was just making a different one 🙂
may as well compare hollywood to other countries equivilant
oh, let's!
or actually
I gotta go sleep
I'll back out now before it's too late
👋 😶
anyone getting flooded with trick or treaters yet?
a lot of countries celebrate Halloween
Facebook apple Amazon Netflix google
I think it's safe to replace "netflix" with "nvidia" now
Nopes. It's Dungeness crab, Singaporean pepper crab style.
nvidia streams movies/shows?
yeah the financial shenanigans are disturbing to say the least lol
you went to singapore?
Wish I was there now. But no, just finished cooking.
No, nVidia is more deserving a place in FAANG than Netflix is
It’s about market importance not product
you said you were traveling for Halloween.. you stuck at home?
not in context to the conversation that was going on
Flying out tomorrow AM. Wine 🍷
ah so you scrambling to make your disaapointment balls for the kids?
strictly trying to answer:
not sure what faang is
oeh i can my neighbors argue
Mom is here, she always super excited to hand out candy. Don't wanna ruin that.
oh i see
shes handing out your disappointment balls? ||lmao||
I don't think parents would appreciate you handing out wine...balls
Oh no. I am cruel, not that cruel.
It's a bummer, when you cook a feast and wife is late to the party.
Faang is an actual term separate from your conversation
oh i see. had to look that up
yea none of those companies had anything to do with the china convo
@lone dagger look at this wise ass lol
well, are you more important anywhere else?
Hmm, wondering about picking up a used Audi
https://www.fiskens.com/cars-for-sale/2015-audi-r18-e-tron-quattro/13852
you can have mine
Only if you give it a shark fin
keeeeeeepppp goingggggg
Im getting an issue setting up the VDI
Cant get my tree painted
Wherecan I go to get help on setting up HomeAssitant on a VM with the VDI ? Help apprecciated
@cerulean hearth #1284966540617449515
That is a good place to go to ask about painting trees
But their shennaigans are evil, our shennaigans are cheeky and cute.
Yea I cant get the thing past asking for an ISO
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thats one way to put it
hm? how?
I try to interlink 2 servers running dockers but the routing is just a mess
like docker 1 and 2 need to talk to eachother via tailscale but its just a big mess
its probably some docker networking issue
🤷 I haven't yet used tailscale. Just messing with wireguard on my own
I cannot do that. I cannot open ports lol
why not just use something like CF tunnels?
because I do not want to use cloudflare :P
I hate not being in control of my network
that's why I'm chummy with the admins at work 
Tailsale is not fully controlled by me either

I mean technically they have part of the network :P
yeah why not just run my own WG setup then :P
I've got two locations "connected" through that



