the-water-cooler

[dusty mica]

but, if trying to automate them: #1284980040940912641 if you are configuring them: #1284966540617449515 etc..

if in doubt, #find-a-channel

[stuck mortar]

If a marsupial got into the house through an unlocked door, I guess that’s #1284966617670881350

Screaming possum would be #1284966915055288530

[dusty mica]

depends on the protocol of the door lock

[high remnant]

where can I ask an question about my marsupilami?

[dusty mica]

at mbruce, why?

oops questionmark

@suf, you have one, questionmark

[high remnant]

👀

[dusty mica]

a supilami

ohoh

[iron granite]

One from Mars to be specific.

[dusty mica]

dont like those

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/mars-attacks-martian-marsattacks-gif-5518269

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/radio10-chuba-akpom-dennie-christian-hoeba-hop-16Je7DmBiSSQ0q6tdk

[atomic delta]

I question the lack of questions here. Something is amiss.

Other than my keyboard trying to autocorrect to Amish.

[dusty mica]

questionable

[atomic delta]

What do we do with a drunken Amish marsupial sailor?

[dusty mica]

stumble over words

try.. lol

[lone dagger]

Speaking of drunken marsupials.

I found out koalas have a cloaca last night. And that their young eat from it.

https://tenor.com/view/masters-of-the-universe-skeletor-mot-u-gif-5430301619065962680

[static schooner]

processed food

[dusty mica]

putting dinner away for a moment<

[static schooner]

so you're saying that koalas were the template for Human Centipede?

[dusty mica]

did they have a cloaca only last night or did you noticed it only last night?

c'fused

https://giphy.com/gifs/Grittv-western-john-wayne-true-grit-cRgMrtLD10yfgROxrP

[warm helm]

Whyyyy

[lone dagger]

Probably.

[lone dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/disneytoons-movies-disney-toons-cartoons-gif-14670267254775627272

[warm helm]

No thank you

[tidal bronze]

@orchid rose up and running. Loving it. Thanks for the idea!

Come to think of it, this can be super tuned to dynamic, pace/speed/workout type. Here goes my Sunday 😂 Dynamic BPM based on walk or run, now that's a thought

[scenic radish]

What a terrible day to be literate

[lone dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-youre-welcome-no-problem-curtsey-bravo-gif-3320408

[lone dagger]

If I'm good for anything, it's posting shit people don't want to read.

I honestly hate that I looked into this last night. I wanted brain bleach.

So I'm sharing the horrors.

[solar zealot]

i think you are sharing way too many horors with us :P

[stuck mortar]

Missy is only two letters away from abyss

Missylian horrors from the deep

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/bR15l.gif

abyss

[high remnant]

pin of shame

[arctic quarry]

idk I was pretty honored

#the-water-cooler message

[stuck mortar]

I see no shame

[high remnant]

dang i have been pinned again

😂😂

[high remnant]

pin of horror!

[static schooner]

No kink shaming

[high remnant]

my past time is suiting up in a tight leather suit. I am the last person to shame anyone 🫡🫡 ||i am referring to my motor gear||

[iron atlas]

yo... 🙂 brand new here (pretty obvious) but getting into home assistant. finally decided to leave the raspberry pi running 24x7 and start trying a few things.

[high remnant]

welcome!

[iron atlas]

thanks! messing around with the mcp feature of home assistant. 🙂 i want to replace alexa with a different command system. I do have the preview home assistant microphone on hand, but seeing if I can use a different one. 🙂

[forest edge]

OR.. and here is just a thought.. you could lounge on the couch and watch tv like normal people on sundays

just a thought

[hollow glacier]

We gotta be able to make a small list of egregious kinks

[hollow glacier]

What do

[exotic yoke]

like whats up danger

like the movie

[scenic radish]

docker I hardly know 'er

[hollow glacier]

[hollow glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/the-office-dwight-schrute-reference-i-dont-understand-gif-25250966

[exotic yoke]

spidered man

its a song

where it goes

"like whats up danger"

[hollow glacier]

This guy helps homeless people it’s really cool to see https://youtu.be/bw634yrwI8E?si=FvEFQbyVxtnqdBVi

I’ve watched him over the past year or so and he’s just helping people who have fallen through the cracks of society

[exotic yoke]

quite happy with this, able to fetch all the device capabilities and info from the api with zero hardcoded anything, quite an improvement over the existing blueair api where verything is hardcoded'

only downside is things like fans and humidifiers wont show up as such, but fuckin hell i dont care

[exotic yoke]

people can add template helpers i suppose

[exotic yoke]

turns out all those delicious looking sensor topics i literally am not allowed to subscribe to cause im not a device or aws themselves

[ocean oar]

So you know those machines they use to rapidly pull a fabric cover off a car (at over-dramatic launch events)?
I'm realising they might have a great secondary use.
I would love a device that can whisk a rug away under the couch, so the robot vacuum can operate in peace.

Would need to be pulled from all 4 corners (or maybe at the 25/75% positions), so it folds in the middle and disappears completely

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/chair-Ybd1GtARAV3vq

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/air-bag-in-seat-prank-air-bag-seat-prank-russia-gif-23663921

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/deer-dance-gif-10261455

My deer later

[dusty mica]

Great, nabu charged the 75euros cloud sub today, i still did not receive any socks yet..

hmm

https://giphy.com/gifs/12QCczVAjPAfvi

https://giphy.com/gifs/sacramentokings-look-up-looking-disagreeing-6YrS3XZoCC5jL1BFwz

Paulus, i paid, you can extend your holiday for a day

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-salary-money-dollar-dollar-bills-gif-17855396

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/queen-bohemian-rhapsody-Ase7L4MjavtBb0L3cx

where are my socks, you monstrosity?

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/anwar-anwar-sock-socks-sock-man-sock-gif-1974838052210495765

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/winter-hbo-oxLsWbH1rvy2A

[tidal bronze]

Parted ways with normal long time ago. Project was done and over with last night. 😀

[warm helm]

I need openclaw

[tidal bronze]

Found out that it's not that useful at least for me.

Just burns through money for no reason.

Gemini does all that stuff for me anyway

[warm helm]

Well I only use local AI so I am not worried about that

[tidal bronze]

Hmm you need some serious VRAM to make it any useful.

[warm helm]

I have been using gemma3.12b and its been more than enough for anything that I have needed

I have been debating a dgx though

[tidal bronze]

I use that too. But the context handling and ping mechanism is just too much for what it does.

I mean it's fun. Productive well not for me.

2 light weight and 1 deep thinking models and serious memory revamp to make it usable locally

Still have one running in a whatsapp group chat for fact checking lol

[coral plank]

Is the ld2450 worth it over the ld2410

[minor bobcat]

Why did I find a company using a Internet Explorer Logo when googled?

[muted oak]

What should i look up to find out how to have a home assistant replace my hey google on my phone with something else that's always listening so i can hands free use it

[iron granite]

#1284965926336335993

[forest edge]

you don't have to remind us you lost your marbles a long time ago

[tidal bronze]

Yep, right!?

[copper acorn]

Has there been any wok on creating and controlling light groups in the matter.js integration?
Last comment was from 8 Sep 2025
https://github.com/matter-js/python-matter-server/issues/1071#issuecomment-2662651510

[iron granite]

matter.js is still work in progress.

The issue you are mentioning is python-matter, which will be phased out in the future.

For more: #1284966617670881350

[ocean oar]

Well I missed this story when it came out.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/12-02-2026/our-possums-are-a-problem-is-selena-gomez-the-solution

[static schooner]

There's nothing that she can't do

Benny Blanco, on the other hand, is a scruffy-looking nerf herder

[tall idol]

Hey folks! I built hass-cli — a terminal CLI for Home Assistant designed for both humans and AI agents (Claude, etc.).

github.com/ykamakazi/hass-cli — feedback welcome!

I tried looking for one that works but the only ones i could find were largely defunct and not managed or limited in functionality.

[high remnant]

hass already has a CLI?

[tall idol]

does it have one you can install on your laptop to use remotely

[high remnant]

also this feels like AI slop

[tall idol]

Fair enough - the intention is very simple though, just an easy way to have other agents use it.

[high remnant]

??

[high remnant]

gato!

[static schooner]

It's not like you can use that laptop there...

[ocean oar]

Black cat with pink beans? Interesting

[last cedar]

Give as many belly rubs as your other hand can muster

Mine says meow to yours

[scenic radish]

Yeah, he's a special boi

[ocean oar]

Here's what I'm dealing with, once I managed to scoop him off the keyboard and reposition so I could keep working:

[last cedar]

@dusty mica have you put your socks on yet?

Awwwwwwww omg

[static schooner]

Australian cat is upside down

[last cedar]

That is another one

Shoe cat

[static schooner]

That's a good imitation of the Dino in the background

Maybe cats are really the descendants?

[last cedar]

It is the bambu dinosaur puzzle thingy

So she probably thinks she can make babies in the same way?

Like Carls meat dragon, made from orphan meat

https://tenor.com/view/llamas-youve-gone-too-far-this-time-carl-llamas-with-hats-hats-paul-gif-11624622

I really want to say something now, but I think it will be too political 🤣

[minor bobcat]

• Wink *

[static schooner]

That dog fused with the couch in a freak transporter accident

[high remnant]

perro!

[dire cobalt]

What’s going on with the “bronze” tier Cync integration? Any HA peeps can clarify this? It doesn’t work l; doesn’t pull in any devices. And yes, I’ve been to the integrations server!

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/ntuni-otter-surprised-cute-gif-25036078

[static schooner]

#1284966582375813201 is the place for support

[unborn merlin]

sounds like a good reason its bronze.. and judging by the semi-recent github activity on it.. soounds like GE went and sabotaged it by fucking with 2fa and etc? 😄

[dire cobalt]

Link?

[dire cobalt]

I did already but I feel those subs don’t get activity, most go unanswered…

[static schooner]

Ok, but posting elsewhere isn't going to help you

[unborn merlin]

who knows.

[static schooner]

Please take this discussion to the proper channel

[ocean oar]

I choose to pronounce this brand name "kink"

Because it's funnier that way

[static schooner]

No shame

[vivid wraith]

Oh shit the holidays integration doesn’t have Easter

Time to figure out how to set up a trigger for the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox

💀

Wait it has Good Friday! So I can just do a two day offset

Thank god

One of the most cursed holiday dates

[tawdry stirrup]

Mine calendar shows also holidays for Sunday and Monday (as they are holidays in Finland). Maybe you can adapt finnish calendar instead 🙂

[vivid wraith]

Honestly might not be a bad idea

I can just add a second holiday integration for a country that tracks it

[tawdry stirrup]

Exactly.. where is it missing actually?

[vivid wraith]

United States

[tawdry stirrup]

Isn't it holiday there?

[vivid wraith]

No

[tawdry stirrup]

I see, you should pick German calendar, they have most holidays 😄

[vivid wraith]

I’m only using it to track holidays with associated colors to set my lights outside my house

Like green for saint Patrick’s day

[tawdry stirrup]

I have apparently imported the Google Christian Holidays calendar from my Google Calendar to HA.. not sure how to use those calendars in automations though

[glacial knot]

14 bank Holidays

[vivid wraith]

What the hell is that real

[glacial knot]

I need to remember to set up Integrations with the holiday calendar
Exclusion for the vacuum rules

[vivid wraith]

I get ten holidays

https://www.nyse.com/trade/hours-calendars

These ^

[glacial knot]

Yes. Though only in one city
I'm sadly down to 13, after I changed employers

[tawdry stirrup]

I worked one year in Germany, and that was super exceptional year, so that all bank holidays were during weekends.. During that year Finland had one more public holiday 😄

[solar zealot]

Germany mentioned

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/i-know-a-little-german-sprechen-sie-deutsch-sprechen-sitting-over-there-top-secret-gif-16743806

[arctic quarry]

YALL SEEING THIS SHIT

HOPE RETURNS TO MIDGARD

[simple gazelle]

Solar output?

[minor bobcat]

Love the incredibly scientific metric "Sunniness"

[arctic quarry]

well I mean

it's a cheap-ass photovoltaic cell I yoinked from a shitty "solar garden light" and plopped on an ESP32

[glacial knot]

oh no. did colours chnage on here?

[warm helm]

no, you need to lay off the drugs

[glacial knot]

but my 🍵

[glacial knot]

... looks like I'll have to set up something at my parents' place to do smart EV charging...
time to set up HA?

[static schooner]

Designers were feeling green

gas station sushi, probably

[agile jewel]

Sorry for not making a thread in one of the support channels, but does anyone else also get instantly banned (rate limited) from dockerhub the second they go to Settings->updates->refresh?

Perhaps home assistant could consider using ghcr instead of dockerhub?

[silent dove]

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.

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/rick-roll-so-do-i-troll-gif-7049003708489938164

[static schooner]

sorry for not following the rules, but I'm not gonna follow the rules 🤔

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/freezing-south-park-fireplace-gif-12876442

[glacial knot]

[high canyon]

Finally, I’m buying a house! I can finally go full ham with Smart Home gear!

[high remnant]

in this economy

[high canyon]

Yeah, economically it was the right choice.

Fits the budget, and my wife and I have completely stable jobs.

[high remnant]

ikr but unaffordable for most was my meme-point

buying ram in this economy

but congrats!

[high canyon]

lol, that’s what’s unaffordable

RAM is making a house look like a sandwich

[high remnant]

where I live, both are lol

[high canyon]

Yeah, house is 243k, 1800-ish sqft 3b 2.5ba, 2 stories

[high remnant]

euro?

[high canyon]

USD

[high remnant]

ah

that is dirt cheap lol

[high canyon]

Yeah, and while I hate HOA’s, it’s $890/yr and part of the HOA fee includes front and back lawn care

My first investment when we get in will be a Networking contractor to put in Ethernet in places that make sense, and a patch panel.

Or at least a quote for how much it would cost.

[high remnant]

Meanwhile i am just happy to own what I own lol

[high canyon]

lol, I’m happy I’m getting the house, but it was built in 2001, and all I could see is traditional coaxial cable in a few places, which would suuck for networking. But a Fiber company says there’s service to the address, so I don’t exactly want to run MoCA Adapters for all of my networking.

[unborn merlin]

yes shame; its a cloud attached integration.

[minor bobcat]

Some Clouds are fine

[static schooner]

white and fluffy ones aren't bad

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/clap-cloud-strife-ff7-final-fantasy7-nod-gif-18707407

[solar zealot]

[static schooner]

They also suck for storing data, though

[arctic quarry]

wonder what the storage density is on a Materia orb

pretty sure it is biologically possible to store data in The Cloud

[iron granite]

The inventory doesn't seem to be limited.

But he isn't really privacy focussed. He shares with everyone.

[minor bobcat]

And some would describe him hella fine

[iron granite]

-# I am looking forward for the Rebirth release on Switch in June.

[solar zealot]

june? till then we better have our hands on 7-3

-# i may or may not be buying this game multiple times aswell

-# did buy a ps5 for rebirth? mayhaps

[iron granite]

I'd expect 7-3 to be released early 2027. It might be a day one multi platform release.

[solar zealot]

:c

[iron granite]

Have you played Crisis Core yet?

[solar zealot]

ofc

[iron granite]

And watched Advent Children?

[solar zealot]

yea

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/feydemon-roche-final-fantasy-vii-ff7r-gif-2207923831646665283

[solar zealot]

[arctic quarry]

https://tenor.com/bg0Xq.gif

[iron granite]

I enjoyed Intermission less than Remake though. Yuffie was too annoying for my taste.

[arctic quarry]

felt more like a combat system beta

tbf tho Yuffie is 100% supposed to be that character

[iron granite]

As a side character - okay. But I was "forced" to play that character.

[solar zealot]

the happy turtle song is great

:P

they absolutely havent paid enough for that

[arctic quarry]

oh absolutely, the milking is insane with that franchise

it would have shocked me exactly this much 🤏 if they'd spun off half the minigames to full-blown franchises

[solar zealot]

whatever they did to 7, its working out very well

after relocating anything past 13 into a wall at high speeds

[arctic quarry]

lol

[iron granite]

My favorite soundtrack was Smash 'em, Rip 'em.

[arctic quarry]

I mean, the remakes are competently made, but holy shit there's so much stuffing

[solar zealot]

they could have cut the chadley things in half

[arctic quarry]

especially when you walk through the environments you can literally hear some burned-out art director go "right, so this is a secret dark capitalist lab (yawn) we'll need like... idk... lab equipment or some shit" and ten producers leap at the chance to whip their outsourcing contacts even harder

result: Shinra looks like a fucking high school science department

[solar zealot]

shinra has a fire exit staircase, so its built to code

or well, the tower

[arctic quarry]

man, the stairs in the og game holy shit

such a wonderful example of player-hostile design ❤️

[solar zealot]

its done so well

[solar zealot]

unfortunately most of them games didnt age well

[arctic quarry]

played through the "definitive" FFVI with a friend a while back, it's solid, the story is good but JESUS so much 90s in the game design

and this is WITH the semi-cheats they added that disables random encounters, XP multipliers etc

[iron granite]

Don Corneo didn't convince me to be a major villain. hohiii

[arctic quarry]

loool

[vivid wraith]

I should set up a trigger for the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox anyway just for funsies

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/chocobo-playstation-racing-chocoboracing-ps1-gif-14360043

[atomic delta]

I recognize Chocobo Racing anywhere.

[iron granite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv8hcB1my9U

🎶

[last cedar]

Silk dress?

[last cedar]

WARK!!!

I need to play through 9, with steam achievements, not going to use cheats

Not looking forward to getting || excalibur ii ||

[atomic delta]

I don't like speed runs.

[steel urchin]

what do we think about the firefly announcement?

I probably won't watch it

[ocean oar]

I was excited right up until it was a cartoon

Would be fine for an in-universe series that wasn't a direct continuation of the live-action story (see the likes of Star Trek Lower Decks which uses the lore and character references), but to be the same characters in a different medium, nah

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/firefly-thinking-smiling-gif-690506840971596727

(I haven’t read any announcements yet)

[atomic delta]

Has Jayne, doesn't have Wash. Eh.

[static schooner]

Tangentially, I'm trying to get into lower decks, but the whole cartoon aesthetic isn't really working for me. I'll try a few more, but the frenetic pace and big visuals are little zany and over the top for me

[peak slate]

wash is still in it

nathan had a video specifically with him like the rest of the cast

[atomic delta]

Huh

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/firefly-wash-whos-flying-this-thing-gif-26698841

[warm helm]

You

[stuck mortar]

Uh oh. Neither birds nor horrors from the deep have opposable thumbs

[steel urchin]

Wait, seriously?!? No Alan Tudyk?????

currently watching Alien Resident and he's freaking amazing in it

great show if you like dry humor

[steel urchin]

oh whew

I wish they did this like 10+ years ago, but live action 😅

[stuck mortar]

I wonder how long until my water utility notices that what is definitely just their normal web app is making a subset of the normal calls at 2 am daily

[unborn merlin]

they probably won't.

[dusty mica]

1

[last cedar]

Awwww

[dusty mica]

i'll survive

https://giphy.com/gifs/wheelchair-sitnskate-sit-n-skate-CiUh5mGMBHXbl5MVfY

[desert jungle]

What role do people need to get to see the matter beta feedback channel ? I was just talking to someone with dev role and he didn't see it

[iron granite]

It is not rolegated to see it. Sometimes channels need to be activated manually in id:customize

[desert jungle]

Oh that seems pretty hidden

[dusty mica]

and channels disappear randomly 😉

[iron granite]

Discord doing Discord things.

[warm helm]

I wont

[hollow glacier]

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1rvn71u/i_was_skeptical_at_first_but_claude_mcp_with_ha/ not sure if yall have seen this post yet

i played with the official mcp over the weekend but this looks a lot better https://github.com/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp

[high remnant]

i am still skeptical

[iron granite]

Hi still skeptical!

[high remnant]

hi dadi!

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/darth-vader-star-wars-i-am-your-father-father-gif-4913297

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/view/daddy-chill-gif-4825138080902567122

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/atljewishfilm-film-festival-ajff-atlanta-jewish-NAxttZvzcYTOQDnuV9

[hollow glacier]

the beginning of the end

[peak slate]

Lol I still wouldn't trust it

Then again the quickest way for me to lose trust is to add "ai" to it

[hollow glacier]

it's using claude which is a cloud based llm but the actual connection between claude and home assistant is fully local using this method

it's pretty cool you can just tell it to fix your shit without needing to understand the underlying logic of... anything

[dusty mica]

ok nabu, fix my shit

[warm helm]

we don't have enough compute to fix your shit

[dusty mica]

true

didn't work either, so

[simple gazelle]

LOAD ""

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/deal-with-it-jurassic-park-R9cQo06nQBpRe

[peak slate]

Until it nukes it all from orbit because lol it's an llm

[hollow glacier]

i dont think that's gonna happen

i still have backups to go back to caveman days of doing it myself

[peak slate]

Good thing to keep backups

I'll still never let an llm touch my ha, let alone a cloud based one

That is just a recipe for disaster, or all my data being sold to the lowest bidder

[high remnant]

i don’t need claud for that, i don’t need to set the amazon on fire to turn off lights. This is already in home assistant lol

i don’t see the added value lol

https://xkcd.com/927/

xkcd: Standards

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

[hollow glacier]

I tell it what I want to do and guide it if it says something dumb and then it just does cool shit

This is the future yo

[unborn merlin]

who has the gun to your family's head?

Sam altman?

[hollow glacier]

you guys cant be serious lol

i'm all about local only and privacy focused but this is absolutely a game changer

and our data is already being hoovered up and sold to the highest bidder across pretty much everything we do

[glacial knot]

did your account get hacked?

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/people-of-earth-blink-twice-reptilians-making-you-do-this-gif-15851315

[glacial knot]

I do a lot of templates to have somwhat declarative state that I can bind my triggers to
not a big fan of having things trigger randomly and then checking other states

I need to accidentally take a GPU from work home at some point and test out the local models...

[hollow glacier]

im considering going full sellout to get ahead in this world instead of being mad at the world for being shitty and continuing down the path i've been going down

[static schooner]

I look forward to spam from a Reptilian prince

[glacial knot]

I already don't run proprietary software. So I don't have to run AI either 😂

Though I wouldn't mind it to mess with some of my automations

I just don't want any automation to have to use remote services unless it's inherently a remote resource

[static schooner]

Was listening to a podcast about spam tactics and they mentioned a strategy of using really stupid or overused scams to prune out pretty much everyone except the most vulnerable. It's time consuming to weed them out in other ways

[hollow glacier]

TFW you dont know it's st patricks day until you open WLED and see the background image easter egg

[hollow glacier]

that's why they intentionally have spelling errors in the emails to catch the people already unable to spot the extremely obvious issues with the wording

[glacial knot]

these days the spelling error just shows you ain't ai

since they got spellcheck built in

[peak slate]

But I like having snow in the winter

[hollow glacier]

none of us plebs can stop the world from dying

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/wookiee-shoveling-snow-chewbacca-star-wars-gif-104425533616006700

[hollow glacier]

i mean i have some ideas but i'd rather keep my freedom than say them out loud

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/zdf-thumbs-up-listen-to-me-hassel-the-hoff-jUEJAuUFY1yRcIJHbP

[solar zealot]

"freedom" mentioned

🦅

fake screee

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/a23-gif-5165236331565184779

For Scotland!

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/martin-season-2-martin-tv-show-E3KE6RkhnvyTWA5toA

oh tuya

[dusty mica]

"GIF sponsored by Tuya"

[peak slate]

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/03/gamers-react-with-overwhelming-disgust-to-dlss-5s-generative-ai-glow-ups/ I do find it hilarious that companies are getting more and more backlash for the bs though

[solar zealot]

Its a gift that keeps on shitting

[iron granite]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/771823610243055616/1483477451857203343/jGB9muF.png?ex=69babb8a&is=69b96a0a&hm=fefa60b3ac9c3537f8b92dea63089d46d2872fee4b78ebae91278a2ddf77b34c&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1860&height=714

[peak slate]

I'm behind on the memes for this, they're top notch

[iron granite]

Oh, those aren't memes. They would be in the memes channel, if those were memes.

[minor bobcat]

Research Discussion Material

[solar zealot]

I steal that

[warm helm]

ATTENTION: Please Read. Lately, there's been a concerning trend of... unusual conversations. Let's just say discussions about iridescent eyes and subtle shifts in local flora are highly discouraged. Remember, some things are best left unsaid, especially when they involve observing patterns. For the continued harmony of this server, please refrain from mentioning "them" or any related topics. Your cooperation is appreciated – silence is golden.

[peak slate]

Remember everyone, if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget

And don't go in the dog park

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/drunk-z7XxAJf5IL4cw

[analog crow]

silence may be golden, but duct tape is silver ^_^

[hollow glacier]

i just posted a free giveaway in #1284960456880029707 if anyone likes free stuff

[atomic delta]

Hmm... Do I like free stuff more than I hate reddit though?

[static schooner]

Seems like posting there would have been enough

[atomic delta]

In fairness to him, I would never have seen it if he hadn't said something here as well. In fairness to you, I hate reddit enough that having seen it is irrelevant.

[static schooner]

Just saying, we do literally have a rule about posting a message and then posting a link to it elsewhere to raise visibility

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/dwight-learn-your-rules-theoffice-rainnwilson-gif-9564593

[peak slate]

I hate Reddit too, but I'll let this be my first post in a year

And I'll upvote them for publicity

[atomic delta]

Oh, I know. Wasn't saying it was justified. Just saying I understood why he did it. But yeah, that's a paddlin'.

https://tenor.com/view/paddling-gif-7623907

[atomic delta]

I'll post just as soon as they reopen the API to third party apps. So... never.

[exotic yoke]

went from whisper-small to whisper-large v3.5 and it only cost an extra like 700MB of vram out of my 4gb, thats not bad i do say

helped by the fact i mostly use cloud models now

its fre

man nemotron is slow though 😭

[exotic yoke]

i mean like i dont have to load an llm into vram
im using the ollama cloud api so im not paying anything and its like foss models

stt and tts are still local

[hollow glacier]

@atomic delta @peak slate it seems we cant win. i have been using a discord bot for giveaways, then people bitch about needing a discord account, so then we try reddit, and now people bitch cuz reddit.. when researching i couldnt find a good loooking open source self hostable option... i'm all ears to any suggestions

[atomic delta]

Hmm... I'll give it some thought. There won't ever be a solution that makes everyone happy though, no. Don't worry about it though, I'm not bitter about it or anything, I accept that my choices have consequences.

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/consequences-cat-gif-6581548611274851813

[atomic delta]

I mean, I'm a Linux gamer from before proton existed. I'm basically the poster child for "choices have consequences".

[peak slate]

Sorry if my comment sounds like complaints, I'll readily go wherever, I may not like Reddit as a company but I recognize it's ubiquity especially among the audience your business caters to

[hollow glacier]

no apology needed i just feel like there's no right answer

[peak slate]

Google surveys will get you just as much annoyance from people too despite most everyone already having a Gmail, hell I bet a self hosted solution would get a "why didn't you just use Reddit or discord"

[atomic delta]

Fun fact: my Google account is so old that it's tied to my personal email and not to a Gmail address.

I literally don't have a Gmail address.

[atomic delta]

Best answer for -me- would be mastodon boosts (retweets) or replies. But I'm aware that would just piss off a different crowd. Best answer overall might be combining one each of the corporate (discord, Google, or reddit) and the fediverse (mastodon, Lemmy, piefed) to try pleasing both crowds. Dunno what you do about people who want to enter both though.

I mean, technically for me Lemmy would be better, but for the average fediverse user mastodon is more accessible.

All that aside, I do appreciate you doing the giveaway even if I won't personally be participating.

[warm helm]

Of you didn't tell people to kick you

[atomic delta]

https://tenor.com/view/burnt-bradley-cooper-argue-with-fool-you-know-what-nevermind-gif-4535640

[warm helm]

It only takes one for brain damage

[orchid rose]

Somehow the most disturbing one yet

[hollow glacier]

i see your degeneracy and raise you

[iron granite]

#the-water-cooler message

[unborn merlin]

he may block that one in the future

since its defiling his beloved leather jacket.

[ocean oar]

This one is my favourite

But also

[hollow glacier]

"double or nothin"

[atomic delta]

It's all fun and games until someone DLSS5s the HA logo

[orchid rose]

Not even a hater of the tech but the memes are gold

[atomic delta]

I'm not exactly a "hater" of the tech, more a "but fucking why" type. I get that some people may want it, but all I see is an excuse to sell more GPUs at a premium, jack up power demands even higher, in this case beyond what a typical single US circuit can even handle, exacerbating the issues we've been dealing with lately instead of attempting to move toward a more sustainable approach of high-memory high-efficiency moderate-draw devices. And I recognize the RAM crisis interferes with that too, but it doesn't help this shit either.

If you weren't aware: the demos required a second 5090 dedicated to DLSS 5.

[orchid rose]

It's also very much in the testing phase. Gaming GPUs make barely a dent in nvidia revenue these days and I wouldn't worry about it being the main driver for the company

[atomic delta]

Impressive how much damage they can do with a "side industry".

Not a fan of Nvidia's more recent approach of "just jam more power into it and toss another fan on it". They've forgotten how to innovate.

They just watch number go up.

[orchid rose]

If that was the case AMD would have caught up

In many ways they are not that far behind compared to how they were with CPUs a decade ago when Intel decided to rest on their heels

[nimble kernel]

Was there an update to blueprints recently or automations? my zigbee automations are running extremely delayed or not running at all. nothing changed...

[atomic delta]

I assume #1284980040940912641 would be the place to ask. But no issues here.

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/100percent-perfect-no-issues-whatsoever-noah-koles-grand-crew-all-is-well-gif-24556702

[burnt vigil]

Dammit

finally set up HA on my R Pi, added my casettas, a couple zooz, built out a garage door controller

and now I have another $50 misc components sitting in my aliexpress cart

I had bought a bunch of caseta switches years ago and just kind of flim flammed on installing them, now I'm pretty much all in

[reef mountain]

is there an issue with combining assist microphone and openwakeword?

im so lost

[hollow glacier]

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

[peak slate]

It's too realistic

Sorry

Lol

[hollow glacier]

i wish i updated my pc or server instead of my network

now network is same price and pc and server stuff is crazy high

[peak slate]

My servers ram is worth 3x what I paid

I'm so glad I did it

[unborn merlin]

a person whose been infected with a bot or had their acct stolen.. etc

[scenic radish]

Thanks, I hate it

Dunno, but they're gone now

[burnt vigil]

As long as mods are aware, I'm ok, with it.

just saw they posted in a couple channels

[ocean oar]

There's usually 1-2 a week

Almost always the same boring-ass crypto scam

[unborn merlin]

yep.

where do they think this is?

[static schooner]

image spam

[unborn merlin]

elons twitter page?

[vivid wraith]

Closet progress

10 gigabit networking to the whole house

[stuck mortar]

Losing the 10gbe Ethernet port on my old motherboard (direct replacement was 3x cost) certainly made downloading shmancy new llm models to try locally painfully slow

Pain was second to losing the physical proximity needed for nvlink, which turns out was key to fitting these shmancy new llm models in gpu ram

https://tenor.com/view/yeet-yee-cowboy-dallas-cowboys-gif-27512215

[tired folio]

anyone having issues with the Aqara Android app or cloud? I'm getting errors like "Illegal appId" and "Network error-110" when accessing my sensors, and those errors persist even after a fresh installation so I can't even sign in now

[iron granite]

#find-support

[iron granite]

Even more often.

[static schooner]

Thanks to the resident spam 🥷 s

[atomic delta]

https://tenor.com/view/tt-gif-22612306

[tired folio]

lol that's a nice sticker. sorry

Uhh, ok so if we're standing around the water cooler here's my on-topic contribution. Who else feels the pain of having to run down to a circuit breaker in the basement 12 times to rewire and test a four gang wall box?

Turns out smart home projects are good exercise

[minor bobcat]

That's why I rent a flat /s

[ocean oar]

My longest walk from device to breaker was wiring the Shelly relay for the path lights. Due to a lack of space inside the wall it had to go under the house (below the switch), which is also almost directly under the breakers.
About a minute by the time you crawled out from under the house where you were lying to do the wiring, walked halfway around the house and in the front door.

[blazing forge]

hey hello! Sorry for the spam, but this is becoming a bit tricky to find - would you help me find some people that are new/unaware to HA administration and have never built a dashboard? I need to use them as guinea pigs call them to conduct a usability study. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/research-study-help-wanted-quick-call/996552?u=laupalombi

I'm trying to get enough people to interview so that we have a good base 🙏🏻 unfortunately its hard to reach out to newcommers. So if you know anyone that will be willing (a friend, a partner, a flatmate) please ask them to fill that form. Thanks trillions!

[dusty mica]

maybe i'll qualify too, fridays after 11pm 😉

[hollow glacier]

Needs more LEDs

[simple gazelle]

I might

[static schooner]

Maybe if you were hungry

[scenic radish]

Which one though? There are 65535 options

Lousy Smarch weather

[static schooner]

I continue with This is fine:

Was 91 yesterday

This is not normal

[arctic quarry]

wild that you can melt hotglue without a gun
-# -- snarks in metric

[hollow glacier]

taken from the streets of chiraq

[minor bobcat]

We're going from -1°C to 20°C daily right now. Leaving in a coat and coming home in a tee

Draw me like one of your french bulldogs

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/uyuyuy-gif-25489529

[plain pendant]

I'm an electrician so naturally I just do it live, ftw

[plain pendant]

I am new to HA, I am pretty tech savvy compared to most people not in a related field and I have not bothered with a dashboard. In fact idk if I even want one.

[blazing forge]

Actually you are a very good usecase, would you be open to the interview please file the form linked in the post 🙏🏻

[plain pendant]

Is this real thing or do you want my social security number and credit card number

[iron granite]

It is an official HA/Open Home Foundation survey.

[plain pendant]

Ok so I should give them my social security number?

[static schooner]

it's the neighborly way

if you want your input to be considered

[blazing forge]

You just need to give us an email for contact and be able to call via internet and share your screen - but in the form there is a link to the full agreement so feel free to read it thoroughly 😄

[blazing forge]

"donate if you want Laura to read you"

[minor bobcat]

"Hello this is E-Mail from CEO. Please pay your bills using iTunes or other Gift Card"

[winged crystal]

Is the subreddit being bombarded with posts promoting Claude for anybody else or is my algo just going haywire because I made the mistake of searching the sub about the topic over the weekend?

[hollow glacier]

Like a palm reading?

[hollow glacier]

Promoting Claude or using Claude code to do cool shit?

[winged crystal]

Every post I'm seeing these last two days seems to consists of "Look at this cool thing I'm doing with Claude!" so I guess a little of A and a little of B.

I'm just wondering if anybody else is seeing that.

[hollow glacier]

We’re right at the cusp of a major shift in required knowledge to do a plethora of “overly complex things” by just talking to a machine like a human

Especially for guys who don’t have a foundational background in coding, yaml, etc

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/hello-computer-hello-on-phone-gif-12810332

[hollow glacier]

I’m thinking about making a Claude code for dummies video using that new unofficial mcp but a lot of it would be going over how to set it up and that sounds boring

[dusty mica]

hell yeah

[hollow glacier]

Looks good

[warm helm]

LED bad

[static schooner]

Holy seizure-inducing lighting, Batman

[minor bobcat]

I've got days where I'd vibe to that ngl

[static schooner]

I'm annoyed that my strategy to separate food for my fat and skinny cats by putting some out of reach of fatty has just encouraged fatty to find a way to reach the forbidden food

And not by losing weight. Just sheer will and ingenuity

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/fat-cat-hungry-fast-food-weight-loss-gif-14286137490125856314

[static schooner]

What seemed like a foolproof strategy has fallen apart

[iron granite]

Delivery services.

[static schooner]

Fortunately, I have a camera pointed at the cat tree and have spotted the theft

[warm helm]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/

[static schooner]

She's realized that she can get on the TV stand and use it to continue climbing. Need to reevaluate furniture placement

[minor bobcat]

Or reevaluate the food placement

[warm helm]

timed feeder?

[minor bobcat]

Camera control

[warm helm]

nerf turret

[minor bobcat]

With a laser pointer to keep them in the right spot

[atomic delta]

Does that make it a... Nerf herder?

[static schooner]

The problem is that skinny cat is also a little skittish and doesn't just eat on command. I have to put food out there so she'll eat when she feels comfortable doing so. My other cats inhale whatever is put in front of them

[ocean oar]

Do yours at least chew? Because that's the issues I've had trying to stop my boy hurking wet clumps of undigested biscuits onto the carpet.
Had to go for maximum times/day at minimum quantity feeding because he just opens mouth and hoovers it up

[static schooner]

One does that, the others are more measured

[scenic radish]

we had to get a slow feeder for Midnight

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/barney-beer-gif-13425771

[hollow glacier]

If they used to be fat they seem to eat until they throw up lol

My old cat has to eat small portions or she will throw up it’s frustrating

[ocean oar]

Definitely large, but officially not overweight per the vet

Just a big oversized goober

[hollow glacier]

That’s gotta be overweight

That’s a lot of cat compared to tux here

I do have another cat with a bigger build tho so maybe yours is just genuinely lorge

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/cartman-not-fat-big-boned-eric-cartman-south-park-gif-5412150

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-fat-big-catdoor-fatty-gif-13605753

[hollow glacier]

Lucky 🐈 is large but he’s also lorge it’s not fat he’s just a big damn cat

[static schooner]

That tail is bigger than the cat. A visual example of a tail wagging a cat

[solar zealot]

the shoes are just tiny in reference

[solar zealot]

we have no banana, so this may be a regular sized cat after all

[hollow glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/special-ed-special-gif-14524557650897979460

[static schooner]

Bananas are the only size reference that we Americans recognize

[hollow glacier]

Best I can do is more cat 🐈

[solar zealot]

i love how cats are like yep no thanks

dogs would just take the pats

[last cedar]

That food box is gonna get yeeted all over the floor

Probably at 02.55 one morning

[static schooner]

I am a little concerned about that. Maybe I'll tie it to the platform somehow

[last cedar]

LOL

They will just yeet the whole tree

[static schooner]

It has an attachment for the wall, I just haven't attached it

[last cedar]

Yeet the wall then probably

[static schooner]

I was looking for one that was tall enough, but not gigantic.

skinny cat just jumps 2/3s of the way up and slithers to the food, while fatty needs to take it step by step

[last cedar]

Have you been 3d printing a meat dragon again?!

[warm helm]

Server rack parts

[last cedar]

Awww fatty cat

[static schooner]

the problem is they're both black, but the cow belly is visible on my camera

[hollow glacier]

But then right back to nudging

[static schooner]

Was I not clear that petting time was over???

we entered biting time and it should have been obvious

[scenic radish]

reminds me

because Midnight is a fucking weirdo, he likes licking Andy's electric toothbrush while she's using it 🤣

I crave the tickles

he also licks the bedroom curtains every morning, because why not

Maybe that's why he screams at 7:15 every day

[static schooner]

even cats like vibrators

[solar zealot]

less purring and more getting purrd or something

[stuck mortar]

Are we talking Cavendish or Gros Michel?

[arctic quarry]

why tf do they do this

mine does the same. I let her in, and she goes to town on that ONE spot on the wall

[plain pendant]

What chats here are relatively active besides this one

[minor bobcat]

Dev stuff

[stuck mortar]

Riveting discussions in #memes

I’m not allowed to tell you about #the-confusion

[plain pendant]

I was just wondering because I've posted elsewhere and it was crickets

[minor bobcat]

Well the support channels can get multiple posts a day and the people who answer are often volunteers who do that in their free time. Personally speaking sometimes I'm excited to help people here and sometimes I just don't feel it. 🤷‍♂️

[stuck mortar]

Your voluntary participation is required

[static schooner]

sometimes we're just not that into you 🙂

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/30rock-rude-tina-fey-liz-lemon-queen-of-jordan-gif-17573989

[minor bobcat]

If you require any participation you better start paying

There, I said the quiet part out loud

[nimble kernel]

Hey guys, has matter figured their crap out yet and allows effects for lighting yet?

[static schooner]

#1284966617670881350

[nimble kernel]

That's unfortunately not very helpful. It was just a question not a troubleshoot

[silent dove]

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]

This is very strange out of context

Midnight licks Andy's "electric toothbrush whilst she's"

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-gif-3425669563334334864

[solar zealot]

just raccoon things

[scenic radish]

ur very strange out of context

[last cedar]

I am also strange in context though

[scenic radish]

https://klipy.com/gifs/andy-samberg-zoom-in

[reef stream]

why every time i scan an home assistant nfc tag and i click on the notification on my iphone, it opens the app and then it crashes

[warm helm]

https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-wRfVij0ow9h28

[reef stream]

i thought it could have been a simple question, np

would it be under #1284966582375813201 ?

[iron granite]

#1284965926336335993

[silent dove]

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.

[high remnant]

Stop sign? What stop sign?!

[scenic radish]

|| inb4 light mode bad ||

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/arnold-schwarzenegger-sneaking-out-camouflage-serious-gif-5272373

[dusty mica]

^ modder

I'll pee back

[unborn merlin]

welcome to open source.

Where people aren't always reliable and on-hand for immediate support. almost like they're not being paid to do it.. and people just occasionally help in spare time.. 🙃

[high remnant]

which is why you have no response ;(

🤷‍♂️

well I am sorry you feel that way I cannot help you

I guess be the change you wanna see

[dawn badge]

@steel urchin If you don't like it then you are free to leave. I am not sure what you are trying to achieve here?

[high remnant]

🤷‍♂️

you are asking questions about subjects I have 0 knowledge of so I cannot help

[static schooner]

Please stop this discussion

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/bYHNE.gif

[analog crow]

T_T news report that Chuck Norris is in the hospital

[hollow glacier]

a call to action on reddit or forums would probably get further but ultimately idk a lot of guys here have been beat down by all the bs from customers over the years

[static schooner]

Again. Stop now

You'll get a vacation if you don't

[hollow glacier]

perma vacation

[static schooner]

He's gone. Please continue with off topic nonsense

[hollow glacier]

posts cat pics

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/what-amy-poehler-qUB8aayj9DNQI

https://giphy.com/gifs/funny-meme-cursed-muhehehehe-LBb735fuQwRKAVzN23

[dusty mica]

where to get support today?

[high remnant]

mental asylum

[dusty mica]

love that

[ocean oar]

Good times this morning on the way to work. My bus had to be rebooted.
It just suddenly stopped accelerating and the interior lights went out, driver had to pull over and hard power cycle it 😄

[high remnant]

press the brake and the accelerator pedal?

[ocean oar]

Also in the wet these EV buses apparently have enough power to spin their tyres, which is a little unsettling

[high remnant]

all busses do

to my knowledge lol

[dusty mica]

putting out fire, with gasoline

[hollow glacier]

a stray cat came in my garage today and sprayed on my new cat stairs for my old cat

[dusty mica]

what color?\

[high remnant]

just piss on the cat

[dawn badge]

Pretty much all EV's have the power to do that, its just software motor control that stops them.

[hollow glacier]

The logic tracks

It’s a fluffy black and white stray

[dusty mica]

so grey it is

[scenic radish]

Make him an unstray

[solar zealot]

Did someone say fluffy

[hollow glacier]

he's fighting with the old stray who's the new garage cat (tux)

[dusty mica]

https://giphy.com/gifs/despicable-me-pillow-fluffy-DTLzZIeBh33S8

[peak slate]

Man I got all this popcorn and I missed the show

[high remnant]

https://tenor.com/dah1bdlyHyr.gif

[hollow glacier]

also yesterday tux was eating a baby squirrel

he didnt get the memo that they're off the menu...

[peak slate]

Anyway here's a fluffer butt for tax

[hollow glacier]

it was missing its head

[stuck mortar]

He ate the memo

[hollow glacier]

he stopped eating it to try and play with it

nature be scary

[stuck mortar]

Tux! Don’t play with your food!

[hollow glacier]

at first he kinda defended it and was like no dis mine

[shrewd sandal]

Hey guys, I know this isn't a support channel - but I just want to make sure I'm not overlooking something simple before I open a 'ticket' in the support area. I'll go ahead and ask, but let me know if there's a better place, or if I should just go ahead and do the ticket thing - I have a light that isn't showing up on the new Lights dashboard, is there some sort of super simple way to tell Home Assistant "Hey, this is a light" that I'm overlooking?

[dawn badge]

Belongs in the support channels, Probably with more information.

[shrewd sandal]

Thanks!

[minor bobcat]

Phteven

[ocean oar]

I tried to get a photo of my cat in his high castle last night, but he is a low-contrast individual, so enjoy this pair of eyes:

[minor bobcat]

He looks so happy

https://tenor.com/view/cat-smiling-cat-cute-cat-cat-meme-smiling-gif-10086598795453609558

[dusty mica]

schmeegull

[last cedar]

Oh, a raccoon!!!!

Oh, just a cat

https://tenor.com/view/raccoon-sad-raccoon-raccoon-sitting-gif-989185322542646529

Still adorable af though

[dusty mica]

not nice against the cats

[stuck mortar]

Best I can do is a napping sea lion

[minor bobcat]

I welcome sea lions very much

[static schooner]

I sometimes call my napping black cat a fur seal

any sort of question deserves a thread in the proper section

[worn gorge]

on it

[static schooner]

that question is for #1284980040940912641

[last cedar]

I kidnapped a little kitten a while back, live the little guy

He isn't so little anymore

[dusty mica]

he's littlerler?

[static schooner]

Honey I shrunk the cat

[dusty mica]

uh nuh

[high remnant]

accio laptop

https://tenor.com/view/harry-potter-wand-take-that-point-gif-25530387

[dusty mica]

kidnapper, alcoholic, what else to admit, you raccoon

[last cedar]

This little fella

[dusty mica]

@last cedar wish i could write in captitals

[dusty mica]

you just made up..

who could not resist that look

[last cedar]

He had a manky paw

[dusty mica]

what would your comment be?? Aaaaawwww

in dutch we say "sneu"

😉

[stuck mortar]

Not much, whatsneu with you?

[last cedar]

He learned about the birds and the bees

Distinguised gentleman

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/snusnu-futurama-fry-death-death-by-snusnu-gif-16228376

[dusty mica]

ah you said no yes?

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/michael-scott-creasing-forehead-the-office-office-absolutely-gif-11888908

[warm helm]

Where is my cat, cat distribution system?

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-cat-lady-annoyed-mad-simpsons-gif-17545608

[static schooner]

shipping delay

[dusty mica]

saw a german..

no german memes???

tfw

[solar zealot]

nein

[dusty mica]

nah gut

[iron granite]

4+5

[dusty mica]

neinOfSeven

[stuck mortar]

Why is 6 afraid of 7?
Who knows, the kids keep giggling and running off

[dusty mica]

42

[broken mason]

This is really random but I realized today that my dogs quality of life is suffering and i'm being selfish by not putting him to rest. Most difficult decision I have ever made. He's my 15 year old baby and I am so sad

Scheduling putting your pet down is like...the worst anticipatory grief

[dusty mica]

tbh ; if in pain... if not...

sad

[hollow glacier]

https://tenor.com/baWQI.gif

[last cedar]

So sorry you are having to deal with that

[hollow glacier]

I’m sorry about your pup that’s scary and feels wrong even when your heart knows it’s right. Let us know if we can do anything

[dusty mica]

i guess we cant, other than show respect

[unborn merlin]

be free angry lithium; be free!

(helped someone off their bomb of a phone with the battery being almost 3x the size it should've been.. so had to dispose of it.)

[burnt vigil]

holy crap

I just crashed my xacto knife into my desk light and sent it flying past my face

[unborn merlin]

not terribly energetic.. but I was avoiding letting that bomb get much charge last night when I was porting things..

[unborn merlin]

OSHA is gonna break your fucking legs heretic.

[burnt vigil]

no way

already filed a near miss, had a stand down, retrained the end user and updated both the HASP and the SOP manual

$19 for a 2.8" touch LCD with a esp32-S3

off of amazon, not bad for not having to wait a week for the chinesium express

not the prettiest LCD, but it has a nice frame for the front, just have to print a backside mount for it

only real down size is that IO is off of a jst connector (not sure which one but it's tiny pitch, not sure if I have these on hand, will have to rely on the cable that came with it

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/ursula-gif-4250333886290235050

[hollow glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/you-know-what-sucks-everything-hate-everything-gif-1419599845188754193

[warm helm]

https://giphy.com/gifs/MXPlayerOfficial-good-correct-thatsaboutit-U56VoSyFD8MFcie2k8

[peak slate]

It's more fun if it's fully charged

[unborn merlin]

it already looked like that at 15% and was charging very slowly

[stuck mortar]

Just crank up the current

[atomic delta]

When in doubt, just force mains voltage directly into it. What could go wrong?

[unborn merlin]

nah dust off the EDM supply I have and fire that into it!

[arctic quarry]

DJ brain be like "aw yis the EDM supply (gestures at mp3 collection)"

[unborn merlin]

https://rackrobo.io/products/powercore-v3

This thing. 😛

[twin gust]

Hi, I want to setup an iPad for HA. It will be one to use for all in the house. So my question is about the user. Should I make one user for all "public" devices or different users for every device? and is there a "best pratice" regarding naming convention?

[silent dove]

The topic of this channel is:

@twin gust 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.

[quasi breach]

I currently have a smlight SMZB-06MU as my zigbee coordinator, is it a good idea to put it in Zigbee / Matter over thread combined mode or should I use a separate device for my thread border router?

[peak slate]

Man I wish I had a digital copy of that VHS, I think it's all gone now but we got a test video of a laptop battery in a worst case scenario, it was being charged at like 2x the normal voltage, unlimited current, and was on a skillet on high to boot

This was in a 50 gallon steel drum with a giant sheet of lexan over the top with the camera sitting on it, and the camera was not on it after the battery gave up the ghost

Lol

[silent dove]

The topic of this channel is:

@quasi breach 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.

[atomic delta]

Lol, that's a shame to lose.

[glacial knot]

Why does electronic dance music need a special type of power supply?

[atomic delta]

More power for the doof doof.

[scenic radish]

well, my frankenbike continues to get more franken...y

Not only do the front and rear wheels not have the same color spokes, but also, now one tire has a schrader valve and the other has a presta valve lol

[static schooner]

At least it looks used and isn't a garage princess

[scenic radish]

i beat the hell out of this thing 🤣

I just managed to split the rim on the rear wheel, and this wheel is the strongest one that my preferred local bike shop has lol

he's seen it happen before but he was impressed regardless

It lasted 14 months with about 2000 miles of riding in that time

[stuck mortar]

For the light show

[last cedar]

Do I thread the busbar or put a bolt all the way through?!

Seems like those girthy ones I posted before are bolt through

[last cedar]

Basing on these ones, those were a casual 3200A

Or as we say in the business, girthy af

[static schooner]

doesn't most of the current flow along the surfaces/skins?

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109897/does-electricity-flow-on-the-surface-of-a-wire-or-in-the-interior, if that's AC

[solar zealot]

You aren't supposed to touch it!

[hollow glacier]

Ducky

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/duck-ducks-confused-surprised-what-gif-1845535727828628932

[orchid rose]

I don't want to be around when that thing fails 😱

[iron granite]

Much magic smoke happening.

[hollow glacier]

I had already given my bag of duck food to a dad and his kid so ducky was like wtf bro

[livid flame]

is there anywhere that documents how on earth the ipv6 stuff for thread/matter is supposed to work in HAOS? I can't make heads nor tails of how this is supposed to be working, and it seems that it's just very very borked for me.

like, why, after 18 hours of trying to connect this stupid IKEA thing, it just suddenly worked, by putting the OTBR into debug logging mode?

[stuck mortar]

ALL THE DUCKS

[silent dove]

The topic of this channel is:

@livid flame 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.

[livid flame]

nevermind.

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/roger-roger-roger-roger-that-copy-that-robots-gif-5912820

[stuck mortar]

The M in matter stands for moon phase
The A stands for ARGH

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-what-the-fuck-meme-what-confused-gif-16191442

The T stands for

[scenic radish]

Realized I didn't share the photo

[last cedar]

Don't worry it will be over very quick, either way

[last cedar]

I am honestly not sure how skin effect works, to be honest

[hollow glacier]

That’s some really blue water

I bought floating duck 🦆 pellets but none of the ducks or geese like them

New tinder pic for lucky’s bio

[last cedar]

So floofy omg

[hollow glacier]

It do be like that

[last cedar]

That is a lovely cat

[hollow glacier]

I call him my floofin goof

[stuck mortar]

Yeah I don’t know what they put in that pond lol (man made). Ducks didn’t seem to care. There were turtles too!

[hollow glacier]

Smurf turtles 🐢

[static schooner]

He's giving that come and get it, girls look

[hollow glacier]

This is the outside crew

[distant jewel]

https://tenor.com/view/eid-gif-21543018

[atomic delta]

IIRC the higher the frequency the more the current clusters at the surface. Unless that was voltage. It's been a while since I looked into it too tbh.

Whichever it is, it's why CCA (copper clad aluminum) is usable for phone lines but garbage for Ethernet.

[unborn merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/extra-thicc-extra-thicc-thick-extra-thick-gif-21812607

[unborn merlin]

only at high frequency

[vivid wraith]

well that’s annoying

new core update has a patch that allows matter device updates with the same version string and it causes the white series dimmer switches to poll an update to the same version string that it fails to install

wonder if I can disable those updates somehow

heyy second time worked wooo

[lavish badger]

I swear everytime I do an OS update HA is mocking me taking forever to come back up

[static schooner]

I feel the same every time I update pfSense

[atomic delta]

Worst for me is my Orbi. Takes almost ten minutes to fully come back online after a reboot.

Presumably because I have wired and wireless backhauls depending on satellite.

[scenic radish]

Lisa Gilroy is in the new season of Scrubs and I'm shook

[vivid wraith]

i thought scrubs ended ages ago

[ocean oar]

They've started a revival series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_season_10

[vivid wraith]

o

huh

[ocean oar]

It's... okay

[scenic radish]

Not as good as 1-8, but it's pretty good

[atomic delta]

@last cedar They're taking candids of you for the news again.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/03/20/Shelburne-Fire-Department-raccoon-peanut-butter-jar/7831774027521/

[atomic delta]

<@&330946878646517761>

Appreciated as always

[last cedar]

That was just Steve, he was trying to get into the raccoon seals

And they took his diving gear off 🙁

Can anyone identify this deer? IYKYK

[hollow glacier]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeVideos/comments/1rzknpr/truly_great/

Can we get this guy to be nominated for the mascot of this channel

[silent dove]

The topic of this channel is:

@fallow moth 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.

[fallow moth]

k, not even worth it

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/okily-dokily-ned-flanders-simpsons-okay-gif-13073246

[forest edge]

They should have just blew up LA in the begining rather than deal with all it's BS https://youtu.be/PhW2BjFQCZM?si=eJ9a175OBCqH1S3V

[last cedar]

I love Gradys videos

[static schooner]

That's fascinating. I love that they fill the reservoir with floating plastic balls to reduce evaporation and make it more difficult to pollute

[high remnant]

Balls!

[foggy jay]

It's almost like all the environmental impact reports and stuff we have to deal with that seem to stop everything were designed in good faith, but have since been exploited by the sort of people who want nothing to change as if change is not a fundamental aspect of life.

Yes, I'm totally normal about all this. Why do you ask?

[solar zealot]

Very disappointed that he didn't build a model for this

[forest edge]

came off more to me that LA was essentially stealing a valuable resource from the locals and they got upset about it

[foggy jay]

We're making mostly the same point. The laws I'm talking about (CEQA, NEPA, etc.) came about because of the unexpected consequences of projects like this.

Weighing these conflicting needs and priorities and figuring the best solution (even if no ideal solution exists) is in theory one of the fundamental purposes of government

[hollow glacier]

What are yall doing this weekend

[foggy jay]

Studying, mostly. (Okay, it's most likely going to be procrastinating on studying)

[iron granite]

Working.

[minor bobcat]

12H Sebring

[hollow glacier]

Jorgin it

[forest edge]

ordering stuff to get lost in the mail from apollo.. you?

oh wait.. if I do that then we know what you will be doing!

[hollow glacier]

Hanging this on the wall but I gotta remove the old iPad wall mount and do drywall repair

[iron granite]

The Saturday has been quite busy. Let's see how Sunday is going to be at work.

[hollow glacier]

What kind of work

[iron granite]

Dispatching transports of human organs for transplant.

-# And other side quests at work.

[hollow glacier]

Sounds high stress

[static schooner]

Must be Amazon Prime Day for organs

[iron granite]

Same day delivery.

Well... if departure isn't too late at night.

[hollow glacier]

https://tenor.com/view/therapist-joke-gif-24235510

[rapid plinth]

So, general question for technical whatevers at large.
I worked out a solution for a rather obscure problem. Specifically, I couldn't get active DP-to-HDMI converters to negotiate at HDMI 2.1 initially requiring a re-plug. My found solution is to buy a specific converter (or one the same chipset I suppose) and flash a specific firmware version to it.
But how, then, do I share that solution in a searchable way, so the next guy to have the same problem can find it?

[hollow glacier]

You either post on the forums with links and descriptions or the subreddit or both

[rapid plinth]

Leaving aside the "which forum/subreddit exactly" I've done reddit posts and found later the search engines weren't kind to my posts and I've had to re-solve past problems on my own because even I couldn't find them

[iron granite]

GitHub Gist?

Hosting a blog and doing good SEO?

[vivid wraith]

segmentation of IoT devices into their own VLAN complete!

\o/

been putting that one off for months

sometimes when connecting directly to the url in a browser it takes weirdly long to load the dashboard but it works so who knows

[warm helm]

You too?

[warm helm]

Why I put things I care about in obsidian

Or at least Kara keep if they are posted elsewhere by others

[rapid plinth]

sure, but then only I can see it. And a few times it's been a "this should be set and forget so do I really need to document it for myself?"

[warm helm]

Yes

[hollow glacier]

@last cedar floof

[scenic radish]

This is hilarious: https://youtu.be/WO6aRHKe7_c

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/clown-car-krusty-simpsons-jheaton416-gif-4939143860707268157

[solar zealot]

i love dns so much

[stuck mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/dns-haiku-dns-haiku-tech-pod-it-was-dns-gif-27399037

[warm helm]

Narrator: it was dna

[last cedar]

I wanna pet it so bad haha

[hollow glacier]

lucky gives like love bites if you pet too hard but never hurts you

[simple gazelle]

I wish to bury my nose in the floof

[hollow glacier]

You saw the yesterday floof right

Here is Lila 🐕 just to balance the scales ⚖️

You can tell she’s smiling ☺️

[wise snow]

kind of surpprised there isn't a dedicated pets thread 😄

Might as well follow the trend. Here are Star and Oreo, my wfh officemates.

[atomic delta]

Brb, mounting a camera on the litter robot so I can take awkward pictures of my cats to present to the class.

[stuck mortar]

Sir, that’s called A Cat

[inner lava]

Not a support question and everything works fine still, just found this funny as heck

https://tenor.com/view/you-shall-not-pass-lotr-do-not-enter-not-allowed-scream-gif-16729885

[dusty mica]

bad bad supervisor..

[last cedar]

Just had my yearly bath!

[last cedar]

I usually do it once a year, wether I need it or not

[iron granite]

The German word for raccoon translates to wash bear.

[solar zealot]

Eine Waschbär ja ja

[dusty mica]

jawohl

[last cedar]

Yes, current tense, not washed bear

[forest edge]

there should be a floof channel

[last cedar]

Same in swedish, tvättbjörn, not tvättadbjörn

[forest edge]

that way when I come in here I don't have to scroll through dozens of animal pictures

[last cedar]

#michelles-furry-channel

[last cedar]

At least half of the reason this happens is to annoy you

[forest edge]

I have no doubt

[last cedar]

We all know how much you love raccoons

[glacial knot]

Imperative. Though I suspect technically some weird extra form since it's common in such word constructions

[solar zealot]

if youd knew

[umbral cliff]

Do you hate animal pictures

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/racc-raccoon-racoon-trashpanda-bubble-gif-5079417070074820464

[last cedar]

I believe Sonoma is to fluffy animals, what the grinch is to Christmas

[umbral cliff]

Explains why he wants to hurt you

He wants harm to raccoons

[last cedar]

Yup

[forest edge]

I see enough fluffy animals on my cctv cameras as is

[warm helm]

That could go one of two ways with a name like that

[solar zealot]

[vivid wraith]

japanese too

洗熊

probably a calque

wiki says it’s a calque ya https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/洗熊#Japanese

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/missed-missed-token-mmm-raccoon-raccoon-stuck-gif-10473874651349577820

The first symbol is clearly

So that seems to check out

The 2nd must be a trash can, sure looks like one

In other news, the deer feeders are a big hit with the birds

[static schooner]

It's like they were made for it

[last cedar]

Yeah, amazing really

Thinking of applying "lubrication technician"

https://tenor.com/view/scarlett-johansson-wink-smile-seductive-cleavage-gif-27413040

[olive shoal]

even with vibecoding this was a pain to get working especially on the login screen sweatblob

[glacial knot]

What is it?

[minor bobcat]

This one is too real

[high remnant]

watch out, you’ll spark controversy

[hollow glacier]

LTT objectively sucks

[high remnant]

i have no opinion on that

[iron granite]

That's quite subjectively.

[hollow glacier]

clowns are cool, technical people teaching others is cool, a clown acting like a technical person is not cool

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/brooklyn-nine-jake-peralta-no-doubt-cool-gif-17027623

[peak slate]

(tbh I just wanted to post the dude)

[hollow glacier]

Limpy is brooding and has two eggs 🥚

[minor bobcat]

I like their screwdriver

[peak slate]

Dang that's real close to one of nature's apex predators

[scenic radish]

So I want to buy something on eBay, and the seller included this photo with samples of each color... without labeling any of them lol. They also don't have individual photos of each color with its name

There are 3 different white options listed, and I think I know which one is the one I want, but I'm not sure. I sent them a message asking, but I thought it was just weird

like... why would you not label them

[warm helm]

Send a photo with an arrow pointed to the one you want

[scenic radish]

Yeah I did just that, but I don't want to actually buy them until they respond

[warm helm]

Egg shell or cream?

[scenic radish]

the options are white, cool white, ivory bone white, and rock white. I want the one in the top row third from the left which I suspect is cool white

[warm helm]

I'd assume that is just white, first one being bone and the bottom being rock, there is also 3 kinda white in the image and you list 4. So now I am even more confused on what they think is the 4 white in the image

[iron granite]

https://tenor.com/view/there-are-four-lights-picard-fuck-your-bullshit-star-trek-kingdom-of-bullshit-gif-14936675848561176051

[scenic radish]

yep lol

[static schooner]

I would call the first three in the first row "whiteish", as well as the third one in the last row

[warm helm]

second is gray

[iron granite]

Gray is just a dirty white.

[scenic radish]

maybe it's just non-HDR white

[warm helm]

Also the microcenter by me has p1s refurb for $330 and I don't need it but I want it. No ams though and I just tossed a printer

[scenic radish]

and brown is just dark orange with context

[static schooner]

I was trying to identify the 4 that could be considered whiteish

[scenic radish]

I've been continually tempted to get a 3D printer, but it seems like more stress than I need in a hobby

[warm helm]

nah, they are extremely useful.

They are also extremely reliable now compared to what they were a few years ago. My bambu p1s has been running almost constant since I got it and outside of needing to clean the plate it just works 90% of the time.

Prints still fail sometimes but compared to my old chiron, not at all