the-water-cooler

[clear ferry]

I find my Bose QC35s too clinical, but I still use them when I travel because airports etc

[languid junco]

I was brainwashed, the first theatre I ever worked in was kitted to the 9s with sennheiser

except for the bose FOH kit, which I hated.

[clever mortar]

I've got QC25's that are great general purpose ones - just wish they used USB C power

[clear ferry]

In the office I usually use my MDR-XB950 or my MDR-XB70AP

I had the QC25 before I forgot them in some DC 🤣

And never found them again

[languid junco]

I used to religiously buy the Sennheiser HD202 headphones

[clear ferry]

People who used to buy a new Koss Portapro every three weeks 🤢

[ocean mirage]

how many do they need

[languid junco]

ick. I couldn't. I would definitely look like a dweeb

[clear ferry]

because they broke every time to took them on @ocean mirage

[ocean mirage]

huh

[clear ferry]

they were made of shite and graham crackers

[ocean mirage]

I've never tried anything koss but they have a good reputation

[clear ferry]

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2By3fxkl6L._SX466_.jpg

[ocean mirage]

but also you live in the arctic fucking circle so everything is brittle there

[clear ferry]

Those rubbishes

[ocean mirage]

I know the ones

Ive seen em

[languid junco]

crapple has a good reputation but lacks where it counts, so i don't always believe hype

[clear ferry]

Remember everyone had them when I grew up, but atleast one person broke a pair every day

Things might have changed in 20+ years, but the design is the same atleast

[languid junco]

were they cheap or just expensive tat?

[clear ferry]

Think they were like $150 ish

and I think at some point they had a lifetime warranty, so you could replace them at a store if the broke

eeeeh

$15

not 150 🤣

[languid junco]

the ones I ran were $50NZ each. I went through a pair every three months, so it usually worked out

[clear ferry]

I haven't broken a pair of headphones in..... 14 years I think

And I throw them around the DC

and the fall off racks and shit

[languid junco]

DC?

[clear ferry]

Datacenter

[languid junco]

ah. so you get to play with the clouds all day 😛

[clear ferry]

Clouds are overrated

[languid junco]

I'm the guy standing next to a user going "hmm, your screen isn't working? is it plugged in? Nope? There's the problem"

[clear ferry]

I prefer proper IT 😉

I'm the guy who fixes servers where the guy who installed it is either retired or dead, or where the partner has given up after troubleshooting for four years

[languid junco]

yeah. my little server cupboard in the hallway has a piece of white tape with "The cloud" written on it in sharpie

I run a gen 8 microserver as my file box, and a 5 year old shuttle runs my VMs

[clear ferry]

I used to run a C3000 blade enclosure + BL460c G7 with 192GB RAM and 24 cores as my main setup, plus a few itanium boxes and some older Intel servers, those are now retired and I just run most stuff on a Dell R510 with 12 cores and 64GB RAM with freenas and jails, and I have a little mini-itx machine I built that hosts my docker enviroment and sandbox \ jumpstation enviroment

[languid junco]

my friends go "why don't you use dropbox/onedrive/google drive/etc" and I go "A drive fails, $100. maybe once in a blue moon. That's my maintenance cost. the internet and power are cheap. I have 16tb of storage here.

[clear ferry]

And I run a pair of HPE Flexfabric 5900AF in my core with 40Gbit crosslinks, and some Aruba 2530 as distribution switches 🤣

[languid junco]

not all of it is redundant, and redundancy is my backup. LOL

[clear ferry]

The R510 has 4x10TB + 4x4TB + 4x2TB + 480GB SSD, I need to replace the 2TBs with 10TBs at some point

[languid junco]

I'm running windows server because I have the licenses through uni, and I'm lazy as fuck.

pardon my french

[clear ferry]

Used to run everything in ESXi, moved over to SUSE and Freenas, because I have two racks of ESXi at work I can play with anyway

and I need some quiet in my studio 🤣

[languid junco]

I'm looking at moving to freenas but it's a learning curve and I'm not fully sure of it yet

I do like the idea of moving my storage drives to iscsi and not having a drive bigger than 128gb on any machine including my gaming rig

[hushed basalt]

Operating systems are nothing more than things to host containers on to me :D

Bare metal too. :d

I would probably put my storage on containers if I could be bothered. But I'll leave it on my Synology for now

[clear ferry]

I understand FreeBSD jails more than I do docker containers so far atleast

[languid junco]

i can't iscsi from windows server, so I'm seriously considering moving my storage around to get on to freenas

[clear ferry]

sure you can ?

[languid junco]

< too lazy to figure it out

[clear ferry]

iSCSI has been supported on Windows server since 2008 atleast

[hushed basalt]

Try something simple, like Ceph :D

Don't use ceph

[clear ferry]

Scality > Ceph 😉

[languid junco]

I've got my old microserver as a test bed running freenas. though I wish I'd just sat on the new server and learned freenas on that

[hushed basalt]

For professional development reasons, I think datacentre level storage management is going away for a lot of people

[languid junco]

yeah because the cloud means that's just SEP to them now

[hushed basalt]

I think a lot of professional enterprises will be using storage as a service more and more

[languid junco]

"Someone Else's Problem"

[hushed basalt]

I mean, who runs their own power station

Or treats their own water

[clever mortar]

Anybody with sufficient solar and storage 😉

[hushed basalt]

Off grid systems aren't feasible for most :p

They only really make sense if you have a huge installation cost to get grid connected, like farmers or remote

[languid junco]

^ I live in NZ and used to frequently go to great barrier island (not to be confused with the reef in australia) they still don't have mains power there.

[hushed basalt]

But businesses would still be outsourcing the responsibility

Chad from HR isn't going down and fixing generator windings etc

[languid junco]

businesses on great barrier are a tin shed with the words "Fish bait" written on them in brushed paint

[hushed basalt]

True

[languid junco]

the only commercial space I know of there is the airport

[hushed basalt]

I think we're getting off track :D

My point is, knowing about low level infrastructure won't be that value imo if you're not working for a provider like aws, gcp, etc

More and more and more stuff is being moved to the big 3 at an accelerated pace

[languid junco]

yeah

I work for a construction company, the only places that still have in house servers are comms challenged sites like rarotonga, pago pago, etc.

and we're clouding the infrastructure with meraki, so that's going away too

[hushed basalt]

Yeah edge stuff basically

I live like 4000km away from the nearest big 3

I know about the need for on prem for latency reasons if nothing else :D

[languid junco]

I've got gigabit fiber to the premises in my house. I only run these servers to keep myself amused, and because I've amassed too much data to warrant throwing it all on the cloud. the storage would be too expensive

some people hoard physical objects, I hoard data.

lol

[hushed basalt]

Yeah I'm building a 3 node bare metal.k8s homelab

I get it

But I have no illusions that playing with real "servers" is a rare and valuable skill anymore

The kubernetes skills are super valuable though

Gigabit ;(

[clear ferry]

playing with servers is the life 😉

[hushed basalt]

Cries in FttN VDSL2

[languid junco]

LOL

[clear ferry]

Superdome Flex ❤

[languid junco]

FttN isn't bad.

I went from ADSL with CttN...

[hushed basalt]

85Mbps and decreasing

35 up

Will only get worse over time too.

[languid junco]

I used to think 9mbps down was good

[hushed basalt]

I get 4mbps at work down

Adsl 🤢

[languid junco]

yeah. I didn't say ADSL2+ where 24mbps down was good (uplink was still shite but that's another story)

[hushed basalt]

If I was pulling 4K content i would feel constrained a bit

For 1080p stuff it comes in 10 times faster than I could watch it

[languid junco]

I have unifi here at home, if I do a speedtest it'll be the AP that bottlenecks on my laptop

[hushed basalt]

Yeah if I don't stick to 5ghz my 2.4ghz will bottle neck

Can't even reliably watch 1080p Netflix

[clear ferry]

I do 500\500 at home and usually get 40-120 on cellular

[languid junco]

we get technicolor rebranded crap here for vendor provided router

I use a second hand HG659 because my grandfather still wants his telephone line, but it's off in a walled garden off my USG, just for the phone line and nothing else

the technicolor thing would lock up every two hours even after I'd deprovisioned it to just be an ATA

the huawei is more stable

[hushed basalt]

Ha huawei

Trumps public enemy #1

[languid junco]

I'm jealous of the guys who have vendors that provide fritzbox as their vpr

[hushed basalt]

Distraction of the month at the time anyways

We have netcomm stuff all over our nbn

Cough nbn chairman owns NetComm cough cough

[languid junco]

netcomm is aight. I use one of their m2m gateways when I travel

because where I go, getting any internet I need to leave it with a battery up on a hill somewhere, and point two yagis at eachother from a distance to connect

[hushed basalt]

I read about a Telstra tech who worked in Darwin

[languid junco]

too many valleys and not enough customers to bother putting a cell tower in that area.

[hushed basalt]

Then took 6 months off to work in Antarctica

Bit of a climate shock

[languid junco]

satellite is no fun.

we had a site in kiribati that was satellite

and I had to remote control machines with dameware over that.

those were late late nights

move the mouse. wait. four to six seconds later you'd see if the remote cursor was moving towards what you were aiming for.

[hushed basalt]

Need quantum entanglement modems

[languid junco]

you certainly needed to increase your TTLs on some things

[hushed basalt]

Ssh over mosh works well for that sort of stuff

GUIs and remote connections are not fun

[languid junco]

I joked that IPoAC would have been faster at one point

[hushed basalt]

AC?

[languid junco]

IP over Avian Carrier

[hushed basalt]

Ha

But yeah mosh is your friend

But I know all that telco stuff is legacy

[languid junco]

luckily the worst site now is rarotonga and we now use connectwise control which is 10x more resilient than dameware

[hushed basalt]

Is this end user support?

[languid junco]

yup

[hushed basalt]

Dear god

Just send them new machines

For any issue at all

[languid junco]

the bean counters wouldn't have liked that.

some users though. it's a wonder I'm not going grey

particularly the ones that go "Can you fix the internet, it's going slow."

oh and the clincher on the raro site? The main exchange is across the road from the office

and when we were first mobilizing to there, they had a major fire in that exchange. it took out comms on the entire island for like a month and a bit

and there's no carrier competition. it's bluesky or no connection.

[hushed basalt]

You could try lasers

Just shoot lasers of internet at them

From helicopers

[languid junco]

I thought laser was how fibre worked. iono. I'm not an infra guy.

[clever mortar]

Yeah, but not in the GW range 😛

[languid junco]

I did my CCNA. I was going to be an infra guy. right as i completed CCNA4 they changed the exam and I'd have had to completely redo the modules to do the exam. I didn't bother.

[clear ferry]

I should do a CCNA at some point, lots of projects demand them

now I'm just "that guy that knows networks"

🤣

[languid junco]

my crowning achievement is a wireless mesh network that scaled a 2500 acre farm

and then our ISP decided the WiMAX we were using to get our signal wasn't cost effective any more and they discontinued it.

and then we gave up on it, so now the equipment is all goneski.

[clear ferry]

🤣

I'll probably stick to my 12000 access port and 1500 access point deployment

with 802.1x on everything

[copper sequoia]

heh..sonos quickly climed the top blocked domains in pihole...shame shamme

trying to send metrics..

[clear ferry]

I was actually surprised who was my big talker last I bothered checking

the HUE hub called home every 30 seconds, the xiaomi gateway twice a day

[copper sequoia]

yeah, i heard that...HUE was a massive reporter

was actually the pihole creator mentioning hue in an interview (podcast)

top here is the tahoma integration in hass..lol..big spammer 😦

probably should open an issue on that

well,. not blocked but..still..does a lot of requests

[clear ferry]

Ah nice, I have configured an IPv6 tunnel in my enviroment again

I forgot to recreate it a few years ago 🤣

[scenic radish]

you guys get to have all the fun while i'm sleeping, it's no fair 😦

damn time zones

[clear ferry]

[scenic radish]

there it is

[clear ferry]

I should get my VCP-NV sorted

I think I have full access to hands on labs in the vmware partner university

[strange vapor]

@clear ferry I get nice native IPv6 to the house.

[clear ferry]

My ISP supports it, but only with their router

which is a no-go for me

[hushed basalt]

https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/jobs/view/1523267477?referenceId=KQE%2BqBoGRRy314wlYbfAYg%3D%3D&eBP=CwEAAAFtsK4vhs-w3cM-kbGCM54d4HJE2Ovu0QIq2YLcufu5JkpzWeAetx2CEEaohpH2cFbM_-ftYkz03R2zauRXzXwci_xiwyZ0rba-3JqewFsZbsgQTfVJnoeC24Bl3qNcKJyoYGpGqDcdhpcl6E_n-TVB8u_YJoZB05flPNeiP3fSCsg7XGeXaKxqmVNp7bygi4KtzGQZS8-4mEGrY0p3tnMteMttm24g3b5Y0-FGlmpuwPM3MzzEJigitsEqPlCjDWGnFeVO8EfxybnPyMvueooYXFMB0jYJt4wiX0QlwGrAKR4RGNvI3IZGKvkigM1Rtngug7mzvbxltMGlyCgnxx1v7zX-vLFiB1iVVEyfefJVHCnWCu3RfA

[clear ferry]

8ms latency with a HE tunnel isn't too bad though

[hushed basalt]

I don't speak Asgardian

What does this say @clear ferry

[clear ferry]

let me login and see 🤣

[strange vapor]

@clear ferry I used to work with my ISP, and setup a lot of the infrastructure that allows the IPv6 to work. Decent router for the job as well

[hushed basalt]

Maybe you should apply for that. Devops and infra are the same oui?

IPv6 is still black magic to me and a lot of people

Need to rip that bandaid off though

[clear ferry]

Hey it's close to me @hushed basalt

And I know a guy who works there

Good oral and written ability in Norwegian, as well as good English skills sounds like you @hushed basalt

I'm not applying for that though, devops is not for me and the pay is probably half of what I'm looking for right now 🤣

woo my first edit of docs was approved

now to find some more for hacktoberfest 🤣

[hushed basalt]

Devops is pretty hot pay here

Even though DevOps is a stupid title

I wouldn't even know how to use a keyboard in Norway

US English is all I know

RIP muscle memory

[strange vapor]

@hushed basalt You'll be glad to know you can use a US keyboard in any other country. There's these great standards like USB and Bluetooth which don't care about your keyboard layout, and every OS I've used has allowed easy changing of keyboard mapping.

[clear ferry]

@hushed basalt we have standard qwerty plus our extra keys mostly

worse with the german qwertz and the french azerty

I have muscle memory for NOB and US

So I can use both with ease

[hushed basalt]

UK is bad enough

Why put " there!

[clear ferry]

🤣

[hushed basalt]

@strange vapor but then I'll be 'that guy' who carries a keyboard Around :D

[strange vapor]

I did it at a previous company where there was every bloody EU keyboard and Japanese keyboards.

[hushed basalt]

I use 7 different physical computers at the moment. Annoys the shit out of me

[clear ferry]

wonder if I can manage to create a custom component 🤔

[hushed basalt]

No one needs a custom component to tell us what you're listening to

[clear ferry]

But but, There is no component for iDRAC 🤣

[clever mortar]

🤣

[hushed basalt]

sensor.atxbyea_playlist

persistent_notification.Tinkerer

[strange vapor]

@hushed basalt I go between my Work MacBook Pro which has the silly half UK/half US layout, a Dell XPS with UK keyboard and a few desktops with normal UK layout, or MS Natural 4000 split keyboard.

Takes a second or two to adjust after sitting down, and then all is good..

[clear ferry]

I can just look at the hp_ilo component I guess, and get a good sense of how that works 🤔

[strange vapor]

Ususally @ and " that clue me in quicly to what keyboard I'm on.

[hushed basalt]

while True:
    notify(ndonegan, atxbyea.playlist)
    sleep(1 * 60)

[clear ferry]

🤣

[hushed basalt]

Found the perfect appdaemon to build

[strange vapor]

Currently listening to LOTR Inspired Dwaren Metal....

[hushed basalt]

I have the microsoft sculpt as my keyboard

I threw away the mouse though it was useless

[clear ferry]

@strange vapor could almost be Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth then

[hushed basalt]

Now I have a logitech ergonomic thumb trackball

[strange vapor]

I use the same trackball. Did a nasty job on my wrist with RSI years ago 😦

[hushed basalt]

I can't stand flat mice

Especially small ones

This logitech one could be bigger though

[clear ferry]

RSI you say

[hushed basalt]

My last two fingers want to be where the desk is stopping them going

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-pathetic-principal-skinner-gif-14039035

[strange vapor]

@clear ferry Wind Rose: Drunken Dwarves

[hushed basalt]

But everyone knows developers never do much typing :D

90% of our time is searching github issues for edge case fixes

Scroll wheel probably gets more use than the keyboard somedays

[past idol]

what is your opinion of smart watches?

anyone using one?

is it useful apart from looking a good and expensive gadget one do not really need?

[scenic radish]

i have been holding on to my pebble time round for dear life

[clever mortar]

Pebble FTW

[strange vapor]

Using a Garmin these days after I broke my last Pebble 😦

[clever mortar]

I also have a WearOS (TicWatch) device, and it's not as good a watch, but a better smart device overall

That gets more use than either of my Pebble's these days

[strange vapor]

Tried an Apple Watch, but the daily recharging was just a mess. Garmin will last for weeks on a single charge.

[clever mortar]

Yeah, having to recharge the watch daily is a PITA

[strange vapor]

Doesn't have some of the fancy app stuff the Apple watch has, but the ability to quickly see a message or see who's inevitably calling during a meeting and decline is handy!

[scenic radish]

@clever mortar my pebble time round is down to only one day of battery life... i know the battery's going but i can't find a replacement

[fading zodiac]

Howdy!

[velvet horizon]

Please DO NOT cross post. Read the channel description, post it and wait for folks to respond.

Command '.crosspost' was invoked by: Tediore

[scenic radish]

^ also that's a joke, don't worry

[clear ferry]

@scenic radish i replaced the Pebble with the amazfit bip

33 days battery life

[scenic radish]

i need music control, otherwise i'd consider it

[clear ferry]

I control music on the headphones or computer

[scenic radish]

well i don't

[clever mortar]

I just realised that I haven't used my Pebble since I replaced my phone, and the watchface app (Glance) is no longer available... FFS

[scenic radish]

😡

insert angryboi here

iOS or android?

[clever mortar]

Droid

[scenic radish]

good

[clear ferry]

[scenic radish]

out of all those special emoji you can post, i'm the most jealous of that one

i can use my off-brand one though

[clear ferry]

Not that many Tesla's here today, just a lot of BMW's

[scenic radish]

or the ENHANCED version

Big Money Wasters?

[clear ferry]

Oh right they moved the charging stations one floor up

Quite a few BMW i8s here though

[scenic radish]

@clever mortar you can probably dig up a glance apk right?

[clever mortar]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to go track it down

Annoying to have to though, WTF did the dev unpublish it

[scenic radish]

all those poor saps on ios though...

yeah that's weird

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/track/72CmDpJ0xhBitFCMC7SpRN?si=J9XFC0trQ52AEpYYMxpNEw

[hushed basalt]

Apple make the worst computers :D

Search your feelings. You know it to be true

[scenic radish]

@clear ferry also to clarify, i added a new reference to a secret in configuration.yaml and clicking reload core got rid of the configuration check error

not sure if it was a fluke or not

[clear ferry]

Fun fact, I did not know that android phones become little desktops with mouse and keyboard support when connecting them to a usb c to hdmi adapter

[scenic radish]

they do indeed, it's pretty cool

keyboard shortcuts like alt + tab work too

[clear ferry]

I just wanted to charge and suddenly I had a desktop on a projector

[scenic radish]

sike

[clever mortar]

A colleague of mine got a bit of a shock when that happened

Their wallpaper wasn't entirely SFW

[clear ferry]

😂

It defaulted to something that looked like windows xp background for me 🤷

[hushed basalt]

https://youtu.be/AUaJ8pDlxi8

[scenic radish]

25 min, damn. hold my beer

[brisk glen]

soo much hate

[past idol]

thank you guys

thinking about getting one

also I've purchased an IKEA desk thank you for the input on that topic too

it seems quite good so far

I like it, I am looking forward using it

Apple watch is a bit on the pricey side

and also I hate that one day battery life

so maybe i will check other ones

[clear ferry]

Lol one day

I thought it was closer to half a day though

[past idol]

depends as I've heard

if you run with it

it dies faster...

[boreal pewter]

If you run 24/7 it makes you die faster too

[hearty depot]

these death breathers 🤣

[copper sequoia]

did someone say .Apple.... 😱

how nice of them (Tile)..the new trackers you can actually replace battery 👏

[hearty depot]

thats not an apple product... Otherwise I have to burn mine
you could do that before too btw - just needed an soldering iron and the willing to cut into your fingers

[copper sequoia]

quite aware its not an Apple product..then you would never see them in my posession 😄

freaking hate apple 😛

@hearty depot just not worth the bucks to solder..plus my eyes are too weak anyway... they are pretty cheap under that replacement deal

[scenic radish]

@hearty depot that was pretty funny

[brisk glen]

@copper sequoia how nice of tile no not make any noise when I need to find my keys

how nice of tile telling me that it needed to be rebooted

[scenic radish]

don't get all tiled riled up now

[brisk glen]

what is the point of buying tile if it does not work...

[copper sequoia]

@brisk glen mine work...dunno about yours ..but return them?

[brisk glen]

6 months in

this is not the EU

-.-

[copper sequoia]

1.5 years i think this one is now...just got warning of dying battery

should be 1 year anways, if its the US you are in

same in EU btw..1 year.

[hearty depot]

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/08/google-home-stream-transfer/ ooohhhh that meigt be awesome for some of us

[scenic radish]

I saw that. Freaking finally

[wet pilot]

yeah, i'm a bit excited

[warm crow]

I bought an USB HDD for my pi to store HA data/databases but I'm having issue aligning it properly:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 1mb 100%
Error: You requested a partition from 1000kB to 1000GB (sectors 1953..1953525166).
The closest location we can manage is 1048kB to 1048kB (sectors 2047..2047).
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 1mib 100%
Error: You requested a partition from 1049kB to 1000GB (sectors 2048..1953525166).
The closest location we can manage is 1048kB to 1048kB (sectors 2047..2047).
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 1024kb 100%
Error: You requested a partition from 1024kB to 1000GB (sectors 2000..1953525166).
The closest location we can manage is 1024kB to 1048kB (sectors 2000..2047).

Any idea? 😄

I used fdisk (gpt) and it's okay... strange

[hushed basalt]

Hmmm

This is one of the big things that makes me stay away from Pis as 'servers'

Having to find work arounds for the sd wear etc

[strong panther]

hey i'm new to home assistant... have a basic setup going w/ all my connected devices, just got my first sonoff going, etc.

i'm using a pi as my "server"... anyone have any insight into when i might start seeing SD card issues?

i'm basically trying this out to see if I can rely on it, and will upgrade to better hardware if i determine to keep moving forward

[eager trench]

keep backups and don't pull the plug on it ever - always shutdown first. 99% of the time restart Home Assistant...... card can last years if you do that. Also make sure your power supply is correct or over spec

[wet pilot]

tune down your history component too. that'll limit the writes

[eager trench]

yes! good point

[thick dragon]

@clear ferry - Old message, but re: Billie Eilish - Bad Guy. Sitting through the Brightburn movie was worth it for that as the closing credits song.

[wet pilot]

heh

[wet pilot]

watching the VAN vs LA slaughter and am sad because the one VAN dude i have on my fantasy roster hasn't been on the ice for 6 of the 7 goals

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/album/2QXOXUqfh8iWRYohIoqtZx?si=6VhDozFbTHCpO2NHpr16Ag

Gute morgen!

[hearty depot]

guten morgen!

[hushed basalt]

G'day, bleeding strewth

[clear ferry]

Hm

I need to recreate my email signature I guess

I've been running with a shitty plain text one for too long

need to match company profile with atleast one A4 page of signature 🤣

[strange vapor]

https://scribit.design/ Interesting way of putting notifications on walls??? 🙂

[hushed basalt]

There is someone at the door

Hopefully they're still there when it finishes writing it

[strange vapor]

True, mightn't be the best for time sensitive notifications!

[clear ferry]

wow, that is fun

the wife will love it

🤣

[scenic radish]

maayong aga

[clear ferry]

The more I listen to this the greater the album is

https://open.spotify.com/album/06xFlLhfDdqrN76E2iMX9R?si=AMRm_j8YRY6ZECpjdXhRWw

[wet agate]

ok, so i don't know if this should be in homeassistant or not, since im in early brainstorm mode, but i have an idea.
i'm in the process of finishing my basement to take a rasp pi and mount it on the wall with a 7-10" screen. I'd like this to control my lights, link it to music, and maybe some other features. Would i need some smart switches in all my boxes for the app to connect to? do the Lutron dimmer switches work well?

[clever mortar]

Sounds like a #330944238910963714 question

[clear ferry]

Tom morellos guitar solo on the ghost of Tom joad is borderland orgasmic

[wet agate]

Ok thanks @clever mortar

[clear ferry]

Yet another happy customer

Brought back a 250TB fileserver to life

[clever mortar]

🎉

[clear ferry]

[storm summit]

btrfs?

[clear ferry]

Ha, no

3Par storage presented through windows fileserver living in esxi

https://open.spotify.com/track/7kpqU8yYmrEKk7LZPSgJQM?si=oiKGPgvZQkK4ultJLYUCZQ

[oblique nymph]

Are we allowed to sale hardware here? - I checked the FAQ and didn't see anything mentioned, but I may have missed it.

[simple talon]

just got word about why youtube links don't expand on discord right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[hushed basalt]

Since this community has a large portion of Europeans

Do you also find it annoying as well when you use an American app

And everything is in mm/dd/yyyy with no option to change

[wet pilot]

i hate that date format as an american

[hushed basalt]

@wet pilot defect!

[wet pilot]

i'll file a feature request with the US GVT. "As a developer, i would like to use the global standard for dates and times" And add it to the USE METRIC epic

[hushed basalt]

I don't think the US hive Mind even recognises that there's a world outside

[wet pilot]

our current political situation would agree with that sentiment

[hushed basalt]

"Global? What the hell is that. Do you mean Hawaii and Alaska?"

[wet pilot]

heh

'course UK isn't doing much better on that front

[hushed basalt]

At least they know that days are smaller than months ;)

[eager trench]

don't get me started on the 'World Series'

[ocean mirage]

the Free World Series

god bless america

[wet pilot]

lol that one always bugged me

[clear ferry]

DDMMYY 4 lyfe

[clever mortar]

ISO

[low harness]

yyyy-mm-dd! It's also in alphabetical order

[clever mortar]

Big endian too 😛

[ocean mirage]

YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm

works with time

[clear ferry]

https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/all/2019/10/09/ken_thompsons_old_unix_password_cracked/

I love the comments on this one

https://open.spotify.com/album/1CtTTpKbHU8KbHRB4LmBbv?si=8echdNtOSp-UbJtmoImjqg

Probably their best album

[ocean mirage]

I don't see Du Hast on that list

[clear ferry]

Pfff overplayed

But Sehnsucht is a great album too

[ocean mirage]

Is it 10 tracks of Du Hast

cause thats their only song

Metal is cancelled

||Bye||

[clear ferry]

https://i.redd.it/bpz2q1av6tr31.png

[rough zenith]

what does that slider do?

[clear ferry]

Exactly what it states

[clever mortar]

[rough zenith]

🤦

[ocean mirage]

I read that post every year

Always funny

[low harness]

Yeah. They came up with some really nice ones. I particularly liked the one with two buttons: "Is this your phone number? Yes/Re-roll"

[hearty depot]

How's your Friday going?

[indigo flare]

Cat is sick so need to go to the vet for the second time today

That's my friday 😂

[clear ferry]

Just admit it, you broke the cat because you think the veterinarian is cute and you want to see her again

Munchausen by cat proxy

[orchid rose]

to order Oculus Quest or not to order... 🤔

[scenic radish]

Here's a link to the entire phone number input album for anyone who's interested: https://imgur.com/a/4f3XB

[low harness]

Munchausen by proxy? Are you in the medical profession or do they show Bron in Norway too?

[clear ferry]

Only reason I know the term is an xfiles episode I saw in the mid 90s @low harness

But both my sisters and both my parents work or have worked in medical Fields, so I know a lot of medical lingos 😛

[clever mortar]

I know the term because I read too much stuff... oh, and I've known people who've actually suffered from it. They were "fun"

[clear ferry]

I read Wikipedia to fall asleep

Usually random articles

[clever mortar]

Doesn't everybody follow random links for hours on end?

[clear ferry]

But then I go into a rabbit hole

Like.... American serial killers

Unsolved murders...

And before I know it I'm reading about haggis

[clever mortar]

Could be worse, you could be hunting one...

[clear ferry]

Hunting a haggis? Or eating a serial killer?

[indigo flare]

@clear ferry hehe my gf is coming with me so.. and the vet is a little to old for my taste

[clear ferry]

Ooh so she likes older ladies then!

[orchid rose]

atxbyea with the busy imagination today

[mossy badge]

NAS or stick with my external hdd.. already have a nuc..

[maiden lava]

does anyone know a zigbee bulp e14 candle light with a diamter below 3,4 cm

[clever mortar]

#zigbee-archived might be a better place to ask

Oh, I see you already cross posted there...

[limpid dagger]

test

sorry everyone - just want to make sure discord is working for me 🙂

[clever mortar]

It's working 😛

[boreal pewter]

It even has 3 Dots at the end of each message and that reveals the powerful "delete" button

[midnight adder]

hello all. I'm having trouble installing my first ESP-01s chip. No connecton to wifi (I think). Where best can I ask for help?

[clever mortar]

What firmware are you using?

#551843558676758569 for ESPHome
#551843800209686539 for Tasmota
#diy-archived for anything else

[midnight adder]

Thanks. I will look at esphome 🙂

[chilly nymph]

Question for anyone active: If you were forced to choose between the hue bridge and the smartthings hub, strictly for zigbee devices -- which would you pick?

[scenic radish]

AFAIK the Hue bridge can really only be used for lights and smart plugs

Also just a warning, the smartthings integration doesn't offer local control, it requires a connection to the smartthings cloud service

[hushed basalt]

Zigbee2mqtt

Always ZigBee2mqtt

@chilly nymph

[tough igloo]

#deconz4lyfe

[storm summit]

horrible options.

[clear ferry]

@chilly nymph zigbee2mqtt

[ocean mirage]

I finally got my cc whatever yesterday

For that

[clear ferry]

FOR THAT THING YOU KNOW

[ocean mirage]

The....barbie?

[clear ferry]

Mmmmmmmm

🍖

Meshi meshi meshi

[hushed basalt]

What do you all think

55" OLED vs 65" LCD

[ocean mirage]

How far from television

[clear ferry]

I'm happy with my 65 LCD

Had it for two or three years now, will probably move to a 85 when they become reasonable

[ocean mirage]

I’d tend to go for size too unless you are very close

But idc so much for black blacks

[clear ferry]

I'm this close

[ocean mirage]

Lotsagrog

[clear ferry]

Too much 😛

Come help me clean it out

[orchid rose]

You can probably get a 75" LCD for the price of a 55" oled if you want to go for size

[ocean mirage]

Nothing else to do in Norway

[orchid rose]

your taste in rum is bad 😉

[clear ferry]

You should meet my friend the Finnish @ocean mirage

@orchid rose I only drink the plantation rum or diplomatico, the rest are only used in cakes

[light trout]

I love that black spiced bottle 😄

[ocean mirage]

Norwegians don’t know taste, have you seen the fermented fish they eat

[clear ferry]

We don't eat fermented fish

[ocean mirage]

Much worse than our refined taste of the meat pie

[clear ferry]

Oh wait, we do

I don't

But the Swedes have a worse fish

[ocean mirage]

I don’t see the distinction

[orchid rose]

wow, rude

[clear ferry]

Too bad you can only see half the bottles in the pictures 😂

I also have 40+ bottles of beer in the basement that are expiring

I never have time for the drinks 😛

Only on business travels mostly

[orchid rose]

we can help

[light trout]

You should have a HA gathering at your home xD

[ocean mirage]

I basically just have gin and tequila lol

[clear ferry]

For the four Norwegian ha people?

Sjabby, aleks, me and you 😂

[light trout]

@jade heron too

[clear ferry]

Oh wait, there is Kjell too

[ocean mirage]

I am norweegie

[light trout]

I know a few others that don't are on discord/forum as well

[clear ferry]

Translating my emails with Google translate does not count @ocean mirage

[ocean mirage]

I think you will find it does

[clear ferry]

[orchid rose]

80€ to fly to Norway 😦

[clear ferry]

Ooh I think I will make my third PR today for hacktoberfest

Adding support for a new bulb in zigbee2mqtt 🎉

[orchid rose]

I should look into zigbee2mqtt as well

[clear ferry]

I can flash you a stick and solder an antenna on it

😛

But you probably prefer soldering yourself

[orchid rose]

my soldering is awful, but I just recently found out you're supposed to use flux

[clear ferry]

Usually the solder contains flux

[orchid rose]

not the stuff I have

[clear ferry]

I usually only use extra flux when doing smd

[orchid rose]

at least I don't think so

[ocean mirage]

Yeah most stuff does

[orchid rose]

and especially the smd stuff has always been the problem for me

I should get a better iron as well though, the one I have is awful 😄

[clear ferry]

I hear the ts100 is the shit

With custom firmware

[orchid rose]

that looks pretty sexy. Not sure I have enough use for it though

[ocean mirage]

Fuck SMD

[orchid rose]

let's add the ts100 to wishlist and see what the price is on 11.11.

[clear ferry]

😂

[ocean mirage]

I am more into the ts808

[clear ferry]

Ts7 !

[hearty depot]

Ah fu.. My network card just arrived - but no clue how to enable support for that thing in EXSi.
Bourght an intel because I thourgght the drivers where included in the kernel :thinkcyde:
now in my desktop. When I get it to work I give Devstack with KVM an try

[clear ferry]

Which card is it?

[hearty depot]

intel pro/1000 pt quad port EXPI9404PT

https://www.ebay.de/itm/Intel-PRO-1000-PT-Quad-Port-Server-Adapter-EXPI9404PT/142109064824?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

at my Desktop I get at least an green light on the first port ( but no connection to the lan out of the box) 🤷

[orchid rose]

damn you atxbyea, I didn't know I wanted a solder iron, but now I do. 💸

[hushed basalt]

Tip is a bit long though

Those long tips are annoying for precision work

[ocean mirage]

just the tip

[orchid rose]

tbh I have no need for a good iron like that, but it looks cool. The same way I kinda want a chinese "VG10" chefs knife, just because it looks sexy...

[clear ferry]

I'm not sure since VMware sites is under maintenance @hearty depot , but I think that card was supported until 6.0 atleast, might have been dropped at 6.5 and later

Maybe I still need to send you a network card then 😛

I'll check my garage later if I have anything thatll work for you

[hushed basalt]

Good soldering irons are so cheap nowadays

There's no reason to not have atleast a ts100,

It's not like the days where decent meant like $300+

[ocean mirage]

I got one of them hakko fx888, has served me well

They seem really cheap these days too

[copper sequoia]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/09/alexa-are-you-invading-my-privacy-the-dark-side-of-our-voice-assistants

[clear ferry]

In San Francisco, Shawn Kinnear claimed that his Echo activated itself and said cheerfully: “Every time I close my eyes, all I see is people dying.”

What is this? Tears in the rain?

[copper sequoia]

Have not owned one, never will..i had a google home for about 10 minutes..never again 😄

[clear ferry]

I enjoy my Google homes 😛

[copper sequoia]

im sure google does too 😄

[icy chasm]

heh, was wondering why hassio vscode kept throwing weird errors...

[clear ferry]

Sacrifice child

Reminds me of the parent killing zombie children

Unix can be... Interesting sometimes

[copper sequoia]

brutal

[icy chasm]

peow peow, cut off a limb to save the host

[copper sequoia]

https://www.androidauthority.com/internet-of-things-future-1039800/

no worry..we'll drown in plastic way before that 😛

[clear ferry]

No worries, I'm dead from eating too much chocolate by then anyway

[copper sequoia]

Never enough chocolate

Then again. The radiation might do us in first

WiFi enabled toothbrushes..

[hearty depot]

mine has Bluetooth 🤷 on topic with the tooths

[strange vapor]

https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1182451650511937536

Nick Craver (@Nick_Craver)

How do I tag pictures NSFW?

Retweets

469

Likes

3008

Twitter

[young sigil]

Ah another cable porn aficionado, https://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn/

[chilly nymph]

@scenic radish @hushed basalt @clear ferry 😑

Zigbee2mqtt is something I'm going to look into but I'm not ready to jump into yet. I have a hue bridge and a smartthings hub lying around that I've never used.

[hushed basalt]

You infra guys and your cables

@chilly nymph trust me it's the best

[chilly nymph]

Do you have hardware recommendations? I'll look into it.

But I'm a finance guy not a programmer, so it's a bit intimidating

[hearty depot]

lol - nice snippet
python3.7 -m http.server 8080 --bind $(ip addr | grep -Po '(?!(inet 127.\d.\d.1))(inet \K(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3})' )

[chilly nymph]

@hushed basalt and I'm assuming it's touchlink compatible if I get the right hardware?

[hushed basalt]

Best bet is to buy a preflashed stick with antenna off the homeassistant forums

If you search cc2531 antenna homeassistant you'll find it

Then all you need to do is install zigbee2mqtt on anything with a usb and network port. Can be the same device as your homeassistant, or a raspberry pi by itself

And add a mqtt server as well

I think hass.io can do a lot of this point and click

Try #zigbee-archived for details

[scenic radish]

Or just get an off-the-shelf radio and use ZHA...

Or Conbee and use deconz

Let's not forget that those are viable options too

[chilly nymph]

Taking home assistant out of the equation for a moment (because I'm trying to figure out what keeps crashing it), which of these solutions can I use without home assistant?

[boreal pewter]

Basically it's not allowed to say these words here 🙊

[scenic radish]

@chilly nymph the Hue platform is rock solid

[chilly nymph]

@boreal pewter I'm going to use it again and in fact have it running. But I just want to get something working in the short term

I just sent this in a PM to @scenic radish but see below

My issue right now is time commitment. I'm selling myself short when I say I'm just a finance guy, as I've contributed to Foss before. But the reality is I work 60 hours a week right now in finance and am in the middle of a move. My short term goal is to set up zigbee lights with remotes of some sort, hoping to spend minimal time on initial setup.

My new place does not have light switches. The bedrooms have "pull strings" to turn on the lights. I don't own, so I can't do any wiring.

[scenic radish]

You can use the Hue bridge and its hardware by itself and then integrate it into HA later if you want

[boreal pewter]

It's still not allowed to talk about home assistant HERE 🤷

[scenic radish]

Get some Hue dimmers and bulbs, connect them to the bridge, and you're good to go

[chilly nymph]

Oh. Yeah, I'm trying to do this without home assistant at the moment @boreal pewter

So.... That's why I thought that this was the best place to talk about it? It was a non home assistant hardware question that I asked

[scenic radish]

All config can be done in the official Hue app

It is

You're good

[boreal pewter]

Ah that kind of stuff

I don't like Hue for the price

[scenic radish]

You're not just buying hardware, you're buying support for the hardware and future software updates

It's a solid system. Generally regarded as one of the best

[chilly nymph]

I was given the bridge and given a smartthings hub. I also have a wink hub but I'm trying to transition off that

[scenic radish]

If you want a setup that requires minimal fuss, Hue is the way to go

[chilly nymph]

I also want something that supports touchlink because a lot of the remotes out there are touchlink. It seems like they both do

[scenic radish]

The app could be better but it's improved at least

The bridge does support touchlink, but I'm not familiar with what third party hardware works with it. You'd have to research that

[chilly nymph]

I'm ok with using something like zigbee2mqtt or another USB stick if I can use it/set it up on a standalone basis until I get HA stable

I will say I picked up some tradfri remotes for $0.99 at Ikea last night and they are surprisingly responsive. I paired 2 directly to a bulb

Much more responsive than the lutron connected bulb remote I have, which surprised me

[boreal pewter]

Yeah I have build something Tradfri too when I got my new cupboards but I use just Zigbee and the Conbee2 as gateway

[chilly nymph]

I connected the bulb to my wink hub for the moment

That looks nice. Are those lights battery powered?

[boreal pewter]

No those are the Ledberg Spots as well from Ikea, 3x4 from which I use 11 there

4 spots were 13€, I cut off the connector and put some Amazon JST Connectors on it

[chilly nymph]

Pretty clean for being wired

[boreal pewter]

And they are plug n play in the 30w driver

[chilly nymph]

I'm wondering if there is a refresh coming because the bulbs were $1.99 and the remotes were $0.99 "while supplies last"

[boreal pewter]

Well for the bottles I tinker with 3 of these: https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/dioder-lichtleiste-led-weiss-30420556/

And then I want to put a flexlight around the cubboards to lighten 90° at the wall https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/ledberg-flexible-lichtleiste-led-weiss-40359695/

[clear ferry]

Yeah, I have built some modded IKEA tradfri for my cabinets too

With 5050 LEDs connected to the IKEA drivee

[boreal pewter]

I think you just need the JST connectors and then you can actually put anything on it

[clear ferry]

My jsts didn't fit

So I opened the box and attached some old jst connectors I had to the LEDs and reused a jst 4way that matched that by soldering it inside the tradfri driver

[boreal pewter]

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B06XRBKSY2

[clear ferry]

I tried some like that on the other tradfri driver I have, but I had to chip the sides with a knife to go in 😂

[boreal pewter]

That just sounds completely wrong 😄 Mine have space in all directions

[clear ferry]

That's what she said

[boreal pewter]

Ugh growing the library is such a maintenancing task /mnt/google/tnt:/mnt/google/tnt-gd 1.1P 11T 1.1P 1% /home/anon/downloads/tnt

[clear ferry]

You are downloading the Norwegian heavy metal band Tnt?

1.1P lol

[boreal pewter]

Nah I use shorting for my trackers

[clear ferry]

What kind of storage is backing that 1.1P ?

[boreal pewter]

Google 👌

[clear ferry]

With no criticism of what it contains?

[boreal pewter]

Encryption

[clear ferry]

[boreal pewter]

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/album/1FnCnsLlmN35v8CboOplgo?si=Q2vLp6KaQXi0c7VFDq6SZw

[boreal pewter]

Currently it works great again for my end. The up and downloading is outsourced to an external dedicated server, plex there servers other people using my library and cloud is mounted at my end also on the deskmini serving my own plex and 4k works great yet

[clear ferry]

I might need to look into that then

I wouldn't mind a mirror of all my "stuff" atleast

[boreal pewter]

And both machines do backups via duplicati in a Not encrypted mount

You could save 10 years of backups easily 😂

I also found out that I tested my preferred torrent client wrong and when retesting it it was actually fine 🤦

[hearty depot]

I guess this isnt google drive?

[boreal pewter]

Sure

It is

[clear ferry]

A big Google drive

[hearty depot]

holy, must be expensive, I think I pay 20€ for 100G
care to tell how youre mounted it?

[boreal pewter]

Well, it is a business account, so Gsuite. It's drive is unlimited for about 10 bucks a month

[hearty depot]

really... 🤔
I would know someone who has 20 PB to back up
(everyday around 5 TB of new data)

[boreal pewter]

There are many "tutorials" out there which are about "Using unlimited cloud storage on your linux server" and so on. They all just go about: "Get a domain, get a Gsuite account, verify the domain in Google and mount the Gdrive via rclone and a fuse mount"

Tho when I started out: Don't use any of these "all in one" tutorials. They're mostly outdated, like using Plexdrive and shit

I would look up each step by it's own to get a newly updated 2019 way of doing so

[hearty depot]

I'm actually only intrested bout an regular encrypted filecloud connection for my pc + 2 laptops

[boreal pewter]

Doesn't hurt to also at least use it for server backups as well

But for Windows backup I still use Backblaze, since I have paid for another 10 month as of now I think

[hearty depot]

ok.. 3 pc's +2 laptops then 🤣

[boreal pewter]

So I dunno really how that could work on windows

[hearty depot]

dont own a windows device anyway

[boreal pewter]

Well then

For Linux it is definitely required to use rclone

[hearty depot]

grr Created 2 years ago or revised this gist on May 18, 2017

[boreal pewter]

My new Roborock parts just arrived

I got the brushes from the S6 to put in my S50

[low harness]

First diy thing?

[eager vortex]

sort of

i used the swtich method

[hearty depot]

aww finaly cleaned up my bash alias file
https://hastebin.com/muyebeyuwo.bash

love goes out to Kulshreshtha

[eager vortex]

i have a temp sensor outside that runs on 433MHz how would i go about getting that on HA?

[hearty depot]

you missed the promo for the https://www.itead.cc/wiki/Sonoff_RF_Bridge_433

mine ll arive soonish - tasmota on it (orESPhome) and yaay

[eager vortex]

DAM

dam

got my temp sensor working

dam no support for the nrf24l01

ah its a 2.4 GHz lol

[clear ferry]

https://v.redd.it/3l1qderay4s31

[eager vortex]

how do i remove an old device from history?

no longer in the system but still being logged?

[clever mortar]

#330944238910963714 would be where to ask

[wintry crow]

Nuts, hyperion doesn't like sk2812's - doesn't set the strip to rgbw :/

[boreal pewter]

@eager vortex living on the edge, 40% is the end of the recommended living room humidity of 40-60% 😛

For that I got a automation sending a message below 45%

[hearty depot]

Wtf https://digitaloffers.windowscentral.com/sales/acer-chromebook-11-c740-c4pe-refurbished?utm_source=windowscentral.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=acer-chromebook-11-c740-c4pe-refurbished_101219&utm_term=scsf-346223&utm_content=a0x1P000004Mqc3&scsonar=1&utm_mona=UUwpUdUnU70490

[opaque oracle]

Good evening!

[hushed basalt]

My ensuite is always so humid

Even with the fan running for a week :/

[scenic radish]

I have had... A lot of beer

[wet pilot]

trying to catch up

[scenic radish]

On beer?

[wet pilot]

yup

28oz in so far

[eager trench]

hey @wet pilot can you take a look at a Q I posted in #330944238910963714 please?

[wet pilot]

i can look, no promises that i know anything though

also, beerz

[eager trench]

hahaha

[eager vortex]

@anon heatpump was going at the time.

@boreal pewter

[hushed basalt]

I still can't decide on a tv

I looked at the 55" LG OLED. It was noice

But I feel like it's not big enough

[wet pilot]

there's an equation for that

[eager vortex]

might need to replace this DHT11 not as reliable

[hushed basalt]

The 65" stuff looked nice

But price skyrockets

The samsung q60 qled 65" seems like a good compromise

But it's got 2.4ghz wifi only :o

Plus Samsung Bixby 🤢

[ocean mirage]

Do you have an Apple TV or something so you can ignore the TV OS stuff

[hushed basalt]

Yeah I've got that

[boreal pewter]

Just don't get a Samsung

[hushed basalt]

I guess the good thing with the LG is the notifications and better HA integration

[boreal pewter]

Has a reason that the LG's are the best in any test

[hushed basalt]

I might wait for black Friday

And spring for a 65" LG OLED

Just walking around the store I could instantly tell which panels were OLED or not before reading the stickers

The hisense oled was pretty rubbish though

[hearty depot]

got me some nocuna noctuna fans to make my pc a little quieter- now its gotten louder?.. Why the f

[boreal pewter]

Noctua.. 🤷

Has a reason that there is a brand called "Be Quiet" and it's fans cost 20€ each

[hearty depot]

oh yea - meand to ask you - do you set up a company for google thingy

[boreal pewter]

Yeah you have to own a domain and register for the business stuff

[clever mortar]

Not all Noctua fans are lower noise than the things you replace

[hearty depot]

well - got a domain bot not an buisness

[boreal pewter]

You don't need to have a real business which you pay tax for and such

[clever mortar]

I have a Google Apps domain, had it for years, don't have a business

[boreal pewter]

You just need to register at google for the business stuff and all they require is a domain

[clever mortar]

Heck, there's an option in there for I'm not a business

[boreal pewter]

@hearty depot and yeah I have 6x 140mm Silent Wings in each PC here, The Dark Rock Pro4 and always a triple-fan GPU and my fucking external 8TB drive is louder than the PC

[clever mortar]

The forums of http://www.silentpcreview.com are good source of information on fans and stuff

The archives there are also useful, but the site hasn't been active in years now 😦

[hearty depot]

argh back - The Rizen realy dont like the intel ram 😛 I shouldnt cheap out and finally buy a 3200mhz one
I think the vibarations from the graphics card are killing me here

Heck I must be on the wrong page then

[boreal pewter]

I think there is nothing more silent than the Silent Wings...

Maybe some get "near" to it

Ugh so annoying, I got the One Piece episodes up to 629 on German and from there on I'm ripping the subbed episodes from a streaming site and I have to work through each link

Up to yet 900+

[hearty depot]

stopped around 270 or so

[boreal pewter]

So how far is your google setup yet?

And did you order some Silent Wings?

[hearty depot]

not at all far - Just looked into it a little and started to apply for an account - but there wasnt a I'm not a business option so I stepped back for the day - Still on trying to get this old network card to work..
atm digging throu silentpcreview and have to repair the automations for the remotes - wich stopped for some reason

[boreal pewter]

lol well the google setup is really just a 3 steps procedure or so, Just thinking of some name and doing domain verification. You should start with that early since it could take 24 hours for verification

That step is actually well explained in any of the all-in-one tutorials

[hearty depot]

Only found deam outdated AIO tuts 🙈
Just looked throu the rsync forum for snippets

[boreal pewter]

Just start one by one. Do your google setup, then setup rclone and get systemd units for that and then do your mergerfs mounts

[clever mortar]

systemd unit files aren't hard to write from scratch if needed

[boreal pewter]

Well the rclone options are and for that I had to look around a bit..

[clever mortar]

I've never run rclone (https://rclone.org) as a service I'll have to admit

[boreal pewter]

A single option can make the difference to run 4k or not 😛

[clear ferry]

Google home mini for $20 now

[light trout]

Where?

[clear ferry]

Obs

But they say it is only an offer in store

And only today

Which makes no sense

https://coop.no/sortiment/obs-sortiment/elektronikk/radio-og-hoytalere/google-home-mini?variantCode=677957&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_redirect

[light trout]

FFS... 🤦

[clear ferry]

Yes to stores open on Sundays

I love the argument against it is that people will be forced to work on Sundays

I know that when I worked in a store I wish we were open on Sundays so I could get more hours😛

Remember when I moved to Ireland

And could shop on Sundays

[copper sequoia]

ahh https://github.com/kolonialno/api-docs

for us norskies

[light trout]

Fuck me sideways

[copper sequoia]

no thanks

need that delivery counter into hass..lol..

[orchid rose]

what is it? No english on their webpage...

[light trout]

You could hook up the grocy integratin to that API, have it add to the cart

[copper sequoia]

online grocery shopping (norway only)

[clever mortar]

Niiiice

Because I need my HA to be able to order food... 🤔

[orchid rose]

ah, I wonder what you could do with that

[clever mortar]

Get fatter 😛

[copper sequoia]

tie it into the shopping lsst?

[orchid rose]

that doesn't seem to be an issue currently either 😦

[clever mortar]

Okay Google, order more chocolate

[copper sequoia]

they have counter on the page that shows currently delivered and your queue #..guess thats not in the api yet

they do give u app notifications, but thats no fun ..gotta be in hass

(and only say when youre next..)

but yeah, tie it into your online scale, and if weight too high, order lettuce, if lower order potatochips

[orchid rose]

haha. "Hey Gøøgle Ørder chøcølate." I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that. You're too fat.

[copper sequoia]

hehe... or "sorry, your fitbit show too little activity, ordering apples."

but it could be useful.. if u could tie it into like the shopping list component...i wouldnt order stuff automatically, but could add it to the cart.

carrot card in lovelace...click..

heh

[clear ferry]

@clever mortar We can get fatter ? Where do I sign up?

[velvet horizon]

Tinkerer is away for 47m 21s with a message :point_right: ... - .. .-.. .-.. / -. --- - .... .. -. --. / - --- / ... . . / .... . .-. .

[clear ferry]

Fancy, new tax cuts on electric cars

You can get a BMW i3 with_all_ extras and maximum range for about $40k

And a well equipped and full range vw golf for $31k

Electric cars are finally getting interesting to me when they start getting 400km range

The only one that had done that traditionally was the Tesla, but it is a rubbish car

[clear ferry]

https://i.redd.it/vbiiu4va4bs31.jpg

[opal flume]

I'm looking for 4 smart thermostats that work well with HA. Budget is $100 USD (for each unit). Nest E seems like it would work, but at $160 seems overpriced.

[clever mortar]

#330944238910963714 would be where to ask

[rustic lava]

if i need help with ESPhome where do i go? 🙂

to be specific, esphome and uln2003

sorry, found it

[scenic radish]

@clear ferry yeah the interior trim materials on the Teslas is basically equivalent to my car which is 19,000 USD new lol

In other words, unimpressive

[static schooner]

the roller coaster feeling when mashing on the accelerator only goes so far

[clear ferry]

@scenic radish fun to drive, but it was shite in comfort, both ride and seat

[strange vapor]

Anyone know of any handy device where you can have one audio out, two audio in (preferably in phono) and will always prefer one input if there's signal?

No shortage of simply manual switches, it's ones which will do the equivalent of ducking a signal

[clear ferry]

So, a sensing audio device

Should be.. makeable with some logics that react to voltage change I guess

[strange vapor]

hmm, need to figure it out. Possibly need to look at how a good old fashion side chain works on a compressor for ducking!

[hushed basalt]

@strange vapor you could try doing it all digitally

A RPI with a audio HAT that has two inputs and one output if that's an option

[green inlet]

I have been searching for Bluetooth speakers for my patios. I want two speakers that connect with a cord. Battery operated and not a rock.....I want to mount them to the roof over my patio. The rock speakers are exactly what I want but mounting a rock to the over hang over my patios would look strange.

[wet pilot]

could get normal speakers and an amp with blutooth support?

[green inlet]

A battery operated amp?

[wet pilot]

why not just wire everything?

[green inlet]

No access

Preferable but....

[hushed basalt]

Attach them to a bicycle generator

Then you can work out while you listen to music 💯

[thick dragon]

Any way to see when someone was last online? Found a ripper deal that Phil Hawthorne would likely be keen on.

[clear ferry]

@thick dragon you could just tag him in #creator-connection 😛

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ztJpdxupEltRgGuzihTJb?si=y-9DHwbvTjW3UcnhdBgn0w

[thick dragon]

Hmm, didn't realise you could ping offline people in Discord. Interesting.

I just shot him a tweet anyway 🙂

[clear ferry]

🐦

[sturdy trellis]

Hi guys, Do you know why we can't change our nickname on this server? I want to change mine to match my Github account.

[light trout]

And that is?

Reason: it's disabled, but any moderator can change it

[ocean mirage]

What would be the reason to disable it?

[clear ferry]

Typical ddos way, get 100 users to change their nick at the same time

Discord is hosted on a 1Mbit connection you know

[light trout]

You say tha as a joke, but sometimes it feels like that is the case

[clear ferry]

Btw @ocean mirage have you seen the ehx c9 /b9 pedals? I want em

@light trout I never joke

[ocean mirage]

Yeah they look like some fun. I probably wouldn’t do anything productive with them though, just fuck around

[clear ferry]

Agreed, but that isn't wrong 🤷

I do that with my wah wah mostly

[ocean mirage]

Haha yeah but probably not a good buy for me right now

I recently got a strymon flint, not sure if I said

[clear ferry]

Aye

I want all the Strymon too

[ocean mirage]

I had a timeline previously but that’s a pedal for a gigging musician, sort of a pain to just fiddle with at home

[clear ferry]

I want some rack effects at some point, with midi controls that I can control from the guitar

Like Bellamy of muse

He uses a Kaosspad I believe

[ocean mirage]

Oh yeah I’ve seen those things

Crazy

[clear ferry]

https://github.com/alf45tar/Pedalino

[ocean mirage]

I just want simple shit

Amp on and beat the shit out of my strings

[clear ferry]

You are such a caveman

[clever mortar]

Og hit rocks

[clear ferry]

I enjoy playing around with the order of my pedals, and find new fun rings

I might have selective autism 😛

I remember when I played a concert in Barcelona, they just gave us some random amps, I got a 4x12 fender bassmann, it was nice, but it was way too loud

And I was way too drunk to turn it down 😛

[ocean mirage]

Wasn’t 4x10?

[clear ferry]

Might have been, see comment about drunk above 🖕

It was a head and speaker cabinet

[ocean mirage]

Ahh okay

[clear ferry]

So not a combo

[ocean mirage]

I’ve never played one but my amp is a clone of a jtm45, which is based on a tweed baseman

[clear ferry]

I wanted to build a bassman clone actually

I have a vox ac50 head and a Hughes and kettner 100w head right now, going into a 4x12 I've split in two for stereo or 2x mono when I do synth and guitar together

[ocean mirage]

Ah yeah cool

Stereo can be cool

[clear ferry]

Aye, the TC electronic pedals really make good stereo output

I have one at the end of my chain for that purpose

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/dhkwxj/-/f3ovj50

😂

[ocean mirage]

Let people enjoy their garbage

I don’t like it but it’s got the woman from the Dancing in the Dark film clip

[clear ferry]

I don't think I have followed any show with a laugh track

Except fresh Prince

But that was before we had choices on TV 🤷 🤷

[light trout]

Most of what I see have that 😛

[ocean mirage]

Seinfeld had one right?

[light trout]

yes, it had a combination of that and an audince that laguhed on cue

[clear ferry]

Reminds me, I need to watch Seinfeld, I have it but I have only watched whatever episode was on TV like 20 years ago

[hushed basalt]

I'm still at a loss to what TV to get :(

65" oled is so nice but the price is crazy

That level I may as well go UST projector and get an 120" screen

I'll probably settle on the 65" Samsung QLED.

802.11n 2.4ghz is a bit of a joke though :/

[ocean mirage]

How much a price difference between the OLED and QLED

[hushed basalt]

About $2000

[ocean mirage]

Yeah wow

[hushed basalt]

At 65"

55" it's about the same

[ocean mirage]

Sounded like you like the OLED but I guess prices will come down in years

[hushed basalt]

My current tv is a 46"Samsung LCD from 2005

I think I'll get the 65" QLED and turn it into a bedroom tv when we get a house

And get a UST projector for the main area

Shame the wifi is rubbish in the samsung

But my house would have ethernet anyways

[ocean mirage]

Yeah that sounds like a solid plan to me

I’ll be shopping for TVs at some stage and might end up with the same one

[hushed basalt]

The Q60 65" samsung looked quite good at the price point

The hisense OLEDs didn't look good even though they're cheap

The LG looked noice. If you were getting 55" I'd get the LG hands down

But over 55" OLED is just bad value imo

[ocean mirage]

I’m probably going 65 inch

Current 1080 tv is 55

Certain 65 inch stands won’t fit on the tv unit though

[hushed basalt]

I think the samsung had corner mounts

If you own your house though I'd wall mount

[ocean mirage]

Yeah I likely will walk mount anyway but I’d like to just get it home and quick setup at first

[ocean mirage]

That should fit

[hushed basalt]

🥁

[final acorn]

I am also buying a 65” tv but I am goong for Sony

oled has better picture but that glossy effect is so irritating

[clear ferry]

[orchid rose]

What glossy effect do you mean stefan? Reflections?

My brother has the last year's LG Oled, B8 I think and I didn't notice anything special and looking at the rtings list they should be one of the best TVs to handle reflections. https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/picture-quality/reflections-screen-finish-matte-and-glossy

[hushed basalt]

Yeah the LGs are superb in OLED

My boss bought one

$5000 :/

Didn't get a pay rise but my boss bought a $5k tv on company account for his lounge room

Aaaaaaandddd guess who's looking for a new job

[light trout]

@clear ferry is

[ocean mirage]

Capitalism be like

[copper sequoia]

ah pretty new blue switches in the UI...i guess it now matches the header color ..devs been drinking coolaid maybe?

[real path]

Hi all, not sure where to ask this but having problems with HA restarting randomly

[scenic radish]

#330944238910963714

[real path]

thanks TED

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1GDl9OOKwfxVDV8jh6zce9?si=p2_YleERT9OoaF5sdL5-Jw

This song was a lot darker than I though, I was unsure of the lyrics and had to Google some German

The music video is very good though

[dull plaza]

Hi guys. I am trying to run Mosquitto broker. I installed the plugin but i cannot start it. Does it have issues?

[clever mortar]

Wrong channel @dull plaza

If you're using the add-on see #330990055533576204

[dull plaza]

thank you @clever mortar

[mortal solar]

What is the correct channel to ask about device recommendations (or is there one?) I'm trying to decide on some devices that integrate well with Home Assistant and wanted the input of some of you with more experience than me. 😅

I also have some questions about the merits/disadvantages of getting a bunch of Wi-Fi devices on one network. (I'm not fimiliar with Hue or Zwave etc)

[clever mortar]

Start with #330944238910963714 @mortal solar

[wet pilot]

what's good guys and gals? its beer thirty and the nats are winning 😄

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/album/2XhQwji1ixgjca0XzkiTek?si=4VN9J5_4TQeGAf1vogZ5uA

[clear ferry]

[strange vapor]

Not exactly home automation, but: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/musically-synced-car-windscreen-wipers-using-raspberry-pi/

[clear ferry]

Perfect for my musical OCD

[low harness]

Finally!

Someone needs to get Elon Musk on this

[static plinth]

Is Zwave+ any more responsive / reliable on a larger computer vs. a raspberry pi? I have a specific use for a z-wave network, and then I also like the other home automation stuff. I'm wondering if tis better to keep the systems isolated.

[clever mortar]

Well, #zwave-archived would be the best place to ask

[static plinth]

maybe this is more lounge appropriate....
Me: get radio thermostat, it's zwave plus so we can use it for load controls.....
one month later.....
Client: so I bought three $500 Nests....
one month later.....
HVAC guy: so these units only work with Econet Cloud thermostats

[clear ferry]

😫

[static plinth]

Yea its been wild. Bunch of lessons learned on this "lets run the largest electrical load on the cheapest energy products" project. It's amazing how far the "latest and greatest dev mode" vs. the "older more stable" build philosophy goes in a high tech home. Obviously you dont want to use obsolete stuff, but if we had stuck to older technologies we'd have much less problems.

the only thing worst than the thermostat debacle is the husband's refusal to let the cable boxes go

resulting in expensive analog cable-over-ethernet splitters and infrared relay issues (whcih the husband does not like)... whereas every friggen TV is smart, with plex, and the coop is putting in fiber next year (right now they are on DSL)

this guy's refusal to not have cable TV for ~12 months has added like $8k cost and a worse user experience to the smart home project. the wife (who makes the money) is awesome though so its really just the husband appeasement budget

kind of a role reversal there

[mental garden]

Hi Guys, first time here and first time on discord. I've just started playing around with home assistant and decided this is the route I want to go for my new house we are building this spring!

I've watched the rapid development that's been going on with home assistant and it's impressive! I wouldn't say money is no object on our new home, but I would rather spend a little more for quality. Like John mentioned, I don't want to go with obsolete technology, but I don't want to be the on bleeding edge and have headaches. What would you guys go with for light switches?

[wet pilot]

i've had good luck with zwave

[mental garden]

It seems like Lutron Radio RA2 integration is semi-limited at this point, but that could change in the future.

[scenic radish]

@static plinth $500 nests?! how tf were they $500

[mental garden]

@wet pilot What zwave switches do you use?

[wet pilot]

GE/Honeywell/Jansco

Jansco is the actual manufacturer. GE and Honeywell throw their branding on top. they're the same thing though

they require the neutral line, but that won't be a problem for you with new construction

[scenic radish]

@wet pilot you'd be surprised...

[wet pilot]

(i'm also assuming US)

[mental garden]

From what I've read, only Lutron and Leviton have the Hail command and update right away, otherwise you have to poll the network. Do you find that to be much of an issue?

Correct, I'm in the US.

[wet pilot]

that patent expired apparently