#the-water-cooler

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wet pilot
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solid spring into a week of early summer snap to 3 days of late winter and back to spring

clear ferry
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@forest edge lighting in the dead of winter is a strange thing, I was out playing on a snow mound when I was a kid and lightning struck somewhere and I was fucking snowblind for 5 minutes

wet pilot
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lol

clear ferry
wet pilot
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thundersnow is cool though. experienced it in Rochester, NY one winter

forest edge
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@clear ferry sure it just wasn't the very first light bulb in your country being lit up for the first time? lol jk

clear ferry
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I would like to see some of the fucked up US weather up close though, like supercells etx

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We don't get that stuff here

wet pilot
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oh yeah, it can be nuts

forest edge
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we had a microburst take out our huge hay barn one year. I didn't get to actually see it in action but saw it right after. crazy stuff

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everything around the barn was perfectly fine, as if a nice sunny day but the barn itself was demolished as if someone blew it up lol

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as far as the temps going all over the damn place. it's annoying, not fun

clear ferry
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Young Sonoma in 1921 hadn't played with fireworks

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Definitely not

forest edge
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if i was alivve in 1921 I would be calling you whippersnapper

clear ferry
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I've been called worse

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By you

forest edge
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lol

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the modren name for what whippersnapper stands for does sound worse lol

clear ferry
forest edge
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It really seems like our news stations are super desperate for ratings or something with how they skew the context of just about everything involving covid lol

clear ferry
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Better protect that second amendment from that covid, it's only invented to take it away

forest edge
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uh

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lol

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pretty messed up that one of the most googled things during all of this is, "can I get a legal divorce on zoom" lol

hushed basalt
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@clear ferry what's the longest you've driven in a day for work

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Time wise

clear ferry
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Hmmmmmmmmm

odd kindle
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@forest edge that’s sad 😐

fading zodiac
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Morning

hushed basalt
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I think I broke the Norwegian

clear ferry
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Probably that day I drove to Arendal, then Lillehammer and then back, so 12hours just driving @hushed basalt

hushed basalt
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Lol

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What did you do, plug in one jumper

fading zodiac
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bring coffee to the boss?

clear ferry
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The job in Arendal was just a power supply and some firmware, Lillehammer was replacing a system board I think

fading zodiac
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expensive PSU

clear ferry
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@fading zodiac not when you already pay for 24/7/365 with 4 hours response time

fading zodiac
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Doesn't change the cost of the PSU

forest edge
hushed basalt
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4 hour response time and the nearest support is 6 hours away :D

fading zodiac
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If that PSU replacement was 30 minutes away

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it was even more expensive.

clear ferry
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Lot of that in Norway @hushed basalt my furthest away customer is 14 hours by plane if I'm bad at timing

fading zodiac
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Thats from topgear

hushed basalt
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I've had amazon prime orders faster than that

clear ferry
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@fading zodiac well, since it was a Unix system it was probably $500 to begin with, then throw my hours and some more on top

fading zodiac
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@clear ferry just talking about the hours here

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Your the most costly part of it (mostly)

clear ferry
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Yeah, it's probably a good thing that I don't do break fix these days, $110 per hour for overtime me musk

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No wait, that is just the money I get... Customer pays $280ish

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The system boards for the Unix systems are up to $8000 though

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As a customer experienced after letting his contract elapse and a server going down

fading zodiac
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😂

clear ferry
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Was probably close to $15k in parts, and $4k in hours

forest edge
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this is Norwegian bucks so that about a buck fifty US

clear ferry
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I prefer to state in trollars

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Aka trump dollars

hushed basalt
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Sounds like a server pet

fading zodiac
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Trollars hm

hushed basalt
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Servers should be cattle not pets

fading zodiac
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Should provide them with water?

forest edge
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you probably do, remind me of those Canadians who ripped me off for my pizza all acting as if the exchange rate was equal or something lol

hushed basalt
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They should be disposable

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Indistinguishable, interchangeable

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When you have "this super important server" that leads to a whole range of problems

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Another reason to move to the cloud ;)

fading zodiac
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Yes

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I like the cloud

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i don't like MS Azure support

hushed basalt
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I haven't had to deal with Azure fortunately/unfortunately?

clear ferry
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Cloud 🤢

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Also, Unix servers are far to important mostly to be hosted by someone else

clever mortar
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I'd agree, but my org doesn't 😖

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On the other hand, at least I can have a new host up and running in minutes...

clear ferry
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You need a new org

clever mortar
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Now is probably not the time...

clear ferry
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And down in less than 30 minutes? For more than 24 hours?

clever mortar
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Or however long it takes folks to buy stuff

clear ferry
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I love it when customers move to cloud or a new vendor, then 5 months later they call like hey you got any more of those servers

clever mortar
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Yeah.... I've seen quite a few folks go "cloud native" then realise that it's ain't "all that" and end up with some cloud and some metal

clear ferry
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Yeah, I have a few customers a year that do that

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They usually last 1-2 years in cloud

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Then come back

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Best is the guys that outsource local it , so turn around time for reinstalling a laptop is 6 weeks

clever mortar
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Outsourcing local IT is ok, if they're still local

clear ferry
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Usually they aren't in my experience

hushed basalt
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Yeah if you're big enough you really should keep that in house

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And run it well

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My wifes org has in house IT afaik but they're very typical corporate IT departments

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"can't do that. Policy says no"

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"can't do that. Not part of the ticket"

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"can't do that. Don't want to"

clear ferry
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🤢

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I hate those shops

hushed basalt
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Is it typical for corporate IT to disable bluetooth

clear ferry
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Never heard of that

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Outside of military

hushed basalt
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Also they force laptop closed = sleep and lock

clear ferry
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Never seen that either

hushed basalt
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So everyone has to go from office to meeting rooms cradling their open laptops

clear ferry
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🤢

hushed basalt
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Also my wife used to do half of her consulting out of the office

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And they could only access their network drives in the office

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So she only had local disk storage 50% of the time

near flax
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Yeah - used to work for Samsung. Security was silly tight - Bluetooth was disabled and you needed approval to enable it

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Along with other things

clear ferry
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We have used Microsoft Directaccess since windows 7, it actually works great for most stuff

hushed basalt
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Samsung kind of makes sense

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Intellectual property theft/espionage would be crazy in that market

near flax
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It does - very protective of their IP

hushed basalt
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I mean this is medical records

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But no one is targetting that. Not her industry

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Also she couldn't use any wifi either

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She had to use the company provided mobile hotspot

clear ferry
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I'm so ingrained in the product roadmap I would probably be on paid furlough for 6 months before I could start at a competitor

hushed basalt
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I think they whitelist the vpn bssid to it or something

clever mortar
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So, 6 month holiday then @clear ferry 😛

hushed basalt
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ROADMAP: Sell high buy low

clear ferry
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Yeah, basically blobsweat

hushed basalt
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The laptops had modems in them too which was infuriating

clever mortar
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If you've banked enough leave, you could get a year off...

clear ferry
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I'm using a paid holiday today, so now only 61 days left in my stock pile

clever mortar
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Slacker 😛

hushed basalt
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Just have more kids

clear ferry
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Then I'll just have more days off

hushed basalt
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That's the point!

clear ferry
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Still have 80 days of paternity leave to use

hushed basalt
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Just work half weeks or something

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Until retirement :D

clear ferry
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Shhh Americans will be crying in 401ks and can't retire until they are 99

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My M570 arrived on Friday, time to pick it up today

hushed basalt
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MS70?

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Is that like a motherboard or something

clever mortar
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Magic trackball of doom

hushed basalt
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MSI MS70. NOW WITH MORE RGB LEDS

midnight adder
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good morning beautifull friends 🙂

clear ferry
hushed basalt
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Ah m570

midnight adder
hushed basalt
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I swear I'm half dyslexic

midnight adder
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@clear ferry war-mode on?

hushed basalt
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I have the MX ergo

clear ferry
midnight adder
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mx master 3

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😄

clear ferry
hushed basalt
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I like it

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I could never use a mouse that wasn't tilted anymore

midnight adder
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the ergo?

hushed basalt
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Yeah

midnight adder
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this one is also very pleasing

clear ferry
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Perfect for you

hushed basalt
clear ferry
hushed basalt
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Not that much though

midnight adder
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im doing too much cad

hushed basalt
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BIG BOI

clear ferry
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Let's order this @clever mortar

midnight adder
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🤢

hushed basalt
clever mortar
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That's the weirdest mash up I've seen @clear ferry - more so than the body mouse 😄

clear ferry
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Yes

midnight adder
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nice

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kinda nsfw

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so deleting it

clear ferry
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Combined with this

midnight adder
hushed basalt
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Put a trackball in the middle of that badboy and I'd consider it

midnight adder
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SafeType Keyboard
In general, there's not a lot of room for innovation in the keyboard market. Sure, you'll get a few companies still making Dvorak layouts, and maybe some with extra function keys and weird stuff for video editors, but most typing devices look pretty much the same. And then there's the SafeType, which is basically what would happen if you invented a medieval torture device you could also compose a resume on. Instead of bending your wrists to type, you hold your arms in front of you with palms facing each other to type on the keys on the outside of the two elevated platforms. Sure, you can't see the keys you're pressing, but you'll figure it out eventually.

hushed basalt
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Not that one though

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Why though

clear ferry
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I'm tempered.....

hushed basalt
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90 degrees is just as bad as 0 degree devices

midnight adder
clever mortar
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Connectivity: PS/2
I don't think I've got more than half a dozen spare PS/2 to USB adapters left @clear ferry

clear ferry
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Linus

clever mortar
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could get tricky...

hushed basalt
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I would say 30ish degree tilt is best for me

clear ferry
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@clever mortar aw fam, got you covered, I have atleast two dozen

clever mortar
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😂

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I think I've even got the PS/2 mouse adapters still in a drawer too...

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And, somewhere, there's should still be a serial -> PS/2 adapter

clear ferry
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I build custom serial ports a few times a year

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I should be safe

clever mortar
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Well, that has to be one of the less common things folks do

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That and seeing mihalski post about how his system has run without issues for more than 24 hours...

clear ferry
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There fixed it for you

midnight adder
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mh752 or cloud 2?

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still looking for new headset

clear ferry
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Life is hard in lock down

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@midnight adder Sony mdr-xb1000

midnight adder
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bluetooth and windows 10 is broken

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i only get handsfree with my current bluetooth headset

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and its actually garbage

clear ferry
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Handsfree you say

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Then Bose of choice

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Qc35 II is good for me

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Haven't tried the new 700

midnight adder
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and the bottom one can utilize both mic and headphones

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whereas i cant use mic in stereo settings

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something with bandwidth problems of bluetooth according to google

clever mortar
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I've got the Bose QC25 and it's a good all-rounder at a relatively reasonable price

clear ferry
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I use stereo and mic in my Bose in windows 10

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PEBKAC @midnight adder

midnight adder
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PEBKAC YO MOM

clear ferry
midnight adder
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multiple people have this problem

clear ferry
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Multiple PEBKAC

midnight adder
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imma throw my mug to your head lol

clear ferry
midnight adder
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you gotta be that kid that annoys everybody in class back in the day 😛

clear ferry
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Just back in the day?

midnight adder
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ooof

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imagine the life of your kids then

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F

forest edge
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Shhh Americans will be crying in 401ks and can't retire until they are 99
@clear ferry 63 fool

clear ferry
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With worthless 401k's ? shock

forest edge
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you forget about social security?

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and 401's aren't worthless

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if the company you work for is worth a shit

hushed basalt
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Do Americans link their retirement capital to their companies?

forest edge
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many companies pay into employee retirement funds like the 401

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some even have thier own ontop

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someone could easily get like 3-4 diffrent checks each month in retirement

fading zodiac
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@midnight adder Right click>Disabled devices

hushed basalt
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Eek

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No way I'd trust my employer with my retirement

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Why don't they just have industry superfunds

fading zodiac
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Why is employment in the US so different?

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In my country, they can't fire you without any reason or some sort of case.

forest edge
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@hushed basalt they don't have access to withdraw, only deposit lol

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@fading zodiac its like that here

fading zodiac
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So @ocean mirage did someone took our somewhat glory?

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@forest edge Netherlands?

hushed basalt
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But who manages the fund @forest edge

ocean mirage
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What happened now

hushed basalt
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Who controls where it's funds are invested

fading zodiac
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We need to find someone to get in our group of modcallers

clear ferry
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Here the state, and all your employers will deposit into the same account, that is only a few percent invested, so the rest is just capital

forest edge
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@hushed basalt the employee.

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who else?

midnight adder
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@fading zodiac thats what i found online, didnt work

forest edge
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as far as investing, your thinking of a traditional bank fund. these are diffrent

fading zodiac
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I find the retirement stuff odd.

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I don't mind putting it at a place for you to save.

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But the thing is: they still control what happens to it later.

forest edge
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@fading zodiac why would you be a part of that then?

fading zodiac
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@forest edge No choice?

clear ferry
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Even if I don't put anything into my retirement fund I will probably have $70k per month if I retired at 63

fading zodiac
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As i said, i like to put in stuff for later

forest edge
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@clear ferry why do i highly doubt that

fading zodiac
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But i don't like the fact that you saved

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and they decide

clear ferry
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@forest edge because muuuuurica?

forest edge
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@clear ferry 70K per month is way too high

fading zodiac
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i think this is the biggest issue in the US

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Differences

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No social catcher

clear ferry
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Not with my salary and state funding

forest edge
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you make half a mil/mo atx?

clear ferry
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Oh wait

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I did head math wrong

forest edge
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lol

clear ferry
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$7k

fading zodiac
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Oh

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that sounds different

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you meant 70k year

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😂

forest edge
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thats more like it atx lol

fading zodiac
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But!

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If those trollars continue

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you still have nothing.

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But

clear ferry
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Good thing I don't deal in trollars

fading zodiac
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i can't speak more

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Politics are bad

forest edge
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most Americans pull in anywhere between 2k - 9k a mo after retirment

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9k is really high side

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but if you combine husband/wife that's easily doable

fading zodiac
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I don't even have my bachelor

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and im on 15 euro/h

clear ferry
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Yeah, 7k is it I don't put anything extra in from my own funds

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If I did some each month I could probably do 10 per month

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But meh, I might die tomorrow

forest edge
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would depend how norway structured the retirment payout

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it changes based on earnings, pay in etc

clear ferry
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I have one life insurance through work and one private, so my wife gets 200k USD if I die, and my daughter gets dead dad pension until she is 18 anyway

forest edge
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you also gotta remember that 2-9k/mo is just social security.. that isn't including things like the 401k and any additional seperate retirment funds companies put together for employees

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this is why you see many retired americans travel a whole lot

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cause if you had a good job, worked at it for many years.. you make bank after retirmement lol

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many times that's just 1 person in the houshold

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collecting retirment

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when both work it can be a whole lot

clear ferry
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Stay at home mom is not a thing here

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Except for bloggers

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And women married to 1%s

forest edge
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lol stay at home mom.. this is 2020.. try stay at home dads

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trying to watch a YT spoken in German while using the auto translate to English is horrifying

midnight adder
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@forest edge in germany all the movies have german voice overs

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so the lips are never in sync

hushed basalt
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They should just subtitle it

midnight adder
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stubborn 😛

hushed basalt
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I don't watch any of my foreign stuff dubbed except for anime (if it's good )

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Anime has some notoriously shit english voice actors though. That's what decades of gatekeeping an industry does.

midnight adder
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i never watch anime

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not my type of coffee

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generally dont watch anything besides movies

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and some documentaries haha

strange vapor
clear ferry
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When I'm in Germany, the only thing that isn't German on TV or computers or games is CNN

hushed basalt
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@midnight adder I only watch a very small amount

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I don't like most of them

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I think I've only watched three or four series in the past 10+ years

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@strange vapor won't work on my wifes corporate laptop

clear ferry
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Nothing will work on your wife's laptop

rocky mango
clear ferry
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Hohoho

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Don't get me started

outer lake
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Hello, I cannot update to 0.108 I am running 0.107.7 but 0.108 is not showing up at supervisor, also with the cli it says there are no updates... do you know the issue? or is 0.108 not out yet?

clear ferry
onyx bluff
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Hi guys. I have a situation and I need to start a fresh instance, the current setup I have is homeassistant 103.6, and I want to know what is the smoothest option to relocate all my things to 108.6 fresh install.
Is it enough to move the config folder itself, as is, and restart the service?

clever mortar
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Largely, yes, depending on how you installed

velvet horizonBOT
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onyx bluff
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manually install using pip on a regular vm

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thank you @clever mortar

clever mortar
onyx bluff
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Its not the common flow of installation?

clever mortar
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Depends on your skills

onyx bluff
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I know many uses hassio due it internally leverages docker, but its a bsd host, so I run it in a jail.
Thing is, my existing jail got into some messy phase where I cant pull new updates and my python installation there got somewhat corrupted, not sure what it is

clever mortar
onyx bluff
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Thanks!

clever mortar
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And if that's FreeNAS there's an awesome plugin 😉

onyx bluff
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Plugin? I saw the guide

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wasnt aware there is a plugin.

clever mortar
onyx bluff
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😄

fading zodiac
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❤️

clever mortar
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That's because there's no #chaos channel

fading zodiac
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Yes

clear ferry
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I'm pretty sure @clever mortar is lawfully chaotic

fading zodiac
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😂

clear ferry
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Is this Instagram?

clever mortar
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I have somewhat Chaotic Good tendencies, with the intrusion of some Lawful Evil plans

clear ferry
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Better tag @mødz

fading zodiac
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😂 😂

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I did

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You can say what you want

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but i was the only one (with @ocean mirage ) who did that fuckuop

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And is still around.

clear ferry
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If you only knew the stupid stuff I've doneno

clever mortar
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That's how you learn

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Oh shit, so servers don't actually bounce

clear ferry
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What do you mean 256 disks is two too much?

fading zodiac
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@clear ferry What stuff diid you do to earn that blue name?

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@clear ferry 2 CD DRIVES

clear ferry
fading zodiac
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I've once had a family friend saying his PC didn't work and went slow.

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Went over there, first thing i did was reboot it.

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Thing was fast and fine. Guy was amazed. I asked him, didn't you turn it off and on before?

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I do that everything he said. So i asked him how he turned it of.

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And he just turned the screen off. PC had been running for a full year or so.

clear ferry
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Had that happen to me multiple times over the years

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Worked with end users almost 20 years ago

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🤢

ocean mirage
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I’m so popular lately

clear ferry
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You are the coolest cockatoo I know

clear ferry
clever mortar
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🎉

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Then, in a year, you can upgrade to the MX Ergo 😛

hushed basalt
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Yep

clear ferry
clever mortar
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I know at one point the micro-switches in the M570 were being sourced from a low quality sources

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They'd fail after about 12 to 18 months, giving you strange missed clicks, multi-clicks...

strange vapor
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I've been using those styple of trackball for ages, have an Ergo next to me right now.

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And yes, the M570 was notorious for having the switch go dodgy 😦

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Haven't had the Ergo long enough to see if it sufferes from the same.

clever mortar
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I've had mine since 2017... still going strong, just a little dirty 😄

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I have an emergency M570 in the office, since they're so cheap

strange vapor
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Funnily enough I still have the origin M570 I got years ago in daily use. Had two or three fail with dodgy switches since that one..

clear ferry
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20c here now blobsweat

clever mortar
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About twice as warm as us then 😄

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Wind chill means you're almost three times as warm 😛

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But hey, we're due to get 20C in about June or so...

clear ferry
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Wind chill, you mean British weather

clever mortar
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Scottish

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Down South they get it warm, humid, and air you can chew with all the crap in it

clear ferry
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Considering the distancing thing, maybe I'll do the British road vacation this year instead of London lmao

clever mortar
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Do the North 500

clear ferry
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Past the wall, to the wildings

clever mortar
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To the places where you'll see no signs of civilisation for hours... you should be used to that 😉

clear ferry
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You mean like anything north of Stockholm in Sweden

clever mortar
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Pretty much 😄

clear ferry
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I moved South and drove through Sweden, after passing the first border town up north my GPS said in 700km turn right

clever mortar
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🤣

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Take the next right... in the morning

hushed basalt
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We have that sort of stuff in my state too

clear ferry
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2% of Australia is populated though

hushed basalt
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2% of your face is populated

clear ferry
hushed basalt
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I hated it

clear ferry
hushed basalt
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My wife would never approve a $500 keyboard

clear ferry
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She doesn't need to know

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Atleast a mechanical keyboard won't bother your wife

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Mine would kill me

clear ferry
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Woops, I bought a nest mini gen 2

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Replace the wives G1 and have it at my workbench

last dirge
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@last plaza I use a powered reel

clear ferry
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22c 🤯

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I actually have to use the AC

hushed basalt
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That's our maximum today too

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Daughter is just starting to enjoy daycare now

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No more crying on drop off

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Just in time for me to get a job

clear ferry
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Cut your hair and get a job

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You hippie

last plaza
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In a zoom meeting. Anyone want to crash in? 😂

last dirge
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link?

green inlet
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Anyone know of a platform to sniff Bluetooth / WiFi? I want to sniff both around my house and hopefully build a database of know devices. Then some how get an alert when an unknown pops up. I know it might not be very reliable but something to play with during shelter in place

last plaza
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lol. Not going to actually do it. We only use zoom with external vendors. We are Skype mostly.

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It’s just crazy how open zoom is.

forest edge
last plaza
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🤣

last dirge
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clever girl

clear ferry
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Zoom 🤢

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Teams or bust tbh

last dirge
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teams crashes all the time for me

strange vapor
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Teams hasn't been great when I've used it.

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I was on a zoom "talk" last week with 300+ attendees and swapping between 3 remote speakers, and it just worked without issue.

clear ferry
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I haven't had a single problem, I've been in close to 150 teams meetings already, and I've hosted three with video / presentations

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Most of the ones I'm in are 70+ attendees

strange vapor
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Was a teams call with Azure folk last week, and it worked, but passing control between participants seemed a lot more clunky than Zoom. This was with MS employees controlling the thing.

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Oh, and the web interface doesn't support FF, which is damn annoying when Zoom does.

clear ferry
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No issues with that here, passing control often to L2 /L3 engineering

fading zodiac
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Anyone remembers TS3?

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Mine is still running 😂

clear ferry
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Ts3? I ran TS and ts2 servers ;)

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Kids these days

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I ran ventrilo and Roger wilco at some point too

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And mumble for the last 6 years, though I don't think anybody uses it anymore

forest edge
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lol roger wilco

fading zodiac
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😂

wet pilot
#

i did vent -> ts3 -> mumble for a while

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its all discord these days though

fading zodiac
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Yep

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its a shame

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Just look at the usage

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but tbh, TS3 just missed the boat.

forest edge
#

TS has been around for a very long time they didn't miss nothing. They just didn't evolve

shy comet
#

finally got a chance to play with WLED.....this thing is pretty bad ass, very impressed

dull chasm
#

Got four weeds set up and very happy

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Dam wled

sour escarp
#

weeds are setup for 4/20? 🙂

clear ferry
shy comet
#

@dull chasm have you messed with any audio visualization yet for WLED?

clear ferry
dull chasm
#

No fixing to try Hyperion thou

shy comet
#

Hyperion does both audio and video? i thought it was only video lol

dull chasm
#

Yea haven’t really saw a need for audio

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No @clear ferry

orchid rose
#

wait, wled has audio visualization? With some mic connected to the board or what?

shy comet
#

i believe it works based on integration with another app

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so far I saw people talk about LEDfx

last dirge
#

the other app controls WLED

shy comet
#

yea i think thats what Hyperion does too

last dirge
#

it's just used as a gateway to the controllable LED pixels

shy comet
#

ah ok yea i just wanted to mess with more stuff the default effects in WLED are cool now I just want to see what else it can do lol

clear ferry
#

@shy comet xlights is big

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This guy shares all his sequences

shy comet
#

wow

dull chasm
#

Yea it accepts e131 protocol so and that can a middle man to capture and send to controller ie falcon player or Hyperion

shy comet
#

if i show this to my wife it will become the next project lol

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yea thats what i wanted to try and setup to learn how that works

clear ferry
#

It's a lot of hours of work

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I have 700 strings of ws2811 for Halloween and Christmas

shy comet
#

yea after showing my wife a basic setup she was all about it lol

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wow

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i just started with 50!

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the psu is only 12a so i probably need a larger one if im gonna do 700 lol

clear ferry
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Building some stuff for indoor windows installation with regular ws2812 at some point

shy comet
#

yea were jsut now thinking about how many we want and where to place them lol

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i think the first one will go on the patio as teh WS2811 strip i have now is outdoor rated so just need to extend it

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wonder how many LEDs i can power from a 5v12a PSU

scenic radish
#

just changed remote access for home assistant and my other services to ipv6. E Z P Z. should have done it a while ago

clear ferry
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With wled you can limit it too

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So you can run more leds

shy comet
#

what do you mean limit it?

clear ferry
#

You can tell wled how big your psu is

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And the LEDs will never Go above a brightness

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So the power draw is lower

shy comet
#

oh as opposed to specifying how many LEDs you have?

clear ferry
#

Both

dull chasm
#

@shy comet 60ma per led

shy comet
#

i only started messing with it yesterday lol

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ah yes maximum brightness

dull chasm
#

And remember 80percent constant load on psi

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Psu

#

Damn I hate mobile

shy comet
#

haha ok

clear ferry
#

Become stationary @dull chasm

scenic radish
#

is that a threat?

dull chasm
#

Lol I got this driveway locked down

scenic radish
#

claymores or you're not even trying

dull chasm
#

Lol unit is in the way

scenic radish
#

absolute unit

dull chasm
#

Yep

clear ferry
#

You called?

tidal bronze
#

@shy comet you up and running? 🙂

mild tapir
silent canyon
#

is this the right place for a question about pcb board pin headers and tasmoto flashing?

clever mortar
#

This is the "water cooler" chat point 😉

last dirge
#

@tidal bronze got any recs for weatherproof connectors that have some way to deal when something's NOT plugged in?

shy comet
#

@tidal bronze yup i checked out all of the effects that come with it and the HA integration now im wanting to branch out with audio visualization lol

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any recommendations for making the lights react to music?

last dirge
#

just need 2-pin

tidal bronze
#

Checked out molex?

last dirge
#

I didn't see any good solutions for covers/plugs when the socket's not in use

tidal bronze
#

They have screw on caps. But 2 pin..... let me see

last dirge
#

I'm going to attempt to make my garden watering thing modular so I can just have 12V drops and water quick connects along a manifold

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if I put a station near a plant I'd just plug in the 12V and use the quick connect for the water

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module would be a wemos with a buck shield and a relay shield

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relay would control a solenoid, moisture sensing in via i2C

tidal bronze
#

You can checkout power poles with dust caps.

last dirge
#

like anderson powerpole?

tidal bronze
#

yes

clear ferry
#

@last dirge I use these for my greenhouse project

last dirge
#

those look good

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except I can't read it

tidal bronze
shy comet
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ok ill check that out

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was just looking at it to see if i can install it on a pi lol

last dirge
#

@clear ferry and now my aliexpress is stuck on the netherlands version

tidal bronze
last dirge
#

what hell hath you wrought?

clear ferry
last dirge
#

what size cable are you using?

tidal bronze
#

@shy comet I am thinking of doing 2 sets of led strips for each TV. 1 for hyperion UDP and 1 for ledfx E1.31 protocol. UDP takeover and idle release is not that great.

clear ferry
#

Different ones 22awg for power and 30 awg for sensors @last dirge

last dirge
#

there's no pictures of what's under the cable end

shy comet
#

@tidal bronze so you prefer ledfx over the audio reactive one?

last dirge
#

is it just a buna n rubber sleeve and a little compression dealie like are on most PoE cameras?

tidal bronze
#

yes

clear ferry
#

Yes

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It compresses pretty good from my test

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But I'm going to seal it with glue

last dirge
#

GETTIN SPENDY

shy comet
#

@tidal bronze does ledfx need a microphone or does it work based on certain players like spotify?

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their docs only tell you how to install it and not configure it lol

tidal bronze
#

External audio source

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Plan is to stream everything to chromecast audio >> ledfx

last dirge
#

LOL

shy comet
#

damn was hoping it would connect spotify and not need a microphone lol

tidal bronze
#

So anything that get's streamed to VIZ chromecast speaker group gets led output 🙂

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Like I told you yesterday, it's a rabbit hole. Better get used to doing things that you didn't want to 🙂

shy comet
#

man you really gotta think these things through to really enjoy them lol

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haha

last dirge
#

@tidal bronze you were just going to use regular AC solenoid valves, weren't you?

tidal bronze
#

That's what I have. I am using regular sprinkler valves

last dirge
#

there's stupid cheap DC solenoid valves available, but they're not weatherproof

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and the price jumps 3X when you get ones that are

tidal bronze
last dirge
#

@tidal bronze what's that?

tidal bronze
#

intel compute stick

last dirge
#

what's it run?

tidal bronze
#

windows

last dirge
#

regular windows?

tidal bronze
#

yep

last dirge
#

that's pretty neat

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reasonably priced

tidal bronze
#

that's what I use for IP cam displays. HA >> Eventhost and VLC

last dirge
#

that'd pretty much be a "must have" for someone who travels a lot for work

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stick it in the back of the hotel TV

tidal bronze
#

yep 🙂

shy comet
#

hmm if ledfx requires a microphone then its gonna need to be on a per room/speaker basis

#

looks like hyperion is easier to get setup lol

tidal bronze
#

Reason for me to pick from CC speaker group

last dirge
#

these aliexpress folks are just like ebay

#

"ooh, lower price"

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"damnit, shipping makes this one more than the other one"

shy comet
#

@tidal bronze yea but you need to use the same device to stream from right?

tidal bronze
#

source >> CC audio >> ledfx

shy comet
#

yea the issue is getting my wife to sue the same device instead of her phone which doesnt have mic or sound card hooked up

#

hyperion is easier since its just based off the tv

#

too bad i cant do audio visualization the same way hyperion does it ol

wet pilot
#

so i found out that i basically need to rip out my entire valve box for my irrigation system. anyone have any tips? and also recs for a controller?

shy comet
#

i thnk rainmachine is local control

#

i have rachio

#

depending on where you live you may be able to get the controller for free

#

check rebates in your area

wet pilot
#

i'm not a huge stickler for local control

#

if the online features are compelling enough at least

shy comet
#

i got my rachio for free

#

i have no complaints about rachio

#

i set it up, added my schedule and it does everything else on its own

last dirge
#

opensprinklerpi is all local

#

you can expose it on the internet if you want

#

I don't think there's a cloud solution for that

#

@wet pilot "valve box" being your controller?

#

or you have to replace your manifold and all of its valves too?

wet pilot
#

all my valves are toast 😦

clever mortar
#

Did nobody warn you that toast is really bad for that?

tidal bronze
#

plusone for rainmachine

last dirge
#

@wet pilot what valves?

#

and if it's the solenoid that's bad, some allow you to replace just the solenoid

wet pilot
#

the full system was left dry for a few years so i think everything wore out. Had a tech come through to check it out and everything was really slow to respond

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they're all about 20 years old now so might be worth replacing anyway

last dirge
#

just make sure you install everything so you can replace stuff without cutting

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or you have it installed in such a way

wet pilot
#

yeah i definitely have to cut everything out this time. hopefully it won't be that stupid

last dirge
#

where do you live?

wet pilot
#

NC, USA

last dirge
#

which part?

wet pilot
#

Charlotte area

last dirge
#

so not so much snow

#

do you already have a blow out port?

wet pilot
#

i'm not sure what that is

last dirge
#

it allows you to put compressed air into the system to blow out the water

wet pilot
#

oh, then i think so

last dirge
#

so it doesn't freeze and bust everything to hell when it freezes

#

might wanna add that

#

unless everything is buried well below your frost line and all of your pop-ups are deep you have potential for problems

wet pilot
#

on the source side there's a big thing with 2 ball valves that have nubs that look like they accept a compressor

last dirge
#

that's probably what that is

shy comet
#

wow hyperion is really simple to install, using hypercon on windows

tepid arrow
#

What z-wave & zigbee hub is the favorite among this community? I am planning an HA install in a VM on a NUC.

clear ferry
#

We hate hubs

scenic radish
#

i thought vera was decent

tepid arrow
#

@clear ferry what hardware do you use to communicate with zigbee & z-wave?

scenic radish
#

anyway, the HUSBZB-1 is a popular zigbee/z-wave combo stick. US only though

clear ferry
#

@tepid arrow zigbee2mqtt + cc1352

tidal bronze
tepid arrow
#

@clear ferry that would be best/easiest for HA on a raspi right? @scenic radish I saw that when looking online. If I put HA in a VM, I'd have to passthrough the USB to the VM which is iffy.

clever mortar
#

They explain what sticks are supported

tepid arrow
#

@clever mortar thanks, will check those out. I was thinking of a smartthings hub, that way it wouldn't need to plug into the HA device. But before I go wasting money, I'd like to learn from y'all's experience. 😁

clever mortar
#

Don't

last dirge
#

my zwave stick was no problem when I migrated to docker

clever mortar
#

Also, each integration tells you if it's local, or cloud

#

Most hubs are cloud 😉

#

SmartThings is cloud, and their cloud service is ... often dead
Wink... well, yeah, enough said

tepid arrow
#

I currently use Wink, and while it's super easy, it's super slow and unreliable. Which is why I wanna drop it like a sack of potatoes

clever mortar
#

It's also a question of when they'll go bankrupt/be sold to yet another player

scenic radish
#

i've heard vera is decent and (i believe) home assistant controls it locally

clever mortar
#

It is, and it is

last dirge
#

my experience with Vera was meh

#

but it was an older version

clever mortar
#

Fibaro is also local - but it's local push

#

Vera is undocumented as to whether it's push or poll

shy comet
#

@tidal bronze what does taht offer over hypercon?

#

i got it setup on a fire stick very cool! now to install the lights on the back of the tv

tidal bronze
#

webui runs on vm

clear ferry
#

going to give lidarr a whirl

wet pilot
#

i see what you did there

last dirge
#

kinda odd that they're named backward from the part of the spectrum they relate to

#

lidarr vs sonarr

clear ferry
#

Works nice

forest edge
#

I need like a 3 inch wifi rgbcw strip

orchid rose
#

uhm, oil futures -300% 👀

sour escarp
#

yup, not good

#

-38, does this mean they have to pay us to take oil? 😛

orchid rose
#

Yes

#

But it's probably more complicated than that 😄

sour escarp
#

yeah for sure

#

there will be and/or likely already is storage issues

orchid rose
#

But storages are apparently full so it's expensive to store it

sour escarp
#

i'm concerned gas stations might have to close down

last dirge
#

heh

orchid rose
#

But it's pretty crazy to think about

sour escarp
#

yeah, really nuts

last dirge
#

it's almost like doing stuff solely for the pursuit of money isn't the best way to do things

forest edge
#

I dunno most of those people are getting bailed out by taxpayers so in the end

#

they aren't losing out

#

infact many making bank

#

so greed does pay off?

clear ferry
#

Should do like Denmark

#

Any company that gives it dividends, does stock buyback or pays bonuses to management will not get bailouts

hushed igloo
#

hey team I can stop tinkering - this Home Assistant has become an obsession, is this normal? Going on 6 months now.

last plaza
#

No, it is not normal. You may want to seek doctor immediately. Call Addiction helpline ASAP.

shy comet
#

lol

sour escarp
#

if you hang out in here it's just going to be worse

last plaza
#

exactly. This channel is especially notorious!

clever mortar
#

Whatever you do, don't comment on what you're doing/have done, or the spare parts you've got kicking about

last plaza
#

yup

clever mortar
#

Or order from AliExpress, as then in 2 to 3 months you get a surprise in the post...

clear ferry
shy comet
#

WLED is becoming my next rabbit hole lol

clever mortar
#

I remember that one

#

Yes, I need to order parts for WLED

last plaza
#

Looks like WD40 got leaked from that tanker.

clever mortar
#

For ... something

hushed igloo
#

Or order from AliExpress, as then in 2 to 3 months you get a surprise in the post...
@clever mortar this is one ive had a problem with for years.

clever mortar
#

I've only found them relatively recently, and had a few oh, yeah, I ordered that didn't I moments

hushed igloo
#

ive got a stack of Wemos Mini's en route

forest edge
#

who the hell wants to wait 3 months for an order to come in?

clever mortar
#

Those who want to have more money for other things 😉

clear ferry
#

I usually get stuff from AliExpress after 2ish weeks

forest edge
#

you save like 3 bucks for waiting for 3 months lol

last plaza
#

I only order when I can't get my hands on it immediately.

#

usually I end up paying more because I have less patience, and hate waiting 🙂

forest edge
#

in 3 months i would havve forgotten wtf the part was even for lol

last plaza
#

I only order xiaomi stuff as I can't find them elsewhere

forest edge
#

@last plaza I wish my lawn was flat to be able to do something like that but too many hills and trees lol

last plaza
#

lol

#

@tepid arrow if you tag two more people in the same post, that will qualify you for an automated ban

#

that would be considered spam - in the eyes of bot

tepid arrow
#

Oh, sorry, thanks for the heads up.

forest edge
#

I emailed shelly asking if they had another outlet in the US selling their products aside from the their own online store and amazon cause they want almost as much in shipping cost as the product costs and they replied back with, "just buy more products and the shipping cost will remain the same"

#

like wtf lol

last plaza
#

lmao

#

you buy in bulk, they make profit in bulk 😛

forest edge
#

somehow buying more of one product when you only need one product to somehow justify the shipping costing as much as one product dosen't add up lol

#

and what's real weird, the shelly 1pm is free shipping yet NOTHING else has free shipping lol

last plaza
#

we need those radioshack stores back, where you could walk in and buy

forest edge
#

I thought about emailing my microcenter and asking them to carry certain products so i could escape the shipping costs lol

last plaza
#

most folks buy in bulk from china and do domestic shipping for profits... those that are in demand

forest edge
#

if you can get a an actual store to carry something you can often get it cheaper through them then ordering it online cause they will price match or price beat

#

microcenter ios pretty good with that

#

where i always buy the new rpi because even tho the damn thing just came out they will lower the price just to sell the damn thing lol

dull chasm
#

@tidal bronze kinda wondering why you are chosing cc for streams ..... it maxs at 96KHz/24-bit which is not bad but not the best

mild tapir
#

@forest edge I worked at microcenter for my first retail job

#

They listen.

#

Best of all; they respond.

hushed basalt
#

3 days without wheat or dairy

#

I don't actually miss them

#

I just miss some of the foods that have them in there :D

tidal bronze
#

@dull chasm I agree but for whole house that's more than enough.

hushed basalt
#

Makes eating out near impossible

tough igloo
#

Welcome to the world of having kids with allergies

dull chasm
#

@tidal bronze its never enough ....need mqa on all speakers

tidal bronze
#

Amazon shipping delays makes life miserable

dull chasm
#

i need Klipsch Heritage Series Klipschorn for main audio room ...... did i tell you i ❣️ ya @tidal bronze

tidal bronze
dull chasm
#

four channel plug and two wires LOL

tidal bronze
#

I so want to run ledfx in a esxi VM. One way or the other going to do it. Testing mic input. 😜

dull chasm
#

so can i do 10% down and 1 % per week

#

dad

tidal bronze
#

Lol I have no idea. You would know best 😀

dull chasm
#

me and you are prolly the only ones that even know what the hell them speakers are

tidal bronze
#

Those are great units. I am done with audio for foreseeable future.

dull chasm
#

no you not just for now and i know better ... i gotta get up early NN

forest edge
#

Never thought I would go down to this level. 🤣
@tidal bronze you seem to have wired the wrong US male plug onto your electrical cord.

wet pilot
#

Isn't that a 4 conductor jack?

hushed basalt
#

@tough igloo she's tolerating baked eggs which is good

#

@wet pilot it's certainly a TRRS. Ground, left, right and mic

#

I assume he's running audio out of another sound card or monitor

forest edge
tidal bronze
#

@hushed basalt yep 🙂

hushed basalt
#

@tidal bronze no trrs breakouts on hand?

#

And I assume Amazon had like a 4 week lead time

#

I'm still waiting for my boom mic to ship from Amazon US. After 2-3 weeks

tidal bronze
#

I do have breakouts can't find and want to figure something out before zzz 🙂

#

@forest edge looks great 🙂

forest edge
#

I asked if you thought you could make it lol

#

thats a switchbot hub, but I want it as a notification light lol

tidal bronze
#

rainbow effect behind a diffuser.

#

Switch out to wled

forest edge
#

i don't need the rainbow effect part, just need it to be able to change colors through mqtt or whatevver

tidal bronze
#

easy with wled

forest edge
#

if you can make two i'll pay you for them

#

cause the shell needs to be 3d printed etc

hushed basalt
#

You can get those housings from ikea

forest edge
#

what housing?

hushed basalt
#

The cloud

forest edge
#

oh those look huge

#

kind gives idea of size

#

if you can get the wemo/node or whatever inside the housing along with the leds where just a power wire comes out that be awesome

hushed basalt
#

Everything looks huge next to children :D

#

I remember how big year 7 kids looked when I was in year 1

forest edge
#

that cloud is bigger than that girls head lol

hushed basalt
#

Then when you're in highschool you look back and they all look like pipsqueaks

forest edge
#

I live across from a school and kept hearing what I thought at first was critters fighting or something, turned out to be some kid playing with his RC car in the dark on the playground

wet pilot
#

Lol nice

last dirge
#

that used to happen with one of my neighbor's drones

#

then he got a really big drone and it's impossible to mistake it for anything else

forest edge
#

now it sounds like the military is hovering above your neighborhood?

hushed basalt
#

Primary schools aren't too bad but high schools can be very dero sometimes

#

Mob fights, idiots revving their cars and all sorts of crap

tidal bronze
#

@forest edge if you find the base can do it.

forest edge
#

the base?

tidal bronze
#

frame/base and diffuser material.

forest edge
#

wouldn't abs work?

#

white abs

tidal bronze
#

You will have to cut to shape.

forest edge
#

i need it 3d printed

#

that cloud has a flat side

#

the back of it is completely flat where the power plugs in

tidal bronze
#

cloud base not a problem.

forest edge
#

I guess I don't follow unless you mean if I find the cad of the cloud for the 3d printer?

tidal bronze
last dirge
forest edge
#

yea i'm fine with basic shape. although i gotta be honest the shadows in that pic make it look like a dust pan lol @tidal bronze

tidal bronze
forest edge
#

oh yea

tidal bronze
#

You wanted dust pan you got a dust pan 🙂

forest edge
#

now are you able to give the front depth so it isn't flat? like rounded like the switch bot thing?

tidal bronze
#

yep simple.

last dirge
#

@tidal bronze fusion?

tidal bronze
#

Yep

last dirge
#

it's really damn good software

#

are you using a pro license?

forest edge
#

yea i'm all for simple. i tried for a long time to find something like this premade and i found some boxes but the woman didn't like them plus they were kind of big but the basic cloud was approved lol

tidal bronze
#

small business pro I got ages ago. @last dirge

last dirge
#

I don't like the recent changes to force "free" to create a team to have multiple projects

#

so today my manager tells our QA resource that she's gotta learn a tool called Protractor for automation testing

tidal bronze
#

@forest edge send me overall dimensions you want . with wemos inside

📎 unknown.png
last dirge
#

that requires knowledge of Typescript, Python, NodeJS, and the ability to edit the application's views

#

none of which she has

wet pilot
#

Sounds like a lot

last dirge
#

so I ask him what the hell he's thinking

#

and he essentially says that he's trying to "add value"

#

and this is the first business day after they've told everybody they're getting pay cuts

forest edge
#

@tidal bronze I wouldn't begin to know quad. I'd like the cloud to be just big enough to house whats needed so only the power cord came out of it but i don't have any experience with a wemos or hooking leds up to one lol

#

the size i'm talking might not evven need a strip, might just be fine with like 3 rgb leds hooked directly to the board or something for all i know lol

#

i almost seems like the length is shorter than that lady's hand who stuck it on the wall in that one gif i posted

last dirge
#

the problem is gonna be positioning all of that stuff out of the way of the LEDs so they don't have a stupid diffuse pattern

#

or create shadows

#

and obviously the power adapter if you're not building your own circuit

forest edge
#

oh right the wemo's dosen't come with a microusb port for power unlike the node

#

actually i thought someone posted they couldn't even find the d1's anymore in the diy channel so not even sure that's an option anymore

last dirge
#

they do

#

plenty of fish across the sea

#

even with the smallest USB charger I could find, the enclosure I built for my ESP21 is still over an inch thick

tidal bronze
scenic radish
forest edge
#

thick is fine

last dirge
forest edge
#

@tidal bronze thats the back flat part right?

last dirge
#

the problem is gonna be that thing being chunky and in the way

tidal bronze
#

That's with 2812 I think with diffuser you should be goot.

#

Can lay the wemos step below to make the visible base flat. Not an issue 🙂

last dirge
#

how are you dealing with the power adapter?

forest edge
#

it would have to be thick enough to stand upright or whatever

tidal bronze
#

What power adapter slot to micro usb plugin

scenic radish
#

What is this for Brian?

forest edge
#

can a wemo power 6 leds?

last dirge
#

I thought he said he wanted it to plug straight in

#

no

#

you'd have to pull 5V from the adapter and use 5V LEDs

tidal bronze
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wemos is only driving.

forest edge
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would a nodemcu be better choice?

last dirge
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no

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no uc platform will be able to directly drive LEDs

tidal bronze
last dirge
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you don't need the extra IO

forest edge
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you sure brian? I thought someone posted a node powering tea lights in the diy channel

last dirge
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and the 5V/3.3VTTL won't be an issue at all with it being that close to the first LED

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you're not running pixels off of the node

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the USB power input will be enough to do it but you'll have to run that outside of the board

tidal bronze
forest edge
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they need to sit on entertainment center shelf quad.

tidal bronze
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Then run usb cable.

forest edge
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yea that shouldn't be an issue

tidal bronze
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What you want is something so simple. Don't over think and over complicate. 🙂

last dirge
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you can even get right angle adapters

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or since you'll need to tap the 5V, you can just solder to the wemos

forest edge
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downside is I havve like a ton of microusb adapters and cords lol

last dirge
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so cut the cord

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there's 4 conductors in there

scenic radish
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Literally have a box dedicated to micro USB cables at this point

last dirge
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usually red, white, green, black

scenic radish
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USB-C hasn't become quite as ubiquitous yet

tidal bronze
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@forest edge let me know the size you want. model saved and will work on it once you send dimensions. Gotta get back to looking for my PSU for the bed.

last dirge
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"for the bed"?

forest edge
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ok will do man, thanks @tidal bronze

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never seen those qurter coin shaking beds brian?

tidal bronze
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@last dirge motion control.

last dirge
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"Magic Fingers"

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@tidal bronze got one of those geriatric beds?

tidal bronze
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Why on did I ask the cleaners to clean under the bed ? FML

forest edge
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that switchbot cloud is 5x3x1.5"

tidal bronze
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In mm?

forest edge
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120x78x35mm

tidal bronze
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Got it. 👍

forest edge
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was about to hack a salt lamp to make one of those chandelier rgb wifi bulbs fit in it but I only have one of those salt lamps and was afraid i would break it lol

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so if you could make me two of those things, that be well worth the money lmao

last dirge
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my mom bought me a salt lamp

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I've considered smashing it up and using it as fancy salt

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@tidal bronze what printer do you have?

tidal bronze
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Mk3s

last dirge
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oldie but goodie

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have you done any tinkering?

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I've seen a lot of people replace the linear rails with the extruded rail/delrin wheel setup

tidal bronze
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Nothing, just works. I have 2 at home 4 at work 🙂

last dirge
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I haven't seen some of these upgrades they've added to this thing

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they're getting more complex/smart but cheaper at the same time

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looks like that ships with the badass hotend already

tidal bronze
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I don't have time for mods etc. I would rather be printing than tinkering with the tinkering machine 😉

last dirge
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I've got some old shitty printer

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small build volume

tidal bronze
forest edge
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the only reason i don't have a 3d printer is cause the thing would collect 4 inches of dust between prints lol

hushed basalt
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Has anyone ever used skills they've learnt from homeassistant in their professional lives

forest edge
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like using yaml at work?

hushed basalt
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docker, mqtt, event driven architecture, webhooks, configuration management,

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or other things

clear ferry
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@hushed basalt yaml at work, docker at work, some of the rest knowledge I have is from HA and I often discuss smart home with customers

wet pilot
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Use a mix of yaml and json at work

hushed basalt
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I'm trying to write a CV

wet pilot
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Lots of docker and python

hushed basalt
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And a lot of skills have actually been indirectly learnt from homeassistant and similar

clear ferry
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None of it I actually would put on my CV though blobsweat

hushed basalt
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Python and docker are obvious. But continuous delivery , version control, json, rest, mqtt, traefik,

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Have all been learnt to support my home cluster

clear ferry
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This is the most American headline I've read so far this year

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TIL a waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her colleagues for their share. Then she was sued by the man who tipped her the ticket. Then she was kidnapped by her ex husband, and shot him in the chest. Then she went to court against the IRS. - https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2018/10/winning-lottery-ticket-for-alabama-waffle-house-waitress-led-to-lawsuit-kidnapping.html

al
Lottery win for Alabama waitress led to heartache

A customer gave Tonda Dickerson a lottery ticket in 1999 that netted her $10 million. Her life changed forever.

clear ferry
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Tomorrow kindergarten opens PepeLightsabers

hushed basalt
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Mine is finally enjoying daycare

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No more crying on drop offs

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Urgghhhhh I hate writing CVs

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Especially when I don't have any in job experience for the role

clever mortar
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Yeah, but you have experience that's relevant for the role, or you wouldn't be applying 😉

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It's just a matter of highlighting that

clear ferry
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What do you mean, doesn't everybody have 35 years experience in chip design? Intel seems to think so

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Thankfully we rewrite our CVs every year, so I get good experience in doing it in different formats and styles

clever mortar
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Yeah, I have a batch of "flavours" of my CV depending on which set of skills/knowledge/experience should be highlighted, or whether it's more of a JOAT call

low harness
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I have a project abbreviated SOTS at work, and every time I see it in my calendar I feel like dropping everything and replay Castlevania Symphony of the Night...

clear ferry
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Not even 9 am and already 11c

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He said a little past nine

hushed basalt
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What is a SOTS

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Do you think I need to leave Adobe update manager enabled for my Adobe Acrobat XI. Considering it was released in 2012 and security updates ended in 2017.

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:D

low harness
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Can't say, but it looks a lot like SOTN

hushed basalt
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Ah I see your project has the abbreviation SOTS

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I thought it was some sort of strengths and weaknesses performance review corporate mumbo jumbo

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On a scale of 1 to 10, how much of your soul are you willing to devote to the shareholders.

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What would you consider your weaknesses, and how can we best exploit them.

low harness
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well... we have something called a SOT-round, where we look at fire extinguish... extingc... fire hoses and stuff...

clever mortar
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Do you get to test them, or is it more boring?

steel urchin
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"so what is your greatest weakness?"
"honesty"
"I don't think that's a weakness"
"I don't give a fuck what you think"
low harness
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Hey! I was right on the first try! Thanks google.

clever mortar
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Not that playing with fire hoses and extinguishers is fun... really 😄

low harness
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More boring. Just state that they are where they should be.

steel urchin
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if i hear or see a question like that, i pass

hushed basalt
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What would you consider your greatest weakness
Yes

warm hemlock
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Hi everyone I am new to Discord 😃 and I am a big fan of HA. ML engineer by profession and love to help you guys.

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Also recently I have written an article in LinkedIn:
👉 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/automating-indian-homes-dibyadip-das/?trackingId=F2QLAD7rR7WyjOOKsy%2F0%2BQ%3D%3D
Although, I have written this article keeping in mind about the Indian environment, it should hold true for most of the countries in Asia and Europe. Need suggestions from you guys where I can write more such articles.

Automating Indian Homes

Few thoughts that come to our mind when we think about fully automated smart homes: Only rich people can afford and it is a piece of luxury as most of the Home Automation companies portray their ad in that way. Amazon Echo devices, Google Home, etc.

worldly fractal
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@warm hemlock Nice and comprehensive explanation and HA promo 🙂

warm hemlock
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thanks @worldly fractal

clear ferry
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22c blobsweat summer is here