#the-water-cooler

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jagged mantle
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no

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but its coming out of me

last dirge
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"I love everything computers" - Svemat

jagged mantle
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NOT THIS!

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I think i killed the focking bios by removing the battery beacuse some idiot at lenovo probably thought that it was a good idea

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will be afk so if someone replies please ping me

clear ferry
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Whatever you do

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Do not buy my servers

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I can't take that level of support

clever mortar
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Yeah, but the profit from the out of warranty replacements...

amber bramble
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i have a couple old PowerEdge 1850 servers sitting in my garage

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I think they're Pentium-4 era Xeon CPUs

clear ferry
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1850, that is old for sure

amber bramble
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haven't turned them on since i moved to this house 😂

clear ferry
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You probably shouldn't

amber bramble
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they drew like 250 watts at idle

clear ferry
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Tbh, anything older than westmere these days is just rubbish

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Or for that matter, sandy bridge really

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Time flies

last dirge
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@amber bramble I've got a bunch of 1750s and 2950s

amber bramble
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i built my computer with the i7-2600k when it was new. it's definitely transitioned from "blazing fast" to normal computer speed...

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and video editing has gotten painfully slow on it

orchid rose
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Have you overclocked it?

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It's getting old for sure but with the overclocking potential those have you can still survive on them even today

scenic radish
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@amber bramble I have a similar chip but the laptop version

amber bramble
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yeah its still a great machine for day-to-day stuff.

scenic radish
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2nd gen i7

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2.0 GHz up to 2.9 turboboost

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T U R B O B O O S T

amber bramble
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thinking about grabbing one of the newer ryzen chips

jagged mantle
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I think I need a new motherboard for it

amber bramble
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and motherboard... and ram...

clever mortar
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And hard disks apparently

clever mortar
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Probably a new PSU

amber bramble
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at which point i might as well buy a bigger SSD and new power supply and just build a whole new computer 🙃

clever mortar
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Cooler...

scenic radish
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But I hardly know her!

orchid rose
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RAM prices are up a bit but it's a pretty good time to upgrade thanks to the new Ryzens being a significant upgrade

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Have others had problems with their NUCs? My dad called today as his second one died suddenly in just regular desktop use...

forest edge
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I can't take that level of support
@clear ferry you mean the immediate return for non working unit?

clear ferry
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Or a new error every five seconds because your hands are made of the opposite of what gold are haha

forest edge
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platinum?

last dirge
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@orchid rose what NUC?

raw estuary
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I have had heat issues with my skull canyon nuc's with nvme's

orchid rose
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Not sure, but I think it was from 2015 or so and i3. The previous one he had that died was a 2013 celeron one

raw estuary
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nuc6i7kyk

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and yes, they ryzens are pretty nice, just got a 3600x

last dirge
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I've not had a single problem with my skull canyon

raw estuary
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I had 4 and had issues with 3 of the 4. A bit of chicken and egg. two nvme's and they all crash frequantly regardless of OS, use or purpose.

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I can make the crash almost instantly if I make them transcode or fold.

orchid rose
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oof... Can't wait for AMD to come up with similar stuff. I love the form factor for regular desktop use

raw estuary
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I loved the form factor and have been running a Optiplex i5 for the last 6 months and have (or was) pleasantly surprised.

amber bramble
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i'm a pretty big fan of the dell optiplex micro form factor

raw estuary
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Then I decided to build a new machine for the first time in 20 years.

amber bramble
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we've been getting those for all of our new desktops at work

raw estuary
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<--- Same, our call center all has i5 ussf

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16gb ram and 2x24in mon

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2419h's

amber bramble
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haven't actually tried yet but i'm pretty sure you could get 2 of them in 1U of rack space

raw estuary
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stand by

orchid rose
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Yeah the USFF are pretty great too

raw estuary
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two fit side by side in a single U with like 3 inches on the side

orchid rose
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The power brick is a bit annoying with the NUCs

raw estuary
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yeah, the ussf has a smaller 65w brick

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I have a opti790 here and two will not fit in a rack

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Was thinking of turning this i5 into my new HA rig but ESXI did not like the network device and I have not crossed that bridge yet.

clear ferry
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I should get some new servers in my rack soon, some of these are pushing 15 years old and just being used as rails ATM haha

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My desk is as clean as ever jesus

last dirge
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nice heavy sliding shelves

clear ferry
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Indeed

last dirge
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and if you hollow out the servers, they're nice protected drawers

clear ferry
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I have enough drawers already haha

last dirge
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SECRET DRAWERS

clear ferry
scenic radish
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...did not like the network device and I have not crossed that bridge yet.
@raw estuary network. bridge. heh

odd kindle
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Oh, are we showing servers?

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@clear ferry Proper Jula boxes 🙂

scenic radish
odd kindle
orchid rose
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That's way too clean

odd kindle
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It's also very small

forest edge
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pretty sure atx has an atari 2600 mounted in that rack as a "server" lol

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@scenic radish you using your tv as a monitor for your HA server? lol

scenic radish
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HDMI-CEC integration actually

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Also @forest edge you'll be happy to know I haven't touched my local COVID-19 program in over a week

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Vizio is a tease. They list the Ethernet MAC address but the TV doesn't support WOL

amber bramble
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on my vizio there's an eco mode you can disable and then you can send a command to it over the network to wake it up

scenic radish
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it's on a 2016 model, so it doesn't have quick start

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my newer models do though

forest edge
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@scenic radish lol i would imagine the daily changes shouldn't be too much these days

scenic radish
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Been increasing slowly each day

amber bramble
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ah

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yeah there's a couple 2016 vizios at my church that i want to automate but they don't support the new smartcast firmware so i'm gonna have to hdmi-cec them with a couple pi zeros

scenic radish
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Yeah HDMI-CEC works well

hushed basalt
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My wol only works sometimes on my tv

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No idea why

forest edge
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because you have to maintain happy thoughts while sending the magic packet, haven't you ever seen peter pan?

clear ferry
scenic radish
clear ferry
hushed basalt
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5am this morning

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Slowly we'll get back to 6am

deep spade
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I'm not sure where it would fit channel wise, but maybe someone here is interested in controlling media players from the desktop? https://community.home-assistant.io/t/control-your-home-assistant-media-players-from-the-desktop/191555 🙂

hearty depot
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Neat! sadly I use Gnome GWaobloChildPepeCry

deep spade
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@hearty depot did you try it out? I thought gnome implements mpris

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it's the common cross-desktop way to communicate with media players. things like spotify use it, too

hearty depot
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Almost 1 here - just browsing with my phone

deep spade
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so if your gnome can control spotify (or chrome, or firefox), it supports mpris 🙂

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okay, fair enough! anyway, it's nothing kde specific here. mpris is an interface players like vlc, spotify, mpv, and browsers (firefox, chrome at least, with extensions) support

hearty depot
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Even don't have media buttons integrated, maybe I ll check out KDE, only using gnome because it's default

scenic radish
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I found a recipe for this garlic cream sauce that is really good

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E Z P Z

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Oh and also it's literally 900 calories

hearty depot
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Replace cream with milk and add cheddar to get my Mac,n cheese sauce

scenic radish
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Why tf do these canned peas have sugar added to them?!

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Wtf man!

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@forest edge not a fan of garlic? Or cream? Or sauce? Or food.com? Or Google AMP?

tough igloo
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Because it’s America? My parents lived in DC for a couple of years and they had to search out foods without so much sugar in them. They were sickened by how sweet everything was!! 😂

forest edge
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@scenic radish i'm a vampire, I like my coffee without cream, who eats sauce? food.what? Google AMPED!

scenic radish
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@tough igloo ugh. I usually check the ingredients list first but I forgot I guess

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@forest edge I also like coffee black

wet pilot
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Like you like your men?

last plaza
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In the US, hard to find food without corn starch or sugars. Almost impossible!

strange vapor
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There's a woman I work with who moved her family from US to Ireland because her daughter has a serious allergy to corn, or some element of corn.

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It basically makes it impossible to survive in the US

last plaza
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If she has allergies to corn, better not live here 🤣

strange vapor
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EVERYTHING has corn, corn syrup or other extracts.

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She was in San Fran which means there's shops for EVERYTHING including people with corn allergies etc. I forget the exact details, but one of the suppliers changed who he was getting packaging from, and the new packaging had something related to corn in the lining, which triggered a reaction in her daughter. That hospital visit triggered the move to the Irish Office.

cedar glacier
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Guys, my fucking mqtt broker won't start and I can't turn my lights off. I want to sleep!

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Logs r empty

quartz ether
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flick them off at the switch and look tomorrow?

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Also this is the lounge not the support channel.

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if you still need a hand jump in one of the other channels and I will see if we can work through the issue. Wont ping you cause it seems like you might have gone to sleep.

scenic radish
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Doit

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DOIT

last plaza
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There you go. I pinged him!

quartz ether
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lol ^^^ he did it

oblique mural
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hi all, is there an easy way to add a clock on Lovelace? I added my Own value but it does not get updated constantly or do I have to tell it to update?

quartz ether
scenic radish
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Let's go for three!

forest edge
wet pilot
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lol no

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that's funny though

rare condor
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hmmm... I wonder if Gas flow monitors exist that work with HASS 🤔

green inlet
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Ska-la-vala, have you upgraded to 109?

scenic radish
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Is a banana just a fruit sausage?

green inlet
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I think you got it backwards. A sausage is just a meat banana

scenic radish
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Oh shit

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Look at the big brain on Joe Exotic

last dirge
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MEAT BANANA

scenic radish
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10 facts the government doesn't want you to know

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Number 7 will SHOCK YOU

last dirge
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WALMART MEAT BANANA

scenic radish
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NUMBER 15 BURGER KING MEAT BANANA

last dirge
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ONION RING SAUCE

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I made some delicious ribs today

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BECOME JEALOUS

velvet horizonBOT
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What the hell are you guys going on about?

scenic radish
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Ooh nice

last dirge
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I also realized that I can now make one of my favorite appetizers ever

scenic radish
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@velvet horizon you wouldn't understand

last dirge
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que wraps

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pulled pork wrapped up like an egg roll and fried

scenic radish
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That sounds amazing

last dirge
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it's pretty fantastic

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I found a company that makes a lid that fits on an instant pot that turns it into an air fryer

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so BAM

scenic radish
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I hope it doesn't go BAM

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Make sure to wear your PPE if it's gonna do that

last dirge
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always make sure to do that and I never forget my CDs

green inlet
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Is that a meat banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me.

scenic radish
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¿Por que no los dos?

rare condor
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Just found out why my website stopped working, provider put me on CGNAT instead of my fixed IP 😥\

golden steeple
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I wouldn't mind buying something a few years old, that I might even be able to get used to save some money. I'm not sure I need a lot of the features of today's expensive routers

scenic radish
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@rare condor switch to ipv6!

rare condor
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never!

scenic radish
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why not lol

rare condor
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IPV4 4 LIFE

scenic radish
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i just switched my externally-accessible services to ipv6

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and then set up a cronjob to update my cloudflare AAAA DNS record with my server's ipv6 address

rare condor
scenic radish
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love it lol

rare condor
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IPv6 is for peasants who can't afford the limited supply of IPv4.

scenic radish
hushed basalt
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Ipv6 4evarrr::r

rare condor
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Thoughts on this: So my Gas meter has a pulse magnetic output which records the current Gas flow. I was going to blutak a zigbee pulse sensor to record these pulses and better understand my energy usage. A plumber told me this was a terrible idea as the meter readers take photos and would think I was attempting to tamper with the meter. Furthermore its MultiNet Gas Property and they would pursue legal action.

scenic radish
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::1

rare condor
scenic radish
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yeah if you don't actually have ownership of the meter i wouldn't do it

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ugh i don't wanna work tomorrow

rare condor
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@scenic radish This is where it gets interesting I wasn't actually going to mount it just put it in proximity with a Stick.

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Aliexpress enclosure just arrived.

scenic radish
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i'm not touching you

hushed basalt
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@rare condor i would go ocr camera in the hatch of the meter box

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More complicated and expensive but doesn't involve "attaching" anything

rare condor
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@hushed basalt Way overkill

scenic radish
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do you know what discord server you're on?

rare condor
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Sure but like, surely if I had to go in front of a magistrate they would be reasonable and be like yeah.. nah. that's dumb.

hushed basalt
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Yeah if the reed switch is a no go

rare condor
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I don't know if I am game enough to try it

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screw it yolo

scenic radish
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arrested development narrator
And Haxxa was never heard from again

hushed basalt
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How much is an esp32cam

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You'd need 5v though

midnight adder
tough igloo
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Should have put that behind a spoiler...

rare condor
clever mortar
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Quickly removes @rare condor's image posting rights

rare condor
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@clever mortar this is what Aussies wake up to, weak.

clever mortar
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Killer animals, killer weather... yeah, no thanks 😉

rare condor
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Neat TIL you can buy spiders per kg

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Mother's in Law Birthday is sorted

forest edge
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why is there a picture of a Koala from Chernobyl in here

rare condor
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they mutated in the fires 😥

clear ferry
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Interesting fact, most koala have Chlamydia

rare condor
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most Australian's to do

midnight adder
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Thats not a Koala, thats a Drop Bear

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(I am Australian)

clear ferry
rare condor
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Its really not much better

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Also listen Koalas speak they sound evil

velvet horizonBOT
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Have a Walk Around

dull chasm
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@clever mortar dont like you?

velvet horizonBOT
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Rule #6: Please do not post codewalls (longer than 15 lines) - use sites such as https://hasteb.in/, https://paste.ubuntu.com/, or others.

Please take the time now to review all of the rules and references in #rules.

clever mortar
rare condor
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Prepares 20 different 15 line code samples

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It's within the rules 😁 😋

hushed basalt
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Man dealing with usb is such a pig

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Whoever thought it would be so hard to pull bytes out of a barcode scaner

clear ferry
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I played a lot with barcode scanners 15 years ago, made my own software to register computers in and out for repair

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The most important thing was to remember to program the reader for the right barcode encoding

hushed basalt
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I'm using pyusb to capture the byte stream in HID mode

clear ferry
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But.... Google, and NSA already does that, what does a third party matter? Redundant storage of my history YESYESYESYESYES

orchid rose
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So that's some sort of a systemwide keylogger then or how does it work?

scenic radish
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like RAID but with your personal data!

clear ferry
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I like that slogan

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It's catchy

orchid rose
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Or is it just the "Browser" in Xiaomi phones that does this? Who uses that anyway 🤔

dull chasm
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can i retrieve there back ups if mine is lost ?

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I welcome someone to follow me or show up at front door step

clever mortar
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Just phone a friend

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Hey, if you're listening, can I get a restore please

dull chasm
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dont need a friend ....got plenty of things to help me if needed

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and skills to use 🤣

clear ferry
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You are probably amazing with a needle and tread yes @dull chasm

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fixing your clothes if you show up on my doorstep, since 1977

dull chasm
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needle == lead and thread == sight then yes

scenic radish
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Hey, if you're listening, can I get a restore please
@clever mortar they only listen if you whisper that. ASMR and all that

dull chasm
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i know alot too much about weapons but cant cook a damn thing ....can survive in forest thou ..... kinda sad

clever mortar
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Lightly charred and semi-raw rabbit ✅
Tasty cooked meal ❌

dull chasm
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yea ^^^^

scenic radish
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the solution is to learn a tiny amount about everything and make it look like you're smarter than you really are when in reality you're living behind a thin veneer

clever mortar
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So... techie 🤔

scenic radish
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sounds about right lol

dull chasm
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i tell ya thou .... cooking over a fire with nothing but fire and meat .....seems to taste very good

scenic radish
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grilled food is best food

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i make a killer grilled chicken breast and it just involves coating the breasts in olive oil and seasoning with salt and Hot Shot ™️ seasoning (red and black pepper mix)

dull chasm
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i am talking about just skinning and cooking in the field ...nothing extra

scenic radish
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O

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yeah i'd probably die in the wild

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i could probably make a good shelter but not sure about anything else

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i'm too domestic

dull chasm
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its not hard hell its what mankind has done for thousands of years

scenic radish
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but there's no xbox in the wild

dull chasm
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sure daily dodging of the wild animals .... just dont get to reset

last dirge
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@scenic radish not with that attitude

scenic radish
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hmm... ok so it's like minecraft hardcore mode

last dirge
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just need a kilowatt or so of solar

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and a battery

scenic radish
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i can dig it

last dirge
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and an inverter

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@scenic radish Cody's Lab had a whole series where he was doing hard rock mining

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and he called it something like that

scenic radish
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lol love it, i'll have to check it out

last dirge
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late last year he bought some land out in the middle of nowhere in Nevada and he's been showing how he's been homesteading it

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as of now he's got a chicken coop and some GIGANTIC water tanks out there that he's modified to be hydroponic greenhouses

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pretty damn interesting. That series is called "Chicken Hole Base" or sometimes CHB

dull chasm
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i love them series stuff but only problem is it needs money to be started ....but if it where on a barter system it would be better aka i provide you this you give me this

last dirge
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that's his whole channel

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I provide you these videos, youtube gives me money

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I buy stuff to expand the homestead and make more videos

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rinse, repeat

dull chasm
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aka i have chickens which can provide meat and eggs and you have pigs we can trade LOL

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not a true off the grid thing ...that is just for youtube money

last dirge
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He's been living there off the grid occasionally and intends to full-time once he's got his underground living quarters going

last plaza
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Haven’t watched Cody’s lab videos for a while. Need to catch up.

dull chasm
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that looks way too damn expensive ^^^^ i left preview on just to show his rack

scenic radish
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nice rack

last plaza
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That guy gets so many sponsorships, free goodies and 💰 from his YouTube videos.

amber bramble
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haha i just watched that video yesterday

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Curious to know how much of that he got for free or highly discounted because of his youtube videos

dull chasm
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dont know but manf did not get much credit ...ie explaining exactly what thier equipment can do

last dirge
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look at the amount of network cabling

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holy shit

amber bramble
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that entire house is nuts

last dirge
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I'm sure it's real affordable

amber bramble
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i mean they only have a $1000 kitchen faucet 🤷‍♂️

last dirge
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cue picture of wall of 5 racks stuffed with equipment

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okay, now pan to the other side of the room where there's another 3 racks full of shit for structured wiring

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nice

clear ferry
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I have been in a house like that, that was built over 10 years ago

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it's pretty impressive

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there were dedicated audio video racks per 2-3 rooms

amber bramble
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I'm not sold on the "hidden speaker" idea though. If one of the speakers goes out you then have to rip a hole into your wall to fix it

clear ferry
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Yeah, he had those, with speakers behind a linen wall

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they were tuned perfectly based on placement and fabric thickness

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in the main house only though, over two floors

tidal bronze
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@dull chasm on it. 🤣

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Everything was dandy till he mentioned control 4 🙄

dull chasm
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LOL it would be nice to use channels of amps depending on requirment and not dedicated

fiery nebula
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Thats a really high dollar smart home setup. I prefer automating on the cheap though 🙂

tidal bronze
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Did he just point at a samsung frame TV and then mention Dolby vision, ignorance is bliss I guess. 😜

clear ferry
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@fiery nebula yeah, the one I was in was probably $2-4mill just for the smart stuff of it

fiery nebula
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I remember teh first time I saw home automation. It was at epcot at disney world about 15 years ago,

clear ferry
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@clever mortar now look what you've done, I've added a README.md

clever mortar
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But... is it useful or relevant?

clear ferry
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Maybe?

clever mortar
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Pictures too 😱

tidal bronze
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@dull chasm those subs are nice. Dual throw 😋

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No need for a crawl test😂

dull chasm
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i bet my pocket book doesnt allow nor space

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they say svs is a little better than klipsch but they are much bigger

tidal bronze
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There are smaller dual throws but 2nd one will need to run 180°

dull chasm
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out of my budget thou ....hell i gotta save up just to get the $900 spl-150

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then i got to make sure @clever mortar can feel it

tidal bronze
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I am looking into sonarray

clever mortar
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If you can't feel the music from a few hundred KM away, you're not loud enough yet

dull chasm
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sonarray?

tidal bronze
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32ohm outdoor array

dull chasm
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oh shit ..... i gotta stop talking to ya ...you cost too much

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i am just hoping Klipsch has a xmas in july on that sub ....but prolly not they usually only do for lower end items

tidal bronze
clear ferry
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Nice SSL errors @tidal bronze

shy comet
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@dull chasm watch for Frys deals....they often come up with 50% off on klipsch stuff

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that was actually how i upgraded all my speakers to klipsch lol took about a month or so

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every other week a different set of speakers would be like 50-60% off....near black friday prices

dull chasm
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damn ok

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i got rear and sides to upgrade along with sub

shy comet
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yea i got my towers, rears and ceiling speakers all on sale

dull chasm
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how many channels you have?

shy comet
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i got a 5.1.2 setup here

dull chasm
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oh okay 7.4.2 here

shy comet
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damn you got 4 subs?????

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one for each corner of the room? 😂

dull chasm
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no 2 subs 4 atmos

shy comet
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oooh ok

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i was thinking of adding 2 more atmos but those amps are pricey and we actually sit behind our atmos speakers anyways so it wouldnt benefit us much

dull chasm
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i got the outlaw 5000 to power extra channels

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well not really ....outlaw does biamp to mains and one center and yamaha does rest

shy comet
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ah i got a cheap onkyo lol

dull chasm
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i love onkyo but they have not kept up

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my next move is away from 3080 to just a preamp but that is in the future as i will need a amp per channel

last dirge
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@dull chasm any Crown gear?

dull chasm
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no

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fixing to add fluance thou

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@last dirge

last dirge
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they're proud of their stuff

dull chasm
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no shit

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5-6 hundred just for a turntable

clear ferry
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Lol, the people in audio really know how to rake in money from suckers

scenic radish
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There's a 🍭 born every minute

dull chasm
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@clear ferry i will put my audio system to test with anything with equal watts/per channell .... there is always better but i am in a decent stage not the best but not entry level

clear ferry
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I don't say you can't hear the difference, but 98% of people can't tell the difference between a turntable worth 600 and one worth 100

scenic radish
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Holy shit. That's almost half of them...

clear ferry
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People wonder why Corona will destroy the us, because of stuff like this

scenic radish
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My fiancee and I are planning for the possibility of needing to reschedule our wedding that's set for December

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We're hoping a court house or something will still be open so we can get officially married but just not have the reception until a later time

clear ferry
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Just fly over here

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We'll be good by then

forest edge
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instead of rice people will toss covid

clear ferry
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We didn't bother with reception, court House marriage is nice

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$30 total cost, plus buying witnesses dinner

amber bramble
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holy cow, 900 people at that tyson plant?

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thats absolutely insane

forest edge
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your government is just happy your people marrying another human atx and not some goat

clear ferry
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Not my fault your cousin rejected you needahug

forest edge
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ohhhh

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lol

clear ferry
#

Oooof

forest edge
#

yea unemployment benifits are a bitch right now

clear ferry
#

The only time the Norwegian government servers crash is when we have tax returns, everybody logs in at the same time

#

To check their own and other people's taxes and incomes

forest edge
#

one of the issues is Trump adding that additional $600 a week on unemployment checks. That made people who could have stayed employed quit their jobs and try and collect unemployment but because those people don't qualify and the state has to check that stuff it dragged down the whole entire system. so you got the average joe, those who are legit and then those morons who who could have kept working all trying to get money

wet pilot
#

anyone who is that stupid deserves the nothing that they'll get

#

iirc unemployment is only for involuntary termination without cause

forest edge
#

they make bs claims like fear of catching the virus etc etc as thier reasoning but they done shot themselves in the foot before they learn whatever thier reason is , it's irrelevant because to qualify for the additiona money they have to meet certain criteria

#

the whole thing is a mess that will take till next year to clean up lol

night solstice
#

Hey guys! I really enjoy hassio home assistant in general. How do i donate some money towards this awesome project and community?

clever mortar
#

You subscribe to the NabuCasa cloud service

#

they don't take donations

night solstice
#

Okay i did that already. Hope to donate or buy other suff. Really love it

#

Thanks @clever mortar

forest edge
#

dear lord they charged people $19 bucks to rent the new troll movie over streaming services for 2 days and people actually bought into it lol

last plaza
#

@forest edge made a quick trip to IronPony - this bike is $29,500 😎

#

Size of a mini car. Got some gear today. Jacket, gloves...etc.

#

Ohio - stay at home orders extended until end of May now! 😮

forest edge
#

those are the "i'm too old to really be riding" style bikes lol

scenic radish
#

alright so right now i'm on my laptop accessing my debian desktop over x11vnc which is running a windows 10 VM which is connected to my work laptop with RDP. how much deeper can i go

clear ferry
scenic radish
#

There it is

clear ferry
#

oh shit, 2 people have starred my github repo

#

and I didn't even know about it

clever mortar
#

I wonder if there's an API for that, I can try sending messages through morse code of starring and unstarring repos 🤔

clear ferry
#

... --- ...

scenic radish
#

Get on my level, I have 7 stars

#

anime_wow_sound_effect.mp3

#

"Fat technology freak" lmao atx

clear ferry
#

😦

clever mortar
#

I see one person who puts Please ⭐ if you like the app :) into their HACS custom component descriptions - always makes me think ... ah, trawling for fake internet points

scenic radish
#

Ugh

last dirge
#

I have 19 apparently

clever mortar
#

I've never actually looked

scenic radish
#

What's the exchange rate for GitHub stars to USD

clear ferry
#

HI GUYS, IT'S ME, SEBASTIAN AGAIN, TODAY WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT INTEGRATING ESP32 IN HOME ASSISTANT, WOW

#

REMEMBER TO FOLLOW AND CLICK LIKE

clever mortar
#

Feck, it's been forked 22 times... there's some crazy folks out there 😄

scenic radish
#

SMASH THAT MF LIKE BUTTON AND SUBSCRIBE

clear ferry
#

COMMENT ON YOUR FAVORITE ESP32 BELOW 👇

#

REMEMBER TO ALSO SUBSCRIBE TO MY PATREON 👉

scenic radish
#

30-second long intro video with dubstep

clear ferry
#

cue trumpet track about how you failed to implement it the first time

scenic radish
#

@clever mortar if you fork someone's GitHub repo do you also get copies of their equipment too?

clear ferry
#

shit, we should become youtubers

#

we have all of it down

#

could make millions

#

of cents

scenic radish
#

(that was supposed to be an obvious joke)

amber bramble
#

then we could have 5 racks of audio gear in our new house, plus a fancy control4 system

#

oh wait you said millions of cents. might have to go with smartthings instead

last plaza
#

First you start making YouTube videos with PowerPoint presentations and crappy background music until you get 1k subscribers, and then you can make more shitty videos.

last dirge
#

don't forget to like, subscribe, and click the notification bell

last plaza
#

And ⭐️

last dirge
#

@last plaza UNLICENSED HYPERCAM

#

typing live instructions in notepad

#

including typos

last plaza
#

lmao

last dirge
#

ah, the early days of YouTube

#

and relatively recent Indian YouTube

last plaza
#

I still think olden days of internet is much more cleaner. Like those Netscape days

wet pilot
#

much uglier though

last plaza
#

Sure, crappy looking fo sure. But much less spam, ads, trackers...etc

tribal whale
#

porn

#

heh

#

wiseass in me.

orchid rose
#

less spam? Do you remember the popup hell?

last plaza
#

lol. That was later.

clear ferry
#

@scenic radish for the love of Dog, don't fork my repo then, you don't want all this hardware in your ant condo

last plaza
#

Pop ups on modem is epic.

scenic radish
#

MODS ATX IS MAKING FUN OF ME

orchid rose
#

I may have visited questionable sites on netscape

clear ferry
tribal whale
#

effective ad blockers now.

scenic radish
#

@Mød

last plaza
#

@clear ferry STOP IT. One more complaint from @scenic radish , you are out 🤣

scenic radish
#

I lol'd at "ant condo"

last plaza
#

lol. You can’t stop folks from forking your repo atx.

light trout
#

even if it contains docker training 🤷‍♂️

last plaza
#

🤣

clear ferry
scenic radish
last plaza
#

How can I ever forget that Docker material?

light trout
#

🥃 and a lot of it might work

last plaza
#

I think it was @light trout that got me in trouble.

scenic radish
#

even if it contains docker training 🤷‍♂️
Am I missing a reference here

light trout
#

You know it was 😉

#

Yes, it was before your time @scenic radish

forest edge
#

Ludeeus I see that surveillance card got dumped. told you it was brokered lol

last plaza
#

lol. They wanted my personal info to unblock my repo. I was like screw it, will create a new one.

#

Without Docker internal training material of course. 😛

light trout
#

They are still out there from all the forks if you need them 🤣

forest edge
#

I feel like i could have accomplished so much crap during this covid downtime yet I did nothing lol

last plaza
#

Wow! How come they didn’t close those repos? I should file a complaint

light trout
#

Yeah! 🤣

last plaza
#

@forest edge add this to your list of new skills acquired during covid.

forest edge
#

that second one is untrue

scenic radish
#

"you're a good bar man. You never tease me for ordering the 'tinis."

forest edge
#

US had it's first official case of dog covid lol

last plaza
#

Yep. Dogs, cats and tigers.

scenic radish
#

DOVID-19

last plaza
#

Covidians

forest edge
#

that be confusing cause then we'd have to add a TEVID-19 for you lol

scenic radish
#

HA

green inlet
#

I believe in North Carolina

last plaza
#

😂

scenic radish
#

Güd 1️⃣

green inlet
#

As long as tacos can’t get covid, I am good. Once tacos get infected, it’s all but over

scenic radish
#

Only those with flour tortillas are affected, and for good reason

#

Corn tortilla master race

green inlet
#

Porque no los dos

#

🤣

scenic radish
#

flour tortillas 🤢

#

corn tortillas 👍

#

Internet corn 👍

green inlet
#

I like a good soft taco

scenic radish
#

Oh yeah I'm talking about soft corn tortillas

light trout
scenic radish
#

Taco shells, more like taco shills amirite

forest edge
#

is that someone ripping off your repo?

last plaza
#

Those who are interested in Docker internal training material, follow the link above that @light trout shared. That was my old repo that was taken down due to violating their rules.

green inlet
#

What’s your new repo?

last plaza
#

No surprise. I’m a rule breaker.

#

Changed it to mysmarthome instead of smarthome.

green inlet
#

I have that bitch bookmarked

last plaza
#

lol

scenic radish
#

THAT BITCH CAROLE BASKIN

forest edge
#

that repo lost me at z-wave

green inlet
#

So if I google skalavala github does it take me to the right place?

last plaza
#

It should.

forest edge
#

just don't go to tediores, it's nothing but emoji sign language

clever mortar
#

If you think that's bad...

velvet horizonBOT
#

You can find his config lurking in the darkness.

clever mortar
#

It has ... pictures 😱

last plaza
#

Atx, freenas 🤢

scenic radish
#

🐋

forest edge
#

85 zigbee devices.. and counting 🤢

last plaza
#

lol

scenic radish
#

Zigbee 4 lyfe

green inlet
#

It’s got his resume on it also

#

Ska, is input_label broken?

forest edge
#

I like how often @clear ferry talks about how much they pay him to fix crap yet when you look at his list it's mostly paperclip and shoe string cobbled stuff lol

clever mortar
#

This is how we all do it 😉

green inlet
#

Fake it till you make it

last plaza
#

@green inlet no, it is not!

clever mortar
#

The thing is, you're not really good until you can take half assed stuff and make it into something that runs for decades...

green inlet
#

Hmmm....I keep getting error messages

last plaza
#

I just don’t have services.yaml for it. Not necessary

#

Dm me those errors. I can help you fix.

green inlet
#

Ok

forest edge
#

i'm pretty sure some of that listed there is well over 15 years old. prob held together with scotch tape

last plaza
#

I don’t know if I would publicly tout windows administration as “experience”

forest edge
#

lol

light trout
#

🤣

forest edge
#

Mini-computer from Aliexpress running OPNSense makes me curious what kind of pc this is lol

scenic radish
#

Cherry Pi 3P-

forest edge
#

lol

#

shhh he's back, don't let him see we been talking about him..

clear ferry
#

Oh noes

scenic radish
#

Oshit

clear ferry
#

The ridicule

scenic radish
#

My milkshakes!

clear ferry
forest edge
#

what is the aliexpress min-computer atx?

clear ferry
#

Damn tinkerer, making me write a readme

scenic radish
#

WHAT IS IT

clear ferry
scenic radish
#

WHERE IS SHE?????

green inlet
#

You prob got at least 19 hits on your github in the last 5 minutes. I been there like 8 times

clear ferry
green inlet
#

Celeron 🤢

forest edge
#

wtf vvga and com serial ports?

clear ferry
forest edge
#

it's like they put those on there just for the sake of getting rid of old stock lol

clear ferry
#

Serial ports are life

#

I use them weekly

amber bramble
#

i hate messing with serial ports but its a heck of a lot better than encrypted cloud garbage

clear ferry
#

Yes

#

Except the DEC custom 11 pin serial port

#

With offset clip

#

That is a pita to hack in the field

green inlet
#

You actually can’t beat the price though

#

With dual nics

forest edge
#

yea plus you can actually upgrade like the wifi etc

#

curious whats going to be rolling out with the new intel/amd budget line around the corner

#

could be seeing some beefy little pc's within the year

scenic radish
#

That's kind of tempting

green inlet
#

Lmao.....atx is THE MAN

clear ferry
green inlet
#

If this works sudo /usr/bin/whois 72.21.192.13
But this doesn’t sudo docker exec -it letsencrypt /usr/bin/whois 72.21.192.13
How do you fix it?

obtuse cedar
fathom sparrow
#

don't say that too loud, some people hat eit

#

the 'light theme' croud

clear ferry
#

"sick people"

scenic radish
#

Tbh I hear more crap from the dark mode crowd lol

#

Case in point

clear ferry
fathom sparrow
#

so you're a light themer @scenic radish

scenic radish
clear ferry
fathom sparrow
#

Custom card tho

scenic radish
#

The dark card looks nice tho

obtuse cedar
#

the 'light theme' croud
@fathom sparrow tbh I got sick of dark themes

#

I leave my devices on auto

fathom sparrow
#

I just like not straining my eyes

#

light = eye strain

scenic radish
#

Night light is my solution to that

obtuse cedar
#

I had automations for sunrise/sunset theme changing on HA too, but some events started breaking and now I just set it Slate all the time

clear ferry
#

I run dark mode on anything I can

#

And f.lux on my screens

#

And circadian lighting on all my bulbs

obtuse cedar
#

I leave my devices on auto
@obtuse cedar actually my computer now is always on dark mode

#

but my phone’s on auto

#

with night shift (my eyes don’t hurt at all)

clear ferry
#

I love the feature Saab has

fathom sparrow
#

whats that

clear ferry
#

Where a button turns off all lights except speedometer

#

I wish all cars had that

clever mortar
#

Only show me the stuff that matters

#

That really shouldn't be rocket science

scenic radish
#

lights up vanity mirror

clever mortar
#

If you need to see the rev counter you're driving wrong...

scenic radish
#

What if you had to keep the car above 5000RPM otherwise it blows up?

fathom sparrow
#

i thougth it was 50mph

#

and a bus

clever mortar
#

Then you need to worship the great one... Keanu

scenic radish
#

@fathom sparrow ur a bus

fathom sparrow
#

psh

clear ferry
fathom sparrow
#

thats nice

scenic radish
#

Everyone else who doesn't have that is gonna... Saab

fathom sparrow
#

punny

clear ferry
#

I like it

fathom sparrow
#

I have so much crap to do in my interface but I don't feel like doing it

#

this quarantine is the dumps

clear ferry
#

I notice nothing different

#

Except I don't fly

#

And more home office

clever mortar
#

I do less travel, and work itself is much the same

#

I just don't see the team face to face, which is ... interesting

#

Hard to pick up on the little non-verbal hints that somebody's maybe not ok when you're not seeing them

clear ferry
#

I thankfully don't manage people

#

That would be a shitshow

clever mortar
#

🤣

clear ferry
#

_kevin you are such a noob, don't run Ubuntu 🤢 _

fathom sparrow
#

I just miss the human contact

clear ferry
#

are you running proxmox? Leave right now

clever mortar
#

What, you can't find the Ubuntu installer, here have FreeBSD, it's very similar

fathom sparrow
#

and going for runs alone is boring af

clever mortar
#

I'm classic intravert and even I'm finding this a bit much

light trout
#

Human contact?? Going for a run????!?
You should seek a doctor for that

fathom sparrow
#

haha

clear ferry
#

I'm an extreme introvert, and I enjoy it

fathom sparrow
#

Gotta train for the spartan races

#

My wife is an extreme introvert, she's even going nuts

light trout
#

I live alone which probably helps, but this no contact thing has been great for me personally

clear ferry
#

We are both, and we dispise people, so we are fine haha

fathom sparrow
#

whens the last time you saw someone else @light trout ?

light trout
#

Pizza guy 15 min ago if that counts

clear ferry
#

I go shopping once a week, and go to a single customer site every week, other than that I'm just home mostly

#

Perfect

clever mortar
#

I sure as heck don't miss the commute

fathom sparrow
#

you guys would hate the street I live on. It's basically a family party on our culdesac everyday. 9 million parents and kids forming a train of kiddy cars

forest edge
#

ew lol

clear ferry
#

We don't do stuff like that in Norway anyway

#

People avoid other people

light trout
#

We don't like people in Norway

forest edge
#

norwegians don't "mingle" they just glare

fathom sparrow
#

Lol

clear ferry
#

Exactly @forest edge

#

Americans are.... Way to social for us

fathom sparrow
#

Upstate NY here, suprisingly friendly and social

clear ferry
#

It's nauseating

#

We feel awkward when we go to the us

forest edge
#

gonna buy the house next to atx and play the music really loud and come over andring the doorbell once evvery 15 mins lol

fathom sparrow
#

not everyone in the US is friendly, but there's nods everywhere

#

can't walk by a person without making that awkward smile face

light trout
#

Here most folks just look straight ahead or down

clear ferry
#

Yup

forest edge
#

even when someone is on the ground yelling for help, they just walk on by

clear ferry
#

Usually

#

Yes

light trout
#

Not my problem 🤷

fathom sparrow
#

I should just come there and try to acknowledge everyone

light trout
#

Someone would probably call the cops on you

green inlet
#

No one even says good morning?

light trout
#

No

clever mortar
fathom sparrow
#

not even the tiger king

green inlet
#

I like people. I also like solitude.

fathom sparrow
#

same

#

I need both to survive

light trout
#

No you dont

green inlet
#

Yup.....although, more and more, either I am getting old or people are becoming more ass-hole-ish

light trout
#

You need water, food and internet

green inlet
#

People just tell you what you think you want to hear

#

And sewer service Ludeeus

light trout
#

Ocean

fathom sparrow
#

I dont "need" by definition. But if i want to stay sane, then i 'need' it.

#

otherwise i get sucked into arguments about yaml

forest edge
#

is your local area pretty covid calm petro?

fathom sparrow
#

eh

#

it's hit or miss here

#

I'm 95% sure I've gotten it

forest edge
#

really? gotten or have?

fathom sparrow
#

But doctors arn't allowing tests

#

gotten

#

I can feel it during runs

#

lung capacity is lower than it was 2 months ago and I run about 100 miles a month

#

no reason for me to regress

forest edge
#

some of that could just be out of shape lol

#

hate to see a study about obesity in the US now haha

green inlet
#

100 miles a month, pretty sure that is your problem

fathom sparrow
#

it's not too bad

light trout
#

100 miles a month?
I don't think I have done that in total my entire life

fathom sparrow
#

about 45 minutes a day of running

#

with 2 days rest a week

forest edge
#

can norwegian even run? i didn't think your legs split enough part for that lol

light trout
#

I will not try

forest edge
#

i bet atx would look like if someone tried to make a pair of scissors walk across a flat surface

fathom sparrow
#

Only symptoms I had were a mild cough and I can't breath in as deep

forest edge
#

I thought they expanded testing in NY to those without all symptoms?

fathom sparrow
#

oh they did

#

but, i'm upstate

forest edge
#

they are activvly looking for those with antibodies after all lol

fathom sparrow
#

so when you hear all the 'ny' news, they are talking about downstate

#

I.e. nyc & long island

forest edge
#

oh so when they say NY they just mean the city not the state lol gotcha

fathom sparrow
#

yup

#

super shitty

#

So I had the symptoms, and i still can't get a test

#

not even an antibodies test

forest edge
#

that sucks

fathom sparrow
#

you pretty much have to be dying to get tested

forest edge
#

you really don't want to get the current test for covid anyways, better to wait

#

that swab thing is a nightmare

fathom sparrow
#

you get it done?

#

it's just a stick up your nose

forest edge
#

no but seen videos, plus i think someone in here linked a video for it

fathom sparrow
#

it'll feel like a big booger going the other way

forest edge
#

once you watch that you'll think diffrentlky of it lol

fathom sparrow
#

you are correct

forest edge
#

thankfully they came out with much better test they just aren't as mass produced as the swab test atm

fathom sparrow
#

at this point, i just want to know if i had it

#

with the antibodies test

forest edge
#

certianly would want to know if this turns out to be something that come back yearly

fathom sparrow
#

new button ideas

light trout
#

You should upgrade

fathom sparrow
#

I'll wait til the dust settles, I have the synology integration and I'm dragging my feet

light trout
#

Works fine for me

fathom sparrow
#

Did you have to rename everything when switching to the UI?

forest edge
#

Ludeeus is it possible to add a means of seeing what gets download through hacs the most?

light trout
#

I added it for the first time yesterday 🤣

fathom sparrow
#

Ah, you sob

#

lol

light trout
#

There kina is already @forest edge

forest edge
#

oh?

light trout
#

Hacs is currently the most downloaded

forest edge
#

lol

#

not what i meant

light trout
#

I know

fathom sparrow
#

it would be cool for a download counter on the plugins, integrations, etc

light trout
#

That is only possible for repositories with release assets

fathom sparrow
#

Are you talking about the 'release' tab on git?

#

i did not know that

#

so where can i see that?

light trout
#

it will just show if the repo uses it

#

few does

forest edge
#

github stars for every repo tho right?

light trout
#

yes, so sorting by that give you an idea

forest edge
#

be kind of neat to see what's "hot" or whateer by glance in the hacs listing

fathom sparrow
#

Hmm, none of my apps have the download counter

#

So i'm clearly doing something wrong with the releases

forest edge
#

o.m.g this guy keeps updating the bar card!

light trout
#

hacs.zip is a relese asset and counts, the "Source code" files does not count

fathom sparrow
#

ah ok, i'll look up how to get the hacs.zip working

forest edge
#

oh i see in the sorting drop down you made stars be sortable

#

I just NOW seen that lol

light trout
#

not sure that is supported for apps, but we can discuss that elsewhere @fathom sparrow

#

Been there for a loooooooong time @forest edge 😄

fathom sparrow
#

Not really a big deal @light trout , just curious as to how many people may or may not be using the apps

light trout
#

https://hacs.xyz/help join the hacs discord server and ping me tomorrow, Im to tired to test/check today 😛

forest edge
#

@light trout something like this based off integration or whatever with most stars or whatever would be cool.

light trout
#

that will not happen as long as I maintain it

forest edge
#

not possible or just think it would be like favoritism?

light trout
#

I don't like it

#

and you have the same functionality with sorting by stars 🤷‍♂️

forest edge
#

yea but sometimes quick glance is nice

clever mortar
#

Popular just encourages folks to go begging for stars

#

We've been there before

#

It wasn't pretty 😬

forest edge
#

well it dosen't have to say popular or be a banner, just something that indicates many like it

light trout
#

the dev can do whatever in the description to get attention anyway :p
Sorting by start give you that indication

#

I didn't want to add that, but did as it was the lesser of multiple evils (one which was a banner)

fathom sparrow
#

so here's my plan, incorporate hacs.zip, make a bot that downloads it 500 times an hour, profit

light trout
#

if you do authenticated calls, you can do 5000/h

fathom sparrow
#

It's gotta be somewhat realistic

#

I somehow just brought up developer tools for discord

#

F12 is not the hotkey

light trout
#

it is in most web/electron apps

fathom sparrow
#

i closed it but don't know how to get it back

light trout
#

ctrl+shift+i

fathom sparrow
#

yep, no clue how i accidentally did that

light trout
fathom sparrow
#

Lol

#

Wow, that's all over the console

light trout
#

yup 🤣

fathom sparrow
#

I had no idea this was built on html

#

It makes sense that everything moves that direction because everything can already handle it

forest edge
#

lol

light trout
#

I kinda expected changes there to be wiped out when a new mesage came in

fathom sparrow
#

it has not for me

light trout
#

same here

fathom sparrow
#

haha, i'm gonna mess with my friend

#

s

light trout
#

🤣

forest edge
#

oh no

#

tediore seen it

fathom sparrow
#

emogies everywhere

clear ferry
forest edge
#

ohh microcenter only wants 30 bucks for a 240gb inland ssd lol

shy comet
#

wow not bad, too bad i dont have a microcenter close by though 😦

hushed basalt
#

Might be able to actually get a job soon if this keeps up

scenic radish
forest edge
#

asking if you want a few crispy fries or you want more than a few (extra) plain jane fries

wet pilot
#

Woo neighbor cut my fiber line mowing their lawn

scenic radish
#

Oh no...

wet pilot
#

No internet until tomorrow

fathom sparrow
#

wait, so how do i get the extra fries filter?

forest edge
#

how the hell they do that? they are buried lol

#

he was mowing with a tiller lol

wet pilot
#

Fuck heads never buried it

fathom sparrow
#

what

forest edge
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oh wow

fathom sparrow
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how the fuck is that possible

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that's like, what you do when you install

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also, how do you not see a giant cable

forest edge
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they do the same with cable lines. they leave them laying on the ground and someone is suppose to come in after and push it a few inches in the ground with a tool

wet pilot
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They cut my line while burying my neighbors' back in Jan. I caught them in the act and they ran an emergency connection. They apparently never filed the ticket to bury it

fathom sparrow
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same guy laid and pushed into the ground at my house

scenic radish
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wait, so how do i get the extra fries filter?
@fathom sparrow your filesystem has to be FAT32

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get it?

fathom sparrow
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i'm way ahead of you @scenic radish FAT64

wet pilot
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Just had them back out here Tuesday to bitch and it was scheduled to be re-burried on the 15th

forest edge
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the 15th? wtf

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why so far out

fathom sparrow
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what state or country?

wet pilot
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Apparently the ditch crews are backed up. Also they gotta sound out the gas lines and stuff

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NC, US

fathom sparrow
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so, I called to have some lines marked on thrusday last week

forest edge
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fiber lines don't go in the ground anywhere near deep enough to reach gas lines etc lol

fathom sparrow
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they were painted friday end of day

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cable/fiber is about 2 - 3 inches deep at most

forest edge
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yea

wet pilot
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@forest edgeil if they want to use a ditchwitch they have to get marked for insurance reasons ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

fathom sparrow
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well, seems like you got some idiots running shit

forest edge
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wait, they claim they need to use a ditchwith to bury the fiber line?

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something isn't right lol

wet pilot
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Eh they didn't claim they had to but they always do around here

fathom sparrow
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we have a dude with a little tool that rotates

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takes 1 guy 5 minutes to bury a lin e

forest edge
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you got something fucked up, they use the same method with fiber as the do coax and they use a push tool to push it into the ground a few inches, takes someone like 2 minutes to do the whole job at most

fathom sparrow
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yah, it basicallly depends on the guys walk speed and strength

forest edge
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atx it may takje 30 mins or so, tediore, it may never get finished but you get a good quadflight in there and it's done in 30 seconds

hushed basalt
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We've always had our lead ins buried

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In a trench

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Except todays standards it's just leave it on the fence

fathom sparrow
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are your runs on telephone poles though?

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usually everything for new builds in the US are underground unless your runs are on telephone polls

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poles*

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fuck

hushed basalt
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Most areas have been underground since original copper installation in the 50s

fathom sparrow
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not the north east

hushed basalt
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Coax may be different but in my state there's basically no pole telecoms

fathom sparrow
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most towns/areas around here are old, everythings above ground. We built our house in `16 so all our stuff is underground

forest edge
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I put all my stuff underground from abovve ground when i remodeled 10 or so years ago

hushed basalt
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I'd take pole mounted if it meant we actually got fibre

forest edge
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been a blessing

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above ground sucks

fathom sparrow
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you don't want above ground. ever.

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power outages are normal

hushed basalt
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I'm sure people on 25/5Mbps which they had fibre by any means haha

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Power outages?

fathom sparrow
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yah

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like, hey it's windy... how about no power for 4 hours

hushed basalt
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I can't say any of the houses I've lived with above ground power had any unusually high power outages

forest edge
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ice storms

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always were the worst

fathom sparrow
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ugh and nice storms

hushed basalt
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No ice here :)

fathom sparrow
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ice*

hushed basalt
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Sounds like your linesmen need to prune some trees

forest edge
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ice itself can cause the line to snap

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but it's usualy limbs

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ancient old ass transformers have been the pain of many's backside

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one thing power companies don't seem to want to ever replace

hushed basalt
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There's still transformers on the ground

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Sounds like it's more a case of poor maintenance than the fact it's above ground

fathom sparrow
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Transformers are usually on the poles around here

forest edge
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whats maintence? power companies don't do shit till it's broke period

wet pilot
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Mostly on the ground here

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Had one blow a few months ago

forest edge
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do the ones on the ground light up like the one's on the poles?

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never seen a ground one blow up, only one's on poles

wet pilot
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I didn't see it go, just heard it 😛

fathom sparrow
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One on the ground blew??

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I’m in the process of putting landscaping around the one at my house

wet pilot
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Dunno, wasn't close enough to check out

forest edge
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lol welp there goes your roses

fathom sparrow
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It’s rocky in my area, got a boulder the size of a car in front of it

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A smart car

forest edge
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@wet pilot did you set yourself up to use cell data as backup for your local network?

wet pilot
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Nah

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Could probably get an extra sim for Google Fi though

forest edge
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yea, thats what I use lol

wet pilot
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I think I still have the one for my phone somewhere. Use esim these days

scenic radish
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That's pretty cool

dull belfry
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What else can I add on my HA instance without any actual hardware? 😛

wet pilot
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Covid counter?

dull belfry
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@wet pilot That is depressing 😛

wet pilot
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Lol

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Add hardware monitoring to your Plex server and display the stats?

hushed basalt
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SNMP?

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Router stats

dull belfry
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Thanks for the suggestions 😛

hushed basalt
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Commute times.

dull belfry
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SNMP will definetely be cool. I happen to have OpenWRT

hushed basalt
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Also if you have a UPS

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You could get stats from that

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Also think of any online accounts you use that have scrapable or APIs

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Battery statuses of phones and tablets as well with HA apps

green inlet
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How do you router stats?

last plaza
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@dull belfry what is that medicine reminder automation?

dull belfry
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@last plaza Reminder to take meds. It does a simple tts to my google home on working days in the morning

hushed basalt
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@green inlet depends on the router

last plaza
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@dull belfry did something similar myself. More configurable.

dull belfry
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That looks cool 😄

last plaza
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@green inlet most routers support snmp.

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Snmp is more real-time. If you have it on any device you use it, you can set it up in HA very easily.

green inlet
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I guess I already use snmp with nagios. Thought maybe stats would be someth8ng else

forest edge
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how does HA know you taken your suppository @last plaza ? lol

last plaza
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The pill box has a sensor.

hushed basalt
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I don't think my tomato router has snmp

forest edge
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like really? how did you do the sensor?

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I thought about setting something up but I know I'd always forget to manually tick off the taken part

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not sure if there is a way for google reminders to let HA know I dismissed or whatever

last plaza
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I added xiaomi door sensor to the box I made.

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@forest edge then added that code to HA

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If you don’t take the medicine before the specified time, it will remind you until you open and close the box. It only does when you are home. When you are away from home, it automatically goes into holiday mode and won’t remind you using TTS and all.

forest edge
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nice

last plaza
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I use my home security system as an indication that we are away from home. And switches holiday mode automatically

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You can use any logic. Like device trackers...etc

forest edge
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I could probably attach one half of a door sensor to the bottom of my pill box and the other half to the window sill and then when I pick up the pill box it breaks the connection. that should work the same way

last plaza
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Yep

forest edge
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I have a weekly pill box but I keep it on the window sill in the kitchen and wouldn't want to move from that

last plaza
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Ok... we keep the medicines in one box and no one else touches the box. It works out well. I could make it more robust, it works for now.

forest edge
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if I had kids mine would be locked away but so far the cats haven't seem to get into it lol

green inlet
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That’s a nice ass box, someone has a wood-working shop.

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@hushed basalt, pretty sure all routers have snmp. I don’t think it is firmware specific. But 🤷🏼‍♂️

last plaza
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@green inlet too bad. That shop is only open 4 months a year. I could never do woodworking in winter with all the cars in the garage + extremely cold weather.

green inlet
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Yea, I spent like 6 weekends when we moved in building a pretty nice workbench. My wife mostly uses it now. Either too hot or too cold in the garage

last plaza
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Nice!!!

hushed basalt
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I'm going to try and insulate a garage when I have a house

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Need to make sure it has shuttered ventilation though for exhaust

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Carbon monoxide poisoning is no joke

wet pilot
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Maybe a smart CO sensor and some powered shutters?

forest edge
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there are already automatic vent fans that install on the roof

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many solar powered

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vents.. some havve fans

hushed basalt
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You don't want them in your roof

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You want it in the walls

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You definitely don't want to pull air into your ceiling cavity. and you don't want them running when they don't need to otherwise what's the point of insulating it

forest edge
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umm like most gases CO and such rise lol

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and these aren't like attic fans lol

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you don't lose all your heat lol

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well unless you get the ones designed for venting heat to a certian temp

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you might be wanting a fume extractor if your wanting more precise

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if your garage has a flat roof then you probably could get away with wall mounting it up high

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if it has a peak you don't want a wall mounted vent

hushed basalt
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How would you not lose all your heat

forest edge
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the vents only open to let gas escape then close. You thought there was a way to vent gas and keep heat?

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a fume extractor would be more efficient at venting just gas and less heat

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but i never seen anyone doing woodworking use one of them

clear ferry