#the-water-cooler

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green inlet
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They look like fancy corn dogs

clear ferry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu?wprov=sfla1

Casu marzu

Casu marzu (Sardinian pronunciation: [ˈkazu ˈmaɾdzu]; literally 'rotten/putrid cheese'), also called casu modde, casu cundídu and casu fràzigu in Sardinian, is a traditional Sardinian sheep milk cheese that contains live insect larvae (maggots). A variation of the cheese, casg...

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If maggots are dead

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Don't eat it

tidal bronze
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@green inlet that's how they do calamari in China 😆

dusky plank
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🤢

forest edge
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chat took a massivve turn for the worse

subtle pasture
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I draw the line at blu cheese... that's a bridge too far

forest edge
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we may need to call a mod in here to take control of this

granite hare
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Ian pops into #the-water-cooler real quick to see what's up... immediately regrets it...

dusky plank
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change channel name to surströmming

clear ferry
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Blue cheese is fine

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As is white mold cheese

brisk glen
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time to set up doods and push...

clear ferry
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Pushing doods

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Michael's favourite pastime

brisk glen
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push messages

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lol

clear ferry
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🤏

forest edge
tidal bronze
green inlet
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🤣

forest edge
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I wouldn't eat scorp either

brisk glen
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good god

green inlet
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Yea, I think you posted without scrolling @brisk glen

brisk glen
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naaa

tidal bronze
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@forest edge scorp is great deep fried

green inlet
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Yea, I draw the line at bugs

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I’ll be over here with Sonoma eating fried chicken and mashed potatoes

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Carbs for a week and a half

forest edge
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@tidal bronze shits gonna catch up to you one day.. you will regret eating this crap lol

dusky plank
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wife disagrees on that

forest edge
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"Here lies Quadflight, died of stomach rupture to gross food"

tidal bronze
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@forest edge I am not going to post the rest then 🤣

dusky plank
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let's talk about AIR GAPPED networks

forest edge
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it all looks like baby poop to us anyways lol

subtle pasture
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@dusky plank Are any of us even working with air-gapped networks?

dusky plank
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two guys at least do - one shared a goat

subtle pasture
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The only examples I've personally encountered were implemented due to extreme obsolescence (industrial machines stuck running Windows XP Embedded, as an example)

forest edge
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@dusky plank Are any of us even working with air-gapped networks?
@subtle pasture @clear ferry does, he uses the old rotary phone with cradle to achieve it

subtle pasture
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Are there modern phone systems that still support pulse dialing?

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A rotary phone generally doesn't work on modern PSTN networks without an adapter / heavy modification

frigid portal
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The flash button that's used for call waiting is a pulse. It's just like dialing 1 on a rotary phone

tidal bronze
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@forest edge I was thinking you should join me on a food escape one of these

frigid portal
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Before the flash button existed you had to do a quick tap on the receiver switch in order to use call waiting.

subtle pasture
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I was gonna say I still do the quick tap (because it still works), but I haven't interacted with a corded telephone in a few years now...

forest edge
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@forest edge I was thinking you should join me on a food escape one of these
@tidal bronze why so I could be brought back in an ambulance? lol

subtle pasture
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Haven't had landline service in a loooong time. I just use my cell phone for everything

forest edge
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Haven't had landline service in a loooong time. I just use my cell phone for everything
@subtle pasture today's world..

frigid portal
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I use a cordless house phone at home because I live down in a cellular dead zone surrounded by hills that block line of sight from the cell towers. I use Google voice for a carrier with an obi200 analog telephone adapter. I pay no monthly fees or per minute charges unless I make international calls.

subtle pasture
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if I ever want a hit of nostalgia, the house is fully wired for old landline phones. I could always stick a PSTN gateway on the line and bridge it to a VOIP service

forest edge
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is google voice still around?

frigid portal
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Yes it is. You only have to pay for it if you have a business account.

static schooner
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Yep

forest edge
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oh i guess it is, they changed that thing so many times lol

subtle pasture
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@frigid portal You can always run your own microcell tower

static schooner
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It’s my main number

subtle pasture
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Or get a cellphone with wifi calling

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I've tried both, because the inside of my house is also a cellular dead zone

static schooner
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My AT&T service goes over WiFi at home anyway

forest edge
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most do when connected to a network

static schooner
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I used to use a microcell until that showed up, which was several years ago

subtle pasture
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@forest edge Depends. In the US, wifi calling is carrier-locked

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Buy a T-Mobile handset and use it on AT&T? It'll work fine, except WiFi calling won't be available. Visual Voicemail and VoLTE also might not work...

frigid portal
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The problem with running a micro cell tower is that I would have to elevate it so high that it would need marker lights on it so aircraft would be able to see it. Too costly. VoIP with Google voice is free except for the initial investment in the adapter.

forest edge
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@subtle pasture not heard of that, all of the big companies support it

static schooner
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Seems like it’s all plus side for the carriers

subtle pasture
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yeah, they support it, but cell carriers are assholes...

dusky plank
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death star intensifies...

subtle pasture
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My last phone was an LG G6. T-Mobile branded. Unlocked it and used it on AT&T, and because of that, WiFi calling never worked.

forest edge
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I'm refering to calling, not the aditional stuff

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I don't blame the additional stuff not working over wifi

subtle pasture
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It also refused to get major OS updates until a T-Mobile SIM card was inserted

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So I literally had to get a cheap pay as you go SIM card from T-Mobile to upgrade to Android 10...

forest edge
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lol

subtle pasture
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Yeah, carrier locking is dumb

forest edge
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kind of funny if you think about

static schooner
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Apple’s iron fist helps here. I don’t think it’s restricted on iPhones

dusky plank
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nope

subtle pasture
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You can also just get the international versions of Android phones

frigid portal
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The higher the radio frequency, the more it's going to be attenuated by solid objects. There are four GSM frequency bands ranging from 850 to 1,900 MHz.

subtle pasture
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They cost more, but all features work everywhere

dusky plank
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i don‘t get why android has such fragmented bootloader/modemfirmware whatever stuff in it which can all be locked independently

tidal bronze
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International phones don't come with most US lte and 5g bands and no band aggregation in the US

forest edge
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i don‘t get why android has such fragmented bootloader/modemfirmware whatever stuff in it which can all be locked independently
@dusky plank carriers pay for it

subtle pasture
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@dusky plank because Android is the last of the old-guard still hanging on. It was originally designed to compete with Windows Mobile, Palm, and BBOS devices, and it shows

tidal bronze
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@frigid portal right now low end starts at 600MHz

forest edge
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cdma ftw lol

dusky plank
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i just see those xdadevelopers forums everytime in nightmares and go 🤢🤮

tidal bronze
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Nopes old 911 band TMO 5G @forest edge

subtle pasture
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Windows Phone actually had the right idea on this one: Every Windows Phone handset had segmented ROM overlays.

  1. Device drivers
  2. The OS (generic, runs on any handset that has a device driver ROM)
  3. Carrier add-ons.
forest edge
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@tidal bronze I had coverage on old cell in a bomb shelter with cdma..

tidal bronze
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CDMA what a shitshow.

forest edge
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I still had coverage

subtle pasture
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Windows Phone included a full blown HAL to enable compatibility with a wide range of device drivers, and the OS could be updated by Microsoft even if the handset manufacturer hadn't updated drivers and/or the carrier hadn't updated add-ons.

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Which is why you have old Lumia 920's still running Windows 10

dusky plank
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windows phone died 🤏

subtle pasture
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It did, but they did a lot of things right

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And the Lumia 950 / 950 XL are technically still supported, for a little while longer

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They're in the "security updates only" phase of their lifecycle

frigid portal
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You might notice that your Wi-Fi signal on 2.4 GHz has a longer range than the 5 GHz signal, especially through solid objects like walls. Stations on the commercial AM radio dial can be received from further away than stations on the FM dial due to their lower frequency.

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WKAR in Lansing Michigan broadcasts on 870KHz, which they share with WWL in New Orleans. WKAR broadcasts during the day and WWL broadcasts at night so they don't interfere with each other. AM radio signals, because of their low frequency, can travel astonishingly long distances.

forest edge
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for small payloads

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I remember when people bought phones to make phone calls..

tidal bronze
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@forest edge I wish one day we will get x2 flux capacitors like Norway. Install 1 right in the center of the country which covers 1 Hz to 1000ZHz. Get @clear ferry to monitor it remotely

forest edge
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remotely, it might be in his garage

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what he said the other day he practically uses that much power just turning on the kettle in the morning

tidal bronze
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Wow. Every country should be modeled after Norway.

forest edge
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they don't even bother putting usage indicators on the meters, turns too fast to read anyways

tidal bronze
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You mean Gee Gah Watts ?

frigid portal
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Jiggy Watts

forest edge
tidal bronze
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Dying here

frigid portal
subtle pasture
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+1 for Young Frankenstein

forest edge
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need to get my halloween stuff up this week

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people down the street went all out, thier whole front yard looks like a giant spider cocoon lol

frigid portal
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I was building crystal set radios from scratch with wire, soup cans, and fool's gold when I was eight or nine years old. It was pretty cool. I could listen to the nearest AM radio station without using batteries or plugging anything into an outlet.

forest edge
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@frigid portal that was why the fcc made them reduce thier power output lol

tidal bronze
forest edge
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@tidal bronze you talking about his kettle? if so that wire is nowhere near thick enough lol

tidal bronze
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It's for your incandescent Halloween lights.

forest edge
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ohhhh

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you know us backwood people have smart stuff to you know.. neighbors dog can flip a switch

tidal bronze
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Never doubted for a minute

forest edge
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instead of Hey Alexa, it's Brutus get the switch!

tidal bronze
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Why would you call Chihuahua Brutus ?

forest edge
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oh well see that's where you are reallly confused.. only coastal people have those small dogs

subtle pasture
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@tidal bronze or just use a smartplug 😛

frigid portal
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Who remembers the stroh's beer commercial with Alex the dog? Is poker night and the host of the party says Hey guys watch this Alex go fetch me a beer. The dog walks out of the room and you hear the sound of a beer bottle opening, beer being poured, and the sound of a dog drinking. Host of the party says Alex you better be drinking your water.

tidal bronze
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@subtle pasture they don't have that stuff near his barn. So trying to help the best I can.

subtle pasture
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"that stuff"? Smart plugs can operate stand-alone...

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Program a schedule into the plug, it'll work even if it can't reach wifi / zigbee / z-wave

forest edge
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even cali's can't communicate with each other without confusion lmao

tidal bronze
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That went sideways pretty quick.

forest edge
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now i'm dying here

green inlet
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@subtle pasture , Sonoma and Quad do this back and forth every night 🤣

tidal bronze
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I know you are.

forest edge
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@subtle pasture he was ripping on me about my low tech in a barn, nothing to do with smart plusg or anything lol

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he is just jealous cause my stuff outlasts his, but he would never know since he sells it every 2 years for new crap anyways

tidal bronze
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Darn it, gotta go to Vegas this weekend. This sucks.

forest edge
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better make the most of it, it's on your list of places to live in the not to far off future lol

tidal bronze
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NEVER!

forest edge
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my friend in jersey loves vegas

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i've actually never been

subtle pasture
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I've been to Vegas twice now. Once for my little brother's birthday, and once for Defcon 27

tidal bronze
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If I can get money back for everytime I flown there.

subtle pasture
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Had significantly more fun on the second trip than the first, lol

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I've never seen anyone be more of a wet blanket on their 21st birthday, in Vegas no-less...

forest edge
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you can sit through those?

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anytime someone speaks into a mic I fall asleep

tidal bronze
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Now we know

forest edge
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pornstar could speak into a mic an I would snore lol

subtle pasture
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@forest edge Defcon is more than just talks. There are villages, workshops, CTF, vendor booths, after-parties, etc. etc.

forest edge
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wtf is the after party like for defcon? lol

tidal bronze
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@forest edge so how many mics around the house. ?

subtle pasture
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@forest edge Depends on the night, but lots of drinking and techno is usually involved

tidal bronze
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Techno?

forest edge
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you should go quad, you could talk audiophiliac lol

subtle pasture
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There was a giant goth rave upstairs at Planet Hollywood one night

tidal bronze
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Techno/Rave hmmmm

green inlet
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Oooh, Sonoma, your kind of crowd. Goth.

forest edge
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that atx, remember that's daily dress for them

tidal bronze
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🤣

forest edge
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goth for us is kink lol

green inlet
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I bet you throw Friday night barn Goth Raves

forest edge
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maybe, but would never remeber the next day to know to be honest

tidal bronze
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@forest edge going to pass by your place Thursday night. Better have the Halloween lights lighting up the skies.

green inlet
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Any conference with vendors is good fun because they usually close down entire venues and food and drink is free

forest edge
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@tidal bronze if your flying over head i'll be sure to mow something in the field for ya lmao

tidal bronze
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@green inlet still got mango?

forest edge
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here we go..

tidal bronze
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You gotta try something other than moonshine you know.

subtle pasture
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Also got to meet the Hak.5 crew, which was neat. They dropped some new hardware at Defcon

forest edge
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@tidal bronze after moonshine you cannot taste anything else

subtle pasture
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(Yes, I know hak.5 hardware is for skiddies)

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"Check out our overpriced OpenWRT router that we shoved inside a plastic pineapple!"

forest edge
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in my day stuff like defcon didn't exists. if nerds wanted to talk shop we had to do it in secret and away from public eye lol

subtle pasture
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The real fun was listening to casino / restaurant staff complain about how cheap all the "badge wearing geeks" were 😛

tidal bronze
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@subtle pasture use a lot of lan turtles. Like their stuff.

subtle pasture
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I'm like... the people doing badge-life are buying $100+ badges left and right. They're not cheap, they just don't want to buy overpriced drinks

forest edge
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overpriced drinks.. something about quad's ears perked

subtle pasture
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Ever had a $13 Jack & Coke? Only in Vegas...

forest edge
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13 isn't bad

tidal bronze
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Lost me at Jack

forest edge
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bad as in it's that much at like lots of places

subtle pasture
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@tidal bronze More of a Crown and Coke guy?

tidal bronze
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Single malt kinda guy and all the fruity stuff. 😆

forest edge
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lol fruity

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winecoolers!

subtle pasture
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goes for the single-malt Islay scotch whiskey

forest edge
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need to get ya some hair on that chest

tidal bronze
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Wine coolers?

forest edge
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yea wine coolers

green inlet
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Oooh, moonshine 👍🏻

subtle pasture
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@tidal bronze Do you like your scotch neat? sprits of water? ice cube? bitters and sugar? 😉

tidal bronze
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On the rocks specifically 2 😆

subtle pasture
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It's nice having a full bar in the house sometimes, lol

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my girlfriend wants me to install taps in the countertop for her homemade hard cider

tidal bronze
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Full bar is nice indeed.

forest edge
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why can't people just drink beer like God intended

subtle pasture
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I like beer, but it makes me feel hella full after a glass

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Like, I won't have beer with a meal, because it IS the meal. lol

tidal bronze
forest edge
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interesting

subtle pasture
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Johnnie Walker did a GoT tie-in? O.o

dull chasm
subtle pasture
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I spy Guinness Black Lager

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Also Fat Tire, Sierra Nevada IPA, Taco Truck lager

tidal bronze
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Fat tire is nice.

dull chasm
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need to get @tidal bronze to a proper place to eat and drink beer and whiskey

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forest edge
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that here would be mostly Budweiser and shudder coors

tidal bronze
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When you @dull chasm get the new place all done

subtle pasture
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Bud and coors are pretty meh, yeah... if you're going to get a mass-market lager, at least get something like Samuel Adams

forest edge
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invite him soon, then you both can drink porch side floating away lol

tidal bronze
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Lol

dull chasm
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10-4 .....if i even can get away from details and such ...too damn crazy lately

forest edge
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@subtle pasture Bud plant isn't far from here, you will not find a single place that dosen't have some version of it

tidal bronze
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Yet to have a bud

forest edge
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@tidal bronze some compare it to piss water, to be honest I heard that about every type lol

dull chasm
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there is names for stuff like samuel adams and all that other stuff and it is not too nice @subtle pasture

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at least here ...but i live in the deep south

forest edge
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I like Corona with a lime shoved inside it, Heineken i drank alot too when I was younger. But i'll reach for a Bud over a Coors any day

subtle pasture
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@dull chasm Excuse us for liking beer that has substance >_>

dull chasm
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just about all of ya are yankees to us

tidal bronze
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Oh boy

dull chasm
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oh girl

tidal bronze
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how deep is your south 🎶

subtle pasture
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To be clear: comparing against bud / coors

forest edge
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you like coors?

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my dad loved coors, i cannot stand the stuff

subtle pasture
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My local Irish pub has those on tap... Bud and Coors are the only two where two tap handles lead to a single spout
I asked the bartender why that was once. His response? "I mean, at that point, does it even matter?"

tidal bronze
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If the name of the beer takes 90% of the container surface....we have a problem.

forest edge
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@tidal bronze uh then 99% of what you drink is in the red alert

tidal bronze
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Have you see the size of BUD LIGHT

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COORS

dull chasm
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we are slow to change and used to what has always been here ...so i guess not wrong but old traditions are hard to break ...you would be tough served to find all that other stuff even at bars here ...maybe in the city but i dont go there

subtle pasture
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I've just remembered I have two bottles of Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout still in the fridge

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Hmmmm 🤔

forest edge
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lol basic beer, use to be so cheap too

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now they got something called fusion or some crap

green inlet
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Coors is a west coast bud is east coast.

forest edge
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can actually picture @tidal bronze milking a wine cooler and @dull chasm milking a beer on @dull chasm porch while the flood waters of the hurricane carry the whole house down the street

dull chasm
tidal bronze
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@dull chasm drop all these beers switch to Michelada and a Sombrero, sitting on your tractor 🚜. How cool is that.

dull chasm
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uh ...i dont drink something i cant pronouce

forest edge
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lol willy nelson

dull chasm
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good ole music

forest edge
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in reality i don't think willie could operate a computer lol

dull chasm
forest edge
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we don't wear cowboy hats here but the rest of that is pretty close lol

dull chasm
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its mixed here ...i wear one when in fields or such ...working a wear a cap

subtle pasture
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I live in a small town that has declared itself the cowboy capitol of the world, so.. I see cowboy hats a lot around here

forest edge
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cowboy boots and ball caps was the norm when I was younger, these days it's steel toed boots and ball caps lol

dull chasm
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in cali ....you must be in the north

subtle pasture
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There's also a local bar called "The battered beaver," which, as it turns out, is a cowboy themed bar... it's a crime that the name wasn't reserved for a lesbian bar...

tidal bronze
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@subtle pasture where in Cali ?

subtle pasture
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Central valley

tidal bronze
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@dull chasm that's all you listen to ?

dull chasm
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so all the valley girl talk to cowboy hats ....confused

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nope

forest edge
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they still do line dancing there Vasiley?

dull chasm
tidal bronze
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@forest edge I think we might have a problem with that drink with @dull chasm

dull chasm
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one of my fav's along with Henry Purcell

forest edge
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speak for yourself, southrens drink pretty much the same as we do cept they tend to smell more foul while doing it lol

tidal bronze
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Drinking is not a problem but the music. 🤣

forest edge
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lol oh

tidal bronze
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@dull chasm tell me you listen to blues and jazz

forest edge
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being in the middle of the states we have it all here

dull chasm
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yes ....live ...not much recorded

tidal bronze
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Better have Diana Krall lined up.

dull chasm
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i find it loses something compared to live .....some operas do the same

tidal bronze
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Agreed.

dull chasm
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like rinaldo ....by handel is awesome live ....only ok recorded

tidal bronze
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Classical is always better live but great if you have the right room and speakers. 😝

dull chasm
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i like baroque more than classical ....kinda getting nit picking .....

tidal bronze
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If I do one more room correction I will have to sleep outside. 🤣

dull chasm
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music only is ok like a sym....but voice needs the theater

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damn did we run everybody off

tidal bronze
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Run a DSP or ATMOS

forest edge
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with your slow music choice that people listen to while pondering life and reading a book?

tidal bronze
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So what kind of music do you listen to ?

forest edge
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I like classic rock

tidal bronze
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Nice.

forest edge
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like some country songs

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like some techno

dull chasm
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@tidal bronze wanna really test your speakers with good music ...try this guy ....he is freaking amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBVvGuTKvf8

YouTube
Ragin Derek Lee - Topic
Rinaldo, HWV 7a: Lascia ch'io pianga (Air de Almirena)

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Rinaldo, HWV 7a: Lascia ch'io pianga (Air de Almirena) · Ragin Derek Lee, Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques, Ewa Mallas-Godlewska

Farinelli - Il Castrato (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (From Gérard Corbiau's Film Farinelli, il c...

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also a great movie if you like foriegn films

forest edge
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I can't help but wonder if you listen to that for anger management?

dull chasm
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helps when you cleanse the blood from your hands

forest edge
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lol

dull chasm
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you didnt expect me to listen to that stuff huh ....

forest edge
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I can't listen to that, my grandfather use to while I was a kid and couldn't escape it which is probably why lol

frigid portal
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My mom listened to Joan Baez while I was in the womb. If I'm having trouble getting to sleep I just listen to Joan Baez tunes. LOL

forest edge
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lol

tidal bronze
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Why on earth would you need to manage anger ? So full can't even type. 😆

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Nest Audio looks very interesting

dire flare
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anyone has any recommendation for a floorplan software (online/windows/os x or any OS when i think about it .. 😄 ) . Want it both for HA floorplan integration and for unifi and planning my network

frigid portal
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@tidal bronze The chronic pain I'm in makes anger management nearly impossible. In recent days I've pissed off enough people in the HA community forum with complaints about the documentation that they banned me until December. I'm not at all sorry because the documentation sucks and there's no excuse for it.

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Home automation isn't a hobby for me. sometimes every step I take to walk across the room to flip a light switch is like someone stabbing me in the foot.

subtle pasture
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Could be worse... could be the ArchLinux documentation >.>

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I know what you mean, though. The documentation can't keep up with the pace at which features are being added and depreciated

frigid portal
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Yeah they shouldn't release software updates until the instructions for those updates are written. It's like going through high school or college without any textbooks.

subtle pasture
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I can't really argue with that. That's how closed-source software development tends to work... it's not sold until the complete package is ready

dull chasm
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first here is not the place for that as we dedicate this space for just random chit chat .....second ...i can understand the futrastion as everything does not move streamlined as most everybody involved is volunteer ....best i can say is ask for help and plenty here will step in .....also any thing that needs changes can be made be anyone @frigid portal

subtle pasture
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It would be nice if the documentation were labeled for what versions of HA it applies to, as a start

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Microsoft does that with their knowledge base, since it has to cover so many versions of their software

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@dull chasm My bad, just read your message :x

dull chasm
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no worries

wild lark
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@subtle pasture wrong guy 🤣 😅 😂

forest edge
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all documentation queries should be directed to @scenic radish lol

subtle pasture
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tab-complete has failed me once again :x

wild lark
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Rlx

dull chasm
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@subtle pasture i am not a tab guy .....kinda a short shorts kinda guy

forest edge
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ok wtf we are being invaded by Vas!

static schooner
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usually it's some rando who registered and disappeared, like TinkerCarl

wild lark
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I was thinking....
What she talking about??

forest edge
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we all think that jk

subtle pasture
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har-har

forest edge
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was @tidal bronze rushed to the hospital for food poising?

tidal bronze
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Testing a webpowerswitch with MQTT. Hungry again 😫

forest edge
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wtf is a webpowerswitch

dull chasm
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a switch that is powered by web .....duh

forest edge
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obviously lol

dull chasm
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read my friend .....get the bifocals out

tidal bronze
dull chasm
#

i got one of those .....native intergration

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mines not wifi but still

forest edge
#

commercial smart strip lol

tidal bronze
subtle pasture
#

Or get a UPS with port control

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Then you get a backup battery AND can power devices on/off remotely

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Hmm, does HomeAssistant have APC PowerChute integration? 🤔

tidal bronze
#

NUT

forest edge
#

there is an APC custom component

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I use it

subtle pasture
#

Yeah, I'm aware NUT works for UPS monitoring

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Never tried to do port control with NUT, though

scenic radish
#

apcupsd stock integration too

subtle pasture
#

niiice

scenic radish
#

I use apc2mqtt though

forest edge
#

mines through usb cause it be old

subtle pasture
#

PowerChute integration would be nice, because then you could see your PowerChute conditions / rules from HA

scenic radish
#

So is mine Sonoma

tidal bronze
#

Same here

scenic radish
#

Not old tho

tidal bronze
#

Lol

subtle pasture
#

Mine are the big 1500vA pure sign wave units (work tosses UPSs as soon as the warranty is over)

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Grabbed them from the e-waste pile, installed new batteries, and they all had network management cards pre-installed, so...

forest edge
#

that be nice

tidal bronze
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@forest edge see no one keeps anything for 20 plus years.

scenic radish
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Noice

forest edge
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@tidal bronze they should, it saves the planet

subtle pasture
#

I mean, there's absolutely nothing wrong with these units, they just needed new batteries. The issue is, it's tough to sell a client on a replacement part for a UPS when the unit is out of warranty...

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So they end up replacing a perfectly good unit, just because it needed a new battery

scenic radish
#

I just have two of the 600 VA ones

forest edge
#

I have a single 350 lol

subtle pasture
#

@forest edge In the case of a UPS... it probably isn't saving the planet

granite hare
#

I just run HA on a laptop. Battery built in 😄

subtle pasture
#

Because the part that needed replacement is a giant lead-acid battery...

scenic radish
#

Yeah that's nice. I have more plugged into it than my server though

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|| 🐡 ||

forest edge
#

I just run HA on a laptop. Battery built in 😄
@granite hare yea but does the laptop require the battery to stay on? some turn off even plugged in if the battery dies lol

subtle pasture
#

I always worry about keeping Lithium Ion powered devices plugged in for extended periods of time... I've had way too many devices have their batteries swell up that way

forest edge
#

@scenic radish I saw that.. so cruel..

subtle pasture
#

Granted, I've head lead acid batteries swell up too, but they're less likely to explode and start a fire...

forest edge
#

yea lead are way safer

tidal bronze
#

Lead is the way to go

subtle pasture
#

First battery replacement on my rackmount 1500 vA unit was fun. Two of the batteries had swelled to the point that the battery tray didn't want to slide out

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I had to remove the server mounted above it so that the casing could flex enough to get the tray out

forest edge
#

@subtle pasture may wanna tone down alittle on getting free stuff.. @clear ferry may hear and then we all have to suffer

subtle pasture
#

Perk of working in IT, they throw out some good hardware 🤷‍♀️

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That's how I have HP DL380 Gen 8's in my homelab rack

forest edge
#

and she says HP to boot.. just asking for it

tidal bronze
#

Oh boy

subtle pasture
#

?

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Is there some history here I'm missing?

forest edge
#

lol much

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hang around long enough, you will understand hehe

subtle pasture
#

Speaking of... need to figure out wtf I'm going to do about Plex transcoding now that h.265 is a thing... These Gen8 servers are not cut out for transcoding 1080p streams in that format

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Even with 12 cores, they're still running on Sandybridge chips...

forest edge
#

@tidal bronze you still got to get tested periodically for covid?

tidal bronze
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Yep 2 x a week

forest edge
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a week?!?!

tidal bronze
#

Yes.

forest edge
#

uh.. which test is it?

subtle pasture
#

Probably multiple tests, to help rule out false negatives

tidal bronze
#

Up the nose

forest edge
#

omg

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f that x1000

subtle pasture
#

Oof, how are your sinuses doing?

forest edge
#

why twice a week?

tidal bronze
#

Hmm now used to it. @subtle pasture

static schooner
#

probably cleaner than most 🙂

granite hare
#

Should just wear a bubble suit

subtle pasture
granite hare
#

I'm actually pretty disappointed that we don't have force field tech for this scenario

tidal bronze
#

why twice a week?
@forest edge number of flights and mom is not going good. I have to be extra careful.

forest edge
#

work pay for that? or getting tested that much free?

subtle pasture
#

My dad had to take a flight on Sunday for work, they're paying for all his testing

forest edge
#

they send someone to his house lol

tidal bronze
#

Its free. Insurance pays for that.

forest edge
#

no wonder your eating all this weird food

tidal bronze
#

Lmao

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Now most offer home testing here. Quest handles mine. I only paid for antibody home test twice.

forest edge
#

I can't stand going to Quest Diagnostics centers. waiting rooms are always over crowded and the staff here for them is absolute shit lol I like Lab Corp even tho you can tell they don't make as much money lol

tidal bronze
#

I love quest very rarely I see another person there. Now even better with home tests

forest edge
#

how does the home test work, you shove it up your own nose? lol

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can already see the news ovver that if that were the case considering the amount of people who drank bleach

tidal bronze
#

There is drive-thru urgent care 1 hour test as well. But too lazy.

#

@forest edge did you get tested?

forest edge
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@tidal bronze no, no reason to. I stay away from everyone lol

tidal bronze
#

So what, uber eats and instacart for months ?

forest edge
#

hyvee curb side and doordash once in awhile lol

#

that instacart is kind of funny

#

you can order from places like sams club/costco through them without needing a membership

#

suprised that flies

tidal bronze
#

All Costco stuff is from insta

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I have to sanitize everything that comes in the house.

forest edge
#

lol

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did you build a decontamination box?

tidal bronze
#

Hmm no lol. Insta orders comes when maid is here.

forest edge
#

ah, I was picturing a conveyor belt from the gate to the garage with various "check point" with a industrial decontamination box the size of a fridge box towards the end lol

tidal bronze
#

Not a bad idea if shit does not end soon.

forest edge
#

lol

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Chinese food is here time to eat some low mien lol

granite hare
#

Mmm

tidal bronze
#

Gotta finish setting up my switches as well. Damn been up since 3:15

late gate
#

Insomnia 🤬

chrome bronze
#

What's the best channel here to get pre-build feedback on a home remodel?

#

Aka what's the best discord channel here to talk about this: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/remodeling-5-500-sq-ft-house-virtually-no-budget-for-ha-smarthome/233019

Home Assistant Community
Remodeling 5,500 sq. ft. house, virtually no budget for HA smarthome!

I say virtually no budget, but really the budget is around 20-30k. I’m looking to automate lights, locks, blinds, audio, video(?), the whole nine yard. I want to do it all. Here is what I’ve documented that I’m doing so far, but I’d really like suggestions on anything and ever...

forest edge
chrome bronze
#

That was my thought as well, but wanted to ask here first. Thanks!

wet pilot
#

Budget of "yes"? Amazing 🤣

forest edge
#

fml I think I may have deleted the wrong automation but I can't tell

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I absolutely despise the layout of automations and scripts on monitor lol

clear ferry
#

I might be loading my system a little bit

# 
pop-os@pop-os:~$ uptime
 09:15:05 up 52 min,  3 users,  load average: 2247.91, 13194.74, 15418.82
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Looks like a regular rpi trying to run anything other than HA right ?

dusky plank
#

I use pop os on my surface tablet 🤢

clear ferry
#

I am running it on a system just to test GPU and CPU

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no local drives

#

no iSCSI storage or FC storage avaliable

#

and it come with the nvidia driver included

# 
pop-os@pop-os:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo  | grep processor | wc -l
56
# 
pop-os@pop-os:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       792262388 kB
forest edge
#

this running on an HP machine?

clear ferry
# 
5c:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104GL [Tesla P6] (rev a1)
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of course it is

dusky plank
# 
4```
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take that

clear ferry
#

what is this ? cores for ants ?

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🤣

# 
pop-os@pop-os:~$ sudo dmidecode  | grep -A3 '^System Information'
System Information
        Manufacturer: HPE
        Product Name: Synergy 480 Gen10
        Version: Not Specified
#

@forest edge

forest edge
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I figured when I saw the core count. they always had to have like 3-4x as much of ram and cpu to keep up with the average chinese tablet

clear ferry
#

🤣

forest edge
#

wtf is the use case for that anyways?

clear ferry
#

this is just a regular small server

#

nothing special about 56 cores and 768GB RAM

#

probably almost the smallest servers customers buy these days

forest edge
#

there is no use for that lol

clear ferry
#

you are an idiot 🤣

forest edge
#

in your home, what use you have for that?

clear ferry
#

It's not in my home

forest edge
#

please enlighten us lol

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then wtf you posting it for lol

clear ferry
#

there i suffice with 24 cores and 192GB for now 🤣

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because I'm working on it right now

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this baby takes a beating

# 
pop-os@pop-os:~$ uptime
 09:27:11 up  1:04,  3 users,  load average: 29682.76, 20514.50, 17385.74
forest edge
#

datacenter hardware doesn't impress me much. unless maybe you had it at home and was selling hosting from the garage or many minecraft servers or something

clear ferry
#

minecraft 🤢

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selling hosting 🤢

forest edge
#

I can't even max out the 24gig in my own machine at home

dusky plank
#

🥱 🤏

clear ferry
#

I easily max out the 48G in my laptop

forest edge
#

maybe for work related stuff

clear ferry
#

and the 192G in my servers are usually 50-60 used

forest edge
#

I could max out 48gb if i was editing video lol

clear ferry
#

my laptop seldon uses less than 40G tbh

forest edge
#

anymore hardware is just bleh lol

dusky plank
#

🤏

forest edge
#

get a smartwatch to run mame or something then you'll peak my interest lol

clear ferry
#

tiny servers @dusky plank

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🤣

#

and a few generations behind

#

time to upgrade

#

also time to upgrade, 7.0 is pretty darn nice, lots of cool new features 😉

#

time to learn nsx-t

forest edge
#

was gonna crack a joke about you being the dude people call with question about their website hosting a blog but after looking what is actually hosting in norway I never heard of any of those companies lol

low harness
#

I use Jottacloud for backups. That's Norwegian, I think.

clear ferry
#

it is

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I've poked a few of the boxes

#

to be fair, I've probably poked almost any box that matters in norway, and a lot of the, in sweden and denmark 🤔

#

and some on the south pole

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and some other places

forest edge
#

unless you seen proof aliens exists it's all 🥱

clear ferry
#

you mean running seti@home, did that for 20 years 🤣

forest edge
#

lol no

#

I remember when you could use your playstation for that

low harness
#

I did that for a while too. I had an extra computer and wanted to use it for something, and this new bitcoin thing was too hard to get started with.

forest edge
#

seti was using it to mine bitcoin..

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now that be the way to do it lol

low harness
#

I finally got around to buying some, though. In december 2017.

#

Do Not Listen To My Financial Advice.

forest edge
#

lol

clear ferry
#

I did SETI on my main hosting rig for a long time

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dual Pentium Pro with 256MB RAM

#

shit that was a beast

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6 hot swap 9.1GB SCSI drives

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didn't retire it until 2007

forest edge
#

lol 256

#

the original pi was tougher than that

clear ferry
#

Pssh, I hosted multiple web forums and a few ventrilo servers on that

#

good times

#

database servers too

#

I only had two boxes at the time, that one and a pentium3 file server

#

no wait, I had a dual pentium 3 router also

#

had 10\10 Fiber in 2005, had to route the shit out of that

forest edge
#

I don't even remember much of Fast Ethernet

#

shit went away so quick

clear ferry
#

Fast Ethernet? Are you still stuck in the 90s?

forest edge
#

wasn't fast eithernet 10mbs? or maybe that was just ethernet

#

hold on, i got a router with it in the box still. let me look lmao

clear ferry
#

I was talking about my internet connection anyway 🤏

#

We did the upgrade to 50/50 the same year if memory serves well

forest edge
#

oh it's 10/100 i thought it was 10/10 for some reason lol

#

well you said 2005, thought you were referring to finally upgrading to fast ethernet

clear ferry
#

Psssh, I had gigabit at home for years at that point already

#

Fast Ethernet is 100Mbit

forest edge
#

I thought it was 10 lol

clear ferry
#

No, that was years before

#

Fast Ethernet was introduced in 94/95

forest edge
#

to be honest, so much shit zipped by the naming was confusing

clear ferry
#

10Base5 was fun

forest edge
#

I have a 4 port switch for that

#

somewhere

#

half duplex

clear ferry
#

I doubt it

#

It isn't switched

forest edge
#

it was called a hub

#

I just call it a switch

#

one of these days I need to find this shit lol

clear ferry
#

That ain't the same thing

forest edge
#

spare me the technical jargon, i know.. it just looked like a standard 4 port switch so i called it a switch lol

clear ferry
#

this is a sheep

#

While pointing at a cow

forest edge
#

hey atx

#

wanna see my 4 port 10base5 switch?

clear ferry
#

🤢

forest edge
#

pretty sure thats it

clear ferry
#

Ths isn't a switch, and it isn't even 10base5

#

🤏

forest edge
#

10base-t

clear ferry
#

That is something else completely

forest edge
#

I thought it's what you meant

clear ferry
#

Kids these days

forest edge
#

oh yea I didn't messs with that coax crap

clear ferry
#

So you never touched a proper network you say

#

🤫

forest edge
#

wtf that predates you even 20 years behind the rest of the world.

#

if you weren't in 3rd world i would question you ever having messed with it lol

dusky plank
#

can't touch any air gaped shit. it's air gapped
you know

clear ferry
#

You amateurs 🧙

forest edge
#

you really did get like everything everyone was done with

#

we skipped most of that crap here where i live

#

maybe quad seen some of that earlier shit, dunno

dusky plank
#

even I saw 10base5 😂

forest edge
#

I went from telephone baud modems to ethernet cable lol

clear ferry
#

Understandable when the us moved from token ring straight to fast Ethernet

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And stayed there

dusky plank
#

those stiff coax cables 😍 lovely stuff

clear ferry
#

You'd love cx4 infiniband then @dusky plank

#

🤢

dusky plank
#

we have those for 10g in house

junior forge
#

Those CX4 Infinibands where also used to build the golden gate bridge

#

that stiff

clear ferry
#

Really? I haven't seen those for 10g in .... 10 years

#

It's all sfp+ with thin twinax since then

#

If I ever see DACs

#

Which is rare

dusky plank
#

just saw those lying around a few days ago but they are changing offices now, wanted to make a photo but they're gone 😦

clear ferry
#

I installed a HPC system with 800 nodes with the old thick twinax and cx4

dusky plank
#

we still operate some DB2 machines, banking sector.. so yeah

clear ferry
#

That was a nightmare

#

I manage db2 systems too, but they are all running on modern x86 with regular lc cabling

#

Superdome flex or Superdome X mostly

dusky plank
#

superdome x yep

clear ferry
#

No cx4 connextor cards for that system

dusky plank
#

those are not used there...

clear ferry
#

Oh

dusky plank
#

will make photos when I get in the cellar next time

clear ferry
dusky plank
#

you know we have the cleanest basements in austria

clear ferry
#

laughs in fritzl

forest edge
#

you guys really know how to make amercian's appreciate being american's lol

clear ferry
#

Good thing you can appreciate it, noone else does

forest edge
#

i don't blame you, sounds rough out there

dusky plank
#

fritzl, priklopil, josef in the netherlands - most famous austrians besides arnold, falco and schnitzel

clear ferry
#

Don't forget Hitler

forest edge
#

still laughing at atx having to fight that coax shit lol

low harness
#

They say that's the political genius of the Austrian. They made people think Mozart was Austrian and Hitler was German.

dusky plank
#

Only if your subwoofer inhales the cat, you can be sure the bass really kicks in!

  • J.A. Mozart, Austrian MC
forest edge
clear ferry
#

Got some new storage

dusky plank
#

sata 🤢

clear ferry
late gate
clear ferry
#

🤔

light trout
clever mortar
#

Pffft, I just upgraded from 3.7.3 to 3.8.6 - other than the fact that HA seems to be not bothering to install requirements for MySQL/MariaDB it goes smoothly

#

(literally, just did that 5 minutes ago)

light trout
#

Not 3.9? 😮

clever mortar
#

I'm insane, not crazy...

light trout
#

✅

late gate
#

I just did a big sin; Install home assistant OS directly on a NUC

light trout
#

Could have been worse

late gate
#

true, true. I just dont need the NUC for anything else so lets see how it pans out

light trout
clever mortar
clear ferry
#

🤢

#

I should find something to PR

inner lava
#

Oof, the voltage drop is real... Very left perfect 12V, very right barely 9V 🥲
Not sure if this is an issue with the wires I used or just in general with LED strips of this kind... tbh it is a cheap chinese strip so eh...
Measuring one lane I get about 8 Ohms which shouldn’t drop voltage this much tho, should it?

📎 image0.jpg
#

Or maybe just in general the LEDs using this much up on the way to the right which sounds more plausible

#

Tho... would running wires from the very left to say the middle or so compensated this issue?

dusky plank
amber bramble
#

@inner lava voltage drop on led tape is super annoying

inner lava
#

Wasn’t sure if this goes into #diy-archived cause it isn’t fully just “IoT” lol

amber bramble
#

i made the mistake of getting 5V strips and trying to do my roof outline with them 🙃

inner lava
#

Oof

#

Yeah but I guess just running a pair of wires to the middle will work to compensate here

#

Or... can I feed the voltage into the end of the strip too to give it juice from both sides?

amber bramble
#

yes

inner lava
#

Hm, I may do that then. Don’t have to splice things up that way.

dusky plank
#

I smell support in here

inner lava
#

Well it says “no home assistant support” 😝

dusky plank
#

😉

inner lava
#

Nah didn’t feel like it was worth it for #diy-archived since it’s not IoT related per-se

#

Tho... technically seen it does have Tasmota to control it later on soooo... eh, not sure 😅

clear ferry
#

@inner lava AS many places as possible

#

Or as needed

#

Is the right answer

inner lava
#

Making connections you mean?

clear ferry
#

Yes

inner lava
#

👍

clear ferry
#

Nothing is stopping to you from doing it before each led

#

But that is excessive

#

Gotta try until you find a good compromise

#

Insert when it starts dropping below x

inner lava
#

Yeah. Nah I’ll try and see if running long wires from the very left to right to the other end of the strip will help.

last dirge
#

how long of a strip are you running?

clear ferry
#

Both ends will help for sure

inner lava
last dirge
#

you should be fine just powering both ends then

inner lava
#

Nice

#

Yeah will try that then

#

Will get a better power supply anyways, really not trusting that Chinese crappy one that came with it...

last dirge
#

12V or 5V?

inner lava
#

12

last dirge
#

yeah, should be fine then

late gate
#

@clear ferry im not sure why its so much hate against the home assistant os if the hardware has no intentions beside running home assistant?

clear ferry
#

I come from enterprise, I hate locked down appliances, and I feel in general the user base for it often get in way over their head, heck a lot of them should never have automated their house

inner lava
#

@clear ferry im not sure why its so much hate against the home assistant os if the hardware has no intentions beside running home assistant?
@late gate (((people also told me I’m dumb switching from Zigbee2MQTT to deCONZ to have fallback when HASS is down so the community isn’t the friendliest sometimes 😝)))

clear ferry
#

Zigbee2mqtt master race

#

🧙

inner lava
#

Happy with deCONZ so far 😛 Does everything I need and keeps the lights working even when HASS upgrades or is down 🙂 For everything else I need I just manually send commands to deCONZ via HASS to control stuff.

late gate
#

I have no issues with different opinions at all 🙂 I see the benefit of a host os and home assistant as a child of it

clear ferry
#

Same with zigbee2mqtt @inner lava

light trout
#

I like the OS, since it gives me less things to do, but on anything more powerfull than a soc I would run it as a VM on a hypervisor

inner lava
#

Same with zigbee2mqtt @inner lava
@clear ferry Not really since you need a second system for it to control it. Z2M itself can’t control them directly, you still need NodeRed or something else for it.

clear ferry
#

Mosquitto pub?

late gate
#

I have now tried ubuntu with hassio, vm, python venv, docker and hassos barebone and personally I had no experience differences in performance

#

so I can support all of them personally

inner lava
#

I like the OS, since it gives me less things to do, but on anything more powerfull than a soc I would run it as a VM on a hypervisor
@light trout I literally set up ESXi on one of those tiny MinisForum PCs just as a dedicated SmartHome server. Still need to migrate home assistant to it tho.

#

Mainly did it for easier backups tho

late gate
#

the only thing that I dont like about hassos is it could be a bit too barebone

inner lava
#

Couldn’t be bothered to write my own Linux backup scripts

light trout
#

ESXi would by my goto as well, but that's because I learned that one though work, and have not needed to look into others
(other than hyper-v that is, but F hyper-v)

clear ferry
#

Hyperv

#

🤢

inner lava
#

I’m glad I got a “super uber duper license” from a friend that works at VMware 😝 So I can’t complain there. Sadly only for 6.7, not 7 but eh, will do for years still.

#

Else I wouldn’t use ESXi

light trout
#

So far I have not noticed the limits on the free version

clear ferry
#

6.x is going end of life in 12 months

late gate
#

I kinda lost a bit interest for the home lab setup

light trout
#

Move it to the cloud 🎉

late gate
#

ha in the cloud?

inner lava
#

Oof

#

No

#

Lol

clear ferry
#

That's why I'm doing aws certification now @light trout

light trout
#

suuuuuure 😄

clear ferry
#

🧙

inner lava
late gate
#

wellllllll

inner lava
#

Oh boy HA in the cloud... gotta love setting up THAT VPN and stuff lol...

late gate
#

that does not sounds like high WAF

inner lava
#

And have fun if the connection goes down 😝

light trout
#

They wanted me to take some AWS certs where I worked before, I'm fine with not have had to do it 🙈

inner lava
#

“Honey, why’s the bathroom light not working???”
“Internet’s down!”

late gate
#

well thats kinda smartthings in real life caugh

inner lava
#

God that’d be perfect for InternetOfShit

light trout
#

If that happens, you failed anyway, automation should never be the only option, manual intervention should always be an option

clear ferry
#

You should see what I installed in my garage today @inner lava

#

Hybrid cloud incoming

#

Run ha in the cloud and ha failover with local instance if internet goes down

#

That should be good

inner lava
#

I mean... fallback from the cloud kind of defeats the purpose of a Smart Home in my opinion 🤔 If it goes this far not sure if a Smart Home (at least for private use) is even worth it 😅

#

In case my setup ever goes down I can simply and quickly restore an ESXi VM backup from Synology and continue

clear ferry
#

You are talking to the guy who runs both Linux, freebsd and hpux in his garage, nothing is too far

#

And soon a full VMware vcf stack too

#

🧙

inner lava
#

OOF

#

A wizard!

dusky plank
#

i believe kubernetes would be the way to go for failover but meh

late gate
#

@clear ferry I got the new series from ELKO. seem like they dont a lot right with the new series. all the old stuff with smart addition. works like old stuff if zigbee is down

light trout
#

nothing is too far
I do not agree, even the garage is too far

inner lava
#

I still have no idea what Kubernets are 😅

clear ferry
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@dusky plank that is part of both vsphere 7 and aws, so.... Yes

inner lava
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So far I get like “tiny VMs”?

light trout
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dark magic @inner lava

dusky plank
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kubernetes -aws then

weary summit
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did anyone else get a mail from somfy regarding the use of the tahoma api?

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looks like they are unhappy about the fact that home assistant uses the api they've provided

clever mortar
weary summit
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ah found it

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thx

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daily reminder to not buy cloud-only products

last dirge
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or products that can't function independent of computers

weary summit
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not sure if it's off topic or not 👀

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it does provide a less shitty solution though

deft pewter
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Banned? From where?

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Worst I can foresee happening if you post something useless on an issue is that you just get ignored.

midnight adder
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worst it gets closed as off topic lad

deft pewter
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Existing issue, not a new issue that's just spam.

#

A security flaw in a hi-tech chastity belt for men made it possible for hackers to remotely lock all the devices in use simultaneously.

The internet-linked sheath has no manual override, so owners might have been faced with the prospect of having to use a grinder or bolt cutter to free themselves from its metal clamp.

late gate
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reminder to self: do not reply 5G conspiracy people on facebook comments

deft pewter
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Yeah, don't acknowledge the crazies. 😄

late gate
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I was bored last week and replied. ended up in 100+ comments and week later im just as frustrated

deft pewter
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It's pretty futile to try to convince stupid people of the truth. They wouldn't believe such backwards crap if they had the intelligence for critical thinking in the first place, so you can't argue them out of their positions.

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What's the old quote? You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into in the first place?

last dirge
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you can't have a discussion with someone who doesn't share the same reality

clever mortar
deft pewter
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Flat earthers... 5g... corona hoax... the list goes on.

last dirge
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is it me who's wrong?

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no, everyone else is dumb

deft pewter
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One thing I'm sure we can all agree though... birds aren't real.

late gate
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no very true. I was part of the paid govermental sheep that believe the corporate peer reviewed journals as they discredit the wordpress science journals they had

last dirge
late gate
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the fun thing is it start quite entertaining, but end up in just wtf, seriously

clear ferry
last dirge
forest edge
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@clear ferry wanna see my 10base 4 port switch?

clear ferry
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That's the most sensual thing I've heard today

forest edge
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🍆

clear ferry
forest edge
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damn cricket mating season

clear ferry
forest edge
clear ferry
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🤢

subtle pasture
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@deft pewter What genius designed it without a manual override??

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IoT deadbolts on homes are bad enough, but this is next-level. lol

turbid stirrup
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taking "screw the customer" to the next level

subtle pasture
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The first ransomware for that device better be called "cockblocker"

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"Please pay 0.69 bitcoins to regain access"

clear ferry
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🍆

jovial marten
clear ferry
forest edge
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sure atx would test it to see if it could still find the port if he bent over in front of it

tidal bronze
static schooner
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get yer vote on

subtle pasture
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Yup, mine just came in too

tidal bronze
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I meant the voting twice line. 😆

clear ferry
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It's not a crime if you are just checking if your vote was counted already

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Or some say....

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🤫

forest edge
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did you put the smile face on there or did they as a subtle hint? lol

tidal bronze
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I couldn't help myself.

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@subtle pasture did you look at the propositions?

subtle pasture
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Working right now, I haven't opened it yet

static schooner
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Ballot defaced - Rejected!

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do not taunt the election gods

tidal bronze
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Don't have them in my neck of the woods.

forest edge
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kind of surprised your even allowed to mail in vote, thought the cali save the tree hippies would be all over it

tidal bronze
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All these are made out of kelp.

jovial marten
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As if they are actually counted 😂

subtle pasture
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@forest edge We haven't won the fight on paper use, not by a long shot... you should see how much junkmail I get every week, it's absurd

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Thankfully a lot of paper these days tends to be produced from a combination of recycled paper and rotating/sustainable tree farms

tidal bronze
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I can take anything but carmel macchiato with a recycled paper straw just don't cut it.

subtle pasture
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Literally drinking a cold brew from a starbucks sippy cup right now, lol

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I don't mind the new lids, except that they tend to zap you on the first sip

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Like, they build up static electricity or something

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And half the time they give you a plastic straw anyway, because some of their drinks basically require one (frappes, anyone?)

tidal bronze
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Coffee been now got the fat ones for frappes. I like the blended/chewed paper taste towards the end.

dull chasm
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how is a tree never sustanable and renewable .... 🤔

subtle pasture
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@dull chasm Old growth forests take far too long to regrow to sustain our needs for paper products

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Tree farms are designed rotate through plots, and grow fast-growing low-density wood for the express purpose of producing paper and cardboard, without destroying the soil

forest edge
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All these are made out of kelp.
@tidal bronze so you nibble on paper for snacks?

dull chasm
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oh my lord that has been happening for years .....

subtle pasture
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Yup, which is why paper usage and wastage isn't quite as terrible as it initially looks

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Plastic is a way bigger issue

tidal bronze
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@forest edge scorpions to paper, diversified pallet you know.

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Remember it's LA

forest edge
dull chasm
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we are well aware and why we stay here

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beach blondes aint worth the headache

forest edge
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not today's.. now in the 80's..

tidal bronze
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@forest edge anything goes mi amigo 😝

dull chasm
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80's you might be right

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nowdays you dont know what you are getting

tidal bronze
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beach blondes aint worth the headache
@dull chasm will be able to see even if you see one.

dull chasm
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huh

tidal bronze
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That flew by fast.

forest edge
tidal bronze
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Oh yes that's the not so progressive san Bernardino County. Didn't surprise me that much. Didnt even have to watch the video. City name said it all. 🤣

forest edge
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lol

dull chasm
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quick image search ...i might have to change my mind @tidal bronze you see many of these

📎 unknown.png
subtle pasture
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The the fuck wears cowboy boots to the beach?

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Also, that's a shitty beach >_>

dull chasm
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would be right up my alley

forest edge
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she may have to remove the bottoms, bend over and spread the cheeks for him to recongize her with his porn industry experince

static schooner
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The cowboy hat is not the prominent feature there 🙂

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and boots

tidal bronze
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@dull chasm you mean the old shaped rocks?

dull chasm
subtle pasture
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Aaaand the finish on that guitar is wrecked, lol

tidal bronze
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He does not play

dull chasm
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its on the beach ....

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i do

tidal bronze
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You ain't playing Handel on that

dull chasm
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no its not a harpiscord

tidal bronze
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Just making sure. 🤣 you know what you posted.

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Yikes I am starving.

dull chasm
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a chick with boots and a hat with me on beach drinking a beer .....sure do

forest edge
dull chasm
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what you dont see is wife beating the hell out of my head

tidal bronze
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@dull chasm I thought you played the

DIDGERIDOO

dull chasm
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no i think thats @clear ferry and @junior forge duo

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i might not be here sunday

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cat 4 hurricane

tidal bronze
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Evacuation orders ?

dull chasm
tidal bronze
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Be safe out there.

dull chasm
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10-4 ..... Bon Secure les le bon temps roule no here for 4 days come looking in trees 🤣

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d'accord?

green inlet
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Knee high boots turn any 6 into a 9 1/2.

tidal bronze
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@green inlet while on beer or scotch?

green inlet
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Straight up

dull chasm
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dont matter ...she is happy

green inlet
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Just saying

dull chasm
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makes a old man think of younger days

green inlet
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God speed Vasiley, hopefully it turns away from LA.

dull chasm
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thanks but i dont see that happening

junior forge
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@forest edge m8! If you share some jaw harp vids, share one that plays it properly 😛

green inlet
dull chasm
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i know starting to feel old

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it is sad ...battle with cancer

green inlet
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Cancer sucks huge donkey balls.....I really wish we could find a cure.

dull chasm
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tell me about ...wife will suffer because of it the rest of her life

tidal bronze
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@green inlet that's sad.

green inlet
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Many a Jack Daniels and 7-11 big gulps were consumed before 1st period listening to VanHalen

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When Joe Satriani is giving you props mindblown

late gate
#

I’m switching to a synology for nas and synology push btrfs over ext4. Tried to search and nobody agree. Is the btrfs benefit of snapshots and bitrot protection overweight the performance drop compared to ext4. Btrfs and ext4 is the options of synology so have to choose

tidal bronze
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Btrfs here

static schooner
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I don't think you'll really see any perf drop

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reliability will always trump any possible perf difference for a NAS

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I have a 1515+ with ext4 and 1819+ with btrfs, no obvious diff

late gate
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I agree on that so btrfs it is. I luckily got 2 m2 drives laying here so going to run it with 2tb of cache

static schooner
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both can saturate gigabit Ethernet

frigid portal
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I'm new to Home Assistant. I'm curious what the meaning of Lovelace is as it pertains to Home Assistant. The only Lovelace I'm familiar with is a deceased 1970s porn star named Linda Lovelace. I'm guessing somebody has a perverse sense of humor.

late gate
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Great. Got a ds1920+ and hope dsm7 comes out soon

static schooner
tidal bronze
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Link aggregation helps if serving multiple clients. I run 4 units switched from ext didn't notice anything significant

frigid portal
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@static schooner that doesn't explain why it's called Lovelace or whether there's any connection to the porn star. I'm just curious.

static schooner
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🤷

frigid portal
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Her real name was Linda Susan Borman. The film she's famous for is called Deep Throat. She made headlines when she published an autobiography claiming that her abusive husband forced her into the porn industry .

junior forge
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Ada Lovelace

frigid portal
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@junior forge that makes a lot more sense.

forest edge
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@junior forge wtf am i listening to lol

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kind of reminded me of that club music you hear in movies when they go to a night club in yugoslavia lol

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@tidal bronze you done webbing your palm trees yet for Halloween? lol

junior forge
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IMPROVER is actually one of the best beat boxers in the world 😉

tidal bronze
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@forest edge only a tiny pumpkin with a candle inside.

forest edge
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weak

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you keep getting lazy then next year it won't even be that, you'll write boo on the mailbox with a dry erase marker

tidal bronze
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@forest edge got your lights up ?

forest edge
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@tidal bronze just did that earlier today

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@tidal bronze dude there is something seriously going wrong in your state. a quarter of my youtube list is different crap happening in california lol

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maybe take a statewide breather or something

tidal bronze
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Stop with your obsession about Cali they will go away.

forest edge
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go away? this isn't the boogie man

wet pilot
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lol you keep watching the vids google will feed you more

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"oh, this guy is a wannabie cali"

forest edge
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these aren't past, this is crap that has happened within 2 hours lol

tidal bronze
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Exactly

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Get on a flight or horse wagon and head over here. See for yourself

forest edge
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maybe go outside and look, your closer

tidal bronze
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Nothing to see here. 😆

forest edge
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thats you lol

tidal bronze
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That's what you think but far from the truth at least to me.

forest edge
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I dunno, over the past month between the fires, people being shot, rioters rioting and and young adults partying.. maybe that is just normal cali lol

tidal bronze
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I get all my news from you. Thankfully

forest edge
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well stay tuned, only a matter of time before I link a video of the heli over your house with breaking news of a new trend, rioting orgy invading people's homes

tidal bronze
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Lmao.

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Finally, last teams call of the day. 👍

forest edge
subtle pasture
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@tidal bronze I know that feel. I had one that went right up till 5:00 today

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And I'm not the only one working from home + using Teams. If I'm up from my desk, it gets hard to tell if it's me getting pinged or not...

tidal bronze
#

Another 1:45 😫 in person was much faster. 😆

forest edge
clear ferry
#

🤏

clear ferry
#

powershell 😠

hearty depot
#

bash is love

forest edge
#

only watched two episodes so far but Star Trek Discovery is shaping up to be shite

clever mortar
#

Eh, I enjoyed it... but like all series it takes a little to set the scene and get going

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Many folks forget how rough the first season of TNG was 😄

forest edge
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well as far as I can tell it's not branching off anything existing so it's a new story just using star trek assets lol

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and the klingons do not look like what we're use to lol

clever mortar
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Which is hardly new 😄

clear ferry
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Discovery was great tbh

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It's not like the other shows

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which is great, because that format is... outdated

#

Interesting, my explorer.exe crashed and won't come back

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all my applications are continuing to run, but I can't download anything either 🤔

dusky plank
#

what always works for me is the explorer window in task manager File - new task - explore... don't know why but this has to be some weird mini explorer 😛

clear ferry
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no go, suddenly five explorer windows jumped up after 40 minutes

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I'll try a hard restart 🤣

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that worked it seems

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probably because I poked the enterprise firewall

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👼

dusky plank
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i punch that thing every few seconds

clever mortar
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Next time, try a battering ram instead of poking it 😛

clear ferry
#

Well.... I've smartly avoided it for over a year by shadow upgrading my windows laptop to a version that the antivirus software we use internally hasn't supported

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apparently they have caught up to me

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🤣

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fricking mcafee bullshit

clever mortar
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I thought you said antivirus software, and then you mentioned Mcafee... 🤷

clear ferry
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well, it's their suite

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with firewall\antivirus

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Endpoint security is the name

clever mortar
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Yeah, well, as I said... 😛

midnight adder
#

hi ppl

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is there an open-source invoicing platform

clear ferry
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Google tells me

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YES

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doing rpi clone finally

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before my nerves break

dusky plank
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so atx uses rpi after all? heavy breathing

clear ferry
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a single one, for zigbee2mqtt, and I hate it

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🤣

dusky plank
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your single rpi has 64 cores, right?

clear ferry
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IF ONLY

midnight adder
#

Hi,

I´ve come across this already working windows software which is using an API to control Worx, Kress and Landxcape lawn movers. I would really wish HA would support my Landxcape instead of me starting it manually via the APP or using the crappy build in scheduler. Are there anywhere to provide this info - possibly hoping this will be catched by some kind of kind developer who are able to copy the functionality into HA? 🙂

Thanks for you answers :)

https://github.com/EishaV/Desktop-App
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B63Mhn1k_KcbdXB5ZjdUUHNCWWc
https://www.roboter-forum.com/index.php?thread/22795-entwicklungsprojekt-worx-landroid-kress-mission-desktop-app/&pageNo=1

GitHub
EishaV/Desktop-App

Desktop Application for Worx Landroid and Kress Mission - EishaV/Desktop-App

Roboter-Forum.com
Entwicklungsprojekt: Worx Landroid & Kress Mission Desktop App - Ro...

Eine kleine portable Anwendung mit der man die Mäher Worx-Landroid bzw. Kress-Mission von einem Desktop-PC beobachten und steuern kann.

Net - Eine reine Windows-Variante die .Net Framework 4.6 oder höher voraussetzt.
Mono - Eine Variante für Linux…

velvet horizonBOT
clever mortar
#

Open a feature request there, if there isn't one already 😉

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Messages here vanish quickly

midnight adder
#

I´ve created a request. Thanks.

Sorry for the cross post - saw the integrations thread afterwards 🙂

dusky plank
clear ferry
#

big blue 🤢

clever mortar
#

I still have a Sun mug somewhere...

low harness
#

Didn't we just do this the other day?

clever mortar
dusky plank
#

🤫 I have some more, just be patient

clear ferry
#

well that was painless @clever mortar

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now running on a purple card

clever mortar
dusky plank
clear ferry
#

Pretty OK performance on my 8 SSD RAID50

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It's usable

late gate
#

@clear ferry no z2m in docker or vm? What pills did you take now?

clear ferry
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it is in docker

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on a pi

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I just wanted it smack in the middle of the house for ultimate coverage

late gate
#

Why not just a ser2net pi?

clear ferry
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mmmm yet another layer of failure

late gate
#

You would have a job without layers of computer failures so start at home hehe

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Wouldn’t

clear ferry
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Psssh, I keep systems running

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most of the time

late gate
#

I am actually thinking doing the same with deconz, but only had rpi4 laying here. Still feel 4 is overkill