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forest edge
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the first ikea store to open here in the US was in 85 2 years after sam's club but I'm sure since ikea had been around since the 40's they probably visited one to get idea before opening stores

last cedar
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@low harness 47 billion meatballs

low harness
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I never had an IKEA meatball.

forest edge
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they looked gross to me lol

last cedar
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You are definately missing out

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They are so round

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And meaty

forest edge
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and being ikea everytime i see one i think of sheep balls

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i like italian lol

clear ferry
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The Ikea plant based sausages are great

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I always get 2-3 when I'm at IKEA

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I've only tried the vegan meatballs, they are great too, not tried the plant based meatballs yet

dusky plank
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schöttbulâr

clear ferry
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that is actually pretty accurate to how kids in norway now prounounce it

dusky plank
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yeah i learned the K is like 'sh'

clear ferry
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classic norwegian is "Kjøtt" which is pronounced very differently from "Schøtt"

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My Belgian friend can't hear the difference because that sound doesn't exist in Flemish

low harness
clear ferry
forest edge
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those are diffidently sheep testicles

dusky plank
clear ferry
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Old but great

clear ferry
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nice, one of my crowns have cracked

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need to call the dentist 🤣

midnight adder
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dentist private or public in norway?

subtle pasture
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@dusky plank Love them

subtle pasture
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Also worth checking out: Steam Powered Giraffe

midnight adder
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well moving mouse around used to help on windows 95

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with loading bars, not download speed

deft pewter
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SPG are great.

clear ferry
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@midnight adder both

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we have free dental care until we are 19 years old

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and I get 50% on all dental work for the rest of my life since I grinded teeth as a kid 🤣

low harness
deft pewter
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That reminds me of the creepy statue in Devs.

dusky plank
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I'd like to hear an 'murican opinion on this

deft pewter
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I thought we didn't do politics in here 😄

forest edge
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ban him!

clear ferry
forest edge
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I will say this, no matter how much the government may have messed up, our death toll is the people's fault. Something no report/video/article will likely state because of politics lol

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but on the same note, what you see in those videos is a very small fraction of our country

clear ferry
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just your state then @forest edge ? 🤣

deft pewter
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It's always the people's fault. We all have a choice between staying safe or spreading it.

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It's a shame that there are so many selfish people that do the latter.

clear ferry
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Just be like norwegians, avoid other people and stay home

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y'all

dusky plank
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thought it‘s ok - since politics didn‘t do anything in essence according to this. but okey, I go now 🚶🏼‍♂️

deft pewter
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I was half joking, mstone. Coronavirus affects us all (in different ways depending on where we live, of course), and people are bound to want to talk about it.

dusky plank
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np 😄 its just that my gov f up in much the same way

deft pewter
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It's just one of those topics that can quickly turn into a heated debate over how particular politicians have handled (or not, as may be the case) the situation.

clear ferry
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I can turn this into a proper debate about how kawaii @deft pewter is

deft pewter
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How'd you get that? I haven't shared that set yet.

clear ferry
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Ripped it from your onlyfans queue

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Interesting

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making my first grafana dashboard

dusky plank
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grafana can now display gifs?

clear ferry
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IF ONLY

low harness
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Awesome. I just got an email from my company about a mandatory training which cannot be accessed with Internet Explorer. We are encouraged to use a different browser. On our work computers. Where only Internet Explorer is installed. And noone has admin access.

clear ferry
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no admin access 🤢

low harness
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Let's hope they informed IT about this beforehand (Hah!).

clear ferry
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that's a hard pass from me

low harness
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Yeah, I had that changed for me immediately.

dusky plank
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we are also locked down in our company. fortunately I'm in a position to calculate my own admin password and anyone elses 😄

low harness
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The new IT manager also turned off Excell macros globally...

clear ferry
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wtf

dusky plank
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we can't even use usb devices except for bitlocker keys, locked out by ivanti

clear ferry
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Yeah, I'm gonna pass

dusky plank
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ohh that's just to begin with atx, all https traffic is ssl intercepted - media,sharing,gmail, basically everything is blocked

clear ferry
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Thankfully I work for a sane company

midnight adder
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and I get 50% on all dental work for the rest of my life since I grinded teeth as a kid 🤣
@clear ferry
Same here in Estonia. UK at least used to be exception in Europe with dental care for all, just thought maybe Norway had everyone covered since you're loaded with oil.

clear ferry
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well, it's not expensive tbh

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a regular filling will set you back $200-300 full price, but a lot of people have coverage through some system

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I did 3 fillings at once at one time, think I paid $500 for that

midnight adder
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regular filling is about 60 euro or 70 usd here, but well the standard of living is somewhat different

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all in all it's not expensive unless you haven't taken any care of them and need to rebuild everything

clear ferry
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yeah, the average norwegian salary appears to be.... $62k a year now

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probably skewed by some higher paid occupations

midnight adder
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gross/before taxes?

clear ferry
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before

deft pewter
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Mean, median or mode?

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(mode is such a stupid average...)

clear ferry
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mean, the median appears to be $55k

deft pewter
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That's pretty decent but I guess it's reflected in cost of living too.

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UK's median income is way lower, so I guess our cost of living is also cheaper.

forest edge
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our average is around that as well

deft pewter
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US?

forest edge
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yea

clear ferry
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google of "american average income" says 33.700 though 🤣

forest edge
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learn to google better?

deft pewter
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The provisional estimate of median disposable income in the UK is £30,800 in FYE 2020

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Income isn't salary though

clear ferry
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ah yes, salary says 56.500

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MI INGLISH SAW BEDD @deft pewter

midnight adder
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wanker

dusky plank
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UNPOSSIBLE

deft pewter
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Yeah, a lot of these stats will be based on what's left after deductions. I was shocked when I saw £30k for a household in the UK, then remembered taxes 😄

clear ferry
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taxes is quite different in just the scandi countries

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if I lived in denmark I would probably pay 50-55%

deft pewter
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Exactly. Which is why salary is a bad measure.

clear ferry
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in norway I paid 31% last year

midnight adder
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  • social security tax or whatever you call it there?
deft pewter
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Is that all taxes combined? Here, we have income tax and National Insurance (social security).

clear ferry
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all taxes combined

midnight adder
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that sounds... low

forest edge
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do norwegians get something like SS?

deft pewter
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About in line with the UK then. 20% basic rate for income tax, 12% for National Insurance.

forest edge
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I think UK does

dusky plank
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my router and my grandpa have a SSID

deft pewter
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Generous personal allowance before you pay either too. Low earners barely have to make contributions.

midnight adder
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what's the dole situation like in norway

clear ferry
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is that people in work ?

low harness
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I suppose you don't count VAT there, atx?

forest edge
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norwegians don't get social security

midnight adder
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people who either refuse to work or can't work...

forest edge
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if atx retires, he starves

clear ferry
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we have 3,6% of people currently not working who are in working age last week it seems

midnight adder
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why call it social security, not pension

light trout
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because... america

forest edge
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same concept as a "security blanket" for a kid lol

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it means once you retire you'll be taken care of

clear ferry
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I think the numbers now is if I lose my job the state pays me 70% of my old salery for up to three years

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or until I get a job

forest edge
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what do you get when you get old tho?

clear ferry
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Whatever you save up plus what the state saves for you

forest edge
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and what does the state save?

clear ferry
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my employer matches what the state saves for me + 14% or something

forest edge
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damn that sounds like that could be harsh

clear ferry
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so if I retire at age 62 with my currently salary I get $77k a year until I die

midnight adder
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probably you have some sort of guaranteed minimum too

clear ferry
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which I think is counted up to 100 years or something

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yes, that is what the states saves for you, that's the minimum

forest edge
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thats not bad sounding, but that depends on what your current salary is lol

clear ferry
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bad overtime year this year, so not very high 🤣

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somewhere between $100k and $150k a year

forest edge
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well 100 wouldn't be bad, 150 would be trash lol

midnight adder
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used to do slave labour as a kid in norway

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but that was like a century ago

clear ferry
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pension is less taxed than salary though, I think I would pay 20-25% or something

forest edge
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SS here is kind of all over the board on factors so some could be 25% to 50% but what really shines is the additional perks almost every company provides such as 401 and then of course Medicare etc

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I know some who make more retired a month then they did working lol

clear ferry
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yeah, talked to a collegue in the US, he mentioned he lost almost all his pension in the 401k a while back

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no idea how that works

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it would be.. impossible for me to lose more than 1-2% here

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that is how much is invested in equity funds

forest edge
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401 is just one of many things

clever mortar
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Yeah, I could lose the bit of my current employer's pension in funds, but not the rest of it, or the previous one, or the state one 😄

clear ferry
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I find the american way of filing taxes... interesting

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here the state fills our papers, we look at them, if we agree, we do nothing

forest edge
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pain in the ass, online makes it way easier but still a pain in the ass

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been fortune had a tax person in the family so I never had to do any of the crunching part, just cough up paperwork lol

clear ferry
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I saw the tax stands at walmart last time I was in the US

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and I just

forest edge
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tax stands?

clear ferry
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yeah, a booth where you could sit down with a consultant to fill your taxes apparently

forest edge
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oh lol

midnight adder
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it's kind of a big business there, the whole tax filling

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these tax soft companies lobbie for congress to not change the filling all the time

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looks like it works

forest edge
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yea prior to the interwebs doing your yearly taxes was a complete shit show imo

clear ferry
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I've done my taxes online since.... 2005 I think

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which means, looking at it, and agreeing

midnight adder
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but what is there to fill for the 90% of the population? the state knows it already for the most part

steel crag
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LOL we don't file taxes

forest edge
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there are all kind of cuts you can file for, hell havving kids is a huge thing alone

clear ferry
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the state fills that field automatically

midnight adder
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well that's same for the most countries I believe

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the state knows you're a father lol

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if they give you one kid less you complain / fill the paperwork, otherwise you just agree and it's done

clear ferry
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my wife has to put in that she bought books for school though, that's a big thing for her, since she actually gets money back, without having an income for the last 5 years 🤣

forest edge
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you can take tax breaks on all kinds of shit, state dosen't know everything so you can specify

clear ferry
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but she puts it on me, so I get reduced tax instead

forest edge
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same thing as that

midnight adder
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what are the common things besides kids? I mean examples from your life

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just curious

clear ferry
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In ireland I think I paid 8% tax 🤔

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only thing I have changed on my tax papers the last 13 years have been my milage at work @midnight adder because I get money back for that

forest edge
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well I get tax breaks on my farm, agriculture. tax breaks on equipment purchases. I mean all kinds of shit.

midnight adder
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@clear ferry training here... or well education, is the only thing for me that I could have added

clear ferry
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I can add more stuff but I have to above a certain level for it to make an impact that for me it would be $1 here or there

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which I don't bother

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So I'm doing AWS certification this year, and PRINCE2 certification, and I need to refresh my VCP next year, wonder if I should do a VCP in another field than DCV 🤔

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because if you do a VCP in another field the other VCPs get refreshed while you at the same time gain another VCP

forest edge
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you should, sounds like when you retire your gonna need all the money you can get..

clear ferry
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Pssh, I'll live like a king

forest edge
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so smaller house in the middle of an empty field surrounded by angry lemmings?

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I need to get an sdr

light trout
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WTF are you doing with PRINCE2? Dont you work alone?

clear ferry
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I have to interact with feckers sometimes

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and some customers "demand" prince2 certification for project work

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zzzzzzzzzzzzz

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I already have ITIL v3 🤷

light trout
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Those who demands that, have no clue what they are doing

clear ferry
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so, most customers then

light trout
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I got itil as well, never used it 🤷

forest edge
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pretty sure most that shit is just made up to make money

clear ferry
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I've been a change manager, a problem manager and an incident manager

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in different projects

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I've even led change boards

forest edge
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hell you didn't need any certifications to work any level of computers back in my day lol

clear ferry
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and look at you now

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just an angry farmer on the internet

forest edge
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a well paid without jumping through hoops all my life farmer tyvm

midnight adder
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you one of those Ukrainians writing custom cracked firmwire for John Deere, eh?

forest edge
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hell no, I try and avoid doing anything other than playing video games and creating artwork on a computer these days. HA is about as code involved as i get these days rotf

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I don't mind reading crap, like changelogs to stuff etc, but to actually put forth the effort to type anything out other than to BS @clear ferry is too much work for me

clear ferry
dusky plank
steel crag
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lol

hearty depot
last dirge
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that's a ridiculous regex

young sigil
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I couldn't get it to parse in two different online regex testers.

clever mortar
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Once you make it a single line it's parsed by Debuggex just fine

vagrant crest
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my homeassistant works

light trout
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Don't let the IRS know that

clear ferry
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Less fortunate users hate this one trick

exotic haven
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Hey everyone, i'm looking at improving my home network. I currently have 22 devices on my wireless home network which is powered by an Ubiquiti Amplifi HD (https://amplifi.com/amplifi-hd) with 2 meshpoints. Some of the devices such as a laptop and an ipad have recently started seeing speed degradation as well as an XBox One S.

  • Would it help if upgrade to a ubiquiti AP AC Pro with an appropriate switch?
  • How would I be able to determine whether the Amplifi HD is struggling?

Not Just a Wi-Fi Router, It’s a Mesh Wi-Fi System.

light trout
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with only 22 devices, it's most likely not struggling

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come back when you add another 0 to that 😉

dusky plank
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you'd think

low harness
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Is that really their marketing photo??

clear ferry
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They cater to home users who think they are enterprise, so nothing surprises me

low harness
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Years of educating people on the non-risks of wifi ”radiation” out the window.

deft pewter
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Unpopular opinion... I like that ad.

dusky plank
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look, it's a monopinion!

deft pewter
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Kinda reminds of me Razer... 🤢

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Okay products, if they were a third of the price.

clear ferry
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That was a blast from the past

deft pewter
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Razer?

deft pewter
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That looks ancient

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I've been looking for speakers. Saw they have a set of 'gaming speakers', whatever the fuck they are. I guess it just means they're overpriced and have LED's

dusky plank
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they are doing citrix pentests at my company now... I'm curious what comes next

deft pewter
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I don't have any Citrix pens 😦

light trout
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Next step up would be, wooden toy cars

dusky plank
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we are owned now by fujitsu, wonder when I'll get my A64FX workstation

clear ferry
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Fujitsu 🤢

dusky plank
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yes

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how did I miss the talk wirh dementi today? 😂 it's gold

static schooner
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I think there will be no more of that

dusky plank
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🦵 ?

static schooner
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🔇

clear ferry
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🦻

valid grail
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subtle pasture
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I legit thought that AmpliFi ad was for a Razer product at first glance 🤢

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You know how I know this is a product for home users? It's in a form factor that doesn't stack or rack, and it has a display on the front...

clear ferry
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Displays 🤢

subtle pasture
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"How about we don't include the OLED screen, saving a ton of money on the hardware, and invest more time into the management webapp, hmmmm?"

clear ferry
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Nah, we'll give it 1.5 years of updates

dusky plank
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M A R K E T I N G

clear ferry
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And then abandon it

subtle pasture
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Only 1.5 years...

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Oof

clear ferry
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"due to hardware limitations"

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Or other bullshit ploys

subtle pasture
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I like how they think anyone is going to make a mesh of these...

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Lol, doesn't even support running from PoE

clear ferry
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🤢

subtle pasture
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Yeah, nobody is going to bother with this thing

clear ferry
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"prosumer"

subtle pasture
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I wouldn't even call this prosumer

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It has the feature set of any modern Asus or Netgear home router, with a gimicky OLED screen on the front

subtle pasture
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And they want $379 for this pile? Lol

dusky plank
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ubiquity is witchcraft

subtle pasture
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This, surprisingly, isn't a Ubiquiti product

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I don't like Ubiquiti at all, but at least they actually qualify as Prosumer

hollow glacier
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amplifi is an ubiquiti product..

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it's not a unifi product lol

subtle pasture
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Oof, aight, one more thing from ubiquiti I hate then

dusky plank
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😂

hollow glacier
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i used to hang out in their server

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apparently each team does their own thing and never work together

dusky plank
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you got me worried there leapo

hollow glacier
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so that's why you end up with like.. 10 different things that all do the same thing in a similar way

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and a wildly different gui for each

subtle pasture
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will stick with used enterprise WAPs

hollow glacier
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like that product isnt far off from the amplifi

subtle pasture
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I'll think about investing in WiFi 6 when I have even a single client that supports it. lol

hollow glacier
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samesies

subtle pasture
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Most of my network is still Wireless N... with the newer devices being AC

hollow glacier
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n?

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that's no excuse

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although i guess my wireless clients could survive on that

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max 1080p stream to plex is 40mbpsish

subtle pasture
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My WAP supports Wireless AC, as do my streaming devices, so they're good 😛

hollow glacier
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assuming you know about that travesty

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leaf switch with no oob mgmt

subtle pasture
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Can't open that link, actually

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"Early access customers only"

hollow glacier
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ya you gotta sign up for their free early access shit

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pointless

subtle pasture
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No thanks XD

hollow glacier
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i think they went down $1000 on it lol

subtle pasture
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And yeah, Ubiquiti loves to sell expensive switches that need additional hardware for management...

hollow glacier
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my current issue with them is locking l3 behind rackmount $$$$$$$ switches

subtle pasture
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Used Cisco SG300 switches are cheap, and L3 👀

hollow glacier
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i took ccna classes a million years ago and had my fun with cli and big boy shit

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for home i dont want that lol

subtle pasture
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Oh, no, SG series switches are small-business

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They're not Catalyst series

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They have a cushy webadmin

hollow glacier
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ah nice

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i'm also kinda anti cisco given their track record

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altho these days i could say that about pretty much everything

subtle pasture
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lol

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Well, for the price, they're worth a look. And if you're buying used, you're not giving any more money to Cisco 😛

hollow glacier
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i really like the unifi doorbell fwiw

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tru

subtle pasture
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There's a 28 port PoE+ SG300 on ebay for $139 right now, which is kinda absurd

hollow glacier
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nah i went full retard with unifi for home and likely just gonna keep what i have for a few years min

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that is nice

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total PoE budget?

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googles

subtle pasture
hollow glacier
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nice

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yeah i almost went either pfsense or homelab route w/ my home network

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decided to toy with other stuff instead (such as hass lol)

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my ONT at home got upgraded and now has a 10GbE WAN port...

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if they ever come out with 10GbE i'd have to def move away from unifi at least for routing/switching

subtle pasture
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Total PoE budget appears to be 180 watts on that switch, with each port supporting 802.11af

hollow glacier
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damn

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180 aint bad

subtle pasture
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The SG300-28MP has a budget of 375 watts, with each port supporting 802.11at

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So the "PP" variant is actually the lower end version, lol

clear ferry
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🤏

subtle pasture
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I'm running pfsense as my home router. Huge upgrade over the Asus router I was using before

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I can actually get full gigabit routing now, lol

clear ferry
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Pfsense served me well for 15 years

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But they are more stale than five day old garlic bread these days

subtle pasture
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Supports everything I need it to 🤷‍♀️

hollow glacier
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pfsense also cant hit 10GbE wan speeds

subtle pasture
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Good thing my WAN is only 1.2 gbps 😛

calm crow
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Damn Philips is doing a 50% off...
Can't imagine it being much better on blackfriday

hollow glacier
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hue stuff?

clear ferry
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10g wan, that's a nice 🤏 🍆

calm crow
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Yeah

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@hollow glacier

subtle pasture
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Also, if you need 10gbps routing, Netgate still has you covered with tnsr

hollow glacier
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@calm crow im blind, where is this deal you speak of

subtle pasture
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They've pushed 100 gbps through that new router OS of theirs...

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Though it's decidedly less consumer-friendly than pfsense

hollow glacier
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yea lol

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so is that a site that just aggregates deals sent to users and abuses it until the company ends the sale?

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lol

dusky plank
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I don't see much of a difference between my hue and tradfri bulbs, the hues dim a little softer and lower but thats about it
oh and the color syncing with hue sync is a bit more accurate

hollow glacier
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i guess i dont hate that idea

deft pewter
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It's exactly that. Share deals/vouchers so as many people as possible can benefit from them.

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Sometimes the 'deals' people share are pretty lame. Other times, it's massive discounts.

hollow glacier
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arent hue bulbs special in that they are able to change default behavior after power loss?

calm crow
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A deals a deal

subtle pasture
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@hollow glacier Can confirm, that is a feature

calm crow
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Colour hue b22 are 24quid

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Can't imagine it cheaper anywhere else on blackfriday

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Maybe might see promo again where you get an Alexa cheap

hollow glacier
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that's why i went with hue bulbs

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although i havent looked into the tasmota flashing or w/e and the benefits there

hearty depot
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aww nice, a 15 hour work day over, I just love home office

dusky plank
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f google gets worse every day,
first page searching for b22 hue bulb returns all pages in UK

hollow glacier
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aww nice, a 15 hour work day over, I just love home office
@hearty depot ouch

dusky plank
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7 hours overtime. i do the same atm. profit!

hearty depot
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nah, just had to be finised today and I like the collection of hours

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gleitzeit is georgus as well

static schooner
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<- exempt from overtime, as though that’s a good thing

hearty depot
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so you have to work 15 hours and get paid 7.8?

dusky plank
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every hour overtime gets paid out for me, so no bad deal

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considering i don't even have to go anywhere

hearty depot
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I just like the extra vacation

static schooner
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But it’s more salaried vs hourly, and has other implications

hearty depot
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as long as it works out for you, have been there too, but in gastronomy. that sucked so hard (and I was young back then)

hollow glacier
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i have a bulb that says "b16s" on it

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different from b16 i assume?

clear ferry
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Excempt from overtime 🤢

bitter zinc
#

Anyone know of a good smart clock? I want something that has a lot of control with home assistant

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I was hoping it would have a wake up light and an alarm that can be triggered by hass. Is that a thing?

midnight adder
#

@bitter zinc If you have a siren/sonos/google/alexa etc you could just have an automation trigger them at your desired time no?

bitter zinc
#

That’s true

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I wanted something more professional looking though

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I already have an Alexa in that room in a different spot

static schooner
#

Lol on the siren

dull chasm
#

chainsaw on smartswitch ? seems like it would work one way or another

keen pier
#

I asked about rtxrfx433s in here a few days ago. Word is the manufacturer isn’t making any more at the moment

hollow glacier
#

FYI to people rocking iOS and ubiquiti.. check the last bullet point

terse stag
#

what soil moisture sensors do you all like to use?

midnight adder
#

I was hoping it would have a wake up light and an alarm that can be triggered by hass. Is that a thing?
@bitter zinc

HA at least on Android can read your alarm time, trigger all the lights, music and sprinkles with it when HA also knows you're at home or smth.

tidal bronze
#

what soil moisture sensors do you all like to use?
@terse stag SHT30

forest edge
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sand sensor

bronze valve
#

HA noob here. Where is the best spot for dashboard config ideas?

wet pilot
forest edge
#

just watched a japanese carpenter video where he used dewalt tools.. that was strange to see

tidal bronze
#

Why strange ?

forest edge
#

just seems like an odd choice in tool brand to me

#

i mean professional carpenters here don't use dewalt lol

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I don't mean contractors, i mean carpenters

tidal bronze
#

Lol. Professional carpenters huh.

forest edge
#

never seen one?

tidal bronze
#

Hmmm beaches and sand. What capenters.

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Do you know one ?

forest edge
#

you never seen Bicentennial Man? he makes clocks out of beach wood during a good chunk of the movie lol

#

my grandfather was one

tidal bronze
#

Nopes.

forest edge
#

he was a hobbyist at it but still was one lol

#

well carpenters are the ones who build those custom cabinets and stairs and moldings etc. not everything is bought at lowes lol

#

for someone who loves speakers you should befriend you one, custom enclosures is key to the best sound 😉

tidal bronze
#

That's a long a winding road making custom cabinets. 1983 made perfect sense. With the amount of science that goes in to design and pressure testing etc not worth the effort.

forest edge
#

for speaker enclosures or cabinets in a home? cabinets in a home are always worth it. why do you think so many are eager to gut older homes for thiers lol

tidal bronze
#

Lol. Speaker enclosures.

#

Little light headed today.

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Was not expecting to take a last minute flight.

forest edge
#

you should tell your company to get with the times and just use the internet like everyone else

tidal bronze
#

You mean tell myself 🤣

#

19 years since I worked for someone else 😝

forest edge
#

well same diff right lol

tidal bronze
#

Yep.

forest edge
#

love that i paid banggood for 10-13 day shipping and it takes them 5 days to process the order then tell me it will be here in a month

tidal bronze
#

Lol. I am yet to try banggood

forest edge
#

they are basically a middleman to china but safer to purchase from than china lol

hearty depot
#

I just 'lost' google services on my daily driver (update to android 11 without doing my homework first)
and I was plesantly supprised that the Homeassistant app is in the F-Droid store

clear ferry
#

nice, after I cleared up my nfs errors on windows I actually get vscode with ssh connection to work reliably

clear ferry
#

this was quite handy since dell are shitholes who don't give users any proper options for older java based bullshit

clear ferry
#

🤣

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old but good

clear ferry
#

nice Nextcloud has a virtual drive preview client

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so I don't have to sync to browse folders

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which I have been missing

dusky plank
#

webdav ❤️

clear ferry
dusky plank
#

what movie is that btw?

clear ferry
#

The Boys

dusky plank
#

uuh prime, one thing I actually have. but also never use

clear ferry
#

You guys pay for TV ? 🤔

#

🤣

dusky plank
#

nah, i snitch iptv from my parents house 😄

clear ferry
#

I'm so old I didn't even cancel my tv subscription until last month

#

I just realized, we don't watch tv that much and if we do we watch national tv

#

which is free to stream

dusky plank
#

yeah traditional television channels are a legacy thing

forest edge
#

not here

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cable tv here has many benefits many don't consider

clear ferry
#

give me one

forest edge
#

well it's not reliant on the statues of internet availability or condition for one

clear ferry
#

well, when you have 99.999% uptime of internet

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that doesn't matter

forest edge
#

99.9 my ass

clear ferry
#

I can count on my fingers the internet outages I've had that have affected me in the last 15 years

#

and I don't have chernobyl fingers

#

I'm sorry American internet sucks so bad ?

forest edge
#

thats probably because you grown to just accept certian outages as "normal" and don't count those lol

#

every infrastructure has issues, no country is an exception lol

clear ferry
#

Yeah, I've had probably 7 outages since 2004 that have been more than 3 minutes, was that more clear ?

#

Not counting when I lived in Ireland and had wireless internet, jesus christ that was a joke

forest edge
#

well like i said, anymore today people just accept certain faults as "normal" and don't even consider them. not to mention you done already said you don't watch tv so any hiccups you wouldn't even catch most likely lol

clear ferry
#

I've had a lot more outages of TV than internet over the years

forest edge
#

well thats my point, you can have multiple of issues when it comes to iptv

clear ferry
#

and even when we had a power outage in a winter storm I could still watch national tv via my mobile phone sharing internet to my laptop, because mobile data is also 99.999% uptime in reality

forest edge
#

well with my generator i can still watch cable tv with a power outage lol

clear ferry
#

yeah, don't need that when mobile internet is basically always avaliable and generally free to use

forest edge
#

well i don't like watching tv for ants

clear ferry
#

eh, 17" suffices for 3 hours while the power is out

forest edge
#

not by my standards, I tend to shoot for higher goals

clear ferry
#

I can see that when you live in a country with substandard internet access

forest edge
#

my internet is just fine for what I do with it

#

not everyone needs to torrent everything in life to get it lol

clear ferry
#

I'm gonna start logging my uptime of internet to influx

#

just for you

forest edge
#

for the next 20 years lol

clear ferry
#

eh, one year will suffice for a metric

#

/remindme 1 year

forest edge
#

uptime is only half the issue tho

#

slow internet also borks iptv

#

packet loss

clear ferry
#

yeah, that is unnoticable here too

#

I haven't had buffer issues for decades

forest edge
#

maintenance resets

#

a node in another country could cause you problems lol

clear ferry
#

now you are just adding metrics to the existing discussion

#

which it is for most @dusky plank atleast here

dusky plank
#

I expect you to be your own isp atx, you ARE the backbone of ze internetz

clear ferry
#

Atleast I have some backbone

#

🤣

forest edge
#

lol adding metrics, can't handle the truth

tidal bronze
#

I guess there's loads of content made in Norway to consume. Rest of the world stream content from US with all these substandard internet issues. You always learn something new.

#

Wonder what's there to watch made in Norway 🤔

forest edge
#

24/7/365 trains traversing norway. no joke

light trout
#

Nothing really @tidal bronze stay away from it

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Boats too @forest edge

forest edge
#

oh? not seen the boat one lol

light trout
tidal bronze
#

oh? not seen the boat one lol
@forest edge 🤣

forest edge
#

134 hours.. holy hell lol

tidal bronze
#

Epic

forest edge
#

omg i love the paragraph title Watching paint dry – live on TV

#

for awhile i thought @dull chasm was nuts thinking about getting a tractor but now i realized he meant this lol https://youtu.be/AdTlnGXbTuE

dusky plank
#

the co2 sensor has become very important since I'm in home office 😄

clear ferry
#

why haven't you fixed importing sensors without restarting yet @light trout ? 😢

light trout
#

There is nothing to fix

clear ferry
#

hey, I can reload rest sensors without restart 🤔

daring kayak
#

Anyone here with experience using Home Assistant integrated with a G4 S-BUS system?

dusky plank
#

not here specifically, in the other channels maybe

forest edge
#

it is like creepy foggy out

velvet horizonBOT
#
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clever mortar
velvet horizonBOT
#
The topic of this channel is:

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clever mortar
tropic aspen
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thank you :)

forest edge
#

wow the farmers' almanac least accuracy for a year was only 75%

tranquil escarp
#

Hi, I was wondering if you guys knwo anything about smart thermostats, I'm thinking of buying a Netatmo or Tapo system but I'm not sure which one is best and works best with home assistant

clever mortar
#

Please read the channel topic 😉

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(top of your screen)

tranquil escarp
#

sorry

clever mortar
dusky plank
#

the grey one was 2€ cheaper. guess material doesn‘t matter anymore

clear ferry
#

I have one of those

#

Great for all those old Unix boxes that I install from cd

dusky plank
#

exactly

boreal pewter
#

What is this cd? 2005 atxblyat tech?

subtle pasture
#

Heh, what're you using an external NVMe drive for?

#

970 Pro is kinda' spendy to then be hamstrung by USB 3

#

@boreal pewter You haven't lived until you've had to install Unreal Tournament 2004 from 6 CD-ROMs...

#

They later re-released it on two DVDs

deft pewter
#

6 CD's? How many punchcards is that?

#

I feel like The Ancient Ones would know... Tinkerer? atx?

dusky plank
#

just to diagnose @subtle pasture

#

and my tradfris keep the light level and color on power cut, so that is not only a hue feature 🤔

brisk glen
#

Dam it apple... I thought my iPad keyboard went bad

#

iOS 14.1 fixed it

dusky plank
brisk glen
#

Man I missed that

#

I forgot how nice apple’s Smart Keyboard is with the iPad

dusky plank
#

what is a smart keyboard?

brisk glen
#

Lol... its their keyboard cover

#

Using that 3 prong smart apple connector

#

Back to having a nice terminal again

dusky plank
#

i want this macos on arm on ipad thing

brisk glen
#

I think it wont matter in 3 years as basically all macOS apps will be iPad apps

dusky plank
#

yeah except i still want a traditional desktop wm

#

maybe they have eye tracking on point until then, maybe then I'm willing to change

brisk glen
#

It will probably be more of a hybrid desktop

dusky plank
#

well then I hope microsoft changes to broadcom rf and I can finally hackintosh this damn surface pro with wifi

brisk glen
#

Ha

boreal pewter
#

@subtle pasture i sure did.

subtle pasture
#

@dusky plank Can you also configure them to do different things on power-restore, or do they always just "restore last state"?

#

Hue bulbs can be configured to restore their previous state, or restore a specific scene, or restore to full-brightness, or restore to off, after a power cut.

dusky plank
#

they just restore - ok now i get what you mean

subtle pasture
#

At least restoring to their last-known state isn't the worst option. Some smart bulbs always restore to full-bright

#

Which sucks if there's a power blip in the middle of the night

#

whole bedroom is suddenly lit, full-bright, at 3:00 AM

last cedar
#

working as intended

brisk glen
#

Yah... no thank you

subtle pasture
#

I suppose Hue bulbs supporting that feature goes along with being able to use them without a hub

#

You can just replace any bulb on a dumb switch, configure the bulb once over Bluetooth, and it'll (optionally) restore whatever you set every time you flip the switch

brisk glen
#

Kinda why I use Phillips hue for my lights

#

It has all I need

#

Expensive as hell tho

subtle pasture
#

Yeah, all of my smart lighting is either Lutron switches, or Hue bulbs

brisk glen
#

Best setup tp be honest

subtle pasture
#

And then occasionally Lutron Pico Remotes controlling Hue lights via HomeAssistant, lol

brisk glen
#

Wemo is only good for their 2020 smart small outlets

#

Hue for lights, Lurton for switches

subtle pasture
#

We did end up using 6 hue bulbs in the dining room, because there are two light fixtures with 3 buckets each, and we wanted to be able to control each bucket independently

brisk glen
#

I have everything communicating via HomeKit

subtle pasture
#

Lutron dimmer switches would have been cheaper, but... couldn't control each bucket individually

brisk glen
#

Can you throw them in anyways and just have them leave the power on?

#

Instead control the lights through home automation

subtle pasture
#

Simultaneously locks the toggle switch in the ON position, and provides on/off + dimming

brisk glen
#

Saw that.... my current apartment switches suck

subtle pasture
#

Dims all the lights as a group, but relative to whatever brightness they were at, so they don't all suddenly become the same brightness when you turn the nob

brisk glen
#

But those look amazing

#

I have the big flat switches

#

I need to see if they sell some kind of face plate to cover them

subtle pasture
#

They do ^

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I used one of those to add a dimmer nob for a lamp in the living room

brisk glen
#

Added to when I buy a home buy this bucket list

subtle pasture
#

I do wonder how apartment-friendly those nobs are... since they don't require any modification to the existing switch, but do leave a small bite mark on the underside

last dirge
#

LOL

#

smart devices > smart bulbs

subtle pasture
#

@last dirge Agreed, but I wasn't about to individually wire 6 bucket lights and install 6 Lutron dimmer switches...

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Hue bulbs made sense there

brisk glen
#

I want multi color bulbs everywhere with every wall switch as a smart device

last dirge
#

I want my stuff to work if my server's offline

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so...

brisk glen
#

HomeKit 😛

subtle pasture
#

Then I just pull the nob off the toggle switch and use the lights normally...

brisk glen
#

Throw a few HomePod minis and each is a hub device

subtle pasture
#

There's literally a backup immediately under the smart switch. lol

brisk glen
#

Use HA along side HomeKit for the advanced stuff

last dirge
#

I just...use the switch

subtle pasture
#

So do I?

#

Well, it's a dimmer nob, but same idea

last dirge
#

without removing anything

brisk glen
#

Dimmer knob button

subtle pasture
#

Mine works as is, I'd only have to remove it from the wall if my Hue hub died and I needed my accent lighting ASAP

brisk glen
#

I might hold off until they support HomeKit thread

last dirge
#

the only way I'd have to do anything so my lights are usable would be because the switch itself malfunctioned

brisk glen
#

Apple is making a home setup without a single point of failure

subtle pasture
#

Fair, you can do that with smart bulbs too. You can link these dimmer nobs directly to Hue bulbs, without a hub

last dirge
#

and if someone comes to my house and wants to use stuff, it's just switches

brisk glen
#

Thread with 5 hubs = only total power loss

last dirge
#

no installing apps

#

no having to get on the network

#

no knowing magical utterances

subtle pasture
#

Same here...

#

Everything has a physical switch or nob

brisk glen
#

Usually you just walk around in my apartment and the lights just turn on as needed

last dirge
#

and if HA crashes, all of the "extras" stop

#

but the lights are just lights

subtle pasture
#

My Hue stuff works through the Hue hub, so yeah, that all works even if HA dies

last dirge
#

but not if your hue hub dies

#

or the breaker trips

subtle pasture
#

See above, you can link Lutron Aurora nobs directly to Hue bulbs

last dirge
#

or someone kicks the plug out of the wall

subtle pasture
#

So if that's your concern, they'll work even if the hub is down

deft pewter
#

You say you can but have you?

brisk glen
#

@subtle pasture soon that wont be an issue once thread takes over

subtle pasture
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@deft pewter Yeah, it's a bitch to un-pair them once the nobs are linked to a specific bulb (or group of bulbs). lol

brisk glen
#

Thread can have multiple hubs

last dirge
#

know what's better than multiple hubs?

#

not needing a hub for functionality

deft pewter
#

So you either have multiple points of failure or you have some horrible bindings?

subtle pasture
#

I don't need a hub for functionality?

deft pewter
#

I'm glad I went with smart switches.

last dirge
#

me too

subtle pasture
#

Hue bulbs literally work fine with no hub

last dirge
#

I don't have to remove a bunch of lights or stuff when I move

#

"oh, by the way, all of the switches in the house are Z-wave + if you want to do something with that"

#

"oh no, they work with whatever bulbs you've got, no need for fancy stuff"

brisk glen
#

thread looks like its about to become the universal standard

subtle pasture
#

Yeah, same here. All the switches are Lutron (or non-smart)

brisk glen
#

That thing between apple and everyone

deft pewter
brisk glen
#

Lol

subtle pasture
#

You're not going to convince me that individually wiring the buckets on track lighting to 6 individual smart switches is a better solution than just throwing smart bulbs in. lol

last dirge
#

@deft pewter it also won't come with a power adapter

brisk glen
#

Except now it has the big players behind it

#

Apple, google, etc

deft pewter
#

It's still yet another standard. Which means even more fragmentation and confusion for end users.

subtle pasture
#

This ^

last dirge
#

Apple: Our phone is now USB-c compatible

brisk glen
#

For a few years yah

subtle pasture
#

Apple? make something with USB-C?

#

The world really is ending

last dirge
#

consumer: so I can use whatever USB-C cord I want?

brisk glen
#

Apple is skipping usb c?

last dirge
#

Apple: no, you have to convert USB-C to our proprietary connector

low harness
#

Macbooks have usb-c. Only.

brisk glen
#

I thought they still use lightning

subtle pasture
#

@brisk glen Apple is sticking to their proprietary lightning connector for iPhones, still

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Which is annoying as hell

brisk glen
#

Watch next year

#

No more cables

#

Syncs via MagSafe

last dirge
#

which is stupid as shit

static schooner
#

if the 12 went USB-C, I'd probably get one. otherwise, can't find a reason to

subtle pasture
#

looks over at her phone, charging on a Qi stand

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"Y'all are still using wires?"

last dirge
#

wireless charging is almost the least efficient way to charge anything

static schooner
#

yeah, true. I very rarely plug it in

brisk glen
#

It only losses what? 12%?

static schooner
#

charges at night on my nightstand. it has hours

last dirge
#

plus the AC/DC loss in the SMPS

deft pewter
#

Efficiency's not just about time. That's wasted energy.

last dirge
#

not to mention the heat generated as a byproduct

subtle pasture
#

@last dirge True, though it is convenient, and slower charging is technically better for battery longevity

deft pewter
#

Yeah. Until we have cold fusion, I feel like people should be paying more attention to waste.

brisk glen
#

Plus magnets should perfectly align it... so I wonder how bad the power loss is now

#

Might be less than standard Qi which is a place it somewhere

subtle pasture
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@brisk glen Heh, using magnets to align it? This stand just has 3 coils, and automatically determines the best one to use

brisk glen
#

Yah but if we are taking about efficiency with power

subtle pasture
brisk glen
#

The alignment should be able to increase the efficiency

subtle pasture
#

@deft pewter I mean, up side to wireless chargers is they reduce the number of wired chargers and cables needed. I've used this same Qi charger for 5 different phones now

deft pewter
#

I can do that with all my micro-USB devices 🤷‍♂️

subtle pasture
#

My last phone with MicroUSB was my LG G3...

deft pewter
#

I'm also not sure that producing yet another gadget actually reduces the number of gadgets.

#

There'd be fewer if you just continued to use the ones you had.

subtle pasture
#

I mean, that's 5 charging standards I skipped 😛

deft pewter
#

And yet still one more than you needed.

#

It's a luxury. To try to convince yourself of anything else is folly.

subtle pasture
#

I only bought 1, not 5... so yay?

brisk glen
#

Nay he says... 1 is too many

deft pewter
#

1 is all you need

subtle pasture
#

The luxery is buying the latest QuickCharge # charger every year, lol

#

I haven't had to buy a new wireless charger for 8 years and counting. If buying devices that will last a decade (or more) is "wasteful" then I dunno what to say...

#

Had to check how old these Tylt chargers were, I'm surprised they're still for sale

deft pewter
#

If every device you've owned since then has been chargeable wirelessly, that's great.

dusky plank
#

I think it's also about security for them, usbc allows lower level access in certain areas than lightning

subtle pasture
#

Lumia 920, LG G3, LG G6, and LG v35, yup... all support Qi charging

dusky plank
#

anyways, the T2 chips have just been pwned so I expect the next releases to be usb-c for sure

brisk glen
#

How does t2 have anything to do with that?

#

It’s already dead as the new macs are using apple ARM chips all the way

#

It’s simply a bridge device that handles a lot of stuff

#

Extra stuff like video encoding / decoding because intel sucks

dusky plank
#

it's responsible for secure boot which includes ports?

brisk glen
#

Aye

deft pewter
#

But it's the same vulnerability as the A10 chip, right? They didn't drop USB support after that.

brisk glen
#

And it’s probably been already fixed

#

In a new hardware revision that’s pure arm...

deft pewter
#

Apple's T2 Chip Has Unpatchable Security Flaw, Claims Researcher
If their claim is accurate, it's not fixable.

dusky plank
#

arm is far in the future, not on the market even

brisk glen
#

Yah, I mean it’s biased off the same iPhone chipset designs

deft pewter
#

Their next gen of everything but Pro devices is likely to be ARM.

dusky plank
#

I still want to see adobe putting out CS for arm and I don't mean the ipad lite versions

#

takes some time for the "pros" to make the jump

deft pewter
#

Yeah, I can't imagine professionals wanting to risk it until Apple have proven the decision is solid.

#

Even as a dev, I don't think I'd want to go to ARM yet.

#

And it'll take a couple of years for software providers to catch up.

dusky plank
subtle pasture
#

@brisk glen Encoding / decoding isn't something Intel CPUs need to offload, though? Intel QuickSync leverages the integrated GPU to handle encoding and decoding tasks

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AMD CPUs have a harder time with that, honestly. No integrated GPU to lean on...

brisk glen
#

Something something their chipset is faster....

#

Thus Apple uses the T2 for a lot of things

subtle pasture
#

@deft pewter I'm not sure how well professional workloads will translate with the massive disparity in performance between the fastest x86 CPUs and the fastest ARM CPUs...

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ARM, traditionally, has not scaled up very well

dusky plank
#

look up the A64FX and the fugaku

brisk glen
#

It’s not just about the cpu

#

It’s about all of the extra stuff apple puts in their chipset

subtle pasture
#

I'm not saying it's impossible to make a fast ARM CPU, I'm saying that it doesn't scale well. By the time you get to x86 levels of performance, you're drawing x86 levels of power (or more)

deft pewter
#

Yeah, depends on the rest of the architecture. There's a bunch of stuff was traditionally done by a CPU that isn't anymore.

brisk glen
#

Using their neural chipset to do video processing at far faster rates than intel

dusky plank
#

nah, arm will take over in the power consumption compared to x86 only because the instruction set is much more limited

subtle pasture
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@dusky plank That hasn't born out in previous attempts at "Big ARM", but I'd love to see it

brisk glen
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Nah, its all about specialization

dusky plank
#

at the rate of exponential growth we will se something like these 60core arm chips in a few years

brisk glen
#

Not have the CPU do everything but have other chipsets handle it

deft pewter
#

Exponential, huh? Hasn't Moore's law already failed?

dusky plank
#

that too, yes

brisk glen
#

Hit a snag 😛

deft pewter
#

'Exponential' has gotta be one of the most frequently misused words.

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'going up quickly' != exponential

subtle pasture
#

@dusky plank I'd rather fewer + faster cores. AMD made the "throw more cores at it" gamble a few years back, and it didn't pan out for them all that well

wet pilot
#

It's playing well for them on ryzen

subtle pasture
#

Ryzen has faster individual cores

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Which was what they were missing

dusky plank
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it did imo :/ maybe I'm wrong but they did take intels spotlight now

wet pilot
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And lot of them 😛

subtle pasture
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Bulldozer was a massive flop, in part, because of the poor single-threaded performance

wet pilot
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Bulldozer was a problem

subtle pasture
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having 16+ cores on a chip didn't really matter with single-threaded IPC not improving

dusky plank
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and intel still struggles in their nm areas 😄

wet pilot
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And IPC now

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Well IPC per tdp

subtle pasture
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Yeah, they fixed their IPC problem and now have some of the best single-threaded performance around, which is why they're back in the game

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Core counts in excess of 8 are just icing on the cake

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At least, for the workloads most people will be throwing at them

dusky plank
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now imagine the jump apple projected for their arm chips, i believe it will be similar to Powerpc vs x86 back then

brisk glen
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It’s starting to turn into why have that many cpu cores.. why not more dedicated ones

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Thermal issues

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Do something faster and use less power and generate less heat

subtle pasture
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Their multi-core chips actually have more thermal issues because of the sheer die size... EPYC processors intentionally heat unused cores to make sure the die doesn't thermally fracture when only a few cores are under load

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AMD kinda needed 7nm to avoid that problem being any worse than it is

dusky plank
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they got that fixed in zen3 afaik

brisk glen
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neural / tensor flow cores are becoming a big thing with the big performance increases in video work, audio, gaming

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You can use them for ray tracing

subtle pasture
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Yeah, though that's more of a GPU task these days

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At least during the editing process. Final encode is still a single-threaded CPU task...

brisk glen
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When the gpu has their own tensorf cores

subtle pasture
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h.264 and h.265 don't actually thread, at all, if you want to use all possible encoding optimizations

dusky plank
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they already have mechanisms to make single threaded tasks optimized to run multithreaded in compile time using AI - this only gets better with time

subtle pasture
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Yeah, the issue with video compression is that the current frame can be made to depend on a number of previous, and upcoming, frames. When doing archival quality encoding, this prevents the encoding process from being threaded efficiently

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It becomes a very serialized operation when you're going for the smallest file size for a given level of quality possible

dusky plank
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that is mpeg and h264, I don't really know about h265 but future codecs will heavily depend on propability calculations.. so the current codecs just aren't leveraging the available performance yet, much more in the future

subtle pasture
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h.265 doesn't really differ from h.264 in that regard. The better the compression ratio, the worse the encoder threads

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The nice thing about h.265 is isn't not really any harder to decode than h.264 (potentially easier to decode than h.264 for a given subjective level of quality)

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But boy, encoding it is a bitch

dusky plank
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imo arm / apple arm aswell as amd will just overrun intel in leaps, but who knows 🤷‍♂️

subtle pasture
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Never know what will happen, honestly. People said the same thing back when the Athlon 64 was facing off against the Pentium 4

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And then Intel released the Core architecture...

vagrant crest
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intel will hit back

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its a back and forth

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like it always was

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its cool seeing arm in laptops but its not going to be popular for people that want universal performance

subtle pasture
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Indeed, and I'm all for hybrid ARM/x86 machines being a thing

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Though there hasn't really been much need. Idle power consumption on x86 has been rather good for a long time, and the adoption of "race to idle" power management schemes has improved things further

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Ironically, it's the bigger / faster x86 CPUs that have the potential for the best battery life right now. They can spin up to full clockspeed, complete a task, and return to parked/idle, faster than their low-end counterparts, thus saving battery.

unkempt peak
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Hi All. I've had HA for a while but really haven't done much with it - until now. Much to my wife's eye rolling I really want to start experimenting to see what cool stuff I can do.

forest edge
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can do quite a lot but ironically it seems the most basic of things are the most useful. Wife eye roll is HA's secondary logo

subtle pasture
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Yeah, honestly, the most useful things I've rigged up are: 1) Turning on the outdoor lights at sunset, and 2) notifying when the washing machine is done so clothes don't sit and sour

brisk glen
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Intel’s attempt at beating arm with x86 was the atom series

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What a disaster that was

forest edge
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wasn't a complete flop when they lowered prices

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the little dell netbooks are still one of the most popular atom driven computers they made using those chips

static schooner
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other than the 2-year-and-dead lifespan of the C2538, they perform well in my NAS

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I don't think I'd want a PC built from one

subtle pasture
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@brisk glen Yes and no, Cherry Trail Atoms offer fairly equivalent power consumption and performance to high-end ARM

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@static schooner Yeah, that was an unfortunate motherboard design flaw, though it's fixable by soldering on a single resistor

static schooner
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I had mine replaced through RMA supposedly with that fix, and then it died exactly 2 years later. On my third one now

subtle pasture
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Oof

static schooner
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I get about a week of spontaneous powerdowns and then it just doesn't boot at all, no lights, nothing

subtle pasture
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In theory it's fixable even after the chip dies if you don't mind adding your own external clock generator

static schooner
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I hope this one is really fixed

subtle pasture
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The issue is overvoltage to the clock generator killing it over time

dusky plank
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eevblog hello

static schooner
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"over time" is comically almost exactly 2 years to the day 🙂

subtle pasture
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Glad my NAS has a D2700 in it, lol

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Synology RS2414RP+ hasn't done me wrong yet

static schooner
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but yeah, I hope they learned their lesson. I also have an 1819+ with a C3538

gloomy temple
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Hello all together. :)

New here with a question about AVM Fritz!Box Sensors. In which channel i should put my question?

dusky plank
gloomy temple
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Thanks!

jade tartan
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I need a cheap pack of rgbw strips

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Any recomendations?

dusky plank
jade tartan
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Also has there been any new controllers come out?

frank crown
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Not sure if this is the right place, but is an RPI 3 B+ a good candidate for HA?

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Found a great deal on one and want to know if I should use it for that or gift it

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I was planning on getting an i3 system but this is cheaper lol

subtle pasture
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I'm running mine on an original 3B, and it's working well. I would, however, recommend enabling USB boot and running from a SATA SSD connected via USB adapter

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The performance and write endurance is significantly better than running from MicroSD

frank crown
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Huh, hadn't thought of that

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Thanks for the info!

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I have a few extra 128GB SSDs floating around

subtle pasture
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That'd be perfect. Careful picking your USB-SATA adapter, though. The Pi is a little picky

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Had to use a chipset supported by the Pi's UBOOT

frank crown
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I'll get that one then! Super cheap too which is nice. Like I said, I was going to go with a NUC but when I saw this for like $26 complete with everything I decided it'd probably work fine. I'm smartifying one bedroom(atleast for now) so only like 5-6 devices max.

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It's not a huge system lol

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Right now I have it running from my main desktop but that gets shut down every night and that makes HA sad

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Which makes me sad

subtle pasture
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You picked your SATA adapter the same way I did, lol
Google search -> Forum post stating this one works for sure -> add to cart

celest orchid
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Just did the same exact thing with a HDMI video grabber haha

subtle pasture
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That adapter is also USB 3.0, and supports HSPA mode, so if you upgrade to a Pi 4 at any point, you'll get the maximum possible performance out of it

last cedar
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If you don't want to sleep at night you can use SD cards without problems!

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Hehe

dusky plank
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chinese sensor delivery update:
it finally made it through customs, only a kilometer to go

forest edge
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wtf am i looking at?

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looks like japenese anime barfed all over your tracking app

dusky plank
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yeah I don't know, theres a pumpkin on the delivery car apparently

young sigil
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A delivery van half way through doing a Rockford turn?

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In a river.

dusky plank
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oh, it turned in my direction

hearty depot
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uff.. these new dirives got at least 60°c almost burning my fingers..
worst thing, they're completly idle

last cedar
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Plot twist: it is actually a dpd submarine

clever mortar
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Now if you said HDNL/Yodel I'd believe you...

jade tartan
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Lets say id like to add monitoring the well level, any options that are easy enough?

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Maybe poe solution since powering sensor would be easier?

forest edge
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@jade tartan you been coming here since 2018, you know better than to ask those questions in this channel!!!

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was looking up battery chargers (AA, AAA etc) and holy hell.. when did that market become such a scam hell hole with fake knockoffs of just about any brand lol

dusky plank
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atx has a answer for that sure, but I guess he's on one of his dark site adventures

forest edge
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pretty sure your tracking app is nothing more than one of those old handheld games where you slide a plastic jet or car up and down and the background cycles behind it and you hear a noise every so often that does a piss poor job at making you feel immersed

dusky plank
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it's the official dpd tracking site

tidal bronze
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@forest edge lot of complaining today. Cows didn't come last night?

tawny pebble
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@atxbyea if you come to Austria (Vienna) make sure you ping me (:
I just opened discord and saw your mention

forest edge
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@tidal bronze you know what we should send you for xmas? a loop of what blown speakers sound like playing some dumb song. that should brighten your holiday.

last dirge
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the Thomas the Dank Engine theme song

tidal bronze
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Everyday is a bright day.

forest edge
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only if you turn left

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what you should really take a picture of is the driver next to you flipping you off for being on your phone while driving lmao

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#GrrrThursdays

wraith cave
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dumb message here - now deleted

clever mortar
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Don't forget to read the topics for each channel 😉

last dirge
#

the YouTube recommendation engine comes up with some pretty interesting recommendations sometimes

dusky plank
last dirge
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did you ask if they were having vehicle troubles?

dusky plank
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he didn‘t even rang the bell, just placed the parcel in front of the door.

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brace yourselves, aquara zigbee questions are coming in

clever mortar
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They're cheap for a reason 😛

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(I have bunch, the door/window sensors and the temperature/humidity sensors are great)

deft pewter
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I love those sensors. Got them on every external door, including the garage. It's just a shame I rarely leave the house... door sensors are currently less useful than I'd hoped 🤣

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My presence detection might as well be a hardcoded 'home'

dusky plank
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yeah and despite someone telling me that they‘re misbehaving on the mesh the seem to work fine for me... even battery states are reported instantly after applying the wake trick

clever mortar
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I've had no issues with mine

shy comet
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i need to pick up a few more of those aqara sensors for my parents

deft pewter
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In case they stray too far apart?

shy comet
#

naw i just setup HassOS for them so trying to get an alarm setup and all that now

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ST asked for a migration so i migrated them to HA 😛

brisk glen
#

stupid ipv6

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stupid wireguard

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made me do some more work to fix it

shy comet
#

lol google retires Google Play Music today.....yet i still got a podcast notification from the app 😂

clever mortar
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That's ok, YouTube Music is a capable replacement

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... oh

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wait

shy comet
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lol

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sucks for all the people who have phones with google play music pre-installed

brisk glen
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rofl

shy comet
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they will never be able to get rid of it

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especially if their device no longer recevies updatse

brisk glen
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which is a 99.99% chance

shy comet
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good thing im a pixel user and it wasnt pre-installed haha

brisk glen
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iPhone user 😛

forest edge
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I don't think I could ever switch to anything that wasn't a pixel again lol

granite hare
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@forest edge it's a Google product; they'll kill it off eventually 😜

clever mortar
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You mean soon

forest edge
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maybe, but as long as android is around one will carry the torch of no bloat and quick updates.

subtle pasture
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@clever mortar I have one Aqara door/window sensor that's flaky AF for some reason. It constantly reports that it's open even when it's closed, and has to be actuated a second time to get the correct state

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All the other seem to work fine, though 🤷‍♀️

shy comet
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@subtle pasture when you close the door does it close all the way or does it go back and forth before closing?

subtle pasture
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It's a window, it closes all the way

shy comet
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i have them on my catio doors and i noticed that if an open/close event come in very quickly my state gets stuck

subtle pasture
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The sensor and magnet are perfectly aligned

shy comet
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and these doors swing

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ah

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could be a range issue maybe

subtle pasture
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Nah, the sensor doesn't drop and reports good signal strength

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About 25% of the time, you slide the window closed, it reports "Closed" for a split second, then goes back to "Open"

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Hmm... I wonder if the magnet is backwards inside the housing... that would cause weird issues...

forest edge
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hard wired reed switches ftw

brisk glen
subtle pasture
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@forest edge Technically these Aqara sensors contain reed switches...

brisk glen
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My iPhone can do a lot all of a sudden

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X86 alpine shell

inner lava
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Do any of you by any chance know stuff about STM32F1 chips and how to make a backup of those via USB Serial? 😅

dusky plank
#

i think prompt 2 is a paid app but I never switched to anything else on ios

brisk glen
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Just pull an alpine rootfs with the apk package manager and run your own Minecraft server on that iPhone

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@dusky plank this is something far far better

inner lava
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I tried running a Minecraft server with that once, ofc it crashed lol

dusky plank
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oh i just saw, this is a real tty

brisk glen
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Yah, just make sure to pull an alpine rootfs so you have the apk package manager

dusky plank
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wonder how he managed that, this is interesting

brisk glen
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Apple didn’t like it in the review

inner lava
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Wait, how @brisk glen

odd kindle
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@brisk glen been running the beta. But yes a really nice product

brisk glen
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Go to settings @inner lava you can import rootfs

inner lava
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iSH was only available via Testflight for a looooong time. I’ve installed it for almost a year now I think

brisk glen
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Pull the x86 one from alpine

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Or install this over

subtle pasture
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Heh, this similar to Termux on Android?

brisk glen
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It keeps your root fs

dusky plank
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nah, this is a real env tty, no remote shell

brisk glen
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It’s basically an x86 alpine tty running in a sandbox

inner lava
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Oh wait. I think I have it already due to the Testflight version.

subtle pasture
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@dusky plank That's what Termux is, lol

brisk glen
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A useful shell

inner lava
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Yeah it doesn’t like the x86 imported one...

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Crashes

brisk glen
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It should be the right one

inner lava
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Oh wait I think it did now

dusky plank
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i want node on this fucker

inner lava
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It force crashes the app to reload the rootfs

brisk glen
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New install method for HA....

subtle pasture
#

Stupid Termux tricks: Download and install a complete Linux distro, then chroot into it

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You could actually run HomeAssistant on an Android device that way, yeah

brisk glen
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Or on iPhone now...

subtle pasture
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I've booted full blown Ubuntu on an Nvidia Shield TV inside of Termux, then used a VNC app (also on the the Shield TV) to connect to it and get the GUI up on-screen

inner lava
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How did you install Java tho

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OpenJDK?

subtle pasture
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Java for what?

inner lava
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Gonna try running a freaking Minecraft server on my iPhone lmao

subtle pasture
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I'd probably do the same thing there, to be honest. Grab a full Linux environment and chroot/proot into it, then run the Minecraft server there

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You'll have a difficult time getting it to run in the native root environment

inner lava
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I’m not too experienced in Linux tbh

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Know my way around but that’s basically it

last cedar
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Linux is the computer equivalent of magic

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You smash the keyboard and stuff happens

odd kindle
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@subtle pasture there was some reddit post, or something, about building a small cluster from android phones

last cedar
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Sometimes it is even stuff you actually wanted to happen

subtle pasture
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This is basically just a work-around for not having root permissions. You install another distro, boot it (it shares the kernel with the host, so this isn't virtualization), and then change root (chroot) into it.
Tada, you're now in a full Linux environment with full root permissions.

last cedar
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And you can also find 45 ways to not do something

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And invent new swear words

subtle pasture
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@odd kindle Totally doable, especially on rooted phones.

dusky plank
inner lava
#

Hm... What full Linux to use then tho 🤔

odd kindle
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@subtle pasture definitly, and arguably not even the worst of ideas. They require very little power, have build in UPS

subtle pasture
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@inner lava Probably something light with lots of documentation. Plain old Debian, or something RedHat based (CentOS) are decent choices

inner lava
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Hm...

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Debian sounds good, most familiar with that due to Ubuntu

subtle pasture
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You can just run Ubuntu, lol

inner lava
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Now to figure out how to do that exactly...

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I mean, Ubuntu would be a bit heavy I guess for a super resource limited app on iOS lol

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I just have no idea what to do now. Unpack Ubuntu/Debian inside the Alpine rootfs or something? That’s definitely where my Linux skills are not enough anymore lol

odd kindle
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Alpine ftw!

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Always run alpine if you can :p

brisk glen
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❤️ alpine

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It is full Linux

subtle pasture
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I always run CentOS if I can 😛

brisk glen
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No need for Ubuntu etc

subtle pasture
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I've always had better luck with RedHat based distributions, for whatever reason

inner lava
odd kindle
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@subtle pasture I’ve never been happy with any RH based. Ever 😐

last dirge
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@inner lava recursion