the-water-cooler

[wet pilot]

Honda i think?

whatever the Apex is

oh, yamaha

some are using some VW engines too

[last kiln]

The instrument panel is also a synthesizer

[hushed basalt]

Might be time for a new phone

The power button on my s8 is falling out

What are you all using

[scenic radish]

@hushed basalt just upgraded from my OG Pixel XL to a 3a XL

The OG died peacefully in its sleep 😦

[hushed basalt]

I was looking at the 5, but it's fairly expensive for what it is at $1000 aud

4a 5g is a no deal without wireless charging

[slow zenith]

The wireless charging part would keep me away as well. Picked one up for my father-inlaw though (not the 5g) and was really impressed overall with it for the price point. Could add one of those cases with an external battery and wireless charging capability.

[scenic radish]

not the 5G
Whew, no covid for him :sweat_smile:

|| /s if that's already obvious ||

[subtle pasture]

Sorry, got this comic saved for any and all 5G conspiracy theories. lol

As for phones. I'm currently running an LG V35, and not planning on upgrading any time soon. I'd probably just get an LG v40 or v60 if my v35 decided to die tomorrow, though

[hushed basalt]

I would possibly consider the Samsung s21 but samsung are dead to me

So over their OS bullshit

[subtle pasture]

Augh, I've just realized that the V40, V50, and V60 all have camera notches 🤢

I'll... stick with my V35 for now...

[hushed basalt]

Embrace the notch

It's just area that would have otherwise been solid black bar

[subtle pasture]

The... V60 has a lower resolution screen than my V35. What the heck are you doing LG?

I refuse to embrace the notch, though I'm running out of notch-less options 😕

[scenic radish]

3a XL 🎉

Lower pixel density than the OG XL I had before, but tbh, I'm not even bothered by it

[hushed basalt]

Peasant

[scenic radish]

Et tu, Telco?

[hushed basalt]

If your phone doesn't have 12 times higher density that your eyes resolution capacity why even bother

I dont want to be able to see the pixels while scanning with an electron microscope

[scenic radish]

Lmao

Couldn't pass up the 3a XL for $240

[subtle pasture]

Just seems a little daft for LG to downgrade from a 1440p panel (v35, v40, v50) to a 1080p panel (v60)

[scenic radish]

Battery life maybe?

[subtle pasture]

Maybe, though all of the previous-gen phones had a setting to reduce the resolution, and it never really made a dent in battery life

It did improve gaming performance, though

[scenic radish]

Number of physical pixels though

[subtle pasture]

My guess is they intended for a lot of people to buy the dual-screen add-on for the v60, and it was to save on costs

Still kinda curious about the new Razr (2nd gen), but that's mostly for the nostalgia factor

And being able to use my old flip-phone muscle memory to flick the handset open 😛

[scenic radish]

Heh

Always wanted one of those and never had one

The OG I mean

[subtle pasture]

https://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Unlocked-Camera-Polished-Graphite/dp/B08F2R2DBR/

$1150 is a bit rich for my blood...

[scenic radish]

Yeah...no thanks

I don't think I've ever paid more than $450 for a phone

I miss the Nexus line of devices

[subtle pasture]

I usually just buy last-years's flagship, outright, for $200 or less

[scenic radish]

Same, or the two-year-old model

[subtle pasture]

Seems to work out well. You get all the flagship features without paying the early adopter tax

[scenic radish]

Although I need to call T-Mobile because the locked phone I bought outright says it's not eligible to be unlocked because it's "not financially eligible"

[subtle pasture]

I bit the bullet and got an AT&T branded handset to run on AT&T this time around...

My last phone was T-Mobile branded, and generally worked fine on AT&T, but without WiFi calling

Really wanted that feature

[scenic radish]

I usually buy unlocked but it was cheaper to buy the locked version, and I knew I could just have them unlock it since it's paid for outright

[subtle pasture]

Yeah, unlocked version also wouldn't have supported wifi calling on AT&T

You literally had to get the carrier-locked version if you wanted that feature 😕

[scenic radish]

Dafuq

How is that not purely a software function lol

[subtle pasture]

Also weird: There is no true "unlocked" version of the V35

The Google Fi version functions as the "Unlocked / International" version

[scenic radish]

Odd

[subtle pasture]

Even odder is you can flash the AT&T version with the Google Fi ROM, but not vice-versa... and if you flash, you can't go back

AT&T really locked this one down

[hushed basalt]

Carrier phones 🤢

[subtle pasture]

Yeah, I don't like it either, but AT&T's reception in my house is god awful

So I kinda need that WiFi calling feature

[ashen kayak]

Google Fi here

[wet pilot]

same

i'm tempted to move off of them but meh

wife and i both need new phones right meow

[vast lily]

for users of nabu casa, what is the real world exposure to the vunerability? wouldnt it be nearly impossible for someone to be compromised unless the hacker some how knew their URL through other means?

its not like nabu casa instances are scannable unless they are going to try and brute force the crazy long domain name

or am i missing something?

[wet pilot]

depends on your usage

likely no

[vast lily]

ok cool thanks

if someone had their nabu casa url public for some reason that would be a different story, or if the hacker was able to get it using another attack

[wet pilot]

which is why the choice was made to have remote access locked out for known insecure versions

which would help mitigate the issue but not resolve it completely

[vast lily]

yeah i think that was smart, and as annoying as it was to not know what was going on for a week, i think this was handled about as best as it could be

[wet pilot]

its a tricky thing to deal with but i think it was handled within the realm of best practices

gotta give the packages that have the actual issue to deal with the problem before blowing everything up

but if they don't respond, you gotta disclose eventually

[odd kindle]

Gotta move that there a other problem the Day after as well 🙂

The stress that must have created....

[wet pilot]

its definitely been "fun"

[clear ferry]

I've used SWAG with multiple domains with DNS-01, with cloudflare I seem to be limited to the domains I have registered in cloudflare, which I circumvent for secondary domains by doing those manually

[clear ferry]

I just heard this on another discord that wifi calling is a paid feature with some vendors in the US and went WTF, also vendor locked phones, I think the last time I saw that was in 2009, and it only happened on iphones

[gusty wraith]

uh oh cloudflare... are they still f*cking up their "cloud" infra or have they finally hired some qualified people... just out of interest...

[clear ferry]

I have had 0 issues since migrating

and they were 1\8 of the price of my then registrar

[subtle pasture]

I mean, the phones aren't locked-locked. You can absolutely use a T-Mobile branded handset on AT&T and such

But special features (visual voicemail, wifi calling, VoLTE) might not work

[clear ferry]

yeah, there is no such limitations here

[gusty wraith]

this means they have finally sorted it out... good to know

[subtle pasture]

You can use wifi calling on any carrier with any handset? Weird...

Their implementations are wildly different

[clear ferry]

I did see someone mention on reddit that some vendors also don't allow you to use wifi hotspot without an extra charge

yeah, we have no link between handsets and vendors

they all do the same technology, because... cooperation

same with fiber internet, anyone can deliver to me, even though I bought the line from someone else

[subtle pasture]

No, I mean, the carriers literally implement wifi calling differently

[clear ferry]

yeah, they do it the same here, why do it differently 🤷

[subtle pasture]

So a ROM that works across all of them would need to implement a few different implementations, and know the correct one to use

[clear ferry]

we have no carrier roms

we use stock roms

[gusty wraith]

yeah it seems they gave up on that across europe at least

[clear ferry]

that is a murica thing only I think

[subtle pasture]

I mean, I can use the international ROM, which I suppose you could call a "stock" ROM

[gusty wraith]

long-gone are also the times of ugly telco logos on your contract and even prepaid phone

[subtle pasture]

and then get Wifi calling on... no carriers in the US

[clear ferry]

yeah, but you would get it anywhere else in the world

[subtle pasture]

Because it doesn't implement any of their wifi calling schemes

[gusty wraith]

but you do have good coverage ...?

[subtle pasture]

my coverage is great everywhere except my own house. lol

[gusty wraith]

because where i live i need to go to a specific spot inside the house to juuust get that 1 bar to receive a SMS ...i would be totally f*cked without wifi calling

[subtle pasture]

Like, without wifi calling, I literally have to step out into the backyard to make calls or receive texts

[clear ferry]

Here is Norways LTE coverage (in 2018) where green is full coverage

[gusty wraith]

so we're not different in terms of mobile - yet they are telling us everything will be better with 5g...yeah the blind spots will be still the same

[clear ferry]

This is 5G coverage in 2021

[gusty wraith]

good lord

so tell me what are the requirements for acquiring Norwegian citizenship?

😄

[subtle pasture]

Already checked the 5G coverage for my area... I'm between two coverage zones

[clear ferry]

Want to live here, and can work, then you are set

[subtle pasture]

Like, literally, my street it outside of 5G coverage range, but the next streets over are covered

[clear ferry]

but you have to accept the "oUTragEous soCiAliSt tAxes" though @gusty wraith

[gusty wraith]

can't be that much worse than here

[subtle pasture]

@clear ferry You joke, but I've considered moving out of the US multiple times (especially over the last 4 years)

[clear ferry]

well, I'm saddened that more people don't

[subtle pasture]

And Norway was on the list, because of their good track record on LGBT rights

[clear ferry]

I was starting to list countries....

[oblique jay]

I've heard that a requirement for living in Norway is that you can make your own moonshine

[clear ferry]

but most of western europe is sensible

@oblique jay not a requirement, but it helps

[gusty wraith]

I'm earning quite a lot but yet little is left after taxes applied...which amounts to around 45%. if i would step up my tax class by finally marrying i would earn 500€ more and she would earn 500€ less. yay!

so we keep it as it is because it doesn't improve anything

[clear ferry]

I do... north of $100k a year, and I paid 32% tax last year, income tax that is

[gusty wraith]

around 70k ... now i would have to compare the salary of both countries to have a valid comparison

[subtle pasture]

Nothing wrong with additional taxes if it drives other living expenses way, way down

[clear ferry]

you mean like healthcare and medication ? 🤣

we pay a maximum of $250 per year

[subtle pasture]

Yeah, like those...

[clear ferry]

for any medical services or medication

[gusty wraith]

well, well...norway seems to be a very pleasant place to live indeed

[subtle pasture]

You want to know what's really fucked? I have health insurance through my employer, it's Kaiser Permanente, and it STILL makes more sense to order my medication off either the gray market or Amazon pharmacy...

[clear ferry]

yeah, we can get private healthcare here too, but it makes sense... 1\1000 times, just to get treatment 2 months earlier

that's about it

[subtle pasture]

I've had a refill for 12 needles and syringes sitting, unable to be filled, at Kaiser pharmacy for 5 weeks now... gave up and ordered a 100 pack of everything off Amazon

So I guess I'm set for the next 2 years... and it was cheaper than getting the same supply through health insurance... and it was delivered right to my doorstep...

[clear ferry]

oh and education 🤣

I saw someone on another discord mention they were lucky they only had $40k student loans, because they got some half grant or something

[gusty wraith]

tbh i don't get it with studying but that's a different kind of discussion...

[clear ferry]

I have vocational training

[subtle pasture]

+1 for the Jotaro emoji. lol

[clear ferry]

[subtle pasture]

Honestly, the US already collects enough taxes to cover education and healthcare... the problem is we keep buying aircraft carriers instead of funding vital services.

We could stand to close some massive corporate tax loopholes, though...

[clever mortar]

Those "loopholes" are big enough to drive a bulk carrier through, sideways, in a storm, when the ship is controlled by somebody blink drunk, and there's still no danger of them hitting the edges...

[subtle pasture]

You'll hear no argument from me on that one. lol

[clear ferry]

just come on up to the house @subtle pasture

Like Tom Waits sings, "come down from your cross we can use the wood"

https://open.spotify.com/track/7zhbOCrOKbncbqKvSwQx9R?si=congJDCFQzeIjccmtL8u9Q

[gusty wraith]

the aftermath of this is like 6 car accidents and "chaos"

[clear ferry]

that's the biggest gloryhole I've seen

🍆

[gusty wraith]

thats the glory hole for my black pussy

[clear ferry]

[gusty wraith]

alright...black and white...sorta

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/Rv2m.gif

[gusty wraith]

oh here comes more snow. guess we will all die....

sigh

[clear ferry]

our snow rained away and became ice

now there is powder on top of that

[gusty wraith]

ohweeeeee!1

[clear ferry]

I miss my quattro, but my wifes 4motion will have to do if it gets worse

[gusty wraith]

RWD ftw!

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/w3Hm.gif

[gusty wraith]

you'll get there..eventually...but you do have some fun on the journey

[clear ferry]

Sounds like a bimmer lover to me 😉

I drove a RWD Volvo '76 in the early 00s

[gusty wraith]

yeah

[clear ferry]

it was fun

but quattro > fwd > rwd these days

[gusty wraith]

me driving a 1series hatch and my counterpart the coupe...ice and fire, diesel and gas

[clear ferry]

1 series 🤢

[gusty wraith]

both 2009ers

the new ones are just disgusting in any way...peugeot engines...why...WHY!?!?

[clear ferry]

There are a few BMWs I could do, the 80\90s 7series, the 70s 6series, the 00s x5s and if I must, a 8series

[gusty wraith]

yeah...the famous "sharknose"

[clear ferry]

I was a passenger in a 850 once

it was... interesting

[gusty wraith]

can't drive those when it's either raining, slightly wet or humidity is above 50% at all and don't ever think about snow

[clear ferry]

I'll take the S2 over the 8series anyway 🤣

[gusty wraith]

hehe...

[clear ferry]

had a friend who built an S2 mockup from the ground up, by scavenging parts around

think it was a S2 engine, with a RS2 gearbox, and a 90 chassis

he got it up to 520bhp measured at the wheels, that was fun

[clever mortar]

Franckencars can be fun

[clear ferry]

there are some strange rules for some stuff

had a friend in college who likes the front of the 940 and the rear of the 740

and welded them together

it got approved because it was 60% of one of them or something

[clever mortar]

Best I know is one lot who converted a small front engine car into a small rear engine car. Going from a little four cylinder engine to a honking big V8. Clutch lifespan was a problem, as were pretty much everything else in the drivetrain. And the tyres... 🤣

Oh, and they needed to put concrete blocks in the front, to keep it from rearing up

[clear ferry]

[clever mortar]

It wasn't very legal...

[gusty wraith]

sounds fun

[forest edge]

you should see the v8 lawnmowers we have

[clear ferry]

the swedes have the strange concept of epa-tractors, where anyone aged 16 can drive a car that is modified to be only 2 seats and limited speed

so it can be an Audi A8L

that is chopped off and has a bed

and limited to speed

👀

[clever mortar]

I love that idea

[clear ferry]

the finnish have something funny about racecars as well, I think they can ride old cars around a racetrack from age 13

[clever mortar]

Yeah, that's the same here

One of our best rally car drivers couldn't legally drive on the road

[forest edge]

it's legal for 12+ to drive farm trucks on country roads in most states here

[clear ferry]

yeah, I think you can ride a tractor from age 12 here too under supervision, and from 16 unsupervised

[forest edge]

and farm trucks don't even have to be licenced

[clear ferry]

they even get spare time jobs shoveling snow in winter I think from age 16 with tractors

[forest edge]

it's actually good. it gets that "hotrod" if there is any out of the kid before they reach legal driving age

they are also usually capable of taking jobs driving like semi's etc after getting certified with less wrecks

[clear ferry]

fun fact, the reason why the "murica" truck is so rare in europe

we have length limitations

so we have flat nosed trucks

🤣

[forest edge]

they are also built like paper there so american trucks would be dangerous to other drivers on the road

be like a wrecking ball surrounded by dixie cups

thump thump was that an audi?

[tame sand]

And they wouldn't be allowed in many cities in the EU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards

[clear ferry]

oh wow, euro 3 is that old

I thought it was newer

[tame sand]

and euro 4 is 15 years old aswell... 🤔 hasn't changed that much aparently

[clear ferry]

the 20% difference in nox from euro 5 to 6 is quite big and even more from 4 to 5

aand even more for commercial it seems

over 50% from 5-6 for nox there

oh no, that was the same for passenger cars actually

I just skipped the table 🤣

oh fun, I'm going to have a lot of more work going forward, browsers are getting a lot stricter a lot faster when it comes to certificates and self signed etc

and 90% of customers run with self signed certificates on their management stuff

[clever mortar]

😂

[gusty wraith]

took me 4 years to introduce a CA ... thanks to m$ finally stating that LDAPS will be mandatory in the near future and LDAP will be shut down with an upcoming update

before that management told me that we don't need such complicated stuff

[subtle pasture]

You can always use LetsEncrypt... Assuming you followed Microsoft's recommendation to use a public TLD for internal domains

I've been telling my co-workers to stop setting up .local / .lan domains for years

[gusty wraith]

when i started 2016 what i found is a newly established department with a .local domain - built by a "professional it engineering partner"

yeah...professional....right...

[subtle pasture]

Oof

Domains are cheap, ffs

[gusty wraith]

running SCADAs on a hyper-v replication system....the factory runs 24/7 and a short outage of 5 minutes is enough to shut it down and have an 8 hour outage due to machine cleansing

"professional"

[subtle pasture]

I mean... At that point, maybe you have your own on-prem PKI

[gusty wraith]

yup

but that's all history in like 1 day... starting new job on feb 1st

[subtle pasture]

Nice

[tame sand]

it is amazing how many words/phrases i have to google in 5 minutes lol

[gusty wraith]

😄

[subtle pasture]

Welcome to IT 👌

[gusty wraith]

i've got enough of this bullshit after 4 years

[subtle pasture]

I work at an MSP, and have full management of 90 separate companies IT infrastructures... You see a lot...

[gusty wraith]

yeah...

[clear ferry]

I just stick my head in at a few hundred customers every year

I see.. interesting things

🤣

[gusty wraith]

i used to manage over 3k workstations across europe and a handful of servers that were inside our scope (1st and 2nd level) ...not the best times i had

[clear ferry]

"temporary solutions"

"just for now"

"we will fix that next week"

[subtle pasture]

We're not far behind.. Currently at 2k endpoints

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/xS7O.gif

[gusty wraith]

means "it stays at long as it can"

[clear ferry]

what do you mean endpoints @subtle pasture that just sounds like one HPC installation 🤣

[subtle pasture]

I know some MSPs that are managing upwards of 10k, though

[gusty wraith]

read: "at least 5 years"

[gusty wraith]

"never."

😄

[subtle pasture]

Temporary solutions can really come back to bite you when you fire a client...

More than once, we've automated something for a client with our RMM tool, with the intention of going back and implementing a stand-alone solution later

Fire the client, remove our tools... Whoops, critical business systems stop working!

[oblique jay]

Ah the art of the permanent temporary solution

[subtle pasture]

We've gotten better about that one, thankfully

[gusty wraith]

this is exactly the stuff nightmares are made of

besides non-existent documentation

yeah i know writing stuff is boring but oh boy can it save your a$$

[clever mortar]

Better to have no docs, than have wrong docs

[gusty wraith]

true

but to have docs with like 50% accuracy is better than nothing

[clever mortar]

The number of times I've been handed "up to date" docs by clients, where within half an hour I've found it to be a fabrication ... well, let's just say it's nearly 100% 😄

Saved by a very small number who have their act together

[gusty wraith]

why the F does mysql set the buffer to 1M when you select the dedicated server role? maniacs....

i think it's time to move over to influx....

[clear ferry]

It is always interesting when the "guy who did it" dies at a customer site

and he "had it all in his head"

[gusty wraith]

yup...or "the guy who did it" leaves

😉

and "the other guy" can't understand what "the guy who did it" wrote because he's dumb af

[clear ferry]

oh you mean "the assistant"

who just sits at his desk playing solitaire

[gusty wraith]

"experienced colleague"

"seasoned IT professional"

that kind of guy

knows everything, can't do shit.

[clear ferry]

I used to love it when customers at 3am call me about a storage controller down in a two controller setup

and ask me "how big is the chance that the system will crash on the second controller withing reasonable time?"

I always replied with "50\50, either it does or it doesn't, it's your choice"

https://tenor.com/RFz6.gif

[burnt cave]

what's a decent way to hardwire low voltage stuff like raspberry pis?

just plunk USB power adapters all over my house?

[clever mortar]

PoE

[burnt cave]

(assuming PoE isn't an option)

lol

[clever mortar]

PoE should be an option 😉

After all, you don't want to drop these things on WiFi

[clear ferry]

I do power adapters or bucks for ESPs

[burnt cave]

for Pis PoE would work

but I have some arduino RF stuff I want to power

that has no net capabilities

i guess I could technically use PoE but that seems expensive when I don't need data

the longer I think about it the more just sticking with USB power makes sense

unless I wanted to run LV power lines through all my walls

[clear ferry]

if it is behind a panel, just do a buck converter

[burnt cave]

the items in question are some DIY IR relays

which sit in external boxes currently wired up to random USB power adapters

could just put a buck converter in the box and use lamp cord

so I don't have to have a wall wart

[clear ferry]

Exactly

[coarse trail]

Hey HomeAssistant is a option on the MSFT OSS fund 🙂

[clear ferry]

[deft pewter]

The what what?

[coarse trail]

Microsft open source fund

https://github.com/microsoft-sponsorships/microsoft-foss-fund/blob/main/README.md

10K

[deft pewter]

When you say it's an option... you mean people can vote for it for Fund #6?

There's currently no reference to HA on that page.

[gusty wraith]

the nominations are not public as far as i am aware

[deft pewter]

I don't see how anyone here can influence that though:

The nomination process is open to all Microsoft employees and interns, and a curation group - the "Open Source Champs", helps to get each fund's nominees together.

Yeah, so there's no point sharing it here.

If someone at MS gets in touch with the project owners, great. If not, there's nothing anyone can do about it.

[coarse trail]

yeah it's on the options to vote by msft employees

(i m one of them) 🙂

[deft pewter]

So are you saying that you've nominated HA?

[clear ferry]

time to create some scripts so I can have a reproducable KUBE lab in my vsphere lab

https://tenor.com/SKc9.gif

[tame sand]

@coarse trail i mean i have nothing to do with this but the site states:

• The open source project must be used by Microsoft.
• The project must have an OSI-approved open source license
• Needs to have a way to receive funds that our procurement and legal teams are happy with (GitHub Sponsors is great!)
• The project cannot be owned by a Microsoft employee

is Ms using Homeassistant?

and is Homeassistant OSI approved?

[coarse trail]

good question @tame sand not sure about the 1st one

but it was on the choises for this round of funding, there were 4 , i (and more ) voted on HA

i think OSI is just have the correct license

https://opensource.org/licenses

yap Apache 2 so i think is good

[deft pewter]

Now you just have to use HA to automate your offices and we'll meet that criteria too.

[tame sand]

i have a good idea. Use Homeassistant to monitor the azure-DCs....then you can turn them on and off on 1. of April with a automation😉

but homeassistant is using azure actually for building afaik... guess it wasn't very good after all

[clear ferry]

finally I can put my 16TB of SSD storage to some use

https://tenor.com/tBBC.gif

[deft pewter]

Only 16TB?

[clear ferry]

I have 32TB total over 16 spindels, but I only have drivebays for 8

[deft pewter]

Download more drivebays.

[clear ferry]

[deft pewter]

YOu woULDN'T dOwNLOAD a cAR

[clear ferry]

actually I already have

and printed

fooking powershell

[hushed basalt]

You wouldn't steal a policeman's hat

[clever mortar]

Why not?

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/btjKX.gif

fuck it, I'll scratch my powershell idea

and do ansible

I need to play with ansible anyway

[clever mortar]

I need to poke Ansible again. I've played with it a little, but found Puppet generally more useful

However, they solve different problems...

[clear ferry]

seems like most customers I talk to use ansible

so I'll try to learn that first

[clever mortar]

ISTR Ansible is push from the core where Puppet is pull from the edge

Which makes it potentially lighter since if you can SSH and run Python, you're golden

Where Puppet needs their agent

[clear ferry]

https://hatebin.com/fsucdtecav

Playbooking seems easy enough

now to figure out how to run the fucker

come to think of it, I can make all my playbooks runnable via webhooks

noice

ansible doing its shizzle my nizzle

first vm up

doh, I had forgotten to install vmware tools on the template

so it never proceeeded

[clear ferry]

woooo my ansible playbooks for removing the lab works

and for creating it

why the fuck haven't I done this before

[clear ferry]

fun angry fact

debian does not support vm customization in vsphere

but change the template to be "ubuntu"

and it works

https://tenor.com/1yG7.gif

[slow zenith]

When you say VM customization, you mean you cannot edit hardware?

Oh wait, I just scrolled up. We are talking about Ansible stuffs

[clear ferry]

I'm talking about network \ hostname customization

whatever you do in a OS customization file

[slow zenith]

Gotcha

[heavy ginkgo]

thanks atx

my 5 yo is right here telling me about spongebob now

[rare condor]

@clear ferry Ever dealt with OpenBMC or have a preference when it comes to out of band management?

[heavy ginkgo]

pffft oob management is a nightmare :p

[rare condor]

I was experimenting with open source implementations. I flashed uboot onto my ASpeed controller using SPI, but a lot of black magic involved as its all undocumented so likely to go stock again.

[heavy ginkgo]

I assume it's just a home lab?

[inner vault]

I just use iDracs and then have to send someone to the DC every few months to reset them when they inevitably don't work when we need them to

[heavy ginkgo]

lol

sounds about right

lol wtf

[inner vault]

Are you my provincial liquor commission? https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/saq-to-suspend-app-online-ordering-from-jan-26-to-feb-3

Saying it needs the time to conduct a “major upgrade of our technology infrastructure,” the Société des alcools du Québec announced on Thursday that its customers will be unable to use the SAQ mobile app or shop online from Tuesday, Jan. 26 until Wednesday, Feb. 3.

[heavy ginkgo]

idk some of the companies ive worked with would lose millions of dollars with a few hours of down time lol

seems to be important to them

[inner vault]

I'm just amazed that the liquor monopoly is suspending online sales for a week during a pandemic

[last dirge]

@last plaza have you tried using the dry cabinet for ABS yet?

[last plaza]

Nope. Have you?

ABS is not a problem for me. TPU is.

TPU is more hygroscopic

[last dirge]

I just threw the tiny bit I had in there

haven't printed in a long time

[clear ferry]

@rare condor iLO iLO iLO iLO, if desperate iDRAC

@heavy ginkgo then you have shitty OOB 😉

[heavy ginkgo]

i dont have oob at all, but every company i've ever had to mess with OOB has sucked :p

only place that did it well had a bastion host that accessed oob network, all the cli tools were on the bastion, or you could just -D via ssh to access the web gui's

cli was the preferred method, as it was much more reliable than web

[clear ferry]

I deploy a couple of thousand servers a year, more and more of those remotely, and iLO is rock solid, since iLO3, iLO2 was... flaky, iDRAC6 and below is basically useless, but 7 is ok

[heavy ginkgo]

all of them were iLo

[clear ferry]

then shitty setups

[heavy ginkgo]

oh no, the ilo bastion setup was legit

unfortunately, the pci servers were accessible via bmc on the same subnet as all the other bmcs

[clear ferry]

LOLOL

gr8 job

https://tenor.com/tHGW.gif

[heavy ginkgo]

lol

[night zodiac]

I have shoveled and salted the sidewalk so I don't kill the mail lady

[heavy ginkgo]

i havent

[night zodiac]

mine was like wet ice pellets so if I didn't take care of it now it'd be a huge chunk of ice later and be a pain in the ass

I woke up and immediately did it before coffee and now my back hurts

just in time

mail lady is here

[deft pewter]

I thought you hated your mail lady? You should have left it icy.

[heavy ginkgo]

lol

[night zodiac]

https://share.busheezy.dev/ath9Py.png

I don't hate her, she has just left notes on my mailbox asking me to move it away from the ditch that her jeep made

but like, there is a regulated distance the mailbox has to be

and she drops cigarettes by my mailbox

lol

she has a lot of shit to carry today

welp, I feel like she forgot something by the way she was looking around her jeep and then just drove away

https://share.busheezy.dev/hBPI46.png amazon be like

[clear ferry]

[night zodiac]

Christmas

[heavy ginkgo]

release the kraken

[lament coral]

AliExpressMas?

[warm bridge]

quick newbie question what are .ts files

[ember grail]

is there a way to colorize icons via the name only? e.g. mdi:water to mdi:water:#ff0033 or mdi:water:cyan?

[night zodiac]

amazonmas

[deft pewter]

Penismas

[tame sand]

Typescript file : https://www.typescriptlang.org/

[warm bridge]

thanks

[tame sand]

nope

[ember grail]

any way to push a color to it via the entity?

[tame sand]

maybe go to #frontend-archived

[ember grail]

that's fair

[tame sand]

wow... i just learned that .ts is actually a video stream file aswell... 🤔 @warm bridge

[deft pewter]

Nonsense. .ts is a superior version of .js

[night zodiac]

I was going to say, I use ts files for my streams 😛

[deft pewter]

What's your video stream performance like with TypeScript?

[tame sand]

He has to compile it before watching lol

[deft pewter]

The best bit... NodeJS, which can be written in TypeScript, supports something called Streams: https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html

Compile? Nah. Transpile.

[tame sand]

tru

[deft pewter]

JS is a JIT language, right? No need to compile in advance.

[night zodiac]

JS is just a language. If someone wanted to write bullshit to compile, they could. pee pees.

[heavy ginkgo]

just rewrite it in go

[night zodiac]

now to solder it to an 8266 and smash it together

[deft pewter]

ESP-controlled Bic?

[night zodiac]

blaze it

[inner vault]

usb power and LED indicator in a box?

[plush swan]

First World home automation problems: I set up a notification for out porch door opening to be sent to my phone with a specific alert sound. Turns out the dog has learned also learned that sound from my phone means the door has opened and loses his shit. Sometimes the alert gets hung up or delayed an hour.

[night zodiac]

jordan ir transmitter and receiver

[inner vault]

ahhh

[night zodiac]

my girl is complaining about the smell of me heat shrinking too closely

to fire

[deft pewter]

What does she think of rosin?

[night zodiac]

hash?

she likes it

[deft pewter]

I don't know how you got from rosin to hash.

I mean rosin flux.

[heavy ginkgo]

rofl

[deft pewter]

Stoners, huh? 🤣

[gusty wraith]

heat shrink is for junkies... fabric tape used on car wiring harnesses is the real thing 😄

[deft pewter]

I wish I had heatshrink. The last wire I had to connect looks a mess. Had to use insulation tape 🤢

Not pretty and wasn't fun passing it between the two wires on every loop

[heavy ginkgo]

im not above hot glue

my zwave channel is broken

[night zodiac]

I'm about to hotglue some of this

just a blob to hold the receiver

[heavy ginkgo]

ive used it before to hold a wire to a pin on a chip before

when solder is too much

[night zodiac]

lol

wtf

[heavy ginkgo]

if you're just pulling off firmware its nbd

[night zodiac]

ahhh

almost ordered those fancy clamps the other day but didn't need them

sad

[heavy ginkgo]

i got the fancy clamps with my logic analyzer

logic 8 saleae, the cheapest one lol

[tidal bronze]

@night zodiac you using marine tube? 🤔

[night zodiac]

probably not, Idk what that is

[tidal bronze]

That heat shrink looks like marine heat shrink 🙂

[night zodiac]

not really sure where this bag of heatstrhink came from

I have a box of it somewhere but could only find a bag

yay, the receiver doesn't work

lol

I wonder if the transmitter does

yep. I guess I'll just throw a new receiver on it

oh

the pinout I looked at was wrong

sweet

[night zodiac]

Donezo

[cerulean moth]

SQDC still going balls deep tho

[alpine spear]

I have a lot of devices connected to home assistant, but haven’t gotten around to setting up any automations yet. I’ve been lazy, and Alexa has a lot of my routines set up. I noticed recently, my ESP32 with WLED for my TV Ambilight has been turning off late at night. I checked the logs and HA has been shutting it off, and I don’t know what’s triggering it. Just now, it turned on my bathroom light (zwave switch), shut off my TV, and a WiFi smart plug.

[velvet horizon]

The topic of this channel is:

@alpine spear There's no support for Home Assistant here - please look at the other channels for that, and #330990055533576204 if it's a question about the HA Blue. If you can't work out which is relevant, start in #general-archived

No politics, religion, or any other obviously contentious topics! Please ensure you've read the Code of Conduct (https://www.home-assistant.io/code_of_conduct/), and #rules.

Remember when reporting spam to include a screenshot of the spam and the user's handle (eg @spammer#123)

Command '.topic' was invoked by: atxbyea

[alpine spear]

Sorry bot

[clear ferry]

Optical cable fixed by co-workers - https://i.redd.it/tztvy6n6v9d61.jpg

[night zodiac]

ex co workers

[clear ferry]

That looks like standard American broadband from what I've heard though

_yeah I love my 1200/10 connection _

[night zodiac]

haha, I only have a single optical line for my modem

[clear ferry]

That is a single gpon too

You can see the strand of fiber

[night zodiac]

I don't know shit about fiber

I swear yours has two strands or I am blind

oh, the casing is fucked

nvm, looks like two

maybe the different is mine is single mode and yours is multi? Idk

[clear ferry]

That kind is a single strand

Rx and TX is multiplexed on different wavelengths

While most datacenter cabling has two strands, one for Rx and one for tx

Then we have mpo connectors that have 1-5 active pairs, depending on implementation

[night zodiac]

I keep seeing random IR in my house. Am I die?

selling IR blasters. $500

[deft pewter]

For 1000 of them? I'll take them.

[night zodiac]

haha, Broadlink has to be making a killing

[hushed basalt]

Happy Australia Day 🦘 🇦🇺 🟩 🟨

Dropbears, this is the signal to attack

[ocean mirage]

Cant even use my burning flag emoji here smh

cowards

[night zodiac]

burning flags usually isn't good

unless it is

in which case, birds

🐦

[ocean mirage]

its okay its a national flag

[deft pewter]

Yeah, we don't do that

[ocean mirage]

sad

[hushed basalt]

https://c.tenor.com/fBvQV_5Lp6UAAAAM/we-dont-do-that-here-black-panther.gif

You have been deducted 100 citizen social cohesion points

Please report to your nearest re-education centre.

[deft pewter]

Re-education? Gotta get education first.

[hearty depot]

I... need to do this!

[night zodiac]

doorbell chime

[forest edge]

that moment you realize the shit in your home looks like MacGyver had visited

[night zodiac]

lol

my nickname from certain family has been MacGyver since I was 5 years old but I've never even seen an episode

[forest edge]

it was pretty good. the original. i never watched the remake of it

the original was the same dude from the first stargate series

[night zodiac]

not bad for a off the shelf box, lol

[last cedar]

Does it work though? 😂

[night zodiac]

haha, yeah

tested it out

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/parkergifs-p1nocchlo-parkersgifs-gif-20076381

[night zodiac]

I am excited for the LED strips tomorrow to make under the kitchen cabinets sexy

[clear ferry]

https://v.redd.it/axftno7kjkd61

[night zodiac]

I sort of want to learn to use kicad

order pcbs for no reason

[prime pelican]

I see Adguard lifetime family plan is 76% off. Is it worth it if you already run Adguard home?

[last cedar]

Noodle soup! (Todays job)

[clear ferry]

oh lawd

those look thicker than the normal alarm wires I have said

maybe it is just perspective

https://tenor.com/bl1Vi.gif

[last cedar]

3x 10 pair cables

And a lot of non thicc ones

[inner plover]

@ancient wren

[last cedar]

This is what happens when your company pays you trash

(And you are a raccoon)

😍 😍 😍

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/TwaE.gif

I should try reusing my old alarm controller

I remove the controller, I have the wires still hanging there, and will reuse the motion sensors with a esp device

when I have time

but the alarm controller could be useful too for something

[forest edge]

just how often to you get break ins there in devils-taint?

[clear ferry]

I think I hear of... 3-4 break-ins per year in my region

usually into garages

[forest edge]

then whats the point of alarms

[clear ferry]

I wonder too

everybody has them

very few people use them

[subtle pasture]

Why's @clear ferry streaming a Ubuntu desktop into hangout? 🤔

[clear ferry]

I told discord to stream one screen

it streamed all three

🤣

[forest edge]

you may wanna click off it, at any moment it will change to looking down with some unpleasant scenery

now he's got a following lol

[subtle pasture]

Oop, looks like I missed it 👀

Real insomniac hours up in hangout. lol

[clear ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOQMrwywE0c @subtle pasture

[clear ferry]

I saw you @clever mortar

I EVEN GREETED YOU

and you left

[clever mortar]

Mis-clicked 😄

[subtle pasture]

👀

[clever mortar]

You don't want to hear my taste in music

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/67Ug.gif

[clever mortar]

Or me eat peanuts while drinking coffee

[subtle pasture]

You missed us ranting about our taste in electrical outlets 😛

[clear ferry]

We agreed Murica sucks though

[clever mortar]

UK are the best, since they double as caltrops

[subtle pasture]

No argument from me on that one

[clear ferry]

What I was originally trying to live stream was a single monitor though

so you could see my ansible runbooks and my vcenter at once

but discord found that too normie

and wanted to display 2x4k displays and a 1080 display at the same time

which is viewable if you have a 16k screen I guess

[subtle pasture]

The number of people who popped in, said nothing, muted themselves, then left, was... odd...

[clear ferry]

lurkers

https://tenor.com/xGDI.gif

[subtle pasture]

y'all creepin' 👀

@clear ferry I could view it scaled... currently running 5760x1200

[clear ferry]

oh lawd

https://tenor.com/E150.gif

[subtle pasture]

Triple 24" monitors 😄

It's a shame there aren't more new 16:10 screens. 1920x1200 > 1920x1080

Also, 2560x1600 > 2560x1440

[clear ferry]

You should have seen my 800x600 projector I used as a fifth monitor in 2005

[subtle pasture]

Ah, crap, that reminds me... I still need to hunt down an RTX 3080 with 4x DisplayPort outputs 😕

[clear ferry]

My three year old laptop can output 2x4k + 2x1080

people still find that impressive

🤣

[subtle pasture]

Yeah, my current card can output 4x 4k over 4x DisplayPort outputs (totally standard for an RTX 20 series card)

None of the 30 series have 4x DisplayPort outputs... they went with 3x DisplayPort + 1x HDMI across the board

[clear ferry]

I should find a reasonable gpu to put in my truenas host for plex transcoding

not that I ever have issues really, I just want the option

[subtle pasture]

If you want Nvidia's latest and greatest transcoding unit... GTX 1660 is about as low as you can go

Which is still a rather expensive card

[clear ferry]

I'm not that fancy

[subtle pasture]

Well, in that case, Quadrom M4000's can be had for about $250, and support unlimited transcode streams without any driver hacks

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

[clear ferry]

ooof, I'm also an obsessive cheapskate

🤣

[subtle pasture]

$250 is pretty darn cheap for a Quadro man 👀

[clear ferry]

True, but I'm still a cheapskate

Maybe I'll pick something up at a customer

most of the systems being retired are Quadro 2000 though

[subtle pasture]

2000, no letter?

I have one of those kicking around, somewhere. lol

The original 2000 is so old it's not even on Nvidia transcoding support matrix...

[clear ferry]

not sure about the model name, just seen a 2000 on the side of them

probably 8-10 years old

and they have some grid k1s laying around too

[forest edge]

pretty normal for that side of the world to be major perv's.. i mean look who initiated the stream to start with

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/6XKO.gif

[subtle pasture]

Pervs? I'll fit right in 👀

https://tenor.com/view/flirty-eyebrow-flirting-lewd-gif-8979689

[forest edge]

i have become so slow at working on HA stuff that I have setup my camera feeds on another machine like a month ago or so but still have them going through the HA pi as well, and I just now setup the ssh suth keys so I can have a script pass images etc from one machine to HA

maybe next month I may setup up having my other machine do snapshots and not just recodings and the month after tha maybe having it xsfer those images over

it has to be an age thing cause i clearly remember being one of those people who starts a project see's it through even if that means sacrificing sleep

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/track/1h1M9Tv0TroKYb7HMbgjpP?si=F3c_FLZgRtOflAwXpzSQuw

[forest edge]

@subtle pasture so you can atleast see the device that is apparently hard to get lol https://youtu.be/MB76Lt0VXuo

[clear ferry]

pi 🤢

[forest edge]

brown cheese 🤢

[clear ferry]

oh shit, getting ansible to install and configure stuff for me

https://tenor.com/9Rzg.gif

[deft pewter]

Is Ansible your wife's name?

[clear ferry]

no, it's my petname for you

https://tenor.com/bdbBf.gif

[deft pewter]

But I just started my lunch break 😦

Even my actual boss doesn't work me as hard as you do.

[clear ferry]

maybe I should become a people manager

🤔

no screw that

[deft pewter]

Yeah... I'm still pretty early in my career path atm but I know management is a route I'll never consider 🤣

Gimme a quiet corner and a pair of headphones, thanks.

And enough money for all these OnlyFans accounts atx keeps creating.

[clear ferry]

I've been offered mgmt jobs for.... almost 10 years

I've said no to all so far 🤣

so let's see what my meeting on thursday is about for the EU job

[deft pewter]

Does it mean you can travel more often (including Glasgow and Newcastle)? If so, you gotta take it.

[forest edge]

been in management most my life

I actually kind of like it

dealing with stubborn challenges makes it interesting

[clear ferry]

that explains why you are the way you are

[forest edge]

explains why i haven't muted you yet.. sure 😉

[clear ferry]

[hushed basalt]

https://c.tenor.com/zS02vRH6AsMAAAAM/turn-down-volume-mute.gif

[low harness]

I like all those game challenge youtube videos. Like beat Breath of the Wild without climbing and stuff.

[deft pewter]

Or beating Guitar Hero without a guitar?

[low harness]

I think I just found the best one: Can You Beat Untitled Goose Game Without Honking?

Spoiler:

[clear ferry]

If anything I watch longplay videos of games I played 25 years ago

[low harness]

I've run out 😦

[deft pewter]

Pong?

[low harness]

Wakeup time, mono. The -70s was 50 years ago. Not 30.

[clear ferry]

[low harness]

ikr

[clear ferry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg6o077L5Wk

[deft pewter]

I'm always disappointed when I go back to older games. In my head, they look amazing. Then I see what they actually looked like...

[clear ferry]

Looks aren't everything

[deft pewter]

Yeah, bugs and crappy AI were there too.

[clear ferry]

like Monkey Island with a proper midi-device like the MT32

OH LAWD

https://tenor.com/6XKO.gif

[hushed basalt]

https://c.tenor.com/qQTAmqtgmWcAAAAM/mybodyisready-ready.gif

[deft pewter]

Ok, Ariel.

[green inlet]

Pong was my first video game 😊

[clear ferry]

I thought it was sticks

and holes

[deft pewter]

Yer ma's holes?

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/YsqL.gif

[forest edge]

sorry to hear that. can't imagine a childhood where every meal was a single slice of bread with a glass of rain water

[hushed basalt]

https://c.tenor.com/9W0JDIFV3qcAAAAM/back-in-my-day-barefoot.gif

[heavy ginkgo]

Bu is going to have a rave in his kitchen when LED lights get installed

[hot roost]

Anyone here got a Samsung Q series TV? Remote randomly wont work but can turn on/off via HA just fine

Light flashes on it, tried repairing etc

[heavy ginkgo]

RE : old game - am i the only one that cant handle the third / first person 2.5D perspective that exist on games today ?

[clear ferry]

example ?

[heavy ginkgo]

let me get one, there was a pretty sweet game on the ps4 i got and it turned out to be terrible because i couldnt manage the environment lol

oh, Bloodborne

[clear ferry]

Bloodborne

https://tenor.com/5uIc.gif

Probably one of my favorite games of all time

[heavy ginkgo]

probably would be fine with keyboard mouse

[clear ferry]

🤢

https://tenor.com/w3Hm.gif

[heavy ginkgo]

lol

knights of the old republic is one my my favorites

[tidal onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/olf-af-as-fuck-were-old-were-really-old-gif-14916682

I stopped serious gaming with Ultima IV, Bard's Tale, Eye of the Beholder... 😁

[heavy ginkgo]

yeah, Ultima was great

[eager geyser]

where can i ask about database questions

[deft pewter]

Read the topics. You'll see which one mentions databases.

And if you read this channel's topic, you'll see there are no support questions here.

[last dirge]

@eager geyser #analytics-archived

[amber bramble]

I played a lot of Graal Online back in the day... that game is what got me interesting in programming

that and mIRC bots 😂

[deft pewter]

mIRC. Those were the days.

[clear ferry]

mIRC 🤢

BitchX

[forest edge]

lol bards tale

[heavy ginkgo]

i think im going to play the mincraft door open/shut sound for my doors through HA :p

the kids will get a kick out of it

[tidal onyx]

Yes. But only Bards Tale I, II, III.

[mental gust]

Hey all, is it possible to request a new discord channel on this server to bring everyone’s ideas together around the subject of (room) presence dectection?

[clever mortar]

Yes
No

Yes, it is possible

No, we're not going to create another one - there's already quite a lot 😉

[mental gust]

Haha allright that's clear

[clever mortar]

DrZzs has a channel just for it, and it's usually silent

Here just ask in #general-archived or #integrations-archived as appropriate

[mental gust]

Well I than just wanted to say that there's this laser sensor that you could hang above your door and count the people being present in the room. Here's a vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91Ve-g0J2U.

Based and inspired on that video I am working on integrating it into home assistant and esphome.

[deft pewter]

A single sensor is useless for presence. You don't know the direction of travel, nor who triggered it.

[mental gust]

I'm really enthusiastic about it. Here's the github https://github.com/DutchDeffy/esphome_custom_component_VL53L1X_people_counter/blob/dev/inspiration and resources.md

[deft pewter]

Fun toy but not practical at all.

[mental gust]

Well actually this is a single sensor but splits is up into two zones. Measuring the distance in both of the zones and uses that to determine if someone is entering or leaving the room.

Here's a pdf about it https://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/user_manual/group1/df/1d/a8/2e/35/28/47/64/DM00626942/files/DM00626942.pdf/jcr:content/translations/en.DM00626942.pdf

[deft pewter]

How does one TOF sensor know about direction?

Ah, it's explained in the PDF

Nice concept... Though technically two sensors in one.

If it's reliable, I'm sure more people would be interested. Might be a nice way to count people in and out of rooms

[mental gust]

I read from several people on the home assistant forum and arduino forum as well that they got it working realibly.

So I'm excited to try

It would solve the problem I had with RCWL0516 doppler sensors and pir sensors that you have to keep moving to keep them activated.

Unless you enter or exist a room via another unusual way. Like jumping out of the window.

[clever mortar]

Or another door 😉

[deft pewter]

Assuming it's done on all entry points, it means a room could track occupancy count. I like it.

More work than I'd bother with but could suit some.

[chrome oak]

Dumb question, but as long as a z-wave device (dimmer switch) is recognized in Home Assistant I can use google assistant to trigger actions right?

[deft pewter]

Probably. But see the support channels for support questions.

[chrome oak]

Sorry! Just joined i’ll ask my question there.

[deft pewter]

#voice-assistants-archived For the voice bits, #automations-archived For tying it together

[clever mortar]

#integrations-archived for how HA talks to things, that don't have their own channel

[last plaza]

#general-archived if you are not sure 😉

[chrome oak]

Thanks everyone!

[deft pewter]

#the-water-cooler for poop 💩

https://c.tenor.com/TYRSzAGpzcQAAAAM/crap-elmo.gif

[chrome oak]

Going down this rabbit hole that is home automation. It all started with with my pregnant wife not wanting to get up to dim the lights

[deft pewter]

My wife also used to ask me to do the lights too often. I gave her a wireless button. I haven't been asked since.

[forest edge]

don't think i want a house where you "need" the ability to dim lights

[deft pewter]

What's wrong with dimming?

[forest edge]

I have can lights in my basement which is where you usually see dimming around here but because of how i put them I don't need or have a diming switch on them

just seems like more work

[night zodiac]

She used to ask me to ask google to change the lights

[forest edge]

now she just ask google about a certain wrestler huh 😉

lol

[night zodiac]

https://giphy.com/gifs/grandma-nana-wat-3WmWdBzqveXaE

[shy comet]

i used to get the "babe can you set a 10 minute timer"

[night zodiac]

dsh, I got the big screen one for the kitchen and now she is a timer master. I wince when the timer goes off because I know her scream of "stop" is coming

I put 2 months of amazon boxes in 2 massive fucking furniture boxes and set them outside. I am happy the garbage company took them

they didn't have to according to the rules

[wet pilot]

yeah, i usually take my over-sized boxes to recycling manually every so often

[forest edge]

i always cut them into large sheets and use them for other shit

[night zodiac]

I am pretty sure the recycling place in town where you can dropoff doesn't allow boxes

not like I have a truck for it anyways

okay, just watched the garbage man struggle to lift the cardboard with his gloves on because of slippery. I feel bad. I wonder if I can leave gift cards for them or something. they have gone beyond in the past too when we moved in

https://share.busheezy.dev/vbVMzG/IKks3LrbiH.mp4

my back would have been gone if I lifted the second one the way he did

dehell

[deft pewter]

Those are tiny boxes. Don't feel bad for them.

I thought you meant some monster boxes the size of cars.

[night zodiac]

lol, they are larger than the bin that is all they are required to grab

[deft pewter]

If you broke it down and put a bit in the bin each week, they'd still be moving the same amount of trash.

[night zodiac]

second one was jam stuffed with cardboard so a bit heavy

yeah, I thought about that mono

I just don't do it because it can fly away and shit and I like to bundle it nicely

[deft pewter]

Yeah, you did good and kept it tidy. I don't think anyone cares beyond that.

[night zodiac]

I wouldn't have thought about it at all but the girlfriend was like "They're not going to take that"

so I was peeking out the windows all morning

I even tied rope around the second one 😛

All of the stuff for the cabinet lightint arrived

yay

[tidal bronze]

Hope you are going to use diffuser tracks for cabinets

[night zodiac]

I thought about it. They are going to shine straight down onto the cabinet for now

I'll change if I don't like it

[tidal bronze]

Better use a diffuser, looks way better.

[deft pewter]

I was hoping this was so you could pull the rope a little each time they got close...

[night zodiac]

well shit

[tidal bronze]

6812?

[night zodiac]

ws2812b

[tidal bronze]

Why not RGBCW for cabinets?

[night zodiac]

not a real need. my place is always purple

RB is all I really need

which are my initials

[tidal bronze]

lol

Always purple. Sounds like always testy

[night zodiac]

I'm going to install it and I'll yoink it all out if I dislike it at all

I've talked about it for days and of course quad tells me how to do it better 5 minutes after it arrives 😛

Are you getting a few days of rest or back to work?

[tidal bronze]

Rest? 🤔

[night zodiac]

I remember back in the day where you were going hard on the back yard

[tidal bronze]

Oh lol. Backyard is all done. Been crazy busy with work.

[deft pewter]

Nice to meet you, Ronaldo BuSheeZy.

[forest edge]

@tidal bronze still getting that broom handle shoved up your nose weekly?

[tidal bronze]

Not anymore, saliva test

@night zodiac if you are doing tracks this would be it

[night zodiac]

version 2

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/train-tracks-tracks-collect-get-gromit-gif-11667864

These sorts of tracks are better

[night zodiac]

I'll have to buy lots of command strips to hold those suckers up without damaging anything

[tidal bronze]

Use tie-downs as @last cedar pointed out 🙂

[last cedar]

Yes

Will stop raccoons from stealing them too

[night zodiac]

tie to what, lol

[last cedar]

Yes

[night zodiac]

big if true

[last cedar]

Anything not tied down is free game for raccoons

Even tied down stuff

[tidal bronze]

@night zodiac you can get clear retainer clips for them .

[last cedar]

Those tracks look amazing btw

Light disfuser strips basically?

[tidal bronze]

Yes

[night zodiac]

I have to use adhesive. I told the landlord I wouldn't make any holes so landlord doesn't get any holes.

they specifically ask for command strips so just been using those. they will be able to hold them no problem

[last cedar]

If they stay cool, glue gun glue might work!

If it does not stay cool, wear a hard hat and hope for the best

[night zodiac]

I have command strips holding up tons of things. My AP's are stuck to the wall with them

[last cedar]

Nice!

Please post pics later btw

Would love to see what you end up with

[night zodiac]

well now I am embarassed that I didn't get diffusers or cw

but will do

after coffee

I really don't mind yoinking them out and putting up fancier shit and since it is command strip it aint no deal

I accidentally ordered different shit than last time

whoops

[last cedar]

Happens :(

[night zodiac]

no protective layer on this one

oh well

[forest edge]

@tidal bronze did you get the vaccine?

[proud ore]

Okay, I can see why people use SSDs for their RPi4 setups

man it's a big speed difference compared to the SD

[tidal bronze]

@forest edge not yet next week. Missed my 1st appointment.

[deft pewter]

You replaced the SD with an SSD. Just wait until you replace the Pi with a computer.

[forest edge]

what are they saying about it's effectivness against the new strain that is apparently running wild over there?

@tidal bronze

[proud ore]

@deft pewter Probably not going to happen in the near future. I only have like 10 devices

[tidal bronze]

Moderna says will need a booster dose for new strain @forest edge

[forest edge]

thats the one someone was saying comes in doses like once a month or whatever isn't it

[tidal bronze]

Well 2 + 1 later on.

[forest edge]

how the hell did they create a booster that works so quick

[deft pewter]

Or just go with the 'foreign' ones that are supposed to cover the strains that are already known about.

[tidal bronze]

Not a new one same one as a booster.

[deft pewter]

Why would you need more of the same? Either you're covered by the ones you've had or you need another one, surely?

Unless this is the start of a monthly subscription plan by Big Pharma

[tidal bronze]

Vaccine or not best way would be to be safe

[deft pewter]

Are people getting their second doses over there? Our government are retarded and are going against the advice of the manufacturers and doing them 12 weeks apart.

There's no testing to say how effective they are at 12 weeks 🤦‍♂️

[tidal bronze]

Here also they are trying to spread it since 2nd dose delivery is shits

No one knows if it really does the job. Oh well.

[forest edge]

lol

guinea pigs the lot of you

[tidal bronze]

I think everything is working perfectly when CDC has no idea of dose count.

[last dirge]

well, someone was like "let's see where we are in this rollout plan"

and then someone was like "there is no rollout plan"

then the first person was like "well damn, we're worse off than I even thought we were"

[tidal bronze]

LMAO exactly. Things going to shit at warp speed.

[last dirge]

then they tell a cute redheaded lady to communicate that

[deft pewter]

They're being called out on it too. Why bother with the clinical testing if they're just going to throw it away and do an unlicensed trial on the whole population?

[last dirge]

enough BS about vaccine testing

it's an RNA vaccine based on a decade of knowledge around a variant of the virus

they weren't starting from zero

[deft pewter]

What?

Where's the BS?

[tidal bronze]

2012 right?

[last dirge]

earlier than that

started after the first SARS situation

[forest edge]

if they were so "knowledged" they wouldn't have to come out with a booster addition lol

[last dirge]

are you an immunologist?

[deft pewter]

That's like saying we don't need annual flu vaccines because we know everything about flu.

Flu changes... so we get newer vaccines. Simple.

The strains that each year's vaccines cover will vary depending on what's considered most likely to spread that winter.

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/you-know-im-something-of-a-scientist-myself-scientist-donald-kimball-gif-14910706

[forest edge]

i have never gotten a flu shot

now that you bring that up

[deft pewter]

That doesn't change how they work.

[last dirge]

nor the fact that you should

because the flu sucks a D

[deft pewter]

Anyone at risk should, yeah. And those not at risk should at least consider it.

I haven't had it... but I don't make a fuss about vaccines either.

[forest edge]

had the flu one time when i was young, never gotten it or the cold since

[last dirge]

we can't even get the "not at risk" people to wear masks

[clear ferry]

And since @forest edge is >70 he is at risk

[forest edge]

i am at risk

but more so by you than any virus

is there an atx vaccine yet?

[clear ferry]

Nope

Never gonna happen

I evolve daily

[last dirge]

there is!

[forest edge]

we an extra booster for this one

[last dirge]

it's made by S&W

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/what-in-the-good-lords-name-ethan-treadwell-ultimate-cowboy-showdown-what-in-tarnation-what-in-gods-name-gif-18507904

[deft pewter]

@clear ferry FF x metal: https://open.spotify.com/track/2CdCLvf268H7GfUlAzPq5F?si=E9rvmPWiQ7ubFz3Q3oT2AA

[clear ferry]

[deft pewter]

Sorry. Thought you liked shitty metal and shitty retro games 🤷‍♂️

[deft pewter]

Stupid question... do things I define in crontab run as su?

Oh... gotta add it again to have it run as root. Linux is so intuitive...

Well, not again... edit crontab as root 🤦‍♂️

At least that's one more task off the list, assuming it works. Backing up all my Docker stuff nightly to S3.

[clear ferry]

But wait, there is more

[clear ferry]

Ah, blood donated

First time in 10 months

[last plaza]

God bless those souls who gets your blood.

https://tenor.com/view/nervous-sign-of-the-cross-praying-hoping-nico-santos-gif-10946409

[clear ferry]

Forever damned

https://tenor.com/view/yolandi-anwoord-baphomet-insainment-mind-space-apocalypse-gif-7788166

I'm a registered bone marrow donor too, but haven't gotten the call yet

[night zodiac]

Connectors

[clear ferry]

https://open.spotify.com/track/7qmhbCCWKx0upNlL974lDr?si=JLEC392ZQYa93SkcWmdduA

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/resident-evil3remake-jill-sandwich-yeti112-re3remake-parody-mirror-gif-17282501

[covert mesa]

Hi guys! Tried to upgrade to the latest version a few times and got another notice that i should upgrade the other day. found a core upgrade available and did it but now HA is not accessible anymore. cache deleted. app wont work (connection refused) and a rename of custom_integrations didn't help neither. Any ideas?

[clever mortar]

Please read the channel topic @covert mesa

[covert mesa]

Ah! Thanks!

[clever mortar]

You want your install method channel though

[deft pewter]

We have install channels?

https://open.spotify.com/track/7LMeyCTDNF8b1vTmYYEZP2?si=ryFwpM4fQca_fmDF5bhGCg

🎵 I used to want you dead but now I only want you gone 🎵