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you remember this? http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents Please see the โcondensed time lineโ section (the next one) for a time line of how the Xerox saga unfolded. It for example depicts that I did not push the thing to the public right away, but gave Xerox a lot of time before I did so.
What in tarnation
I should go to Chippewa falls though
It looks pretty
And a lot of our US factory work is there
Since it isn't working, no
It died, so I'm distributing the memory and drives to my collegues
sharing is caring
It has 48G and 512+256GB NVMe so it should be reused
indeed :))
i am happy that my nas was upgraded from 4 to 8 gb :)))))
but i want to change , not sure what to have
My NAS is 128GB ๐คฃ
home-made or something from nasa?
Just a Dell R510 with some drives and 24 cores
https://printing.eirikz.com is back online 
what os u run on your nas?
Just
Most of us don't have enterprise gear
want something simplier with max 4 bay
I need to figure out an affordable DIY NAS as well. Gonna run SCALE and see if it's as good as atx claims.
@winter wren Truenas scale here
Running nightly alpha now
Because I know what I'm doing most of the time
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With 4 bays a used HPE microserver gen8 or Gen9 is popular
hpe micro....hm...asking google
*TrueNAS SCALE is in early development and is not recommended for production use until 2021
Truenas CORE 12 is fully stable
But it is BSD based and no docker support
scale is debian
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Have there been any major updates or changes to HA core architecture since 2016?
No
Sounds like a question for #general-archived
None
yeah... 1/2 commits to core i guess
That sounds ambitious
All my best commits are half commits.
hmmm...nothing to find of gen8
HP Microserver Gen8 processor E3-1220L v2 si 16GB RAM. ....can hold 3-4 vm ?
maybe i can play with docker containers...but i am not so technical
If you can understand VMs you can understand docker containers
Less overhead and more flexible
and u manage dockers with ?
Docker-compose (which uses docker commands under the hood) or docker commands directly
directly under scale ?
Yes, the frontend for scale is still... Not there
With very few applications
So I do everything via docker compose from the cli
oh..cli
multiple terminal windows ๐คฎ
use a proper terminal with tabs and split panes ๐ค
new windows terminal ๐ฅ
what new windows terminal
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
๐คฎ๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ
its not in windows yet but will replace it eventually
no thx
its actually really usefull once you get a hang of it
the new terminal is decent
to open wsl in a seperate tab is really usefull
much better than cmd at least
nah, I dont trust this
able to do native ps1/wsl terms
took them 20 years now huh
putty rules :)))
crippled maybe, like curl still is
I think I'll enjoy being on a mac more when I get a real keyboard
Working off a laptop suuuuccckksss
iterm is the real and only terminal I use every day
My microsoft sculpt won't play nice with it either
Going to get the moonlander probably
Hey guys, since being new to this channel and even though i have been using HA for some time now i still feel like a newbie!
I have HA installed on a raspberry 4, so.. is that homeassistant_os as installation method? =/ damn i feel stupid
Yes, i did! Thank you!
Oliver stones untold history of the United States is pretty good
I had to reflash the os today since everything stopped working, didnt know what to do.. and now im stuck with doing everything all over again!
Good news is that the folks over there can help you, if they're around ๐
Assuming, of course, you have a snapshot you downloaded...
I dont, that was my next question. Is there a way to keep a backup of my installation.. now i know! ๐ haha
If you flashed it already, it's a bit late
Yeah i know m8, my setup is fairly small so it's no biggie but i have plans that will make it bigger and for the future! ๐
But, snapshots aren't backup until you have them off the host. Still, that's technically support, and we don't do that in this channel ๐
cool! Thank you! wont bother with questions in wrong channel anymore! sorry
@clear ferry it was 'ok bye'. They're really adamant that they don't want us working remotely. They'd rather lose me. ๐
Rofl
How retarded in this day and age !!
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Exactly. So if you know anyone that wants to hire a terrible NodeJS dev on a remote contract, let me know
What else do you code in?
(I don't know of any NodeJS stuff, but there may be other things I hear about in the future)
So you are finally moving to Norway @deft pewter
I could probably pick up Java or .NET quickly enough, just haven't used them professionally before.
back to EU? :))
Back to? I've never lived there
sure..but u are outside eu since 1st january :))
maybe u can work in norway to return to eu
it was ok bye just because he heard that u want to leave? and wanted to show off who's the bo$$ ?
Nah, we had a good chat but it doesn't sound like they'll compromise.
I like him, he's honest and fair. It's just that my needs don't align with what the business are willing to offer.
Can't fault him for that ๐คทโโ๏ธ
since pandemic era started only some squareheads from ibm said...we want you in office because we are working with banks
Tell him about HPE who are visionary and closing down their offices ww and designating their consultants Edge workers who are permanent WFH @deft pewter

Only customers I go onsite to the last 12 months are military or high profile
While we won't all go fully WFH I'm fully expecting that our future will be considerably more flexible - and some of my colleagues have been full time WFH for years
For me it's amusing, the main thing that'll take me back into the office would be meeting my team, but it's looking like my next team will be global, so ... 
Step #1 in that - get a team member in Oslo...

Part time wfh is great
I wouldn't want pure remote though to be honest
I like going into the office sometimes
I like flexibility - there's days I don't want to go into an office, and there's days I do
Can't do team days if you're remote
Eh, we've been remote for the last year - we've done a few team days. They've actually worked better ๐
In person?
Nope
What do you do then
Everybody at home, joining in team events remotely
That includes interactive events, with teams
i'm in the office at a it company :)))))
Now, I'll agree, visiting the Alpaca's would have been better in person, but ... 
Just send a sacrificial team member with a camera
Problem solved
Everyone else can watch
carl, you are pretty shit at your job, I've got a task for you
Two sacrificial team members battle to the death
I like doing wfh while my daughter is at daycare
place your bets
Otherwise it becomes a long day, 20 minutes pickup and drop off each part of the day, plus 30 minute train ride, plus work
She's only in 3 days a week
When she's home I go in
Which is nice since it lights up with breakfast day
Oh right, child care is sucky in Australia too
Wife only works 3 days
But daycare days isn't equal to working days 
Then one has time to do stuff around the house
Yeah we could do another day for $25 a week
Maybe once the mortgage gets approved
Yeah but you live in Norway
So you're always at a net loss
Maybe you can use some of that sovereign oil money to wipe your tears
I need to sleeeppp
How do you pay for your strippers
Why would we need to exploit the females like that? We can just give them proper jobs
No step 2? ๐ญ
Step 2 is take over the world
I've got colleagues there, and even visited our offices a few times. It's far from the worst one ๐คฃ
It's not Missouri that's for sure
I'm going to have to put together these clues and figure out who you work for ๐
There's way more overlap between locations than I expected ๐ค
Applying for jobs now; it's pretty challenging to not let my disdain for the process shine through.
I'm finding that I have a fairly entitled mindset.
Almost feels like I should be an animal in a fable that gets some form of comeuppance at the end
I have been exceptionally lucky with finding work, but had a shit time at last 2 jobs. This place I am at now is fantastic though!
I've had some great luck, some really terrible luck, and a few well, that could have been worse
Only once has it been suggested that I should find something else to do ๐
We have a Norwegian saying
fรธdt med gullhรฅr i rรฆva
Born with asshairs of gold
That is what my wife says to me

If I look at my entire career trajectory, and some other stuff around it, I'd have to tempt fate and say I've overall been lucky. I've managed to be at the right place at the right time to get involved with some seriously cool stuff. Even if it didn't seem cool at the time ๐
As they say in Poker, It's better to be lucky than good
I prefer to be both, thanks ๐
I'm atleast 40/60
You can make the argument that being good at something means you are more likely to be in a position to exploit luck
Yup
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That reminds me of most partner installations I have to fix
Now that is the place to be
Yes
Are they hiring?
I can ask
Noice, I hope they have an accredited electrician trainee programme
Thay have a stealing trash program at least
I can work with that
Internet is down at the office, guess I get the morning off ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Working from home 
Anyone got any tips for free cad programs to make overviews for buildings? Maybe even 3d so that you can elevation.
Thanks!
No u

sweet home 3D ?
Will look
That may just work, I was thinking more boring looking though! Thanks @noble pivot
YVW - Hope it works for you.
I'm slightly less deceased after that run compared to Monday's ๐
I don't think a lunchtime Domino's helped though.
No that guy is a size 0
E=atหฃ, more like.

eXpONeNTiaLlY BiggEr
You nerds are really quiet tonight.
Quality or quantity?
quantity. shortcut in erp systems :)))
and i wait for some swedish guys to move beta to production of card-mod
Why? If the beta works, use it ๐
not sure how to isntall
mr love-n said something about docker in docs
and i don't have
manual overriding sould suffice?
of the files
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u don't use card mod ?
oh....said the dev(il)
i prepared something for yaml to have a balanced look, but it takes ages to write code
Back end dev ๐
u have the logic of dev...so easy to understand {{[]}" ' i-
My main skills are Ctrl+C and Google ๐คทโโ๏ธ
its a good set, you'll get long with those two already (paste would help but its the next level thing)
You mean p?
used properly google can help
Only have to use Ctrl+C because Chrome doesn't understand vi commands.
and i think is more important to know where to search info then to know
I said you donโt need docker to use it. Thatโs just to run the demo.
And Iโm finishing up the documentation. A day more or so. This is tricky stuff.
i'm sure you are doing something appreciated
Documentation.... ๐ค I'm sure that stuff's a myth
You're going to give me nightmares if you remind me of sinon.
i give what i can ๐ฆ
anyone rocking a tesla powerwall?
i have some extra projects to work and i am laaazzy and not inspired what to teach next week
Tesla 
tesla = chinese roll royce ?
not gonna lie, I'm impressed the powerwall has a local api
I'm not gonna lie, the ride comfort is shite ๐คฃ
yeah i don't care about the cars ๐
my daughter said today when i put a tablet to the car "this is almost like Tesla", i was just ...."i wish.."
yeah you can get the powerwall without a car
Lol @lapis cipher
The huge screen in the middle is horrible tbh
But fun for kids probably
Just need to hook that display up with Plex for entertainment while you're driving parked safely and charging.
Eh, I've been stuck in such queues that I actually start watching plex on my phone
Yeah, and you know what I think about that ๐
'Plex'
qeues in norway?

4 mil people in such large country
both cars out in the streets ๐ฎ
Worst I ever had was 6h for 70km
Were you walking?
u put car in reverse mode maybe and u realised after 70 km
but we have a road that during weekend u can do 70km in 5 hours. every weekend...but people seems to love since it happens every weekend
That actually sounds like something atx would do. He's a dumbdumb ๐
important thing is to reach destination..no matter how u do it
Reach the destination... alive and intact
atx...trondheim? oslo ?
No doxxing him ๐ฎ
Arriving as a slowly cooling corpse isn't so good ๐
It's okay... if atx likes you, he'll cyberstalk you and add you on LinkedIn ๐
:)))))))))
To be fair, you were trivial to cyberstalk ๐
i look for projects outside Ro...norge is fine for me :))))
I work cross country and Scandinavia, but live 50km outside Oslo, for now
Sharing my public GitHub helped you a little. It was almost cheating ๐
That reminds me... atx can't have that many connections in Scotland ๐
D'oh. Only one and it's the wrong city... I can't do this.
If you find me, let me know ๐
Hah. I'm not going to try too hard. You know where to connect if you actually want to talk anywhere else. If you don't, I'll respect that.
mono can target you through discord
I'm not some leet hacker ๐
leet....oh...don't put me to translate
And researching someone is probably easier than hacking a secure server to find them.
People give away a lot of information about themselves when they chat, sometimes without realising.
If someone is determined enough, they can put together the clues.
@deft pewter reminded me of the intro to this btw https://open.spotify.com/track/16EbalzfzHc3JsIZcVkOcJ?si=_hyj-eACSO-prAbkVqfnMA&utm_source=copy-link
Eww. Power metal? ๐คข
You know your lady's underwear adverts a little too well
who ? when?
Speed metal > power metal
My favourite genres of metal are:
Pirate metal
Dwarf metal
oh.. i though u like michael jackson
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hmm, i was "offered" a scottish/brittish"friend", sounds suspicious

my look exactly ๐
Offered a friend?
yeah, i guess its a new way of getting friends, i don't know, i've been locked down for a year+
good thing u didn't inherit something from a nigerian letter from a relative :))
ACTUALLY, i got such email just yesterday or day before, i was WTF are they still trying with those!?
sure
nowdays my friends are getting phonecalls from burundi and south africa and tanzania
Haha. Gmail's spam filtering is getting good. I don't get those now.
and today i received in a office mail the news that i have been caught watching porn and i have to pay bitcoins
1250 $ asked in last mail
i should really see into this ancient setup but i have zero interest.. But at least that still matches plenty and the amount of spam has gone down quite a lot over the time even on this setup
oh..u are the hacker?
Why not just run it through a sentiment analysis filter? ๐
ML is the future, right?
ml scares me
ML is fine. AI is bad.
ML is just about building predictive models. Like 'is there a dog in this photo?'
You should buy some HPE Ezmeral @deft pewter
AI is 'round up all the dogs automatically'
Buy? You're going to give me some, right?
u are right
there is still a ml i like: Mercedes-Benz ML 63 AMG
I'm still waiting for the generous donation of an old used G8 or G9
oh..ugly car
I'd rather have Daleks than ML and AI, at least they have a humane redundancy package for workers they displace or exclude from the workplace
fsck support site shit not working.. thought to make a case about my broken lte but the shit just keeps spinning.. No i'm not gonna tell the brand as that would result another shitstorm here (its not U-product anyways)
i was anxiously waiting to get into CoD Cold War today but with backup inttternetz it takes 20+ hours to download 37 gigs..
Man, that's slow. You in the US?
Sounds about right
u used their office and electricity...so u must pay them
If i was in US i would consider that as normal ๐คฃ Nah, i'm sticking here as atx's neighbour just about
u stay in north sea?
nope, fish poop into sea..
oh..u are an icelandic fisherman
Fun fact for those who don't know, Iceland has an official are we related app so people who meet out drinking don't bang their cousins
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Sounds like something they should introduce in Scotland
I'm pretty confident I'm not related to anybody in Iceland
scots want freedom outside uk
Nah, we just want to be free to argue
Some of them do... but no politics please ๐
So Scots will stop banging empty cans of IRNBRU?
Gr8 idea
luckily my resolution is so small i can only see first few words of the topic so i'm on safe waters (even if there's poo around) ๐
Only if you run BeOS
i don't have mouse, i'm old school
sorry, i do, they just live on the roof and walls
Meh, I haven't owned a mouse in a couple of decades
how can u live without mouse
Very easily
lots of cats
He's one of those weirdos with a trackball ๐
if i don't use mouse when i do trainings...i would half my course
i've got one keyboard with touchpad and one with trackball, oh and one also with nipple, ibm-style
Not had a mouse for about 10 years !
You must suck at CoD ๐ค
Thats a game right ??
call of duty probably
yup
i bought myself a playstation around christmas, don't have any decent game machine and that is plug'n'play anyways so good for me
And blowing crap up with tanks isn't? ๐ค
no its not, its just vehicles
a single drop of blood is never seen when tanking
With a crew inside ๐
oh, i thought they were remote controlled ๐ฎ
what? just today season 2 on warzone brought zombies ๐
crazy banks
I guess they don't take trash as payment, after all
The crew are even mentioned in the game. They gain experience for each battle and have names and pictures...
So you don't see them die but it's implied.
/say goes uninstalling WoT
Eh... it's a fun game. It's just a wargame sim.
If you feel bad about the 3 or 4 imaginary people inside the exploding tanks, don't play World of Warships... ๐
How many hundreds does a battleship have at full complement?
aircraft carrier is some 6000'ish
Wait until you play the space battle sims....
Wooops, there goes a small planetary population
At least they're just games. Imagine how Ender felt.
i was really afraid to buy that console in the first place since i'm a bit on/off person with everything.. I want to be best on the game i start (not gonna happen with CoD)
Re-read that recently, enjoyed it all over again ๐
You'll hate me for this... I've only seen the movie.
should probably check from that offtopic-system what are the uptimes for the console, should give some indication of time spent with it..
I thought they were planning on making the other stories into movies too but I've given up hope. Will probably have to read them.
I liked the movie too TBH
ender's game?
It dragged on a bit but I just finished The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig. Weird slow apocalypse story.
Only took me 4 months ๐
Reading something a little lighter now: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53107572-the-warehouse
try jules verne
Yeah, that book's not trying very hard to disguise the fact it's talking about Amazon ๐
I'm working my way through the Templeverse series https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6876556.Shayne_Silvers - actual lighter reading ๐
The story's got nothing to do with them though, just uses the same setting.
She works for Roland
Nope. Already ruined it for me. There's only one Roland, thankee sai.
That series sounds like something my missus might enjoy. I'll share the link with her.
It's fairly light, but nicely written, "urban fantasy"
A bit too much of a Twilight vibe for me
Nah
This has good some well intertwined plot arcs going on
Characters with depth, personality, growth...
And snark, lots and lots of snark
I can see why you'd like it ๐
I just showed her, she sounds interested. When she's done with it, I might give it a try... but I'm acquiring books quicker than I read them.
This is on my list: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13055592-redshirts
Life couldnโt be betterโฆuntil Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that:
(1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces
(2) the shipโs captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations
(3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
Sounds familar ๐คฃ
Redshirts is awesome fun
Bought it the day it came out, finished it that night ๐คฃ
And yes, I too have a reading list that grows faster than I can read, and I don't read single digits of books a year
๐ฎ You've mentioned before that you're a quick reader once you're hooked. I figured you'd get through plenty.
I set myself the challenge of 12 books last year. Missed it ๐
I missed my target last year by 40 books, but last year was not a good year
I've set the same target for this year, and I'm ahead of schedule... we'll see if I can make it ๐
These were probably my favourites last year:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40651883-snow-crash
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34068552-salvation
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44020966-salvation-lost
If you MISSED by 40 what the *** was the target !!!
Snow Crash was fun. Lots of nerd culture in there.
180 ๐
wtf !!!!
And the Salvation series is just so engrossing. I was just waiting for the third to be available in paperback.
Last year was a GOOD year for me. I think the total was 4 (four)
A problem? I wouldn't call literacy a problem ๐
You've probably noticed from all the stupid typos I make that I need to brush up on mine ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Well, I've been reading since before the age of 5. I grew up in a house with books everywhere
(still can't spell, but I can read)
Ooooh. I haven't read that yet... guess it's going on my reading list ๐
The worldbuilding in it is amazing.
I've always enjoyed his other works
They're the first I've read of his. I'll probably pick up more.
He's a local boy, after all ๐
He even named a book after a local road...
At least that's what the murder of a North clone in the English city of Newcastle suggests to Detective Sidney Hurst.
I find that offensive
I find your face offensive ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Found book 1 of the Feathers and Fire series in hardcover for half the price of a paperback. Snatched that up for the missus to read over the weekend.

https://www.shaynejsilvers.com/books/series-templeverse covers the reading order for the three interconnected series
That's way too complicated for me. If she wants to read them in order, she can figure it out ๐
Ah yes, I forgot coders can't count ๐
#diy-archived or #hardware-archived maybe a better place
Coders can count fine ๐คทโโ๏ธ They even come up with novel ways to sort numbers...
shit, tought I'd be there
scusa
I love that it's soooo wrong but works perfectly.
World of Tanks PEGI 7 - that's like childrens game..
If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid
Well you mostly want your sorted values back in a collection... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I guess you could Array.push()
Might try that out on the guys at work one day to see if it passes a code review.
Months later...
Why's this routine so slow?
@lapis cipher u want to play :))
i was going to but noticed i don't have it installed on this console and guess if there is that 30 gigs / 16 hours download in front of wot...
Ah... Tinkerer. I had a perfect opportunity in a planning meeting today to break out the time saving xkcd ๐
How much time will it save if we do this?
Let me answer that in comic form.
30 gigs...in 5 minutes
I did use that in work the other week myself ๐
Used 'compiling' on my boss recently too when he wanted to know what I was up to.
Stuff
Technically we don't compile anything... but our test suite takes forever to run on a local machine. 30 minutes of not being able to touch my keyboard, lest the whole machine restart.
Updates in standups are usually me telling them what show I binged during office hours the previous day. I think they've grown too used to my sarcasm, they didn't believe me.
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I reckon I could actually spend a full day watching shows and they wouldn't be any the wiser.
Mine have finally got used to the fact that my updates are short, because I don't believe in spending 10 minutes saying I have nothing you need to worry about
That 3 week story I said I was a week ahead on... I delivered it exactly on the day I said I would initially. After being pulled on to 3 other things and rescuing our junior ๐
If I didn't have distractions, it'd be easy to slack off...
Ah, the Scotty school of estimation ๐
We all thought it would be 3 weeks to be fair. Then I sat down to actually write it and discovered there wasn't nearly as much to it.
Nice
One new API endpoint (which is fine, cos it's for a new set of features we're rolling out that no-one's using yet) and piggybacking some existing flows with a couple of overrides. ๐
Think it took our tester longer to test than it did me to write ๐
Eh, I ordered a second yubikey for backup
i wonder, how much money does Tuya or other vendors make off selling data to third parties
were there any guesstimations at some point made based on disclosed information from some companies?
u wanna a share from it ?
has anyone sold a house with their Home Assistant set up in it as a feature/selling point?
Curious if its worth it with all the new account set up & transitions?
On one hand I want to take it with me, on the other I want to start from scratch in the new house
Any feedback/thoughts?
if u buy a mirror house that u take with u...but maybe the buyer doesn't want your ha
My guess is most people would actually be put off by something like that. Most people would not have a clue how to maintain it (and would be well aware of that failing).
interesting - so far people really like the amazon fire wall panels and basic automation
I'm taking everything with me when i move
i have one prototype panel (Fire HD 8 Plus that is magnetic to a double blank wall outlet with wireless charging) that has gotten the most interest. as I pull it off the wall and show some of what it can do
I think most people will be fine with all the "comercial" stuff because they have someone to go to if it fails.
i've removed a lot of the experimental stuff, and dialled it back to the more 'hardened' components if that makes sense
agree @noble pivot - part of me wonders if someone is keen. my thought initially is to charge a % of hardware costs, and some time to sit down with them and help get set up, and hand over the keys (more of a consulting gig - if they are technical enough) - in a tech bubble here, so chances not terrible
everything is removable, so I'm ok with that - but i think i'll do a rack with server + UDM PRO + switch + UPS next time.
Never assumed I might take stuff with me but did assume most people probably would not actually want some "homebrew" unsupported system. Chance of getting someone quite so technical as a buyer seemd low.
Given the price of a house move I would be happy to just buy new and start again (and probably do it better with previous experience in mind)
start fresh , bu t with same devices, same automations
That would depend on how old the "original" devices were, if you could still get tham and what was available at the time. Tech dont stay still for long. You might not replace working devices but that does not mean you would buy the same again.
yeah good point - $5k - $10k in a house move kinda gets lost in the wash
i don't care if my bulbs are not branded 2021 or 2009....if they ar eworking..is all good
Quite rigth, not always, but often less power, faster, smaller etc etc.
i guess will be a chance to Zwave+ vs the terribly outdated Zwave lol
there will always be something new
capitalism...sure..marketing...very sure
we dont have our new house yet, but would LOOOOVVEEE to do a renovation - back to the stud work
wire in some cameras - move away from radio where possible to wired
zwave devices are nice....love their sensors
just need to find the time sadly
i do too - and the dome (brand) spherical PIRs (with temp and humidity) are great on battery life
Time is hard to come by
i am on zigbee and i'm happy with what i have now
yeah, I have a toddler, so my spare time went up in smoke
i used to have zigbee years ago with SmartThings - Big fan of their arrival sensors that I put in the cars.
Never really tried it other than that
anyway..is like optionals for a car....fancy, pretty, but barely useful
better use something i know then to wonder...omg...is a new firmware to flash...the device is backwards compatible with what i have....etc etc
very fair
my ikea bulbs say they have update available
but...why? surely they didn't add few lumens :)))
i worry with every update that they remove API access
but i recently moved as much as possible to a no-internet VLAN
no more updates ๐
Crazy but didn't Philips have a security issue they had to patch (firmware update) on thier bulbs?
if u have enough hw capability...is best to have separated vlan
Exactly what I do. I guess most people do.
i don't ๐ฆ
you'd be surprised - some people put their HA directly on the web too
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sure - but some people figure out those actions as they learn (sometimes the hard way)
i have noticed a trend for Smart Home progression:
- Wink, SmartThings (or other commercial system)
- Add sensor hardware and voice
- Expand to HA
- Migrate off Commercial/cloud platform
- Move more stuff local only
- advanced scenarios like local object vision
lol no, just curious
like how much it might potentially cost to unlock the device to be easily flashed
has anyone used a tile to track a device to see if it has left the home? I am looking to do this with my cat.
I would like an alert if the cat leaves home... and this to be integrated into HA
i feel like those things are a tad bit too big for a cat to drag around on a collar. mine would definitely not be amused
plus depending on your house and the strength of Bluetooth antenna, you might get false positives
how does the kitty leave the house
who moved my cheese?
what are peoples opinions on media servers?
like what software do you use?
i was looking at plex but dont wana have features behind a pay pass
Plex is great
I got a lifetime pass for $50 many years ago
Been running Plex for almost a decade probably
I ran xbmc before that, but it was... Dated, and jellyfin is interesting, but at best a beta software with limited clients
Last time I tried Plex (a long time ago) it wasnโt possible to turn transcoding off. Is that still the case?
I've always made it a point to encode my material (Handbrake FTW) to a format that most of my devices can natively play
The only time transcoding has been needed is when remote, and that's worked flawlessly
I don't even notice if anything is transcoding tbh
Plex will direct-play unless the client is incapable of direct-play, or there's a bandwidth constraint
Basically, if you're seeing transcoding on your own local network, you're trying to play a codec your client device doesn't support, and Plex is fixing it for you.
There are also edge cases where Plex will transcode even if the target device technically supports the codec, but has known issues
One "easy" fix is to have multiple versions of your media, pre-encoded to suit
It's just disk space after all ๐
Psssh, let them transcode
I mean, even that doesn't fix it. I have a ton of old anamorphic encodes (DVD rips done with handbrake) that require transcoding to play back on my Nvidia Shield because the Android TV 8.2 update introduced a bug in the built-in media player...
They're standard old h.264 video, but I've had to tell Plex to transcode them anyway, because otherwise the aspect ratio displays incorrectly
Disable video stream transcoding
Plex has a setting to turn off video transcoding
Also, Handbrake REALLY needs to get the option to stretch anamorphic video. Currently it only supports leaving it as-is, or squishing it.
Squishing it drastically reduces the final video quality in a lot of cases, and leaving it as-is requires the video player actually read the aspect ratio flag...
Stretching bloats the file size, but without quality loss, and then pretty much anything will play it... but Handbrake won't let you do it ๐
I saw there was a new software now that automatically converts all your media to specific formats
Same people who made sonarr etc I think
I mean, the problem is the videos in question are already properly formatted...
Like, they're fully h.264 / MKV standards compliant. Tags are all in-order, etc.
The issue is Google fucked up an Android TV update, and now some files don't play correctly, through no fault of the files themselves...
So I just have Plex transcode them, real-time, when I want to play one. Sucks ๐
So it's just a you problem, I told you to get rid of the shield 
Android TV 
I mean, my ancient Roku 3 plays these files fine
My Apple TV has been gold tbh
Back to Roku for ALL THE THINGS!
And my Roku premium too
Seriously though, it's a bug, shit happens. I've had Apple TV's shit the bed too
I bought a skystream 3
Apple TV's used to have INCREDIBLY limited codec support, which was a massive pain to deal with
That was probably the worst purchase ever
Sooooo many hours of Handbreak...
atx runs Norway's entire media network.

I used to run plex on a J1900... how about no?
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Just don't
Eh, one of my Plex servers is a Pi3
Works just fine for direct play and audio transcoding
Lowest I've run Plex on was a Xeon 5300, and that was pain
Now I have a Xeon E3-1265
@clear ferry I'll let you know when graphics cards are purchase-able to do transcoding with...
Currently using CPU transcoding in my Plex server
I want that Intel card you linked
I've done CPU transcoding for a decade
Never had issues
Except the 5300 which was shite
yeah, a discreet Intel GPU with QuickSync would be absolutely, stunningly perfect for a Plex server
Or Nvidia could release a low-end Ampere-based Quadro with the new NVENC unit...
Currently the cheapest card with the all the new NVENC goodies is the GTX 1650 Super
Though that doesn't have much RAM, so a GTX 1660 works better... but that's a full blown mid-range gaming GPU, and impossible to purchase
I'd like to refresh my desktop, but it's a terrible time for it...
Eh, my last desktop was in 2009, and will never be refreshed
Literally every current-gen platform is a dead-end upgrade path
DDR5 is literally ramping up production, right now. That's going to mean new CPUs and motherboards to go with it
AM4 and sTRX4, and LGA1200, and even LGA2066 are all on their last legs
explains why some of the worst p0rn comes from that country
Yeah that's the thing. It was in a format my TV could decode but Plex insisted on transcoding it anyway. If I switch transcoding off in Kodi it plays perfectly.
Plex was fixing things it dd not need to.
no need to even transcode most of the time now, just mux it in a different container
Plex actually maintains a database of profiles for each client, and transcodes when deemed necessary. Can you check which profile Plex is loading for your device?
You can edit it on the server side if you believe the devs got it wrong, it's just XML
You may also be running into Plex using the device's native media player, while Kodi uses its own internal media player (which allows them to direct-play more formats using software decoding)
argh, i hate supports.. Less surprisingly first thing they said was blaming me misconfiguring my device and seems not reading the description of the problem at all.. "it seems you have blocked yourself with firewall there" - the fuck!? I have not touched the device for a month
You call support?
sent an initial email last evening to get things rolling as its so much easier to include the details in written form
ohwell, lets see, got some steps they want me to perform to proceed with the possible warranty things (~month old device)
was the same with my ps5, had to call 3 times until they reported the issue back to the responsible team.
โhave you tried resetting blablabaโ
i'm old enough to be able to admit if i screwed up myself but this was a fully functional device at the roof on a mast with no changes since initial setup and it started to cut out connection couple of times (either that or the provider, hard to say at this point, monitoring was subpar at the moment) and then failed completely, the device seemed to have done some hard reset to itself.
unfortunately this is because most people who contact support have problems that can be solved by turning it off and on again or resetting something
and the bigger the company the more people they have to filter out before escalating things...
Yeah, that is understandable, its the challenge of getting past that restart point which is why i always gather plenty of evidence before even creating a ticket
i just spent some three'ish years managing a service worldwide utilizing few dozens of local (to country) providers and got rather familiar with their supports... Indeed the larger the harder
they could atleast offer email support ๐
Most providers also don't seem to much care anything further from their infra so it was actually quite amazing to be reporting issues with their network connectivity when they didn't see it themselves. This was a problem for us because the sold us both co-location/hosting AND the internet connectivity so from a customer point of view it was their fault anyways (nor we can report issues of the isp straight to isps)
It was rather frustrating at times, keep circulating those "we can't see any issue on our infra" and me getting back "well, i can, here's a graph, here's a trace, here's a evidence x"..
The good thing if you have a good contract with enterprise hardware
Just send an SMS to an expert
And I log on in 10 minutes to check

yeah, unfortunately my liquidity doesn't allow me to purchase all enterprise stuff to home nor i'm no longer in such position i can haul those from work either.. And we are talking about LTE modem here which we never had at datacenters ๐
(surprised there's no steven seagal i'm just a cook giphy..)
LTE modem
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I see those in datacenters all the time though
For third way in
Or fourth
that is the only available internet connectivity for now, fiber is available for 50000+ eur
and there wouldn't be that big of an issue if the isps would have capacity on the tower.. but they don't, 2/3 are all crap, the tower is just 1 km away with a line of sight. I am losing my mind here with this shit
I'm glad my work doesn't have any vpn/network rubbish to deal with
All we need is internet and we are good
No security? ๐ฎ
I have to be on the VPN to access things like databases, even if I SSH in.
I don't reckon they'd open it up based on IP addresses.
oh, vpns inside vpns, that calls for fun, too
There's plenty of security
But you don't need a VPN for security
AWS SSO, temporary STS credentials
We don't use user accounts
Someone using a VPN is more likely to be doing castle and moat
@proper gorge #rules
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Ok np ill remove it. Thanks for letting me know ๐
Hi all, new here. I am weaning off of Wink and decided to go with HA. I am on my 4th and successful attempt to get HA up and running. The trial and error process has been valuable as well as all of the online info readily at hand. 1. Don't bother with Windows and a VM due to trouble with consistent USB detection/assignment. 2. Using a PI-3, works very well but I started with an old Micro-SD and it was taking a long time to do anything. 3. I bought a fast A2 V30 Micro-SD and learned it is an absolute must. 4. Snapshot restore on a new install works! Up and running and learning as I go. I have a handful of devices moved over and now to tackle the 20 or so Lutron Caseta devices and automations. Challenging, yet fun and rewarding.
Welcome to the asylum
atx

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This is definitely not not the weirdest video on the internet? Let's hope this is the last quarantine video we have to make.
Credit where credit is due:
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Hey all... i am very new to home assistant its been probably 3-4 months... i was using dunkdns port forwarding to access my home assistant... yesterday someone tried to login to my home assistant I got a failed login alert... i freaked out and stopped duck dns and went back to my ip address way of accessing... is ip adress way of accessing safe? Or should i be worried?
Well, first thing to do is read the channel topics ๐
Second thing to do is...
Assuming you're not using something as stupid as password or other trivial passwords, don't worry.
Though, DuckDNS just maps a hostname to your WAN IP. Stopping using that changes nothing ๐
If your all up to date with security patches, have good quality passwords etc you should be fine. as Tinkerer says, dont panic. I look at my logs I have probaly 50-100 login attempts per day to my stuff at home.
Simple options to make it more secure/reduce the noise include:
- Enable MFA (adds security)
- Don't use an obvious port (makes you less likely to be found)
You expose your stuff on the internet people WILL poke at it.
I run on a random high numbered port, and I get less than one probe a year on average
I'll admit I don't have MFA enabled, but then I don't have remote UI access... all that's accessible are webhooks ๐
Ports shouldn't be open. Use a vpn to access stuff remotely!
What you might want to monitor is SUCCESSFUL logins. Unless you just logged in then somebody else got in and you need to take action.
mfa & fail2ban is enough for me, I even tell people my password when they ask about "but there are hackers out there, aren't you afraid?"
Sorrry โน๏ธ
Thanks alot guys ๐
Yaaaa ๐ makes sense
Intrestingly, My instance is exposed on a common port and it had hardly ever been poked
looking at access logs, they seem more intrested in wordpress than home assistant
what the hell is the obsession with racoons. try obsessing about a mandrill or something for a change
We don't have a resident mandrill though
Don't kink shame @forest edge @deft pewter
In races I've had situations where some women seem to have the impression that I'm stalking them, when our paces have just sort of synced up.
In my defense, we are presumably all going the same way
Weird that you call following them around their block late at night a 'race'.
well it's accurate to say when you have to "race" to catch up
how many norwegians are born I hear. https://youtu.be/ffo526B08ZQ
"Is there a man in that couch?"
The internet asked and Pixel Riot listened. It turned out very different than I expected โ but sometimes you have to let the footage (and audio) guide you. I hope you enjoy it!
All ad revenue is monetized by Universal Pictures.
If you'd like to spare an egg in this trying time, that'd be awesome! https://ko-fi...
anyone have any good recommendations for a locally hosted password manager server?
looking to replace lastpass
I acknowledge your burn to my person, and applaud it but chose not to escalate so as to reduce the chance of this whole thing getting out of hand
BitWarden
i was looking at that, any good?
pen and notebook
I only just switched too but it does everything I need.
can't go wrong
i really like it, has extensions available for pretty much anything + 2fa
mobile app?
My main criteria were:
- not LastPass
- can handle additional form fields
cool, trying to get something to handle both me and the wife
lol what about GooglePhotos replacements? ๐
i spun up Lychee and piwigo but i'm not fully thrilled with either
You just after bulk storage? Backblaze or S3
nah, multi-user upload/sharing
nextcloud seems to be overkill?
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It's modular. Disable the modules you don't care about.
I don't touch the email stuff, only wanted file/photo storage.
yeah, seems to be a bit overkill
Photoprism?
The reality is none of them will be as polished as a flagship app from a trillion dollar company
are there are any journals out there that would publish a paper that I, a non-scientist, wrote for fun?
although I guess I technically would be a scientist if I'm conducting science
it's a statistical analysis of rock paper scissors strategy
โThe difference between science and screwing around is writing it downโ ๐
so far my conclusion is that there are indeed methods you can use to gain an advantage over human players, however no strategy employed gains an advantage over a computer picking purely at random
which is pretty much what I expected
still working out which strategy is "best" though
Is it just 1/3rd chance win/lose/draw no matter what you do
I think if you stuck to one move or did random every time the results would be the same over time, against a random computer
and most people do employ some amount of strategy, like picking their next move as the one that beats the opponents previous move
Where the machine tries to actually predict and win
I'd read what other people have already done
Then build off that. I'm sure someones done something
Academics are gatekeepers though.
nah, email em and they'll happily send you their work
i wonder if there's anything that could track hands well enough that I could have the computer play against physical players
with a webcam
It does seem to be cutting down, big time, on the number of support requests in here, though I still think #useless-jerks would be even more effective in that regard ๐
never forget #lounge2
Bitwardenrs
Nextcloud
hmm would this be the appropriate channel to ask about non-smart bulbs?
i'm still in pursuit of the perfect LED bulb, closest I've gotten is GE Reveal but it strobes a bit with fast motion
the effect is noticeably less than with cheap bulbs though
Non smart bulbs you say.... you mean stupid bulbs ๐คฃ
probably #hardware-archived but I am not sure this is the right server, in all honesty
@forest edge don't worry @burnt cave is in the land of the free, brave and supersize me
if you look out for it you'll notice it pretty often, esp with cheaper bulbs
wave your hand in front of your face to check
also it's kinda wild to think that the room is technically dark half the time
yea no.. i don't know what bulbs you been buying but whatever they are you went too damn cheap lol
most everyone I know buys the big packs of cheap bulbs from home depot or walmart or whatever
i don't know how it doesn't give them a headache
i'm pretty sure the cheap ones just run AC through the LED with a current limiting resistor
so you get real bad 60hz flicker in US
I shouldn't say everyone I know, a few people I know
At minimum brightness on trรฅdfris I can detect a hint on some colours
I want to say that non-dimmable LED bulbs are much less susceptible
simply cause the cheap ones are dimmable by their nature
I wish the tuya bulbs were still ESP based
but that's getting into #hardware-archived territory
i would rather not have to manually modify every light I purchase
a lot of em are sealed now where it's hard to open them non destructively
I know tediore does transplant on all his tuya stuff
Has a box of surplus tuya chips now
:rofl:
my anecdotal experience is some RGB ones
maybe white ones are different but I would guess not
zigbee or z-wave would be cool if the bulbs weren't so damn expensive
I do zigbee bulbs exclusively, except two WiFi bulbs
do you use those ikea ones?
Mostly tradfri yes
those play nice with standard zigbee stuff?
I have had no issues
awesome
I use CT bulbs only
reminds me, I should run the firmware upgrade on these again some time now
non-dimmable led bulbs are being phased out in US stores
they see no point in carrying both
I activated my garden dripping system yesterday
bot needs a raise
I changed battery in my greenhouse ZigBee sensor yesterday
To keep an eye on when I can plant stuff
I see self service car wash bays look like cept those are not blue
always funny watching someone wash thier vehicle with hot water in freezing temps and then drive off with the vehicle still wet lol
your thinking of NY atx, the only state where they are not allowed to pump thier own gas
not NY i mean NJ
I know it was some places
I think oregon is the same cept it's not a law there, they jkust still offer full service
Oregon also apparently
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it is illegal to fart on a public parking place somewhere in us, it's also illegal to let a donkey sleep over night in bathtubs in some places
not ever heard of that but considering some of the small ass rural towns we got I don't doubt it
In Florida, itโs illegal to fart in a public place after 6pm on a Thursday.
There has been a lot of good segments on 60 minutes this season
People who are interested in world events probably
I guess I'm biased 
Probably a cost of watching the most successful program in US television history
that goes without saying lol
considering it's been airing since the 60's...
I don't put much faith in any of the network's news or news shows
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likely because norwegian who's don't know any better don't have access to watch better stuff lol

I would be remiss if I did not ask if you are aware of Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji.
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So not Americans? ๐

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tbh, you don't even make more of the news. You're one country.
There's so much more going on around the world all the time and it's kinda strange to have such a US-centric view. I appreciate that most people will naturally be more interested in their own nation than in others... but the US seem to take it to an extreme.
If you look at newspapers in Europe, you'll see foreign news on the front pages. If you do the same in the US, you could believe that there's no such thing as foreign nations.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
But yes, any norwegian news paper would have articles about atleast 5 other European countries, some Asian countries and the US every day
In news from Asian countries... the new Pokemon: Breath of the Wild looks good.
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I just saw the whitest person Ive ever seen
An old lady with a white bomber jacket, white pants, white hat, white shoes and white gloves
Taking a walk

If there had been snow outside I wouldn't have seen her
That's almost as good as people wearing all black and walking on unlit roads.
You mean like 80% of people?
80% of people don't walk on roads here. We built sidewalks for them ๐
I'm surprised more people aren't killed in Norway per year, but compared to many other countries we have pretty good seperate pedestrian areas away from the road
But yeah... at least 80% of people are dumb.
Americans would just take that as a challenge ๐
I've seen enough YouTube to know that's not a challenge, that's merely an inconvenience
Fun fact, there was so much roadwork in Georgia that I had to jaywalk multiple times to cross the road
One time I did it in front of a police car

Yeah. Had fun last time we were in Florida. Some of the main roads between our hotel and the parks were completely blocked off ๐
Had to take massive detour, which wasn't fun in the summer heat ๐
Next time we go, there'll be a handy pedestrian bridge to take - that's what they were building that meant closing a whole junction.
I feel beaten.. Doing nothing for months and then with 5 hour of sleep some 4 hours of logging in 30-50cm wet snow..
Next time I'll rent a car and blend in with the locals with my fat ass @deft pewter
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We drove plenty... but our hotel was near Universal, so we walked there.
Had to drive for Disney... that's miles away ๐
You're not living the American dream if you don't drive to a shop across the street
americans are not nosy hence the lack of headlines of other country's
we do what we do ....headlines in our papers are generally local news and politics of tax and etc
@clear ferry these two outta haul your fat ass around
Barely then
haven't been monitoring much news again lately but there's a good amount of international stuff in them, lots from US still after the election
@clear ferry how come there are cars and trucks in a bike path?
@tidal bronze what did last update to 3080 add?
Hi, havent been in this server for a while
@dull chasm what are you doing with the trailer ?






