brewtide

100% had the same little prince connection the moment it loaded. Quite pretty indeed.

I do this every trip. I take screenshots of the page per item (usually only a handful) once I get to the parking lot.

Then, I optimize my trip around the store to never double back.

It's worth it.

Same here for all of the 'self hosted' things. I've also just realized that my UDM has a wireguard implementation titled 'teleport' that seems to do basically the same thing. This is nice because sometimes the server at home that is hosting tailscale breaks, and the UDM will let me into the network at the router level. Knock on wood, that's yet to crash.

I love my AMD framework, and I don't think my numbers are as terrible as yours (7-9 watts just chilling watts idle. However, the 'sleep' use is still, bad. I hunch it's a linux thing. I don't even bother, I just turn the thing off.

This applies to all different fixes and hobbies so well. Just this afternoon my old Miata had the power steering 'cooling lines' finally rust through. Once I got home, I rummaged in my toolbox for old car tubing, rummaged elsewhere to find some small hose clamps and spent at most an hour cutting off the rusty parts, reattaching with line and clamps, refilling, and cleaning things back up. (luckily the cooling loop is on the low pressure side of things, so if it moves fluid a -> b and is kinda sealed up, it's good to go)

Point is: Having the drawers of 'I'll save this just in case!' in all hobbies does in fact come in handy. I find this especially true when some sort of project requires 'yet another adapter' to convert thing a to thing b. Project either goes through or it doesn't, but later on when trying to attack something else, having that little drawer full of weird but useful cables and adapters within living room walking distance sure feels rewarding.

Watching the tests is fun. First run,.loud. second. Less loud. Third. At worst case 1/2 the original volume. Up through a large tonal range.

Your ears can immediately note that it is a nice feature for sure.

100%. Same feeling when we got our mini. It's neighbor on the desk is a cricut joy extra! (Or whatever) Which I'm always fighting with, to cut paper, in 2d.

Next door,3d items literally being built. No fight. No fuss.

This 100%. It's like a private army is being built, especially with the masks/secrecy aspects of it. Terrifying.

> more School Bullshit System as a Service

I fully hear you on this. I miss the days where a simple phone call or email communication would occur when needed. Now it's a deluge of daily updates via 2 separate 'apps' for 2 different schools, and a requirement to login to 'app' or website to read the 'email' that they've sent out. Nevermind contacting someone that isn't directly associated with your child at the school -- Guess that's all need to know basis.

I hate it.

Don't even both(er) with the 934's, they won't hear it.

I thought it was ATS2=255?

Either way, the memories!

I'm in the same boat. No knob and tune, and all the plaster has been removed as well (thankfully by someone else in the houses lifetime).

I've also DIY installed 3 mini split units in the house -- the last one being an AC / DC unit that directly gets powered via 4 panels on the roof during the sunny moments of the day.

Built a new addition 3-4 years back. It's far better insulated than the main structure, but the wood stove and heat pump combo keeps winter mostly at bay.

Anything over 30 years is insane.

If you have not tried "localsend" I would highly recommend.

I was this close to putting it on a car license plate unaware of the British use.

I've never been happier to just, check, before clicking a submit button.

My local school killed this with COVID. Now you are no longer able to stand and wait, everyone has to line up in their cars. Viva la community!

It's basically passive radar using the wifi bands as the reflection AFAIK. It doesn't seem to be about the active state of devices, but the deflections in known points. It's creepy.

"also a distant relative bought a piece of farmland."

I know it's a shamed topic around here, or it seems like it, however I find the Bitcoin mining aspect of chewing up these "needed to be wasted" loads the one true positive of it (Bitcoin).

Yeah, it's changed from its seeming origins. Yes it's number go up! But being able to turn that extra juice, that NEEDS to go somewhere back into 'cash' is certainly on my list of positives.

Obviously, it's lower than batteries and lower or on par with storing as sand/thermal (I guess location and season dependant on this one).

One other perk, now that I rant about thermal, is being able to absorb this extra energy, do some calculations and then provide (location/season) heat. Seems like the calculation aspect is the 3 birds one stone, to me.

Perhaps https://www.sdrpp.org/ would work for you? Just throwing it out there -- I've learned that my few SDRplay devices def. require a lot more pieces and parts on my linux machines than any of the other SDR devices that I own.

Semi-related, I've found this one of the primary reasons I wear a smartwatch. My phone now generally remains on silent 99% of the time, as does the watch. It's pretty easy to miss a vibration when a phone is in a pocket or on a table somewhere, but having a vibration on my wrist is almost always noticeable.

The few times I do not notice a notification, I'll pick up up when just keeping an eye on the time.

Not having bings , boops, and rings surround my life has been a huge nicety -- Far more than I'd have expected. Highly recommend if someone wants to be 'notified reliably' but has the modern day sounds also drive them a bit nuts...

Similar here in Maine under CMP. Something like 12.5 cents/Kwh, but with the delivery aspect factored in it's basically 28 cents/Kwh.

I always assume when people on here are talking their 'rates', that they are usually NOT factoring in the delivery fee unless stated.

But maybe some places are just really THAT cheap.

Regardless of engineering background or not, I do believe this is a major different between men and women in general.

I know I'm guilty of the same thing and I'm positive many others here have had very similar experiences.

IN GENERAL, it seems when guys talk to someone else, they are likely looking for input into a situation. If we didn't want input, we would just sit and ruminate in our own personal thoughts processes.

Your story is also a great lesson in why communication is key - unfortunately it takes both parties to realize this!

This is why I will most likely never own an EV, and most likely never own a car newer than 2015 or so (depending on model).

The entire world offerings are moving to this type of model under the part guise part reality of tech dependencies that just don't exist in a stand alone product.

Stand alone products are disappearing more and more every year that passes. It is certainly no accident.

In a similar vein, my 'smart' thermostat solution for my oil furnace has been to splice in a relay board that's connected to an esp32 running esphome through home assistant. On that board, and many others around the house, I have many 'virtual thermometers running again off esp32's using dht11's and esphome.

This configuration has allowed me to control the single-zone furnace using any or a combination of 'virtual' thermometers to turn the relay board on/off depending on conditions. I left the real old honeywell thermostat on the wall as a fail-safe situation in case the system comes crashing down, to prevent the house from freezing up in the winter -- Just set at a low minimum.

The downside of this is I either have to directly adjust the temp via phone interface / tablet interface / or google-assistant interface, but when that is done, it is all done locally. Simply toggling a simple relay board that just connects the 2-wire thermostat feed like a typical thermostat does. It has worked great!

In addition, one of the heat pump units (MrCool!) in the house was able to use a cloud-free dongle to bring it's controls into local-only control as well via home assistant, as well. This can also be controlled via phone / tablet / google home interface (I subscribe, I feel home assistant is worth supporting).

All of the local only devices are able to be accessed from afar using tailscale into the local network, with subnet routing.

When you have something like home assistant controlling it all, it's quite easy to set up situations like 'when the outside temp is less than 15(f)', turn the heat-pump off, and use the oil furnace instead, etc.

It seems the commercial control boards that do things of this nature cost a heck of a lot more, and effectively do very similar things.

It's a good time to start really considering a more local-based solution if you have the time to get the initial configurations all sorted!

We have been very welcoming to the crows in our backyard and they now hang out with the chickens and ducks when they get leftovers / table scrapes.

Now they are arriving slightly before the hawks and other predators and scaring them off.

If you see crows randomly arrive, and look around, there is almost always a circling bird in the sky.

It's super cool.

Assuming any children survive, how many do you think want to have a tea party with Israel these days?

It's all skewed, obviously. It's all about alignment.

I rarely leave the state, and I'm always aghast at the real world. Shh. It's nice and quiet here!

How do you think policy of any sort gets it's origin?

Same token, sounds like you're arguing, not doing.

I can't tell if you're agreeing with my 'poibt' or disagreeing.

But yes, like telescopes. Or microscopes. Those still bind us to using our built in sensors that we 'trust'.

Then we obviously get into radio telescopes, or down to electron microscopes, etc and we start having to believe in the tech to get our new found understandings.

My mental hesitation lay in trusting AI to get to that level of belief -- if/when that happens, what do we really know or trust?