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moepstar··on Dodge Chargers now have pop-up ads at every stoplight
From what i gathered, this seems to also be the case for SiriusXM - apparently has been for years.

Now, this ad is a new one..

moepstar··on Ask HN: Escaping Difficult Employment Situation?
First of all: get professional help.

Talking about „rather dying“ is not a good sign - these days it may be words written on some forum, but who knows what may push you over the edge.

The next steps will then be taken, one by one, one after the other.

But, to repeat: seek a professionals help!

moepstar··on Opinion: Your shower head is lying to you about pressure
I got a 1.5gpm (6Lpm) from this brand (sorry, German manufacturer/site, use a translator) which works awesomely well. It does mix air very effectively into the water, providing a very good illusion of a normal shower.

https://www.wolf-aqua-manufaktur.de/shop/de/bubble-rain-hand...

moepstar··on How I Use Home Assistant in 2025
> on/off when the "average" temperature is below set temperature - 0.2C or above set temperature + 0.3C, each room has an individual set temperature and I turn off the TRV if that room goes above the set temperature and back on if it drops below, again with some light hysteresis.

Until you discover the generic thermostat helper :)

moepstar··on Bitwarden Was Down
I think you should still „synchronize with file“ beforehand.
moepstar··on Hertz desperate to unload Tesla inventory, asking customers to buy rentals
Two points on that:

- Tesla themselves do this. If you book a test drive, you'll get emails where they tell you to watch a list of Youtube videos on how to handle the car. Nothing more will be done once you show up to do it - you'll do a little paperwork, you'll be guided onto the lot and maybe shown how to shift into D.

Same procedure when you buy one (source: i did) - paperwork, here's your keycards, follow me onto the lot, mount license plate, bye!

I mean - i get it, i neither want nor need a flower bouquet, a ceremony and some champagne when getting handed the keys to my new car - but something in between?!

- Other car rentals do it as well. We rented some Iveco van to move furniture from Europcar lately.

Paperwork, here's your key, this is the generic direction the van is. Enter van, be surprised it's automatic, start it up, shift into D, be even more surprised it has a second parking brake. Driving to the destination, another surprise: the car only goes up to 96km/h, no limiter seems to be active. Discover by accident that theres two driving modes: Eco and Power - switch to Power and you can drive faster facepalm.

moepstar··on Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32
uBlock on, pihole on the net - not sure what it dislikes more.

I see a screen (light grey on white) which reads something along to "Press & hold" some button to confirm i'm human. Which does nothing, because of adblocking?

Well, f* you then - let me find something different to read :)

moepstar··on Swedish minister eyes energy crisis steps, blames German nuclear phase-out
> The past few days wind has been pretty bad.

Except... it was not.

Here.

And somewhere, the sun is shining.

People need to _stop_ thinking energy production is hyperlocal when, in reality, it is not.

And never has been.

Now, swedes are complaining, germans (i.e. me) are buying energy and raising prices. There will be a time, when they will import energy from us. Just as much as we exported energy to France when half their atomic powerplants have been shutdown due to no cooling water available.

Is it helpful to beancount each and any time more energy has been exported than imported or the other way around? No, i don't think so.

And yes, the next big challenge is to build grid-level energy storage.

Yes, with batteries. No, hydrogen is not the answer. Batteries it is. Get moving, stop complaining.

moepstar··on Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?
I‘m fascinated by these projection setups ever since I learned they’re a thing! But Jesus is the Luxedo stuff pricey?! I’d love to learn about something similar but in a kinda OSS/DIY kind of style…
moepstar··on Show HN: Automate your studio – mute a mixer channel to turn your PTZ camera
> We needed to move a PTZ cam based on the stage/pulpit mute states on our X32, but it is capable for way more.

PTZ - pan/tilt/zoom camera, that much I understood. The rest? Uh… can I get an ELI5 please?

Even though I’m clearly not in the target demographic, I’m eager to learn more..

Edit: ok, clicked through to GitHub, now I (kinda) got what it’s for :)

moepstar··on Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US
> but the grid operator has to have control about how much power goes into the grid

Here in Germany this works by specialised devices called "Funkrundsteuerempfänger" (rough translation: radio controlled receiver, according to Wikipedia[0] it's "radio teleswitch")

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_teleswitch

moepstar··on Making Your Connection Bad
On macOS, there is (was?) "Network Link Conditioner", used to be part of XCode.
moepstar··on New study shows: EV batteries last much longer than expected
Not only that, those small batteries do cost a disproportionate amount of money to replace.

If you want a real world opinion, check the EVClinic blog…

moepstar··on Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever
One game i recall using that mechanic (edit: changing size of body parts) is "Morphies Law" on Nintendo Switch:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/morphies-law-swit...

moepstar··on How to setup self hosted wiki for your startup
Another vote for Outline - it works really well, has „multiplayer“ support (although that is only a nicety in my book), is constantly improved.

Also, Dokuwiki is nice, if a little dated on the UI side of things.

moepstar··on California's gas prices to increase 65 cents per gallon with new fuel standards
Actually, it was Merkel (CDU) who, after Fukushima, decided to shut down nuclear - in 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel#Criticism

moepstar··on Apple Intelligence is available today on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
If you glance at the notification to decide if something needs attention now or later, then read the mail(s) in full - that's something different entirely and not a problem I'd think.
moepstar··on Apple Intelligence is available today on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
> Apple Intelligence allows users to stay on top of their inbox like never before with Priority Messages and message summaries.

Ugh.

I mean, really - my manager gets enough emails he doesn't read, fully understand, pipe through Copilot, still doesn't grok 'em, answer and delegate sh't he shouldn't (and wouldn't, if he'd read the email himself) already.

Looking forward to this excuse of having even more overworked people /s

moepstar··on Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
Uhm, Valetudo supports 35 different robots: https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html

Maybe not the model you’re looking for, but saying that you’re unable to find used, supported robots?

moepstar··on Robot vacuum cleaners hacked to spy on, insult owners
Put Valetudo on it - https://valetudo.cloud/

Robot incompatible? That’d be a hard pass…

moepstar··on Bitwarden is no longer free software
Truely does, yeah - just in case you were wondering like me: it syncs to file, which are supposed to be shared via some cloud sync mechanism you provide.
moepstar··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
Need? Absolutely.

How good will it be? Hopefully better than the OpenMoko Freerunner I once had - good idea, worst execution ever. Wouldn’t even work half decently as a phone, not to mention any other aspects of it…

moepstar··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
Problem is: you’d still be stuck with a Hisense TV. They got planned obsolescence built in, most of their TVs power supplies go out after only 4 years or even less.
moepstar··on 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
Yes and yes on search.

Although i actually prefer Spotlight (both on macOS and iOS) - it just works that good (imho, haven't seen any better desktop search).

moepstar··on 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux
> I didn't find anything (yet) that I consider an actual improvement.

Serious question: has there (ever?) been any, since say, Windows 2000?

Some progress has been made with regards to stability, but other than that? Usability hasn't improved and i'd consider Windows 10 and especially 11 extremely user hostile and full of spying.

moepstar··on Paperless-ngx: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
Well, at least it'd be "good enough" to get your feet wet, so to speak - and also give you the ability to test if you're going to stick to it.

I got a Brother ADS-4300N to use with p-ngx, works very well and also is way faster than the usual document scanners on MF printers (duplex is done in one pass, for example)...

moepstar··on I Made a Rubbish Clock
Interesting - I’d have thought that most of the world would’ve moved to digital by now.

Here in Germany, you can get the whole year as .ics to import into your calendar, works for most cities… usually, there are different schedules per street/neighborhood, so that’s really convenient!

moepstar··on Electric vehicle battery fires–what to know and how to react
Usually, you can get/download them from the manufacturer..

In true LMGTFY fashion, i searched it for you :)

https://media.ford.com/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America...

There you go ;)

Print it and put it behind your left sun visor which is usually the place first responders go look for it (LHD vehicle presumed).

moepstar··on Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
netboot.xyz allows you to preload the isos you want to boot :)
moepstar··on GTA 3 is being ported to the Sega Dreamcast
Luckily, i didn't back that project back then.

Also, the comments on the Kickstarter page [0] make for an interesting, if sad, read.

Linked on [1] is where he comes out of the woods again, the following comments and his replies also shed some lights on what he feels he is owing the people, that pledged $185000 on Kickstarter....

[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1945059142/elysian-shad... [1] https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=182356#...

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