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- Comment on Kubernetes for beginers? 1 day ago:
Anyone try Rancher? Is that still a thing? When I looked into k8s a few years back, Ranchers was highly recommended to simplify managing k8s if you couldn’t automate. Supposedly friendly and free.
- Comment on A succulent meal 1 day ago:
This is an argument that it’s morally fair to be chickenarian
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 2 days ago:
It was well before that. French were saddled with the white flag, from results in wwii, whether deserved or not
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 days ago:
Not at all, that’s tons of time.
That was a nest and I don’t know about them, but for Ring they store snippets activated by motion or ringing the bell. Once you’re only saving snippets, 4-6 hours video could be weeks
Ring can also save snapshots, at regular intervals, but that’s a still photo taking much less storage.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 days ago:
They’re pointing out that HomeKit cameras are specifically end to end encrypted and claimed inaccessible. Apple has really been pushing online privacy as a feature
You can get a camera from anywhere and either use it locally only or implement your own encryption before saving to a cloud resource if you can get one with any expectation of privacy. But you have to do all the work and it is never end to end encrypted
- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 3 days ago:
The sad thing is that it doesn’t even require caring for others.
It’s in everyone’s best interest to reduce crime before they become victims therefore it’s in your best interest to fight poverty.
The wealthy may be insulated from the consequences of their choices but surely the other 99% vote in their own best interest, right?
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 3 days ago:
Y’all laugh but I spent a lot of years not gaming such that this is very recent. I grew up playing pong and Atari, then grew away. When I had kids, the Wii was perfect. Then my kids became teens and it wasn’t enough. Suddenly everything was Xbox, then pc gaming.
Suddenly if I wanted to interact with them I had to figure out this alien contraption with too many buttons and joysticks. After about five years (playing every 2-4 weeks because who has time), I’m ok technically. But there’s no way I can do fighting or any twitch moves, and I still sometimes blank on which button does what - it’s not engrained enough to just do it and I’ll never play frequently enough for that to become true
And Microsoft’s terminology doesn’t help - wtf do “bumper” and “trigger” mean? I still remember those buttons as “opposite of bottom”and “opposite of top”
- Comment on VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks 5 days ago:
Step 0. Make sure your networking equipment can do vlans and subnets.
Given how much I paid for a “high end” consumer router, I just assumed ……
- Comment on BASED? 5 days ago:
You just have to get older. I have it on good authority that the law of supply and demand turn things around - men can be old enough to have made money while still being able to date women young enough to not have made money (and no, we’re not Epstein related)
- Comment on Save as PDF 5 days ago:
Or alternatively, why don’t we run with that approach? So many things would benefit from “save to text”. A bit farther afield but why not save to image, save to html, etc.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 5 days ago:
I got into each mesh technology for specific devices. Home Assistant supports them all and they seem to coexist just fine in my use case.
I have a small to medium setup with only a few simple automations and a focus on voice control and scheduling
Preference
- Thread - given Apple, Amazon, and Google support and the standardization work, I expect this to be the future. Eventually. But I’m getting impatient. If I’m buying a device, I prefer Thread but usually it’s not yet
- z-Wave - my first, and most devices. Basically this was what was most available at local stores when I started. No complaints
- Zigbee - by far the biggest selection of simple, cheap sensors. I need to more of those
- all too much is WiFi but I try to avoid
But it also helps that my approach is generally switches and outlets. Hard-wired, predictable network, tend to be repeaters. I have comparatively fewer leaf nodes.
So for example a few years back I got a z-wave IR blaster to control a mini-split AC because at the time I mostly used z-wave. I already had a z-wave light switch in the same room, acting as a repeater, so no worries about connectivity. Now I have both z-wave and Zigbee light switches in that room so expect both meshes to be strong for any future devices
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 1 week ago:
I’ll also vote to reconsider WiFi. Home Assistant supports a variety of local mesh networks that by default can’t connect to the cloud and whose devices are cheaper and lower power.
I use all three of zwave, Zigbee, and thread; ha works with whatever you need.
- Comment on Is H9me Assistant recommended? 1 week ago:
I choose to pay for remote access, but it’s for convenience and to support the developers. You are free to configure it yourself in a couple ways (and there is decent documentation) or do without remote access
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 week ago:
Not really. With this flipped around my reaction is …. “whooOOSHH”.
How is it that now even self-deprecating humor targeting oneself can get someone ‘s panties in a bunch?
- Comment on Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So 1 week ago:
Plus software seems to be dropping 32bit support. While I usually appreciate the benefits of 64 bit architecture, that’s uncalled for on most of the things I’d use RPi for
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 week ago:
Even easier: maintain my weight then you’ll gain all you want
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 week ago:
Huh, I might try that. While I like the taste of radishes, I never know what to do with them other than toss in a salad. My kids don’t like the taste so another option is bonus
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
Y’all really ask everyone to take off their shoes at parties & all? Like a barefoot cocktail hour, barefoot dinner?
Generally I plan it outside if I can but, true, that’s an exception. It’s just not worth trying to deal with that: clean before, clean after, and don’t worry about it.
Amusing story though …… new friends, kids in scouts, “pinewood derby” crafting day where we all got together to help the kids build. I automatically took my shoes off. In the workshop. sawdust, dirt and nails everywhere. Didn’t even think until someone noticed and looked at me like I was an idiot. Oh. I am an idiot
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
I also always wonder if it correlates with wall to wall carpet. Carpeting makes dirt disappear, so there’s nothing wrong with wearing shoes around the house.
But once you realize how much dirt collects there, how disgusting it is …… I no longer believe in either inside shoes or wall to wall carpeting
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
I’ve read this on the internet many times. I’m not sure who those barbarians are but it’s clear the internet believes the US is shoes on.
My experience is the opposite although I second the motion of whether it’s regional. The part of my family from the Midwest are “those people”
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
I gotta say it’s one of the benefits of kids being at college - everything constricting comes off as I walk in the door. You might not want to make a surprise visit unless you’re ok with seeing me in my underwear
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
Shoes off is both nicer and keeps the house cleaner. My family has always been on this side of things, except the folk in the Midwest, so I don’t care if this gets me on a lair somewhere. What? Are gonna send ice to deport me?
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 week ago:
Growing up, I didn’t like the taste of the yoke, and had a texture issue with the way most eggs were cooked. Supposedly I was also allergic but I think that was just a convenience. Now I love them. Every style
A big part of it was growing out of the texture issue. By the time I did that, I found had long dance grown out of any taste issues. But it’s also important that I was exposed to more ways to cook more eggs by more people. For whatever reason I was open to trying new eggs until I eventually went back and liked old eggs
Except egg salad. There’s just something about slimy egg bits drowned in a tub of mayo that seems too unpleasant to even look at
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 week ago:
You create a great story but violates K.i.S.S.
- not saying they got in means they can’t use it as evidence. Sometimes there’s still due process
- even if they can get into lockdown mode, it’s clearly harder than not lockdown. Why conspire to make it harder?
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 2 weeks ago:
Realistically, not only do I not want an 8k tv, but I might not get a tv at all, if I had to do it today. We rarely watch tv anymore. The brainrot is the same but we’re much more likely to use individual screens
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 2 weeks ago:
I want a dumb tv with the price and and specs of a smart tv. Less is more
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 2 weeks ago:
What do you want from it? How long?
- I always went with a barber for anything that looked like a traditional men’s cut, and that includes a variety of lengths.
- any special requests, non-traditional or significantly longer, a stylist
- I’ve had bad cuts from both barbers and stylists, all you can do is vote with your feet
- realistically all the old barbers are gone and new barbers feature very short modern styles that I’m not interested in, so I go with one of the cheap chains
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 2 weeks ago:
If you have a concern different from the thread, please start another post.
Yes the biggest pilot customer used it to haul lightweight snack items but als yes the claimed fully loaded to the legal limit tests
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 2 weeks ago:
And an ai company with no ai product
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see how. This is just a continuation of what he was already doing, facilitated by a board of his friends and relatives.
Even worse I have to say I’m not totally against it. All too often ceos get excessive pay regardless of their results. While I haven’t looked in detail not at the history, the claim is these are only for Tesla meeting some extremely ambitious milestones and the payment is stock. Certainly his previous ridiculous allay was in stock and Tesla had some extraordinary growth. If the stock doesn’t go up, then he should never receive that wealth
If it’s truly contingent on the company growth and the board doesn’t throw him a life preserver, that’s not entirely bad. Excessive yes. Extremely excessive. Excessively excessive. But more execs need to have their wealth gated on actual results