CurbsTickle
@CurbsTickle@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 8 months ago:
Well that’s not ever been an issue for me, that said I do have a flat override to disable and set specific values. But that’s just one toggle (to disable the lighting automations) and one value (light level).
But my eyes are pretty sensitive to light in general, which is why I like the slow ramp up.
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 9 months ago:
You can have it set more intelligently than on/off.
For example, what I have (I’m excessive btw, so this is just one option) is a light sensor that tells me how light it is outside, and then combine that information with sunrise/sunset times.
I use that to set the color of the lighting (circadian lighting style), the light level, and a ramp time to the max brightness I’d want. For rooms where there is good daylight coming in, if the light coming in from daylight is bright enough, the lights lower their brightness (daylight harvesting approach).
This isn’t in every room at the moment, as some of my lights are not RGBW LEDs. Those with regular white LEDs just dim.
Is it perfectly set for your eyes? No, but you can tweak it. My wife likes it bright than me, so I set values that I could tolerate for a nice compromise.
No RGB? Then drop the circadian lighting, keep the rest.
No light sensors? There are some APIs available out there for solar radiation values you can use (openweathermap for example). Less accurate, but probably close enough for what you want.
TL;DR version: add more conditions, and get what you want.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 9 months ago:
Now tell everyone how banning a device which can’t be used for car thefts, will somehow help with car thefts.
I think we’d all like to know.
Or, you know, it’s incredibly stupid to ban. But what do I know? Other than that you can’t use a flipper to steal a car of course.
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 9 months ago:
Confirmed
I’ve got… A rather large storage pool.
My media server also handles family movies, including VHS from the 80s I’ve converted and cleaned up.
Server itself is a cheap off lease dell micro I bought several years back for $125, added a $50 nvme SSD, and the igpu has been chugging along transcoding beautifully since.
Same system also runs a separate book/comic/etc service, backup DNS, a generated kid safe “channel” that is available on the media server, all my dslr photos are on there, etc, etc.
Which then for what is crucial to me gets a local and a remote backup.
At this point I’ve saved money over paying for subscriptions, and I use it for a whole lot more (so even more savings on top).
- Comment on When Pi-hole is down? 9 months ago:
It is entirely the case.
DNS queries will go to all on the list, and use whatever responds first.
If you are seeing occasional ad leaks, this is why.
- Comment on When Pi-hole is down? 9 months ago:
Just wanted to add onto your comment for clarity for others, the multiple servers are not redundancy so much as first come first serve, which is why your comment of multiple pi-holes is important.
If you were to list a pihole and say Google DNS as primary and secondary respectively, you may have some DNS queries responded to by Google. Negating the point of having a pi-hole or similar DNS service locally.
A secondary can be a docker container, another physical pi-hole (even a zero-w, which I personally don’t recommend being your only way to manage DNS, but is fine when you just need to do some maintenance on the primary).
- Comment on Library Advice? 9 months ago:
Kavita is also my solution.
OPDS (by user to boot), fast, clean, and with a pretty decent web reader option if you want it. Comics, manga, books - all in one.
- Comment on Sounds like Haier is opening the door! 9 months ago:
Yup, sent an email and left a message, calling out Haier, GE, Fisher Paykel, etc as not on my list anymore due to this behavior.
I’ll call it a win when it’s fully resolved though.
- Comment on Supreme Court rejects Epic v. Apple antitrust case 10 months ago:
I figure a certain few got bought a fancy lunch and handed a few gift cards.
I’d say that’s more than you need for Clarence Thomas, you can probably drop the ‘fancy’ along with the gift cards and still get what you want.
- Comment on HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly 10 months ago:
Yep. Needs to be tied to profit for the action at a minimum, and should be gross not net. Because net can be manipulated too easily.
But instead it’s just a cost of doing (shitty) business.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
I downloaded the archive to do a bit of searching for old friends actually.
Hilariously I ran across one here on lemmy I haven’t seen in… 20ish years? On or offline.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
Some were.
You’d be surprised how many were not. I spent an awful lot of time on irc in the 90’s…
- Comment on Also, the doors actually open. 10 months ago:
I have an old (like from the 90s) model I got as a gift, of the General Lee. I never made it… I’d say the reasons are obvious.
Well, I know what I can do now! Maybe I’ll add in some pride, too…
- Comment on US pay-TV subscriber base eroding at record pace 10 months ago:
About 5 or 6 for me, but only because the package with TV was cheaper than internet only. Didn’t actually use the TV service, but saved about $40/month and got free HBO with that package (which I just used the app for since it was HD there and only SD service for the TV subscription, that’s how they expected to make money with that package I think - HD was an upgrade).
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
It costs money to move, especially to another country.
- Comment on Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way 10 months ago:
Brings new meaning to the old “You wouldn’t steal a car” bs
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
My first thought reading the title.
I’ve been picking up off lease hardware for years, this will drop the price nicely.
- Comment on Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications 11 months ago:
The mobile app decrypts the notification. Text wouldn’t be garbled. This is an option on Android and on iOS.
- Comment on Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower hereditary high cholesterol 1 year ago:
Yeah, definitely didn’t catch it, too early.
I haven’t seen the second season yet myself.
- Comment on Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower hereditary high cholesterol 1 year ago:
They did a second season, but there were three books.
Excellent series
- Comment on Server box just died, recommendations for a new one? 1 year ago:
Pretty much all of mine are just tiny/mini/micros. The stack of 6 or so in my rack power everything I run (aside from my desktop, but I do have Linux vms and a Mac mini for app builds).
No issues so far.
Storage is all on my NAS, one for things like media server content, my dev work, pictures, etc, and one that’s a backup to that NAS. Only thing remote is my second level of backup.
8th gen Intel and up is pretty great for proxmox IMO.