dmtalon
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- Comment on Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news 5 days ago:
I just ‘deactivate’ people that share news on facebook. I use FB to give my family (who don’t live near me) and friends a small slice of what’s going on in my world. I don’t post daily/weekly but I only post stuff I create. I also use it for groups/market place since most forums went to FB groups.
I expect the same from my connections, and unfollow anyone that just forwards things (news, memes, other posts). This little bit of management has made my FB feed ‘ok’
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
Did it this last cycle. Didn’t renew, don’t miss it.
- Comment on Just used spray foam for the first time... 2 weeks ago:
Probably too late for now but if you ever have a big spray foam job in the future :)
Best thing I found for spray foam is the reusable sprayer that you screw larger cans on.
It’s soooo much better. I was sealing up everything I could in the basement before drywall went up.
We had a radon mitigation system installed after discovering ours was quite high. The guy that came had one of these guns to seal up all the cracks in the floor
Great stuff Pro 14. It’s $60 bux but is a game changer. You can store the connected can on it for 30 days it says. They have a spray can of cleaner to clean it after your done.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 2 weeks ago:
Disabling autocorrect showcased how bad I am at phone typing. But I have to be very mindful of what is actually corrected and corrected to. Especially in sms where there’s no easy edit
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 3 weeks ago:
It was totally to give you content to share today on Lemmy /s
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 3 weeks ago:
Well humans are making them. Vine and other early adopter places (Lemmy) are nice until the “masses” find it.
It’s awful, but people eat it up. Add in profit margins and companies jump on smelling that sweet sweet profit.
Tik Tok is blocked in my house but unfortunately reels/yt shorts have no easy way to block without affecting the rest of the service.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 1 month ago:
I pay for yt premium family ($23/mo) now. Was also a yt red subscriber.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 1 month ago:
Or GrayJay for Android
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 1 month ago:
Was Google one (including yt premium) a limited time deal? I don’t see them connected right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Ok, ya I’ve seen those… I love the idea and am excited to see them become mature.
I am, unfortunately tied to Google right now with our “whole house audio”. Using old Chromecast audios. When those are EOL it is going to create a real headache here.
We use minis to initiate the CCAs by making their (minis) default speaker the CCA running through a centralized amp for that room (to ceiling speakers)
It works quite well
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Which gizmos, do you have them? How well do they work?
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 2 months ago:
I specifically looked at the available specs at the local auto parts stores and couldn’t find Ah details. This was about 2y ago, so maybe this value is becoming more commonplace. I know on the RV/Sailing works Ah is used pretty exclusively. My deep cycle AGM only lists CCA and reserve capacity
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 2 months ago:
Good catch… It was early and I was on my phone (my excuses) :)
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 2 months ago:
A little more technical, I don’t think your average starting battery is 100ah capacity, and most don’t rate themselves in amp hours either.
I bought a deep cycle for my little sailboat at the local auto store and it’s around 70-80ah
You would need an inverter to convert the batteries DC (direct current) into AC (alternating current). This will “cost” some power (watts) to convert that voltage. Your refrigerator runs on AC battery outputs DC.
That said, it is quite common to run refrigerators on larger boats and RVs off batteries and it would certainly be possible to run your house fridge off a single car battery for a short while if you’ve got an inverter large enough to run it.
What your not gonna do is just run out to the car, grab your battery and hook it directly to your fridge.
Our fridge uses between 130-180 watts when running and about 2.9Kw or 2900 watts in 24 hours. Your battery most likely has under 1000 total watts til empty, and car batteries are generally not used past 50% capacity (lead acid starting battery). So figure 500 watts max (for easy math). So… 4h run time maybe.
- Comment on unRaid is NOT switching to a subscription model 2 months ago:
Hope it stays that way.
- Comment on unRaid is NOT switching to a subscription model 2 months ago:
There’s all kinds of people being born every day, growing up and becoming self hosting unRAID users. Meanwhile current license holders are growing older and dying off.
How is continuing to charge for new people to get into unRAID unsustainable? If it’s worked this long but isn’t now then increase the prices, or watch your overhead.
I’m here until my pro license starts costing me again. If that happens, I’ll likely jump just like I have done with other products I paid for that changed our original agreement.
- Comment on Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray 3 months ago:
This is me, I occasionally post something we’re doing, but by far most of my feed and interaction is with groups. I created a neighborhood FB group as an easy way to pass along info/communicate
With pihole, ublock origin, Firefox (FB container) and social fixer browser, Facebook isn’t all that bad… Haha
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 3 months ago:
Right, and I have grayjay for my phone but the majority of watching is on Nvidia Shield. I realize there’s smarttube and others that can do things. My point is I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 3 months ago:
A coordinated effort to stop visiting them until certain features are included, or certain changes made would be glorious, however I just don’t see it happening
There’s a lot of basic config/features YT needs. I’m a paying customer also. (YT premium family)
Like as a simple example. I don’t want to watch shorts. I can X the shorts bar away for 30 days at a time but it just comes back. Why can’t I disable shorts in settings permanently? (I mean I know why)
I want to sort channel videos by date, oldest to newest because the content I watch is longer form and generally follows a timeline of events that I want to watch in order.
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that is all but impossible without manually creating playlists and adding videos in the order you want (a real pita)
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I cannot easily get back to watch the next video in that series. Doing the above helps, but there’s no pick up where you left off. There’s some BS continue the video you were in the middle of featuring paywalled in premium that I find mildly helpful but most times if I bail on a video I’m done with it I don’t want a reminder/easy continue tile for it.
There’s lots more around detailed searching…
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- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 5 months ago:
I actually have grayjay on my phone (and paid for it). I don’t mind paying for stuff I use.
I’ve also used revances, and smarttube tv. But as I said right now the value is still “ok” but reaching it’s limit for sure.
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 5 months ago:
Up to 6 users as it is a family plan but ya it’s pricey
- Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January 5 months ago:
Welcome to the club, I was on the $14.99 Family Premium from YT Red/GPM. I left in a fit to Spotify, but crawled back since I just do not get along with Spotify. It was quite an increase to $22.99, but I literally watch YT as my main source of entertainment, and listen to YT music via Android Auto in my car, as well as through the house all the time. So I am getting a lot of use out of it. but I am not sure I could stomach another increase anytime soon.
- Comment on Sonoff Programming Jigs 5 months ago:
I’ve just been soldering the same 4 wires onto the S31s I’m putting into my HA setup. A jig would be nice but it’s pretty easy to quickly solder for thin wires!
- Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet 5 months ago:
There are multiple ways to do geothermal. We have 2 I believe 150ft closed loops that live around 6’ under the yard. They also have vertical bore loops that go straight down which require way less land. Lastly is open loop, which would be a set of lines that run to a pond, or i guess any body of water to do that heat exchanging.
- Comment on Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet 5 months ago:
Can you get a single heat pump system that does both?
We have a geothermal heat pump that we put in when we built our house. It uses water (closed loops) to exchange heat/cold instead of air. But that unit also has a desuperheater that does supplement hot water. The ideal setup is to have a non-powered water heater that is warmed by the output of the desuperheater, that feeds a powered water heater. This creates a situation where the water entering the powered water heater is already pretty warm requiring less work for it.
unfortunately, my knowledge at the time wasn’t where it is today, and our installer was also not well versed. So we just have a single water heater, but it is plumbed into the desuperheater at least. Ours just cycles water through the desuperheater into the powered tank. Probably still helps some but I suspect not as much.
- Comment on 4 futuristic things the Humane Ai Pin can do as a smartphone alternative 6 months ago:
It supports earbuds from watching a random YT video about it that popped up on my feed from the creators
- Comment on What do you use for cloud storage and why? 6 months ago:
lscr.io/linuxserver
- Comment on What do you use for cloud storage and why? 6 months ago:
Nextcloud docker on unRAID has worked well for me on…
Android, Windows and my MacBook(s)
I use it to Auto upload photos from my phone as well as cloud storage. Shared directories with my wife and son for easy sharing.
No real issues outside a couple painful upgrades in the past .
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 6 months ago:
worth checking out grayjay.app. It’s new, but comes from Futo/Louis Rossman. It’s in alpha/beta right now but the concept is pretty neat. Think of it as the Pigeon/Trillian of instant messengers. (do need android I believe)
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 6 months ago:
I pay for YT premium, but downloaded GrayJay yesterday. one thing I noticed is even when signed into YT, and having the plug-in slider checked to report usage my History is not getting updated.
I primarily watch YT so I actually don’t mind paying for it. YTM is also my primary streaming music, but I like what Louis and Futo are doing. I also installed their voice app which works damn good. The only downside is I haven’t found a good privacy aware foss keyboard that is ‘ok’ and has swipe typing. I swipe enough that it’s annoying