gdog05
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- Comment on Anyone automate anything with smart thermostats and outdoor temp? 1 day ago:
Using the Ecobee thermostat, I use the built in weather module in Home Assistant to give local weather data to the system. In summer, I set it up to watch for the lowest overnight temps via forecast, and trigger on the lowest temperatures we’d see. Then I’d drop the house temp to 66 or 64 degrees when the AC had to do the least amount of work. Then I’d use the basement air to keep the upstairs cool enough and use the AC as little as possible.
My last house was old and had some drafts I couldn’t find. So in the winter, if the weather turned to windy I’d increase the temp a degree or two for comfort.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I am old enough to remember when people got paid enough to do those things in their middle aged years…
- Comment on Podcast automation? 4 days ago:
I will check that out, thank you!
- Comment on Podcast automation? 4 days ago:
Anything that you’re aware of that will also strip out the 28 minutes of commercials in a 36 minute podcast?
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 days ago:
You are correct, Graphene only runs on Pixel phones. I know there’s a few open mobile OS options out there but I’ve not spent any time researching them. There is a very good chance if you absolutely need an identification, then you can’t get away from Android. Hopefully someone else sees your comment and has an answer.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 days ago:
I wouldn’t self host email. But I would pay for a host and get away from Gmail. Wait until Black Friday and get free/cheap services from a bunch of places. Maybe even proton if you’re okay with them. Also, using your own domain for email is pretty cool (to me).
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 days ago:
You’ve got some good suggestions, I think most of the suggestions I can think of. Nextcloud is of course the big one but after using it for quite a while, I think it’s important to break down your needs. If you need file sharing/syncing only, there are better options that are easier and faster. If you only need chat/voice, rocket chat is really lightweight and easy. If you need file sharing, online office suite, chat, etc. Then Nextcloud is the right option. Just keep in mind, even if you think you need some of those things, will anyone but you ever actually use them? No, they won’t, because they don’t appreciate how cool it is to self host and how much effort you put into it.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 days ago:
I don’t know myself, but Graphene OS (on Google Pixel phones) has a pretty impressive sandbox layer for the play store and the apps it installs. It might be worth looking into if you’re not aware of it currently. (But if you’re aware of the Fairphone, I’m guessing you probably know about Graphene).
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 days ago:
I will help hand hold anyone who wants to build servers or services (to the best of my ability) to replace Google services with their own.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 6 days ago:
You’re right, we’ve got several states, mostly Republican leaning, that are winner take all. But these extra blue seats could potentially allow for an entire state swing in some states as yaroto98 pointed out. If it doesn’t do that, what it will do is piss enough people off because they’re not represented to get the groundswell needed to force changes.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 6 days ago:
Something missing from the displayed data, not sure if the article goes into it (not going through NYT paywall bullshit to find out) but Idaho, Utah and Texas will very likely gain a blue voting electoral college vote. If, after this Trump bullshit concludes (providing it concludes), we don’t have a major overhaul of how elections work including a change to first past the post, we kind of deserve fascism or all out civil war.
- Comment on leading ai company 1 week ago:
Someone keeps fixing the CSS color coding of an input field border and someone else keeps copy/pasting the old version when they’re doing basic edits.
- Comment on Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results 1 week ago:
“Please enter your password and the name of a random stranger for password authentication.”
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 2 weeks ago:
Look at all the layoffs they’ve been able to implement with the mere threat that AI has taken their jobs. It’s very profitable, just not in a sustainable way. But sustainability isn’t the goal. Feudal state mindset in the populace is.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 3 weeks ago:
Oh I didn’t realize that everyone uses the term literally. I thought it had expanded to mean a general lack of adoption of change. My bad I guess.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 3 weeks ago:
There literally is. It’s a mentality that prevents vaccine adoption rates and such. That said, being slow to adopt a technology like Boomers to the Internet is okay. Not adopting a technology because it has no inherent value and is being foisted on us by the ruling class is solid bro behavior.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 5 weeks ago:
Also he wrote then like AI writes now.
- Comment on Just created my own zero trust network! 1 month ago:
Fuck yeah! One issue down, 9,374 to go!
- Comment on Just created my own zero trust network! 1 month ago:
I would think the Jellyfin logs would say if it deleted something. But I have to say, I cannot fully understand GUID and PUID in all cases. But you can try to subtract 1 digit from PUID (100 to 99) and then try to delete a show or movie within Jellyfin’s interface. If it won’t do it, then you’ve got the permissions at least where it can’t delete things. It is possible to not view things as well, so it might take some research or trial and error and make sure you write down where it is now. But, it will remove one factor at least.
- Comment on Just created my own zero trust network! 1 month ago:
Do you have the media cleanup plugin installed for Jellyfin? I wonder if you change the PUID and/or GUID if you couldn’t make sure Jellyfin wasn’t the source of the deletion.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean, it renews every year. The worst case scenario is it’s against the TOS of the registrar and they can suspend your domain. Do with that what you will of course. Also, I was doing that with another domain but fixed it when I moved it to porkbun with their free anonymity service. I wasn’t going to pay domain.com’s ridiculous fees for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’ve had 123 Sex Drive as the address on one of my donations for over a decade now. If it’s personal use stuff, not business, you’re fine to put in whatever.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You say all that on jest but I’m old enough to have seen the change. Old enough and from a remote enough area that the change happened late for me.
I’d say it was about 1994-1995 when I noticed it. The police became more militarized and the standards of law enforcement were changed to be a revolving door where if they fucked up, they just got moved far enough away from the fuck up that no one knew about it there. Basically following the Catholic church system.
So law enforcement went from being socially embedded in the community to being outside of it a bit. And then over time, above it. And mind you, this is very rural. Towns smaller than 10k people were considered our cities. Cops have always been class traitors but looking back, this all felt like a calculated sea change.
And then of course 9/11 happened and police started getting the militarized hardware to go along with the attitude. And then Fox news started to warp what were pretty decent people into being xenophobic hate worshippers.
But right before all that, if you were caught causing trouble, underage drinking or even drinking and driving, the cops would bring you to your house to face your parents. Not to a jail cell.
We had a decent amount of freedom. Actual freedom. Capitalism was reigning supreme at larger scales, but it hadn’t been applied to every single thing in life quite yet. It didn’t have its act together enough to suck the fun out of just existing. Even state government (in a low-population state) felt pretty community driven. Legislators would come by and visit even my tiny village.
You didn’t see no trespassing signs on every piece of fence because frivolous lawsuits hadn’t been made popular yet. My mom, a single mother, she did struggle financially but she still was capable of raising my brother and I in safety on a waitress’ wage. And again, this is a tiny ass town she was waitressing in. Fewer than 500 people.
The 80’s and 90’s were far from perfect but it does allow me to know we can do better. We can have it better. And it’s one of the few things that keep me working and fighting. The younger generations deserve better and they can have a better life than has been provided to them.
- Comment on Linkwarden (v2.11.0) - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents (tons of new features!) 🚀 2 months ago:
Some nice improvements to an already great piece of kit. Good job y’all. Looking forward to updating.
- Comment on America’s drone 9/11 is coming — and just like on 9/11, we aren’t ready 2 months ago:
Because the trillions is the point… Not security.
- Comment on America’s drone 9/11 is coming — and just like on 9/11, we aren’t ready 2 months ago:
Or… Use drones and just take full credit. No need for obfuscation with our current media.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 months ago:
Well, with Plex constantly changing allowed abilities and such, it seems to me that this is the expected outcome.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 2 months ago:
The OP might disagree from what I’m seeing.
