BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 2 days ago:
Each thing gets washed once, with the appropriate chemical if needed.
Generally for the toilet bowl, something with bleach.
For surfaces like the toilet and sink, especially in a bathroom, I usually swap between using just some vinegar and Fantastic all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fine most weeks, Fantastic once in a while to get some of the stuff Vinegar may not have got properly with those extra chemicals that it has but I could easily go months without needing it.
I use water and a microfiber cloth for the mirrors and the faucet, a drop of dish soap if there’s something on it (like dried toothpaste spittle). This also works for walls most of the time if you wipe those, but I don’t wipe my walls very regularly, maybe once a year.
Hot water is fine for the tile floor too, maybe it gets something stronger a couple times a year.
You don’t need a lot unless someone in the household is sick with something that could be transmitted through a bathroom. Then hit it with harsher chemicals.
One thing to note may be that in certain warmer climates, there are other considerations for mold and bacterial growth that I do not have to worry about where I live (in a cooler climate)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It’s a fucking struggle right now, and It’s not supposed to be like this.
You shouldn’t have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.
The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There’s enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.
The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it’s sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There’s a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.
- Comment on Self hosted hands free app 4 days ago:
So there’s an answer, and then there’s a problem.
The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.
The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there’s no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.
It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.
- Comment on Self hosted hands free app 4 days ago:
Agent voice response
It’s even mostly open source.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
That’s neat.
Why does that article contain no references more recent than 1806 though. Is it called something else these days? It seems like there should be more modern information on the practice.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Based on your question, and your other comments, it sounds like the only way you’re getting laid is by paying for it.
- Comment on How many people would a generation ship need to have for inbreeding to not be an issue? 3 weeks ago:
That does not apply to humans who are capable of intentionally avoiding certain breeding problems, and also who have medical knowledge that can apply even if it does happen.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 3 weeks ago:
Hockey, started in my late thirties, couldn’t even stop at the time.
Great exercise
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 weeks ago:
British Columbia
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 weeks ago:
The simple answer is most desktop PCs will not come even close to that at idle. Even just having a few case fans may draw more than that, without involving the CPU at all.
Laptop devices can do that in some cases with their extra power management features.
That being said, do the math to see if it matters. The difference between 10w and 40w is 0.7kwh per day, at least where I live that’s about 7 cents or about $25 per year.
In my case it would be more expensive to purchase a dedicated low power device than it will save me in 4-5 years compared to just using something I already have laying around.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
In terms of time investments, working out may be one possible consideration.
- Comment on How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split? 3 weeks ago:
It’s definitely not 50/50, there would be a negotiated amount (Fixed or percentage) less than that. The ghostwriter may be employed by the publisher and just receive a salary too.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 3 weeks ago:
Never again?
China unfortunately. I enjoyed the country the last time, but I see no future where I go back in my lifetime. It’s not safe for me.
Not till they clean up their act a lot more?
The US, I live right next to it, I’m the right colour and gender to not get harassed, but I’m not crossing that border anytime soon.
- Comment on [META] Is it ok to ask for advice here? 4 weeks ago:
That question is fine here in my opinion.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 month ago:
“For essay writing task”
I’m not using it to write essays. I’ve been programming far beyond my normal capabilities.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 month ago:
My daily use of said tool disagrees with your assertion.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 1 month ago:
Gases expand to fill their containers due to the random, high-speed motion of their individual particles and the minimal intermolecular forces between them.
The translation for humans is that humans like to move around and talk, and there’s not a lot stopping them from doing it.
- Comment on Why does information want to be free 1 month ago:
It’s the same reason that liquids and gasses expand to fill their container
- Comment on Should 21-23-year-olds be allowed to date older people? 1 month ago:
The age of majority (or various ages) are somewhat arbitrary, but it has to be drawn somewhere because it’s used to allow a whole bunch of activities rather than just for relationships.
There’s a significant difference between “you must be this age to be considered old enough to make your own choices on a variety of things” and “here’s a specific range of people who you are not allowed to have sexual intercourse with”
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I have a couple Tapo cameras set up with HA, I had to use the tapo app initially to set up but once they’re set up you can ditch it and run the system entirely locally. I saw someone had a way to configure them locally too, but it wasn’t simple enough for me to bother and I was fine with the one time step.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Blame the democrats
- Comment on What does it mean if I’m the first person my former friend turns to? 2 months ago:
It means you should move on
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 2 months ago:
Bouncy balls are already reasonably efficient. If you want them to be more dangerous, you just get ones that weigh more.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If that’s all you want to do, one of the cheaper Ubiquiti managed gateways would probably work and not break the bank.
If you want to tinker even harder, an open source router running openwrt.org (or even their own device) may be a good option.
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 2 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 2 months ago:
You aren’t going to find a useful AI system for personal use in Finance, you simply don’t have the scale needed to benefit from it. You don’t make enough transactions per month that looking over it yourself is going to be any slower than reading the AI summary.
The question as with most process optimization and data analysis is, what’s the actual result you’re hoping for? If you want it to be able to summarize WALMART, WAL-MART and WMART so you can see those numbers added together, you already know you spent a lot at Walmart. Whare are you going to actually do with that information?
- Comment on Any self hosted personal finance projects doing anything interesting with AI that you've found value in? 2 months ago:
Saving money doesn’t really need an AI, there really aren’t many ways to cut budgets down short of paying attention to the most obvious spending problems (Too much housing, too much vehicle, too much food (especially eating out), and too much entertainment(too many subscription platforms))
It’s usually a far better investment of time to improve your earning power (upskill, change jobs, add hours, etc.)
Cutting $40 per month from your budget by not going to the movies every week just isn’t going to have the impact you need in your life.
- Comment on Should you look for a relationship if it feels like a compromise? 2 months ago:
Compromise doesn’t necessarily mean “less”
If you ask your boss for a 20% raise, and they give you a 10% raise and you stay there, you have compromised on what you wanted but you still got more than you had before.
Relationships are similar, you may not get everything you specifically want, but if you’re getting more than you have alone it may be a good idea to look for one. That could relate to all sorts of aspects of a relationship, from sharing chores and saving money on expenses to having someone available more easily/frequently to enjoy shared activities with.
Not all relationships are going to be worth it, in fact most will not until you find a “compatible” person where the alignment of your needs and willingness to do things for them end up, and their needs and willingness to do things for you end up with a net benefit to both people.
Two people that hate doing dishes and cooking could work, if you both make enough money to eat out every meal, but if you don’t those two people likely aren’t compatible. However, if you like cooking, and they don’t mind cleaning, that can be a reasonable compromise that benefits both people.
- Comment on Lowering power consumption on Opteron 2 months ago:
Even if you could shave off 50% at idle, you’re talking about like $0.10 per day in power savings. Is it really worth spending any time on that?
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 3 months ago:
The HVAC system no, the home itself, yes.
Depending on how old your home is of course, newer homes tend to have lower exchange rates.
Also datacenters don’t have windows, or even doors constantly letting people in and out of cooled areas and outside.