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DeltaTangoLima

@ DeltaTangoLima @reddrefuge.com

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Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.

Be a good motherfucker. Peace.

  • What is your "I could have been rich" story?

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  • Here in Australia, it's costing our family of five about $100k a year to live, excluding our mortgage. 4% return ($80K) is conservatively realistic here (for low risk investment), and still isn't enough.

    Like I said, while it would've set me up with a house and no debt, I'd still have to work to pay for the cost of living.

  • What is your "I could have been rich" story?

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  • In my mind, rich means not having to work again. A couple million doesn’t even get close, sadly.

  • What is your "I could have been rich" story?

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  • Nearly 30 years ago, I worked for a tiny li'l anti-virus software company that got acquired by one of the big boys, and everyone's performance-based options they were holding were suddenly worth a lot. Being hungry for career growth at the time, I'd left the company and forfeited those options. Less than 6 months later, they announced the sale of the company.

    My options woulda been worth a few million at the time, maybe double that in today's money. Importantly, it would've set me up with a nice house, car, etc, without any debt, in my early 20s.

    Not rich, but certainly comfortable.

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    How do you handle backup?

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  • RAID5 and unlimited downloads on my 1Gbps fibre. All I backup is my library metadata itself, using a 2N+C strategy.

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • It possibly would, but I don't have any Homekit devices, and I just feel hat this is a simple thing a home automation app should offer, it's almost conspicuous by it's removal/absence.

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  • Yep, that's it. One of my most frequent uses of this widget was to turn the kitchen light off - the teenagers are forever walking in to the kitchen while we're watching TV in the loungeroom nearby, then forgetting to turn the light off when they leave again.

    Having a quick access widget for it just made it such a non-issue for me to turn it off. No fumbling and swiping for the app, and no interrupting what we're watching to issue a voice command.

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  • Disappointing that, if this was a thing, they removed it. Seems like the very definition of regression to me.

    At least I know I'm not imagining it. Or that I'm not the only one. ;) Cheers!

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • Nah - not a widget per light. Per my OP, I had a widget that had a number of lights on it. The number varies based on widget size. I think mine had about 12 entities on it.

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • So you can't possibly conceive that a single finger tap on a home screen widget to control a light is far simpler, and takes less effort, than having to open the app each time, potentially scroll to the location of the entity you want to control, then tap?

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • Yep, but I'm talking about widgets that you place on your phone's home screen - not in the app directly.

  • I love piracy and seeders

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  • Name the band? Maybe some of us can pitch in.

  • What movie from your past are you completely nostalgia blind too?

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  • Oh man - hard disagree on this one for me. Still rates up there as one of the best adventure franchises of all time. We rewatch the trilogy as a family at least once every year or two, and always (re)notice awesome little easter eggs each time.

    Plus, entirely safe for family viewing. It's getting harder and harder to find movies series like that where the teenagers will still enjoy it, and the young 'un can get into it.

  • I've finally done it, a perfect first layer in progress

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  • Yeah, fair enough mate. I clearly didn't read it as intended.

  • I've finally done it, a perfect first layer in progress

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  • I value critical thinking so, when someone else is able to point out how I haven't engaged mine, I'm more than happy to accept there's alternate perspectives I hadn't considered.

  • I've finally done it, a perfect first layer in progress

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  • You might be right - just didn't have the feel of sarcasm coming from a place of shared pain.

  • I've finally done it, a perfect first layer in progress

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  • Why be like that? Why be the person that has to piss on someone's parade, when all they want to do is share a small, personal win?

    Edit: As covered elsewhere in this particular comment thread, this was indeed a joke. I take it back.

    And, I think we can all agree, OP needs to share how they've achieved what may turn out to be the perfect first layer. As an Ender3 owner, I've all but given up trying to achieve this, so open to any tips or tricks I haven't tried.

  • Just as a heads up, AutoDesk will start deleting your Fusion Files if you don't login once a year

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  • Yeah, got the same email. Fortunately I already exported everything to .step files and am using Ondsel ES full-time for my designs.

  • Disney wants a wrongful death lawsuit thrown out because the plaintiff had Disney+

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  • This makes me glad I pirate their content. Cunts.

  • How do you pronounce zsh? Sudo? Ssh?

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  • lol. Well played.

  • How do you pronounce zsh? Sudo? Ssh?

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  • For you, is it 'reG-eks' or 'reJ-eks'? I know it should absolutely be the former, but my brain tells me to say the latter when I read it.