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Great Blue Heron

@ GreatBlueHeron @lemmy.ca

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  • Can I develop without VS Code?

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  • Yeah, I'm just learning that now. Devcontainers is great because it runs a full instance of Home Assistant for debugging and test. There is DevPod Containers that might do the same thing, but I don't use DevPod so it's also a bit overwhelming (using that word a lot today..) to get going and I'm not sure if it's compatible with the devcontaiers configuration in the Home Assistant dev tree.

  • Can I develop without VS Code?

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  • Codium sounds perfect - thanks. It's still going to be a bit overwhelming - but that's another learning experience.

  • Earth needs more energy. Atlanta’s Super Soaker creator may have a solution.

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  • Thank you. I made a comment about it being a shame that we don't capture the waste heat from some process a while back and someone quipped something like "2nd law of thermodynamics moment". I went and did some reading, but couldn't make sense of it. Your explanation makes sense.

  • Thanks Solver

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  • You can't always trust the KPatience solver for some games. I have not worked out yet which games it's broken for but I routinely win Simple Simon games that it says can't be won. There others, but I can't remember which.

    I also have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the solver hinting - I'd like hints to only point out moves that I've missed based on the cards on the table. The hints often seem to be positioning the cards for future moves.

  • Options for under performing Cat6 cable

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  • I'd had good luck running similar length copper outside, between buildings, in the past. I had regular blue indoor cat5 just under the surface, tacked to the bottom of fences etc for 7 years and never had a problem with it. Dropping a roll of pre terminated cable built for direct burial in the trench seemed like a no brainer.

    With the benefit of hindsight - having that 4' deep trench open was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I should have better taken advantage of.

  • Options for under performing Cat6 cable

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  • I think I've figured it out, but have not fixed it.

    I'm fairly sure it's a ground loop type issue. It comes and goes. It ran at 1Gbps for a few weeks at one point and I thought it was resolved, but it's now back to 100Mbps.

    I have a few options - I have a pair of Ubiquiti airmax gigabeams that I can put back into service, I can dig a shallow trench and bury some fibre (it only recently occurred to me that fibre is not electricity so doesn't need to be down 2') or I can dig a shallow trench and bond the ground between the two buildings.

    The gigabeams are obviously the easiest, the fibre is the best (and what I should have done in the first place) and bonding the grounds would only really be out of curiosity to see if it actually works.

    And with your advice I have another option - double check the contacts for cleanliness and possible corrosion.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Should I get a ZBT-2?

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

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  • You are correct - they have no legal obligation. They do however have a moral obligation. It seems to me that if corporations want to be people when it comes to things like political donations then they should be people when it comes to their moral obligations as well.

  • [WindowMaker] Stuck in the 2000's

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  • I switched my main desktop from Windows to Linux a few months back. I've been running KDE, but it just doesn't feel right. I recently tried IceWM with the Motif theme and it's much more comfortable. I was a Unix admin in the '90's and '00's.

    If I can find an audio mixer applet that works (volumeicon does not like my system for some reason..) and figure out how to stop the screen blanking when Firefox is playing a video I think I'll make the change permanent.

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

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  • I think the bigger question is how many corporations are supporting foss projects? I'm sure a lot of us contribute a bit here and there if we can and I'm sure it makes a difference - but if some of these corporations, making billions of dollars profit, contribute just a tiny fraction of their wealth it could make a huge difference.

    It's the same argument as recycling, turning off lights, walking instead of driving etc. etc. - yes there are 8 billion of us and if we all do it, it will make a difference, but the difference we make is still not significant compared to corporate greed.

    We are being gaslit to accept yet another scenario where we socialize the cost and privatize the profit.

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • Interesting - mine is syncthing-fork 1.30.0.4. When I go to the App Info page it says "App installed from F-Droid" and when I tap on that button I get a small pop-up that says "No such app found."

  • PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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  • I installed mine from F-Droid. I just went there to turn off updates and it doesn't exist. I have not been paying attention so it may have been gone for ages and not related?

  • YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.

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  • I use a plastic one - the ones that have a floss "D" on one end and a pick on the other. They're very thin and can also be bent to form a bit of a hook.

  • New Chinese Data Center Is Wind-Powered and Underwater

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  • This article gave me existential dead - more than the normal background existential dread. Using the ocean as a heatsink sounds great, but we are already warming the oceans. Yes, they're big - but they're not infinite. We've figured out how to get "free" energy from space with solar. Now we really need to figure out how to dissipate the excess heat we produce with that energy back into space, or use all of it. Someone really needs to figure out how to turn heat back into electricity - without boiling water to spin turbines.

  • Mobian brings Debian 13 'Trixie' to phones and tablets

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  • What's a FP (in this context)??

  • Demolition company tearing down White House flooded with negative reviews

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  • They're getting paid by the government, not trump personally - I'm assuming they'll get paid much more than the job is actually worth, possibly as payment for some previous or future job for trump. There will be some angle to every contact issued for the whole project.

  • Everything ZFS @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Help - who mounted all my snapshots??

  • Good old Finland (subtitle is commentary, not in text)

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  • I'm the same as you, but there are a lot of people that pay (monthly fees I believe!) for pre-built "android boxes".

  • 91% of Australians support Trans Rights

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  • Yeah, you're not going to get that in Australia. The latitude goes down to about 42° South in Tasmania. Boston is about 42° North. I know there's much more to the climate than just latitude, but gives you some idea.

    Interesting that you'd like it colder. I've moved from Australia to Atlantic Canada and much as I'm loving it here - there's a lot to said for a more temperate climate.

  • 91% of Australians support Trans Rights

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  • I find this news very encouraging, but also really hard to believe.

    I'm no longer on speaking terms with my mother and two brothers over their pro Ameriacn fascist regime position - and the anti trans stance of said regime is the main attraction for them. They all live in circles of friends where this is normal.

  • Removed

    A summary of trump

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  • I read yesman's comment as agreeing with the sentiment in the op, not arguing against it?

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Any IKEA Zigbee experts here?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Finally using Linux as my desktop

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files?

  • Android @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Is Google deliberately crippling my phone...

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    More weird potential offsets

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Supply voltage variance

  • Electricians @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    20V AC between slab and electrical ground

  • Google Pixel @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    I'll be looking for Pixel alternatives when I can afford a new phone

  • networking @sh.itjust.works
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Options for under performing Cat6 cable

  • Everything ZFS @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    To scrub, or not to scrub

  • nextcloud @lemmy.ml
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Apache or nginx WebDAV with Nextcloud sync client?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Should I move to Docker?

  • Sony @lemdro.id
    Great Blue Heron @lemmy.ca

    Google is now putting product ads on the home screen of my Sony Bravia TV