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  • I called Comcast and it was horrible

    human, operator, GET HUMAN, person, technician, for fucks sake! Bomb? Give me a fucking human!

    Nope, nothin, mashing 0 on the keypad also did nothing.

  • Home Assistant - Deprecating Core and Supervised installation methods, and 32-bit systems

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  • They've done this once before and walked it back.

    Out of that decision and the backlash came the metrics, so they'd be able to make informed decisions before depreciating something.

    Last time, I used Core (IIRC, it wasn't even called Core back then) and was quite upset. Before they walked it back, I switched to the OS version and don't really regret it. If their metrics now tell them that core isn't worth supporting, it probably isn't, but I definitely understand being upset about it.

    It definitely sucks that the system that's supposed to be about giving users freedom and options is removing some.

    ETA: Backups also make this whole thing so much easier now. Back then, backing up and restoring core meant manually copying a bunch of files, but now, it's a completely different and easier experience.

  • What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!

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  • Sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate you were being insulting!

    "Don't feel crazy/bad/dumb, I've had the same thing happen to me!" is a pretty common phrasing in my region to show sympathy and understanding and I thought that's what you had meant (and it sounds like for your area, 'pregnant' serves the same general purpose!).

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  • It's always crazy how that happens sometimes and after weeks of banging your head, everything just 'clicks' when you're exposed to the information in the way that works best for you!

    Dude, don't feel pregnant.

    Context clues, I assumed this autocorrect was some variation of crazy/bad/dumb? :-D

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  • Weirdness: My Authentik instance had a PostgreSQL upgrade prerequisite in order to update it.

    I'd followed instructions 3-4 times completely unsuccessfully and had to keep reverting to backup.

    So, I gave up for a couple weeks and left it be in order to get over my frustration.

    Yesterday, I followed the instructions again. As far as I can tell, I did nothing different than I'd tried previously and it worked first try and then I was also able to upgrade Authentik.

    NOTE: The instructions aren't exactly difficult! So, I don't see how I'd have gotten it wrong!

  • How do I decrease acne after shaving my face?

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  • Yeah, DE + the process that typically goes with it (brush, shave soap, lathering it up, etc...) can do wonders to reduce the irritation.

    With that said, I even found that shaving in the shower with normal hair conditioner and a DE was a better experience than the 5 bladed razors with the shave gel

    OP - The blades are so cheap you can use a new one every time if you wanted (you don't need to, but you can)

  • Vaccinated adult from Colorado infected with measles, the state's first “breakthrough” case this year

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  • COVID was easy mode and we (Americans at the very least) failed. If we can't handle something that's highly infectious with a pretty low death rate we're definitely not going to handle highly infectious + high mortality rate without a lot of people dying first and even then, it'll still be "left wing propaganda", I'm sure

  • Vaccinated adult from Colorado infected with measles, the state's first “breakthrough” case this year

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  • Lisa needs measles!

  • Update policy?

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  • A lot of people don't have a fully offline setup and still have at least some devices that talk to the cloud. If that's the case, if they make any changes, HA has to also update in response to those changes, so they really can't treat it as an 'appliance' that can just sit there.

    HA devs are also pretty frequently updating HA to make it better (better dashboards, better methods to create automations, etc...) and if you update at least every couple of months you'll be able to adapt pretty easily.

    Mine will largely function without internet, at least it will for anything needed, but does still need WiFi, but, I still keep it up to date. They're also constantly updating and adding services that it can tie into, so, keeping up to date adds a lot of features you may not have even known you needed/wanted.

  • Update policy?

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  • 2.1.4 is fixing things in 2.1.3 and when those broken things effect you because you decided to install a known buggy version, then you'll shift the complaint that it shouldn't have let you install the broken one that would have effected you.

    Pay attention to the update notes and let the system take backups, that'll cover you 99% of the time.

    I had something similar happen with a Node-Red update a few years ago and I stopped allowing automatic updates and started reading the notes and being proactive about my updates and have had zero issues since because I ensure my system is ready for the updates first.

  • Trump tells NBC he 'couldn't care less' if car makers hike prices due to tariffs

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  • Realistically, the banks will start offering longer loans, would be my expectation.

    If you thought 6 year loans were already too long, wait til you start seeing 8-10 year long ones for new vehicles!

  • Trump says he is not joking about third presidential term

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  • An Amendment takes 2/3 of Congress to approve though, not just a majority.

    I can imagine plenty of Dems in Congress would say "fuck it, let's try Obama again" though and roll the dice on approving it :-/

  • Trump says 'there will be bombing' if Iran does not make nuclear deal

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  • Especially because Iran HAD a nuclear deal with the US that they were adhering to and Trump broke that deal in his first term!

    Why would they ever risk entering an agreement like that with the US ever again‽

  • Zoomers & Boomers are the same

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  • In my experience, Zoomers largely lack a lot of computer skills (specifically in troubleshooting), but, for me the huge difference between them and the older folks has been that the older folks will say things like "I'm just not a computer person ::laugh::" and refuse to be shown how to do anything whereas the Zoomer just doesn't know, yet, but are more than willing to learn.

    ETA: NOTE: that's just the generalized trend ... some of the most knowledgeable technical people I've met are Boomers and some of the best computer techs I've worked with have been Zoomers.

  • Senate Overturns Rule Limiting Bank Overdraft Fees to $5

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  • No, Republicans definitely had this in the bag. Had there been a chance it wouldn't have gone through, at least a couple of them would have dissented and sided with the Republicans.

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  • Yeah, my problem with it is that it's always something. I've been giving it a go about once a year since they forked from Emby and everytime something has made me drop it.

    If I'm having problems with it the handful of times I go to watch something using it, the people I share with DEFINITELY would and now I have to handle their auth crap myself as well.

    I'll probably prioritize just keeping a server going side by side now for a lot longer than a month or two at a time and try to find solutions to my problems. it's never really been a priority before since Plex worked, but the writing has been on the wall for a while now that the enshittification is in full swing and now I need to make sure I'm ahead of it.

    Blah, this sucks.

  • Elon Musk finally admits Social Security is on the chopping block

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  • It'll still be the fault of Democrats and the Trans/DEI agenda for burning all the money.

    If their supporters were capable of logical thought they wouldn't be their supporters (not saying they'd be Dems, but they definitely wouldn't be supporting these fucks).

  • discord, apparently rule

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  • The onion editors felt bad for making Biden seem more likable than he is, so, it doesn't seem completely implausible that someone could intentionally do something similar for Vance.

  • His Daughter Was America’s First Measles Death in a Decade

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  • A child dying is going to make them double down, honestly. At this point they will REALLY refuse to acknowledge that the kids death was 100% their fault since taking accountability is not something these people are willing to do