• 1 Post
  • 245 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 16th, 2023

help-circle
  • The whole setup actually consists of three parts:

    1. Lights: A bunch of different Zigbee-compatible lights with adjustable color temperature: Ceiling lights, a few LED-strips and some ambient/spot lighting.
    2. Home Assistant: Runs on my home server with a Zigbee dongle attached.
    3. Adaptive Lighting: This is an Addon (HACS) for Home Assistant that does the actual strength and temperature synchronization.

    Basically, it’s less about using specific lights, as long as they’re remote controllable. Home Assistant is where the real magic happens. I’ve also set it up so that lights automatically turn on/off based on motion.



  • Yeah, I really hope these are just the death throes of a slowly crumbling market segment (walled garden consoles).

    Not only has the Steam Deck already blown a small crack into the almost entirely propietary handheld market, so much so that there’s now even a (niche) market with a bunch of different devices competing, but I also wonder what happens once the Steam Machine and whatever is happening with the next Xbox.

    I’d usually be the last to root for Microsoft, but if their next device is really something more akin to a PC, then I wish them the best. That said, anything shipping with Linux, e.g. Steam Machines would still be my preferred choice of course.


  • It’s hard to tell because the actual crime that has been commited here is saving this comic as JPEG instead of a PNG.

    Ultimately I’m not very confident, but I think I agree. The text and layout look very human to me and it’s looks all pretty human to me. There are some inconsistencies in the ports and the linework on the inner age between the three laptops on the left, but I think that’s just the artist doing some touch-ups on it after already having copied the laptop across the panels.


  • gave up on Linux Mint and switched to Fedora

    And that’s exactly why I think that recommending Mint to gamers is actually evil.

    If you want to use any of those features exclusive to Wayland there’s no option to do that on Mint. Your only choice is to completely restart and use another distro, which I don’t think that leaves a good impression for anyone who is just starting out with Linux.




  • Only asterisk I’d add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I’d go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.

    Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn’t there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they’ve overcome that hurdle it’ll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.








  • Wait, just two weeks ago I was looking for a new GPS logging app and didn’t notice that there’s now an official (and non-official) dedicated Android app available. I’ll have to try it out.

    I’ve been using Dawarich for a while now and the biggest problem was always finding a way to get a good app that can do both accurate, and battery-saving tracking.

    Anyway, love the project and seeing it continually improving.