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SolidGrue

@ solidgrue @lemmy.world

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I'm just this guy, you know?

  • Where do you store your bind mounts?

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  • I use /srv/[service] for services by the same logic, and leave /opt for local user apps. It's kind of a coin toss though. On another day I night have decided differently.

  • How to handle lights that are physically powered off (but Home Assistant still sees as "on")?

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  • As it happens I’m actually looking for a smart lamp switch if anyone knows of any options

    I was doing the same myself earlier this year. I'd found a European product that was an inline smart switch, like one of those rocker switches they put on the wire for those decorative canister uplights. The switches were out of stock on all the sites that listed it, and the manufacturer website didn't seem to indicate they'd be producing more any time soon.

    Eventually I just settled on using an inexpensive smart button (Tuya TS0041/TZ300 over ZHA) to control a smart bulb or a smart plug on the "dumb" fixtures. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but nobody seems to make a smart inline switch anymore. As a bonus, the switch supports double-tap and long press gestures so I was able to program the bedside button with a few functions to toggle the bedside lamp on a short press, and turn off all the lights in the house on a double tap.

    It uses a coin battery that lasts a few months. I think I've changed it maybe once since I got it.

  • Where do you go to find your recipes?

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  • It's not the answer you're probably looking for but, my cookbooks. I happen to have a bunch of old cookbooks I've inherited from family members and friends. It takes some research skills sometimes, but it works.

    I also maintain a personal blog site which is my online cookbook. It's not only my own recipes, but also a link dump. When I find a good, non-AI article I'll share it there like a clipping with the usual tags for how I catalog things. It takes a bit of discipline, but for me its second nature by now. It also lets me take notes on how a recipe worked out, and what substitutions or adjustments I'd like to make next pass.

  • Thermostat recommendations?

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  • The HA Ecobee integration requires a developer API key which ecobee no longer distributes, if you already have a key it still works, but they stopped giving out new keys a few years ago.

    On the other hand, the HomeKit integration allows new users to control most of the thermostat's features locally over WiFi. I got my thermostat after the Developer program ended, and this is how I control it today. Once you install the HomeKit integration, it will discover the thermostat if its on the same LAN, and then prompt you to add it.

  • Thermostat recommendations?

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  • I have an ecobee I mainly control locally through the HomeKit integration on HA. Just about all of the basic features are covered: setpoints, heat/cool/auto/off and fan on/off/auto. Some of the more advanced features like Home/Away/Sleep profiles are not available through the integration, but they tend to be set & forget.

    It doesn't need Internet access or the companion app to operate your system, though it will use external access to track local weather and energy rates. (And probably collect usage data.) The companion app gives access to a few more features remotely, but the unit is completely programmable from its front panel.

    It's worked out fine for me so far. My local power utility sells them at a steep discount through their online storefront. Check around for rebates.

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    Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

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  • Is it possible to block/shape mmwave?

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  • Can this be done with foil or metal?

    Based on a layman's knowledge of these things, I'd guess that's probably a bad idea there since the microwave reflectance off the metal could saturate the receiver on the sensor. Best case, the hot signal confuses the sensor making it unreliable for tracking objects at a distance. Worst case, it could shorten the device lifetime if not outright burn out the receiver.

    Rather, you'd want something to absorb the microwave energy like, say, paint with carbon black in it. It'll still covert the absorbed energy to heat (like your microwave oven), but at the power levels we're discussing you could at least dissipate it somehow.

    Edit: just realized I didn't address shaping. What I mentioned above, I was thinking of sticking a strip of foil across a portion of the plastic lens. You could probably form a sort foil visor for the sensor, like a ball cap, but you may still run into issue with false positives and ghosting of objects as signals would now be bouncing around in ways the sensor wasn't designed to account for, if they even get picked up.

  • Linux Mint: Authentication Required

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  • Did you launch nano by CLI? Your command history could go back far enough that the command may still be in there. A quick history | grep nano might be helpful here.

    You might also need to check the command history for the superuser account depending on whether and how you might have used sudo to access any privileged files. If you had a root shell open at the time, commands were likely logged to the history file in /root, so you may need to run sudo -s and open a root shell before running the history | grep nano command. sudo seems not to take shell primitives as an argument, so `sudo history probably won't work.

    Good luck!

  • Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil

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  • Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking

    Um....

  • Alternative to github pages?

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  • And I genuinely hope it stays that way for years more to come. Cheers.

  • Alternative to github pages?

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  • Oracle Cloud will also delete your shit for the price of admission.

    Caveat emptor, hey?

  • Alternative to github pages?

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  • So, uh...

    Digital Ocean Is pretty inexpensive at US$7 monthly for 1 vCPU/1GB RAM with 1TB transfer. Decent platform. US-based, alas.

    (2025 September, for the archives)

  • Yes, I did spend time on this

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  • The FAA/ICAO use a similar system to name aerial navigation and fixed GPS waypoints. It addresses the challenge of communicating identifiers of unique nodes in a vast network using VHF communications.

  • Yes, I did spend time on this

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  • Anyone automate anything with smart thermostats and outdoor temp?

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  • I have some logic around notifications and a few actions. My spouse and I both grew up in houses with heat, but no AC, so I've programmed HA to send notifications to our phones if the setpoint on our Ecobee thermostat is warmer than the outside temperature in Cooling mode, and cooler than the outside temp in Heating mode. Outdoor temps are a blend of three weather service feed "feels like" observations and two outdoor temperate/humidity sensors.

    The outdoor sensors are a ZigBee sensor, and some area sensors I snoop a few times an hour with an RTL-SDR radio single via MQTT bus. I have a helper that blends the weather service and local obs to compare with the thermostat. It bothers us every 2 hours to open some windows.

    We both also have a bad habit of not closing the back door all the way, so the Assistant bugs us if a door or window is open for more than 10 minutes and the outdoor temperature is below the heating setpoint, or above the cooling setpoint. It turns off the HVAC a few minutes later if the condition persists and sends a snarky notification about not being made of enough money to fix climate change. However, it will turn the heat back on to 60F if the house falls below 58F and send notifications every hour til the condition is addressed.

    Otherwise the ecobee does a fair job adjusting itself to maintain a desired inside temp on its own.

  • [Resolved]Jellyfin won't fetch the good metadata

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  • You've solved it by now but this Jellyfin doc article was helpful for me, beginning with the section Naming.

    https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

    There at similar guides for TV Shows, Music, Books and other mixed media.

    There are also guides for "stacking" multi-segment media titles, for example Lord of the Rings movies which come on several discs.

    Jellyfin can be a bit opinionated about detecting bad metadata. The override tags in the media data filename or folder name can help clean that up. In fact, I've started hard-coding those [tmdbid=...] tags in my encoding workflow because I'm just so damned tired of fighting with the metadata feature.

    Hope it works form you,.too.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    "Everything's coming up zeroes" is like the inverse of "Everything's coming up roses"

  • Sengled's servers are dead again, so I'm finally taking the plunge

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  • Good move. I've driven my Sengled E11-N1EA bulbs for years now over ZigBee with an old HubZ HUSBZB-1. Works fine, no regrets. Didn't even know those bulbs were cloud attached.

  • They don't get it. They think we are A holes. And they are right

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  • This is so meta it hurts.

  • What is this "device" in Dolphin? The fact that's it's full is preventing me from doing some things (Fedora Aurora)

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  • Yeah, I know.

    Aurora is immutable, I fucked up. Oops.

    Edit: unsubscribed. My life will be better.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Fuck it, we're doing eggs this weekend. Behold: Scotch eggs.

  • World News @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Ship packed with explosive Russian fertiliser floating off Kent

    www.telegraph.co.uk /world-news/2024/09/26/ship-packed-explosive-russian-fertiliser-floating-kent/
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    If a deaf person had tinnitus, they'd probably never recognize it

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    VW is all about Van Week

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    All farts are funny. It's just a matter of degree

    www.wolframcloud.com /obj/jonm/fartcalculator
  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Breaking change in ESPHome 2024.6.0 ota component

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Are your kitchen knives angry knives?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Gun porn rules

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Üntz, üntz

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    May the 4th berule you

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Is the body of Christ gluten free? Asking for a friend.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Particle accelerators explore what happens at ever-higher energy densities, or in cosmology what came before. Our future is what comes from lower energy densities, or what comes after

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world
    US

    At a sushi restaurant, is it considered good ettiquette or bad ettiquette to order rolls cross several rounds?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    What's a bit of good advice that's really bad advice?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Water flowing under rule

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    SolidGrue @lemmy.world

    Party's over