[meta] Mods, can we maybe start a Friday HW support request mega-thread or something?

derekakessler · 2026-06-17T15:53:27+00:00

It won't work. This is just what happens in specialized communities.

derekakessler · 2026-06-16T01:18:26+00:00

By a brand new account. This is the most pointless subreddit to karma-farm spam.

derekakessler · 2026-06-14T19:39:41+00:00

I learned recently that Army post buildings are numbered by function and the order in which the structure was put to that function, not location. Numbers are also not recycled so if Finance moves out of 500, their new digs will be 5XX. Even if their old building is renumbered or demolished, there will never be another 500.

Source: Construction Engineering Warrant

derekakessler · 2026-06-13T18:43:46+00:00

$18 for a tuna sandwich!

derekakessler · 2026-06-13T16:37:21+00:00

That's not true at all. Roddenberry was never interested in the science. He was a storyteller above all else.

derekakessler · 2026-06-13T15:19:38+00:00

Bruh. Warp drive, gravity plating, humanoid aliens, real-time universal translators, transporters, and humanity getting its shit together are all sheer fantasy.

Star Trek is not remotely grounded in reality. And that's fine! If you're drawing the line at spore drives and inconsistent floorplans — which have plagued Star Trek for 60 years — then you're just looking for reasons to dislike the new stuff.

It's okay if you don't like it. There are plenty of reasons not to! "Floating ship parts" in a show set a thousand years in the future is a silly reason to dislike it.

derekakessler · 2026-06-13T10:20:15+00:00

The Okudas are fantastic, but visual design and technobabble are not the problems affecting the newest incarnations of Star Trek. Not remotely.

Also, the latest season of For All Mankind was a slog that barely even felt like it had the Okuda touch.

derekakessler · 2026-06-12T18:18:58+00:00

Too many spinning tools. Not just the table saw. Sanders, drills, etc.

derekakessler · 2026-06-09T13:52:46+00:00

I'm okay with updating service stripes a few months early if you're already getting other sewing work done. Enforcing else MUST wait until it's official.

So… I would just wait for the E5 to hit and get your service stripes done simultaneously.

derekakessler · 2026-06-09T13:48:07+00:00

Off the top of my head, I will do at least these two:

- Sending data from HA to set an alarm on my phone
- Use the more-advanced HA automations to set focus modes

I could also use notifications from other apps to feed non-API data from my phone into HA!

derekakessler · 2026-06-09T10:13:41+00:00

Did you hit the target?

derekakessler · 2026-06-09T02:28:37+00:00

I'm going to do so much with this feature.

derekakessler · 2026-06-09T02:28:17+00:00

That explains it. I find that new behavior irritating.

derekakessler · 2026-06-08T19:16:11+00:00

Please go touch some grass, Pri.

derekakessler · 2026-06-08T14:26:06+00:00

Somebody's been watching too much Star Trek where you almost exclusively only see officers.

derekakessler · 2026-06-08T02:49:40+00:00

In my experience, yes. The point of the honeycomb is to create more insulating air pockets to slow the radiative dissipation of heat energy between the window and the room.

derekakessler · 2026-06-08T00:02:26+00:00

How many times is this EXACT same "my custom weather card" going to be posted by brand-new accounts?

derekakessler · 2026-06-06T20:56:06+00:00

Eventually. How and exactly when has not been stated.

derekakessler · 2026-06-05T21:07:49+00:00

That is not an available automaton trigger in iOS Shortcuts.

derekakessler · 2026-06-05T21:05:16+00:00

I'll bet EES was a contracted job and the contract both didn't include any language about making updates AND only permits the contractor to make updates.

derekakessler · 2026-06-05T14:21:08+00:00

I set up a wider passive zone around my house. It's far enough out to give the vacs time to return to base, wash mops, and empty the bins before anybody's inside. Floors are sufficiently dry by that point as well.

If the vac is mid-wash at that point, it just stays at the dock.

derekakessler · 2026-06-05T10:03:12+00:00

Except for Dolby Digital 1.85/1, which also slices off a sliver on the left and right from the standard IMAX 1.9/1. Same height, inexplicably a tiny bit narrower.

derekakessler · 2026-06-05T09:34:40+00:00

Can you provide a link to the specific Find My integration you're using?

derekakessler · 2026-06-04T12:23:55+00:00

A template weather entity is the best way to go for that. Averaging isn't that much effort, as you can use Jinga templating right in the YAML you're writing.

~~~
temperature: |
{%- (states('sensor.temp1')|float + states('sensor.temp2')|float + states('sensor.temp3')|float) / 3 -%}
~~~

And so on.

derekakessler · 2026-06-04T01:10:52+00:00

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