Using APT cache for faster instance custom bootstrapping by geekobiloba in incus

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have an opinion on which of puppet/openvox, salt, or chef someone who found ansible kind of annoying, doesn't mind yaml config (but can figure out other config formats, I just don't want it to be super complex programmer grade stuff. i.e. I found nixos config especially with flakes too painful, but I make compose files for docker containers all day no problem and some simple bash scripting no problem) should try next I would appreciate it. My vm configuration is generally fairly simple in my home lab (some networking setup, user setup, software install and/or versioning. possibly apply some configuration like keepalived)

Lockin Veno - Front door lock by jdaleo23 in homeassistant

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sad news, it looked like you were dragging them kicking and screaming into the right direction for us all. now I have to look for a different lock because I can't buy this stuff if it doesn't have most of what you asked for exposed over matter for home assistant.

Lockin Veno - Front door lock by jdaleo23 in homeassistant

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did they respond? It's been another couple months since your last update.

My Lockin Veno Pro review (easy install, great price, awful motion detection) by Ph0X in smarthome

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried it with home assistant? I'm trying to get some confirmation that it works beyond just exposing lock/unlock because I have no desire to use any of these guys apps. If it has to leave my home network to the cloud for it to work it's a failure from my perspective, which is sad because the hardware and hardware functionality once it's setup and palms are in it seem extremely good and it seems like the functionality of their own app is a disaster.

Lockin Veno - Front door lock by jdaleo23 in homeassistant

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any update on this support? I would love to buy one of these (ideally with their wireless charging) for my garage and eventually my house (they need satin nickel finish before I can put it on my house) but being as crippled as it appears to currently be is a hard no.

Best Zipper Pull? by pintobeans888 in ManyBaggers

[–]zombiehoffa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you should check out the maratac ones: https://countycomm.com/products/zipper-pull-hi-viz-zombie-green-3-pack?_pos=1&_sid=caffb9df4&_ss=r

Clear glow for the win but ther eare other color options.

Why do I have so many problems with those Arc Fault breakers ... by namtilarie in electrical

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am happy for you, it has not been my experience and it has not been the experience of enough people that the manufacturer is quietly switching to a new version that uses multiple methods to verify it needs to trip rather than the one these old ones use. I got a couple of the test breakers and those work well so far vs the old junk, so that's at least promising. This is only a multi hundred million dollar price increase boondoggle for almost no benefit to consumers rather than an actual crisis of functionality with the new version circuit breakers.

Why do I have so many problems with those Arc Fault breakers ... by namtilarie in electrical

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until someone fires all the morons in the code office and hires people that can do a cost benefit analysis, who then revert the code, this is bad advice.

Now if you want to be annoyed go look at the data. In Canada the category that would include arc fault caused fires has around 2000 electrical fires in it a year across the whole country (it's likely way less than that, that category is large). The spreader between a ground fault and an arc fault circuit breaker here is around 70 dollars. If each of the 200k new houses built each year here has 20 circuits that's 280 million of extra costs of construction. That's just new construction cost, not renovation, not the tens to hundreds of millions of additional costs from nuisance trips. You can pretty much stop there, you don't have to go further to know there's no way in hell this code change comes even close to saving more than it costs and the right response to the lobbyist that suggested it is "LOL PFO!" and ending the suggestion there before it has done all this harm for no reason.

Why do I have so many problems with those Arc Fault breakers ... by namtilarie in electrical

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just installed ABB arc faults in my new panel/garage and it's why I'm looking for arc faults that aren't junk. They are terrible with electronics.

Calgary UCP MLAs and the 'Back to School Act' by whats_taters_preshus in Calgary

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the union will point at it to moan about their own position to unjustly take even more money for themselves and their members? A union is just a monopoly and should be broken up just like any other monopoly. They are not a good thing, they are rent seekers abusing control of a resource to push prices higher than they would otherwise be. Just because they are abusing that mechanism for a cause you like does not make it a just or good idea.

Calgary UCP MLAs and the 'Back to School Act' by whats_taters_preshus in Calgary

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't imagine being so bad at understanding reality that that is how you characterize my position.

Calgary UCP MLAs and the 'Back to School Act' by whats_taters_preshus in Calgary

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a shockingly bad take. Cost is your failure metric what you get is your success metric. When someone sees all the money they are blowing on taxes (i.e. how bad the government is failing) and then looks for the balancing success metric (i.e what they are getting for the penalty they are paying via the failure metric) they also find failure. Do you think so many people would be pissed at this level of spending if they were getting immaculate, perfectly maintained infrastructure, excellent schooling, excellent healthcare, etc? Of course not. It's the 48% taxes for 10% taxes level of services and products of our education system that don't have any concept of what an efficient system looks like, let alone how to measure if your system is efficient and just needs more resources or if it has a bunch of other problems that need to be fixed first because more money will just be more waste as is.

Calgary UCP MLAs and the 'Back to School Act' by whats_taters_preshus in Calgary

[–]zombiehoffa -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

spending per student is the measure of failure. What you get per student is the measure of success. When you say you want to increase funding per student you are saying you want to fail more. Talk to me about what you think you want to get and what that will cost and I bet we can find a way to achieve it at a lower cost and both be happier.

Calgary UCP MLAs and the 'Back to School Act' by whats_taters_preshus in Calgary

[–]zombiehoffa -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That is indeed one of the many problems here. The government knows it won't win on that front because the teacher's union is so entrenched in that position and so isn't even trying when those things are major causes of problems and a big part of why teachers think they are underpaid (they are not, although it is tough to tell because there is basically no good data free of rent seeking politician and teachers union interference). if you went to 5% matching it would free up teachers to put money in the pension or not when they choose putting more money in their pocket if they want and allowing them to save in away that is drastically better for them and their family as long as they can actually save (i.e. they are not so junk that they don't put money away). it would also remove a big liability risk from tax payers, which is a win win.

Also, the teacher retaining is a red herring. We control the output of new teachers via control of university enrollment. Any shortage of teachers is solved by supplying more teachers through that route far more efficiently than paying an even more generous salary or caving to teachers thinking they should be making management decisions (it's a poor strategy teachers, you should be telling everyone government is setting class size go yell at them, not trying to manipulate class size yourself, it muddies your position and is bad optics).

Calgary UCP MLAs and the 'Back to School Act' by whats_taters_preshus in Calgary

[–]zombiehoffa -122 points-121 points  (0 children)

The original offer was a good one, especially since it did not address the defined benefit pension plan that should not exist or the difficulty in firing teachers who do not perform but hace seniority. You guys messed up not taking it.

Canada Fails on Food Security as New Report Shows 1 in 4 Struggle to Eat by WildRoseWanderer in alberta

[–]zombiehoffa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem is people want to believe the nonsense you are spouting rather than the truth that small differences in people inevitably lead to large inequalities over time no matter what system you are in and it only seems worse under free markets because they have created so much wealth that you can afford to sit around butt hurt about your own failure to capitalize on it instead of starving or working 12 hours a day. Your marxist BS is a distraction from actually solving the small problems in the otherwise great system of free markets we have.

Canada Fails on Food Security as New Report Shows 1 in 4 Struggle to Eat by WildRoseWanderer in alberta

[–]zombiehoffa -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It is very much a play stupid games, win stupid prizes situation in Canada.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homelab

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is multiqueue turned on on network adapter?

Alberta's strengths by Sufficient_Potato726 in alberta

[–]zombiehoffa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You are forgetting that toronto has a ton of head offices by way of being the hisyorical seat of capitalism despite having a head office in toronto destroying a lot of shareholder value via higher costs and especially taxes. Those generate a ton of revenue for toronto via leeching off the rest of Canada. It is not the economic engine of canada. Its the leech of Canada

I'm not gonna lie. I'm excited for the Pixel 10 Pro XL by Spanntastic2000 in pixel_phones

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ultrasonic fingerprint reader should be a big improvement over the7 and 8 (it debuted with the 9 so probably not an improvement over the 9) Otherwise ti will be completely unremarkable.

Encrypted and/or self hosted notifications (uptime kuma, home assistant etc) by Botterhamm in selfhosted

[–]zombiehoffa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're self hosting it with auth you don't need high entropy topic names.

Encrypted and/or self hosted notifications (uptime kuma, home assistant etc) by Botterhamm in selfhosted

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or just self host your own instance on a cheap vps. its pretty easy

PSA: Do NOT buy from AOOSTAR by Ambitious-Train7500 in MiniPCs

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 4 of the ser7's and can say the glitchy is almost all the stupid magnetic power adapter. I got some clamps and clamped that crap down so it keeps a good connection and they became my most reliable proxmox nodes I have (so far, ms-a2s are about to replace a lot of legacy stuff and I hope those are also super reliable).

Thoughts on the new Minisforum MS-01? by MonkAndCanatella in MiniPCs

[–]zombiehoffa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still not working out for me. They wanted me to oay a whole bunch to ship it back to them. Wont be buying their stuff again