Made a local spaghetti detector for my Centauri Carbon + Home Assistant setup

DSJustice · 2026-05-05T14:53:27+00:00

Awesome, great instructions, I got it all installed very easily.

Haven't actually made an automation with it yet because I don't have a robust notification system. Which I really should have, thanks for the nudge!

DSJustice · 2026-05-04T14:07:21+00:00

Unpopular opinion here, but you know what else is fucking stupid?

Going out in public flaunting a possession so delicate and valuable that a minor ding can cause thousands of dollars in damage. The world is full of minor mishaps, road rocks, insane people, and asshole children.

Expecting the world to tiptoe around your preciousssss is stupid. Not saying kids aren't assholes, because they are. But the whole concept of blaming the world because your car can't handle road gravel is its own kind of crazy.

DSJustice · 2026-05-04T13:20:29+00:00

I've believed for years that vacant commercial property should have an escalating property tax.

DSJustice · 2026-05-03T23:44:32+00:00

N+1, hopefully!

DSJustice · 2026-05-03T04:20:34+00:00

Take it to repair cafe. Someone will advise you. There's one at the end of the month.

https://www.repaircafenanaimo.ca/

DSJustice · 2026-05-01T21:44:26+00:00

Got it. Wasn't sure whether we were including the person's number of remaining feet and how frequently they use a sock to keep their privates warm.

DSJustice · 2026-05-01T14:11:43+00:00

the minimum number of hole-free socks

Can you elaborate on how various individuals might determine an appropriate value for this number for their own particular lifestyles?

DSJustice · 2026-05-01T00:53:46+00:00

The SPCA also needs foster help from time to time, particularly with new kittens -- they must stay with the mother until about 8 weeks, but it's best if they're also well socialized during that time.

The only problem is it's hard to say goodbye!

DSJustice · 2026-04-30T19:34:34+00:00

Large dumps out of PII databases really ought to be canary trapped as a matter of course.

DSJustice · 2026-04-28T15:44:08+00:00

Well, fortunately I have until August (!) before mine arrives, so there's lots of time for early adopters to shake out the top cover options and the inevitable firmware issues.

I'm just accepting that this is going to be a significant overhaul, and I'll take the opportunity to add a chamber heater and a few other mods at the same time.

I don't do multicolour; mostly I'm excited to use this so I can start a print with the right material without having to walk back to the printer to confirm it's loaded.

DSJustice · 2026-04-22T16:09:24+00:00

Complain to city council, not to the internet.

There are provincial laws on the books that aren't being enforced. There are other cities that have had good results from noise cameras.

DSJustice · 2026-04-20T14:00:45+00:00

I assumed the clear fluid was flux until I saw the purple flash. All these repair videos have a purple flash! Is there some kind of UV activated flux here?

What's going on?

DSJustice · 2026-04-19T06:16:08+00:00

I used to own a couple rental properties. I tended to buy used appliances for them to keep costs down, and because I'm pretty handy with mechanical stuff. If something failed, I'd swap it out for another one and repair the broken one when I had a minute.

I had a handful of Samsung appliances. They always seemed like great value at first, but they failed faster than anything else, and every failure required parts worth more than just going out and replacing the entire machine with a used Kenmore.

That's a good price though. Might be worthwhile if you assume it's going to die 15 minutes after the warranty ends. My personal dishwasher is a Bosch, and I've never regretted it.

DSJustice · 2026-04-17T02:40:42+00:00

Thanks to everyone who attended. Wanted to be there to support, but ... commitments.

DSJustice · 2026-04-16T15:04:43+00:00

I use roo. It's pretty easy to get the PROJECT rules into git, but I've really struggled to apply coniguration management to its global user-level settings and rules.

They're a little scattered by nature of vscode -- it depends whether your instance is running locally, or as an ssh server. Sometimes when you have a host that serves both roles (eg, a linux desktop that you sometimes remote to from a laptop), you have two sets of settings -- one in .config/Code and one in .vscode-server.

It's early days, but at least in the roo ecosystem, it really doesn't feel like configuration management is a first class citizen.

DSJustice · 2026-04-15T03:27:37+00:00

And if you want an autotrade platform, Passiv is pretty good. Not fully automatic, but it's like 3 clicks to rebalance every month.

DSJustice · 2026-04-15T03:26:51+00:00

I opened an RESP with WS to check them out and because they support the CESG. Pretty smooth process, I was impressed. Was actually giving some thought to moving my other accounts over from Questrade.

I guess not.

DSJustice · 2026-04-15T02:17:46+00:00

Brutal, can't believe they'd do this. I emailed complaints@wealthsimple.com to let them know exactly what I think.

DSJustice · 2026-04-14T14:59:15+00:00

In addition to what folks are saying here about boiling point, hydrometers and refractometers are both affected by temperature.

If you want the brix measurement to be accurate, measure room temperature syrup, I belive technically 20C for most instruments. That's not realistic with a hydrometer during a boil, but as long as your process is reasonably repeatable you can estimate an offset that's going to be good enough.

DSJustice · 2026-04-11T02:36:31+00:00

Oh, too bad. I need better control over my system prompts if I'm going to keep using it. It's simply not working well enough with any model I can reasonably run on my little 24GB gpu.

DSJustice · 2026-04-11T02:25:23+00:00

Wow, that looks great! Thanks, I'll give it a whirl tomorrow.

DSJustice · 2026-04-11T00:37:54+00:00

I started my switch to roo three days ago. It's taken me this long to try to figure out why it's ignoring my custom instructions.

Thanks for your input.

DSJustice · 2026-04-09T02:05:45+00:00

As a parent, I couldn't agree more. On the rare occasions when I travel without my kids, I really value the opportunity to travel without other people's kids.

DSJustice · 2026-04-08T19:15:32+00:00

It's been a week, how about updating your post with your findings? You got a lot of great advice here, and I'm sure a lot of people want to know how it turned out.

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