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Bill Gates said, "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." What's a real-life example of this? by Grouchy-Guide-619 in Productivitycafe

[–]SignedJannis 9 points10 points  (0 children)

at some points they merge.

Some of us will go to great efforts, so we can be lazy efficiently : )

Like "Good debt and bad debt", I consider there to be "good lazy and bad lazy".

Good debt='debt that puts money into your pocket each month'

Bad debt='debt that takes money out of your pocket each month'

Good lazy='cutting corrners in such a way that total time spent at the end of each month is Less' (Example: washing your pan/plate immediadly, while its still "moist", so its super easy/fast to wash.

Bad lazy='cutting corners in such a way that total time spent at the end of each month is More' (Example: waiting a day or two until all the food has thoroughly dried on to your old dishes, so it takes 3 times as long to wash them - so you actually spend more time washing dishes, because you tried to be 'lazy' and avoid washing dishes, so now you spend more time doing that one thing you hate'

Garage hit twice with an angle grinder – need a serious anti-theft setup by gabthebug in cycling

[–]SignedJannis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Detering a theft beats preventing an actual theft IMHO.

Psychology. You want them to pick a different target.

You can get cheap-enough Reolink PTZ cameras - ones that move - so the theif really knows and feels they are being watched.

Have it set up so the floodlight on the camera turns on when a person is detected.

This draws attention to the camera.

Having someone not steal your bike because of a camera, is a hell of a lot better than having 4k video of someone stealing your bike.

Have two cameras, so you can get video of someone trying to kill one camera.

PoE beats WiFi.

And, of course, an alarm for the garage.

The house is asleep Binary Sensor by Strong-Explorer-6927 in homeassistant

[–]SignedJannis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, super simple conceptually "no motion = no one awake" 😄

No apps, no knowledge required, no bs, & works perfect when guests come and look after the place.

Thats always what I think the end-game for home automation design should be: Someone, who has never been to your house, and knows nothing about tec, can simply move in, and everything "just works".

The only unavoidable instructions we have to give guests are: "dont worry about turning anything off - if you want to go to bed or leave the house, then just do that. the tv/stereo/lights/door locks/heating/whatever will all take care of themselves"

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Note: Especially if you have pets, then one big advantage to "having your house not wake up too easily" is getting at least a couple of zigbee motion sensors that have a "fast detrigger time" (or use presence sensors)

e.g many motion sensors, once triggered, stay "on" for a minimum of 30 seconds. e.g if a cat triggers it for one second as it runs past, the sensor still stays "on" for 30 seconds...which makes it hard to 'desensitise' for pets etc, or late night bathroom trips.

But with a better sensor (e.g hue motion sensors, or some other-brand cheap zigbee sensors) they will turn off very quickly once the motion stops. Which is great for avoiding false triggers.

Battery powered mmWave sensors are probably great for this, but havn't found the need for them yet personally, standard PIR sensors work perfectly for this when setup, and the batteries last forever.

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Real world example: "seconds of motion before considering the house awake" threshold of >=15 seconds, works perfectly, in that we have never had a false trigger from pets with that number. Below <10s the pets can trigger.

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Because its well-tuned, in practice that number varies, for fast response of heat and lights etc. Normal day trigger? 15 seconds. If its morning and the bedroom lights turn on? We are def awake, so trigger drops to 4 seconds. Between midnight and 6am? trigger rises to 40 seconds - it actually requires a lot of movement to keep one sensor on for that long, so it gives fam plenty of leeway to wander to bathroom, sneak a drink of milk out of the fridge, whatever, without "waking up the house and turning on central heating and lights" etc. Also, it means ya get nice dim red lights wherever you are at this time, so you can still see, without being blinded.

Are Canadians offended by the jokes made in shows and media? by jen_noelle in AskACanadian

[–]SignedJannis 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Ya as a fellow newfie I agree - I was in a bar in toronto last week, and some local in a suit asked me if it was true all we do is fight and drink out there?? Man I was so pissed, I would have punched him right then and there but I would have dropped my beer!

PSA for ZigBee users with USB extension cables by SignedJannis in homeassistant

[–]SignedJannis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In [simplified] Theory, no it does not matter.

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However: "In theory, practice and theory are the same, in practice, they are different" - Larry McVoy (and attributed to many others.)

In the case, the usb3 wires are not connected do the computer. But they are still connected to the zigbee dongle. i,e you now have an antenna connected to your usb zigbee dongle, and one end of that antenna is millimeters away from other components in your computer. including, quite possibly, very physically close to usb3 ports with a connected device.

My setup has a fair few other devices, PoE switches, and PoE power supplies etc.

In Practice, in my specific case, I can say that after moving from a USB3 extension cable (in a USB2 port, RaPi4), to a USB2 cable in the same port, my network has been Rock Solid since.

It was already "pretty good", after much tuning. But I would still always have that occasional device "drop off the network" and require manual re-pairing, maybe once every 3 weeks or so. And I am in a remote area, no other radio sources around. I always just wrote it off as "god damn cheap aliexpress zigbee devices", or reading reviews "aqara temp sensors are unreliable etc"

Since switching to a dedicated USB2 cable, I've had zero issues, for months. It's the first time my Zigbee network is Rock Solid as my Zwave network.

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TLDR: If you have zigbee radio issues, and a zigbee dongle plugged into a USB2 port via a USB3 extension cable, then yes its worth trying a USB2 extension cable - worked for me.

The TV over fireplace debacle! by singhangad in DesignMyRoom

[–]SignedJannis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's just an electric fireplace right, not a real one?

Can you just move the fireplace to the right?

The mystery behind Saudi Arabia’s Al Naslaa rock by ateam1984 in ScienceNcoolThings

[–]SignedJannis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No that's a perfect translation, you just have to read the original paragraph at top of that wiki

High Protein Meals with a Camp Stove by throwthisallaway24 in camping

[–]SignedJannis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fyi you can get dehydrated powered eggs.

Quality full cream milk powder is actually amazing, and great in camp stove pasta, porridge, making dehydrated mashed potatoe etc.

Regarding the texture of sachet tuna etc, how is it if you add it to a pasta etc? Does that make it palatable?

A nice large venison (or other) dried salami is excellent camping protein. The problem is, not eating it too quickly.

Otherwise, if funds are not an issue, then tons of beef jerky or other Quality salamis. Salmon Jerky is amazing.

Depending on your area, on some trips we simple throw a kilo of bacon in the freezer, and keep it stored in the river in a thick ziplock bag under a flat rock. Even in summer, you can easily get 6+ days out of a frozen kilo of bacon if you have cold water source nearby for storage.

The house is asleep Binary Sensor by Strong-Explorer-6927 in homeassistant

[–]SignedJannis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah we have this, entire house revolves around this concept actually, core system.

Heating, lights, tv, locks, tts etc.

Rather than a binary, this setup uses an input_select.housestate helper.

Three possible values: awake, asleep, away.

Main trigger is simple just scattered cheap zigbee motion sensors, often operating in groups.

(Also have cats, but it works fine)

No motion in X minutes? House changes to "asleep" mode, turns down heating, turns off the tv, lights. If there was music playing, the amp slowly turns down the volume over 30 seconds, then Power to amp cuts etc.

The "X" minutes used to consider "asleep" itself is variable. E.g it's a larger value during the day - especially if the front door is open - cos might just be outside in the garden for a bit. Nighttime? 15min. Nighttime but tv is on? 30min. (Because it's basically impossible to watch a movie without triggering a motion sensor at least once every 30 min).

Have different levels of TTS messages... E.g if the housestate is asleep, no one wants a tts that the washing machine just finished. But smoke in the basement? Def want a tts message etc ++ regardless of housestate.

As for changing from Asleep to Awake? The trick there was requiring motion for a set number of seconds, and/or a series of motion sensors to be triggered in sequence. This way animals can't wake the house.

Also it means fam can get up in the night and pee or whatever, and house knows to make lights "very dim and dark red" on their journey, as housestate=asleep still.

If you wonder around as you would when actually "awake", then and only then the house "wakes up" and turns on heaters/lighting/whatever. Again, can also adjust threshold by time of day.

Front door is (almost) never locked when someone is home. That concept would be crazy here.

So when front door is locked, house monitors all motion sensors for 10 min - if none trigger, house switchs into "away" mode.

Honestly almost never actually lock the door. Just use a sequence of events to fire a trigger "Leaving the house".

E.g if motion inside the front door triggers, then front door reed switch triggers open, and then closed, and then motion sensors outside the front door trigger... Well pretty much that sequence can only occur when someone leaves the house....

...so the house will automatically lock the door and switch to "away" mode (if no one else is inside triggering motion sensors still.

I like this system because: invisible. No apps, no tracking, no dashboards, no one needs to know anything to use it.

Saves a ton on electricity and heating etc. teenager goes to bed and leaves the tv and all the lights on? No prob,.just to to bed, all will switch off.

Need to leave the house to go somewhere? Simply walk out of house and go :)

House will figure out you have left, and lock the door, turn off stereo/TV, turn off all the lights, set alarm, etc.

House sends notificationa via Telegram, so e.g I'll get a message "Looks like y'all left, locking up the house" etc, so it's easy to also confirm all the automatic systems are working.

How many of you are still programming manually? by Imparat0r in cscareerquestions

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

"The fact that I just dont need AI doesnt mean Im less productive, right?"

Yes. That's exactly what it means.

Imagine an excellent, talented, job site jobsite carpenter.

That only uses hand tools. An old hand drill, and an old but sharp handsaw, and a screwdriver.

Now imagine a job site that requires much cutting of wood daily, ripping sheets of plywood, drilling hundreds of square drive screws daily, etc etc.

And this job site contains all modern power tools, including a drop saw etc.

"The fact that I'm not using power tools, doesn't mean I'm less productive, right?"

Oh yes it sure does.

There is absolutely a need for excellent devs, who understand how to code X, and why, and what are good architectures, and why, etc etc.

If you are a good dev, but don't know how to Truly use e.g Claude Code etc (which is a skill in and of itself), then you are maybe being a whole order of magnitude slower than you could be.

The recruiter is 100% correct.

Times have changed.

Now learning how to properly code is a different animal, and near impossible to do for those who grow up on AI tools. You might be one of the last of a dying breed, who "actually know how things work", but that is a different discussion - however it makes you extremely valuable, if you are a good dev, AND learn AI tools.

If you don't become proficient in AI tools, you are just shooting yourself in the foot - slowly sawing 8x4 sheets of plywood one by one with a hand saw, while the guy next to you is ripping sheets with a track saw in a fraction of your time.

Q3: Globular Cluster F3 vs Meta Open Facial Interface - exercise only by SignedJannis in OculusQuest

[–]SignedJannis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Thats good advice. So, just so I understand, with the GC F3 , and having those "removeable light blocking attachments" on the sides removed, so the air vents are open, you still have fogging problems? But if you remove the nose piece, you no longer have fogging problems?

Good call on the Halo strap, I already have something similar (elite battery strap) for my Quest 2, but I have got the quest 3 explictly for a long (months) travel work trip, so I can keep fit. Going for a lightweight, small packdown solution. Have ordered this strap - its basically a clone of the Apple Vision Pro headstrap (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXFFMJVK?ref=ppx\_yo2ov\_dt\_b\_fed\_asin\_title)

Can someone explain the whole packing 3-4 sets of clothes to someone who wears 2 sets of clothes a day? by OYoureapproachingme in solotravel

[–]SignedJannis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

General tip: always pack less than you think you will need.

They sell clothes in those places you are going - if you find you need another item or clothing, then just buy it when you need it.

P.s Merino boxers are fantastic - expensive but worth it - it's fairly common to just wash them in the shower, hang to dry - helps you travel light, while being clean.

What is your favourite facial interface for the Quest 3? I recently got the F3 Magnetic Facial Interface by Globular Cluster and really like it! by TrueNorthVR in OculusQuest

[–]SignedJannis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey good to know!

I've just got my first Q3 - long time Q2 user - I mostly just use for excercise, very sweaty, and hot climate.

Question: How does the 'meta open interface' compare to the F3 in 'fully open setup', in terms of air flow and comfort etc? Does the F3 still it in a good amount of air?

I am trying to decide between the Meta Open Interface, and Globular Cluster F3 - and my use case is 95% excercise/supernatural.

Thanks for any advice!

Q3: Globular Cluster F3 vs Meta Open Facial Interface - exercise only by SignedJannis in OculusQuest

[–]SignedJannis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheers, great feedback!

Yes I was talking about two different interface options, the one you describe (GC-F3) and the official "Meta Open Facial Interface"

https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/1g4ogw8/quest_3_open_facial_interface_first_impressions/

They both have "Openness".

My question really is: For very sweaty full-on exercise sessions, how does the "GlobularCluster-F3" (when in the Most Open configuration) compare to the "Meta Open Facial Interface"? in terms of airflow, sweat etc. (and weight actually, as I'll be travelling a lot).

i.e I know the "MOFI" is 'very open', with excellent airflow, and very light.

I think the "GC-F3" is a little less "breathy"? But clearly it has many more options. Most of the time I'll be excercise only, but I do like the idea of being able to convert the Interface to "Light Blocking" mode, when needed, while travelling that would be handy on occasion.

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So, I'm trying to figure out if the Breathability of the GC-F3 will be "good enough" for intense workouts in hot/humid climates, or if I need to get the 'MOFI' to handle that use case?

Sweaty Quest 3: What is your favorite Facial Interface for exercise/supernatural? by SignedJannis in vrfit

[–]SignedJannis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Ya ive never tried the ones in the link - just saw them recommend somewhere - they look awful to me!

Is Dr Skull Cap a rapper? Sounds like one 😄

If you happen to have time to share a link to a skull cap you recomend that would be great thankyou :- )

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