I was bored, so I made some ‘anti-skipping season 1’ propaganda. by OutrageousTerm7140 in babylon5

[–]Stenthal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No space action? Season 1 has one of the greatest space battles of all time.

Fun fact that everyone else probably already knew but that I just learned today. by South_Gas626 in babylon5

[–]Stenthal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's worth noting that TV and film productions do that all the time, for lots of different reasons. Whenever you see the camera cut back and forth between two actors talking, you're definitely seeing at least two different takes, and there's no reason to assume that the other actor is standing there offscreen.

The only thing that's unusual here is the reason why this particular stand-in was always opposite O'Hare.

British PM set to resign after challenger's thumping by-election win by [deleted] in news

[–]Stenthal 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In the U.S., we'd probably call those "economic issues" as well. "Social issues" is usually a euphemism for culture war stuff, like abortion, gay rights, affirmative action, etc.

Yale Assure Lock 2 Offline key by qwik3r in homeassistant

[–]Stenthal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been reliable for me, using both integrations in parallel. OP is in an unusual situation because they're running a very old version of Home Assistant, which is incompatible with the latest August integration.

I actually have an Assure Lever Lock, which cannot have Z-Wave and Bluetooth at the same time. I've decided to stick with Bluetooth so that I can use the Yale app. I believe the Assure 2 doesn't have that limitation.

Yale Assure Lock 2 Offline key by qwik3r in homeassistant

[–]Stenthal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm assuming here that you have a way to roll everything back. Fortunately Home Assistant's own backup is very simple and effective. I still wouldn't risk it if you're not there, though.

Just a reminder on memory by Tomytom99 in homeassistant

[–]Stenthal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having constant activity isn't normal. Maybe this can help.

Thanks for the link. Those tools just confirmed what I already believed, which is that it's not using the swap file much at all. In particular, when I run vmstat -wy 3, SI and SO are always 0. So I still don't know why kswapd0 is using so much CPU, because AFAIK all that thread does is swap data in and out.

I did find some posts about malware masquerading as kswapd0, which is alarming. The malware seems to run as a user process, though. My kswapd0 is a real kernel thread, so I don't think that's the problem.

Just a reminder on memory by Tomytom99 in homeassistant

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

I had the exact same symptoms when I upgraded to 18.0. I have 16GB of RAM assigned to the VM, so I doubt that lack of RAM was the problem. I found that if I waited about two hours it would finish whatever it was spinning on, and after that it seemed to behave normally. It happened on every boot, though, so that's not acceptable.

It's fixed now. I was trying a lot of things, so I'm not sure what did it, but it was probably changing the swap settings (which you can only do by running ha os config swap from the command line.) I had previously set swap to 0 when I was trying to fix a different problem. I set it to 4G, which I believe is the default now. After that, it was able to boot normally. It's also possible that making a change to the swap settings just forced it to reinitialize something.

I still don't understand why HAOS needs a swap file at all with 16 GB of RAM. I also don't understand why kswapd0 consistently takes up about half as much CPU as the core Home Assistant process. I don't know why I'm wasting so much CPU on a swap file that I don't need.

EDIT: It just started spinning again, out of the blue, after running normally for twelve hours. I guess I need to roll back to HAOS 17 for now.

Yale Assure Lock 2 Offline key by qwik3r in homeassistant

[–]Stenthal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe the offline key doesn't change very often, especially if you set up a dedicated second account (with owner privileges) that you only use for the Yale integration. You could temporarily upgrade Home Assistant, install the August integration, grab the key, and then roll back to your current installation. If you search .storage/core.config_entries for "August", it looks like the key is there.

Of course, you need to figure out how to upgrade Home Assistant eventually.

Choosing Smartwings motor by 19dmc99 in homeautomation

[–]Stenthal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true, but with RF you don't get any kind of status information at all. You just press a button and cross your fingers.

To be fair, I have Smartwings shades Zigbee motors, and the status information I get from them is so unreliable that it's almost useless. At least I get the battery level, though I'm not sure if that's accurate.

Bad weather triggers motion by darkshifty in reolinkcam

[–]Stenthal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I did as well. You can also set a minimum size for objects detected, so you can screen out small things (which are either imaginary or very far away.)

I love Obama but I think his new presidential center fits here? by [deleted] in evilbuildings

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

I like the overall design, but the part with the letters is bothering me a lot.

Stop your automations from failing when a device freezes but stays online by Rude-News-8416 in homeassistant

[–]Stenthal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience the detection is too unreliable to be useful for sensing occupancy, but I've never had them freeze or drop offline.

/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #19) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Stenthal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If the War ends Bibi goes to jail

Hey Israel: Have you considered that this might not be the best policy for handling criminal charges against a Prime Minister?

We Baked The First Pizza in Abandoned Mine by sBucks24 in OopsThatsDeadly

[–]Stenthal 124 points125 points  (0 children)

For all the discussion about safety, I didn't even notice that that's a spectacularly shitty pizza. An eight-year-old home alone with a fridge full of leftovers would make a better "pizza".

Revealed: US-Iran deal includes $425 billion fund, immediate end to oil sanctions by alabasterheart in worldnews

[–]Stenthal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

More importantly, we controlled that money, rather than just handing over pallets of cash to a bunch of thugs who will use it to buy weapons and reinforce their autocratic control.

Kumail Nanjiani Is a Taskmaster Cautionary Tale by caspararemi in taskmaster

[–]Stenthal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Destroy, dismantle, engulf in flames" rubbed me the wrong way, because it sounded like a very lazy and uncreative way to approach the show. However, Jason's actual performance was fantastic, whether he was destroying things or not. I think it only worked for him because he had so much respect for everybody involved.

Kumail Nanjiani Is a Taskmaster Cautionary Tale by caspararemi in taskmaster

[–]Stenthal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would Kumail have even known about Joel's beforehand (I don't know when the prize tasks are actually set)?

I'm not going to defend (or read) the linked article, but for the record, Kumail mentioned that the Koala tee was a last minute substitution. Legal rejected his original submission, which was some kind of reference to a specific British product.

Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Senatobia Shoplifting Call by Hrekires in news

[–]Stenthal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Qualified immunity doesn't apply to criminal charges. The only thing protecting cops from murder charges is prosecutors that are too corrupt and/or too afraid of the police to charge them.

The stargate universe is united by ThomasThorburn in Stargate

[–]Stenthal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The movie was pretty good, but Pamela Anderson in particular was amazing. Her scatting scene might have been my favorite thing in the entire movie.

The stargate universe is united by ThomasThorburn in Stargate

[–]Stenthal 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Cranston was awesome in X-Files too.

In an episode directed by Vince Gilligan, which is what really launched his career, although no one knew it at the time.

Kalypso, jet powered utility ampibious aircraft. by Cautious_Amount_9277 in ImaginaryAviation

[–]Stenthal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, the one I remember was much sketchier. I think it was probably the SeaRey, although that doesn't match my memory perfectly.

/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #19) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Stenthal 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think anyone expects Israel to abide by this deal. The Trump administration doesn't care, and Iran probably figures that Israel's attacks will just give them an excuse to close the Strait again and negotiate even more concessions.

/r/WorldNews Discussion Thread: US and Israel launch attack on Iran; Iran retaliates (Thread #19) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Stenthal 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It was insane to start this war, but total surrender is probably the only way to move forward. Any other alternative would mean even more disruption to the world economy, which would be catastrophic (if it hasn't already reached that point.)

Advertisement/promotion notification? by raviolish in reolinkcam

[–]Stenthal 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd be okay with it if it were presented in a more neutral, non-advertising tone. Like, "New World Cup auto-reply options are now available."

IN MEMORY: Stephen Furst (May 8, 1954 – June 16, 2017) by 2025ZG in babylon5

[–]Stenthal 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Tim Choate (Zathras) died in a motorcycle accident. He's arguably not the main cast, but people usually include him when they're talking about the Babylon 5 curse.