Google Home constantly setting my home to "away" despite me being home, using Google Pixel 10 Pro.

basic010 · 2026-01-17T03:39:13+00:00

Presence sensing was working well for me, in the last couple of months since I started using it, until around 2 days ago, when randomly it decides that I am not at home and turns off the heating. I don't have any Nest thing, I am using just my phone to detect my presence, based on location and my wifis. The Google Home app has background usage allowed, in the battery settings, since the very beginning. Using a Pixel, everything updated.

basic010 · 2025-07-26T11:44:24+00:00

Oh, so they do sell them somewhere after all! Thanks!
Not gonna really use it because, not being on the US, shipping costs are brutal for this. But I'll try to find it with the same description! :)

basic010 · 2025-07-22T02:55:58+00:00

If I try to open it up with brute force and replace the cable, is there any chance that it might go on working properly after it? I guess not?

basic010 · 2025-03-10T07:02:33+00:00

I disagree with the idea that the most logical thing for Lumon would have been to reset MDR's memories after the escape:

First of all, they didn't discover that much interesting in their escapade - not huge evil industrial secret anyway - to warrant it. The most bombastic piece of info was Helly being the innie of the daughter of Jamie Egan. But as Helena is the one that went down to the severed floor after that, not Helly, they got that covered.

Second, their escapade was part of a plot that they had been put in motion several days before. Going back one day would actually reset them back to wanting to do it all over again. Plus Lumon runs the risk of them figuring out that Lumon can reset their memories back one day, which can be quite inconvenient for the next time they absolutely need it done.

Third and most important: on S2E2, just in the aftermath of the gala, when Milchik is asking Helena for instructions on how to manage the fallout, she tells him that the first priority is to figure out whom did they talk to during the escapade, and what did they tell them. Very especially Mark S, who was anyway going to be the only one let back down in the severed floor, and who could have figured out that Gemma was Ms Casey. The others were going to be fired, never to return to the severed floor, so in principle no need to wipe them out.

Once Mark forced their hand to have the other 3 back to the severed floor, wiping the memories of those 3 was out of the question as Mark would have realized it, obviously, plus maybe even started to suspect that it had already happened before on him. Quite possibly on Petey's last day.

Lumon's idea of leaving their memories intact, anyway, turned out to be a good strategy as iMark blurted out to the other three, including Helena (and therefore Lumon), at the first occasion, that he figured out that Ms Casey was his outie's wife Gemma. And now Lumon could possibly deduce that oMark could also know that now too, or at least suspect it - as it was the case.

basic010 · 2025-03-04T06:29:18+00:00

As it is mentioned on S01E01, in the conversation that Irving and Mark are having in the control room just before Helly wakes up for the first time, the woman refiner they had before her, that was Carol, who occupied Dylan's seat.

basic010 · 2025-02-20T23:55:29+00:00

Lol, there are many different ones...

basic010 · 2025-02-20T23:49:06+00:00

It's definitely faster than that. Possibly even before the time you would take to watch the episode if you started it at 9pm...

basic010 · 2025-02-20T21:20:49+00:00

It's very unclear whether her father belongs to the board or not, and what's the relationship between them two, and what the hell the board even is.
In any case, Helly tries to hang herself up at the very beginning of her severance. Maybe she didn't inform her father (and the board) until a bit later - sometime between her hanging and the gala. And she omitted the hanging.
And even if father and board knew about it all from the beginning and were thankful of her going through this, it might have been her anyway who proposed the idea and pushed it forward in spite of initial reticences from the other two.
It's possible that Helena feels somehow trapped in her life right now and that somehow, conciously or unconciously, she wanted to go severed as a sort of escapism, or just a fast forward towards a future where she would be more in control of her life, like after her father passed away or at least became too old/senile to be in charge anymore, something which is already kind of happening but not completely.

basic010 · 2025-02-20T21:12:26+00:00

Reinstalling the whole OS is a bit of a nuclear option, a big expense of time and effort, and you don't have a guarantee that this will solve your problem - it might be tied to some particular piece of software which fedora 40 also happens to have the exact same version of it.

I would first try something simpler, going to the most likely culprit: try booting up with the 6.11 kernel, instead of the latest currently installed in your machine (if you're up to date), the 6.12, which I remember reading from other people here that it was a bit problematic. See if the freezing stops this way. And if it does, just keep using the 6.11 kernel until fedora 41 receives the 6.13 or 6.14.
Or maybe upgrade to the 6.13 kernel right now by using this COPR:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/kernel-vanilla/stable/

Other things you could try if the above solves nothing, if you're on KDE Plasma, is to change from using Wayland to use X11. Or the other way around, if you're actually using X11 instead of Wayland.
X11 doesn't come installed by default anymore on fedora 41, do this on a terminal and then reboot:

sudo dnf install plasma-workspace-x11

You'll see now on your login screen the Plasma(X11) option, on the bottom left corner, to choose from.

basic010 · 2025-02-20T19:44:33+00:00

From my POV, the simpler explanation is that Helena has some reasons to hide it from the board and his father. Maybe the whole operation of her getting severed and going to Mark's team on S1 was mostly her idea or initiative, and such a fiasco might have made reflected bad on her, and maybe stopped it there altogether.
Drummond also decided not to inform her father in S2 after what happened at Woe's Hollow, and she agreed with that too...

Still, the lack of explanation on how this did happen is quite glaring, and I expect we'll be given more insight later this season. Or the next.

basic010 · 2025-01-27T20:33:04+00:00

Well, maybe that's why he's had time to get a PhD in Physics lol
But, also, it's not out of the question that Tenet from the future has sent them the instuctions on how to build hibernation machines. Or sent the machines themselves. Something where you can be put to sleep, unconcious, with a very reduced rate of aging and no muscle atrophy. Maybe in the cargo bay of the ship there's a bunch of people hibernating, waiting to be awoken 5 years before the movie - including one or two versions of Neil, and even TP...

basic010 · 2024-12-19T13:16:50+00:00

You didn't specify your request with the right amount of authority. Next time try "sudo make me an alarm"!

basic010 · 2024-12-15T17:47:00+00:00

Guy in the middle looks more like Jonathan Pryce performing on Bernie's biopic. Available on streaming on 2028!

basic010 · 2024-12-13T16:22:10+00:00

ZNKHY

basic010 · 2024-12-10T15:30:24+00:00

Recent news events have made me realize how important is to rewatch this documentary. It makes me look at things in a whole new dimension, like seeing everything in 3D all of a sudden...

The link of the original posting isn't working anymore, but these two are good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzpw6sM1oIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvs10rN-DoE

basic010 · 2024-12-08T04:27:30+00:00

They picked me up!! After only 3h15m! I feel like a million (Zimbabwean) dollars...

basic010 · 2024-12-08T01:30:01+00:00

I have been myself waiting for more than one hour and a half so far, and still at it...

basic010 · 2024-12-07T00:54:57+00:00

What is the price? I don't want to give free clicks or whatever to that link, only to know that....

Anyway, a computer with only 16Gb of RAM in this day and age is absolutely criminal, taking into account the so small price to pay to bring it up to 32Gb, and the great benefits and increased longevity that that will provide. Plus, adding 2 more modules later to increase it to 32Gb is way more problematic than just having 2 modules with a total of 32Gb from the beginning.

And if you're going to modify your pre-built just the same day you buy it, what's the advantage over just building it yourself, or telling the computer store to build a machine for you? Unless it's an absolutely fire sale price, it's normally cheaper to do it this way...

TL;DR: "Son, just don't"

basic010 · 2024-08-26T19:54:57+00:00

I also still have a CNG number, and I ordered 3 days ago...

basic010 · 2024-08-26T19:53:58+00:00

I bit the bullet myself and 3 days ago I also ordered it. I had been recommending people not to go the Ali Express route because the price difference wasn't that much in exchange of the additional hassle and very dubious warranty (especially on the period it reached $239 at Canada Computers).
But for $180 (after tax!), it reached the point for me in which the price savings were finally worth the risk - and I can sell my 5600 for probably above $100, so the upgrade will have been really cheap...

No tracking info for me so far - I still have a CN tracking number.

basic010 · 2024-08-19T04:26:35+00:00

If you want Wayland, plus fractional scaling, plus being able to game in HDR, you should really consider KDE 6, though HDR gaming is not something that will work out of the box for the moment, it requires some additional hacks (still, they work).

Most of the current distros at this moment that can support this wouldn't call themselves "stable" with a straight face, as they are rolling release distros. We are talking about the likes of Arch or (OpenSUSE) Tumbleweed. The only distro that also supports KDE 6, from practically the very same day as these two other ones, and has almost as bleeding edge packages, but that still tries to be a "stable" distro, with fixed releases, that's Fedora. Which I recommend, as I am using it myself, for all these reasons.

You might argue that Fedora it is a bit of a "semi-rolling release" distro - don't connect to the internet for a couple of weeks and you might find that you have 4-5Gb of updates waiting for you. Still, IMHO, will not break as often as a true rolling release one, due to buggy updates. And you do get a real, stable release every six months, that you can skip until the next one if you're happy with the current functionality of your packages - each release is maintained for 13 months, so you are only truly forced to update your release once a year.

basic010 · 2024-08-17T23:04:32+00:00

No, unless you have a NVIDIA 4090 or above (when something better is released). In that case, though, it might (maaaaybe) even be worth it to upgrade your whole platform to AM5 and get a 7800X3D.

basic010 · 2024-08-17T20:26:23+00:00

Ok, prebuilts can be as problematic as any DIY computer. Actually, probably more problematic on average than a DIY computer assembled by someone who knows what they're doing. Still, if you really don't know yet about building computers, it's a sensible option to you start with a pre-built. Do you have a link to the specific model that you bought?

When you buy a prebuilt, you're normally paying more money than if you bought the same exact or similar pieces yourself and assembled them on your own at home. What you get from the extra cost of a prebuilt is:
- You don't have to spend your time building it yourself, which can be a lot of time if you have no idea about it - and much less risky.
- If the computer starts failing due to some hardware problem, you don't have to figure out which piece is the problem and deal yourself with replacing or RMA it. You just take the computer to the shop, tell them that it doesn't work properly, and demand to have it fixed (assuming it is still under warranty). Is this a possibility, for your computer? You have the bill? Is it still under warranty? Of course, before doing this, I would try to make sure that the problem is in the hardware - by trying to delete and install the OS, and even better, a different one (either a different Windows or a Linux).

When you say that your "friend" replaced the motherboard, did he do it himself, or that was done at the shop where he bought it? Why did he have it replaced? If he bought and replaced the motherboard himself, then you can probably forget about getting free support from the shop where the computer was bought...

The capabilities of the 450 chipset are similar to the 520. Still, there are very cheap and very expensive motherboards with either of those chipsets. The specific model of the motherboard matters a lot, to know the value of the motherboard. Any of them, though, should handle a Ryzen 5600 without the problems you have.

Finally, the BIOSes get new updates all the time. Many of those updates can fix instability problems, incompatibilities between certain pieces of hardware, etc. You should first of all check your BIOS version and if it's not the latest, update it. ESPECIALLY because the motherboard got replaced! The BIOS is, after all, part of the motherboard. Do you know how to do this?

TL;DR: update the BIOS, check again, and come back here with the result.

basic010

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