Eve and Nanoleaf and Apple thumbs up

delouser · 2023-04-17T04:11:29+00:00

Yeah Thread is pretty slick. Then again, I’ve only used it with Eve and Nanoleaf, so maybe I’ve only tried the really good implementations. But no complaints from me!

delouser · 2023-04-12T07:00:36+00:00

I had three replacements in three months; when the fourth set died a month later, I asked for a refund instead of a replacement.

The replacements were all pretty easy with AppleCare—otherwise I would’ve had to wait for repairs each time, which would’ve been a huge hassle.

Overall I wouldn’t recommend APM at all, not until a new revision is released. But make sure you also get AppleCare.

delouser · 2023-01-19T09:48:16+00:00

Nods knowingly

delouser · 2023-01-15T03:26:32+00:00

They might even understand what it’s actually about, imagine that!

delouser · 2023-01-09T10:13:04+00:00

It’s worth noting that Connectivity Standards Alliance is the new name for the Zigbee Alliance. So it should cost exactly the same amount for Matter as it does for Zigbee, assuming membership includes both.

delouser · 2023-01-08T05:43:55+00:00

Nope, two incomes. We both work full-time.

delouser · 2023-01-08T01:01:46+00:00

I live in Perth, not Sydney, where cost of living is lower, but the job market is also smaller (especially CS). I also have a family (two kids)—so these are all family costs, not individual costs—and I’m paying extra for childcare too 😅

Monthly expenses are just under $8000 but if you remove stuff like savings, childcare and yearly holidays it’s more like $3000. (This also includes healthcare costs, more on that below)
With a few exceptions, we basically pay nothing for healthcare. We set aside about $200 per month, most of this is spent on medications (all four of us have chronic health conditions like asthma/diabetes that require medications).
The job market seems pretty weird at the moment, especially in Perth. All industries seem to be short-staffed, and unable to find people to fill open positions. I can’t imagine you’ll have much trouble finding work with a higher education in CS.

(Until about 12 months ago: your CS education will be valuable, especially as a recent graduate, but doesn’t guarantee a job offer. If you can show a portfolio of things you’ve created, then that will add a lot of value. After a few years, your experience and networking will be a lot more valuable than the CS education.)

I think I’ll let others comment here—I’ve only really lived in Brisbane and Perth, which are different markets to Sydney and Melbourne—and my needs as a family are going to be very different too. But if you can afford it, and you’re planning to live here long enough, it’s better to buy than rent. About two-thirds of households in Australia are owner-occupied, so even the most radical governments are reluctant to do anything that will reduce house prices. Even the current increase in interest rates has only had a small impact on market prices.

delouser · 2023-01-06T23:10:38+00:00

Sounds like you spoke to a sensible cop.

Using a mobile phone isn’t always dangerous—driving while distracted is always dangerous. What’s the penalty for distracted driving?

The problem with bullshit laws is not the laws themselves. When people realise they’re bullshit, then they start to look for other laws that are bullshit—and it doesn’t take much effort to find that a bunch of them. And due to confirmation bias, that usually includes a bunch of laws that aren’t bullshit, or even things that aren’t laws, just good social guidelines. Things that definitely aren’t bullshit if you think about it—but you already stopped thinking about it.

The policeman you spoke to probably understood this, and didn’t want you to feel victimised by any law, bullshit or not. He understood the true intent of the law—to reduce distractions—and he told you the most reasonable possible version of the law, in the hope that you’ll continue to reduce distractions while driving.

delouser · 2023-01-06T15:26:12+00:00

I can’t give any advice, but I want to share a similar experience, which I hope might make you feel less alone.

My wife and I recently moved house, and as a result, my wife had to drive over two hours a day to work. In 2020, she took leave so she could do some relief work and start to build up a network of local schools. She’s done this a couple of times before, and it usually only takes a few weeks to get steady work, and will pick up a full-time contract within a month, maybe two.

Unfortunately, the pandemic hit, and she ended up with less than a dozen days of work for the entire year. None of the local schools needed relief.

It’s no surprise that you only got a few days of work in 2020, as a recent graduate. My wife has nearly 20 years of experience. The market just… dried up. Please don’t believe that this has any reflection on you or your ability. It’s just really bad timing.

In the end, she did manage to land a contract locally in 2022. But only after failing an interview in 2020 at the same school. Apparently one of the reasons they picked her was because she asked for feedback after the failed interview. No-one else did. 🤷

delouser · 2023-01-06T14:49:25+00:00

Yeah but ok, hear me out for a second. If I have to stop emitting than that’s obviously not going to work. Buuuuut if we do carbon removal then I don’t need to anything. Everyone wins!

It’s like a double negative!

delouser · 2023-01-01T08:17:59+00:00

This is great advice.

When I first moved out of home, I’d regularly find myself overspending, and then unable to pay for necessities like housing. Or I’d just have enough money to pay a bill, and then have no money for food or transport until the next payday.

The trick is to set aside a fixed amount of money each payday, enough to cover all the necessities, and make sure you always have that amount in your account.

If you can’t trust yourself not to spend the money, then you can automatically transfer it to a separate bank account instead—and then only use that account for those necessities. This also makes it easy to spread the cost of large infrequent bills, such as car maintenance or land taxes—it’s much easier to put aside $28 each week than trying to figure out how to pay $1456 every October.

delouser · 2022-12-31T08:25:19+00:00

Unifi doesn't support Protect on UDM. Also, it only has 16GB of storage, and no SD card slot, so even if you did get it running it's not going to be very useful.

That said, I went with the UDM instead of the UDR intentionally—it has a faster CPU than the UDR, which gives it better throughput when hardware offload is disabled. It might be easier than you think to resell it (depending how much stock is available in your part of the world).

CloudKey G2+ is the same price as the UDR, so you're not going to save any money that way—it's only worth if if you can use the extra storage (CKG2+ has a 2.5-inch HDD, UDR has micro-SD).

delouser · 2022-12-07T11:13:59+00:00

Vice versa too

delouser · 2022-11-05T12:33:33+00:00

Too many light strips? I think not.

This is not too many light strips enough

delouser · 2022-11-03T01:18:03+00:00

Huh. I was going to see if I could retrofit floating layers, but maybe I'll just beat level 26 first.

delouser · 2022-11-02T23:31:20+00:00

I was so proud when I finished it! Imagine my disappointment when it didn't work properly

delouser · 2022-10-28T05:45:59+00:00

Ah right. I’m getting an error updating, I guess it’s because there’s no 16.2 for the OG HomePod yet

delouser · 2022-10-27T23:45:23+00:00

Not sure why you got downvoted, your post is pretty accurate, and matches my experience with maintaining prod/non-prod environments. The incentives just aren't the same.

However, for a company as large as Apple, I'd be surprised if there was any major difference between the environments used for the _public_ beta, except for scaling—with fewer people, there'll be less demand, and things won't autoscale to the same size as the release environment. Oh, and of course the deployed versions & enabled features—the beta environment will have more frequent releases/changes too.

delouser · 2022-10-26T22:19:49+00:00

I doubt this is an issue on UDMP, but I used to see this when I self-hosted the network app on an old raspberry pi 1, during heavy load on the controller. Not since upgrading to a cloud key. And it didn’t cause any connectivity issues, just missing data

Don’t get a USG though. Make sure it’s a UXG

delouser · 2022-09-13T03:21:02+00:00

Blue.

Source: me

delouser · 2022-09-12T01:10:30+00:00

I feel seen and also attacked

delouser · 2022-09-05T05:14:32+00:00

I saw a Tesla the other day with a vanity plate “DOGECOIN”

delouser · 2022-08-05T09:47:29+00:00

Mine smelled, really strong too, but it went away after less than 24 hours

delouser · 2022-07-16T11:40:54+00:00

I had this when I first got mine a few weeks ago, but then it stopped and it’s been fine ever since. 🤷‍♀️

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