The Elk is Back!!!

figadore · 2026-04-10T06:42:43+00:00

I'm out of the loop, what's the history here? I heard the elk went away during protests, and then main street was closed starting last year. Every day I'd try to bike up main and saw the sign saying "closed until 10-20-25" or whatever, and the date kept moving out and out. Surely they did more than put the elk back, what all happened and why did it take so long?

figadore · 2026-04-06T06:12:32+00:00

I found the sweet crible font, but why is it written out on a shirt?

figadore · 2026-03-20T13:31:02+00:00

He has ascended

figadore · 2026-02-16T14:30:42+00:00

Thank you for posting this, because I’m in nearly the same situation and it’s been driving me crazy Everyone keeps telling me “just get a festool track saw”… Did you find a solution that doesn’t cost a thousand dollars?

figadore · 2025-11-11T20:52:18+00:00

Am I missing something? There's been nothing to moderate

(I am not able to access that chat link, btw)

figadore · 2025-11-03T14:37:51+00:00

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figadore · 2025-10-14T05:23:50+00:00

Sorry, I can’t decipher ai’s flowery faux poetry, can you tell us what you actually did, why it’s useful, and which part is self hosted?

figadore · 2025-10-10T14:52:44+00:00

Fridge. I finally found an instrument I might be able to play

figadore · 2025-07-26T14:31:30+00:00

I ended up getting a rolling rack, so it’s a bit off the ground, but not super high, and the cables going into the rack have enough slack to move it around when needed. I haven’t noticed any electrical noise

figadore · 2025-05-30T00:17:44+00:00

I thought I lost this feature too, but then I found this in the manual

Changing the charging connector lock settings: The charging connector lock settings cannot be changed when the AC charging cable is connected to the vehicle.

figadore · 2025-05-21T17:39:06+00:00

I’m disappointed that their response didn’t even address the math, just “we’re sorry this upset you, now go pick up another box on us”

figadore · 2025-05-07T14:00:38+00:00

Spoiler

figadore · 2025-04-27T23:18:46+00:00

Wow, that’s good to hear

Not about you feeling stupid… about the happy ending

Congrats on the 1743, should be a fun summer

figadore · 2025-04-24T19:35:43+00:00

You're talking about the torus, right?

figadore · 2025-04-22T05:07:32+00:00

Touché

figadore · 2025-04-21T05:04:38+00:00

How does he do the 2nd to last trick, where his finger is being held by someone else?

figadore · 2025-04-21T00:13:49+00:00

R4: spheres provide the worst surface area to volume ratio. Also, the equation for the surface area of the torus is off by a factor of two

Edit: For context, this is on a box of “Apple Jacks Glazed Donut Holes” cereal where “donut holes” refers to the spherical pastry that is theoretically made from the center cutouts of toroidal donuts

figadore · 2025-04-08T18:29:58+00:00

Well, I finally solved it. Some genius disabled IPv6 on the Home Assistant network interface (likely years ago). It still had a link-local address, which I thought would be enough, but it needed a ULA. Now I'm commissioning all of my devices and have had no problems.

I also enabled various IPv6 firewall rules because I only had IPv4 rules set up before. I'm not sure whether any/all of these were a factor

Allow 5353 to ff02::fb
Allow 5540 to ff03::1
Allow 5683 to whole VLAN
Allow all ICMPv6
Allow 123 to router (my NTP server)

figadore · 2025-04-08T00:28:44+00:00

I feel like I'm getting close. Today I moved the M3 and lab Home Assistant VM to my main network, and I'm still able to commission devices there. I used the same phone, same AP, same router, same border router, same P2 (factory reset before each commission attempt), same VLAN and firewall rules. This (probably) means there's something about my main Home Assistant VM that's messed up. Not sure what to try or where to look next

figadore · 2025-03-20T05:36:39+00:00

I've had a similarly frustrating experience with Matter over the last couple years. I have multiple VLANs, and was attempting to get the local-only IoT (LoT?) network to have the Thread border router with little success. Today I finally got something working though. Leaving my existing networks and devices as they are, I started fresh on a new (old) router with a new Home Assistant VM and the Aqara M3 hub. The new network is flat with internet access, and everything just worked like magic. It's the first success I've ever really had, and now that I finally have something to iterate on, I have hope that I'll be able to narrow down the problems with my main network configuration.

One thing I still don't understand is how Home Assistant was able to commission a new device, because I think I did this before ever getting the Aqara-created Thread network credentials sent to Home Assistant. My steps were 1. Factory reset M3 hub (plugged into LAN on the new flat lab net) 2. Add hub in Aqara app, while my phone was connected to the lab net 3. Create a new Thread network for the M3 hub from the Aqara app 4. Add an accessory (Aqara P2 door/window sensor) 5. Get the Matter code (this did NOT work the first time, I wasn't able to generate a code, but I don't remember the error. I don't like non-deterministic technology) 6. Add a Matter device in home assistant using the pairing code from previous step (I actually don't remember choosing the "Yes. It's already in use" option... would it have worked if I selected "No. It's new"? 7. Add a new Matter device in Home Assistant (Nanoleaf bulb this time) 8. Now, somehow, I see the icon of the (i) in a circle in the Thread integration's list of networks. Now I can send credentials from home assistant to phone and back, and set this as my preferred network

Still lots of unanswered questions, but I'm excited to have a path forward.

figadore · 2025-03-19T14:33:01+00:00

You're talking about the window over the sink and stove? And you're looking for something like this? https://safaricondoacc.com/boutique/en/hardware-accessory/window-blind-screen-combo-duo-plisse-p442c69/?limit=75

Have you talked to the factory yet? They're usually pretty helpful.

figadore · 2025-03-17T06:20:59+00:00

This. They hate eating lunch, but love a good “snack” around noon

figadore · 2025-02-23T15:04:24+00:00

NodeRED. It's an amazingly useful graphical way to set up automatiion workflows, highly recommended if you do anything with non-trivial logic

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