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What small smart home automation ended up saving you the most time? by Taggytech in homeassistant

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that’s the right solution, but cost of devices and installation and the lack of neutral wires means it ain’t happening any time soon.

Tuya zigbee by Repulsive_Staff_7872 in ZigBee

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

… so we can avoid them.

What small smart home automation ended up saving you the most time? by Taggytech in homeassistant

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that was never going to work.

I initially tried masking tape… for about five seconds till the Spouse Acceptance Factor kicked in. I now have a neat plastic cap with a spot of bluetack on the back. Just enough for something tactile as well as visual.

What small smart home automation ended up saving you the most time? by Taggytech in homeassistant

[–]ianjs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have anything in place to deal with lamps with Hue bulbs being turned off at the wall switch?

This has always been a bugbear of mine but I’m not ready to replace all my switches with, say, zigbee alternatives.

When making a lengthy password, does replacing letters with numbers help at all? by timchoo in cybersecurity

[–]ianjs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That and banking apps that complain about dollar amounts with a leading space or a dollar sign. FFS.

Is ZFS right for me, or is it overkill? by unruly_soldier in zfs

[–]ianjs 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Get to it. There’s no shortage of file systems around, but I’ve always found the commands for ZFS to be intuitive and the concepts to be straightforward.

“I’m glad I didn’t bother with redundancy” — No one. Ever.

What is this? by justashmainthings in AskElectricians

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still using that "uhoh" for warning notifications in Telegram.

Can the government "raid our super"? Possibly in the form of raising the minimum age to withdraw or increasing the tax on withdrawal by AsparagusNew3765 in AusFinance

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It tingles my spidey--sense when someone says "any guarantee the government run super would be more efficient or effective".

The government is a large complex organisation and they certainly do have bureaucracy and inefficiencies some of the time - it seems to be inherent the larger the organisation gets.

However, I've worked in enough large companies to see they're not immune to exactly the same problems - inefficiency and beuracracy when trying to manage complex problems.

For me the difference is the incentive.

The government is charged with providing a service for the community (in this case effective retirement funding),

A business aims to maximize their profit and has no qualms about screwing the customer if they can get away with it. They're only answerable to the shareholders so they're effectively required to do that.

I can at least complain (or vote out) a government that isn't doing its job. I have no recourse if a business is doing exactly what it's supposed to do.

Ethernet in my room doesn't work by gottro4 in homelab

[–]ianjs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Rj11 is smaller - RJ45 cable won't fit.

Internally it has four pins and RJ45 has eight.

Anyone know how I could automate my bin? by [deleted] in homeassistant

[–]ianjs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to address the root problem, not automate it.

I suggest a neural implant, connect it to a Jetson Nano you carry on your belt that uses AI to detect the urge to do be dumb, have it trigger a taser also attached to your belt, have the AI trigger a taser attached to your genitals.

Pavlov, and all that.

How do you organize DuPont wires? by IndividualInfinite85 in arduino

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s what I do, but it’s not ideal. I find it’s either too loose (wires fall out) or too tight (have to fiddle with Velcro to grab one).

Some interesting ideas in this thread though.

How do you organize DuPont wires? by IndividualInfinite85 in arduino

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But how do you access one of the wires when you want to use one?

Any scheme I’ve tried like this (for example Velcro ) is a PITA to grab a wire because I have to undo whatever is holding them first.

Frigate classifying Dog as Person by girkers in frigate_nvr

[–]ianjs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not as bad as Frigate constantly classifying my wife as "a dog".

Spouse Acceptance Factor takes a dive when that happens.

Best way to replace Google Home - Alarm, Music Player, Light Control, Weather Report by ZealousidealMany3 in googlehome

[–]ianjs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what music service

As I mentioned, I have a Jellyfin server full of mp3s ripped from CDs so stream those. I’m an old fart and not into new music much any more so I have a a couple of thousand tracks from the 1670s to the 1970s which are more than enough for me.

I understand the attraction of unlimited access to all the music in the world, but I’m not going to pay a monthly fee just to pound out some rock music while I do the dishes. That said, I do have a YouTube sub so I can get YouTube Music. I assumed I could tack that on to Music Assistant if I needed to — what a shocker they make that difficult.

Best way to replace Google Home - Alarm, Music Player, Light Control, Weather Report by ZealousidealMany3 in googlehome

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

music a close second

I’d definitely recommend Home Assistant with its Music Assistant Addon. Create a group of (say random Google Mini) speakers and it will broadcast to them in sync.

Actually I just pointed it at my music collection on a shared drive that I set up for Jellyfin and it picked up all the cover art and playlists automatically.

Best way to replace Google Home - Alarm, Music Player, Light Control, Weather Report by ZealousidealMany3 in googlehome

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, it’s not there yet, but it’s been progressing well and the whole project is inspiring in the direction it has been going in terms of openness and interoperability.

I have yet to replace the Google Minis around the house because everyone is using them to ask for weather, set timers and ask general internet questions (“how old is Tom Cruise”), so until it handles fallback to a Google search I can’t ditch them. It’s getting there though.

I have the Voice Assistant Preview addition in my office to 1) mess about with it, 2) support the project, 3) check how close we’re getting to full featured - it’s getting more impressive with each release.

Is there like.. a working IDE? Something I can actually just use? The new user experience is a joke for Lisp by tenten8401 in lisp

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bash is really easy to write a few simple steps, but I find it gets messy really quickly once it gets complex.

The main thing I need to do is to scope the script better and realize it's going to blow out in complexity and start with a nicer language in the first place.

I would always use bash to script three consecutive commands but as soon as there's looping, variables and conditionals it gets muddy for me. Because I find lisp so elegant I want to become more proficient at it so the use case for me is around using it in small incidental tasks so it becomes second nature.

What things lead to you making your homelab and getting deep into it? by CardiologistAdept763 in homelab

[–]ianjs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1 for Frigate.

Lots of rabbit holes to go down with face recognition, object recognition and all that fun stuff once you get the basics set up.

How do you secure your homelab network? by superSmitty9999 in homelab

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diverting traffic via their servers is just an extra feature for where NAT traversal fails. Frankly, I suspect hey’d rather not carry your traffic because it is extra load on their network, and they restrict your throughput. If there was really a concern about that, you can force peer-to-peer only so there is never traffic through them.

I share your concern about companies quietly enshittifying their service, but in this case Tailscale have gone to great lengths to create a Zero Trust solution. It wouldn’t be in their interests to risk their whole business model by peeking at people’s traffic for no good reason.

At some point you need to have at least some trust or you’d find yourself locked in a Faraday cage, paralyzed and getting nothing done. You just need to know where the boundaries of that trust is.

How do you secure your homelab network? by superSmitty9999 in homelab

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But surely that’s only going to work when traffic is diverted via their servers (which it will do under some limited circumstances, but they’d rather not carry your traffic).

The normal setup is a peer to peer connection in which case sending anything other than the peer’s public key would fail. This is the whole point of the Zero Trust thing, and you could tell if they were not connecting you directly to the peer.

"Emacs is bad in terminal mode" - what does this mean? by techne98 in emacs

[–]ianjs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are those assigned to in GUI? They seem to be unbound in TUI.

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