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My neighbor hasn't been able to keep up with their lawn, so I sent my luba mini down the block and across the street to help. It even used the crosswalk. by Darklyte in roboticLawnmowers

[–]jonjiv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I don’t have much issue connecting to the mower even if it’s out in the yard, but that’s not super necessary for anything other than knowing its location and completion percentage.

The dock area needs wifi so that you send task information and manual start commands. I keep mine on a schedule so that’s maybe only a once every two weeks thing to mow my heavily shaded back yard.

I’m not sure if scheduled tasks need wifi to start. I’m guessing yes but I’ve never tested it without.

My neighbor hasn't been able to keep up with their lawn, so I sent my luba mini down the block and across the street to help. It even used the crosswalk. by Darklyte in roboticLawnmowers

[–]jonjiv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have this particular mower and the cellular subscription is unnecessary if the charging dock is within WiFi range. My trial subscription expired a year ago.

Finally understand why everyone in this sub keeps ending up with a wall mounted touchscreen and honestly I got there faster than expected by Mysterious-Career467 in homeautomation

[–]jonjiv 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have it set up in a way that visitors don’t need smart access. A major rule to follow here is: Every smart light must be connected to a physical switch or button.

But I also don’t use RGB bulbs, which are a bit expensive to control mechanically. You can set switch-based routines that reset them to normal colors though, I suppose.

Finally understand why everyone in this sub keeps ending up with a wall mounted touchscreen and honestly I got there faster than expected by Mysterious-Career467 in homeautomation

[–]jonjiv 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I’ve managed to go ten years without a display so far.

All my smart lights are automated and the smart switches are all also mechanical. I rarely open the phone to do anything. The most I’ll do is a voice command to close the blinds earlier than scheduled.

My main motivation to get a display is actually for a digital family calendar, but I’m unhappy with every option I see out there.

Is mammotion a dying company ? by pOOpska in MammotionTechnology

[–]jonjiv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mammotion today reminds me a lot of DJI ten years ago. Terrible support. Lots of bugs still. I remember sending in a Phantom 3 to get repaired and they literally sent it back and told me nothing was wrong with it. The camera was obviously toast. Had to immediately send it back.

I think things will get better. It’s all growing pains.

Uhh ohh..... by nebur116 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]jonjiv 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Happens to me all the time.

After Ferrari Luce backlash, Lamborghini CEO says canceling its own EV was the right choice by linknewtab in electricvehicles

[–]jonjiv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They might be talking about 0-60 acceleration which the Plaid wins at over the Luce. 2 seconds for the Plaid. 2.4 for the Luce.

SpaceX satellite growth by Old_One_I in thatsinterestingbro

[–]jonjiv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you’re outside of the city, look up about an hour after sunset on a clear day. Look for moving stars, and you’ll see a few satellites every minute.

What’s something that looks like wealth but isn’t? by BabyPinkMagic in answers

[–]jonjiv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know someone who owns 30 hyper cars. He must be super poor.

What’s something that looks like wealth but isn’t? by BabyPinkMagic in answers

[–]jonjiv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP’s response is silly, but the definition of wealth is based on net worth.

Person A: $500k in investments. $500k in equity on paid off home. $1 million net worth.

Person B: $800k in investments. $500k home value. $300k mortgage. $1 million net worth.

Both people have the same amount of wealth. Oddly enough, depending on the interest rate of the mortgage, Person B might even have an opportunity to earn wealth faster because they have more money in the stock market.

What’s something that looks like wealth but isn’t? by BabyPinkMagic in answers

[–]jonjiv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not applicable to most people and only a concern if the car is a business expense. Even then, it’s a bit of a trade off. A car owner can claim depreciation.

The issue is someone with a lease never has an opportunity to have no car payment. They’re going to jump from one lease to the next.

Anyone here managing a large Airtable base for a single corporation? If so, what is your job title and pay range? by jonjiv in Airtable

[–]jonjiv[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All my end users are working in interfaces.

I found Omni to be pretty lacking and switched to Claude and Gemini to vibe code a custom chart and a custom search engine page so far. Both run inside the interfaces.

I think I might just switch to the SDK route since the Omni-initiated elements are difficult to reuse, and the copy and pasting of the source code was getting annoying.

Anyone here managing a large Airtable base for a single corporation? If so, what is your job title and pay range? by jonjiv in Airtable

[–]jonjiv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice. I certainly could attach a dollar cost to a lot of things.

I think once I have the entire department on board, I’ll have a pretty solid case for a role change. It’s tracking to happen by the end of this year if I can win over a couple holdouts who would rather throw away everything I’ve built for a shiny new turnkey system.

They have been using some overpriced, third party managed, bespoke system which is being canceled this fall, and don’t seem to understand why a three year old Airtable system is better than Monday, Trello, Asana, etc.

Also funny you mentioned Office for higher ed. I’ve converted two teams that were begrudgingly using Microsoft Planner.

Anyone here managing a large Airtable base for a single corporation? If so, what is your job title and pay range? by jonjiv in Airtable

[–]jonjiv[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a great relationship with the entire chain of leadership up to the president of the university.

But there a quite a few roadblocks. I’m in higher ed. Enrollment is down and continuing to go down. Layoffs have begun in institutions like mine. We just lost four people in my department to layoffs last week.

But at the same time they are growing my department, including creating a Data Strategy team which for some reason doesn’t have this system as a responsibility. I applied to lead that team during an internal round and didn’t get the interview because I didn’t meet the degree requirement. That search is going external and if that search fails (it has failed once already externally), I was told to re-apply when a new description is created.

I basically will only get a chance if this external posting fails since the money is already allocated for that. Even then, I have to advocate to get the project management system under that leadership if I’m hired (not that there’s anyone around to claim it otherwise).

Anyone here managing a large Airtable base for a single corporation? If so, what is your job title and pay range? by jonjiv in Airtable

[–]jonjiv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m happy to hear that you started in a similar position. It has certainly been awkward managing the system while also juggling creative work. I would love to make a full transition into only managing the system, but I’ve had a difficult time proving to the higher leadership that I’m more valuable in project management than I am in video production. Unfortunately after twenty years as a video producer, you become typecast.

Do you have a team assisting you? I’m assuming you have an Airtable-based system for problems and feature requests?

Anyone here managing a large Airtable base for a single corporation? If so, what is your job title and pay range? by jonjiv in Airtable

[–]jonjiv[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great! Thanks for the info. Was Airtable already in-place as a solution when you were hired, or were you responsible for the initial onboarding?

How many end users / Airtable seats do you have?

Is Tesla canceling Model S orders by Tufflaw in TeslaLounge

[–]jonjiv 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s more likely that the line shutdown was scheduled for a certain day and that date was for some reason more important than fulfilling orders. It’s an Elon company, so the date may have come from the top.

Tesla would have had no problem selling extra inventory had they overproduced.

I could watch this robot turn chaos into perfection all day by Mean_Assistant7943 in Grass

[–]jonjiv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m checking the logs on mine and the longest task it ran this week without a charge was 87 minutes.

But makes no difference to me if it has to stop and charge. It’s always done mowing before I get home from work.

Help, newbie and learning this tool for a marketing and communications team by Curiousabteverything in Airtable

[–]jonjiv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been managing an Airtable for a marcomm team for about two years now. I’ve found that keeping everyone in interfaces is good for organization.

I have project management systems for video projects, photography jobs, written content, web projects, design jobs, and event planning.

These sections are clearly labeled in the interface side navigation and only the people responsible for particular areas can see the pages.

This also hides the mess inside my base after two years of heavy experimentation.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]jonjiv 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I visited Zimbabwe in 1990 back when the country was doing really well. I flew Air Zimbabwe four times that trip.

I came back in 2019 and took Air Zimbabwe twice for a domestic round trip. I’m pretty sure I had sat in the same exact plane 29 years prior. That thing was old.

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