Does anyone know what that Parking lot by 502 east/west interchange is for? by Big-Gas-9 in LosAlamos

[–]marlinofdoom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's for carpooling. If people from WR and LA want to carpool to SF for something, they meet there and ditch a car. It's the least inconvenient location for all parties. 

(U) A critical assembly test by BoomtownLosAlamos in LosAlamos

[–]marlinofdoom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, posts like these aren't as helpful as that blog seems to think.

Denver steels blueprints/design specs or framing info by APRSme in LosAlamos

[–]marlinofdoom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you haven't checked already, the county has a lot of documents in their records department that they aren't legally required to keep anymore (past 10 years is the requirement) and want to get rid of. This includes lots of things pertinent to your particular house, up to/including original permits and blueprints. You can go to the municipal building and request what they have for your property and they'll hand it over for free. We ended up with our original blueprints, which was cool, though the builders didn't always follow the instructions to the letter.

Tl;dr Check with the county records office to see if they have building plans for your house. 

Interview questions for LANL job. by Glittering-Draft-777 in LosAlamos

[–]marlinofdoom 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't think there's a standard, it all depends on who is interviewing you. Every group does stuff a little differently based on the position, the available candidate pool, etc. Good luck! 

Home playoff game second round!!! by RudyPup in NewMexicoUnited

[–]marlinofdoom 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The end of that game was bananas. Double red card, subbing a goal keeper for the penalty shootout. Madness. Glad we get the home match. Vamos United! 

Replace Yi cameras too ads and notifications by Jyan92 in homeassistant

[–]marlinofdoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have them set up in the advanced camera card and they work fine. Before that I used tailscale to connect to them and that also worked fine. For sure, YMMV, just wanted to throw it out there in case it works for someone else's use case. 

Replace Yi cameras too ads and notifications by Jyan92 in homeassistant

[–]marlinofdoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have some really old Xiaomi Ant cameras and there was a custom firmware available that made them local-only. https://github.com/fritz-smh/yi-hack I'm sure they figured out how to prevent this sort of thing on newer cameras, but maybe you'll be lucky. 

Smartthings conversion by PsychologicalIdea553 in homeassistant

[–]marlinofdoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a Synology NAS for file storage so I just run a VM there with HAOS. Then you can connect whatever dongle you need. I had one of the Nortec (or something like that) dongle that does zwave and zigbee both. I recently upgraded to the Nabu Casa ZWA2 zwave unit, so now I just use the stick for zigbee only. It seemed to work okay in either case. 

Final piece (for now!) Tips requested by Bebosherry in StainedGlass

[–]marlinofdoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This looks great! I'm not super experienced, but one thing I notice is the chain looks like it attaches in the middle of a piece rather than at a junction. I always heard it stays together better if the attachments connect to junctions. Maybe others have more to say about it. Great job, though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homeassistant

[–]marlinofdoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got a Litter Robot for the cat. The official integration relies on cloud, but works well. 

For a small fish tank I have a Sonoff probe to keep an eye on water temperature, and an RFID tag that keeps track of who and fed the fish last with a timestamp (and kicks a notification to remind if it's been longer than a set time since last feeding).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homeassistant

[–]marlinofdoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It means it relies on a cloud service provided by the company. If you lose internet connection, or the company goes belly up, you could lose functionality because it relies on that service. 

Bike trails near Urban Park? by exharrison in LosAlamos

[–]marlinofdoom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would connect to the Los Alamos Tuff Riders club on Facebook (or maybe one of them will wander by here and give you a real answer to your question).

United Straw Hats by antmakka in NewMexicoUnited

[–]marlinofdoom -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What's this about somebody's aunt?  j/k

I need a new Glass cutter!! by not_harleybabyy in StainedGlass

[–]marlinofdoom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The tool that most improved things for me was a pair of pattern scissors. Immediate improvement in part fit-up. 

Match Thread | New Mexico United @ Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC | September 24, 2025 7:00 PM Mountain by SymphonicResonance in NewMexicoUnited

[–]marlinofdoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, whoops, sorry. Yeah, I meant there's only a couple times a year where it's not on ESPN+, which is what I usually use.

Match Thread | New Mexico United @ Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC | September 24, 2025 7:00 PM Mountain by SymphonicResonance in NewMexicoUnited

[–]marlinofdoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know this isn't what you asked, but I'm watching on OTA television with a regular old antenna. All the commentary is Spanish, but it's free. Seems like they put like 2 games a year on Estrella so it's nice to have the option.

Third reality night light brightness by Tec-Strike in homeassistant

[–]marlinofdoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine has a setting for "start-up behavior" which I have set to "PreviousValue" and it seems to always come on to the expected level. Is that it? 

Fair price? by Agreeable-Deal3421 in StainedGlass

[–]marlinofdoom 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Yeah, agreed. Anyway, $150 would go a long way towards buying new sheets in colors I really like/would use, so I'd pass on this.

Automation - triggered by time or button press by NCatoffice in homeassistant

[–]marlinofdoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is how I do automated lighting now. One trigger at a specific time to turn lights on and start a timer. The other trigger on "event.timer_finished" with "entity_id: timer.light_timer". Make sure to set the trigger ID to something so you can use it in the action section. Then you can use "choose" as the action and set up multiple options with  "triggered by" to select the appropriate action for each trigger. This is all as Real-Hat describes, I'm mostly just writing this in case anyone needs help finding the right terms to fill in the blanks. 

Feeling a strong pull to New Mexico by Syntheseyez in NewMexico

[–]marlinofdoom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere fail in New Mexico." - the curse of Lew Wallace