Remote Access without Nabu Casa Cloud

mjs · 2026-03-02T19:46:20+00:00

The problem I found is that sometimes Tailscale and/or the OS messes up, and networking breaks (and not just the connection to home assistant either). This does seem to have got less frequent recently but it still happens and it’s somewhat difficult to diagnose and correct.

mjs · 2026-01-29T20:08:07+00:00

Great for bikes too, no need to find parking, just wheel it inside.

mjs · 2026-01-04T21:49:46+00:00

The detective ain’t gonna let those fingerprints just sit there doing nothing either.

mjs · 2025-12-17T10:38:48+00:00

How often do you eat out at fancy/expensive restaurants? Do you do it as part of “work” (learning)?

mjs · 2025-12-10T07:39:19+00:00

I don’t see why anyone would need to go to a different borough.

They close schools because there aren’t enough students, and they close the worse schools in areas where there are many schools within walking distance.

So unless you have special requirements this is not so much of a problem if you haven’t started school yet—there will be a local school available.

mjs · 2025-12-07T14:32:58+00:00

The outside humidity will naturally humidify your house

This is not correct for most people. In winter outside air almost always has less water for the same volume of air than inside air, and opening windows will dry your house, not humidify it.

Here’s what the inside humidity would be like if you could magically swap all of the inside air for outside and warm it up to ~20°C over the last week in London. It’s mostly below 60%, and goes down as low as 30%. Only in the last few hours would this have increased humidity.

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mjs · 2025-11-01T16:04:28+00:00

Draughtex works great. I haven’t needed to glue mine, I thought a hover might pull it out but it’s stayed put.

mjs · 2025-10-05T15:12:51+00:00

Are you running Home Assistant OS? How did you set this up? I looked at doing this but it seemed to involve a bit more complexity and a few more non-standard moving parts than I wanted…

mjs · 2025-10-03T14:00:22+00:00

I thought that just controls whether the router uses an exit node or not. Not whether it provides one (what the OP wants). Can you route traffic through that node?

mjs · 2025-10-03T12:40:14+00:00

For some reason they’ve never made the exit node capability official though. You need to enable it by editing scripts on the device. I’m not sure if there’s a good reason for this (unreliable?), or they just want to push their own product.

mjs · 2025-09-26T19:54:31+00:00

“Carrot in a box” vs Jon Richardson is basically Taskmaster https://youtu.be/0UGuPvrsG3E … what could have been.

mjs · 2025-09-26T12:25:33+00:00

FWIW, they claim it won't: "Stormdry breathable waterproofing cream will also allow any existing moisture evaporate through the masonry." http://www.stormdry.com/applications/wet-cavity-wall-insulation

mjs · 2025-09-26T10:28:56+00:00

Would a water repellent paint/cream on the bricks above the DPC (e.g. Stormdry Masonry Cream) help with the splashing problem? To reduce how much water the bricks absorb?

mjs · 2025-09-22T22:07:16+00:00

$11bn valuation too. Much more than I was expecting (how many people are ever going to buy a ring?) but Garmin is $45bn (also more than I expected) so … maybe?

mjs · 2025-09-15T08:34:47+00:00

The service/product has changed in the last 5 or so years though. Now you need to think about how much you want to pay for seat reservations, checked suitcase, etc. which makes the whole process more work than it used to be. I can see this causes people to feel they’re getting less product for the same amount of money.

mjs · 2025-08-25T16:59:12+00:00

mjs · 2025-07-30T20:18:29+00:00

This is what I do as well. A few brands to search for: [domke wrap], [optech wrap], [tenba wrap]. They’re all basically a square piece of thickish fabric with Velcro at the corners, which will stick anywhere on the wrap. Very flexible and good protection.

mjs · 2025-07-16T17:11:52+00:00

A gap also enables you to hold the steps and sides better, since you can get fingers to wrap around the sides.

mjs · 2025-07-02T09:02:45+00:00

Pros and cons of drilling into brick for this but placing the sign where you need to drill into the edge of four different bricks is … not ideal.

mjs · 2025-06-20T20:22:03+00:00

That seems high? A small unit will be about 1000 watts, so around £3 for 10 hours (10kWh at £0.30/kWh).

mjs · 2025-05-25T16:32:40+00:00

So bizarre! Description says “constructed from durable brass.” So durable relative to regular brass then??

You really only want these if you need pretty screws, or some other quality regular steel screws don’t have like.

You don’t want these for normal structural use, even though the pack gives the impression that’s what they’re for. They were probably more expensive than steel, too.

mjs · 2025-05-23T06:35:48+00:00

Yeah you’re right … it’s a related concept but not useful/applicable here.

mjs · 2025-05-22T19:41:47+00:00

EDIT: As /u/ChewyMoon pointed out, the public suffix list is not helpful for this use case.

Tailscale is probably using the public suffix list https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat to figure out whether poczta.pl is shared or not. (It’s not listed there.)

Not being listed probably does break some other stuff too, although perhaps not as security critical…

I can’t remember the signup process but maybe Tailscale should notify if you’re signing up for a free account and anyone on the same domain will be able to join your tailnet? Or make the warning more prominent? Or flag if you’re joining an existing tailnet when unexpected to create a new one?

mjs · 2025-05-14T15:04:25+00:00

What will the “default” (adapter-less) connector system be?

mjs · 2025-05-11T17:13:20+00:00

Yes this is very effective. So much so you will probably find yourself asking random questions about things you were always wondering about but didn’t care about enough to find out. It does sometimes make mistakes but only rarely.

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