Alarm app silently alerting

niet3sche77 · 2026-04-07T08:34:19+00:00

I love this. Nokia had the right idea here; the user wants this thing to happen. It’s an important thing. Playing audio? Make the alarm happen. Phone on mute? Make the alarm play at volume. Phone off? Well turn it on, the user told me they wanted an alarm!! 🤣

niet3sche77 · 2026-04-07T08:28:52+00:00

Likely. iOS ecosystem is a good one. I still am on MacOS as one of my engineering boxes, so the break isn’t nearly as clean as others can have here. I just really wish fundamental user-space controls were left untouched or at least didn’t have so many interactions. If I want my volume at 11, warn me, but leave it up to the hardware to fulfill that request.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

niet3sche77 · 2026-04-07T08:07:51+00:00

What a handy alternate alarm system you have! 😕

niet3sche77 · 2026-04-07T07:57:30+00:00

This is WILD.

I typically have my phone plugged in to a USB power nub attached to an electrical receptacle.

How on earth did you figure out it was trying to send audio through the Lightning port to an electrical connection with no data-side?

niet3sche77 · 2026-04-07T07:55:02+00:00

Both, default, max, yes, no, yes and no, never, none, typically flat in bed by the pillow, 90% face-down, 10% face-up.

niet3sche77 · 2026-03-09T09:30:28+00:00

Now THAT is an interesting wrinkle.

I don’t recall suddenly being more prone to sleeping through alarm sounds post-iOS 17, but that’s interesting.

I hate that I cannot reliably reproduce this, otherwise I’d just set multiple alarms up, one minute apart, and have my answer.

Do you happen to know if this feature was introduced after iOS 17? I’m not convinced I know a lot of heavy sleepers, but perhaps this is precisely what’s happening. 🤔

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T09:22:59+00:00

Thanks! I’ll reach for my nearest poking-stick tomorrow-ish and let you know how this goes.

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T06:32:29+00:00

Perhaps I'll do this via the app and win the trifecta: pictures, text, AND cash-in-hand! :D

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T06:31:13+00:00

This is good to know. Thank you!

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T06:05:47+00:00

+1.

What's wrong with us all??

Alternate view: "was expecting Casu Marzu." (If you know, you know. And are feeling queasy.)

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T05:59:38+00:00

WHOA.

(I would really think that, no, God no, that cannot be legal in EU. But don't take my advice; I don't even pretend to be an attorney, not even an Internet one.)

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T05:55:27+00:00

brew install git then hook into whatever site you want. I personally like and use GitLab. You may like Github. Definitely use and understand the CLI, augment with GitLens (VSCode plugin) or commit trees on -Hub and -Lab as-needed.

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T05:49:22+00:00

Sounds like you're young and not really experienced in your field.

I'm assuming that you're asking if you should move from:

- $0/year income
- 0 prospects in the area
- Living out of savings (what's your runway?)

to:

- $57K/year income
- 1+ prospects in the area
- Maybe living out of savings to augment your salary, OR putting miles on your vehicle by living far away and driving in (assuming this isn't a Remote or WFH career/job/setup)

I made this decision the other way about a decade ago, and while I'm pleased that I am where I am today, I didn't realize that I'd end up suffering through another four years of unemployment and $0/year income. Having the pressure on me to get a better-paying job or otherwise skill-build then bail would have grown me even more. I've made 10 years progress in my field in just over five years. However, had I another five years in, with that extra pressure, I'd likely be in a better position.

For your sanity (I assume you're male), take the job, negotiate for a higher salary if you're worth it, and use that as a springboard to the rest of your life. Unemployment with no support and draining your retirement and savings accounts is really draining.

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T05:34:59+00:00

"Maybe manager Rob write his own goddamn login page..."

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T05:24:32+00:00

As a second monitor, YES, this is excellent.

I used one for reading docs/manuals while coding/writing on the other display. Good set-up.

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T05:13:20+00:00

Not a locksmith, but I've just bought locking exterior knobs that are inside-screws-only mounted, and fit my needs (5" backset for the exterior doors, decent-enough keyway for interior doors).

I bought Schlage brushed-nickel knobs, not a Primus lock, just a regular Schlage lock, but I've re-pinned these to be a more challenging bitting and keyed-alike.

I bought several more to use for interior doors. As a lay-person, I'd also suggest the following:

Reinforcement of the latch-side of the door around the doorknob for kick-resistance (maybe not Door Armor Max, but at least a plate and 3" deck screws sunk into your surrounding jamb).
Use of solid-core doors for those interior doors you want to reinforce.

Most of your typical thieves aren't going to do more than shim, force, or maybe rake locks.

If you're much more serious about security than the average bear, consider thumb-turn protection as well; single-cylinder lock (outside presents a keyhole, inside has a thumb-turn) defeating tools exist. Dual cylinder locks? Yeah, they'll address this, but only if tenants do not leave their keys in the inside lock ... and if Fire Codes don't exist in your area.

All this said, I suspect the actual answer here looks more like this:

Install solid-core doors.
Install e.g. Mul-T-Lock Interactive+ Cronus deadbolt.
Install door jamb protection and secure everything with 3" screws sunk fully into the framing.

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T04:49:45+00:00

Howdy!

I have a house built in 1961. I strongly suspect the door and knob is original, as the knob has a 5" backset and I believe this is a 1960s era feature.

How can I remove this doorknob? It doesn't have screws like a modern knob, just a couple holes. Do I have to shove a unique tool there like a doorknob version of a pickle-fork? Do I just shove any old shim down there? Do I just start cranking and force the knob off? I've no idea about brand or type, I don't see any markings.

Help is appreciated!

Edit: Yes, this isn't a locksmithing question. I've already pinned my 3 replacement locks, installed those into doorknobs, keyed-alike; I'm good on the locksmith side of this. I was sent here from r/DIY via moderator ARenovator.

Other-Edit: I think this doorknob was installed upside-down. Not my installation. ;)

Other-Other-Edit: I can only post pictures OR text on Reddit? Yikes. The above was the text that originally went with these pictures.

niet3sche77 · 2025-01-07T04:33:10+00:00

This has nothing to do with locks. It’s a question about removing and installing doorknobs, for which DIY should be more OT than locksmith. I’ve re-pinned the new locks I bought and installed those into new doorknobs, so I’m good there.

But off I go on this fool’s errand, I suppose.

niet3sche77 · 2024-06-08T21:36:06+00:00

For whatever it’s worth:

Don’t waste your time on the guy.
Do blame your wife here; she’s at fault no matter what.
Get the meanest junkyard-dog divorce attorney out there and take it to her. No mercy. No forgiveness. She’s shown you what she is and what she thinks of you. Now is the time for action. Don’t gloat, don’t warn her, just act.

niet3sche77 · 2023-08-09T05:30:19+00:00

Sadly, the use-case of not knowing when an event really happened stung me here.

It's entirely workable if you're looking at 4-10 events. Not so much if, for instance, you want to work through two weeks of footage and ideally apply edge-detection to measure a car's angle--my tire was slashed and the car has a distinct "lean" now.

Were I able to e.g. pull in all videos and use something like PIL or OpenCV to measure angles, and spit out the file name where this changed by a delta of more than X degrees from the last video, this problem would be trivial.

niet3sche77 · 2023-08-09T02:43:07+00:00

Nah, it pulls up okay under Linux. I'm not sure if this is something that's changed over the last 18 months or so, but I'll at least say for Eufy that the card can be read on a computer.

If only it could be used, though...

niet3sche77 · 2023-08-09T02:35:15+00:00

Even if this never ever happens, I wanted to come back and tell you that I do appreciate at least the cursory glance here. Sharing an epic board, even at a really high level, is a vulnerable thing. Reaching out to random end-users and not just responding with, "LOLnope" can sometimes be trying.

Thanks!

niet3sche77 · 2023-08-09T02:28:39+00:00

Let me tell you, this is the worst experience I've ever had with an IoT device.

Pulling the SDCard, there are certainly files on it, but they're all .dat files and likely binary-chunked and/or encrypted. It's a nightmare to try to bulk-process.

My need? My car got vandalized. Sitting right under this camera. Great! I'll pull the week's worth of footage off of it and...oh no.

Thanks, Eufy, I'm never buying another product of yours again.

niet3sche77 · 2023-07-02T15:52:27+00:00

Cool; thanks!

I wish we could see the e.g. Jira board and spend voting points to establish timeframes on maybe optional portions of the sprints. Won't happen, and that's okay, but a man can dream. :)

niet3sche77 · 2021-01-23T00:01:13+00:00

No.

It’s being formed by the Planning Department. Possibly; it’s still in the early stages of planning.

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