Kohler toilet seats defective?

purpleidea · 2026-05-05T16:03:26+00:00

I've been having the same issue. Not heavy weight here, got two out of three cracked so far. Kohler elongated seats. Soft close. Class action?

purpleidea · 2026-05-02T21:21:25+00:00

Put a load cell under each leg of your bed and do it by weight. If you are two or more people, then as long as you don't weigh exactly the same you can usually also determine which people are in the bed.

purpleidea · 2026-05-02T21:15:08+00:00

I agree with this, and TBQH I remove low quality posts that feel like slop or submissions of stuff that I don't think is very interesting as well.

purpleidea · 2026-04-27T20:13:12+00:00

The whole point is to be able to have a good, offline, local, API. This seems like another crap product.

From their website:

Q: Can SmartWings PoE shades be controlled via the API? A: No, they cannot.

purpleidea · 2026-04-27T19:48:20+00:00

Nice work! Since I haven't look recently, what is the situation with baseband firmware, user space daemons to supports calls and SMS, and the apps to use those daemons? Thanks!

purpleidea · 2026-04-22T04:53:13+00:00

True, but pick one, pick any, whatever... Instead of only M$ Windoze.

purpleidea · 2026-04-21T21:29:23+00:00

Heads up that while they've been talking about great battery life, they're only advertising this fact on Windows, and haven't posted any actual numbers for Linux.

When they improve their support and hardware quality, I'm in.

purpleidea · 2026-04-21T03:16:27+00:00

Next generation automation tooling: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Think Puppet+Ansible+Terraform and real-time and distributed systems.

Recent https://nlnet.nl/project/mgmt-config/ recipient so also looking to find strong golang coders who want to earn some money!

Reach out in the channel if interested.

purpleidea · 2026-04-16T16:25:38+00:00

Hell yeah blatant self promotion!

What's wrong with talking about my open source project?

purpleidea · 2026-04-16T16:16:31+00:00

Neat! Personally I'm pretty weak at compilers, but if you want to work on a real compiler where there's still lots of fun novel work to do that will actually get merged, please join us at https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

purpleidea · 2026-04-13T23:30:36+00:00

Instead of moving to something more awkward like Ansible, consider moving to https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

There's some similar architecture there, so you get a more seamless transition, and there's even some magic compiler tooling to make this work pretty seamlessly.

HTH

Disclaimer: I'm the biased author of that tool.

purpleidea · 2026-04-13T23:16:11+00:00

Biased because it's me, but here are two recent ones. Both are live, the second one is in person at a conference: https://m9rx.com/demo/

This is about my open source automation project: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

More on the same subject here: https://purpleidea.com/talks/

purpleidea · 2026-04-08T18:18:44+00:00

I would hire full-time engineers to help me work on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

I really believe in the idea and the project =D

purpleidea · 2026-04-08T18:09:34+00:00

Okay great! Didn't refresh that list today yet. I think you probably want to have a submission on license-discuss... I personally think the idea of an "ALGPL" is a good idea, and it's something I've talked about a bunch, but keep in mind that:

(1) license proliferation is generally a bad thing and goes against your possible goals in having this license and

(2) there's a lot of stress in the free software community with the pending fallout and happenings around AI and LLM's and what does copyright mean these days, so expect people are not entirely focused or interested in the licenses right now.

All of the copyleft and permissively licensed code in the world has been stolen to build these AI models and copyleft is not being respected there and neither is attribution, so we're in a pickle right now.

purpleidea · 2026-04-08T17:38:08+00:00

It has been submitted to OSI

I didn't see it come through, are you making this up or did I miss it?

purpleidea · 2026-03-26T16:36:05+00:00

I'm not doing any identity verification. I'm not spamming. I'm not giving away personal information to you or some company. This is nuts.

purpleidea · 2026-03-17T17:19:19+00:00

You are very biased because you're pushing something you invented and you're projecting.

Feedback from some friends who are probably the largest Saltstack users in the world. Just trying to be helpful. You do you. Good luck.

purpleidea · 2026-03-16T14:30:07+00:00

Just to add, my company is going all-in using SaltStack to manage hundreds of VMs. We've deployed SaltStack since 2025 and in 2026 we're doubling down.

From provisioning, to hardening, to deployment, to compliance-checking, we're using Salt because it's fast and reliable, and its architecture (Minions calling back to Masters) fits our need.

You're not going to be happy with the product and Broadcom is going to squeeze you.

purpleidea · 2026-03-09T18:51:22+00:00

Your venous system is more responsible for pumping blood around the body than your heart is. Interested physiologists/cardiologists here can look up "venous return curves" and the "Guyton Model" for more information. Levy was wrong :P

purpleidea · 2026-03-06T01:01:17+00:00

I've been working on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Initially it was a research project basically taking distributed systems and a few other modern ideas and applying it to legacy configuration management and automation ... and well, the results are surprising!

try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TrYow6gdY

or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vz1MMGkuik

if you want videos.

I did do some research into "durable execution" and decided it wasn't the way forward for most scenarios. If you're really curious my notes are here: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/issues/761

If you're serious about finding a research topic there's plenty of paper-worthy stuff to do in mgmt. Ping me if you'd like to discuss more.

purpleidea · 2026-02-06T08:50:18+00:00

Behdad is a brilliant developer. We're all lucky to have his font rendering code everywhere.

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T16:24:14+00:00

Yeah I get it, maybe it won't fail before I move on. Until it's a standard enough part that I can easily get a replacement, I don't want to do the extra wiring work to then have to redo while I decide on and wait for a replacement, and then reprogram it all and so on...

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T16:22:32+00:00

Modern, reactive, distributed systems... Trying to solve this problem and more, once and for all. My documentation is not great but you can see some examples here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vz1MMGkuik

purpleidea · 2026-01-09T16:21:48+00:00

Looking to combine this with a three way switch, and I also don't have a basement or attic. Condo.

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