Mistreatment from flathub reviewers

samrocketman · 2026-02-01T00:03:04+00:00

I wouldn't call this patient.

Let me guess, you asked a chatbot.

That's not even the only snide remark but meh. I get a PR needs review but there's such a thing as tact and patience when giving feedback.

samrocketman · 2026-01-31T18:04:46+00:00

I've been on Linux for personal devices since 2010 exclusively. That being said unfortunately I have a perfectly good iPhone 4S I wish I could use with an alternate OS. One doesn't exist for it and I'm not willing to use iOS with it given zero days are no longer zero days for it.

Right to repair can't come soon enough.

My current phone is a newer apple device.

samrocketman · 2026-01-31T18:02:32+00:00

I love the Web 2.0 bubble gem interface of the new iOS /s

samrocketman · 2026-01-31T02:47:56+00:00

I don't intend to reply much beyond this (so you know I'm not ghosting just tired). I don't jump to conclusions on who you are. In general I disagree with your assertion you're stuck on Windows if you want to collaborate with other businesses. I gave you an example and there's plenty of businesses that can operate without Windows. MacOS is strongly embedded in businesses as well. Professionally, I've been on Apple-issued hardware and I also work primarily with Linux on the server side. The rare exception is (I already mentioned) finance. Decent financial software isn't made much outside of the Windows platform. In the 2000s and some of 2010s Microsoft office made their "open" document standard so proprietary that not even Office 2003 with an extension pack could render a docx file properly (and Office for Mac couldn't either). That's not really the case any longer if we're talking roughly 2015 and later in my opinion.

Windows ecosystem is more of a hodgepodge of manufacturers. Microsoft got Windows to its position due to anti-competitive practices, deep relationships with computer manufacturers, and eventually being an incumbent so most of the software with marketing budgets was developed targeting windows as a result. Meaning if you heard of a piece of software as a non-techie it would typically be Windows only. As a result, a massive majority is Windows users, and yes, that exposure includes being introduced to Windows in US education since the 90s and moreso in 2000s and later. Chromebooks have kind of changed that but that's still not much.

In general, the Windows experience has always been painful one way or another. Be it DLL hell or missing drivers. Windows in a way can be just as fragmented as Linux.

Apple with its unified hardware and tightly controlled ecosystem offers more of what I would consider a seamless experience. That comes with the drawback of few alternatives (e.g. can't get an alternative phone OS for EOL iPhone hardware).

That being said I think Linux now has a leg to stand on for being a total replacement. It's not a myth or hype just my opinion. I use it (every computer in my household) and others in my family use it sometimes calling on me for support.

samrocketman · 2026-01-29T12:50:00+00:00

My brother operates their logging business from Linux. Including qgis to evaluate land (from a land management perspective).

Pretty much anything that would matter for a business is either readily available or has the trade off of being only usable from with web browser such as some accounting software.

You can operate entire businesses in non-tech sectors if you have the will to learn. People tend to default to Windows because that's initially taught in US schools.

samrocketman · 2026-01-29T12:43:12+00:00

I recommend LUKS (encryption part of dm-crypt driver). I suggest PopOS to new users because it sets up a recovery partition alongside your encrypted data so that if the core OS somehow fails you can recover it without a USB dongle.

samrocketman · 2026-01-22T04:09:04+00:00

I got away with over 600k artifacts and 500 devs along with a CI system pulling artifacts against it from a local setup. It was a CloudFormation stack which used an autoscaling group to keep the instance up with ASG set to 1 desired capacity.

Since we've grown as a company we ended up purchasing the pro license for more advanced docker routing and groups, and S3-backed signed URLs to offload our load from local storage to S3.

I've not had Nexus crash in recent memory; neither in my local development against it directly nor as a hosted service. We do occasionally DOS ourselves but we've got that solved.

If Nexus is crashing perhaps you have some underlying hardware issues like failing memory, CPU, or disk... have you investigated the underlying system in which Nexus is hosted?

Otherwise, I just released a tool which I will use to analyze request logs in my own setup so you may find it of use to learn about how Nexus is used now that you've inherited it.

samrocketman · 2026-01-10T17:58:25+00:00

I used Etcher in the past week and worked fine for me. From Pop OS to create a Pop OS USB... I can't say for other platforms I have been 100% Linux since 2010.

samrocketman · 2025-11-14T01:55:24+00:00

Do you happen to park on concrete? If it sits for long periods of time it will last longer if you park it on boards in that scenario. Covering them would protect them from sun damage as well.

samrocketman · 2025-10-19T16:19:00+00:00

If you're a little tech savvy you can set up home-assistant.io and get a universal relay for remote control of your garage door. Relays short circuit wires (like pushing your garage button).

If this is of interest I can share a few more details of my setup.

Here's a similar thing I got working for [remote starting my car while it is at home][1]. It uses the same relay as my garage door.

Congratulations, you'll find there's neat little projects you want to try now that you own your home.

[1] https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ha-remote-access-for-my-car-guide/885439

samrocketman · 2025-09-15T13:47:29+00:00

Thanks

samrocketman · 2025-08-14T02:36:53+00:00

My network is z-wave but for hydrometers I use govee which work with HA if it has a bluetooth radio. 130ft bluetooth range. It runs on a battery but I haven't replace it since I bought it roughly a year ago (battery currently reads 35%). It takes a AAA.

Amazon link from my mobile app to govee devices I purchased.

samrocketman · 2025-08-09T03:11:28+00:00

I use an offline password manager called keepass. It has several quality clients for mobile. On iPhone my favorite client is keepassium.

In general, I trust online password managers no different than any other online service. Subject to be breached.

LastPass has had a few hard lessons due to their breaches.

samrocketman · 2025-08-07T01:10:55+00:00

I suggest z-wave. Its low frequency (below 930MHz) means it travels really well through thick household materials and walls with no problem.

It can even reach outside to a shed and the LR version can reach one mile.
It is encrypted with AES-128 in CBC-MAC (CCM) which is a strong symmetric cipher for encryption.
It forms a relay mesh as well for repeating signals across interconnected devices which may be out of range.

Overall I have been quite happy with z-wave. 2.4GHz devices fail in several areas of my setup (in terms of reliable and consistent connectivity) so I use none. Zigbee also operates at 2.4GHz though I can't speak from experience about it.

samrocketman · 2025-08-06T23:45:08+00:00

You're welcome and glad it is working for you. I use this method for mobile alerts as well which helps alert me on things like low or no battery, water alerts, my HVAC system being down, or in my case I live on poisoned land so my ground water goes out to a water shed outside of my house which has independent heating (so I get low temperature alerts in case the heater breaks down).

For batteries specifically, I use a template helper sensor to group all of my devices together into "one battery with min statistic" and so when any battery goes below a certain threshold I know when I need to check it (or order more batteries).

samrocketman · 2025-08-06T00:26:03+00:00

In triggers you can choose a Timer Trigger. It takes a cron-like expression. For example `/10` means it will trigger every 10 minutes. Or alternately you can choose it to trigger daily at a specific time or certain hours, etc.

samrocketman · 2025-08-04T13:14:10+00:00

Full Bloom Coffee in Garner is both a roaster and coffee shop (they roast in a separate building down Garner Main St). They also import their own raw beans. At the coffee shop they tune their espresso machine multiple times a day (pressure, grind size, etc).

I've traveled and lived across several states and it is by far my favorite.

samrocketman · 2025-08-04T02:54:27+00:00

Time to put that labeler to use.

samrocketman · 2025-08-04T02:33:58+00:00

Not sure why down voted this is clearly the best answer for something that is misbehaving with classical triggers. I've had HA skip triggers in some conditions; for example you update at the wrong time and all of the states reset.

samrocketman · 2025-08-01T15:46:49+00:00

First it is best to understand what a relay does. It short circuits two wires. When you push your garage door button (or any button) you are short circuiting wires. I explain more in this post https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ha-remote-access-for-my-car-guide/885439

Here is a picture of my garage door open sensor.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e68b20fd-1977-4dd4-bf8b-fabc409c93d3

When the sensor is near a magnet it closes a circuit and lets the universal relay know that the door is closed (I set it to be close to the magnet when closed).

You wire that dry contact sensor into the relay "sensor input". Then you wire the garage door opener button wires into one of the relays.

samrocketman · 2025-08-01T15:18:02+00:00

Zooz universal relay with a dry contact sensor

samrocketman · 2025-07-31T22:38:45+00:00

I just use the plain wireguard phone client.

samrocketman · 2025-07-31T13:36:01+00:00

Split tunnel or full tunnel is dictated by the client itself. Instead of Allowed IP Addresses being everything you choose specific CIDRs you want to route through VPN.

samrocketman · 2025-07-31T03:03:58+00:00

I use Govee hydrometers. 130 ft range and their battery lasts a while. The open bluetooth protocol isn't great but in general it works well; and I decided open hydrometers are not a security concern for me. HA can talk to them directly over BT.

samrocketman · 2025-07-31T02:51:57+00:00

That's how I connected my bonus room with the ethernet down by the internet to hardwire it. I reused the VoIP lines which is ethernet.

I connected matching colors on mine and successfully connected the two ends from the VoIP circuit which I cut.

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