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Bishma

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Future winner of the Nobel prize in Minecraft

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Share your favorite automations

I’ve been running HA for a while, and it’s been working well; I haven’t had to change much in a few months. That being said, it’s fun to tinker with it, and I’m curious to hear what kind of automations the rest of the community is using. What automations are you most proud of? What are your favorite? What kind of...

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My favorite is a script not a automation exactly. I run it (just before I get up for bed) via dashboard button or voice command and it:

  • shuts off most of the lights and any screens around the house
  • sets the thermostat to bedtime mode
  • waits 5 minutes (time for me to get my stuff and get to bed) then
  • turn off the remaining lights outside my bedroom
  • Calls my autoremote endpoint

Auto remote then triggers a tasker profile that makes my phone

  • turn on DND
  • set media volume for sleep music and alarm volume for morning (just in case either has been change during the day)
  • set a variable that another tasker automation will see the next time I plug in my phone. At which point it will:
    • set my screen brightness below 1%
    • turn on sleep tracking
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The problem with that is that (now that I’m in my 40s) I don’t like to be around kids for long periods of time, and have come to see anyone under ~25 as a kid. Would I be able to stand being around myself (or my new peers)?

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This site will let you test different GPTs (far from all of them, but its a good list) in various ways. I particularly like the Arena, in which you get responses from 2 random models to your input, you say which you like best, and then it tells you which is which.

It’s got me considering Claude2 for local projects. I just need to revive the hardware I’d use to run it on.

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Friends converted over to using snap, so now they all bring their (loopback) devices.

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HAProxy is really powerful load balancing software. Not only does it go above and beyond on features but it handles a really large volume of traffic on very little compute. For example I ran a site with 350hits/sec base traffic (that regularly bell curved up to 500hits/sec) on 4 HAProxy instances running on t3.micro EC2 instances and I was terminating TLS on 20,000 domains at HAProxy. And if you’re in a position where you need to pay for support they will bend over backward to help.

18+ What's your favorite episode of MST3k? (lemmy.world)

I remember one day hearing my father downstairs laughing his ass off. Went down to see what was so funny to find he had just discovered Mystery Science Theater 3000, and was losing it watching The Giant Gila Monster. I sat down to watch. I didn’t really get it then, but I’ve been a fan ever since.

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When you want the flavor of bacon

in a dip

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Ages ago (80’s I think) there was talk of making lead free solder the only type that was available to consumers, and my great uncle (a deal horder) went out and got 2 cases of radioshack 64/40 resin core. Pretty sure it’s the same stuff you can still buy today, but I’ve got another 4 spools in my kit (that are old enough to drink).

In my uncles defense sometimes his deal hording paid off. He once saved a family reunion when our venue fell through because he happened to have a dozen brand new hibachi grills in the apartment he rented just for his stuff. And he made a small fortune when he bought a bunch of freon before it went off the market.

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The alcohol may not be for science, but it sure helps with writing grant applications.

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I use the MTV demarcation line. If you were born before MTV came on the air (1982) then you’re GenX. But the whole Xenial thing is also legit.

PS the hidden secret to knowing anything before the internet was librarians. If it was really obscure the NY public library would take calls from all over the country.

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Just an ordinary delivery human, do-de-do. Nothing to see here!

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I had the env2. Hands down, my favorite phone to date.

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My default is “subscribed - hot” but I check “all - top 12 hours” once or twice a day.

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I enjoyed having a smartwatch back in the pebble days. I was kind of addicted to notifications (especially from datadog) at the time. My Pebble time made me feel less stressed because glancing at my watch was less effort than pulling out my phone.

Then Pebble was killed off, web-scale infrastructure became more reliable, and I learned to recover from my notification addiction. Now I’m happily watchless again.

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11/10, would salute

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We hit the point where the dollar is worth almost exactly half of what it was when I first started working in the mid 90s. It’s helped to reground my price expectations.

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When I am emperor of earth, recursive acronyms will be outlawed. Start prepping now.

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I’m currently learning FreeCAD so that the one machine I still have sitting around to run Fusion360 can be liberated from Windows at long last. And as a bonus I won’t have to keep updating NoMachine every couple weeks.

Low effort posts

Ask Lemmy is a place to ask thought provoking questions. The mods have been lenient with some of the recent posts on the basis that they must provoke thought for some people, but after seeing two posts essentially saying “what do you think of my stick?”, I believe we can raise the bar a bit on what kind of thoughts we want...

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Time to start a stick appreciation community called RamblinRods

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The benefit to all the research papers I read skimmed in college is that it made all the technical whitepapers I now need to read summarize with GPT a lot less painful in comparison.

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It used to send it to root’s local mailbox but I haven’t looked since the 90s.

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I think the last one to make any real headway was BeOS and they’ve been dying a thousand deaths ever since Apple bought NeXT instead of them. Though admittedly that perspective is coming from a person who used BeOS once in the 90s and has never touched Haiku.

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There’s also no such thing as a tree. Tree is a survival strategy, not a biological classification.

P.S. If you haven’t listened to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast by the QI elves, you’re missing out.

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I’d go back to '93. Vs. had just been released, Jurassic Park was in theaters, the US dollar had almost exactly double the buying power it has today, and I still remember how to design web sites using tables.

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My wedding band formed while it was destroying a solar system. You wouldn’t like it when its angry.

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