GreatAlbatross

GreatAlbatross , 2 hours ago

And how many are the site completely re-jigging their CMS with no forwarding set up.

GreatAlbatross , 2 hours ago

Countries toeing the line to allow CCP China to save face, while also selling defense equipment to Taiwan.

GreatAlbatross , 9 hours ago

But they are ready to take the jobs of motivational speakers.

GreatAlbatross , 4 days ago

Which British accent? Westcountry or Scouse, you probably have a point.

GreatAlbatross , 4 days ago

I'm curious to see what the quality is like. If it's a similar case to the Enviro hat, and gives good reliable results for less, fantastic.
If it's like the other cheapie thermal sensors on alibaba, less so.

GreatAlbatross , 5 days ago

I can't see how anyone involved with allowing this isn't complicit.
What possible reason did the police of a foreign nation need to be physically there for, other than physically removing someone?

GreatAlbatross , 5 days ago

Belfast and Dublin would have been nice.

GreatAlbatross Mod , 5 days ago

Security wise, while I love automating everything, I personally would just give them a physical key to the front door. (Or an RFID keyfob system).
What you'd be achieving is the equivalent of keyless car entry, with the additional downside that your son can't choose not to open the door if something sketchy happens.
And instead of entrusting them with a traditional key that they can treat responsibly, you're just putting something in their backpack that they don't have to think about.

If you really want to do it, basically anything in homeassistant that has wireless capability and a state would probably work.
A zigbee radio, and pretty much any device doing anything would do it.
When device_name becomes available, activate door opening.

GreatAlbatross Mod , 7 days ago

I'm curious to hear what people come up with, as I quite fancy one too.

I would be wary of installing anything that actually touches the water that doesn't come from an accredited manufacturer, however. As you don't want Ali-express grade metal in your drinking water.

Which unfortunately means the options will be either expensive, or building off the back of other equipment currently installed (water meter, etc).

GreatAlbatross Mod , 7 days ago

Your meter may have some kind of magnetic flux that occurs as the dial spins, which you might be able to sense and interpret.

GreatAlbatross Mod , 7 days ago

That's a pretty neat bit of kit. If they did it in metric sizes, I'd be tempted.

GreatAlbatross , 7 days ago

The level of AB use in livestock in various countries is astonishing.
Most european nations have to keep a very strict log of which antibiotics are used, and for what reason.
Meanwhile, until recently India was using Colistin as a growth promoter.

GreatAlbatross , 8 days ago

Seeing the flying foxes around Sydney surprised me.

The bin chickens, I simultaneously felt a little sorry for, and enjoyed watching.

GreatAlbatross , 10 days ago

It's funny like that, isn't it?

You catch lightning in a bottle in 5 minutes using Reaper, then spend 100x the time on another song that just vanishes.

Peaches most popular song was a tape recording off the sound desk in a German bar.

GreatAlbatross , 11 days ago

You will be truly British once you register on feddit.uk

In seriousness, I like to think it's a state of mind. If you find yourself generally aligning most with the more positive British attitudes, you're British. Though living in Wales, you may end up feeling more Welsh eventually!

If you want to feel more connected, try getting involved with local festivities and traditions.
Explore the countryside with the Ramblers. Do some pub quizzes. Go to a folk festival.
The sorts of things that involve you with pleasant people.

GreatAlbatross , 12 days ago

This is one of the reasons I went to Apple TV for my streaming box.

All the streaming services seem to be in a race to make the slowest, worst looking, least consistent application possible. And Apple at least has a bit of a hand in making them reign it in a bit, and keep the players consistent.

"ooh, we're averaging only 75% cpu use, we can cram another shitty effect in here..."

GreatAlbatross , 16 days ago

It's the same with machine learning.

People persuading ChatGPT to spit out some code, then getting offended when coders point out that you can't rely on GPT enough to use it blind.

GreatAlbatross , 16 days ago

This is pretty much what happened with HomeAssistant. Tying all the integrations together in one platform.

It's now at the stage of "copy these files to a pi/buy this box we make"

The overall aim is to integrate most open things, and find ways to work with/around more closed off products.

!homeassistant

GreatAlbatross , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

Same with certain home improvement companies that hope once you're on the line, they can close the sale there and then.
I swear they must make all their money off people who don't want to think about what the job involves, and just hand over a chequebook.

The water softener from Costco is £500, the one from ScrewFix is £400, but I'm curious how much the one from NameBrand is.
NameBrand website "Well, it can vary a lot depending on how complicated..."
Forum posts: "£2k including fitting and a year's salt, £1500 for the unit"
(Which isn't an insane price to just have it sorted, I just hate the bollocks excuses when everyone magically still comes out around £2k)

The physical staircase will cost me about £1000, then a few days of skilled labour for someone to fit.
I wonder how much one of those "we'll just handle it" companies in the back of the sunday supplement could do it for...Oh, that's 15 times the price, wonderful.

GreatAlbatross , 20 days ago

Or MSRP minus 10%, which they're keen to draw attention to, despite the fact it's on normal sites for MSRP -30%.

GreatAlbatross , 20 days ago

It's a balance, they might not know exactly what the job would entail until they send someone to look, and labour could double the price if it's something ridiculous.

However, they absolutely should be able to give a ballpark, and it drives me up the wall, especially when I've given enough details for them to do so.
I hate it.
If you won't even tell me how many zeroes your service is going to cost, there is an absurdly high change you're going to be wasting your engineer's time doing a visit.

"How much for a 12000 BTU on the ground floor with electrical already run?"
"Well sir, we can't give an accurate number yet, as we need to send someone out"
"Not even a ballpark?"
"I'm afraid not sir"

Which led me to investigating what I could do myself...Turns out, they now make self-install units for about £600.
Or Costco sell a better brand one including fitting for £1500.

GreatAlbatross , 20 days ago

I absolutely agree.
Honestly, if NameBrand posted their prices, I might have considered them, as once my time organising/plumbing (or paying a plumber) is factored in, the difference isn't so massive.
I just loathe the principle of having to get a quote for even the basic device in a box!

GreatAlbatross , 24 days ago

If any federated banning networks do pop up, I'd expect them to form groups, with different groups having different standards. And the idea being that if someone's banned from one place with similar standards, the rest of the group probably wouldn't welcome the content.

It'll come down to places and groups being reasonable, and not banning for stupid reasons (at least by that group's standards). And if they are unreasonable, it'll reflect on the group, as nobody would bother posting to those instances any more.

And in a way, the ultimate "ban" will be with the host instance, similarly to email.
An admin at lemmy.world might get a report that an account is spreading csam links everywhere, and to consider banning them, for example.

GreatAlbatross , 25 days ago

They have boiled one of the most well cooked frogs in the entire tech industry

Plus, there isn’t that much by way of an alternative for the same money. *Edit: I’ve just done a little legwork, and Tidal might work for me…*Even with the recent price hike, it’s £4/user/month for a family plan, for access to 95% of the world’s music.

For all its flaws, and really hit-and-miss algos, I struggled to find something better for around the same money.

GreatAlbatross Mod , 26 days ago

Asking questions is always good, don’t worry! Feel free to ask more, heck update the thread and ask questions as you go along if you like.

If you list the devices you want to migrate, I’m sure the community will happily highlight any tips, or which will be the easiest to get you started.

GreatAlbatross , 26 days ago

Thirded. I set Mint as the default boot, then have a copy of windows available as an alternative OS option when required.

GreatAlbatross , 26 days ago

Stock splits

“Holy shit guys, it’s cheap now, buy, buy, buy!”

GreatAlbatross , 26 days ago

If I hear code yellow, I assume I need to grab a mop and bucket.

GreatAlbatross , 26 days ago

I would love to see a fork of this that makes it sound like a Geiger counter.
Maybe with scale options, so it doesn’t just become a humming sound.

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

Honestly? It’s tricky to find communities that give you a spread.

I can recommend picking an instance that has a secondary alignment with you (for example, country/state), as they’ll tend to pick up posts in All that may be of interest other than politics.

(Though tbf, our instance still leans left on whole. Just not so crazily)

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

Hell of a way to bury the announcement.

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

When Broadcom announced the purchase a year or so ago, I abandoned all further VMWare certs, and put the time into getting my head around the alternatives.
I still have to use VMWare for 90% of my job, but I’m absolutely treating it like a locked-in platform, and assuming that anything I learn to do in VMWare, I need to understand the underlying concepts, not just their interpretation, and how I can do similar things on other platforms.

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

TIL my car has been making speedcore every day for the last decade.

GreatAlbatross OP Mod , 1 month ago

My “What’s the internet connection up to?” card:
https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/b89692da-9812-4257-88b9-e6808013ba93.png

My “Leaving the house” card:
https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/0dcda459-8b47-4c3c-b85c-75206d168cf6.png
It’s nice to compare the local predicted temperature, and local sensor.

GreatAlbatross OP Mod , 1 month ago

Currently, it’s using a Waze integration.
The coolest thing, is that it’s given me a really nice data set for when are the bad times to drive across town are. (Sadly, it’s during the morning and afternoon school runs).
It also reveals that the travel time on average is impacted significantly by the school holidays, and the weather.

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/851febdb-5813-4dee-9205-f4bf45779df4.png

GreatAlbatross OP Mod , 1 month ago

It is indeed! Mostly just fiddling around with the settings.

@smeg, here is a paste of the config so you can play with it:
(If you click show code editor, then paste in, you can then go back to visual editor with things configured)

Speedtest needle gauges and ping with colour change:

<span style="color:#323232;">type: horizontal-stack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cards:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  - type: gauge
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    min: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    severity:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      green: 80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      yellow: 50
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      red: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    entity: sensor.speedtest_download
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    max: 100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    needle: true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  - type: gauge
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    min: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    max: 20
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    entity: sensor.speedtest_upload
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    severity:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      green: 16
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      yellow: 10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      red: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    needle: true
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  - type: gauge
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    min: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    entity: sensor.speedtest_ping
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    severity:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      green: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      yellow: 15
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      red: 20
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    max: 100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

Air quality with lots of different colours:

<span style="color:#323232;">type: horizontal-stack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">cards:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  - type: gauge
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    entity: sensor.oxford_air_quality_index
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    needle: false
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    min: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    max: 500
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    segments:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - from: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        color: '#00e400'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - from: 51
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        color: '#ffff00'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - from: 101
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        color: '#ff7e00'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - from: 151
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        color: '#ff0000'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - from: 201
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        color: '#8f3f97'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - from: 301
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        color: '#800000'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    name: 'Air quality: PM2.5'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    unit: µg/m3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  - type: gauge
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    entity: sensor.external_environment_f
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    max: 40
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    severity:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      green: 18
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      yellow: 25
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      red: 30
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    needle: false
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    min: -10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  - type: gauge
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    entity: sensor.oxford_uv_index
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    max: 10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    severity:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      green: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      yellow: 3
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      red: 6
</span>

Once you’ve got your head around horizontal stacks (lets you put multiple small dials together), it’s mostly picking thresholds and settings colours.

GreatAlbatross OP Mod , 25 days ago

It was broken for a few weeks of 2024.2 (I think).
I ended up learning how to do a manual downgrade while they fixed it!

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

I’ve been really pleased with the feddit.uk community so far. It probably helps that a lot of us are geographically similar.

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

Simple solution:

• Send the elephants to the uk
• Sunak pays to have them sent on to Rwanda.

Botswana has fewer elephants.
Sunak can claim to have deported 20000 imaphants.
Rwanda gets a truckload of money from the UK.

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

It may not be the same in the US, but in the UK, you can mortgage a new build project.

The company releases money in stages as the build progresses, normally.

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

Kagi has been doing a decent job for me, with the downside that it’s paid, and does use results from other places.
They go into detail about how they work, but it’s them paying for results from lots of engines, plus their own engine, then heavy duty filtering of the results.
Plus a ML results summarizer you can press after searching.

GreatAlbatross OP Mod , 1 month ago

I’ll pop this as a top level comment, as so many people have made recommendations, thank you everyone!
Valetudo absolutely sounds like the way forward.

After more digging, it looks like mopping, unless you spend lots of money, is kinda basic on all models.
So I’ve gone with a basic second hand machine that works with Valetudo, and has simple mopping.
Hopefully it’ll let me get a good idea of what is/isn’t possible, and if a £600 full on mopping device is worth it!
And who knows, if spending that much is worth it, I can have one on each floor, like a fancy rich person.

(I also need to find out how well machines deal with poo!)

GreatAlbatross , 1 month ago

You actually raise a good point: People may not join a smaller instance if you’re not confident it’s going to hang around.

I might see if I can publish a contingency/continuity plan in our next community update.

GreatAlbatross , 2 months ago

This is precisely it.
One other point is, some instance want to focus on certain things, and take the risks, where others don’t.
Our community feddit.uk doesn’t do nsfw, because it’s not worth the headache for what our main focus is.
The guy running lemmynsfw on the other hand, is enthusiastically embracing the challenges involved, and more power to him!

And in the end, it works. We handle Mr. Brains Pork Balls, they can handle…other balls.

GreatAlbatross , 2 months ago

Sounds like a job for the Forrester WRX STi.