It’s on my list to do something about mine as well. The vendor sells automated modules at a ridiculous price so I don’t want to do that. However I have the reaching poke so it hasn’t been a priority. It’s been quite a few years now so I’m starting to wonder if replacing the blinds will come up in priority before I get to automating them
I’ve got an extra tall living room, and without a 15’ ladder there’s no way I can actuate the pull down shades
Not what you’re looking for but maybe you should have as a backup plan…… I’ve got a pole that works in my similar situation. It telescopes to 12’, has a handle to simplify turning to adjust the blinds, and a hook at the end to grab hold for raising and lowering.
And it’s automated too. I can use a voice assistant to send a command to raise or lower …. As long as one of my kids is in the room. /s
The Bluetooth visualization caught my eye, but I’m here for the Alexa integration.
My most amusing automation is telling my teens to goto bed, at midnight on weekends, maybe I can spice it up a bit
I’m actually planning to do an evaluation of a n ai code review tool to see what it can do. I’m actually somewhat optimistic that it could do this better than it can code
I really want to sic it on this one junior programmer who doesn’t understand that you can’t just commit ai generated slop and expect it to work. This last code review after over 60 pieces of feedback I gave up on the rest and left it as he needs to understand when ai generated slop needs help
Ai is usually pretty good at unit tests but it was so bad. Randomly started using a different mocking framework, it actually mocked entire classes and somehow thought that was valid to test them. Wasting tests on non-existent constructors no negative tests, tests without verifying anything. Most of all there were so many compile errors, yet he thought that was fine
My company only allows downloads from official sources, verified publishers, signed where we can. This is enforced by only allowing the repo server to download stuff and only from places we’ve configured. In general those go through a process to reduce the chances of problems and mitigate them quickly.
We also feed everything through a scanner to flag known vulnerabilities, unacceptable licenses
If it’s fully packaged installable software, we have security guys that take a look at I have no idea what they do and whether it’s an audit
I’m actually going round in circles with this one developer. He needs an open source package and we already cache it on the repo server in several form factors, from reputable sources …… but he wants to run a random GitHub component which downloads an unsigned tar file from an untrusted source
Then forget all that and just use
cd ~ or cd /
I hit delay so it’s finished when I want it but the clothes are not sitting around damp.
That’s different than “soak” or pre-rinse
I can start the laundry late without waiting up for it
I have a semi-smart washer with a “delay” feature that lets me run it later. My electricity price doesn’t change so I use it to have the washer finish when I get up in the morning so the clothes can go right in the dryer.
However a notification feature would be fantastic. I still don’t understand why appliance manufacturers never cooperated on a cheap and simple standard for remote notification
Have you found a convenient way of generating those? And does it integrate with any password manager you might be using?
I use Apples “Hide my email” with the password manager so I always have a randomly generated email and randomly generated password and they’re managed together. However there’s not really support for a username distinct from but in addition to email, nor a way to generate those randomly
It’s actually a good idea - I need to figure out how to do that.
For the last several years I’ve used randomly generated email addresses for every account. I can turn off forwarding when they’re inevitably leaked to spammers and there’s one less thing for demographers to aggregate data on me with. That works well when every service insists on a working email address.
But then I get lazy and use a more obvious username so I can remember it. I need to be able to auto-generate those as well
Very nice. It’s taken me until this part of my life to really appreciate color schemes that go together like this and still have no idea how to make such things happen, so very impressive.
I’ve been in houses where the fridge blends with the cabinet so they do exist. My ex actually has a “counter depth” fridge and is able to make do but it is really tiny.
I suppose you’re less likely to lose things in the back since there is no back. I don’t have the organizational skills to make that work
EVs are more likely to be made out of aluminum and generally have a well covered bottom. I have no idea yet whether they’ll last better, but it’s something to consider trying for a next vehicle …. Or I could let you know in 15 years
I’ve had better results by including “man” in my searches to find the man pages, but man that makes for some questionable looking searches
This is one of the reasons I need to set up Linux at home. I use it at work but who knows what the flavor of the week is?
At this point I can’t tell the difference between yum and rpm and apt and dnf
Same here. Never any noticeable performance issues. I’m happy with this choice, given low cost, energy efficiency, stability. I also like that I can dedicate the hardware to HA, whereas I’d be tempted to share if I had a more capable box
However I only have a couple dozen devices and don’t attempt to run anything intensive like voice processing, image recognition, or any sort of media streaming.
Seriously. I replaced my wireless with a mesh during COVID. I spent way too much to get WiFi6 when it was new, now 5 years later …
Wifi7 is available, it is only gigabit Ethernet, and most importantly some promised features were never delivered and it never really got stable. I’m ready to replace it
I may update Ethernet to 2.5g first
What’s your goal in using fake info? If it’s general privacy, it’s easy enough to register where your info is private to the registrar