Category: Status
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“The Christmas lights won’t turn on, better power cycle the server.” Filed under: Sentences Unfamiliar to Thoreau.#homeassistant Also on: website
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Hard to imagine how long finding this answer would have taken before perplexity.ai: “I have an ecobee 3 lite and an aquastatic, 2 taco valve boiler– Can I use the ecobee to control one of the valves and my old thermostat for the other valve?” Also on: website
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A PSA/reminder to self: Linode makes it SUPER easy and fast to increase the size of your server with no downtime but when you want to scale it back down, you have to first resize your disk (down) and then resize the linode box which requires bringing it down completely. Also on: website
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Think I may have my WordPress to Mastodon filtering in place so that it only posts from a specific category and doesn’t spam my Mastodon account with all of my link and highlight saves. Fingers crossed! Also on: website
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Made so much progress with learning #homeassistant this weekend. Got Home Kit Bridge working after learning way too much about mdns, built some iOS notifications w/ automation options and resuscitating some forgot NFC tags. Got #solar power forecasting working, excited to start playing with “now’s a good time to run the washer” type notifications. Also…
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It is apparently way too much to ask #apple #HomeKit to only run my Roborock vacuum at 10AM each morning *if* no one is home. Seems like such a trivial condition to #homeautomation but now I’m deep in the weeds of home assistant trying to Rube Goldberg my way to a solution. We were promised…
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Watched Ronan Farrow’s Surveilled last night on HBO, uncanny how well it pairs with Schaake’s The Tech Coup which I’m just finishing. If you enjoyed the documentary on spyware, definitely give Schaake’s Tech Coup a read: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691241173/the-tech-coup Also on: website
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I’ve been playing in bands for 30 years and can’t imagine trying to make a living at it. Now I’ve got a kid who is an amazing songwriter/musician. It’s heartbreaking to think how undervalued his skill is in this world. Good read: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/28/band-people-franz-nicolay-book-review #songwriting Also on: website
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I like this take from 404 media and agree w/ much of this post on Bluesky, Mastodon and threads: “..But I have been impressed with the tools that the open source development community is building to bridge the gap between the AT protocol and ActivityPub, and I’m hopeful that some mixture of Bluesky and Mastodon…
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Just replaced the gas piston in my 20-year old Herman Miller Aeron. Took less than 5 minutes, hope to get another 20 years out of this guy. Talk about a BIFL worthwhile investment, this chair has paid for itself several times over. Also on: website