InEnduringGrowStrong @ InEnduringGrowStrong @sh.itjust.works

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@EllaSpiggins@lemm.ee can probably help with the account on lemm.ee.

Or just make an account here on https://sh.itjust.works/ without messing up the email.

I think most instances' admins are reacheable through Matrix.

Good luck
Peace

What year is it? 1999?

Reddit has been actively hostile for a while.

Here?
On one hand, it's a smaller place, so there's less content to browse...
On the other hand, it's a smaller place so you can reply to an older thread and still have interaction with people.

On reddit, if I replied to a thread that was 1h old, it was like sending a message in a bottle, floating in an endless sea where none would find it or shouting in the void.

Anyway, welcome home / make it your home.
Peace

The way deleted users is handled kinda sucks right now. I'd say... reach out to the spammy user's home instance admin and have them delete that user's content.

I forgot to mention Ascent which is one of my favorites. I played it early 2024, which feels ages ago It's a cyberpunk twin stick shooter RPG.
It was really fun.

It's also one of the games for which I tweaked my SteamDeck controls a lot.
I vaguely remember the right stick "snapping" too much for my tastes to the horizontal/vertical cross, which went completely away when I mapped it to a fake keyboard/mouse input instead.

2024? Lots of different titles that I played for a while then moved on.
Helldivers 2 was nice enough, I've also played a lot of Slay the Spire and Deep Rock Galactic Survivor.

Most surprising (to me)... I got Moonstone Island on a whim.
It's usually not a game I'd get, but id that was fun, it's kind of a mix of Stardew Valley, with bits of Pokémon and Slay the Spire.

New Gaz-a-Lago golf course speedrun.

Not sure if that counts, but prusament has default profiles in prusaslicer for their stuff.

Also: Light therapy thing. Relatively cheap and easy, helps a lot with the moodiness of winter.

Fuck modern appliances.
I'm lucky enough to have bought both washer/dryer almost 20 years ago. Both of 'em for $600 at Future Shop, which now ironically only exists in the past.

I never really think about these appliances, which is the nice part that I realky love about them.
They don't remind me they exist with beeps or phone notifications. They just do their thing.
Anyway, the washer is an old, cheap top loader, that can also periodically be used to tamp the soil beneath your foundation to make sure your house is stable. You activate that feature by bunching the bed sheets all wrong on the same side of the drum.
That's a nice feature that's been deprecated in newer models.
It's an overall easy model to repair because it's mostly just an oversized salad spinner with 2 water valves and a pump.
The dryer is like the quiet nephew that you like but never hear much about, nothing much to say really, but it works.

Anyway.
When the temperature dial on the washer broke 15 years ago, there was no way I was paying $90 to buy some complicated part that would break again.
So I just removed the knob and twisted the stranded wires to a dumb switch that you could reach by putting your finger in the knob hole as a proof of concept, left for the cold valve, right for hot. Sketchy? Sure. Warm? I don't know? Use a bit of both, or whatever.
I never even got around to actually solder it, which is weird because I've soldered lots of electronics. It worked, I guess I forgot, so whatever.

Until it stopped working a few months ago, having finally shaken itself loose and I opened it up again, only then realizing I didn't solder it way back then. Oops.
This time, I ordered a proper 3 position rotary switch, which I did solder. Left for the cold valve, right for the hot valve, and amazingly: middle for both, which is how warm water is made.
I also 3d printed a knob to fit the new switch.
Fancy right? but my last repair is still nowhere near as complicated as the original broken part was and we still only ever use the cold water setting.

Now, it turns out the reason the original part is complicated and expensive is that in normal washers, the temperature selection thingy only ever changes the washing temperature and not the rinsing temperature.
This means which valve needs to open has to change depending on where it is in the wash cycle, thus the more complicated part.

Anyway, technically, my washer now has more features than before it broke in the sense that we could theoretically now rinse with hot or warm water, which y'all plebs probably can't. Not that we ever use anything but the cold setting, but we could and you can't.

The dryer? It has just kept working.
Now and then we'd feed it something wrong like a bunch of loose balls from an old bearing that was sitting in a pant pocket or a set of lockpicks or whatever and I take the back panel apart to retrieve the stuff stuck in the back elbow somewhere. When that happens, I also vacuum the lint that is stuck in this quantum realm of not being caught in the lint filter, but also not expelled out, just caught in that same hungry void elbow.

Both have no music, no tunes, no beeps, no capacitive buttons that you don't quite know if you pressed or not, no lockout, although there's a safety switch that stops the drum from turning if you open the lid. No wifi, no app, no mold.
There's no soap dispenser, although I do have a peristaltic pump and tubing so I could easily enough just drop that in a jug of liquid detergent and time how much to use... but... we prefer powder detergent anyway because shipping water around is just dumb when I can get the same shit in concentrated powder and add water myself, which washing machines conveniently already do.
A bucket of the stuff lasts several years too.

They're old and all that, but these things keep on doing what they're made for while friends have gone through 3-4 sets in the same time line.

Fuck modern appliances.

I had kinda assumed they always were?
I guess the cloud stuff was "optional" before.
In a way, I'm kinda lucky I misunderstood at the time.

Fuck this garbage human.

Good question, I'd guess it would be the closest to the center of whichever zone.
I haven't tested them, but if they work, it'd be easier to use non circular zones than deal with multiple overlapping ones.

I get what you mean and yea I don't think you can easily use groups for that.
Zones have a several things going on.
In no particular order:

1. A zone's state is the number of people in it.
2. Zones can be used as enter/leave triggers in automations.
3. A person's state becomes the name of the zone when they're in them.

Making a mock entity for #1 is easy enough, a helper number thing whose state is the sum of the group members' states.
The other stuff is more complicated.
#2... Might be easier to add the different zones as multiple triggers, which might be a pain to manage. But then, I assume you'd also want to ignore whenever someone moves between zones in that same group.
#3... idk, if it's just for displaying purposes in that person's "badge" thing, just use the same display name for all zones in group. If it's for use in an automation, then you probably need to duplicate everything again.

Might be easier to implement polygonal zones than group normal ones.

I think nodered might already have that geofencing feature.

There's a bit of discussion in here: https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1014

I'm out of the loop on Bambu shitting the bed?

I kinda always dismissed them outright for my own use because they seemed like the kind of company to go always online DRM or some other bullshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren't_Real#/media/File:%22Birds_Aren't_Real%22_billboard_in_Memphis.jpg

Checks out, seeing as breathing is a precursor in blowguns.

You can also technically make a gun with generic plumbing supplies or you could finagle one with random garbage and a drill bit.

Yesterday I saw this article online: https://www.wired.com/story/red-note-tiktok-xiaohongshu/ which has the title “With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’”

But then the title of the post that was removed was this:

GET DIGITAL ACCESS Already a subscriber? Sign In Zeyi Yang Business Jan 13, 2025 3:03 PM With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’

The extra first bit does kinda read like spam or maybe a messed copy paste or something.

Old trick from the 90s, as old as HTTP/1.0