JustEnoughDucks @ JustEnoughDucks @feddit.nl

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Many many places (it is a trend now) just have extractor fans that simply run through a shitty filter and blow it back into the room. My old rented house (it was just renovated in 2021) was like that along with tons of moisture problems coming from a half-assed renovation (turns out, the church officials were embezzeling a ton of money from the church company that came out a few years later) of a protected monument house from the 1500s.

Not going nearly as fast as I hoped. But we will get there.

34 cm from the floor dug out

Concrete slab got placed

10k L water pit and 2.5k L septic pit installed and hooked up

Bathroom we completely drywalled and routed all of the electrical and water (not hooked up yet). Man doing drywall plasters to brick is the worst ever. You have 1, 15 minute chance to get it completely level and plumb and you can't pull it back out if you push it in too deep otherwise it won't stick. I never want to do it again. Luckily we are having the rest of the house plastered.

Toilet, shower wall, bath, etc... Are all ready in the next room to install when the shower wall is waterproofed with a rubber layer and the drywall is completely sanded where there won't be tiles.

Half of the routing for the upstairs radiators is ready, but the contractor that promised to install the 2 temperature mixing system before winter break delayed by a month and a half...

But it is going!

The xperia 5ii doesn't have wireless charging, so no.

3.5 years almost with the Xperia 5ii. Tried between 20 and 80 but for the last year, the battery life was so bad that now it is between 10 and 80 while barely using it. AVG battery SoT discharge rate is 18%/hr according to accubattery. When I got it, it was around 9%. The killer is screen off time which is 2.6%/ hour, over double what it was originally.

Accubattery has been tracking through the phone's entire life and says it is at 70% or so now. Almost 9% per year loss.

Xperias must have super cheap bad batteries because my girlfriend's A52 (a much cheaper phone) purchased at the exact same time, used much more often, and charged to 100% still lasts 1-2 days easily and the battery capacity is at 85% or so. But maybe if I charged to 100%, the battery life would be at 50% of so with the quality of the battery.

32 bit embedded processors us a lot of 32 bit time, though i am not sure if date time libraries in SDKs have been updated to use 64 bit for time.

I don't think I will buy another Nintendo console ever (unless they turn around) and will only buy 2nd hand games so Nintendo doesn't get any money.

The sad thing is that Nintendo does make very good games and some of the only great party games left with a low skill entry level

This is pretty easy to DIY.

Esp32, PCM5102 DAC, and a small speaker.

ESPHome media player, the music either on Spotify via MusicAssistant or simply in a local folder on home assistant. You can adjust the speaker volume via the pcm5102.

Hell, wire an i2s microphone to it also and you have a voice assistant satellite.

A Volkswagen id4 was the best choice I had from work (Belgian companies give company cars for personal use as perks because of tax benefits).

I completely disagreed to all terms involving internet access in the vehicle, but I have no doubt they are tracking me without my consent too...

Buddhism as it originally was, was more of a philosophy and way of life.

However, as will all organized religion, Buddhism has morphed in Tibet (free Tibet), India, and other places into mysticism with gods, recurring semi-saviors through "reincarnation", and classist systems and hierarchies. Sad, really. Humans mess everything up for personal gain and control.

It works well.

I have done the same thing with custom hardware, ESPHome, and routed the output to my old Yamaha AV receiver with an IR blaster in the device for auto source switching and volume control.

I can't wait for music assistant to integrate Spotify connect because right now you can only play saved playlist/albums or some recent music, no browsing.

A media player component plus microphone plus voice assistant.

Depends on the device.

If it is AC powered, it acts as a repeater. If it is battery powered, it is only a node, not a repeater.

KNX is indeed a protocol, but there is a whole multi - manufacturer ecosystem around it. It is mostly used in the commercial space. It is literally the ultimate smart electricity ecosystem for reliability.

Everything that I did is done in the electrical box so you buy traditional push button switches for the walls with very thin, cheap cable, and then your lights as normal.

It is wired originally with twisted pair bus that delivers power and data. They branched out also into wireless products also now using 898MHz bands (same as zwave).

The protocol is very tightly regulated but everything is guaranteed to work. It isn't wireless so it doesn't have shitty mesh problems like zwave and ZigBee have with many devices. You don't get bad device behaviors and disconnects with power outages. There are no shitty batteries to replace (and no fibaro zwave devices having ridiculous battery drains when outside of a +/-10C range from 20C).

It will simply work and keep working for your lifetime, unlike many or most ZigBee and Zwave devices.

Unlike Starfighter says, It actually isn't that expensive for basic home users. if you do it correctly and don't go for "everything being LCD panels". It is much much cheaper than retrofitting every socket with ZigBee or zwave smart switches. I am fully stripping and renovating my house and it is literally about the same price as doing everything with modern teleruptors, with 10x the functionality. If you include the license, then maybe 10% more expensive.

It cost me literally 1400€ 32 switches, 16 circuits of on/off lights and fans (or I could use them for roll blinds), and 4 dimming circuits, plus temperature and humidity sensors to smartly turn on bathroom fans. It is €30 for every Shelly wave module which would be 1000€ just for the switches alone with no dimming or sensing. Plus if you are already rewiring you house, you get to save a shit ton of money using small gauge cable with potential-less contacts.

Don't get me wrong, zwave is great, but KNX is absolutely king at only a marginal price premium (for standard home users, commercial focused HVAC controllers and such are expensive as hell)

Edit: also one thing to note is that all UI elements of KNX through pretty much all the manufacturers look like they are from 2010 or earlier (and they often are). I much prefer other options or a Home Assistant tablet or something.

KNX + zWave + esphome (especially when it gets matter support) will be the ultimate combo of reliability and flexibility!

I really miss Microsoft AD configuration GUI.

Wait, no, that sort of group you have to make through Entra, formerly Azure admin center, wait no they actually wanted a SharePoint site for the group, wait no you can't do that through entra even though you can see the groups, you have to do that through O365 admin center, wait no you can only make a SharePoint aaand teams group there, you have to click more -> SharePoint admin center and then create a new group there, but not the default, you have to click "show more group types", but where can you modify the members of this group? Oh you can just go back to O365 admin center to do that. Now you want to make some small access changes to the force-created email for the group? Oh well you have to go to Exchange admin center for that. Wait, not Outlook admin center? No they are named different things just to make it easy.

Now someone who made an event involving the group is on holiday so I have to remove it, I can do that from exchange admin center right? Well actually the easiest way to do that is to log into Exchange from a power shell terminal through the GUI pop-up and terminal commands. But wait, the search for the event actually doesn't work there ever, even with the exact name? I guess I will give myself rights to the calendar, reboot Outlook, go to the calendar, remove the event, go back to the terminal, remove my rights to the calendar, restart outlook.

Actually, I don't miss Microsoft sysadmin tools.

Spotify has partnered with a company essentially trying to do this exact thing apparently

Yes but they have much, much , much wider margins than cell phone manufacturers. Yes, phone manufacturers will add a $0.1 DAC/AMP chip instead of a $2 because of profit margins in the 100k unit range. The actual DAC IC chips that are very good are not too expensive. The metal housings are literally more expensive. It is not expensive at all to put a good chip in there, it is all the bean counters saying that they have to increase quarterly profits.

Plus "audiophile" DACs are literally 80% snakeoil. Because listening is so subjective, they heavily rely on audiophiles' quest for placebo effect and after-purchase self justification, both of which are a strong phenomenon. Above a FIIo E10k (literally uses a PCM5102, which is very cheap ), you get massive diminishing returns. Then above the ~150 or 200 mark, they all use very similar chips and just play around a bit with distortion on DAC/AMP stacks. Without distortion, there is no discernable difference between them.

I was a signal integrity engineer for years, we can cleanly convert signals in the MHz range (>25x faster than audio signals) and process signals in the >5GHz range. Audio is literally child's play to have near zero noise and 99% perfect analog conversion... Even a product I am working on now where the audio is medically needed to be a certain delay and fidelity to trigger biometric measurement feedback, the DAC chip is extremely cheap compared to "audiophile" gear....

There is a reason why pretty much everyone fails a blind DAC comparison. If there were double-blind tests performed, probably like <1% of the audiophile population (that is already very low) that has extremely abnormal hearing would be able to tell DACs apart consistently above a fairly low threshold.

What? It isn't about that at all.

It is about then filing a patent in 2021 for "aiming and throwing an item to capture a character". Something that had been done in RPGs for decades. And they bribed enough officials in Japan to get it approved 1 month before palworld came out.

Then they used the full might of Nintendo legal bribery and lawyers to try to crush indie developers that dare make their "style" of game (which they have been floundering for a decade) better than they do.

Not to mention that they use threats to shut down completely legal emulation software that they themselves steal and use after refusing to preserve old games themselves.

I don't think they let the fresh-out-of-ROTC war thunder-obsessed lieutenants have access to Area 51 lol

Sadly, DuckDuckGo really sucks ass at searching the fediverse.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Lemmy+don%27t+reply+just+google+it&t=fpas&ia=web

Even if you type in the exact words of the post, it will display 1 post and that is it, then switch to other sources. Probably because of all of the different server names that aren't Lemmy.

Lol, I ran 5 years on arch without a break.

Now 6 months of Bazzite without a break.

I think the age of distros shipping severely broken updated is over. And it was always, ALWAYS grub that broke after an update on mint and opensuse 10 years ago for me.