LifeBandit666 @ Lifebandit666 @feddit.uk

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I had a thumb trackball for years, miss it tbh.

Edit I've got one in my Amazon basket now.

Edit 2 it's been binned from the basket after reading reviews and now I have a Logitech Ergo coming today

This just seems like a normal post from the Home Assistant community

A girl I went to school with told me they had a professor at uni called Dr. Death.

I'd insist on being called Doctor if that was my surname too

Yeah we got married on our 18th anniversary of being a couple. I always said I didn't believe in marriage and I still think it's a silly idea to be honest.

My argument was that we had made the choice to be together and to be an exclusive couple. There was zero need to get married to have that. It's a certificate that costs a fortune just to have someone else tell us the terms and conditions of our relationship. I had proposed to her a few years into being together and we just remained engaged for a decade or more.

My Wife had an issue before the marriage where she would get odd looks off some people, some of the time, when our surnames came up. My kids had my surname and she had hers, and there's still a stigma to that from some people.

So she changed her name legally to my surname at some point, so we even had that benefit without technically being married.

Then one day she just said "Hey should we get married? Doesn't have to cost much at this point." I had zero argument against it except the tired old arguements of "It's just a bit of paper, we don't need the State to tell us we're together." So we went ahead, and I picked the date of our anniversary so I didn't have to remember another date.

It was a Monday so that immediately cut the people that didn't wanna book a day off work, and it cost us £500 including food and venue (the pub over the road from our house which didn't open during the day on a Monday). And it was a cracking day. We could just wander home if we needed anything, and when we'd had enough drinking we just toddled over the road.

As for the wedding night, my Wife still ribs me for the fact I just rolled into bed drunk and snored.

What we managed to do was prove that a wedding doesn't need to be too much of a stress, or cost the earth, to be a meaningful event. It's still a high-point in our lives, but we didn't really gain anything from doing it.

One thing I will never understand is the people that think that it's an important part of a relationship. A guy at work was talking about the length of his marriage. He is much older than me and was saying he had been married 40 years. I piped up that we had been together for 23 years and married for 5 and he just replied "Yeah but we've been married for 40 years" like the 18 years before our "ceremony" were meaningless. But this is the same guy that asked me yesterday if I was "A Fucking Puff or something" because I've painted my nails black. There's a generation of people still alive that think like this and honestly, I hope it's gone by the time my kids grow up.

Met my now wife in high school. We've been together since high school.

We've been married for 5 years now.

I'm 40 next.

So kinda agree with the post, but not the sentiment that if you met your partner early you're weird. I was lucky I met the love of my life so young. Just because you didn't doesn't mean I'm weird, just not as lucky as me.

I'd give it a go

Ah that's the issue. The people I know have 2 kids, so it takes half the time to fill the dishwasher.

Personally I only run the dishwasher when we have people round for food and drinks. Otherwise I wash up the old fashioned way because it saves power.

Linux was my main OS for decades. My Dad (Boomer) would buy PCs and Laptops for work and I'd get the old one that was "fucked" and I'd bang Ubuntu on it and run it into the ground. Then a friend gave me a gaming pc he made out of his spare parts for me and told me I wasn't allowed to put Linux on it.

Fair enough, it boots before the monitor switches on, I'm not gonna break it!

I have a 7a. The battery life is enough to get Mr through a shift at work and a half hour charge 12 hours later gets me through the rest of the day.

I got a case with a magsafe on the back and bought a little magsafe power bank. Wireless charging with it puts my battery at a standstill, and I can use it to charge my ecig and my headphones, so for £15 it's useful.

I was happy with my Nord OG then the Wife said I could have a Pixel 7a and it would cost me less per month than my SIM only contract, so I said "Yeah fuck it."

My son is happy with his new Nord and I'm honestly just meh about phones now.

I was well into the ROM scene back in the day. Now I'm old and bored of it all.

I do yes

Damp used dishes stuffed into a dishwasher for a few days aren't going to have anything good for you on them either and that's how most people treat their used dishes.

No they don't, don't project onto the world what you think is normal. Everyone I know washes up or puts the dishwasher on straight after they've eaten, then puts their dishes away when they're clean and dried.

Have you considered a toe spoon instead?

I work in a production line that makes parts for diesel engines. We wash the parts in water and alkaline solution, then they hit a drier and get dried. Basically a giant dishwasher. The company is multi million dollar and world wide.

Just a long winded way of saying your imagination is wrong

I'm a lefty, so when I hear companies say "We're making a loss against our projected growth this year" (usually during pay negotiations) I think "So you made up some shit and it didn't work out, and now you're saying you're making a loss when in fact you still made a profit, just less of a profit than you imagined at the beginning of the year which is bullshit"

If Aberdeen had kept growing the way it was then the average person would have £45 000 more disposable income. Like come on it's the same bullshit arguement. It didn't keep growing the same way, and now we're trying to say it should have done? But it didn't because of insert opinions here that suit an arguement you wanted to make about austerity and other things

I don't like anything from think tanks because it's just a load of overpaid twats talking a load of old shitz then trying to convince me that they're worth their pay.

I don't like the Conservative think tanks and I don't like the lefty ones either. It's all part of the brainwashing.

FATHER

Instead of connecting it to WiFi, have a look into power line adapters. They route your internet through the copper wiring in your house.

I have a router in my subterranean ground floor linked to a power line adapter, a wired router in my front room a floor up so my PC, TV, Playstation, etc are connected via LAN, and another power line 2 floors above that plugged into another WiFi router running in bridge mode, which supplies WiFi to the top two floors, and another playstation wired in to that router

Basically it means that my ground floor router is hooked to the internet and everything else in the house that needs wiring in is wired in because of the power line, and the WiFi is coming from 2 routers, one on the top floor and one on the ground.

My ISP thought a WiFi router on the ground floor of a 4 storey house was a great idea, but they're stupid. WiFi should be in the highest point of your house.

With a few Power line adapters you can sort your internet out for £25

The general population is very much influenced by the Home Assistant community since the Home Assistant Community is made up of people who are heavily into technology. My parents will run purchases in the tech world past me, as will many of my work colleagues and friends.

The general population are very interested in what we do, even if they do not do it themselves. I mentioned to a tech-phobic friend that I have sensors in my bath that notify me when my bath is run and he takes the piss out of me to my face then talks about how amazing such a thing is behind my back, I know because it happened yesterday. Who do you think he's gonna talk to when he buys his next expensive appliance?

Don't talk our influence down, we have an influence even if you can't see it.

I read there's already 803 forks

I've just done the same thing, said I don't own any of their products but I certainly won't be buying them in the future and I will be actively discouraging people from buying their products, which will actually hurt their profits, and also put a snide little PS at the bottom saying "Good luck issuing cease and desist notices to the hundreds of forks of the software (803 so far according to another post) which will cost you real money instead of the made up MILLIONS OF DOLLARS that you claim this is open source software is costing you. It's companies like you that make buying consumer electronics a quagmire