LifeBandit666 @ Lifebandit666 @feddit.uk

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From my reading on Pramipexole it's about 10% of people that have these side effects. It worried me when I started taking the pills.

I read the documentation that came with them and it had in bold DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICATION WITH ALCOHOL AS THIS CAN MAKE SIDE EFFECTS WORSE so I read the side effects and it was compulsive gambling and hypersexuality.

So I gave up my nightly rum for a few weeks. Then I thought "Meh, let's see what happens" and reintroduced my nightly rum and coke before bed. Honestly I've not had anything noticeable.

Nothing compulsive. But I can spend an hour or more solving Rubik's cubes or playing the guitar without even noticing. I had that before the pills though.

Pramipexole

It's used for Parkinson's and restless legs, I use it for restless legs. I've suffered with this condition as far back as I can remember, I've always referred to myself as a part time insomniac because this would keep me up a lot of the time.

I had a period of mental health problems and was prescribed Metazapine for it, which kicked up the RLS a notch. Despite being off them now for nearly a year, the Restless Legs are still kicked up.

Pramipexole, when taken at the right time, sorts the RLS out, I can finally sleep and when I do sleep I don't kick my wife up the arse.

Side affects include hypersexualality and compulsive gambling, but I haven't experienced this yet. I have warned my workmates that it could come up in the future though so if I ever say "I bet you a fiver you can't wank me off" they know why.

Edited to bold Pramipexole

I use Aqara motion sensors. They are cheap (Ali express), battery operated (can put them anywhere) and have always worked for me.

They are ZigBee, so the caveat is that you will need a dongle to use them. Mine is a Zig Ah Zig Ah from ElectroLlama and cosy under £20.

The reason I moved from WIFI to ZigBee is for reliability. WiFi just isn't reliable. Any mains powered ZigBee device (bulbs, switches) are also usually routers, so the signal can be bunny hopped between nodes in the ZigBee network, unlike WiFi.

Also yes, one of the beautiful things about HA is that it is the middle man between many many different manufacturers of smart home appliances, so if you automate your main lights you should be able to add in a plugged in lamp to the automation.

A shit-fish Randy Bobandy

Sounds like you're a shit Manager to me.

I agree wholeheartedly, and when we got locked down for COVID I learned how to play guitar and automate my house using a raspberry pi. It was a great time, and I look back on it fondly. I finally had time to pursue things that interested me, that I didn't have time for with work.

Nowadays I play guitar and tinker with home automation, and work as well, but back then I had the hours to put in to starting the hobbies.

As someone who has done both I couldn't agree more.

I run Home Assistant and could just pay their subscription to get external access, which also supports development. But I'm a cheap Yorkshireman so I went with DuckDNS, Let's Encrypt, Nginx and all that jazz for a long time. I'm just trying to hook my home up to Google so I can talk to it, I don't wanna pay money!

I had so many bloody glitches! I'd have to sign things in on a weekly basis, Google lost access all the damn time and it was just a nuisance.

I have a rule for hobbies, I do it cheap for at least a few months to see if I lose interest. If I get a bit obsessive, it's worth spending money on the hobby.

So after a year or two of fucking around with Nginx and DuckDNS I found the cloudflare plugin, which worked for free for a while. It was night and day, everything remained connected!

It ultimately bugged out one day and I decided to just bite the bullet and buy a domain. It's a hobby I've invested enough time in that a few quid for a solution that just works is worth it.

I think I dropped £35 for 5 years (I forget, it might be a decade) of owning my own .com domain name, which cloudflare manages for me.

I now have to reconnect my Google home to my home assistant once every couple of months instead of every week.

I haven't missed the money, and I certainly haven't missed the fucking tinkering to get it to work.

Meanwhile I've recently discovered Zombie Claus by Psychostick, a Christmas carol about Santa to the tune of a Rob Zombie song, and I'm gonna mix that into our Christmas day music.

Nice, I'd have to see how often the temperature changes during a normal day but I could make it work. Great idea thabks

Yeah I've had a look around myself and not found anything. Honestly just refreshing the integration required a little digging.

Huh, you see this is why I posted, I was hoping someone would have an insight into fixing the actual issue.

Thanks, I'll look into this

First thing I thought of, but it remains "connected" in HA as in it just reads as the same temperature and has API errors when It sends commands. It's actually disconnected but not registering as such.

I haven't had a disconnect since I started refreshing the integration in Node Red a couple of days ago, so to be fair I don't know if it will become "Disconnected" when it refreshes and isn't connected.

Basically what I'm saying is this may actually be the way to do it, I just don't know yet if it will become "Disconnected" yet

I like to play

Give this user a cats butt for being correct.

I was a big fan of the body modification scene when I was younger. Now I'm approaching my 40 my piercings have all been removed except these ear stretches.

Do I regret them? No I still quite like em.

I shined a torch in my wife's sleeping face this morning at 5am.

I didn't mean to, I was looking for my ear tunnel, it had fallen out in the night and I didn't want to go a day at work with a cats arsehole for an ear lobe.

I looked for my spare ones first, I really didn't want to be that guy, I'm a night person.

Anyway I sent her this and she had to remind me I was a bastard.

She's right.

I've done all the shifts and it fucking sucks.

We did week about shifts. That meant earlies for a week, nights, then lates. Every week you had to change your sleep pattern.

I liked earlies to nights because long weekend (finish 11am Fri start 10am Mon) and a fun "adaptation" that required me to stay up as late as I possibly could on Sunday night. I'd drink, smoke and play games with US chums (UK here) until 3 or 4am and then sleep as late as possible.

It fucking sucked but I did it for a good decade. Then managed to wangle permanent 6-2 shift.

It was a revelation.

Suddenly I had a regular sleep pattern. It was hard to train, but I managed to get a good 6 hours a night most nights. Which was good, I've always suffered insomnia for lots of reasons, so I managed to become one of those people that survives on minimal sleep. More sleep was amazing.

I've kind of got it down nowadays, thanks in no small part to some pills I was given for my restless legs. They make me drowsy, so if I take them at the right time I can force a sleep pattern, and they stop me kicking my wife up the arse when I'm asleep.

Back to your point after a trip through the weeds, I now do 2 week late shift and 2 week early shift, there's a permanent night shift at this new place.

When I'm on the early shift I wake up at 5am on the Saturday and Sunday without fail. Once I forgot to set my alarm for work and woke up a minute before it should have gone off. Years of the early shift have honed my wake up time to a knife edge.

Sometimes on the weekend I can't get back to sleep for various reasons, so it's not an uncommon sight to find me gaming on my PC at 7am on a Sunday morning. I don't want to be there, but it's kinda nice having the peace and quiet of being a night owl with the sun up and a sleep cycle behind instead of in front of you.

Was he wealthy or wise?

Probably, but the ROM support on my OnePlus Nord was Nordne Existent

Evri is an anagram in of Evil if you change a letter and think they're evil.

ABOLISH THE MONARCHY, fucking parasites