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as someone that forgets that they're in the middle of doing laundry frequently, it was great getting notifications when it was done. I rented a place for a bit that had a smart washer, I actually really miss that.

maintenance and such I'm sure were worse, and I'd much rather it be all local and have open apis, but fundamentally, having a connected washer is actually really nice

I've tried vibration sensors on the current not connected wadher, but I can't get anything reliable enough to be useful

on that note, does anyone have recommendations for a neutral and controversy free instance but that also isn't so quick to defederate?

I understand instances like this wanting to defederate on principle and I'm sure it helps to curate a better experience for the people looking for that. Personally I'd rather make the choice myself to block communities I don't like and leave defederation on an instance level to just blocking illegal content and poor moderation and the like.

steam deck is plenty powerful enough, but yeah playing with a controller is awful. played some 1v1 with a friend right after steam controllers came out, I think the only time either of us died was to a tower

not on mobile, they generally use the native browser engine. at the very least it's not electron on ios/android

I've put more work into getting wsl to work at work than I have my home linux machines. it's just so unreliable for some reason. I ended up just giving up and running a full vm instead, and it's so much nicer since I can just pretend windows doesn't exist

canonical has had it's run with the latter two, at least briefly. it's not out of the picture at least

the browser based office does just work if that helps. I don't have anything for the cc side tho

A lot of languages have an asunc/await facade for tasks run on a background thread for result (c#, clj, py, etc), but it's certainly not the default anywhere, and go most goroutines(?)/other csp implementations are probably going to be yielding for some io most of the time at the bottom anyway

if skyrim has taught me anything, it's that wearing jewelry that says single will attract literally everyone

I've found it to be less strict than I'd prefer. Things like whether parameters are aligned or indented, whether or not the first one is on its own line, what statements are indented in fluent calls that have blocks, etc.

A lot of other formatters (prettier, anything for python, etc) force something consistent in those cases, whereas it seems like the dotnet formatter prefers to leave things as they were.

I'd love for it to be more opinionated and heavy handed if anyone has suggestions

I refuse to believe that people use a php style guide. I have yet to open a php file in the course of any job that doesn't mix tabs and spaces arbitrarily on top of numerous other horrors.

Luckily it's not often that I have to, so sample size may play in a bit...

I loved peragus the first time through, but the more I replay it the more it's just having to run around to all the terminals in the right order while being slowed down with the easy but tedious fights, esp with not a str or dex build and harder difficulty.

And that conversation with the hk is so annoying, like I know you'll tell me the password, but it always takes me so much time to find the dialog path to get him to say it in the voice for some reason.

I really like the character swap sections though, especially the onderon ones. It adds more difficulty and makes party builds matter. Otherwise I feel like I just blow through everything with mc even solo

I've found nixos is perfect for me since I like how precisely I can configure it.

Oddly enough, I've had a decent chunk of my only barely technical friend group switch to it for the opposite reason. They all just copypaste snippets of config between each other, and if something breaks they just go back a revision. I doubt any of them spend much time configuring anything. It really is the perfect idiot proof distro and I don't normally see people talking about that side of it

python version bump always broke a handful of aur packages for at least a couple days for me. In general tho, all my problems were related to aur packages not getting updated at the same rate as official repos.

switched to nixos and avoided that entire class of problems

I roughly followed this, but I hooked the led to 5v with a transistor, mine wasn't super reliable on 3v3. I added the buttons to a homeassistant dashboard, but I think esphome has other hooks if you don't want to set up all that

Have you considered a hardware intermediary? My esp32+esphome+ir led is working pretty well so far

ok rms

Voron doesn't sell anything, you either have to source all the materials yourself or buy a kit. I bought a kit from formbot when I built my V0 and have been pretty happy with it. They also sell V2.4 kits and have a warehouse in Czech

you're starting to get stalkery

prefix notation doesn't need parentheses either though, at least in this case. lisp uses them for readability and to get multiple arity operators. infix doesn't have any ambiguity either if you parenthesize all operations like that.