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After Jessie finishes talking about the evils of socialism as he collects his food stamps and unemployment benefits.

The problem I have always had with voice control is that it just doesn't really seem to fit into my home automation. I don't want to give Home Assistant a verbal command to turn on the lights. I want it to detect that I've entered the room and set the lights to the appropriate scene automatically; I haven't touched a light switch in weeks. For selecting an album or movie to play, it's easier to use a menu on a screen than to try to explain it verbally.

Don't get me wrong. I'm hugely in favor of anything that runs locally instead of using the "cloud." I think that the majority of people running a home automation server want to tinker with it and streamline it to do things on its own. I want it to "read my mind." The people who just want a basic solution probably aren't going to set up HA.

Maybe I'm missing a use case for voice control?

it’s important that they were to ensure the condemned persons constitutional rights were honored. And spoiler alert, they weren’t.

The condemned person in this case should not have constitutional rights. They should not have any rights. They gave up these rights when they decided that ending a woman's life by brutally stabbing her to death was an acceptable action to take in order to make some money.

and this is precisely what the underdeveloped me of years past would have said as well.

My life experience has been the opposite. When I was in my 20's and even my early 30's, I very likely would have agreed with you; I probably would have even argued against the death penalty when I was a young adult. The older I get, the more I realize that some human beings are just pure trash, and they should be treated as such. Everyone should be afforded human rights, and everyone should be treated with kindness and respect, until the point that their actions cause harm to others.

As part of your own personal development, I hope that at some point you learn to take off the rose-colored glasses that you use to look at humanity and realize that while the world can be a beautiful place, it can also be a cesspool, and that punishing the people who actively try to make the world into a cesspool is simply the right thing to do.

Unlike just about everyone else here, I agree with this 100%. Population does not need to increase. Take either men or women and limit their number of children to 2; that would ensure a 1-to-1 replacement with the exception of early deaths. Once population decreases, maybe increase the limit to 3 if the numbers support it.

I'm not sure where I heard this quote, but it holds true here: "Save the earth; don't give birth."

You are looking for retribution not justice. “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.

Retribution is justice.

The world isn't fair. Good people are starving, individuals are sitting in prison because they sold a harmless plant, women are forced to have children because they live in the wrong state or country, countless Americans go into crippling debt because they don't work for an employer that gives them good medical insurance. These people deserve help, but in many (most?) cases, they're not going to get it. Many of these people are "good" people, but life hasn't given them what they deserve.

On the other hand, you have Kenneth Smith who murders a woman and ends up on death row. He does not deserve the same human rights afforded to people who treat their fellow humans with kindness. Why should he have a peaceful death; his victim didn't. A prolonged and painful death is fitting to his crime, and it's what he deserves based on his actions. It doesn't offset the suffering of others who don't deserve to suffer, but it helps to restore the balance.

I strongly disagree with the idea of "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." That assumes that the individual who's serving justice (the executioner in this case) is doing something wrong. They're not; they are ensuring that someone receives the treatment that they deserve. Justice is served, and there's no "eye for an eye" to give in this case.

We may never agree on this, but I do not believe that my thinking is underdeveloped or immature. People who live a life that doesn't cause harm to others should have every advantage in the world that they can; if I can do something in my own life to help achieve this, then I'm certainly willing to. People who live a life that causes pain and suffering to others should receive the same treatment, and while it's not in my power to make this happen, I'm certainly happy that others can.

Thanks! I really enjoyed setting it up. The main part of the automation consists of two template sensors: One that monitors temperature, humidity, illuminance, and wind speed and produces an "apparent" temperature. The other monitors the apparent temperature, does all the math and colorspace conversions, and produces RGB values for the bulb. It was by far the most difficult automation to set up, but it was a great way to get better and programming templates.

I have a motion sensor that turns on the bathroom light when you enter, then turns it off after no motion is detected for 5 minutes. Works great except for those long sessions on the toilet; nobody likes to poop in the dark. Now I have a door sensor on the bathroom so when no motion is detected, it turns off the lights after 5 minutes unless the door is closed, then it's 30 minutes. Much better than having to wave your arms around every 5 minutes when you're trying to take care of business.

How do you control your heater? My house has Cadet in-wall heaters in every room, but all the "smart" controllers I can find for them are incredibly expensive... roughly $400 each. That's something like $2400 to automate my heating. Maybe an ESP32 with a few relays would work?

I use a lot of sunset/sunrise automations, but one of my favorite is for the lights on the main floor of the house. They turn on with a motion/presence sensor when someone enters the room, but the intensity of the light and the color of the light are controlled by the sunrise/sunset times. During the day, they turn on at 100% brightness and a cool white; starting 1 hour before sunset and 1 hour before sunrise, they scale between 100%/cool white and 60%/warm white. You don't notice it unless you're really paying attention, but it really helps the house feel a lot more "cozy."

I end up appreciating my once-in-awhile automations more.

I can definitely understand this. One of my automations monitors a water sensor at the base of my water heater and under the kitchen sink (has leaked before). If it triggers, all my lights in the house turn on, any colored bulbs turn red, and they flash on/off each second. It hasn't triggered yet (thankfully) except for testing, but the peace of mind is fantastic.

My judgment is not clouded. Good people deserve to be happy, and bad people deserve to suffer. If you brutally murder someone for financial gain, you're a bad person, and you should endure suffering. Yes, that's inhumane, as it should be. In this case, the punishment fits the crime.

I'm strongly in favor of keeping things compartmentalized. I have two main servers: One is a Proxmox host with a powerful CPU and a few hard drives set up in a fast but not-so redundant array (I use ZFS, but my setup is similar to RAID10). Then a have second server that runs TrueNAS; the CPU is slower, but it has a large amount of storage (120TB physical) arrayed in an extremely fault-tolerant configuration.

My Proxmox box runs every service on my network, but all that gets stored the hard drives are the main boot disks. It backs up daily, so I'm not so concerned about drive failure. All my data is stored on the NAS, and it's shared with the VMs via NFS, SMB, or iSCSI, depending on which is more appropriate.

For you, I'd recommend building a NAS, and keep all your important data there. Your NUC can host your services, and they can pull data from the NAS. The 256GB on your NUC will be more than enough to host whatever services you need.

This guy stabbed an innocent women to death for some cash.

I hope each of those 22 minutes was pure torture.

If you don't know whether or not your employees are in the office and your business is running as it should, then you don't NEED your employees in the office. A return-to-work mandate serves no purpose other than making life harder and with no tangible benefit.

That being said, wouldn't it just be easier to monitor VPN usage to see who's working remote?

4 Mbit is exceptionally slow by today's standards; when I signed up for internet access (there's only one provider available where I live), I told them "I will pay for whatever the fastest connection is that you can offer." Turns out that's just single-channel DSL. They won't even install bonded DSL where I live, and believe me, I've tried. I do have Starlink as well, but because of the land around me, it's always going to be obstructed by the land topology; when I calculated how high I would need to raise my antenna to avoid obstructions, it was several hundred feet. My pfSense box does a good job of routing traffic between my DSL connection and my Starlink connetion (and falling back when Starlink is obstructed), but for hosting anything, I need a stable connection. That leaves me with just my DSL connection.

I know you said you don't like dating apps, but I would write them off completely. My partner and I met online (we're both within a few years of your age), and one thing we both agree on is that dating apps are great for vetting a potential partner ahead of time. It's frustrating to meet someone only to find out that they have/want kids (we don't), don't share any common interests, have opposing religious/political views, etc. By the time we actually met in person, we both already knew that we would at least get along as friends. It does seem that women tend to get a lot more "garbage" matches on online dating than men do, though; it probably also depends largely on where you live.

Are you sure Youtube doesn't pick video quality based on connection speed? It will frequently drop down to 360p when my connection speed is particularly shitty that day, and I'll have to manually increase it (I'd rather have occasional buffering than a blurry mess).

Unfortunately, the only people who would actually want to see my home videos (family) live several thousand miles away. I'm also not sure they would even know what to do with an external HDD. Not a bad idea, though.

I honestly didn't know that Youtube "unlisted" was even a thing; I've never posted a video to Youtube before, but this might be a promising idea. I'm assuming they still inject ads into unlisted videos, which is a major barrier for me... I hate ads.

I'll admit that I'm a snob when it comes to video and audio quality; 4k/60 might be overkill, but I think at least 4k/30 has some merit in this case. Most modern phones and tablets (and TVs) are at least greater than 1080p, so assuming they're watching the video horizontally, 1080p video would still result in a loss of quality. Would they care? Almost certainly not, but the idea of watching a UHD video source in a lower resolution bothers me far more than it should.

It definitely seems like VPS hosting is out of my budget. I think that hosting multiple version of the same video (and paying for more HDD space) would probably be cheaper than a VPS with a GPU resources, but the recurring fees are probably more than I'm willing to spend.