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I am still using a DIY/homemade one I made back in 2020ish.

https://xtremeownage.com/2020/07/29/diy-garage-door-opener-home-assistant/

Still works perfectly. Less than 20$ of materials total. 100% local control. Locally compiled, open source firmware.

Would recommend.

Want to replace fossil fuels?

You have two options. Nuclear, or renewables.

Renewables, however, generally don't produce consistent energy output. So, you need a way to store the surplus, and release it at night time.

The most effective way of storing this energy, is currently pumped hydro. However, it has very specific geographical restrictions, and isn't an option in most cases.

The other option, is lithium, until a better alternative is produced.

As well, you need to replace fossil fuel usage for vehicles. The only current suitable alternative with an "OK" energy density, charge rate, and output capacity, is lithium based technologies. Typically uses Li-ion, or LiFePO4.

Have a cell phone? Its powered with lithium batteries. All cell phones, are powered with lithium. Typically LiPO, or Li-ion.

One day, this will change, but, until that day, lithium is needed.

So we can continue to use China/Bolivia's slave labor to get lithium instead?

For public projects, I use github build pipelines.

For private, I use ansible.

Cough... oracle.

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that attitude will change as soon as there’s a game in your wheelhouse you want.

Oddly enough, I have managed to avoid DRM-infested games quite well so far.

I have far to many other games on my list I still need to play without DRM, to worry about new ones infested with it.

Honestly, I am all good with getting rid of the drives.

I hardly ever touch CDs these days. I keep a spare USB reader, for making a backup copy of a music CD or movie DVD/Blueray, which I use, maybe twice a year.

I have boxes of DVDs and Blu-ray in the garage, and I don't ever use them. Matter of fact, if I wanted to use them, I'd have to go find a blueray player to actually play them with.

I do all of my gaming on PC, and I don't think I have physically purchased a game in over a decade. Steam/GoG are both quite nice.

Proton* Proton is the way. Granted, proton uses wine... but, makes getting games running nearly effortless is the majority of cases.

Also, has a nice website, protondb.com, which tells you how well / if a game works on linux.

Sure, I'm sure it would squeeze into an iframe just fine.

I stopped using it years back, and went to freshrss, when I wanted the simple feature of ignoring certain articles based on the title. But, when I did use it, it did work decently enough.

Now, If only google didn't give out information without a valid search warrant.......

Or, didn't sell your data.

System Certificates

Aka, you cannot untrust google's certs. And google can do whatever the fuck they want, and you cannot change or alter that behaviour.

So, if google wants to publish a root CA, that allows them to act on behalf of any other domain, they can do that. etc.

There is a current PR, nearly completed for instance level blocking.

Until then, there is an easier method. Its called, looking at your subscribed feeds, instead of blindly looking at all.

RSS, is a fantastic thing, which makes it very easy to keep track of updates, news, blog posts, etc..... for hundreds of things at the same time.... in an easily consumable method.

IMO-

Feedly, is one of the better PAID apps.

FreshRSS is a great self-hosted alternative. This is what I use.

Lindsey Stirling? Not sure if this is up your alley, but, her music is pretty great.

Also, Two Cellos, and the Piano guys.

Its, not classical. It's all instrumental music, no singing.

Lindsey Stirling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI

Two Cellos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk

Oh, and as a bonus- more of their songs then not, are pretty damn good. I can listen to them non-stop through an entire workday.

My supervisor wants me to take time off of work, more then I take time off of work. lol.

Although, granted, I have worked in an environment like this.... aka, the united states army.

Where, getting your vacation approved, takes no less than a full miracle.

Its ok, I ETS-d with literally close to a year of vacation. On the plus side, you can indefinitely accumulate leave. So, I sold a few months, got an extra up-front paycheck, and then, got paid for a good chunk of a year after leaving.

No, because, it does not fix the root problem.

Also, banning things isn't the way to fix things.

I would also be a hypocrite for changing to legalize pot, while also chanting to ban corn-based sugars.

You do too. It just might not be reflected on your phone bill, and is just lumped in with your normal taxes / VAT/etc....