The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.
If you can buy a Tesla cheap enough the usable parts, such as batteries and motors, can be moved to a different frame or vehicle. Even an ICE vehicle that you'd like to electrify. It's all just parts.
Will be interesting to see how long globalism lasts once everyone involved has to start paying to maintain it.
I worked for RadioShack for nearly 10 years. I started as a part time sales guy and ended up as Store Manager being tapped for a District Manager slot. After I went through some of the DM training I left the company because I knew I didn't want to be a DM and I didn't want to stay a Store Manager forever either.
Tandy (RadioShack) tried to save themselves but their all of their core markets were gone. Not as many people buying parts, other retailers caught up with their "Buy it cheap in China and sell it in America" business strategy, cell phone sales declined dramatically in both volume and profitability, computer sales did the same, and of course like Sears they completely missed the sea change of Internet Sales.
I've never figured out a way that RS could have survived the period that killed them but I do think it might be possible for them to be successful NOW...if they were still around.
That sucks. If I can't control the ads with settings, dns fuckery, or firewalling then I guess I'll leave their ecosystem.
As you can see I am an Admin on DJMs home instance. I'd like to look at what you have.
I like Tasting History, Max Miller does a good job.
They tried that pivot at least twice and couldn't make it work.
“murdered by words” posts
I was an OG mod for that sub and hearing you say that makes me so sad.
Here's some history for you; MBW started out with high quality long-form content. Then one day an Admin hand selected it to feature on the Front Page which caused it to explode in popularity, going from about 5,000 subs to over 30,000 in just 48 hours. The new users started upvoting the old content which caused a 2nd and then a 3rd post to organically hit the FP. The growth accelerated.
Later that week the sole mod had a panic attack over the stress and while melting down they deleted the whole sub. At that point I offered to help and they added me as Mod #2. My first official act was working with the Admins to restore the sub from backup. From there we built a moderation team and all of the crap that goes with it like sub rules, wiki, automod, Discord channels.
As the sub got more popular people started posting ever more short form content which was causing the quality to go down even while the subscriber and traffic numbers continued to climb.
A few of us fought hard for a long time to hold the line on quality content, wanting to keep with the higher quality long form content that made it popular even if it meant lower subscriber and traffic numbers. We tried a lot of things to accomplish that but relevant to your comment one of the things was to create "Clever Comebacks" as a place to push the tsunami of Twitter/Tumblr/Facebook dreck. Sadly it didn't work, people either posted stuff in both places and / or the mod team wouldn't remove short form content from MBW because it got too popular before it was noticed and they didn't want to delete something with tens or even hundreds of thousands of upvotes.
As the mod team continued to expand to deal with the ever higher traffic first one then another Powermod was added. I strongly objected to it but was over ruled by Mod #1. Then the Powermods began to stuff the mod team with their friends and sock puppet accounts. That's when things really started going downhill. They'd delete things that were almost popular then repost it themselves. They'd refuse to remove Posts or Comments from their friends or sock puppets. They implemented bots without sharing the source code. They kept "accidentally" breaking the mod log. They forced endless re-writes of the sub rules, each one giving them more leeway on what fit the sub and what didn't.
I eventually went hands-off because I couldn't stop them and couldn't deal with what MBW had turned into. I finally left the mod team during the API fiasco because they wouldn't hold the line on the blackout.
So there you have it, a short history of MBW and CC from someone who knows.
On a side note Powermods ruin everything they touch and they're now showing up on Lemmy.
Some TVs already have the ability to connect to sidewalk. More worrying is that every newer "Smart" TV has the ability to cast to it so if anyone ever does that using an internet connected device like a SmartPhone then bam...your TV just got an internet connection and can now send out stored data and potentially grab a firmware update.
Surprise!
It gets its internet connection from the PC; both HDMI and DisplayPort allow this.
but now that Roku has pop up ads for simply moving around the app menu
Huh? I have 3 Roku Ultras, a Roku Stick, and a Roku TV and none of them do that. Have you gone into the Roku settings menu recently and checked your advertising settings?
Surely you mean LinuX11.
I can see them attempting to declare martial law and cancel elections because of some sort of shit.
Honestly I've been hearing that same line since Bush Jr was in Office. Heard it again for Obama, then again for Trump, then again for Biden, and now again for Trump.
If Trump does take it there then we start watering the tree.
The major difference is that over time the Republicans have allocated more and more funds to the Executive to enable them to build up a persistent “enforcement.”
In no way shape or form is that a "Republican" problem. Democrats have been happily handing ever more power to the Executive for decades. As I've said in other places this is a symptom of Congress members being more worried about re-election and campaign donations than handling the business of the nation.
I’m beginning to wonder if the education we received was entirely on purpose.
I graduated in '91 from a town in the MidWest with about 30,000 people. We covered "separate but equal". I tire of people blaming the education system when in reality most people are ignorant by choice.
As an American I am deeply offended, horrified, angry and increasingly resigned to what may have to happen.
The 2026 elections will likely be the most defining moment in American History since the American Revolution.
Does “US gov funded” immediately make me suspicious of it happening? Yes.
As it should. Frankly NO Government should have sway over the CVE program, they are all shady AF and every one them would absolutely do what you are describing if they felt it was in their interest.
This looks like something that was said between the head of the SVR and the leader of Belarus during a talk in Minsk. If true then it's meant for domestic audiences in Russia and Belarus.
Everyone in the West knows that Russia would get bitch slapped out of Ukraine if even a few of the NATO members, never mind the whole organization, decided to get directly involved.
Ding ding! You got it!
This mess with Trump is another symptom of our Congress being more intent on taking bribes campaign donations and retaining their personal power than handling the business of the nation.
The MAGA revolution is playing with fire
Democracy, Refreshed: The House was supposed to grow with population. It didn’t. Let’s fix that.
As originally conceived, the House was supposed to grow with every decennial census. George Washington spoke just once at the Constitutional Convention — and on its final day — to endorse an amendment lowering the ratio of constituents to members to 30,000.
Today, House members represent roughly 762,000 people each. That number is on track to reach 1 million by mid-century.
Mint 21 / 22 touchscreen annoyances.
One of my computers is an HP Elitebook X360 1040 G8 (convertible) and I'm happy to report that in Laptop Mode both LM21 and LM22 work perfectly. There's full control of the normal hardware including the touch screen, good performance, and good battery life.
With a couple of exceptions Mint also handles the shift to tablet mode pretty damn well. The keyboard and trackpad are disabled, the keyboard backlight shuts off, and the screen easily changes orientation with rotation.
The exceptions though are so fundamental to touch screen use in general though that I feel like I must be missing something?!
First and foremost is an on screen keyboard. I know it can be enabled under accessibility settings but when I do that it splashes up a keyboard that permanently fills half the screen. If I close the keyboard window it goes away but I can't find a way to get it to come back except to unfold the machine and re-enable it again.
It may not be possible to make it launch predicatively, [although
I tried LMDE "Faye".
I've had at least one computer with regular Mint + Cinnamon installed since V19 and it's always worked well for me. I somehow only learned about LMDE last month and since I've previously run Debian I figured I'd give it a shot.
I took the drive with my LM22 installation out and installed a brand new 1TB NVME, put LMDE "Faye" on it and YIKES.
I'd forgotten how "raw" regular Debian is in nearly everything from Grub to package management and even Cinnamon is somehow less sharp and sort of lackluster on LMDE.
The first boot up went okay but trying to swap the nouveau drivers for the Nvidia drivers did not go well at all and somehow ended up with all the fonts and icons broken.
I couldn't figure out how to fix it and decided to simply re-install LMDE from scratch, no big deal.
On the 2nd install I started getting AER errors on boot and every time I rebooted I got more of them. At one point the DE locked up entirely and I had to manually power cycle the machine. I couldn't get to the de
Automation Question - What am I missing?
Always surprises me when I go to do something in HA and realize that I can't figure out how.
This time its lights, specifically making sure that they don't get left on.
Until now I've simply been creating an automation for each light switch so that if it changes state from Off to On and when it's 30 minutes after sunrise it's starts a 15 minute wait and then changes the state of the switch to off.
This approach mostly works but it's less than ideal.
First I'm having to create an automation for each device. How do I do it by Area, or list / group of devices, instead?
Second if a device is turned on too early there's no state change for the automation to catch and it never fires. I could fix this by creating another automation that checks for it but then I'll have even more of them to manage.
Third this doesn't work very well if you want different things to happen on the weekends as opposed to during the weekday. For instance on a Saturday I may WANT that closet light to stay on
Anyone else having lots of problems after the recent update(s)?
Both FireFox on PC and Connect on Android keep signing me out, throwing general "error" messages, and refusing to load the next page.
Liftoff on iOS can't even find lemmy.today in order to add it as an instance!
I'm not seeing any discussion of these kinds of problems elsewhere but they've been consistent since the .19 upgrade and they've persisted after the .19.1 update.
Have a ratGDO v2.5i and no case for it?
Shortly after the ratGDO v2.5 was released I ordered one and a couple of days later I ordered a case from Etsy to go with it.
Two days later the Etsy seller messages me asking if have the v2.5 or v2.5i because the cases are different. WTF? There's already a new version?! I tell the seller to make it the v2.5i because that's probably what I'll get.
So last week I received a very nice red case from the Etsy Seller HighTower3D out of the North Carolina. Seriously, this thing is nice. The build quality is high, it has magnets in the bottom for mounting, comes with allen screws (and the allen wrench you need) and a couple of little zip ties.
So this week my ratGDO shows up and...it's v2.52i! A quick check of the website shows that there's now a v2.53 and that makes four revisions in the last month!
You can't make this stuff up so all I can do is laugh...and give away the v2.5i case that I spent $26 on and doesn't fit the ratGDO version I ended up with.
I have no use for this case
Correct way to control Sidewalk Heating Mats
I ordered some sidewalk heating mats from HeatTrak and I want to automate them with HA so that they come on when it makes sense to do so based on the data from my Tempest Weather Station.
According to HeatTrack my mats will have a combined resistive load of 5A which is well within the spec of the Zooz ZEN05 or ZEN14, both rated for 15A resistive loads, but when I asked them about it they did not recommend using either of them with heated mats. They couldn't, or wouldn't, explain why and it doesn't make sense to me why this wouldn't work.
My next thought was to simply swap the outlet to something smart but this is an outdoor outlet so it needs to be GFCI and there's essentially no Z-Wave GFCI outlets made.
Do I really need to use something like an Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus 40-Amp contactor for this or am I missing something here?
How do I add a cool down to an automation?
I have an automation that turns my driveway lights on when motion is detected. It normally works fairly well but it was windy last night and that caused the automation to trip endlessly as my trees and bushes were whipping around. Lights would come on, shut off 10 minutes later, then turn right back on again. It basically did this all night until I disabled the automation.
I'll do some fine tuning of the motion sensors which will help and I'm considering adding a condition to the automation where it won't trip if the wind speed is above a certain level but how can I add some kind of cool down timer to the automation to prevent it from endlessly engaging?
I need some help choosing how to setup lights and camera for my driveway.
First the layout. My garage is setup similar to this one, although mine is attached, has three light fixtures, and my driveway is 4 cars wide.
The wife wants me to replace the three basic on / off fixtures that we have (they're getting rusty) and keep them all matching. If I'm going to do this I want to add a camera to the setup.
Functionally I'd like the lights to have or work like they have dual bright capability where they come on full bright at sunset then after a couple of hours they dim down unless they detect motion. If they detect motion then they come back to full bright for a period of time then dim back down again. They do this for a set period of hours, say 4, then they turn off completely unless they detect motion.
My current lights are already automated for on / off (but not dimming or motion) through the use of HA and a z-wave switch.
Where I
The U.S. House of Representatives has one voting member (435 in total) for every 747,000 or so Americans. That's by far the highest ratio of population to representatives of any industrialized democracy, and the highest it's ever been in U.S. history.
The U.S. House of Representatives has one voting member for every 747,000 or so Americans. That’s by far the highest population-to-representative ratio among a peer group of industrialized democracies, and the highest it’s been in U.S. history.
Radically expanding the House of Representatives would help solve some of the biggest problems facing Congress and, by extension, the country.
Radically expanding the House of Representatives would help solve some of the biggest problems facing Congress and, by extension, the country.
Why shouldn't I use Reolink Cameras?
The next step in my HA journey is adding cameras; indoor, outdoor, and doorbell so I've been exploring my options. I had originally intended to do a Frigate setup, I even have a Coral module and PC to do it with, but then I discovered Reolink.
Without having any experience with them they look nearly ideal. They seem to have tight integration with HA 2023.3 or later and their pricing and functionality look good.
They seem like a no brainer but I've noticed that they're often NOT the first recommendation in the HA Community. Why is that and why shouldn't I use them?
Where in the file system does the UDMP-SE store it's ipsec tunnel configuration?
UDMP is running UniFi OS 3.1.16 and I need a specific VPN configuration that StrongSwan supports but isn't possible to do in the GUI. Three years ago the files I need were located in /run/strongswan/ipsec.d/tunnels/ but they are no longer there. Does anyone know where they live now -or- how to edit a VPN config outside of the GUI?
