Mister_Snuggles

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1. 61.▲
   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   This really feels like a game of whack-a-mole. Personally, I think DoH was a mistake. Instead of the network admin configuring the name resolution services (via DHCP, for example) each app has a hard-coded list of IP addresses that it will
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   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   I'm a bit confused by this comment. The assembly instructions[0] clearly show screw holes on the back of the unit and it appears to even include a template for putting the screw holes into the wall you're mounting it to. It does
3. 63.▲
   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   I’ve got two of the table version and find the heights to be fine. The one in my living room, used as an end table, seems to be slightly higher than my non-IKEA end table. It’s definitely not a table for doing “stuff” (working, eating, et
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   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   Right now the air quality sensor is in the basement, and the purifiers I'm comparing it to are upstairs. It's not a fair comparison, it just "seems" to be reporting using a different scale. My plan is to put the sensor
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   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   I really like this purifier's big brother, the IKEA STARKVIND, which is available in both regular[0] and table[1] versions. The table version is nice because, assuming you place it somewhere you want a table, it takes up no room. The
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   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   > There is not an easy, straight-forward way to download your archive from iCloud. I use PhotoSync[0] to copy photos from my iPhone to a NAS. It's an excellent program. It will even download photos from iCloud as needed and can do
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   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   Unfortunately in Edmonton, the LRT is largely on the honour system. There are no fare gates, turnstiles, etc, to derive an accurate count from. Any passenger counts presumably come from statistical sampling or from checking fares as they ex
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   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   This is only 20% of cash fares paid at LRT stations. It wouldn’t count those who used a bus pass, paper ticket (these are sold at many retailers, not just directly by Edmonton Transit), or those who paid on a bus and are using their transf
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   by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

   At my last job, I built a tool to produce standard documents from our green-screen system that held the client data. The users of the green-screen system would tell it to print a document by picking which template to use from a menu. The s
10. 70.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    In FreeBSD, this problem was solved with libxo[0]: $ ps --libxo=json | jq { "process-information": { "process": [ { "pid": "41389", "term
11. 71.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    It is, but honestly this feels pretty weak. There are already a bunch of Zigbee energy harvesting switches on the market that work well. There's the Hue Tap that I mentioned, plus other commenters have pointed out other ones. If you r
12. 72.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    It feels like this is already a mostly-solved problem. The wireless switches/sensors/bulbs are already handled by various things in the Zigbee ecosystem. RF energy harvesting is already a thing[0]. I've even got a Zigbee sw
13. 73.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    Yup, this is exactly where I get to when I try and fail to get UniVerse. What's the trick to making that form work? It won't accept my @gmail.com address, and I don't really want to use my work email address and potentially
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    My first job involved working on a Pick system. The system started life on a Prime mainframe and was migrated to UniVerse on Solaris. I seriously miss it. Every once in a while I try to get back into it. Usually it takes the form of tryin
15. 75.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    There were two things that pushed me to the SLZB-06: * deCONZ was slow to get new device support and I had purchased some devices that weren't supported (Ikea STARKVIND) at the time. I think this has been improved since I last used it
16. 76.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I started with a Conbee plus deCONZ and it worked very well. I've since switched to a SLZB-06[0] plus Zigbee2MQTT and it's incredible. [0] https://smlight.tech/product/slzb-06/
17. 77.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    Mine are basically under every water-using appliance, plus some extra ones in the basement in places where there is a risk of water ingress. I've also built a sensor (HC-SR04, ESP32, ESPHome, Home Assistant) to monitor the water level
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I don't have any Aqara motion sensors. I do have two Ikea ones though and they work fine. One is in my home office to turn the lights on and off, it works fine and I've never had problems with it not detecting me. It's not
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    All of my Xiaomi stuff is Zigbee and runs through Zigbee2MQTT, I'm not too concerned here since there's no Xiaomi stuff that's capable of connecting to anything except my Zigbee adapter.
20. 80.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I find that the battery life seems fine, but I haven't tracked it closely. I have noticed a difference between Duracell coin cells purchased at Costco and Amazon Basics coin cells. The Amazon Basics ones didn't last long at all,
21. 81.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I've got a bunch of Xiaomi Aqara Zigbee water leak sensors and they have alerted me to leaks which could have caused a lot of damage if not caught right away. The siren on this Ikea one is a very obvious improvement and the price seem
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I'm torn about refills to be honest. One of my first tasks at my first job, like 25 years ago now, was to scrape crud off of a LaserJet 4 fuser. My boss explained that they tried using remanufactured toner cartridges to save money, bu
23. 83.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I feel like I bought the last good HP LaserJet that was ever made. Many years ago, I spotted an HP Color LaserJet Pro m254dw online at Costco and bought it. It's been a fantastic printer. The toner never dries out, "empty cartri
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    That's more about storage than RAM though. I don't think any iPad has 32G of RAM.
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I've got a love/hate relationship with Transit. The data is very accurate. I think they take the data that the transit agencies publish then layer on their own algorithms. Whatever they do, the predictions of when the bus will s
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I've been using Banktivity[0] for a while and generally like it. Their subscription model is interesting. If you decide to cancel your subscription everything still works, but you don't get access to the connected services. The
27. 87.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    In this case it might actually make it worse. Why are you suddenly, while in the US (for example), ordering physical services in India? My bank locked my credit card once due to suspected fraud. I asked what triggered it and they said &qu
28. 88.▲
    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    I've been using Hammerspoon[0] to direct different links to different browsers. With a little work you can basically make links open in the right place every time, assuming that the applications are opening links in the system browser
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    My Asus router, when using OpenWrt, can't keep up with my internet connection, so I'm putting (admittedly minimal) effort into finding a suitable upgrade with the intent to keep the Asus as a backup. I've also looked at insta
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    by Mister_Snuggles 3y ago

    OpenWrt is incredible. My USG-3P died a few months ago, so I dusted off my old Asus router and made an unplanned switch to OpenWrt. This was meant to be a temporary solution until I could get a new UniFi device, but after setting it up and