briHass

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by briHass 3y ago
They need the central server/phone app to be initially provisioned, but they can be controlled entirely locally after that. No phone app needed. I'd prefer completely open, but I haven't found anything as well made and inexpe
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by briHass 3y ago
My personal use case is an older (1979) house with insufficient or poorly placed switch/switched outlet locations and my general dislike of can/LED puck lighting in living spaces. My kitchen, for example, has 4 separate light circ
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by briHass 3y ago
I've been pretty happy with the Kasa switches and bulbs. They have a cloud component, but you don't have to use it to control them. The protocol has been figured out and is a simple socket payload (I wrote a command line app to pr
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by briHass 3y ago
Do you have any research papers supporting those assertions? At least with low-concentration bleach, it's been tested numerous times in RCTs without any harmful effects, besides bad taste. It's also proven effective, or at least a
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by briHass 3y ago
Or just rinse (water pick even better) with a dilute bleach solution (0.25%). Make the solution fresh each time or every 24 hours, since sodium hypochlorite tends to decompose easily. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ar
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by briHass 3y ago
It's great that this option is affordable, but at least for me, 90% of the value of HA is ESPHome, and I would want a little more horsepower for compiling and viewing logs. I run HAOS in a Proxmox VM and I had to bump the vCPUs from 1-
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by briHass 3y ago
Even the things you mention have changes: what about a ton of conduit runs for POTS lines that now seem quaint? Many of these, even if in conduit, aren't in locations where slapping an Ethernet jack makes sense. Duct work for fossil fu
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by briHass 3y ago
It's certainly not 'way worse'. CPVC/PVC has its advantages and disadvantages, just like every other piping method. CPVC can become less pliable over time, particularly for hot water, but properly (by code) supported&#x2
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by briHass 3y ago
Well, that's certainly what they mean when the government talks about 'the rich' as a pejorative. You only need to look at SS tax limits, phase outs for tax-advantaged savings plans, and income exclusions for subsidies like t
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by briHass 3y ago
Right, and the 'revenge' (retributive justice) is ostensibly measured and fair for the crime, acted out by impartial and dispassionate agents. The other danger of allowing revenge by the hand of those directly wronged is that ther
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by briHass 3y ago
The problem with rooftop solar in the US is that the install cost is so high. Even if the panels were free, there are many areas where you'd be looking at 15+ year payback, which is a bad investment. I'd love to do solar, but the
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by briHass 3y ago
I'd like to see more research on bleach (sodium hypochlorite) for this purpose. The limited studies out there are very promising for bleach as a mouthwash, where it compares favorably to chlorhexidine, another bacteria killer available
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by briHass 3y ago
I know in my small city, the pandemic laid bare just how much paid parking meant to the budget. With almost nothing coming in from the city-owned garages and street meters, there was much handwringing about the shortfall.
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by briHass 3y ago
Point of note that most of the ADHD drugs (stimulants, the ones that work) are Schedule II, which makes them a PITA to obtain, even with lawful prescriptions. Most opiates are in this category as well. Schedule IV is basically the benzos(Xa
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by briHass 3y ago
A DIY CA is pretty easy to airgap: keep it on hardware that isn't your daily driver and only has a minimal/secure OS with no network connectivity. Anything you have lying around can do it: like an outdated laptop or SBC. Even just
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by briHass 3y ago
At the ISP level, does it really matter that they can sniff my queries/SNI? They're just as capable of seeing the IP4/6 I'm connecting to and rDNSing that to know the hostname. SNI gets them past the multiple sites on a
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by briHass 3y ago
He's incorrect, unless it was a single receptacle. Meaning one outlet, the typical top/bottom (duplex) receptacles don't count.
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by briHass 3y ago
I haven't used it in a long time, but Textpad was my go-to ultra light. At the time, it only supported ASCII (no Unicode) so it only used one byte per character. I frequently had to open files that would hit 32 bit memory limits.
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by briHass 3y ago
Yeah, but how many amps? What really matters is what your total available wattage is. In the US, 240v@200A (48KVA) is not uncommon. My 1979 house and every other one on the block has that, and that was assuming fossile fuel heat. That can
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by briHass 3y ago
They recommend and 'support' running it in Wine. I haven't tried, but I'm sure it works fine given Wine tends to work best with no frills Win apps from a decade ago.
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by briHass 3y ago
Many HVAC systems in the US also use inverter compressors now. The efficient units (which includes most minisplits) are inverter. The efficiency requirements of the recent government subsidy program pretty much requires an inverter.
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by briHass 3y ago
This is one of the reasons I really like the Mikrotik network gear, because of the Winbox application for management. It's Windows Forms (GDI) in the MDI style of most Windows apps of circa 2000. Lightning fast, responsive, and with ni
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by briHass 3y ago
I'm interested in niacin, especially for it's effects on lowering LPa, which it seems to be one of the few ways to do so. However, I thought the common concern is that it promotes insulin resistance. Even though it seems to be a b
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by briHass 3y ago
There's irony in using K'nex as an analogy. I hated those toys as a kid; sure, they're flexible in all directions, but all that flexibility means there's no structural integrity. To build something that doesn't twis
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by briHass 3y ago
It's worth noting that many services that offer longer session length also have tools for managing those open sessions and alert emails that geolocate IP addresses using those sessions. I'm sure the big boys do all kinds of statis
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by briHass 3y ago
A rational response would be to isolate and protect those most vulnerable (65+) and not treat everyone as a homogenous-risk group. The risk to those under 30 was miniscule, despite the news attempting to focus on the few outlier children th
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by briHass 3y ago
It was always junk. 'Cleaning' the registry, which has always been snake oil at best and potentially break Windows at worst. Even Microsoft doesn't recommend registry cleaners. The only disk cleaning tools you need are provid
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by briHass 3y ago
I've been using them since I let my personal domain expire. The personal domain on Namecheap allowed for DynDNS updating, but I couldn't really justify the $10/y cost for no real gain. I use DynDNS for a Wireguard VPN with WG
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by briHass 3y ago
I do that at home, but you still have annoyances, like Android forever warning you that you're impure because your cert hasn't been kissed by a real CA. Also, some random things are a real PITA to put your signed cert on, like Ubi
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by briHass 3y ago
Same, and I always hated that quote also. If anything, BASIC exposes you to low level assembly concepts: instructions are processed in order based on their 'address' (line number), unless you have a conditional, where you jump (go

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