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by briHass 1y ago
I got burned recently by Ecobee in the same way. The problem with 'smart' interfaces for traditionally mechanical devices is that the useable lifetime (support period) of low-end microprocessors and software, especially online API
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by briHass 1y ago
How about adjusted for GDP, which would measure efficiency of carbon use in output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_in... China is still about double the US, and the US is lower than Canada.
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by briHass 1y ago
I'd add that computing has changed in the last 5 years as well. The amount of actual apps a typical user installs is minimal. You really just need a web browser for most tasks, and obviously Linux can provide that. Besides drivers for
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by briHass 1y ago
One that jumps immediately to mind is IQ testing used for epidemiology, such as exposure to toxins and the effects on children. IQ tests were used in the original study (Phillip Landrigan) used to show how leaded gasoline causes cognitive i
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by briHass 1y ago
Personally, I've had good luck with Reolink cameras. I block them from the Internet at the router, just in case, but they do seem to respect your choice if you disable the cloud/mobile app feature. The cameras will upload jpegs an
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by briHass 1y ago
There's some commercial options for this, but it's not common. Usually, these devices just have their own compressors, because they all pale in comparison to the heat pump(s) used for climate control. For example, I have a HP wate
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by briHass 1y ago
It must be cheaper than UPS/FedEx for some items, because Home Depot and Lowes have started using DoorDash and other similar services for 'shipping'. I'm sure they batch up the orders and get discounted rates, but that s
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by briHass 1y ago
The bang-on, bang-off compressors are a dying breed, however. The efficiency and output modulation of the inverter units means even the conventional split systems have been switching over. Likewise, the 'minisplit' (originator of
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by briHass 1y ago
How are you having Dell ship a brand new laptop to a non-technical user and having that machine configured/software installed with a couple of scripts? Autopilot locks Windows OOBE to your Intune instance based on the serial number. Th
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by briHass 1y ago
Cloudflare DNS (probably others as well) allows you to enter private IPs for subdomains, so you don't have to run your own DNS. There's no AXFR enabled, so no issues with privacy unless you have someone really determined to dictio
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by briHass 1y ago
This is why Azure now uses a unique hash appended to the hostname by default (can be changed if desired.) You can't attack a dangling CNAME subdomain record if it points to a hashed-appended hostname, and Azure allows you to control th
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by briHass 1y ago
And, you can couple all that with Microsoft 365 to enable cloud-first for everything that makes sense. Cloud Active Directory (a.k.a. Entra), Intune and Autopilot for devices that can be shipped directly from Dell and provisioned/set u
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by briHass 1y ago
Azure has some things about it that I don't like (compared to AWS), but it wins over AWS for Azure App Services. Essentially, IIS (webserver) as a service (PaaS), with autoscaling, auto-deployment, hot swap slots, auto-recovery, backup
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by briHass 1y ago
Toluene or xylene are very similar non-polar solvents, but don't have the same level of carcinogenicity as benzene. You still don't want to be inhaling them regularly or in large quantities. The sad chemical being phased out is te
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by briHass 1y ago
Personally, I didn't want to manage my management/virtualization layer. I wanted something that was an all-in iso that wouldn't tempt me to configure at all. I wanted to be able to restore just my container backups to a new P
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by briHass 1y ago
I highly recommend anyone going this route to use Proxmox as your base install on the (old) hardware, and then use individual LXCs/VMs for the services you run. Maybe it's just me, but I find LXCs to be much easier to manage and r
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by briHass 1y ago
To be fair, TLS doesn't stop the authorities from performing dragnet searches. Just supeona Google for search keywords, mobile service providers for geofence data, DNS logs, IP logs from ISPs, etc. If that gives them enough for a warra
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by briHass 1y ago
If that is the case, then there should be no need for Energy Star, because manufacturers already have an incentive to increase efficiency due to customer demand. I'm highly dubious of the $500b this program has claimed to save consumer
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by briHass 1y ago
Wait, do you mean the Microsoft that is currently the most valuable company in the world? The one worth North of 3 trillion dollars? Part of why they can push the scheme this article complains about is because M365/Entra is such a jugg
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by briHass 1y ago
And have one of the highest impact studies conducted on coal miners (who all smoked.)
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by briHass 1y ago
Anything on the ASP.NET stack has it in forms auth tickets and role cookies. You could store additional data in the forms auth one, and it auto-rotates the encryption at half the session length. One of the best authentication libraries at t
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by briHass 1y ago
Ironic, because it's assumed your email is insecure and visible to more than just you, but it's used as a password reset and/or 2FA mechanism for almost everything. It would be nice if sites had a checkbox that allowed you to
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by briHass 2y ago
Guilty. I know Reddit has become infested with junk recently, but it just shows how bad the broader-internet has become that I'd rather search in Reddit than walk in that swamp.
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by briHass 2y ago
I'm a fan of TS and have been a paying customer for work infra for almost a year now. It really is well put together and easy to use, but I do run up against some issues/complaints when diving deep that I hope they can work out: *
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by briHass 2y ago
I don't know how it works on Linux, but for Windows, the 'MagicDNS' just automatically adds a bunch of static entries to your hosts file to resolve the TS FQDNs and simple/machine names.
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by briHass 2y ago
I'm a fan of CHIPS, but let's not pretend that doesn't have some geo-political externalities as well. We're going to be paying a steep price for trying to shove the (outsourcing real manufacturing) genie back in the bott
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by briHass 2y ago
When the FAANGs stocks were soaring and they handed out options like candy, even low level devs at those tech companies were making the kind of money usually reserved for medical doctors and attorneys. There was a huge gulf between SV pay a
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by briHass 2y ago
It's also quite difficult to manage. I was lucky enough to have 3 companies that all gave me offers (a couple years back when the market for tech was at its peak). It played out like this article recommends. After an offer was on the t
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by briHass 2y ago
Depending on your breaker panel, the cheapest way to do this is with an interlock kit ($20) designed for your panel type. A low-tech solution that mechanically locks out a designated breaker (usually upper right) unless the main breaker is
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by briHass 2y ago
Managing Windows devices at work using the online-first paradigm makes it clear what MS is trying to achieve here, but it's poorly communicated, as usual. In the M365/Entra world, the big benefit is having cloud Active Directory (

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