Just looking for some advice if the idea I have in mind is even feasible.
I have 2 light switches in my kitchen, one for some pendant lights, one for some overhead cannister lights.
I hate the placement of the switches, since the pendant lights which I prefer are far away from the actual doorways into the kitchen. Meanwhile the cannister lights are on the switches near the doors.
I'm looking to do some clever "hackery" to make it so the switches by the doors control the pendant lights, if possible, but I don't want to have to rewire things in the walls/ceilings.
Is there a good solution to this? I was looking at some Shelly switches, but I'm not sure those solve for the problem I wanna solve. I'm willing to swap out switches or wire in things near the lights, but trying to keep things simple as possible.
Just came here to say that this also affects any applications that use the libwebp library.
That includes many apps that most people don't think of as "browsers".
Electron based applications all use chromium under the hood, and are quite common/prolific these days.
https://www.electronjs.org/apps
Expect updates to a lot of things in the near future.
update / patch all the things
Any other E6 fans on here??
I think my fave track so far is Staten Island Ass Squad but there's a lot of gems on this one.
I have a TCL and it works just fine without internet.
Honestly, if I bought a TV, brought it home and it refused to function without internet I'd march that thing right back to the store for a refund.
Vote with your wallet.
Pretty sure the internet would collapse in a matter of hours.
(Cloud Infrastructure and Security Engineer)
I hope everyone reading this knows that you can just not connect a "Smart" TV to the internet. Leave it as a "dumb" TV.
Get a separate device like a Roku or AppleTV or Amazon Fire or whatever. The garbage hardware that TV manufacturers slap inside a TV so they can advertise its "smart" features will always be inferior to a purpose built external device.
To say nothing of the security implications of having an unpatched probably unsupported IoT device running on your network for years.
The Duran Duran Tribute album (1997)
Ever notice that this movie is basically the same story as The Three Amigos?
Ha! Came here to say this. Ya beat me to it.
BetterTouchTool (which isn't free but is worth every penny) lets you do everything rectangle does. Also lets you configure your mouse buttons to do whatever you want. Also infinite custom hot keys and shortcuts.
Also Raycast as a replacement for Spotlight.
Pretty much anything by Electric Six or Clutch. Honorable mentions to Soul Coughing and VNV Nation.
Karma chameleon, you come and go ⋅ Karma police, arrest this ho. ⋅ Karma's a bitch, it gets a little jumpy when you come near.
-- Electric Six, (It Gets a Little) Jumpy
Like Harry Truman dropping bombs out of the air ⋅ Like any self-respecting multi-billionaire ⋅ This is who you are, five dancing teenage boys ⋅ Who sing their way into our hearts ⋅ Backstreet's back, alright
-- Electric Six, Jimmy Carter
Next thing that I did was tap out Morse code ⋅ With a wooden nickel on the receiver of the phone ⋅ Before I could complete it, I was quickly overtaken ⋅ By the angry spirits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan
-- Clutch, X-Ray Visions
I have a bunch of Nest Detect (A0028) sensors from the now defunct Google Nest home security system.
Anybody know what radio protocol these things use? Zigbee? Z-Wave? some other thing?
I have a Z-Wave USB dongle, or I could get a Zigbee one, but I'm not sure if either of them actually communicates with these devices.
I hate to throw them away, as they're well designed.
- A good ergonomic office chair.
- A sit/stand desk.
- Heavy duty wire shelves from Costco.
And because I drink coffee and I'm a total klutz...
- Contigo Auto-seal travel mug. These things are practically bomb-proof and prevent spills!
- a stainless steel double-walled french press. Also bomb-proof and retain heat really well.
Just a word of advice about any/all non-cast-iron pans... never take a hot pan and run it under water. It may create a very satisfying blacksmith blast of steam effect, but it almost invariably results in the bottom of the pan warping to be not-quite-flat.
Things I have done with my Pi(s) --
- AirplayPi so I can airplay to my non-Apple speakers.
- OctoPi so I can interact with my 3D printer via the local network.
- Kodi media player
- HomeAssistant hub
- PiHole network-wide adblocker
- I put Tailscale on an older Pi and plugged it in on my parents' network, so I have remote access to help them with their router or whatever.
- RetroPi - classic game emulator. Plays just about everything prior to PS2 generation stuff.
Hell yes. My Brother printer is just a solid workhorse.
TSA Pre-check.
Yes, it's fucking obnoxious that it exists at all, given the "security theater" of it all, but man... being able to breeze past the super long lines at the airport is such a better experience.
Might I suggest a "single column" version as well, for the folks on mobile devices? 😁
Kbin is sorta like an alternate Lemmy client.
A bad comparison would be like Hotmail vs gmail. Both are email, but slightly different interfaces.
To be honest I'm still skeptical of the Fediverse as a long term endeavor, but I'm going to give it a fair shake in the meantime.
That said, I was never much of a heavy user of twitter or reddit anyway, so watching the Fediverse explode while various corporate entities implode is just popcorn entertainment.
The video takes a long time to say this:
There's a new (and concerning) service known as "Plist FMI off" which appears to be able to unlock an iPhone that would otherwise be locked and useless to thieves.
Disabling iCloud lock / Find My iPhone lock should be something only possible by someone working from inside Apple -- thus implying that there's likely an insider involved in this. Or at the very least, a security flaw in Apple's network that's allowing this to happen.
The Youtuber seems to think that Apple should be forthcoming about declaring this vulnerability exists. IMHO, he is wrong to think that. Declaring the flaw before it's been patched would only create a rash of iPhone thefts.
Ideally, Apple is now aware of this situation, and is doing internal investigations to correct it.
How things are going with Lemmy in general?
- The software is pretty promising.
- The network of Lemmy instances is expanding rapidly.
- The userbase is exploding even more rapidly.
- The number of Lemmy mobile clients is up to 3, that I know of. (Jerboa, Mlem, Memmy)
The quirks of navigation takes some getting used to, and I kinda like the UX of Kbin better, but I find more engagement happening from the Lemmy side of things, so I guess I'm sticking here.
There doesn't seem to be a way to migrate instances easily (yet?) like with Mastodon. Not sure if that's important, but worth noting.
I found the web UI on mobile a bit clumsy for my big thumbs.
There's a couple early beta apps for iOS:
For learners of Yiddish on Duolingo פאַר די וואָס לערנען ייִדיש אויף דואָלינגאָ
I'm sure this is a total longshot, given how few folks are likely learning Yiddish on Duolingo, but figured I'd create a community for it anyway.
They say if you don't practice the language every day, it'll never stick.