Considering the Reddit posts they also dug up from his past that he was forced to distance himself from (the first “controversy” his campaign had to deal with), I don’t think there’s any chance he’s secretly a Nazi.

My one big gripe with the Maintenance Dashboard is that it Home Assistant now hides battery status on other dashboards. So, for example I have the devices for my off-grid solar setup all in a “room” called “Solar”, and to show battery charge percentages on the same page, I’m having to use a template helper to make my battery percentages not appear as batteries so they don’t get moved from the “Solar” room/group on my dashboard to the Maintenance Dashboard.

A way to mark certain batteries as not tracked on Maintenance Dashboard or something would be nice for the rare occasions where a battery state isn’t a maintenance concern but is relevant to the area I’ve tagged it as being in.

Starting finasteride to help prevent hair loss helped me a bit (one of the side effects is lowered libido). Didn’t make a massive difference, but it’s enough for me to notice and feels less like a “bad side effect” and more like a bonus feature.

Wayland by default on Desktop Mode? That’s actually massive for me. I use “AR” glasses with my deck, and the ability to adjust the overscan setting to pull the corners of the screen away from the edges where things get a bit blurry is a welcome addition. Might also finally fix the issue where the internal LCD backlight is still on when using an external screen (but I haven’t confirmed this part yet).

Ah, yeah, guess I never realized it’s a .NET program. Never understood why an open source dev would choose .NET, but what can you do.

Also despise Docker (especially the modern over-reliance on it), but that always gets me into trouble when I admit that publicly.

I’ll admit I haven’t really looked into it, but how is the Jellyfin web interface insecure? I don’t currently, but in the past I’ve used ssh reverse port forwarding to my VPS and then used an Apache proxy and letsencrypt for ssl on a subdomain. Maybe I was just lucky, but I never had any problems.

Yeah, but the Index had 2 ~$150 lighthouses. Not that $300 is enough to cover the cost of the compute, but it’s one area of “savings” compared to the Index.

Almost certainly not. All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs. Things go back to the way they were during the clunkier, before times when everyone used Subversion, when there were more hoops to jump through to contribute code. Make it so you need an existing contributor to “mentor” first-time contributors (making sure they aren’t an AI, are writing competent code that follows project standards, etc.) before giving access to submit dozens of pull requests.

You guys are looking at other people’s accounts for trustworthiness? Most I do is judge people off what instance they’re on (which I feel is simultaneously both a very and also not very “dot world” of me).

“Thought about” and “might just” are two phrases middle aged white guys use when we want to talk big and then never follow through. I’d be shocked if he puts in one “fake” order, and highly doubt he’ll be able to be consistent enough to throw off the tracker.

Based on the picture in the article, there’s some redundancy in this model, which makes sense for a product specifically designed to be used in a car, but you can buy an LD-06 lidar sensor for less than $30.

It’s impossible to tell from the picture, but it does look a bit like two LD-06 sensors in a case with a bit of room for some processing hardware. It depends on what kind/how much processing they’re doing, and I’m in no way an expert, but as a nerd with an Aliexpress account who loves to tinker, this looks more like a success of Chinese manufacturing at scale than some kind of new advancement that MacroVision made.

Not particularly proud of all this, but as an autistic millenial kid who had access to the internet in the late '90s early 2000s I’ve got a relevant story.

If you wanted to look at boobs on the internet in the era of waiting a minute for images to load, Playboy was an easy way to avoid some of the more hardcore and kink porn on the internet. You could be pretty sure that regardless of what site you were on, Playboy content would actually contain boobs, and you wouldn’t waste 2 minutes slowly loading a picure of a dude in a gimp mask getting pegged through the bars of a pet cage (not trying to yuck anyone’s yum, but when you’re a dumb teen with absent parents looking for boobs, it wasn’t what I was after). Eventually Playboy content started to be considered “too vanilla” by the majority of porn users at the time, but I still liked vanilla and kinda let my Autism go crazy on occasion over the years to download and organize offline copies of a bunch of photosets.

Time passes, I get a bit older and become a young adult, the internet gets faster, at some point I revisit the porn archival hyperfixation, and foolishly write a script to scrape and download photosets straight from Playboy’s paid member-only site.

Obviously one of their web admins notices that my account is a huge chunk of their monthly traffic, and I get an email from their customer service basically saying their admins noticed unusual activity on my account, and to explain myself or face a ban. I made up some excuse that worked on the customer service agent and they let me off with a warning.

But the next day I got an email from the admin that said he knew what I had done, and that the answer I gave the customer service rep was a lie, and if he ever caught me again he’d send the police after me for possession of CSAM. I replied that the only images I had were from their site, how is that CSAM, and if there is CSAM they would be in more trouble for distributing/selling access to it. He wrote back and said yeah, we’re a company, the rules don’t apply the same as individuals, and that if I kept arguing with him he’d ban me anyway.

So, yeah, I deleted everything I had downloaded and decided that hyperfixation wasn’t worth it.

While I agree with you, I’m not sure Chromebooks should count as “using tech” for the sake of learning. If you really want to give a younger generation experience with technology there are far better systems for them to learn on.

Just a minor bit of pedantry, but Social Security Numbers are generally abbreviated as SSN, SSID usually refers to a “Service Set Identifier” aka WiFi network name.

I dislike civil asset forfeiture as it’s generally used, but there’s nothing really stopping us from using the government to just nationalize those companies/means of production. Obviously we’ll have to get the Epstein class out of government first, but I truly believe this should be a part of the Epstein class’s punishment for their part in everything (in addition to more traditional punishments like prison, etc).

I’m sure you’ll do a great job as mod. Thanks for starting this community.