When I talk about “stability” of software, I think about not having crashes and bugs. Most normal people I talk to would refer to a crashy piece of software as unstable.

And yet for distros, “stable” means unchanging. And people act like stability having anything to do with ability to stay upright has anything to do with it, like that’s some preposterous concept.

Remember ALF? He’s back. In pog form.

Rule #1 of shipping code: never be around for the fallout. Do not stick around after clicking deploy.

I’ve never gotten any automated locks because I’ve always been concerned about security around them, but also, Ive had too many warped doors in my life where I have to lean on the door to get the deadbolt to properly set. Which means that there is no way an automated lock would be able to automatically set itself.

Is the answer here: “there are just some doors this won’t work on” or do the smart locks have some way of working around that?

“Set and forget” time based thermostat programming only works if your daily routine doesn’t change daily or weekly or have outliers. The ability to change manually, or add other factors (is anyone home? let it get a bit colder, since it doesn’t matter) is pretty great.

But I would still advocate for no internet connected thermostats from the OP. Your thermostat should be isolated to your home network (via zigbee/zwave or a quality VLAN) connecting to a server/hub you control. And your app should be communicating to your server/hub. Your thermostat shouldn’t be able to report back to google whether or not you are home.

If you don’t understand the desire then you don’t have a use case. And that’s ok. But that doesn’t mean other people don’t have a use case.

Properly set up home automation can reduce your energy usage. Track temperature throughout your house and open blinds, only direct heat/cooling to rooms that need it, etc. Sure a thermostat is programmable but it’s limited by the ability to just turn on/off heat and a few temperature sensors. You can drastically expand what your thermostat can do (ie motorized blinds) and information it has access to (temperature outside, current weather, etc).

Or maybe someone is the type to have panic attacks about forgetting to turn the oven off. Having the ability to see oven status on the go is nice.

Or maybe someone has a larger house than you and the journey to the thermostat is more arduous than yours. Or the journey to the dishwasher or clothes dryer to see if it’s done is arduous.

Or maybe someone has a disability and having quick access to various things is a huge time saver.

Maybe someone has a sensory issue and loud buzzing from a dryer finishing is problematic, so they want to disable the “finished” alert from the device and just receive a notification on their phone.

but if youre gathering that much data and making decisions with it, then from the OP “no internet connected thermostats” is a must. None of your smart home stuff should be able to phone home. Basically the openWRT argument but also for smart home. Use zigbee or zwave so devices can’t just directly phone home and must simply connect through a hub (that you should control).

tl;dr - plenty of reasons to want these things, they just may not apply to you.

“support” has multiple definitions. My chair supports me.

Someone standing on my shoulders is being supported by me whether or not I like the situation.

Fascinating. The wikipedia page is for shebang so clearly you are right.

But the wikipedia page also cites it being called hashbang – citing mostly o’reilly books.

Now I’m intrigued, not that I have a lot of reason to talk about shell scripts, but I had never heard it called any other way.

TIL, thanks!

#! is “hash bang” so still hash

https://cherryxtrfy.com/mice/mz1-wireless/

This mouse is designed to be extremely light weight. So the battery is small (500 mAh is less than half a AAA battery).

And it’s designed to handle up to 50g of acceleration (ie, fast FPS twitch movements), so it has to be doing a lot of tracking.

So between higher power consumption than normal mice and a smaller battery than normal mice, it only advertises 75* hours of use (* Depending on Hz, lighting on/off and playstyle).

I could absolutely get a mouse that lasts much longer. But not one that meets all the other criteria I have for a performance gaming mouse. I wasn’t attempting to come in hot about “wireless bad” or anything, just sharing my experience.

The batteries are my main issue.

12 hour battery? I charge every night.

4 day battery life? I forget to charge until it dies, and then it dies in the middle of using it.

The mouse I have is only wireless for the “less drag while gaming” aspect but the cable is actually super nice, so I dont even mind the cable… I just leave it plugged in now.

NFTs are basically Bitcoin and fall under fake money for criminals.

I had to have a friend help me because a company I bought from only did customer support through Instagram.

Moves the current line up 2 lines.

It’s “2” because the syntax is actually “move to after -2”. So if you are on line 20, it will move you to after line 18… Aka line 19

:m-2

^K Cut and ^U Uncut (paste) were on the screen the WHOLE time this happened.

“The instructions are on screen at all times!” is only a positive if you follow the instructions, otherwise they are wasting space.

Captcha isn’t about what is real or not real. It’s about training ML models to appear more humanlike based on soliciting actual human responses.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2824642-mommy-why-is-there-a-server-in-the-house

I also have a preview edition.

I moved HA from my server to a HA green to separate reliability (my server is a test bed and uptime isnt great, and home automation warrants better uptime than I was giving it).

The voice services don’t work as well on the green directly, but I view it as part of the HA ecosystem and I want it running on the same hardware, but it seems very much like not a great option for that. And even on my own hardware, it still seems like it was a bit slower than I’d want and not always accurate. I definitely need a lot of tweaking (just like OP) to make it worth while.

Most actual math people never have to think about pemdas here because no one would ever write a problem like this. The trick here is “when was the last time I saw an X to mean multiplication” so I would already be off about it

1 + 1/2 in my brain is clearly 1.5, but 1+1÷2 doesn’t even register in my brain properly.