“shit” vs “the shit” “bollocks” versus “the dog’s bollocks” and so on

It suckers that most laptops no longer come with a clit-mouse, they were so handy

Looks like an Anti Vandal switch.

https://www.mnpctech.com/products/anti-vandal-push-button-switches

Fortunately there are plenty of Zigbee dongles that are compatible with HA, and just as fortunately they will all support Aqara sensors using MQTT with very little effort.

A supermicro 5018A-FNT4 with 16GB RAM. HA takes up about 25%, the rest is influxdb and Grafana.

note that a lot of IR devices now blast a whole bunch of different codes for each button press, so they can control more devices with the same remote.

If you’re capturing from the remote and it seems like the code changes each time, you might need to capture it all and play back one code at a time to work out which one is for your device.

If you have to open it up, then you can at least allow-list IP addresses through your firewall so it’s not everyone who gets full access.

In addition to what others have already posted, I suspect that this might be an attempt to evade spam/phishing filters that are looking for an IP address with a specific regular expression. Having a fake IP address that doesn’t match the traditional ^((25\[0-5]|(2\[0-4]|1\d|\[1-9]|)\d)\\.?\b){4}$ format might let this message slip through.

I would only buy Extron, Crestron or Kramer for that use case, but if you’re on a budget and need to compromise then also consider Cyp, Atlona, Lindy, Blustream or everyone’s favourite SY Electronics.

If you send a CRT an image larger than it can display, it will either display nothing, some garbage or as much of the image as it possibly can - normally cropping the top left corner.

I suppose it depends if your CRT is capable of displaying a 720p signal. If it’s not, then it won’t work.

Likewise if your converter requires the input format to match what the CRT expects (i.e. it doesn’t have scaling built in), then the converter may not work either.

You might want to purchase a scaler rather than connect your computer directly to the screens.

justification: those old screens are going to need a low resolution like 480i and modern games/apps are just not designed for that so they may not run at all, or you may find that some elements like menu items are cut out and don’t render properly.

was this today? I also need half an hour or so to get going on a friday.

The drive is very good, comfortable and you have the power when you need it available, but it’s not scary.

I’m not much of racetrack person myself. I can tell you that two child seats fit in the back, and on long journeys the battery lasts 300 miles even though the car is four years old.

There have been some recalls for it, to replace parts that I don’t know what they’re for. I haven’t figured out how to “log in” to the car so it always says “welcome guest” but I’m fine with that.

We have an Audi e-tron GT. Wife wanted a 4-door car with a trunk and I wanted a low-slung sporty drive.

Not manual by any means, but it has Apple Car Play and buttons for almost everything else - aircon, media, driving controls etc.

We charge with excess solar so driving it is basically free.

Tuya devices are super cheap, often sold as massive loss leaders and frequently rebadged as other brands (MOES comes to mind, as well as lots of “iThing” type brands)

It is not surprising at all that lots of folks eschew the mobile app and use HA to control them. Also the Local Tuya integration is difficult to use and often doesn’t work at all.

I made a free forever server and it got deleted after 2 weeks. As part of the server running I scheduled a daily rsync backup to my NAS and provisioned it with terraform so I can build it quickly again.

black panthers

inb4 the supreme court rules that congestion charging is unconstitutional and furthermore that public transport, too, is unconstitutional.