StrawberryPigtails

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Off-hand? Algorithm driven social media, “news” media generally, politicians, family/kids. The last is at least usually tolerable, or at least correctable. The rest should be taken only in moderation with a mound full of salt.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Last I heard (several months ago, admittedly), Russia had stopped sharing the data needed to validate their economic reports. As a result I immediately distrust anyone saying anything definitive (up or down) about Russia’s economy.

Additionally, this is the first I’ve heard of either site you’ve linked to, so I call bullshit. This doesn’t fully track and can’t be verified.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The Ocean's 11 (2001) comes to mind as does a couple of episodes of West Wing that had scenes with card games.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Yes.

Seriously, we should be doing both as long term space habitats can serve as a way to reduce the cost of moving cargo around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I rather like [email protected] . HFY short stories. Sadly not very busy but the stories have been great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That was a good yarn. Feels incomplete though, like it’s only the first act of much longer tale. Not sure why you have so many downvotes. Thanks for posting!

 

So sue me, I don't keep up all that well with all the changes in Home Assistant and I recently found something that is quite useful to me.

Because I live in the American South and because we recently had our water plumbing explode, the humidity in our house tends to be sky high. Like 60% or higher high. To counter this, a while ago I picked up a large dehumidifier from Amazon which has worked pretty well controlling the humidity in the house until recently.

Recently though, I noticed that the humidifier kept turning off and on. Dehumidifier was set to 35 but the household thermostat was reading 55% humidity. As a check, I set the dehumidifier to run continuously. It stayed running and the humidity in the house started dropping and went to the 30’s in the room where the device is located and down to 46 at the thermostat. My conclusion was that the humidity sensor on the device had failed.

I could go the hard route. Take apart the dehumidifier, try to find the problem and do a board level repair. Go the expensive route and replace a generally functioning dehumidifier. Or I could take cheap, simple, and admittedly jerry-rigged option. Home Assistant.

Turns out that Home Assistant has a new (to me anyways) helper called a Generic Hygostat that can connect a humidity sensor like this one to a smart outlet or plug and control that outlet based on a humidity level you set. It can be set to control either a humidifier or dehumidifier. Once you've created the helper you can add the helper to your dashboard and it gives you thermostat like control over your de/humidifier. Pretty slick.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This may be the only attack ad I've ever seen that hasn't left me with a foul taste in my mouth. No name calling, no fear mongering or sabre rattling. Just a supportive campaign ad delivered to the wrong audience, pointing out things that that audience would likely find very offensive. Whoever thought this up needs a pay raise. But why the hell do they have to be working with Trump's campaign?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I generally don’t worry about communities. Either the community is well run or not.

Users, though. I’ll block trolls all day long. If I notice I’m blocking a whole bunch of users from the same instance, I’ll block the instance. So far that has only happened twice. Lemmygrad and feddit.ro.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Well, they are a Chinese company. That they will need to comply will the laws of China doesn't surprise me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Might have been a temporary issue. It’s working for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

After writing this, I thought I could use another flashlight, but seems that Ryobi has discontinued the P705 and seems to have replaced it with the PCL660 which has a different form factor.

 

A question here recently brought up memories of listening to this song growing up. Long since lost my copy and had to hear it again. Figured some here might get a trip out it.

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