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dmtalon ,

I've got amcrest and I integrate them into HA via mqtt using blue iris.

But amcrest cameras need something like pihole to help block all their taking to the home base

dmtalon ,

I just 'deactivate' people that share news on facebook. I use FB to give my family (who don't live near me) and friends a small slice of what's going on in my world. I don't post daily/weekly but I only post stuff I create. I also use it for groups/market place since most forums went to FB groups.

I expect the same from my connections, and unfollow anyone that just forwards things (news, memes, other posts). This little bit of management has made my FB feed 'ok'

dmtalon , (edited )

Did it this last cycle. Didn't renew, don't miss it. In fact the announcement of adding more ads into the video service I didn't want, but had to pay for to get prime lead to me just leaving.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

dmtalon ,

It was totally to give you content to share today on Lemmy /s

I have wondered for a while if both the predictive and spelling 'help' these keyboard provide are getting broken because they're integrating "what most people do" to your phone.

autocorrect is like downright scary now. you have to double, triple check what you typed is what WAS typed.

dmtalon ,

Disabling autocorrect showcased how bad I am at phone typing. But I have to be very mindful of what is actually corrected and corrected to. Especially in sms where there's no easy edit

dmtalon ,

Well humans are making them. Vine and other early adopter places (Lemmy) are nice until the "masses" find it.

It's awful, but people eat it up. Add in profit margins and companies jump on smelling that sweet sweet profit.

Tik Tok is blocked in my house but unfortunately reels/yt shorts have no easy way to block without affecting the rest of the service.

dmtalon ,

Makes me glad my, going on 17 year old Toyota will likely run forever and is as dumb as a box of rocks regarding this stuff.

dmtalon ,

I no longer have to daily drive mine so as I said I hope it lasts a LONG time!

dmtalon ,

This is great news and just absolutely amazing what NASA has achieved here. Keep going Voyager(s)!!!

dmtalon ,

Was Google one (including yt premium) a limited time deal? I don't see them connected right now.

dmtalon ,

I pay for yt premium family ($23/mo) now. Was also a yt red subscriber.

dmtalon ,

I'm just using the default storage, and have a Nextcloud instance for any files I need to access.

I do use Google photos, but I skirt there uploads using my old pixel 1 to upload my pixel 8pro photos :) so my storage is mostly static with Google

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

dmtalon ,

Or GrayJay for Android

dmtalon ,

Which gizmos, do you have them? How well do they work?

dmtalon ,

Ok, ya I've seen those... I love the idea and am excited to see them become mature.

I am, unfortunately tied to Google right now with our "whole house audio". Using old Chromecast audios. When those are EOL it is going to create a real headache here.

We use minis to initiate the CCAs by making their (minis) default speaker the CCA running through a centralized amp for that room (to ceiling speakers)

It works quite well

dmtalon ,

why is incognito transmitting anything to anyone. Glad I switched to FF a while back.

dmtalon ,

I just, don't visit reddit anymore.

Problem solved...

dmtalon ,

Oh ya for sure. I deleted my account, and moved here never intending to look back. I have clicked on a couple reddit links since I left but I really try not too. Like I'd say 5 times maybe. In the end if I need info and that's the only place...

I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database (lemmy.world)

Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application....

dmtalon ,

I removed my account a few years ago when they moved a bunch of features behind their paywall. I'm perfectly fine just using Garmin's built in 'news feed' and tracking without giving my data to another company.

dmtalon , (edited )

A little more technical, I don't think your average starting battery is 100ah capacity, and most don't rate themselves in amp hours either.

I bought a deep cycle for my little sailboat at the local auto store and it's around 70-80ah

You would need an inverter to convert the batteries DC (direct current) into AC (alternating current). This will "cost" some power (watts) to convert that voltage. Your refrigerator runs on AC battery outputs DC.

That said, it is quite common to run refrigerators on larger boats and RVs off batteries and it would certainly be possible to run your house fridge off a single car battery for a short while if you've got an inverter large enough to run it.

What your not gonna do is just run out to the car, grab your battery and hook it directly to your fridge.

Our fridge uses between 130-180 watts when running and about 2.9Kw or 2900 watts in 24 hours. Your battery most likely has under 1000 total watt hours til empty, and car batteries are generally not used past 50% capacity (lead acid starting battery). So figure 500 watt hours max (for easy math). So... 4h run time maybe.

dmtalon ,

Good catch... It was early and I was on my phone (my excuses) :)

dmtalon ,

I specifically looked at the available specs at the local auto parts stores and couldn't find Ah details. This was about 2y ago, so maybe this value is becoming more commonplace. I know in the RV/Sailing works Ah is used pretty exclusively. My deep cycle AGM only lists CCA and reserve capacity

dmtalon ,

2008 Crewmax SR5, bought new 12/2007. I feel exactly the same way.

dmtalon ,

Mine has like 165k. First vehicle I bought myself new. SR5 is just the middle package. They had the low trim as no named, SR5 then limited.

I got mine from Jim Barkley (brand new). Six hour drive. I drove down there in a 1999 Chevy S10 ZR-2 and traded it in and bought the Tundra. I was there like 30-45 min and I financed it with them. Jim Barkley is gone now, but that was such a pleasurable experience for a car buying experience.

Still love this truck!

dmtalon ,

Individual phones sure, but much like windows vs Mac . There's way more android devices sold/out there.

The downside is relying on those non Google manufacturers to update those devices.

dmtalon ,

Just FYI, it was wallet originally, moved to "pay" then both existed for way too long with not really knowing which did what

Now we're back to wallet.

🤦‍♂️

dmtalon ,

That's a huge part of it. But it's like the PC thing all over where anyone can license and produce any kind of android device.

dmtalon ,

There's all kinds of people being born every day, growing up and becoming self hosting unRAID users. Meanwhile current license holders are growing older and dying off.

How is continuing to charge for new people to get into unRAID unsustainable? If it's worked this long but isn't now then increase the prices, or watch your overhead.

I'm here until my pro license starts costing me again. If that happens, I'll likely jump just like I have done with other products I paid for that changed our original agreement.

dmtalon ,

Hope it stays that way.

dmtalon ,

I have two Emporia Vue 2s one in each 150a panel, flashed with esphome so they're only reporting locally and it works great. 16 circuits per vue.

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/67bcef60-b8f1-41e2-a3db-1eae5a14afce.png

dmtalon ,

Haha ya no doubt

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/78899350-3f1a-4953-9cb9-4b9bc66b2999.jpeg

dmtalon ,

I add them each as their own entities but they are automatically totalled after that. You can see in my image left and right main. That's each Emporia

dmtalon ,

This is me, I occasionally post something we're doing, but by far most of my feed and interaction is with groups. I created a neighborhood FB group as an easy way to pass along info/communicate

With pihole, ublock origin, Firefox (FB container) and social fixer browser extension, Facebook isn't all that bad... Haha

Add in 2016 allowed me to prune/unfollow a number of crazy people.

dmtalon ,

A coordinated effort to stop visiting them until certain features are included, or certain changes made would be glorious, however I just don't see it happening

There's a lot of basic config/features YT needs. I'm a paying customer also. (YT premium family)

Like as a simple example. I don't want to watch shorts. I can X the shorts bar away for 30 days at a time but it just comes back. Why can't I disable shorts in settings permanently? (I mean I know why)

I want to sort channel videos by date, oldest to newest because the content I watch is longer form and generally follows a timeline of events that I want to watch in order.

  1. that is all but impossible without manually creating playlists and adding videos in the order you want (a real pita)

  2. I cannot easily get back to watch the next video in that series. Doing the above helps, but there's no pick up where you left off. There's some BS continue the video you were in the middle of featuring paywalled in premium that I find mildly helpful but most times if I bail on a video I'm done with it I don't want a reminder/easy continue tile for it.

There's lots more around detailed searching...

dmtalon ,

Right, and I have grayjay for my phone but the majority of watching is on Nvidia Shield. I realize there's smarttube and others that can do things. My point is I shouldn't have to jump through hoops.

dmtalon ,

Ya, so... They didn't GIVE me the Google TV device, I had to buy it. Therefore they got their money from me for that hardware. I'm not using other 'free' google products that cost them money on that device so why would they be showing ads? What cost are the recouping?

For the record, I have not seen this and we do have a number of google TV's in our house. However our primary TV uses an Nvidia Shield.

dmtalon ,

In this case, these are not TV's but small HDMI plug in devices. $30 device that I'd be surprised if they're selling at a loss
https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv

And personally, If they are doing that, I want two versions, one I can pay the actual cost w/some profit for them, and no ads. The ads keep making them money long after they recoup any hw costs as they continue to profit off users. When I bought an amazon Kindle way back when, I chose the one without ads for the same reason. I'm ok paying for a product vs. being the product.

dmtalon ,

I sure would like the option to pay for the HW/profits up front and not have perpetual ads.

dmtalon ,

Ya I'm an android user but my wife/kid use iPhones and I actually have a MacBook. I hate iPhones, and don't love apple but I do really like my mbp :)

dmtalon ,

Oh, we're all in google here (because of me) except the two outcasts (even though I'm outnumbered)

We have 6, and about to have 12 chromecast audios that run speakers all through the house.
All tv's have google TV dongles except the main tv that has Shield TV (still android)
Google mini's in every room

You say "Pi" to mediate? What do you mean there? (Raspberry pi?). I run Pihole in our house for ads,trackers etc.

dmtalon ,

Hah, ya I had one of the ad free Kindle and even commented on it form a second thread in here

https://infosec.pub/comment/6149270

dmtalon ,

I still use The audios, and just got 5 more unopened from Japan (eBay) that are tested/setup for the second 6 zones of audio as we finish our basement :)

dmtalon ,

Ah, I run Home Assistant (on a Pi) :)

dmtalon ,

I sent them a nasty gram from their contacts page. I don't own anything from them right now but you can damn well bet I will avoid them if when/if it comes up.

I pointed them to Louis' video also

I assume a zero chance of any purchases is a larger economic hit than allowing a small diy community to interact with their PURCHASED and OWNED product.

dmtalon ,

Nasty was probably strong word. I mostly expressed my disappointment and that I would steer clear going forward. And that would have a stronger economic impact on their bottom dollar.

dmtalon ,

I agree if your diy an esp32 and a dht11 could easily handle those duties.

I use one with 2 DHT11s and two DS18B20s to monitor my HVAC temps.

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/5bcb7fab-3232-4347-918b-e56a99906bb9.jpeg

dmtalon ,

I use zigbee mqtt
Which of course integrates with mosquito broker.

But I tied in my ecowitt weather station data via mqtt into the broker so I have it in HA. I did this with weewx . There's an mqtt add-on

I also integrated my blue-iris NVR in to mqtt for motion detection, notifications for cameras.

Life360 integration to help automate things based on who's home

I use esphome and have a bunch of sensors/devices. I track whole house power utilization, I have temp sensors on my HVAC to I can watch all its performance stats.

Here's my ugly drawing that tracks inside/outside/basement temps, geothermal water loop temps, in/out furnace air temps, water heater state along with both it and the furnace realtime watts usage.

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/c34851a2-71b1-4328-887b-8e0a0eadf68b.png

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