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limelight79 ,

Great question - during the pandemic there were a lot of memes about how dogs are loving the humans being home all day, while cats were hating it. Our cats were glad to have us home all day (as was the dog, who kept demanding walks at odd times until he settled into the new routine).

When we get home from errands, the dog will of course be at the door - and there's about a 85% chance the one cat will be nearby, too. Another cat will often show up as well. (The third cat, never. He's too busy hiding.)

limelight79 ,

Yeah, we bought a new LG washer and dryer set when we moved to this house in late 2016. The washer has been trouble free. In fact, it actually saved us from washing delicate clothes in hot water (the handles on the spigots are reversed - the blue is hot; the red is cold) - it filled up, recognized there was a problem, and drained without doing anything more. I thought there was an issue with the washer at first, but then I realized how warm it was inside the washer, and I figured it out from there. I don't think it's technically a smart washer in the current sense (there's no app or anything), but it's definitely smarter than the ones I've had before.

The dryer's tension pulley failed, so I had to replace that, for ~$20 from Amazon. It was making noise for a long time, but like a dolt I waited until it actually failed to replace it. The replacement has been trouble free. I found a video on Youtube from someone that showed how to disassemble it to get to the part - it's easier than it looks.

limelight79 ,

30 years from now: "Haven't they always been called Strawberrums?"

limelight79 ,

I've had better luck at a real lumber yard, instead of the big box stores.

limelight79 ,

Nah. One of my coworkers stays home for every vacation and reads. We try to guess how many books she'll read during her week off each time. Closest guess, without going over, wins. She loves it and crowns a winner each time she returns, but the winner only gets bragging rights until her next vacation.

A few years ago I was at a gas station pumping fuel on a trip, while prices were extremely high, and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive.

limelight79 ,

Oh, yeah, I enjoy the traveling. My thought was just that as I was watching the pump total price go higher and higher. But I still travel for vacations. :)

limelight79 ,

SpaceX also has Starlink. I don't know how it's doing financially, but I do know it's quite popular in places where wired internet isn't available, and for people who are mobile. I've even seen pictures of cruise ships using it for internet access.

limelight79 ,

brands can tap into the rich, high-intent product conversations

What the hell is a high-intent product conversation?

limelight79 ,

Ship 'em off to Germany and get a free college education. I know a few people that have gone there for grad school for that reason. I wish I had known that was an option...I might still be there, honestly.

limelight79 ,

I'm checking, because I've been in difficult situations, too (and have posted a thread in this community about backups). Looks like I have a dozen backups on hand, most recent one is 1:35 a.m. today.

limelight79 ,

Hell I have the app on my phone, but yesterday, I received a ticket for an event, accepted it, and downloaded it to my phone without using that app at all.

I think OP is misunderstanding what is happening. The code changes every so often, probably to prevent people from passing around a screen shot and trying to get in that way. You can get the ticket without the app.

limelight79 ,

No problem here for either of mine - kvm for one, Raspberry pi 3b for the other.

limelight79 ,

I've been using this client on our DirecTV device, which is Android based, and I noticed an odd bug. I'll have to check what version it is, though.

When an episode of a TV show finishes, if you hit back to go to the episode screen instead of letting it play the next episode, on the bottom of the screen, where it shows the next up: It's always skipping the next episode.

For example, if I finish watching episode 12 and go to that screen, I'll see episode 14 as next (and that's what plays if I click on it). It skips episode 13. I've repeated this several times with different episodes, so I'm convinced it's not a one-off. I haven't tried on my Android tablet or phone to see if the bug exists there, too.

I plan to write this up as an official bug, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

limelight79 ,

Lemmy descended into a porn network so gradually I didn't even notice it happening!

limelight79 ,

I don't buy vinyl, but I do buy CDs for albums I want. I have (what I believe are well-founded) trust issues with services supplying digital copies.

I will say I have bought some nice, normal mp3s in the past from Amazon. Those are fine. But generally I want the discs. I'm going to rip them immediately to mp3, and store the discs away, but I still want them.

limelight79 OP ,

Well, I'm glad to hear I'm not missing something. Thanks.

limelight79 OP ,

I could see that working in theory, but in reality we both still have our old phones - in fact I had to find my wife's old phone this morning and shut off the alarm she'd left on.

limelight79 OP ,

Ah, thank you! I will look into this further!

limelight79 OP ,

Thank you! I will look into this!

limelight79 OP ,

This is really cool. I've been out and about and have gotten notification the laundry is done, and it's like, welp, that's not very useful information right now. Thanks!

limelight79 OP ,

Yeah, I'm okay with the YAML mode, so that's not a major problem for me.

limelight79 ,

And the critics of Columbus WERE RIGHT! He was vastly underestimating the size of the earth. If North America hadn't existed and it had just been one big ocean, he and the expedition would have perished in the middle of nowhere. Of course, the size had been calculated before his expedition (the actual values turned out be extremely close to what had been calculated), so he should have known better. There's a reason he had trouble getting funding for his expedition...

I'm still somewhat frustrated that our history classes taught (maybe still do, I've been out of high school a long time) that all the naysayers thought the earth was flat.

limelight79 ,

I was starting an install of Debian the other day, and it suggested 25 GB as the root partition (including /usr, but not /var, /home, or /tmp). I had to laugh. My server has a 50 GB partition for that purpose and it's around half full.

I aborted the installation. Might try again later today. (Switching this machine from Kubuntu, using a new drive, so it's not critical that it be done at a certain time.)

limelight79 ,

I have to admit, I only have the barest understanding of this flatpak, snap, docker, etc. business. I've been using Linux since the late 90s and missed this development. I haven't been following what was happening in the development end, I suppose - in part because there isn't that much need to, because Linux has gotten so good.

But while I'm a power user (hey, I used Slackware until about 2015), I've found that I much prefer not having to spend hours and hours administering my machines every few weeks or months.

Sorry for the long comment. But this has been bugging me for a long time and you triggered me. No need to try to answer my questions if you're not feeling it, I'm just dumping. You can stop reading here, if you like.

I've used a few appimages for limited cases - BalenaEtcher to burn HomeAssistant on to SD cards for my Raspberry Pi, and I think the scanning software I use is also an AppImage. The idea of having the libraries and binaries all together for certain things is a good one for certain cases, such as software I do not use regularly. BelenaEtcher strikes me as a perfect use case for appimage, because I don't want to spend time installing Balena and keeping it up to date or uninstalling it, when I'm only likely going to use it once or twice. I never even move it out of my Downloads directory, just download, run, and delete.

Ubuntu (I use Kubuntu) moved Firefox to a snap image some time back. I get it, sandboxing, not a bad idea. But I'm pretty sure I had one installed by root, and one erroneously installed by my user account, possibly caused by forgetting to "sudo" during an update one day (I'm really not sure how it happened). And that latter one, if it existed, was almost certainly sitting in my /home directory somewhere, because my user account doesn't have authority to write to /usr or /opt or anywhere like that. I didn't plan to install software in /home, and didn't allocate space for it, and don't really like the concept in general. (I've switched debs for Firefox, and think I got the snaps for it cleaned up.)

If we're going to do images installed by users, /opt seems like a much better choice, albeit with some controls - maybe /opt/username/ with permissions set by user; I'd be okay with the user account being able to install there and being unable to screw up system files. My current backup strategy involves grabbing everything in /home with a few very specific exceptions, and clearly I don't need the current release of Firefox on my backup.

I have OpenProject (community edition) installed for keeping track of a restoration project I'm working on, and I'm pretty sure I used docker to install it. I have to admit it was easy to install (but so are debs 99.9% of the time), but now I'm wondering about the best way to get the data back out so I can migrate that software to my server (it's running on my desktop because my server was that 2008 computer). I assume I can backup and restore, but I haven't yet looked into this. Or heck, maybe it's possible to just move the Docker image, the way I moved the HomeAssistant KVM image. It looks like the data is stored in a separate volume (which I interpret to mean a file that acts as a virtual disk, similar to how KVM has a virtual disk for the OS and apps in the virtual machine). Also, I'm not clear if docker images automatically update or if I should be updating them manually.

Then there's Zwift. Zwift is a virtual cycling program that runs on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. No Linux client, which isn't a surprise. I have a whole Windows 10 computer in the basement that only runs Zwift, and it's my only Windows machine that I use. But, someone created a docker image of Zwift! I tried it on my Linux desktop machine a while back, and it worked. Very cool! But Zwift updates the program regularly, introducing new bugs and features - does the maintainer of that image have to do anything? What if he or she loses interest? It'd be nice to ditch Windows, but I have no idea if that docker image will remain usable indefinitely.

I think Zwift is using Wine to run. So it seems the docker image for that has the Zwift Windows client, some Wine libraries, and everything supporting Wine is already supplied by the Kubuntu install...but I'm really not sure. Theoretically I don't need to know, until something breaks.

I have yet to use a flatpak, I think.

I've considered asking about all of this in the Linux community here on Lemmy, but there's probably an article with an overview of it somewhere, and I just need to search for it.

limelight79 ,

LOL sorry. It's closer to an unhinged rant, though. :)

limelight79 ,

LOL nice. That's...uh...kind of a surprising bug.

limelight79 ,

I was mistaken in my earlier comment. It's my desktop machine that has 50 gb for everything but home, and it's running very short on space. The server, which is what I thought I was thinking of, has 25 gb for / (not including /var, /tmp, or/home) and I'm using just over half of that space.

limelight79 ,

Someone on lemmy commented that the purpose of those conversion drives is not to garner new members (though it's a nice benefit if it works), but to help reinforce the "us" versus "them" division in the people out knocking on doors. It really makes a lot of sense to me.

limelight79 ,

Are the JW's using this? Two stopped by my door a few weeks ago to convert me or us (my wife is Catholic, I'm atheist). I noticed that they drove separately, and I wondered why they hated the environment so much (we live off the beaten path). And I'm pretty sure they ONLY stopped at our house, one parked in our driveway and the other along the road in front of the house. It definitely didn't seem like a general canvass.

limelight79 ,

Picking them out in particular is interesting, because I have a good friend that's Mormon, and we used to hang out a lot. They really have their own community, I was definitely an outsider (but not obviously so, as I don't have facial hair, etc.). We briefly dated, but that didn't go anywhere for obvious reasons, and later I realized that in her world I'm probably the "bad boy" (few others would consider me that, but everything is relative).

They were nice people, but overall they just were ...boring. I don't even remember most of the ones I met, and I doubt I could pick even some of her closer friends out of a lineup. I don't mean to be nasty, but few of them had any sort of interesting life experiences, which is weird, considering many of them traveled abroad for mission trips.

At one point the Mormon single women in the area created a video to convince more single Mormon men to move there. There was a serious shortage. Even in that situation they still felt like they had to stay in the Mormon community.

On the flip side, a few years ago, friends of ours moved to a new neighborhood and had a housewarming party, and one of the families that joined them were neighbors that were Mormons (who preferred the term Latter Day Saints). But the wife had rainbow rings on and I think one of the daughters had purple hair...so, they seemed unlike other Mormons I've met, but I didn't get the chance to ask about it.

Sengled wifi lightbulbs not keeping color settings?

Hey all, hoping I can gain some insight into an issue I'm having with my sengled lightbulbs. Basically I have two scenes set up in HAS, one "default" scene that has all the lights at 100% brightness with soft white and another that is for movies that turns off all the light except two and modifies the color value to be a more...

limelight79 ,

Interesting point. The two I have are in exterior fixtures that are on the other side of the wall from the switch (which is a repeater), so for me this is a non-issue, but I can see if you're using them indoor, it could be a big difference.

If someone can live with this limitation, they have worked fine for me.

limelight79 ,

After I posted the above comment, I saw other people claiming they've had issues getting them to display traditional incandescent color values. I have not had that issue with them, either. There was something I had to set in HomeAssistant for the bulbs, I think, perhaps in the color picker UI, to allow the selection of those colors, but once I found that, no issue. I don't think I even had to manually re-pair them when I switched Zigbee channel to avoid my Wifi.

Now that I've said this, one will probably start showing blue instead of white or something, of course.

limelight79 ,

For those, like me, who don't remember the significance of the lights on the Wii remote (the console has been out of production for a decade or something now), the third light blinking means he's player 3.

limelight79 ,

Man I thought this was going to be some philosophical thing suggesting that esp32 could be replaced with something else!

limelight79 ,

I've been dabbling with jellyfin lately. It doesn't seem to like my mp3 organization, which Plex had no issues with. I generally use artist/album/songs, though there are exceptions that seem to be tripping up jellyfin. For example, I split compilation cds into the appropriate artist's directory (so, artist/song), and it doesn't seem to know how to deal with that. There are also a few weird things floating around, but those might be due to bad id3 tags in the mp3s.

I know there are some issues with mp3 tags in some songs. For example, my wife's *NSync or N-Sync (or whatever the hell they are, I don't actually care) mp3s seem to have the artist name in different formats, so that's not helping matters at all.

Also, in fairness, jellyfin kind of got a bum start on my system - I installed it and started it, but I didn't have enough space on /var for everything, so the system started having problems. To get it running, I stopped jellyfin and just deleted the metadata directory (getting the server running in general was much more important than getting jellyfin working). I've since allocated more space to /var, and I had jellyfin reread all of the libraries, which seems to have been mostly successful. (It looks like I had the same issue with Plex, because I had moved its metadata /var directory to the media drive, but I forgot for jellyfin.)

I do hope the new version includes some features that are just personal preference, like for example I'd prefer the "artist" view to be first in the Music section, not albums. And I'd like to sort albums within the artist by year, not name (I suppose I could go in and give it the year as the sort key, but I don't want to have to do that for every artist). These are personal preferences, of course, not breaking bugs.

Overall it seems like a decent replacement for Plex. I watched an episode of the Simpsons using it last night on our FireTV, and it worked fine.

limelight79 ,

I didn't, but I use Linux anyway. Musicbrainz.org offers a program designed to do that, too. I'm a little hesitant to run it on my collection of mp3s without some smaller tests first though.

limelight79 ,

Correct, running Linux. The actual songs/movies/shows are in a media array (a 15 terabyte RAID5 array that could be replaced by a single drive now); /var is where jellyfin (and plex for that matter) store their metadata.

limelight79 ,

LOL the "horribly wrong" is the part that worries me. We already have good mp3 tags for most of the collection, so I don't want to make things worse. Thanks for the info, though.

It seems jellyfin is confused by songs that have two artists, like duets. It can handle it at the song level, but those "merged" artists appear (as a separate artist) at the artist level too.

And I finally put my finger on what's wrong with the default view: It says "albums" but collection albums show separately under each artist that has a song on that album. That makes sense for the album-artist view, but not albums. Albums should combine those, in my thinking at least.

limelight79 ,

I don’t have this issue. I separate the artists with a semicolon, so it is displayed “Artist 1, Artist 2” with each artist being clickable to go into their individual artist page. But I think you could actually tag ‘artist’ as “Artist 1 & Artist 2” and ‘artists’ as “Artist 1; Artist 2”, and it will show up correctly, i.e. displayed as “Artist 1 & Artist 2”, but shown in the artist overview separately as “Artist 1” and “Artist 2”. I think…

Yeah, going in and fixing them individually seems to clean it up (I probably should check that more closely)...but we have a LOT of duets, it seems.

limelight79 ,

The was playing with Picard this afternoon. It did a good job finding what I had, though it seemed like it was updating the mp3 data before I was hitting save. I need to play with it more to understand it better.

limelight79 ,

Yeah I think the interface confused me at first, I figured it out last night. Basically you are matching files in the top left to the top right (either automatically or manually). Once it matches it shows the before and after at the bottom, then click save to update the file. Useful!

I was having issues getting Jellyfin to update some data, in particular release date/year, even after using Identify on them and pointing to the correct album. I had to manually update that info for several of albums. Maybe the incorrect info in the mp3 tags overrides what it gets from the internet. That would explain it.

limelight79 ,

In the US, most grocery stores have made it so that you don't get their sale prices unless you have their membership card. So you're going to pay several dollars more for declining that membership card.

We were at a grocery store halfway across the country last summer during a road trip, and the woman asked if we had a card for that store, and of course we didn't, because it's not a chain near us. She held up a bag with 16 different grocery store chains on it and asked if we had any of those, and one of them was a chain my in-laws have in their area, so she tried their phone number and it worked.

limelight79 ,

When I right click on a tab in Firefox, I can reopen it in a container. The containers (at first glance) seem to be limited to Personal, Work, Banking, Shopping, and Facebook (which is probably there because I have Facebook container installed). In settings I can modify the container tabs available. (And turn the feature on or off, but it's already on because of Facebook container.)

Is that what that is? It looks a lot like the example you linked. Firefox 123.0, but it's been there for quite a while.

limelight79 ,

It's in their DNA. They completely missed the internet boat when it first took off in the early 2000s and played catch-up for years thereafter. You would think they would have learned and not made the same mistakes again that you have in your list, but nope. Maybe they were too busy fighting Linux.

limelight79 ,

Interesting, thanks. Seems like the containers could be expanded into the tab group functionality without too much trouble.

limelight79 ,

It's never perfect!

I have a temperature sensor in box here that I haven't yet installed...hmmmmmwhere could I put it!

Actually if Shelly ever gets me the stuff I ordered IN NOVEMBER I would replace the one for the pellet stove with that...but last night I saw a Tuya Zigbee air quality monitor on Amazon for under $25 that would be even better...

Oh wait, I installed a Zigbee switch the other day but haven't added the lights it controls to my floor plan view!

limelight79 ,

Friends of ours were going through something similar - they finally have a viable pregnancy, but it took many tries and failures. Fortunately we live in a state that isn't controlled by religious nut jobs.

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