DeltaTangoLima

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago

The first time or the second time?

The first time was because I was sick of paying the “Australia tax” for new releases that took longer to reach us than most of the rest of the world. The second time was due to subscription fee hikes with associated reduction in quality & range of content.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago

Yay for the Streisand Effect! Imma post this monthly now… https://reddrefuge.com/pictrs/image/3428de7b-7acb-4a20-b01d-ea9835cb4c31.png

DeltaTangoLima, 4 days ago

It’s a fucking travesty what’s happening to him. He shone a light on some pretty sordid shit, shit that was definitely in the public interest to be reported, and he’s been made into the villain.

Our government should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

DeltaTangoLima, 3 days ago

That’s a really sad, yet probably entirely accurate, assessment.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 days ago

Don’t be a dick, mate. Engage just a little bit of critical thinking before calling people names like that.

By law where I am, our kids aren’t allowed to have their phones at school. My daughter’s school’s policy, then, is that phones are left at the school office.

We want to give our soon-to-be 10yo daughter her first phone later this year (times with a planned family trip, so it can be her new camera as well). But if she takes it to school and has to leave it at the office, I can guarantee she’ll absolutely forget on more than one occasion to pick it up before coming home.

So, her phone will have to stay home. But we’re also getting to the point where she can be trusted to let herself in and wait for one of us to get home (like OP, maybe an hour or so). So a presence detection option can’t be based on whether the phone has moved into the geo zone in HA.

This is a legitimate question for modern parents. Denigrating OP without knowing or understanding all the facts certainly does shine a light on ignorance at play here. Just not OP’s ignorance.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 days ago

I’ve been thinking about exactly the same problem.

We want to give our near-10yo daughter her first phone, but she’s not allowed to have it at school. She’s also getting to the point where she can be trusted at home for an hour or so before one of us gets home from work, so I also need a presence detection method that doesn’t use a mobile phone.

My best theoretical solutions are like those already suggested here: an ESP32 BT proxy detecting a homebrew BLE beacon in her school bag, or detect activity on her iPad/the TV. But neither of those are reliable for all scenarios - she obviously doesn’t take her school bag to her friend’s house, and doesn’t always use her iPad or the TV.

The only other thing I’m pondering is if I could setup facial recognition using our video doorbell. I use Frigate with a Coral TPU, so hoping there’s a project out there that could possibly do that.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 days ago

I use an ESP32 boards as a wifi-based proxy for the BT temp sensors on my barbecue. Works a treat! It’s doable in esphome, so easily plugs into HA.

Details here: esphome.io/components/…/inkbird_ibsth1_mini.html

DeltaTangoLima, 6 days ago

^ 100% this. My data’s backed up. I can get a new phone and sue the government later for confiscating a personal asset without due cause. Fuck that Gestapo shit.

Also, I disable biometric locks when traveling through airports and similar situations. They can easily “compel” biometrics from me, but not a password.

I don’t have any concerns for my local coppers wanting to take my phone - it’s too risky for them to do that without due cause - but the same can’t be said for federal power trippers like Border Force (what a fucking stupid name - sounds like something Trump came up with).

DeltaTangoLima, 6 days ago

increasingly uncomfortable with paying forever

And paying more and more as time goes on. The thing that shits me the most is the increased prices but decreased range/quality of content. That’s clearly not a business model aimed at customer satisfaction.

DeltaTangoLima, 5 days ago

Dat port number in the compose file

DeltaTangoLima, 5 days ago

I just wish Smarttube would support Piped instances - that would 100% complete the puzzle for me. Being able to use Piped on my streaming stick.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 days ago

Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that

It’s a legit rule they’re enforcing, IMO. Generic email addresses are usually unmonitored mailboxes that don’t bounce. Easy to use if you’re spamming contact forms and stuff like that.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

I think this is more a boilerplate suggestion, to lower the barrier to entry for people. Gotta remember, those of us that host our own email and/or use our own personal domains are definitely in the minority.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 days ago

Here in Australia, it’s drop bears and hoop snakes. People always want to see them… until it’s too late.

DeltaTangoLima, 7 days ago

Typical. Those drop bears have no respect at all for a person’s eskie.

DeltaTangoLima, 10 days ago

Not really. Here in Australia, our supermarket duopoloy does the same thing, offering discounts per litre. At the time it all started, the supermarket chains started buying into/acquiring petrol stations and rebranding them. This has been going on for over 20 years.

Recently, both supermarkets sold off their petrol station chains, but the sales included long-standing agreements to continue to offer discounts and loyalty program points for those that shop at the associated supermarket brand.

DeltaTangoLima, 12 days ago

I use Home Assistant, and install that on all my old, re-purposed smartphones (usually as cheap CCTV). Each phone is plugged into a smart power socket.

I then use automation to turn a phone’s charger off when it hits 80%, then back on when it reaches 50%. No overcharging, no overheating, and actually helps keep the batteries in good shape.

DeltaTangoLima, 11 days ago

I already use Home Assistant for a number of other things, so not really complex. Also, you’re assuming Android only.

DeltaTangoLima, 12 days ago

For my wife, I have a separate library folder, mapped to just her account in Plex. It doesn’t appear in my library at all, so I don’t really care. Even better, I’ve spun up an Overseerr instance for her, so she can just search and auto-add anything she wants for herself.

DeltaTangoLima, 12 days ago

Depending on the local climate, yes - evap cooling is typically the go. The data centres I work in here in Melbourne use evap free cooling (EFC).

For much of the year, due to our temperate climate, the cooling simply uses (filtered) outside air. During bouts of warmer weather (typically 29C+), we use evaporative cooling. Waste water from the EFCs is discharged into storm water drainage, and reported to our local water authority for billing.

DeltaTangoLima, 11 days ago

An excellent question, that I suspect the answer to will vary in many jurisdictions.

We do re-use the water we use in our EFCs, but only a limited number of times. After a specified number of uses, local regulations require that we discharge it into storm water, to mitigate against the risk of things like legionella and other potentially deadly airborne bacteria.

We’re also required to test and treat all stored water monthly.

DeltaTangoLima, 12 days ago

The payment is designed to help ease cost-of-living pressures

the money will be made available as credit … towards educational expenses in certain categories

The money can not be put towards school fees or used for household expenses

it appeared the $400 payment would cover uniforms, excursions and sports activities, but not laptops

So, seems to cover things that many hard-up families probably aren’t paying for already, which means this won’t ease the cost of living pressure for them at all.

DeltaTangoLima, 14 days ago

Oooh! A wiki article! Look at you, educating people with science and stuff.

/s

DeltaTangoLima, 14 days ago

Lol - the sheer volume of people who completely missed my /s, and didn’t cotton to the fact that I was making a joke about the very subject…

DeltaTangoLima, 13 days ago

is ambiguous

Ah - like a double negative? I didn’t realise I cancelled out my sarcasm with more sarcasm. I need to spend more time on the internet. I’d hate for my sarcasm to be misunderstood.

DeltaTangoLima, 17 days ago

Yeah, but in a light-hearted way.