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It's all relative. On the opposite coast, Maine it is ~ $0.28 cents kwh including getting it there. (~ 50% energy, 50% delivery). It's too darn expensive here.

Where do these new top notch programmers come from and what proof of top notchness will be required for job proof? (Honest questions)

Interesting you bring up (artistic) painting and bridge building.

I'm a house painter, and while the work is... It's just relentless work and staring all day.

It's the end results of making something just, better, with the simple acts of reputation and giving a shit about it.

Just wondering where house painter falls in your scale, I'd hunch.

Does anyone have any pointers on the best way to import roughly 14 Google takeout chunks into immich?

I've downloaded all the chunks once, only to find them corrupted due to... Their 50gb size and using a browser in theory. One also cannot seem to use wget or alternatives because of the auth / session cookies required via Google takeout.

I've yet to even broach the aspect of importing each giant bundle into immich because I've not had success in even grabbing the takeout files correctly, but would LOVE pointers on the best way of importing the roughly 700gb into the database without it ALL going wrong.

I've had great success with immich running in docker for the past year or so, although I have yet to upgrade to the newest version. Google photos backups have been disabled on my phone for a year or so, but I yet to haul in all of the past years.

Also, anyone know if I can get immich to upload the photos without... Running immich once in a while? Would be great if it just automatically sent them to "my cloud".

Great software.

My Roku TV (that hasn't been turned on in years, but was left plugged in for years...) literally tries to reach out every minute to home servers. Before u plugging it, I had blocked it's DNS, and was blown away at how frequently it tries to phone home. Easily the noisiest device on my home network.

I've been playing with asterisk and SIP and I'd like a simple device that would allow a to b contact on their end if only in select locations.

So, thanks for this edit, because I now have the plan -- Dad gets to geek out and they get simple texting / calling but none of the other related phone bullshit. I'm pumped!

I've had the same bad luck with tool-calling on Gemma4. Looking around the web, we are not alone. For other tasks, it's seemingly quite quick and decent.

But it gets stuck in tool call loops, it seems like.

I set the framework key in function row to pop a new terminal. It's amazing.

Sounds familiar.

Galaxy watch 7 (I think) weather here. Also about 30 hours. It's a charge every day thing, but allowing for some forgetfulness. It's not ideal, but it's manageable and certainly functional.

I literally just put the meshtastic antenna on the roof today, in an old services box. Been in the window for months, had a few weird perfect weather moments show a few nodes and a ping. Put it on the roof, hours ago, nothing yet.

Someone has to start up the area! (I live in nowhere maine).

Bingo. This same scenario with IOT hardware/software requirements and the ever changing software updates where features get added/removed (and firmware), etc would have so many here up in arms!

Oddly, less (vocal) arms on this specific case.

I've long wanted to 'get into bonsai' and had mentioned this 'bonsai retirement plan' to my middle-school aged kids (who are also very intrigued by bonsai...) -- Nice to see that my assumed 'silly' concept is likely not the worst 'investment' concept and shared by others! (With all of the real world benefits of learning and appreciation of time all wrapped up together!)

I have a radio controlled chicken door that I control through home assistant via a hack rf. It has a reed switch placed behind the door, and a magnet attached to the door to let you know door status, with failure stating "open".

And then a reminder sent to my phone 10 minutes past dusk to shut the door, if it is still open at that time.

It's rigged but the confirmation is nice.

Edit: most of sensors run by esp32 boards running esphome. Also include a temp sensor etc, fed into home assistant

Once again, communication remains key.

My framework 13 fingerprint scanner worked immediately out of the box.

Frigate NVR tied to a home assistant instance has my phone getting proactive notifications about people, birds, and buses (in their select areas...). It's not the easiest thing to setup, but if you're using ethernet cameras it seems to work very very well. The few POS wyze cameras's I have on the system tend to cause some problems, but I know for a fact it's 100% a combination of a) wifi (no matter how 'quality') b) wyze.

So, yeah. Look into frigate.

I know 30+ years ago as I kid I learned this in my parents basement as I was rigging something up.

It is more the surprise, as if one is ignorant to this fact it is not expected at all.

Or maybe they were going right away, taking the initiative and removing the ambiguity from the situation. =)

If it makes you feel any better, I've got a perhaps Galaxy Watch 7 from almost a year ago or so running wearOS, and it's battery life is at best at the 36 hour mark regardless. Came from an older tizen-based watch with similar battery life, and at least wearOS is far more funtional.

Recently bought a GE oven. It had a minor problem and had a few service appointments. Not a huge deal, life moves on.

Meanwhile, near immediately, they would love a review! They want Participation in OUR new oven.

It's overwhelming, and most frustrating is it seems 'communication' is rapidly become a one way st.

"just because you are offended doesn't mean you are right".

It's the modern day way. Perhaps the online filter bubbles over the past... Long while... Have finally shown their long term real world impacts.

I've rocked pixels for a good while now, but the Xperia lineup has always been something I've really debated.

My largest concern is camera quality: obviously it is Sony, but if you wouldn't mind, could you elaborate on their camera 'stack' a bit (esp. in relation to pixel phones if you have first hand experience...).

3.5" floppies that you would put scotch tape over to save your homework assignments on, to show your prowess in hypercard on the Mac classic.

https://github.com/LeoDJ/FW-EC-DongleHiderPlus?tab=readme-ov...

I've yet to build one, but this project looks very interesting in that regard.

"The 100-hour limit can only be avoided if you have a Founders Edition subscription. This is a special plan that was available when GeForce NOW first launched. Founders Edition users get unlimited playtime and other perks. However, Nvidia stopped new sign-ups for this plan about a year after launch, but existing users were allowed to keep it. "

elsewhere https://www.pcguide.com/news/geforce-now-members-left-extrem...

I barely even game, but I have a founder's edition (i think that's what they call them) account that's held at a low monthly rate. I wonder if this applies to those accounts?

It would have zero bearing on my life, but I am curious. Doesn't seem the article mentions it.

2010 xc60 (turbo online 6) here a few thousand miles away from 300k...

It's got a few issues, but the thing has been a beast. Not sure how Chinese it is however.

That's precisely when, (insert hand wavy motion), we should use any of this.

I do this as well and leave the site name in the filename where it was downloaded from if it was part of the filename originally.