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Great use case for solar shed/offgrid/cabin... I think people underestimate how much you can do with a solar shed , batteries, and the sorta reduced risk aspect of a shed catching fire vs a house. That being said its really easy to follow safety precautions. I cant wait to try this out.

I made the same switch but all linux always feels slightly jank. I think Macos is the best premium decoupling from Winblows, but that comes with its own ecosystem lock in. I use all three equally daily and it just drives me insane. Lots of games on Windows ONLY work on windows due to anti cheat. Ie BattleField 6.... MacOs Gaming is non existent and any attempt with say wine/parallels or whatever brings you back to windows.... Linux / PopOS / Cosmic is so close to being there but the gaming restrictions takes you back to Windows.. I tried the whole WSL2 but lots of apps need so much tuning to work properly.. Ie android studio needs to be specially configured to use the WSL2 paths and it gets broken fast.

This is a neat guide. Its baked in already if you have a Firewalla device. Cool to see this roll your own approach. I always found their guide helpful.

From the Firewalla Site -

How to Choose Your DNS Strategy If you have NO concerns at all, just use traditional DNS from your ISP or configure some public DNS for your LAN networks if you like. If you need simple filtering to protect your network from unwanted online content, choose Family Protect -> Native mode. It won't conflict with other DNS services. If you trust your DNS service provider but don't trust your ISP, choose DNS over HTTPS. If you do not trust any single DNS server other than the root and authoritative DNS server, choose Unbound. If you do not want any DNS queries getting changed or filtered, use Unbound. If you do not want any DNS queries getting changed or filtered and want to add a layer of encryption so that your ISP can't see your DNS requests, use Unbound and turn on DNS over VPN under it.

https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/4570608120979-F...

Claude Code 2.0 10 months ago

Has anyone figured out how to do claude sub agents without using claude? some sort of opensource cli with openrouter or something? I want to use subagents on differnt LLMs ( copilot,selfhost ).

How do apps like Carrot get "hyper local" radar maps? Like ive never understood how these apps like Carrot have like 5-6 radar types if they are just calling someone elses API.. Id have to imagine theres some very heavy vector like DBs of points of xy radar raw data? Then they visualize it?

Claude Opus 4.1 12 months ago

All the tools, copilot,claude, gemini in vscode are all completely worthless unless in Agent Mode. I have no idea why none of these tools dont default to Agent mode.

Echoing what most users have said, running frigate last 4 years. Early adopter. Cool thing is you can technically run webrtc from nest webcams via HA into Frigate. I run frigate without Home Assistant, but recently added home assistant back so I can pipe webRTC thru HA plugin to frigate. Now I dont need to pay for nest aware.

Right now, requiring users to understand every field in a deployment manifest feels unnecessarily complex. Since Kubernetes YAML is already quite straightforward to copy, paste, and modify from examples, the added cognitive load of deciphering each field may not provide proportional value—especially when the same manifests can be generated more efficiently.

What would be far more valuable is a feature that lets users import a Helm chart URL directly into the UI, then visualize and interact with the chart’s values in an intuitive way—no need to dig through documentation. Being able to explore, modify, and export the values in a user-friendly interface would save significant time and reduce friction, especially when working with complex or unfamiliar charts.

In short: instead of manually parsing YAML or hunting through Helm docs, a visual, interactive view of Helm values—especially when tied to a chart URL—would be a game-changer for productivity and usability.