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I'm convinced power monitoring should always start from the grid connection. In our case, this was a 10KV connection which we could not access without the grid operator. So getting the data from them was the only option.

Z-Wave works on a different frequency and would separate radio hardware. And then comes the licensing cost.

As a Dutch citizen, I don't understand why we can't self-host an open source identity solution for 20M users with 30K requests an hour. How hard can it be?

I don't really get what the problem with MacOS is. It never gets in my way, so why would I switch? Yes, I found Liquid Glass ugly and two days later I completely forgot about it.

The lesson was that sometimes the interviewee can be more competent than the interviewer and they should run.

What also contributes to this, is that there are new (Chinese) players on the market that offer incredible value for audiophiles. Brands like Topping, Fosi Audio and SMSL completely outperform the incumbent brands.

@aequitas, Hi Johan, nice surpise! After wondering why I couldn't get enough of the movie Office Space, I quit the tech industry completely. Never felt better.

You got assigned a different outgoing server/PoP.

Update @12:16UTC: This seems fixed now! The 57.103.74.0/24 block now had PTR records.

Be glad you receive a report. Apple just silently drops the email.

Not only does Apple frown upon that, they just silently drop emails that are sent from a server without PTR records. Yes, that includes their own servers. Yes, sending email from iCloud to iCloud is silently dropped if they decide you get assigned an outgoing server without PTR. The absolute amateurism just blows my mind.

So, Apple sends the wrong EHLO domain when trying to send emails out. This results in them dropping emails to their own users. Can't get past Apple's level 1 support. How can I get to someone that maintains their SMTP k8s cluster?

There are always ulterior motives and I've seen personal and strategic being the most frequent ones.

For automating TRV’s, I use Better Thermostat. It allows one to use external temperature sensors to offset the TRV temperature. https://better-thermostat.org/

Dennis is also one of the (if not THE) leading vacuum robot hacker and makes https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud. Amazing work.

This would make sense as a Mealie extension. You have a content (recipe) bootstrapping issue.

Sortimo T-Boxx (or similar). I have rack with a stack of 12 of them labeled by component type.

The nice things about these is that you can see what is inside them before you have to open them.

I love to grab a few of them (eg: 'Soldering', 'MCU's', 'Resistors'), bring them to my workbench and start doing stuff while the components stay neatly sorted within the organizer instead of spreading around my bench. When done, close the lid, shove them back in the rack and I'm done.

I almost never hold my phone to my ear

Please tell me why people do this.

Lots of features mentioned there, I wonder how many of those will be ready on launch day and what will be delivered later.

It has a small piezo buzzer, and you can use it to play RTTTL sounds. https://blueforcer.github.io/awtrix3/#/sounds

I have to warn that it sounds like hot garbage though. The neat thing with ESP32 devices is that you can make it sound okay using its built in 8-bit DACs, or great using I²S.

Speaking of hardware hacking; you can also get POE/LAN adaptors for the ESP32, if you have free hardware pins left for it.

Maintaining sender reputation is tough and I don't think anyone in their right mind should try this in house. If you're not a M3AAWG member, you'll probably hit a brick wall when trying to explain to Google why your whole IPV4 block is erroneously on a blocklist.

Clickspring is the most skilled machinist of youtube. Watching him work is so incredibly satisfying.

I have done all this using ESPHome. There a quite some control loop components you can utilize for this, such as bang-bang and pid thermostat.

My thermostat: https://github.com/wildekek/esphome-opentherm-templates

My air cleaner: https://github.com/wildekek/BlitzHome-BH-AP2501

My bathroom hygrostat uses Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/generic_hygrostat...

Looking at the November stats, you could conclude that the average internet user is a 20-year old Indian kid that likes cricket and porn.

Hypergolics in your backyard is no joke.

I own a box-set with a copy of the golden record, book and other memorabilia. It's an amazing work of art, and if you're a voyager fan, treat yourself to one. The book alone is worth the price. The more I understand the Golden Record, the more I realized it has less to do with what is out there, but about how precious it is what we have right here. https://ozmarecords.com/collections/shop/products/voyager-go...

An axial flux wheel motor is a much simpler and less fragile design for ev’s. I’d like to see more experiments with that.

The GPT Golden Goose consists of 2 parts: 1. Smart people with the knowledge and motivation to build the Goose. 2. The compute required to create Eggs. MSFT now has both.

I don't see how any regulatory framework could have prevented this now or in the future.

There is a lot of 'it depends' on the efficiency of solar in winter. Solar is actually more efficient in winter, but depending on your latitude you get less hours of sun, and a lower angle of incidence.

Heat pump up-front cost are higher indeed. But depending on your local grid situation, they can drastically decrease the amount of electricity you shove and pull from the grid, by adapting to your solar performance. You can use them to convert your house into a thermal battery. Managing the time when you consume and produce energy will become the most important cost factor in the next few years in countries that advance towards renewable energy sources.

Everyone that has > 5KWp solar and a heatpump is laughing right now.