Sticky

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[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

You're getting downvoted to oblivion, but I do see and agree with your point: "Branding matters"

A significant portion of the population will not rub two brain cells together to understand the "warming -> change" connection, as reasonable as it is. Same thing with the "defund the police" slogan. Yes, when you understand the concept you can see the meaning, but for those that don't bother to understand the concept, the "brand name" is the beginning and the end of thought applied. When the "brand name" is easily attackable, the idea is dead so far as they're concerned.

As frustrating as it is, persuasive arguments need to also appeal to those who are persuaded by quips and jokes as well as those who are persuaded by logic and reason. Unfortunately "Global Warming", the "old brand" is still sticking around, and still able to be joked away by many people, hence the reason for the image post in the first place.

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Once they rolled out ads on the home page (Shame. Shame. Shame.), I installed "Launcher manager" and "Wolf launcher" to give it an interface I really like. A big background picture, some large buttons for the commonly used apps, and then progressively smaller buttons as you scroll down the screen for the less commonly used features.

It broke once when an update rolled out, but since then has been running fine and I never once see the bloated monstrosity that is the default home screen.

The only qualm with my setup I have is that access to the configuration sidebar isn't as intuitive as it was with the pre 9.0 version (which frankly I don't remember anymore aside from the general impression). That's a very minor price to pay to have an interface without ads.

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the response, that confirms my assumption, seems like I was configuring it right, but the behavior is not as expected.

  • If HA is active/onscreen already, the command will do nothing.
  • If HA is idle/offscreen, the command will bring HA to the forefront, but not change pages. (This is the state it is in after the "turn_off" sends the launcher intent.)
  • If HA is off, the command will launch HA, and navgate to the correct page.

Is this all that is to be expected? or should I be able to get to the desired dashboard, from any previous screen or application state?

 

Hi All! I'm very new to home assistant, so forgive me if this is a bit of an obvious answer for someone who knows their way around a bit, but I'm having trouble controlling my tablet's active dashboard with the "command_webview" notification command.

For reference, I'm using "madface"'s suggestion from this link to handle the screen on/off behavior, and its working great, except for the fact that no matter what I use for the "command_webview" nested command: "/lovelace-flur" in the linked example, I cannot get the companion app to switch to any dashboard other than the default/main dashboard.

I've traced the issue to here, which implies a resolution can be found in the definition of "path", (linked from the documentation for command_webview), but the link is dead as a doornail.

My assumption is that the "path" corresponds to "https://homeassistant..com/", but that doesn't seem to do the trick, and I'm at a loss for other things to try in the absense of a working "path" documentation link.

Hopefully someone here might be able to point me in the right direction? Any help is much appreciated!

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After a college mead making experience that turned out terrible, I recently had a go at making T'ej . I haven't the slightest clue if a regular mead drinker would say it tastes perfect, tastes like ass, or is somewhere in between, but I enjoy it!

I didn't rack it, just went from the main fermentation carboy to bottles after letting it crash by pouring and stopping before too much sediment came out. I haven't back-sweetened it but it's still somewhat sweet and feels a hair like champagne, so I'm a bit afraid it's going to slowly keep on fermenting in the fridge and carbonate a bit, but I'll burp the bottles every once in a while so I can keep an eye on it.

Moral of the rambling story: I'm usually the kind of person that goes all out trying to do something the "right way", and this looks like an excellent guide/summary of how to do that, but my laziness often wins out. In this case at least, I've found success doing the bare minimum. I am a bit curious to see how different it would taste following a more rigorous recipe :-)

Thanks for the post! I'll probably reference this when my current supply runs out or explodes in the fridge!

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's pretty slick. I didn't know Firefox bookmarks had anything like that feature. Thanks for sharing!

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Beautiful, thanks! These are going in the recipe app 😁

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, I think I need to move that way. If it doesn't fit in the unRAID box or the main PC. It needs to go. Whether that's donation, selling, recycling or trash, I should just quit hoarding the parts. I'm one of those folks that saves the best weapons till the end of the game "in case I need them", picks the neutral path instead of the dark/light path cause I don't want to cut off my options, and would rather organize my 50 spare USB cables by size/type/length than throw them away. 🤣 It's a thought process that pervades more than just spare PC parts after upgrade lol. Habit breaking is definitely the name of the game!

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I recently discovered the glory of gochujang, and I'm obsessed with it. Happen to have a recipe for this?

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This, except the rainy weekend happens and I rarely look to my pile of old equipment as the time filler 😅

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've never liked dealing with excel for anything other than manual work. It's data integrations have grown beyond my familiarity, and I've never liked any of the python libraries I've used for reading and writing excels formats. Go accessible with something like CSV, and you lose most things of value that excel can offer.

Currently though, this is my strategy. I've got folders of Excel sheets that I manually add exports of various things to, but I'm missing the piece that ties it all together, and I'd sure love to do less of the work manually.

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Although it's probably not great for me to be seeking out new excuses, another server implies you might have a few... Any cool uses you'd like to share?

[–] Sticky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Drives thankfully can easily have extended utility, I don't feel bad about those cause I haven't hit my bay limits yet. Using them in the unRAID box also means I don't really worry about them dying and losing anything valuable.

Speaking of 5 builds worth of RAM... I found and disposed of a couple 128MB sticks the other day. Progress 😅

 

I've got a problem. I'm a technology hoarder. I still have the first PC I bought myself some 15 years ago cause "I might use it for something!"

My desktop after that one is an unRAID box. The one after that is my "lab" PC (3d printing, embedded projects etc) and then finally, my current generation main PC.

I want to upgrade my main PC soon (can't run new games, CPU and GPU limited), which means potentially kicking everything else "down the chain" to a new purpose as it gets a slightly better version of itself. I find the thought of this exhausting though. So much configuration/setup to give upgrades to things whose existence is only because I didn't want to part with functioning hardware.

My current thought is to "break the cycle" by condensing all non-primary functions to my current PC, as an unRAID box hosting everything other than main gaming PC. From there, the rule needs to be tech goes into one of those two boxes, or it gets sold/donated.

What do you all think. Is that reasonable? How do you manage your spare equipment post upgrade?

 

Hi all (First Lemmy post, yay!)

Does anyone have recommendations for a way to capture, archive and visualize arbitrary data in one convenient location. I'm talking about arbitrary/misc. stuff like electricity usage, gas usage, body weight, spending, mileage, habit tracking etc... Essentially looking for a super solution that can be easily interfaced with, has convenient methods of browsing, filtering, and visualizing, and can (obviously, based on post location) be self hosted.

I currently use mint, beestat, Google Fit, Samsung Health and probably a few others as my trackers/monitors of my personal and home data, but I've always been curious about finding a solution where I have complete control over my personal data once it's captured by the various sources, assuming I can get my hands on it via exporting manually or otherwise.

For background, My experience level is pretty minimal. I have unRAID running on an old desktop PC, hosting a file share and gitlab container. I can scrape python programs together easy enough, but databases and web tech will take some learning.

I'm interested in ways any of you intelligent folks may have figured out how to manage your personal data! Thanks in advance for sharing!

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