Buelldozer

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[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

Subsonic 22LR would be cheaper, more effective, and safer.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why does every fediverse reddit clone have to pull this shit?

People want to live in Echo Chambers.

Politically motivated censorship is the type of thing many people are trying to get away from.

Nah, most of 'em just want to be the ones doing the censoring.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hit it with some belt dressing. If that doesn't get it, well, it may not be the belt. :)

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's not enabled by default.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago

I've seen some security researchers, such as Ed at LowLevel, cover Mythos and they've been reasonably impressed.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since we’re whipping out credentials, I’ve been in IT almost 30 years and I can tell you it’s not going to work like that.

I'm not the person you were replying to but I've also been in tech since 1996 and lots of things have worked just like that. All successful technology starts off barely functional and improves over time until nearly all members of it's intended audience can successfully use it.

As an example in 1996 setting up a router was a specialty task that required training, by 2016 any moron could buy one off the shelf and have it running in an hour. As another example basic HTML was a specialty skill in 1996 but by 2003 you could do it with Microsoft Word. Smartphones are another example, they went from barely functional Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices which required ridiculous amounts of back end skill to deliver email to iPhones and Androids that any numskull can use for nearly anything at all.

My point is this; too many people are stuck on the "What use is a newborn baby?" question without realizing that the infant is growing-up at blinding speed. It's also the first technology to carry the promise, real or not, of self-improvement when it reaches sufficient maturity. Assuming that happens all further improvement will be increasingly automatic and happen even faster.

AI isn't going away and it's only going to get better as time goes on.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There must be reasons why there aren’t at least SOME areas are doing this, since it essentially doesn’t exist.

They aren't yet common but more are built all the time and they are far from non-existent.

You probably don't realize how many of them there are. Here's a link showing dozens of Solar Canopy projects done by just Lumos Solar. There's dozens more companies across the United States doing these kinds of projects you just don't hear about them. As examples did you know about the the solar canopy parking lots at Dell, Intel, Cincinnati Zoo, and Rutgers University? There's also solar canopies in Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, and Denver that you probably have never heard of.

Don't feel bad for not knowing about them either; these kinds of project simply aren't newsworthy unless they are tied to some major project or entity.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A comment up above says that in Canada the age limit is 50.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yep it's tiring but comment aged link milk because the very next day a bill was introduced to Congress.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not even close, both of these projects are wildly deficient for that kind of use and the effort required to solve those deficiencies would at least 10x if not 20x the cost.

That doesn't mean they are useless, I can definitely see some eyebrow raising asymmetric possibilities.

If you're seriously interested in this DIY Radar System I strongly suggest you grab a full copy from Github and put it on local storage as I doubt it's going to remain up for long.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

David wasn't God's Son nor was he a Christian, but you knew that already.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Buelldozer@lemmy.today to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
 

I'm a total noob when it comes to 3D printing and am frankly bewildered by all the options for machines. I don't want to buy a printer and find out it won't smoothly handle ASA. In fact my first print will almost certainly be a custom mount so that I can put my Tempest PWS on a 5"x5" vinyl fence post.

I'd like to keep it under $800 but if I will spend more to get a better machine and a better experience if I need to.

 

I can't post to Announcements so this is going here instead.

The SSL certificate for the site has expired. I've already reached out to mrmanager and hopefully they'll surface soon to get it corrected.

 
 

In case anyone somehow missed it Bethesda is set to announce the Oblivion Remaster at 9EST *today *and it's rumored the game will drop immediately.

 

Great news for those of who are still carrying a torch for TES: IV

 

As originally conceived, the House was supposed to grow with every decennial census. George Washington spoke just once at the Constitutional Convention — and on its final day — to endorse an amendment lowering the ratio of constituents to members to 30,000.

Today, House members represent roughly 762,000 people each. That number is on track to reach 1 million by mid-century.

 

Always surprises me when I go to do something in HA and realize that I can't figure out how.

This time its lights, specifically making sure that they don't get left on.

Until now I've simply been creating an automation for each light switch so that if it changes state from Off to On and when it's 30 minutes after sunrise it's starts a 15 minute wait and then changes the state of the switch to off.

This approach mostly works but it's less than ideal.

First I'm having to create an automation for each device. How do I do it by Area, or list / group of devices, instead?

Second if a device is turned on too early there's no state change for the automation to catch and it never fires. I could fix this by creating another automation that checks for it but then I'll have even more of them to manage.

Third this doesn't work very well if you want different things to happen on the weekends as opposed to during the weekday. For instance on a Saturday I may WANT that closet light to stay on longer because I'm putting away clothes.

It'd be really nice if I could program HA like this 'On a weekday if you see any device on this list turn on 30 minutes after Sunrise I want you to turn whichever one(s) it was off again 15 minutes later.'.

I'm must be missing something here because surely HA can do this, right?

 

Both FireFox on PC and Connect on Android keep signing me out, throwing general "error" messages, and refusing to load the next page.

Liftoff on iOS can't even find lemmy.today in order to add it as an instance!

I'm not seeing any discussion of these kinds of problems elsewhere but they've been consistent since the .19 upgrade and they've persisted after the .19.1 update.

 

Shortly after the ratGDO v2.5 was released I ordered one and a couple of days later I ordered a case from Etsy to go with it.

Two days later the Etsy seller messages me asking if have the v2.5 or v2.5i because the cases are different. WTF? There's already a new version?! I tell the seller to make it the v2.5i because that's probably what I'll get.

So last week I received a very nice red case from the Etsy Seller HighTower3D out of the North Carolina. Seriously, this thing is nice. The build quality is high, it has magnets in the bottom for mounting, comes with allen screws (and the allen wrench you need) and a couple of little zip ties.

So this week my ratGDO shows up and...it's v2.52i! A quick check of the website shows that there's now a v2.53 and that makes four revisions in the last month!

You can't make this stuff up so all I can do is laugh...and give away the v2.5i case that I spent $26 on and doesn't fit the ratGDO version I ended up with.

I have no use for this case so I'm giving it away to someone who can; make sure you have a v2.5i though because this call will NOT fit any other version.

If you are in the United States and can use this case then leave a reply below. 😊

 

I ordered some sidewalk heating mats from HeatTrak and I want to automate them with HA so that they come on when it makes sense to do so based on the data from my Tempest Weather Station.

According to HeatTrack my mats will have a combined resistive load of 5A which is well within the spec of the Zooz ZEN05 or ZEN14, both rated for 15A resistive loads, but when I asked them about it they did not recommend using either of them with heated mats. They couldn't, or wouldn't, explain why and it doesn't make sense to me why this wouldn't work.

My next thought was to simply swap the outlet to something smart but this is an outdoor outlet so it needs to be GFCI and there's essentially no Z-Wave GFCI outlets made.

Do I really need to use something like an Enbrighten Z-Wave Plus 40-Amp contactor for this or am I missing something here?

 

I have an automation that turns my driveway lights on when motion is detected. It normally works fairly well but it was windy last night and that caused the automation to trip endlessly as my trees and bushes were whipping around. Lights would come on, shut off 10 minutes later, then turn right back on again. It basically did this all night until I disabled the automation.

I'll do some fine tuning of the motion sensors which will help and I'm considering adding a condition to the automation where it won't trip if the wind speed is above a certain level but how can I add some kind of cool down timer to the automation to prevent it from endlessly engaging?

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