Godnroc

joined 2 years ago
[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
  1. Good, classic, simple
  2. More of the same
  3. An improvement, even better than before
  4. Different, but still good
  5. Awful, nobody asked for this

Or that's my burger interpretation

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have found almost all radio status near me play a mix of 12 songs and ads. Tuning in to any station was likely to result in ads and not music.

My radio is tuned to static so I can get into my car without being forced into hearing an ad while my Bluetooth connects and I can start playing a book.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

MATH! Estimated width of the US: 4506km Fastest maglev train: 600km/h Time to go cross country for sapphic love: 7 hours, 31 minutes.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

They think users want settings all in one place. Users want settings that fucking work.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

A ton of smart buttons. Every time you do the task you push the button and a time helper is updated to the next date. If today is beyond that date, update a second boolean helper to show the task must be again!

Bonus if you set a light or alarm to go off of you forget to do it or a reward dispenser to drop treats when you complete the task!

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You would think politicians would start fearing losing their jobs.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Poor a little silicone in afterwards for a soft, squishy bottom that will make grabbing small parts easier.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

What is the beaning of all this?

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tried that when I bought mine, they just slipped a license plate ad on anyways. Threw that shit out when I got home.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Disregard the establishment, surely; It was some time ago.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The connected boxes show that the same color appears on both sides; however, the colored boxes provide context based on the lighting which is further reenforced by the rest of the dress outside the box.

Technology Connections did a video about brown that has the same color of orange on a background that cycles between white and black and the color of orange seems to shift to brown or orange depending on the background.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They aren't always happy. They are always happy to see you.

 

Most reviews are boring, corporate friendly platitudes and a 5-star rating, but that really doesn't tell you anything about the product. Hell, it may just be a bot regurgitating the products marketing sheet!

But if reviews contained swearing, slander, or other legal minefields you could know it wasn't written by the company.

"This toaster is great, works well, likes to eat forks. Feed it a fork every morning to reward it for a good job."

"What a fucking great coffee machine! Be sure to lick any drips off the scalding hot plate, that's the most tasty part."

"5-stars, mine came with an official statement from the company saying Hitler did nothing wrong."

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Godnroc@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
 

I recently started a new job after being unemployed for too long and slipping back into my night-owl habits and schedule. With the last job I used Google's Clock, Home, and YouTube Music apps to wake my ass up on time by turning on the lights and playing some music. While it worked at the time, I since removed the assistant from my phone the entire arrangement fell apart.

I spent too long trying to get Home Assistant to take over this process, but had so much trouble getting the pieces together. I just couldn't find an alarm clock app that could trigger a Home Assistant automation or a way to play music on either the Google smart hub I have as a clock or my phone. But tonight I got the past piece realigned, and it's fucking working!

How we do:

  • Set an alarm in your preferred mobile phone App. (I use the Fossify Clock)
  • Ensure the Home Assistant app has the Alarm Sensor enabled. (Settings > Manager Sensors)
  • Configure the Music Assistant addon to connect to your preferred device and music provider. (If it's YouTube make sure to grab the cookie in a private browser window!) -Create a Home Assistant automation that is triggered when the time matches the Next Alarm sensor. (Maybe offset it back by a few seconds to prevent update delay causing it to miss.)
  • Have the automation turn a nearby light at 1%, wait a little bit, and then start slowly increase to 100% over like 20 minutes.
  • Set the Music Assistant player to a volume to is loud enough to hear, but not quiet enough to ignore. Also set it to shuffle while you are at it.
  • Play your chosen music using Music Assistant on your player. Give it a playlist of your liked songs so that the shuffle always gives you something you like every day, but not the same song.
  • Get your ass up and get ready to work.

Of course, if you have ideas of how to improve this I would love to hear it. I already have my lights fade as it gets close to bedtime.

 

I made some cupcakes for my niece's birthday. Vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and some edible dinosaur decorations I found when picking up the containers to transport them in. Fairly tasty even if the frosting looked a bit crap-shaped. 💩

Here are the recipes I used:

 

Garlic salt, pepper, and paprika seasoned pepper jack cheeseburgers with mustard and barbecue sauce on toasted bagel buns.

This is an old photo, from 2018, but it is also one of the best photos I have ever taken of something I cooked. I spent a few days making the burger patties ahead of time and grilling them for lunch. The photo was to share with my coworkers to make them jealous because I lived close enough to work where I could actually cook a decent meal.

I'm currently sorting my backlog of photos, 12 years worth, and tagging them all for easier searching. When I came across this, I wanted to share.

 

Garlic salt, pepper, and paprika seasoned pepper jack cheeseburgers with mustard and barbecue sauce on toasted bagel buns.

This is an old photo, from 2018, but it is also one of the best photos I have ever taken of something I cooked. I spent a few days making the burger patties ahead of time and grilling them for lunch. The photo was to share with my coworkers to make them jealous because I lived close enough to work where I could actually cook a decent meal.

I'm currently sorting my backlog of photos, 12 years worth, and tagging them all for easier searching. When I came across this, I wanted to share.

 

A few years ago a friend gave me an "Urban Shop" glitter lamp as a gift. It was a neat twist on a lava lamp that used LEDs and glitter with a motor that spun the fluid using a magnetic string bar.

While it was a great vibe, it used three AA batteries and the stirring would cycle on and off regularly causing the noise to start and stop, which I found more distracting than just leaving it on.

I found that the on-off switch was actual an on-on switch without a second connection, so I took an old USB cable and hardwired the second switch terminal so that I could power it from a power supply or batteries.

This was a drastic improvement to me, but I didn't like the cord always being attached and the motor cycling was still annoying. Eventually, the lamp ended up on a shelf for a later date.

Today, I pulled the lamp down because I finally tried ESPHome because I keep hearing about it in other people's projects and wanted to finally try the full smart conversion of this lamp. After several hours of trying to reuse the existing surface-mount LEDs and wiring, I gutted the whole damn thing and installed my own 5mm LEDs, rewired the motor, and added a button for controls and wired everything into a Raspberry Pi Pico W I had bought years ago.

Now I have a lamp that can be controlled locally from the button, can be reprogrammed from my computer without moving the lamp, can be controlled from Home Assistant, and performs exactly how I want.

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