I believe it’s that older HVAC controls don’t have a true ground/neutral, so they can’t actually consume power. Thermostat is (used to be) basically just a remote switch, just connecting the signal wire to its various functions, so there’s no need for it to have any kind of power. More recent systems have a ground (C wire), so you can draw power between the 24V R wire and the C common/ground. Some systems even put mains voltage on R.
Just what I was looking for. Recently got a kobo for experimenting, and just starting to figure out how to integrate it.
I’d still rather physical books, but sometimes there’s just too much premium for too shitty of POD trash.
I like Cory Doctorow’s take: AI is good for single-use, personal code to solve an immediate problem, and terrible for long-term, production projects. I imagine there’s a bunch of neophytes out there who use AI to create their first project, find out that github exists, and thinks someone else must be having the same problem they just solved, so why not release it to the public?
Dunno how well it would work with kubernates internal networks, but my DNS is configured with different views for internal and external clients. So, when letsencrypt does a lookup, they get the external IP, but when an internal client looks up the same name, they get the internal IP. TLS is happy, because the certificate matches the name. I’m happy because it works even when the ISP is down.
vim index.html
<html><header><title>Welcome</title></header>
<body><h1>Welcome</h1>
<p>Here's my random thoughts and links I keep forgetting
</body></html>
:wq
Why would I want to learn wordpress, much less spin up a database, for that?
That seems a lot more useful than binary tags. There’s a wide spectrum between fully vibe-coded slop and hand-written with vim.
Is the topic of financial/trading tools just completely off-limits here, even if it’s AGPL and self-hosted?
Not necessarily. The platform (lemmy, not just c/selfhosted) is full of anti-corporate leftists and anarchists. You’re more likely to find people who want to burn the stock market to the ground than to participate in it, esp highly speculative algo trading.
I’ve seen plenty of people ask about self-hosted personal finance or portfolio tracking, so there are people for whom your project might be relevant. Just seems more like a r/wallstreetbets kind of thing than a lemmy kind of thing.
If you’re in the Western hemisphere, NOAA has every-5-minute satellite images, using the form
https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/SECTOR/se/GEOCOLOR/600x600.jpg
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/index.php will help you pick which SECTOR is most relevant.
I started doing the One True Database method because I got worried that the high write count on all the little db’s was abusing a raspberry pi’s SD card. Moved them all to a bigger server with NVME and mirroring to a RAID.
Not all the compose files make obvious how to reconfigure the db host. Homeassistant uses s a sqlite db built into the container, rather than a separate unit, but you can force it to use a remote db through its config file. May or may not be worth hiding db user/pass in a .env And sometimes there’s trouble restarting after power failure, depending on what order the database, pi, and various containers come back up.
I also feel it’s worthwhile. I feel better being able to check on all the databases. Feel better not writing to the SD card so much. Feel better offloading those megabytes and cpu cycles from the little pi. It’s been fun snooping through database structures. There have been a couple times where I decided to query one of the ccontain databases directly, or cross from one project to another, and it’s easier (for me) to give a different user privileges to the database and query some deep bit of data than to figure out how to extract it from an API or frontend.
I’m not even running that many services, but why would I want the overhead of 6 separate mysql instances when I could just have one?
A records return the numerical address of a name.
CNAME returns a different name for a name. Basically ‘synonym’ so the maintainer only has to change the one master, A record when the IP address changes. Convenient to use CNAME to point www.example.com to example.com, but you can use it just as well to point example.com at my.private.host.xyz You can even chain multiple CNAMEs to make it easier to manage a complex backend structure while presenting a simple address to users.
Doesn’t work that way on lemmy: if they delete the post, then the alt’s shilling disappears, too.
or at least change the title to [solved] with a link to the comment that worked.
Uncheck “Send notifications to Email” in your settings. Or get a 3rd party app with a notifications setting.
Could they be astroturfing, looking for a specific solution to fill search engines with their own product placement, then deleting because most of the comments are other FOSS solutions?
That exact table is in my dining room right now.
Not who you replied ti, but I’ve been on purelymail for about a year and a half. No complaints. $10.yr is great, and their billing statements claim I could be around $3/year if I switched to their advanced billing. I have nagging concern that they’re hosted on AWS, and if your goal is to completely free yourself of US tech giants, then purelymail won’t.
.63W: N100 server with 2 HDD & 2 SSD. Cable modem. 5-port POE switch. WAP. Ooma VOIP device.
The POE & WAP are like 10W between them, but I had to add them to get strong enough wifi to one particular client. Authentik somehow consumes 3W. Immich also has a high idle load, so I leave it down most of the time.
Must be a new thing. My 20-year-old BR drive has never complained.
makemkv on linux for DVDs. abcde for CDs. dd of=game.iso for games.
I used to have pretty good luck with mplayer -dumpstream for DVDs, but its success rate started dropping a few years ago and I switched to makemkv.
No magic firmware required.
All the thermostats I’ve looked at - definitely all the “smart” ones, accommodate all manner of existing wiring. If you just have a ‘normal’ HVAC with a single aircon, single furnace, and fan, or one with heat pump, backup furnace & fan, then any thermostat out there will work. If it has internal logic, it’s going to have a place for batteries, but it will also (probably) have the capability to run off furnace power, if you have the right wires. Smart thermostats will report their battery state to homeassistant, or you can just change the battery when you switch it over to heating for winter.
Swapping a thermostat is pretty easy - it’s literally ‘connect red wire to terminal labeled red.’ It’s complicated if you care what the red, yellow, blue &c wires actually do, but the install itself is just color matching.
If you have an extremely high efficiency HVAC, or one with multiple heat sources & multiple compressors, then there may be more than the usual 6-ish wires, but even there, it will be an exercise of taking wire from its current, clearly labeled terminal and plugging it into the same labeled terminal on the new thermostat.
If you can stick with the same vendor for a thermostat upgrade, it may make the job very easy. I replaced a Honeywell programmable thermostat with one of their smart thermostats, and I didn’t even have to change wires. Both thermostats plugged into the same backing/terminal block. I literally pulled the old one off and pushed the new one on in 10 seconds. No tools.