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    7 days ago

    Don’t forget to think about how to keep the salt air from corroding the electronics. Either build a spare or two that you keep sealed in plastic, or find an airtight case with an integrated heat sink or something.

    Edit: you might want to look into conformal coating and dielectric grease (for the connectors) as well, although I don’t know enough about that to competently give advice beyond the mere suggestion.


  • Heck, if HA knew for certain it was a workday, it could boot the laptop for me…hmmm. Maybe something to think about for the future.

    I’ve been meaning to look into how to integrate HA with a NextCloud CalDAV server or something, because I have a lot of ideas for automations that would be best triggered by calendar events (e.g. ringing an alarm [get ready time] + [travel time] before [appointment]).




  • European confirmed. I could tell because your cabinets have feet instead of toe kick molding (even before noticing the electrical outlets or the Euro license plate in the background). Not that it matters, aside from being kind of neat that Lemmy seems to be less US-centric than Reddit was.

    I’m not sure how I feel about cabinets like that. On one hand, it seems nice that the flooring goes all the way to the walls so you don’t have to worry about patching it if you change the cabinets around; on the other hand, I’d worry a little about that peninsula moving if it’s not actually fastened to the floor, and it seems like having that gap there would make it more difficult to keep clean.










  • I really miss the ubiquity from 2020, where it was all local.

    I was definitely leery of Ubiquity for that reason since before 2020. Even though back then it could all be local, I feel like pushing people to the cloud was already well-established as being a thing.


    My criteria for routers and wi-fi access points up to this point has basically been “can run OpenWRT and is relatively cheap,” so I’ve settled in on TP-Link. I’m still running on an old Archer C7 from a decade(?) ago and would like to have something that fits in my rack for aesthetic purposes, though, so my next router might be a 1U DIY x86 machine running OPNsense instead.







  • The even bigger issue is that AFAIK every single one of those things is really intended more for things like roller shades, not venetian blinds, and automates the raising/lowering, not the tilt.

    Speaking for myself, if I were going to settle for a solution that only automated one function instead of both, it would need to be the tilting, not the raising/lowering.