I’ll take that off your hands there buddy

Idiomas? やった！

What’s up with cities (in the US) not having the facilities for this? I know it’s not a perfect solution but everyone I see walking their dog in Los Angeles has these compostable bags.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like Europe does (generally speaking). Is it a matter of laziness or something else on our part?

Z-Wave. I could never get it working quite right despite purchasing highly recommended Aeotec stuff.

The MultiSensor 7s and door sensors would always report a battery level of 100%, fall off the network, and do other crazy stuff. I spent a year with a Z-Stick 7 before finally bailing a buying a fifth generation stick.

Firmware updates would take weeks because they just wouldn’t install. Constantly factory resetting them never fixed anything either.

I really hate to say it, but Zigbee ended up working much better despite living in a 2.4GHz interference hell hole.

I feel the same, but my anger is scoped to cloud-connected “smart” things.

Like you, I can’t stand my iRobot gear. My Roomba hasn’t updated its map in over a year because it always has “some problems” (probably due to pushing everything to the jank us-east-1 data center).

On the other hand my recent Aqara gear is very nice but it took me time to finally call it quits on Z-Wave beforehand.

What universe do you live in? Liberals are like this? 🤣

An old friend moved across the country to where I’d been living for a few years. About two months later he lost his job due to skipping a shift to go party (small town → big city move).

He then neglected to find another job so when I tried talking to him about it, he got angry then disappeared and drove back to our home state that night.

I could’ve written a Tailscale App Connector to route it through the home connection, but I ended up blocking their domains outright and writing some CSS rules to hide Reddit from SearXNG results. It’s better than that annoying page.

Hell no, I’d whip up vegan breakfast burritos from a block of tofu and soy chorizo (or a complicated fake meat recipe I have) before doing that.

If you’re in Los Angeles, Burgerlords’ breakfast burrito is where it’s at.

Imagine it is your plan and you earn a reward for it. It’s the small things that count.

I’ve been reporting spam for years (old iCloud email account I can’t destroy was leaked everywhere back in like 2015) and using the websites to report spam seems to have zero effect.

What does seem to work well is reporting to the originating server’s owner, but it’s mostly hit or miss.

If the email happens have suspicious links, reporting to the IP address owner and the registrar the domain is hosted at is usually very successful. I’ve filed simple reports for those and have received a “we took down this host/domain” within minutes several times.

I use Apple devices for end-user activities but Linux for my routers and servers. I grew up with Windows at home and Macs at school; as a teen I used Linux full time on used PCs but always loved the “it just works” design of Apple gear.

I actually prefer FreeBSD, but Docker and containerization have brought me much closer to Linux.

Specifically, I love using Alpine Linux due to its flexibility. Its packages are very up to date and I can install an actually working Node or Ruby with a simple apk add versus installing nvm or rbenv. It’s awesome for lightweight, no nonsense stuff like Tailscale, VPNs, etc.

I’m actually not shocked but that’s because it looks like the same corporate boilerplate every CEO has been putting out lately.

Yeah, that’s pretty annoying.

I use Tailscale with an exit node in my home country and another in Switzerland. Most my traffic goes to Switzerland, but some of it exits locally as websites block other countries. I’d rather it still pass through a VPN rather than my home IP address.

It’s mostly painless, the only website outright blocking VPNs is Reddit (which I don’t care about), but I block most other social media companies and Google properties so I’m not concerned about them.

I personally use a double-hop VPN to avoid this but I don’t think that’s necessarily scalable to all users or a valid suggestion for the non-technical among us.

This is what keeps me from rolling my own instance for personal use. I would need to buy a domain (linked to me) to communicate with anyone else.

It would be nice to be able to spin up an instance on i2p or Tor without still needing access to the “normal” web, but I don’t think everyone’s going to hop onto pure i2p unless it comes built in to apps.

What is the most private phone? Take a visit to a Google property and curb stomp your privacy to find out!

Feeling attacked with Leggable and Fleable. I’ve been known to write a concern or two in Ruby on Rails but what can I say? I like my code DRY.

I used to keep my voice and tone professional with the fake smiling and shit, but my facial expressions never lied.