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mhamzahkhan

@mhamzahkhan@intahnet.co.uk

Self-proclaimed genius, and ruler of the Internet. System admin the rest of the time.

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mhamzahkhan, to mastodon
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Is there something different with how is doing URL verifications or something?

I can see a lot of instances hitting the root (/) page of my blog suddenly.

mhamzahkhan, to random
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People who bake sourdough often... is looking after your starter really as tedious as it sounds?

mhamzahkhan, to homeassistant
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This is probably a dumb question, but..... I have some lights that I want to switch on to their brightest setting. With the Phillips Hue app, I can switch it to "Bright" scene, and the brights go to their full brightness. How can I do that with a automation, and not using a Hue scene?
If I send a rgb_colour of 255,255,255 it's not the brightest mode of the bulb.

mhamzahkhan, to random
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I hate the sticky feeling when there is high humidity. The floor feels sticky, and the air feels gross and sticky. 😫

mhamzahkhan, to linux
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Hello! I'm Hamzah. I'm a / engineer in my day job. I live in .
I consider myself a hardcore geek, but these days most of my time is taken up by my three kids and wife.

I'm very interested in automation, and have a small addiction to , and .

mhamzahkhan, to SmartHome
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Looking for recommendations for a Zigbee temperature sensor that is safe to put in a fridge?
I'm not sure if that even exists? Batteries aren't supposed to get that cold?

mhamzahkhan,
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@cnx what kind of batteries do your generic thermometers use? CR2032?

mhamzahkhan, to mastodon
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How badly will things break if I change my WEB_DOMAIN? I know it's not recommended, but would it work if I redirect request from the old domain to the new?

mhamzahkhan, to TrueNAS
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Question for the people here. I have an ancient SCALE machine which I am renting from my hosting provider. It has a Xeon W3520 (4C/8T @ 2.93GHz), 8GB RAM, 4x3TB spinning rust, in a single pool with two mirrored vdevs.

I'm using this machine as iSCSI backend for my virtualization hosts. It's slow AF. I get extremely poor IOPS. I'm pretty sure it's the disks that are the bottleneck. ... (continued)

mhamzahkhan, to random
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I didn't like how dark my living room was due to the poor lighting (which had 3 of the brightest G9 bulbs I could find) and lack of sun light coming in, so I changed the light fixture to this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08CD94F7N

and also put in a dimmer switch (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CJ4HLV21)

I got the brightest bulbs I could find.

Now it's so bright 😂
My wife thinks it might be a little bit too bright. I don't agree, it's just right!

Besides, with the dimmer, you can just reduce the brightness.

mhamzahkhan, to homeassistant
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For remotes for light controls, do you use bindings, or automations to control the lights?

Seems like bindings is might be good idea because the remotes will still work if HomeAssistant/Zigbee2MQTT is down, but it seems you also lose some flexibility in terms of what action a button press takes?

mhamzahkhan, to random
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It should be Friday today.

mhamzahkhan, to plex
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Removed from all my devices. is doing a better job, and I'm super happy with it.

There are some missing features, but overall, it's managed to replace plex completely for me.

markwyner, (edited ) to Palestine
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Tadhg Hickey explains the situation in Palestine as clearly as it gets. The simple truth with simple words.

Israelis are not the problem. But their government is.

By the way, I’m an Ashkenazi Jew; so don’t come at me with your anti-semitism rhetoric.

Source:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4iBMSOM52L/

(Edit: updated name of speaker. Thanks, @mhamzahkhan!)

mhamzahkhan,
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@markwyner that's Tadhg Hickey, not Lowkey. But regardless, it's a very good video.

mhamzahkhan, to random
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I don't get it. I'm a true caffeine addict. I usually have multiple coffees in a day, or sometimes energy drinks.

I haven't had any caffeine since Monday. I was expecting the usual extreme headaches that come every time I do the caffeine reset.... but I haven't had any headaches at all.

Just extreme sleepiness. Not that I'm complaining. I don't want the headaches. But it's weird. Usually I would get a headache the same day if I missed my morning coffee.

mhamzahkhan,
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@jorijn coffee does taste too good. i'm craving it quite badly, haha. 😭

I try to do a caffeine reset regularly when I feel like I've become less sensitive to caffeine. Last week, I had two energy drinks in the same day but still felt sleepy. 🤣

But this time, it's mainly because the month of ramadan will be starting in two weeks, and I will be fasting. There isn't any suitable time to be drinking coffee/caffeine, so I try to cut it beforehand because it's easier to do while not fasting.

mhamzahkhan, to random
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What can I use 3x Raspberry Pi 3 for?
I thought about setting up room-assistant, but I don't really need that level of visibility for any automation that I have.

mhamzahkhan,
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@Floppy Hmm I already have Plex/Owncloud/Matrix running on my K8S cluster. My Nature Watch looks interesting though! I might give that one a shot.

I basically just want to use the Pis. It's bothering me that they are just sitting there doing absolutely nothing 😂

mhamzahkhan, to UKpolitics
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"Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting ID"

Bahahahahaha 😂

jorijn, to random
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I decided to quit caffeine altogether about 4 days ago, as I was drinking upwards of 500-1000mg a day.

Luckily the headaches aren't that bad, the holy hell.. the brain fog is serious.

The instant sleep improvements are so worth it, though.

mhamzahkhan,
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@jorijn Well my last coffee was 3 weeks ago.... and the brain fog only started feeling better a couple of days ago.... so maybe 2.5 weeks or so haha

mhamzahkhan,
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@jorijn My brain fog has finally started to clear. 😂

Sleep benefits are amazing. I wake up not feeling tired, and in need of a coffee.

mhamzahkhan, to SmartHome
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Need some suggestions for what I can replace these fluorescent tube lights in the conservatory.

There are three of them. I want to replace them with something that is:

  • super bright. The brighter, the better.
  • controllable colour temperature
  • dimmable
  • smart controllable

I don't think there are any zigbee LED tube lights that I can just swap in like that?

dthacker9, to homelab
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Do you know when you have hung on to a mobile phone for too long? When you get a quote to sell it and the phone is worth $2 USD. Sleep well Pixel2. I'll find something for you to do in the #homelab.

#Pixel2XL #ewaste #obsolescence

mhamzahkhan,
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@dthacker9 I would love to use my stash of old phones to do something productive in my homelab.

I was trying to get deployed on a few old phones using but I gave up in the end. 😅

mhamzahkhan, to homeassistant
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Making a pretty, and neatly organized, and functional lovelace UI is difficult #homeassistant

vwbusguy, (edited ) to linux
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I got to have a conversation today about CFS and cgroups2 with someone at work this morning, so that's fun. It's one of those "magical" things about the kernel that is interesting and also not a good thing to try to outsmart.

mhamzahkhan,
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@vwbusguy Do you have any suggested reading?

I have spent a little bit of time (albeit not nearly enough time) to try and do some reading into it, but I don't think I really fully understand it. 😅

mhamzahkhan, to DadBin
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#Parents of Mastodon, could you recommend a game, that is not Minecraft, or Roblox that is multiplayer that I can play with my 4 year old and 6 year old?

Mainly looking for a game for my 4 year old. He likes Minecraft, but stupidly it triggers my motion sickness. I struggle to play for longer than 15 minutes. I have to really force myself to stick around for longer than that.

I also find it incredibly boring. 😓

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