ArmoredCavalry

ArmoredCavalry, 1 month ago

Vultr posted their response to the concerns here - vultr.com/…/a-note-about-vultrs-terms-of-service/

The portion of the ToS that people were worried about had been in place for years and had nothing to do with server intellectual property. They are removing it to avoid future confusion.

I don’t disagree that it was poorly worded, but the amount of people jumping to the worst possible conclusions on this is concerning. What happened to Hanlon’s Razor?

ArmoredCavalry, 1 month ago

Many are, but as far as I know, no hosting provider has ever tried something like what was claimed (which is why it made such news).

It seems like many people didn’t even verify that portion of ToS was new (checking web archive), or wait for Vultr’s response before closing their accounts.

Even after the official response, it feels like people stuck to their original assumptions and felt justified moving services?

Companies, and specifically the people in them, make mistakes. What matters is their reaction. I’m scratching my head to think what Vultr could do better in this case (other than creating a time machine to avoid the initial screw up).

ArmoredCavalry, 3 months ago

I definitely thought about trying something physical like that too, but mostly as a fallback plan!

ArmoredCavalry, 3 months ago

I was a little surprised as well, but I think it’s because the keyboard / mouse I use (and the ESP32) all use Bluetooth LE specifically.

I looked at USB solutions first actually, but then decided to try ESP Home solution since I was already familiar with the system.

ArmoredCavalry, 3 months ago

Oh yeah I should have specified this is to wake from sleep, not a complete shutdown. So not a complete replacement for WoL.

ArmoredCavalry, 3 months ago

I actually tried something like this, the laptop BIOS didn’t have any settings to tweak for A/C power changes. However, it does wake from sleep after plugging in. The issue is, it immediately goes back to sleep (within seconds). Tried quite a few things to try to stop that behavior (e.g. running Power Toys Awake) but had no luck.

So that’s when I switched to ESP Keyboard.

ArmoredCavalry, 3 months ago

I’m a huge fan of Netdata, very configurable and monitors just about anything you could want. Great interface and alerts too - www.netdata.cloud

ArmoredCavalry, 3 months ago

As others stated, you can run and access the interface locally (or setup your own reverse proxy) for free. Their Cloud dashboard is also free for up to 5 nodes. They recently added a flat-rate “Homelab” plan as well, if you want to remove the limit. It’s all quite usable for $0 otherwise though!

ArmoredCavalry, 3 months ago

That’s strange, I’ve run it fine on some very underpowered hardware. Are you adding a specific monitoring integration with it, or just out of the box settings?

ArmoredCavalry, 3 months ago

Weird! For reference one VM I run on only has 1 GB of memory, and Netdata uses 100-200 MB. Could be something going on with UnRAID though. Definitely some sort of bug I’d think, since normally resource usage should be very low across the board.

ArmoredCavalry, 6 months ago

I use this installable web app for cleaning extra parameters from links - linkcleaner.app

Adds a share target to Android once you install it as well, makes it easy to send links to. Open source too!

ArmoredCavalry, 6 months ago

It’s an installable PWA, click the … Menu in Chrome browser and choose “install”. Hope this helps!

ArmoredCavalry, 6 months ago

I picked up an Atom for testing as well. I do get a delay, but definitely not 28 seconds… Maybe more like 4-5?

It’s totally dependent on the speed of the hardware you are running HA on though. Since the microphone is just streaming sound to the server, which then processes it. I’m running on fairly beefy server.

Just for a test, you could also try toggling off the wake word in the Atom Device settings in HA. Then you can send a command by pushing the physical button. Could at least narrow the delay down to wake word processing vs normal speech processing that way?

ArmoredCavalry, 6 months ago

Not the OP, but commenting on the Atoms. They are good for testing, but not sure I’d want to use them for a full setup.

For one, speakers are pretty rough in them 😂 That’s kinda to be expected though, it’s intended as a cheap dev device.

However, the bigger thing for me is to wait and see what hardware HA will support when they implement on-device wake-word processing. I’d definitely prefer no continuous audio streaming over the network, until after I have said the wake word.

ArmoredCavalry, 6 months ago

That’s actually what I tend to do, but would be nice (for laziness) to have two different settings. Or for cases where games don’t allow adjustment after starting.

Funny you bring up Kena, because that is actually probably a prime example for me too. Loved the rest of the game, but the boss fights were a bit too difficult imo!

ArmoredCavalry, 6 months ago

Right? When I was a kid I would specifically enjoy the “challenge” of trying to beat something over and over. Nowadays though… I just like playing a game for the experience. I still like feeling “progression”, so things go from difficult to easy as my character advances. But having to repeat something multiple times? Eh… just not my jam anymore.

ArmoredCavalry, 6 months ago

Agreed, I think the first game I saw this in was Tunic. It was a great addition!

ArmoredCavalry, 7 months ago

That’s awesome when you can organize an in-game group like that to achieve something you couldn’t do alone. Sounds like fun times for sure! :)

ArmoredCavalry, 7 months ago

That sounds amazing, it is good to hear there are still some groups that have kept in contact, even after all that time!

ArmoredCavalry, 7 months ago

Wow, that’s a crazy coincidence! That “patron” system sounds pretty interesting too, seems like a good way to incentivize veterans to help new players. Interesting that I haven’t really heard of any more recent games having that (as far as I know).

ArmoredCavalry, 7 months ago

I played a ton of StarCraft back in the day! I was never too serious about joining a clan (just dabbled), but I now remember some of the things you mentioned with the chat rooms, and clan “tags”. I might be imagining it, but wasn’t there also some way to set colors on letters in names too (holding down alt and pressing numbers or something…) That might have honestly been my first experience with “bots” for things adjacent to games.

Good memories, thanks very much for sharing!