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cassidy

@cassidy@blaede.family

Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy.

:eos: Partner success at https://floss.social/@EndlessOS Foundation
:gnome: @gnome Foundation member
:flathub: https://floss.social/@flathub contributor

Previously: co-founder and CXO at elementary OS, UX architect at System76.

Frequently posting about #OpenSource, specifically in #GNOME and #Flatpak realms. I also enjoy #StarWars, #LEGO, #3DPrinting, and #SmartHome.

I have a background in UX architecture, open source, product design, & communication.

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MishaalRahman, to random
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Who else still doesn't have the Find My Device network?

I'm in the U.S., one of the first markets it's supposed to roll out in, and yet I don't. I get pinged by Europeans every day saying they now have it😅

I hope this rolls out in time for me to properly review the Chipolo and Pebblebee trackers.

cassidy,
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@MishaalRahman @ryne similar story here! I had it a while back when I was on the Google Play Services beta, but when I opted out and factory reset, I lost it until just yesterday when I got the prompt to set it up on my Pixel 8.

Corb_The_Lesser, to linux
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Hmmmm? If I open one of Gnome's application pseudo-folders, e.g., Utilities, I can't close it by clicking elsewhere on the display, which seems appropriate. I need to click on the bar across the top of the display, or tap esc on the keyboard. #Linux #Gnome

cassidy,
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@Corb_The_Lesser strange! I can't reproduce that here on GNOME 46, and I thought that has worked pretty much forever. 😅 What OS/version of GNOME are you using? If you're using any extensions, try disabling them and see if it still behaves the same—if you find a certain extension is causing it, you can report it to the developer of the extension.

cassidy, to homeassistant
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Alright nerds, I have a question. I would like to set up a standard way to get a derived value back from a number of sensors; for example, given a sensor’s PM2.5, PM10, Ozone, CO, SO2, and/or NO2 reading, I would like to return an estimated air quality index (AQI). Ideally I could also have a standard way to map any given AQI value to a category string, e.g. 10 = Good, 75 = Moderate, 175 = Unhealthy, etc.

cassidy, (edited )
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This seems like it should be very simple to define a function somewhere, but I can't figure it out! The closest I’ve come is to create new template sensor entities for each sensor, which is a pain. Blueprints seem to be for automations and scripts, not Helpers. 😩

Am I missing something? I don’t really want to have to figure out how to make a new HACS integration, but then again, automatically adding these entities to any relevant sensors (like how Battery Notes works) would be pretty dope…

cassidy,
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Right now I am manually copy-pasting a big ol' if/elif template block around to use every single place on my dashboard I want to show the AQI value, color coding, or string, and it is getting super verbose.

cassidy,
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@sanzky a template sensor has to be created for each entity I want to feed in, so it’s still a lot of copy-pasting. I was hoping to be able to define something more generalized somewhere, like a function that could accept an input and return the string or AQI value.

cassidy,
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@codechimp YES, this is it, thank you!!

cassidy, to music
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Something arrived a day early 👀

ryne, to random
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Thinking of spinning up a personal blog to review products that don't conflict with my work.

I still play with gadgets and research the hell out of them and how they fit with my needs, and I do basically the same level of mental documentation as I did when I was a full time product reviewer. Taking a few photos and vomiting up a few thousand words of insight would at best take a couple hours extra.

cassidy,
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@ryne

Do It GIF

cassidy, to homeassistant
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I’ve been playing with air quality sensors and purifiers in Home Assistant. Here’s my current layout on my dashboard; I want to improve it a bit more, but I am loving the glancable styling powered by the sensor values. :)

Dark style screenshot of an air quality dashboard with tiles for outdoor, indoor, office, bedroom, and kids room. Each tile has a measure of PM2.5 particles along with a graph of the last 12 hours. The card background is color-coded to match the level of particles, e.g. orange for unhealthy for sensitive groups, green for good, yellow for moderate, etc.

cassidy,
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@motoridersd yep the STARKVIND purifiers and a VINDSTYRKA air quality monitor!

I like them; I don’t have experience with others, but the fact that they’re just Zigbee and everything shows up and works (after a firmware update from Home Assistant and a reboot) is really nice. And they obviously work! When we turn on the humidifier and the PM2.5 goes crazy, the purifier in that room brings it down substantially.

cassidy,
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@motoridersd the air purifiers report the PM2.5 level, expose the fan toggle/speed, report the filter usage time and total purifier run time, and even expose things like child lock and LED control—everything!

cassidy,
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@kieranjarrett IKEA VINDSTYRKA for the standalone sensor, plus the IKEA STARKVIND air purifiers report their detected PM2.5 as well. I am averaging them for the rooms that have both, and just using the STARKVIND value for rooms that only have a purifier. I don’t know how exactly accurate they are, but they provide a nice signal to know if there are a lot of particles, e.g. we should crank the purifier or open a window.

cassidy,
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@kieranjarrett from a local weather station based on my location, unfortunately not on premises… yet. I haven’t looked into outdoor weather stations/air quality sensors yet.

ta1da, to random
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I just can't seem to settle on a . I've tried Firefox, Chromium, Vivaldi, Floorp, and even Edge. There's always something

cassidy,
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@ta1da it's not the exact same thing, but have you tried container tabs in Firefox?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-firefox-containers

I find it really useful for keeping multiple accounts/profiles separate.

cassidy, to Starwars
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I wish Justin of starwarsfonts was here on the fediverse, because I have a question!!

Any idea what the font used in the text graphics is here? It’s driving my wife crazy; she thinks it might be Albertus Nova, but we aren’t sure—and something just looks… wrong with the text.

https://youtu.be/J3kyYFHdRsM?si=WbYEP_k7q1iCDwHp

Like… it almost looks like someone vectorized a screenshot or something if that makes sense??

Any ideas, @louie? 😅

cassidy, to random
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Can (and should) I provide a door code for our front door for deliveries to our house when we’re not home? I’m sick of deliveries being put smack in the middle of the front step on a perfect pedestal for porch pirates…

I can set up a specific code for each delivery company and make it only work during certain hours/days when a delivery is expected, so the security implications aren’t too bad imho. My bigger question is: will delivery companies even bother with it?

cassidy,
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@ryne my old MyQ smart garage door opener kept trying to convince me to give Amazon (and now Walmart) access to our garage for deliveries. It is a neat idea but I kind of hate that the third party cloud service wants to be the intermediary there.

I guess I can try adding the instructions and just see what happens?

cassidy,
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@benpocalypse we do have a delivery box by the door, but sometimes the package is too big… in which case they just plop it right in front of the door which:

• Makes it exceptionally visible to porch pirates, and
• Prevents us from opening the door if it’s heavy!

cassidy,
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@cjw2001 yeah, that becomes a whole lot less convenient, then. Luckily porch pirates have not been a huge issue; I think we had something stolen a couple years ago and then got a small deck box for packages and it hasn't been an issue since. But today FedEx delivered a big box right on our porch while we were out, and it got me thinking.

cassidy, to alternative
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I forgot how much I loved this whole album. A song from it came up on my radio today so of course I’m just listening to the whole album on repeat again.

https://invoguerecords.bandcamp.com/album/francis-deluxe-edition

cassidy, to ChatGPT
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I was curious if a niche blog post of mine had been slurped up by #ChatGPT so I asked a leading question—what I discovered is much worse. So far, it has told me:

• use apt-get on Endless OS
• preview a Jekyll site locally by opening files w/a web browser (w/o building)
• install several non-existent #Flatpak “packages” & extensions

It feels exactly like chatting w/someone talking out of their ass but trying to sound authoritative. #LLMs need to learn to say, “I don’t know.”

#AI #ML

cassidy,
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@ids1024 yeah, fair point. Which is why I try to constantly use “LLM” instead of “AI,” because people seem to miss the “artificial” part of artificial intelligence. It’s artificial in that it is not intelligent!

This race to use LLMs for everything is so misguided; LLMs can be super cool for very specific things like summarizing a long text, typing suggestions, describing images, etc. but I genuinely think that chat model is just a terrible idea that needs to die.

micah, to random
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@kim and I counted the number of mosquito bites I have on my legs from the one evening we sat outside to talk with the neighbors. I have a total of 65 bites on my legs. 20 on my right leg and 45 on my left. I'm starting to worry that statistically I have some sort of mosquito spread infection just from the sheer number of bites I have. And people wonder why I fucking hate the summer. Also I don't like being hot. I need a place where it's overcast and slightly rainy at all times.

cassidy,
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@micah @kim oof! Denver is not overcast and slightly rainy at all times, but it is so dry that bugs are not a huge problem, and it’s super nice out in the shade even on hot days.

I always like to say that the acceptable temperature range is wider than most places because the sun is so hot but the air is cool; it can be chilly out but you feel fine in the sun, and it can be hot out but you feel fine in the shade.

cassidy,
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@micah @kim (I also hate hot weather because I get too hot all the time, but I really like summers here!)

cassidy,
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@kim @micah 🙏 let us know if you need any help scouting things out, moving, etc. Seriously!

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