@moelassus super reliable, and more responsive than MyQ integration ever was.
I went with the ratgdo. You can order the hardware from and support the developer, or you can build one yourself. Install time is like 15 minutes, including getting the ladder.
@redvers Aw man! Maybe that’d fly back in the 90’s when we were still turning our computers off at night :-P
That reminds me of a series of 2a downtimes at a customer’s site. They can’t figure out what was going on. Local IT finally camps out in the server room. 2a. Housekeeping strolls in… They had been unplugging the DB to plug in their vacuum, nightly.
I guess folks don’t know what they don’t know, eh? Ha
There are lots of guides for how to optimise your iPhone battery life. I want to know how to do the opposite and impact battery health quickly.
Why? I’ve and iPhone on 80% battery health, which has AppleCare, and Apple won’t replace the battery until the health is 79% or lower.
It’s been on 80% three months and I’m only keeping extended AppleCare running until the battery is replaced.
All optimisation is off. We have an app open looping content 24x7. And we charge / discharge all the time. So any tips on how to negatively affect the health are welcome!
I agree with this fwiw. I think there is a place for both and I’m not leaving Mastodon. But it is objectively true that Bluesky is fun and Mastodon is much less so. Earnestness has a place but lots of us are online to have fun. https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-is-fun/
@iridella Oh, gotcha! Are you going to rip and replace Google Home or supplement it to make it more useful / stable?
I'm more of the latter, using it to supplement Apple Home / Siri. It's so nice using HA / Node RED for automations compared to the Apple-native options.
Crazy how some days I sit in my driveway in my car wondering how I even have a job at all, but then someone asks me a question on email that I actually know the answer to it and I realize that I will have a job this week. It’s been back-and-forth like that for 15 years
I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
@foolishowl@philheppenstall@feditips I’ve been the guy that argued “let’s just explain it better” or “users just need better instruction”. But it doesn’t work that way for many people; they have (better) things to worry about in their lives, and choosing a social network instance to join may not sound as fun as just joining a social network to interact with people.
A proper goal IMO is to squash the learning curves rather than increase documentation.