This was a while ago. My college didn’t have a CS major (small liberal arts college) so they brought in an adjunct professor who was a Director of IT of a small market research firm. After 4 semesters as his student, he offered me a job my senior year. Longest interview ever.
That was over 20 years ago.
My current job (big tech) was from my friend who I worked with coming up to me and saying “A recruiter from [company] is calling you tomorrow. I gave them your name.” Never in a million years did I think I was at that caliber, but I went through it anyway because the worst they could say is “no”.
Come on, baby, now throw me a right to the chin. Don’t just stare like you never cared, I know you did. But you just smile like a bank teller Politely telling me, “have a nice life”
I’m a super beginner so I’ve been working on basic chords and playing along with a click track. My God is tempo difficult for me especially as I haven’t fully mastered fingering positions.
But hey, I’m a little bit better than I was yesterday and that’s all I’m aiming for.
Hi everyone. I know there on tons of posts on the old sites threads about the mechanics of swapping from smart things to HA. Just wondering if you all have any advice on other things that might come up?...
I can't give you any ST specific advice, but I figure I can share my Hubitat to HA experience as there may be some tidbits that could be useful for you.
The biggest bit of advice I can give you is around the other people in your house and ensuring their experience is similar or better than what it was. I did this two ways: First, as mentioned in the other comment, link ST to HA and slowly transitions devices to native HA (I have z-wave and thread/zigbee radio). Second, I bought two low-end Android tablets, installed the native HA app, and created meaningful dashboards. The UI change alone between Hubitat and HA was a huge win. Not sure what ST's UI is like, but Hubitat blows chunks.
A lot of your transition is going to come down to how the other people in your household interact with your smart devices. If you use Google or Alexa, then make sure to keep similar names of devices or groups as you move them over to HA. If you primarily use the mobile app, take the time to walk everyone else through the UI and make meaningful, mobile friendly dashboards. If you rely mostly on automations through sensors, make sure you set up the automations in HA as a part of transitioning devices.
Take your time, I rushed a few devices and got some constructive feedback from the wife about it. Little did she know I had already transferred 50% of the devices.
Learn the YAML configuration patterns and capabilities through templating for automations. The UI does an "OK-ish" job, but you can really unlock the power of HA if you take a bit to learn how to set up automations using templates and calling the back end services. Learning this took HA from "slightly better" to "way better" than Hubitat.
Enable Home Assistant Community Store, commonly referred to as HACS, to get access to a lot of open-source tools and add-ons for HA. Development is very active in the community for HA and there are a lot of fantastic integrations and UI upgrades.
I can't stress the "take your time" part enough. It's been tough for me because I get distracted easily and since this impacts the productivity of my family I wanted to make it the best for them. It's been about 6 months since I've started the transition and I finally just powered down my Hubitat yesterday. The family is enjoying the automations and dashboards much better than anything Hubitat provided, but it definitely took easing them into it.
Hope you enjoy and feel free to let me know if you have questions - I'm still a beginner at it, but have really liked the platform so far.
Just came here from reddit, making my first post. I played NMS last year for about 40hrs then kind of lost interest. Starfield looks a lot like NMS, but with a lot more content and action. Is anyone going to be trying it out?
If you get a portable one, make sure you get the kind with two hoses. Otherwise you’ll create a vacuum that will pull in hot air to the room you’re trying to cool.
The second hose prevents that by using outside air instead.
Guess The Song (lemmy.ca)
Prompt was the lyrics of a song. Test your lyrical knowledge and try to guess the title os this song. The genre is Thrash.
What animals do you dislike for unusual reasons and why?
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How would you hide a paperclip in your home/apartment to win a contest against an investigator?
This time, with rules....
Employed lemmings, how did you get hired?
(And what’s your job?)
What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?
For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.
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Whats your favourite poetic song Lyric (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Ideally Bob Dylan lyric but anything goes
Did anyone have Iomega Zip drives where they studied/worked/lived?
Where I was it went from 3.5" floppies to USB drives. (There were CDs, but not as easy for things like schoolwork.)...
Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal (feddit.de)
Charles Littlejohn: Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison (www.cnn.com)
The man who stole and leaked former President Donald Trump and thousands of other’s tax records has been sentenced to five years in prison....
[Discussion] What technique are you working on right now?
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What are the facts you remember for no specific reason
Does anyone else find themselves recalling random facts for no apparent reason? Like,...
Snow! (lemmy.world)
English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age (www.theguardian.com)
Any advice on making the swap from ST to HA?
Hi everyone. I know there on tons of posts on the old sites threads about the mechanics of swapping from smart things to HA. Just wondering if you all have any advice on other things that might come up?...
Reddit API fee protests push into third week (www.axios.com)
Juste received this love letter from reddit's admins (lemmy.world)
YSK: Installing a bidet attachment to your toilet is super easy and probably cleaner than using toilet paper.
Why YSK: It's cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper
Will anyone be trying Starfield?
Just came here from reddit, making my first post. I played NMS last year for about 40hrs then kind of lost interest. Starfield looks a lot like NMS, but with a lot more content and action. Is anyone going to be trying it out?
Monday Musing
Alright refugees!...
How do you deal with your ADHD?
No judgement? Do you use strategies or meds or both? I'm curious....