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Tired of misinformation? This custom GPT dissects how it manipulates your brain. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fancy sharing the details of your prompt? I might like to recreate in a corporate environment.

No sweat if your keeping it closed.

Z2M slow since 2025.3 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Rebooted a bunch of bits and it seems to have sped up again. Weird really. I love zigbee for the low cost and low power consumption,M but as a tech nerd I hate that I don’t have the same tools as I would have with an IP device.

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Z2M slow since 2025.3 (lemmy.world)
 

Anyone else finding their z2m mesh is going slow? Can’t work out the cause, wondering if it is related to recent patch.

Help guiding my son through his exams in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a good idea thanks! My wife and I talked about something similar recently. I think we’re going to try having some of our own office work scheduled for times when he is studying/revising.

My sense is that his problem isn’t particularly the understanding of the topic, it’s laying down a deep enough application of it to get the marks in the exams.

Help guiding my son through his exams in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

We’ve talked about his situation, but not in a formal ‘he needs support’ kind of way. When he’s getting low As and Bs it’s really hard to talk about him not meeting his potential, I just look like a pushy parent.

I think what I’m mostly worrying about myself is that the future he wants for himself needs grades that he’s capable of intellectually, but not at the work rate he’s able to do today. I know that things usually work out, but it’s still hard in the moment to see that he might miss out on his dream goals.

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Help guiding my son through his exams (lemmy.world)
 

Hi folks. I think my 16yo son has ADHD. He shows a lot of the classic behaviours. (Not listed for brevity)

He’s smart, performs well in class, but struggles badly with exams, detail. He is also struggling with revision. He’s been a high performing up until now but he’s hit hit the limit of his abilities.

His exams are 2 months away, we won’t get a diagnosis in time 😔

Can anyone here suggest resources or personal insights that could help me help him through this period?

Thanks!

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Subscribed to a community (lemmy.world)
 

Saw a community on lemmy had moved. Decided to subscribe to it in the new place too. I was subscribed to it before and liked it well enough.

Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I switched out the router and things started working. Very weird, but I can’t tho jot anything other than it being the Virgin Media hub not liking it. Apparently they have history on this.

Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, everything looks right. I moved dhcp resolution from the router to technitium recently, but hadn’t set up local resolution.

I’m currently thinking the router is the culprit. Here in the UK there are lots of forum posts complaining about the Virgin Media gear. Nothing specifically describes my problem but I’m going to try a new router over the weekend.

Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll grab a cap to check.

I’m running tcpdump -i any port 53. I can see the outbound request but not the reply. Will the cap show me anything more?

Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Thanks for giving it some thought!

I have been testing using dig @192.168.0.249 study.lan

3, 4, and 5 work for TXT, NS and SOA but doesn’t work for A records. I think this rules out a simple network issue?

Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Thanks for replying, I appreciate the response.

I’m running dig @192.168.0.249 study.lan from my client (a MacBook).

If I run ‘dig @192.168.0.249 study.lan TXT’ I get a correct response (I have added a txt record)

If I run ‘dig @192.168.0.249 lan SOA’ or ‘NS’ I correctly get the records for the zone.

I think this eliminates the possibility of it being a routing error?

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Help! DNS A Records only ones getting filtered. (lemmy.world)
 

I’m pulling my hair out over this. I’ve got a proxmox homelab, an LXC running technitium installed from TTeck’s script.

The DNS server is also doing DHCP for my network. I have an authoritative zone for ‘.lan’

I can get NS, SOA, TXT records from the DNS server, but no A records! The DNS query logs show that it gives an answer, and if I am on the DNS server itself I get an answer, but no other machines on the network hear the reply.

I think this means the DNS server is working properly. There are no FWs in the way as I can resolve other types.

Where else can I look, or how can I diagnose this? I am completely at a loss.

Made baked potatoes with my chili tonight in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What’s your cornbread recipe then? I like chilli. I like baked potatoes. Maybe I’ll like cornbread too

Super Duper DND Playlist Compendium in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I like these lists, thank you!

What is your favourite fact? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Two from me:

People took the London tube to the last public hanging - https://londonist.com/london/undergroundtoapublichanging

The University of Oxford (1096) is older than the Aztec empire (1345)

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Picked up the children (lemmy.world)
 

Picked my son up from sports training. Had to give a couple of other kids a lift home because we share lifts to these things. Dropped them home on the way. It’s not exactly the shortest route but it was fine.

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Hardware Recovery Strategies (lemmy.world)
 

I had a bit of a scare this week. My setup is HAOS running on Proxmox. I have a Sonoff USB Zigbee gateway. (also a coral for Frigate, and a USB SSD attached to Proxmox)

Friday night, the server stops for no reason. I dig it out from the cupboard and I can hear the fan short cycling. I disconnect everything and take it to a screen so I can see what's happening - it boots fine, WTH?

Must be a USB thing. Add them back one by one and when I connect the gateway back problem is back. Now I get worried. Switch USB port and remap to HAOS and boom! back up and running. Panic over, cold house (radiators are zigbee) and angry wife and children avoided.

All of which has lead me to consider that my HA set up is really 'Mission Critical' and I need some recovery strategies beyond a daily backup. I think the gateway can be swapped but I'm not sure if the key to the zigbee mesh is hardware encoded or software.

This is the question - What are your recovery strategies? Do they include hardware or just software? I'm thinking maybe I need a second dongle and a couple of low powered machines in the Proxmox cluster. I won't be able to get my homely back up immediately, but if I can get HA running again on a different node with a backup dongle I'd be OK.

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'Touch points' in HA (lemmy.world)
 

I was reading the HA roadmap and thinking about the points where everyone (else) interacts with my HA environment. I’ve wanted displays/dashboards for a long time but mostly have either battery powered buttons or smart wall switches. These are good in that I can automate them but with two teenage children we have a lot of variability.

Tell me how everyone else uses HA in your house. Do they love it? Do they see only that buttons ‘do things’? Do they read dashboards and crave data?

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when is the best time to go to the dentist? (lemmy.world)
 

Two-Thirty!

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Help building a homebrew NVR (lemmy.world)
 

I’ve got a project in mind I’d like to test with the community before going ok deep on.

I’d like to put together a face-recognising NVR closely tied to homeassistant. I’m thinking of using an RPi4 with a coral attached. Then installing docker and including the following:

  • frigate
  • doubletake
  • compreface (unless others recommend a better detector?)

I have an MQTT server in HA but also wondering if it makes sense to have a local MQTT server for the NVR.

As usual, I’m working on the edge of what I know, so any suggestions/comments on things that might trip me up would be warmly welcomed.

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[UK] Found during house renovation (i.imgur.com)
 

There is a key to lock it closed, and the same key will lock it either on or off. In keeping with a Victorian Bell/Butler Board but not near it in the house.

I guess it must be some kind of isolator switch, but I know nothing of its history.

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