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Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

Its comical that in the last 25 years Linux has gone from a nerd-only tool to something that a 10 year old can install on an air-fryer and still we deal with this bs

Self-Hosted podcast has announced that episode 150 is their last. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

I'm really going to miss Self-Hosted, it brought a community of us weirdos together. I hope someone fills the vacuum left after ep. 150

Self-Hosted podcast in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They've critiqued themselves on this. None of us are completely pure. At least they have an active matrix channel

Android Self hosting in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have two TV boxes, one is a Raspberry pi 4, the other is a pi 5. I installed KonstaKANG's android port for the Pi's. Depending on your familiarity with flashing the Pi's this video from Explaining Computers offers a way to get Konsta installed through PINN. Once they're up and running they act just like a cellphone. This remote works really well.

Install f-droid, and/or obtainium, and/or Aurora Store and you can install whatever apps you want on the box.

I don't personally use Chromecast, so I can't vouch for that working. Mine is more centered around consuming Jellyfin (jellyfin android tv app), youtube (newpipe), podverse, and Radiodroid

I really liked Kodi, but could never get it to correctly sync across devices so I finally went the android route. I've been pretty happy

Feel free to pick my brain if you have more questions

Android Self hosting in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I dont think I so much want this for my phone as for my homemade AndroidTV boxes. Losing the Linux functionality after switching from Kodi/libreelec had been my biggest pain point.

Can't wait to see my TV boxes show up in my Beszel dashboard!

Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Fuuuuuckkkk I wish I could degoogle again

Don't be evil, lol

Priest rap album in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thank you for this

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HACS (feddit.nl)
 

HACS offers great additions to the functionality of HA, but there are so many options it feels overwhelming. What are your favorite HACS?

Help setting up OpenWRT for extra router in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I agree about the USB Ethernet dongle. Unless you only require short distance wifi range (eg hotel room temp router) the radio in the pi isn't going to be enough

I built a pi4 router a few years ago, and it's still running great, I recommend the project. But unfortunately I can't find the HOWTO and it was before I started taking good notes. I assume your current router is a phone company supplied modem/router?

My setup is cable modem-->pi router-->switch--> old netgear router in Access point only mode

Being that your router/modem is upstream of router, I'm not sure if you could pass-through the WAN to the pi router, and pass back the LAN to the router/modem for the wifi... maybe someone on here can shed some light?

Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OK daddd (or mommm) it probably is time for me to test my backups haha

Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes this is in addition to the normal alarm. The light is incase I'm sleeping, as I may not hear the basement alarm going off. The notification is if I'm not home.

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Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel (feddit.nl)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is surely common knowledge for some of you but I thought I'd share a story, as this just made me cringe

I never understood the point in the option to "run actions in parallel" I thought if I had a list of actions to complete, HA makes it through them almost instantly, and with the varying latency of each action they wouldn't complete at the same time anyways.

Then I tested my smoke alarm notification that I have had running for over a year.

It went-

If: list of smoke alarms detects smoke Then: Turn on the lamp next to my bed, then Send a notification to my phone.

I had made an error when setting up the lamp entity. (I made it full brightness on both scales, can only use one) this stopped the automation before the notification went out to my phone.

If it's important that the automation makes it to the end, run in parallel!

Talk about a false sense of security

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[Question] TV consumption SBC's (feddit.nl)
 

A few years ago I turned a pine64 rock64 SBC into a kodi box, and saw immediate performance improvement over the stock Roku chip on my TCL TV when streaming from SMB. As always "better" becomes... ehhhhh I want more. I want to stick with an SBC because of power consumption on a box that I'm going to leave running 24/7. So my question is: What's the best price to video performance SBC out there?

U.S. fully bans asbestos, which kills 40,000 a year in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The last I knew in the US you have a choice to remove it yourself, you can be as safe or unsafe as you see fit, there a very few rules. Or you pay a company which must follow strict regulation on its removal.

Self Hosting Fail in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I could have the best self hosted setup.... living in a van, down by the river!

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Self Hosting Fail (feddit.nl)
 

I woke up this morning to a text from my ISP, "There is an outage in your area, we are working to resolve the issue"

I laugh, this is what I live for! Almost all of my services are self hosted, I'm barely going to notice the difference!

Wrong.

When the internet went out, the power also went out for a few seconds. Four small computers host all of my services. Of those, one shutdown, and three rebooted. Of the three that ugly rebooted some services came back online, some didn't.

30 minutes later, ISP sends out the text that service is back online.

2 hours later I'm still finding down services on my network.

Moral of the story: A UPS has moved to the top of the shopping list! Any suggestions??

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Tailscale/ PiHole (feddit.nl)
 

I've been slowly moving access to my Self hosted services from multiple WireGuard VPN connections over to tailscale for that nice flat network feel. One thing that was holding me back from the switch was that I liked vpn'ing my internet traffic from my phone and laptop back to my network and into the PiHole to avoid ads/tracking when I was away from home.

Then I found the DNS settings on the tailscale admin console and everything lit up! I added the server that PiHole is running on as a nameserver and changed the global settings and BINGO! No ads!

Unfortunately.... A few days later when looking at my PiHole admin console I realized that the PiHole that I set up at my parents house for them was one of the biggest clients.....Not optimal.....

Is there a way to make an exception to the global DNS setting? Any suggestions? I don't want to remove their PiHole from my tailnet as it makes it much easier to maintain.

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Zwave Thermostat- Outlier stats (feddit.nl)
 

Can anyone explain these annoying outlier points from my zwave thermostat? This is from a honeywell thermostat, but before this I had a trane that suffered from the same problem. It happens with current temperature and humidity. It's not like its terrible, it doesn't mess with my automatons or anything, but when I want to look into my heating history it really screws with the scale

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