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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023
  • CatMaster5001@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do You Have a Fire Extinguisher in Your Home and is it Still Pressurized?
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    2 years ago

    I had a fire alarm go off in the middle of the night. They were all hard wired so blaring in the whole house, woken up from a dead sleep. I was running around the entire house looking for the fire. Having that happen and not having a fire extinguisher was the worst most sinking feeling in my life. There was no fire, one of the alarms just went bad. Next day I ordered a fire extinguisher for each bedroom, kitchen, both cars, etc.

    I had that exact thing happen again recently and I learned alarms are only good for about 10 years. The one that failed was just over 10 years old, so I replaced them all and put a reminder in my calendar to replace them all in 10 years again. I have had all the extinguishers for several years. I look once in awhile to make sure they’re still in the green, but I should probably have them inspected or replace them. I’m not perfect by a stretch either.

    One of those places I’m so much more than happy to pay the money and never have to use it though.

  • CatMaster5001@lemmy.worldtoAndroid@lemmy.world•GrapheneOS is getting Android Auto supportEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The thing I missed was text to speech when I installed OSMAnd. I tried installing a couple third party options but the voices were dreadful. To get around this I ended up switching to Magic Earth which works fine and has builtin voice so no need to TTS.

    I also have the Norwegian keyboard installed for Duolingo since I use it to learn norwegian in my spar time and I miss the auto correct for that language. Auto correct for the English keyboard works though.

    It’s possible I’m missing some other minor things, but if they’re so minor I can’t even recall them I guess it’s not that big of a loss is it…

    I haven’t missed much else. My partner won’t switch because her vehicle has Android Auto support and she uses it a lot. My car is a few years older and just has bluetooth so I don’t lose anything here.

    I might consider a Fairphone next time around now that they’re available. But I have become very lazy around water and in weather. The lower IP rating is my biggest hangup.

  • CatMaster5001@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•CybwerPower PR1500RT2U / PR1500RTXL2UEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Yes, this is why I have the RMCARD205… NAS, netgate, etc. shut down if the UPS battery gets too low.

    Having that already I don’t really see what the cloud connectivity gets me, other than maybe easier access from random places, but to BombOmOm’s point, who is really tinkering with their UPS from afar on any given day. My only reason for asking is that It looks like cloud functionality built in (and a separate ethernet connection) and can’t be added later, so if there’s a genuine good use case you learned of later you’d be SoL. I can’t imagine a reason off the top of my head, but I’ve never accused myself of having a great imagination.