I’m not quite sure how reliable these battery indicators are. I have a thirdreality moisture sensor at 0% for a week now. Still the original battery too, so you’d think that was actually properly calibrated. 😆

So I just go with the unavailable and deal with it then. Though the notification automation that I made for that did break at some point. I need to figure that one out again.

Huh, I’m running it on a rpi 3B which was (barely) supported when I installed Home Assistant on it. It has only 1GB of memory but it’s still working very well! I don’t have a ton of automations though

I do quite like the Space Quest Historian who reviews very old games in a very funny way.
https://spectra.video/c/spacequesthistorian

I also like Arthur who shares random little tech tidbits.
https://tilvids.com/c/arthurpizza

Heh, I rounded the number too much. I’m actually in Ottawa where there is a Dutch grocery store with a large selection. I’m just baffled why Canadians are so reluctant about that stuff. There seems to be only a 50% chance of people liking licorice. Weird! 😆

I would say it was worth it. I moved from the Netherlands to Germany for three years for a Master’s and then to Canada for a PhD and stayed there and got a job. It’s a great way to experience different cultures (though all Western of course).

For the move to Germany, it was really easy. It’s all EU so all I had to really do was register at the Kreisverwaltungsreferat. I had also applied for a grant to study abroad so that paid the tuition as well as the rent. Tuition in Germany is very low by the way. It was also a great way to build independence since I had to rely a lot on myself, having come all alone.

I did meet my lovely Canadian spouse there, so there was the opportunity to move to yet another country. Immigration is a massive pain, even when married to a Canadian, but it all worked out with student visa, permanent resident, and finally citizen. Took years!

The downside is of course being 6000km away from my family. Especially from my parents who are not getting any younger. So it’s hard to be there for them if something happens. But overall, I would say it was worth it. The experiences have been great and I get to spread ideas that work well from places I’ve been to my new home in Canada. The lack of proper licorice here is baffling though!

Oh yeah, I also daily drive a Sony with Sailfish (Xperia XA2) and the GPS is very unreliable to get a lock. It’s very rare that it works sadly. Other than that the phone works very well.

From the product page:

Powered by Linux at its core, our device transforms the mobile experience into something far beyond ordinary smartphones. It combines the stability and openness of a full desktop-class operating system with the convenience of a pocket-sized device. This means it is not limited to mobile apps alone. Native Linux applications and Android apps run side by side, delivering true versatility and freedom of choice

I suspect it uses Waydroid so there may be issues with Android apps that rely on Google Play services or even worse, depend on the Play Integrity API.

Whenever I have a glass of water, he will sneak up and drink from it. We even gave him a human glass with water to drink from, but NO, it has to be mine.

There is also Vagrant which lets you specify VM specs, but also lets you install software in the VMs automatically. It also works for other VM software then just Virtualbox.

You will unfortunately have to get rid of the lemmy.ee links since they are closing down very soon.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

While true regarding open source vs closed course. The risks are quite large for patients. For example, a few years ago there was a company called Second Sight that made artificial eyes so blind people could partially see again. Then the company discontinued the product and now they are stuck with an unsupported surgically implanted device that they rely heavily on but can break any time. It’s pretty risky to have something implanted if you don’t know if the company will be around in a decade or so.

I recently bought the TUXEDO InfinityFlex 14 which is a 2-in-1 as you describe. Well, they call it a 3-in-1 because you can fold it in such a way that you can stand it on a table and watch movies on it which is a bit silly to call a 3-in-1.

Anyway! It works very well. TUXEDO OS is bascially Ubuntu but they put the latest KDE Plasma on it which has much improved tablet mode support compared to Plasma 5.27 that Kubuntu 24.04 comes with. I really like it. You can install it on non-TUXEDO laptops too like yours. I mainly use tablet mode to read books or browse websites in a more relaxed pose on the sofa.

There’s a touch keyboard too which works well enough if you need to type a sentence here and there but for anything more than that you would revert to laptop mode.

This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!

It seems impossible to log in right now. Emails with the verification code (valid for ten minutes) take many hours to arrive…

Matrix server is pretty complicated. You’ll need a reverse proxy, SSL certificates, and preferably a database like Postgresql. Minecraft would be a lot easier.

Either way, a lot of it would involve the command-line anyway, so I would second the SSH suggestion. It’s fairly easy to set up. When installing Ubuntu Server for example it asks you right away if you want to install one.

Sort of. I wear a camera while cycling because there are a lot of angry people in cars that have some weird hatred towards people using a bicycle.

I only have the one ZBT-1 at the moment, but like you I was also thinking about getting a second for Thread (though in the form of a HA Yellow). There’s this bit in the documentation for the Yellow about multiprotocol support and one of the things is that it’s better to have a second wireless chip in some cases which I take to mean that you can have multiple ZBT-1, one for Zigbee and one for Thread.

For large networks it is advisable to add a second wireless chip. This allows to run Zigbee and Thread each on a dedicated wireless chip and on separate channels.

(source: https://yellow.home-assistant.io/guides/about-multiprotocol/)

We use KMyMoney for all our stuff for years now. Very happy with it! It came in very useful when we were considering some big purchases to figure out what we could afford.

It can read Quicken files which most banks support. Those have account numbers inside them, so KMyMoney will automatically recognize which account it should go into if you set enter those numbers when setting up the account in KMyMoney in the first place. Some banks only allow you to export to CSV which is a bit more cumbersome, but KMyMoney supports that too.

It will intelligently categorize statement entries too. If you’ve set a particular entry as belonging to a certain category once, it will remember that for the next time you import a statement. Then you just confirm.

Those categories are very handy when making the reports to see our spending and income patterns.

Anyway, I highly recommend it.

Yes, that’s what I use to using apt-mirror. It also works great for any other apt repo.

Oh, I see. You fixed that one in 1.2. That wasn’t there yet when I commented. :)

Yeah, works great now!