Yep. I have posted on stack overflow exactly 3 times. One time it was marked as duplicate and referenced to something that was not even the same topic. One time I had too much detail and debugging done for the classic knowitalls to come make a smartass remark and was completely ignored. The final time I got one comment, addressed it, and that person was never heard from again lol.

Nice! Always good to convert something that is no longer supported.

For future projects, I would also suggest using the SEEED studio Xiao series https://www.tinytronics.nl/index.php?route=product%2Fsearch&search=seeed+studio+xiao if you don’t need a lot of IO, which is often the case with IOT stuff. I use it for everything HomeAssistant related.

The esp32-c3 version for the cheapest with a nice antenna if you have to put the module near metal (my homemade doorbell uses this)

The esp32-S3 model for more processing power (my VoiceAssistant satellite uses this)

Esp32-c6 variant to replace the esp32-c3 for everything that you want to convert to Thread in the future (esphome is starting to have Thread support https://esphome.io/components/openthread/)

Esp32 board are great, but the xiao series is so tiny that you never have to worry about them not fitting!

Doc Marten auality has apparently absolutely plummeted info the ground the past decade. Like, they only last a year or two now apparently before falling apart.

Probably has to do with tackling hard hitting issues like… Checks notes… Ensuring that vegetarian meat alternatives can’t be called “steak”, “burger”, or “bacon”. Ah yes.

Couldn’t have to do with multiple countries going full right wing + corporatization being in a race to the bottom lol.

Just a few thoughts as to why it hasn’t taken off:

Video is multiple orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive to serve than text or even audio.

• Your server needs a great upload speed which is not achievable for on-site home servers for most people in the world

• Your server has to have at least one dedicated encoding GPU (no raspberry pis or Intel nucs if you want any meaningful traffic)

• Your server has to have a ton of storage, especially if you allow 4k content to be uploaded, which while much cheaper than before, is still expensive. Here in the EU, reliable storage is around 300€/12TB for drives, which fills up very fast with 4k videos or if you try to store different resolutions to reduce transcoded loads.

• Letting random people upload video onto your instance is significantly harder to moderate than text or photos. Like think of the CSAM spam that was on Lemmy when it started in taking many new users…

• The power usage (and bill) of the server will also be much higher than without peertube because of constant transcoding

The cost, both financial and server taxation-wise is simply too great for me, and many others to setup a peertube instance.

Regardless of how easy it is for people to create on peertube, someone has to bear the cost of hosting it. That is cheap-ish for Lemmy or mastodon, but there is a reason YouTube was a loss leader for a long time for google, and many streaming services restrict 4k video.

That isn’t even getting into compensation for the content makers.

I wish I could use unattended-upgrade.

It literally restarts my server even when I disable the option, leaving it hung if the USB boot key isn’t in there.

I had to stop using it, so now I just manually upgrade because that doesn’t auto-restart without my permission…

Yes, but I am also of the opinion that not one single acronym should be used without at least once in the section saying what the acronym is. Many many programing docs with say what am acronym is exactly once, somewhere in the docs, and then never again.

Also, if there are more complex concepts that they use that they don’t explain, a link to a good explanation of what it is (so one doesn’t have to sift through mountains of crap to find out what the hell it does). Archwiki docs do this very well. Every page is literally full of links so you can almost always brush up on the concepts if you are unfamiliar.

There seem to be 10 extremely low quality, badly written, low effort docs for every 1 good documentation center out there. It is hard to RTFM when the manual skips 90% of the library and gives an auto-generated api reference with no or cryptic explanations on parameters, for example.

Maybe european car companies should just do better. I wonder if they ever thought of that?

Just because they are european, doesn’t mean they are a company we should buy from and support. Nestle is European and is a baby murdering, child trafficking, chocolate slave trade company that kills and sickens thousands of people a year by illegally stealing water from them. Unilever is also pretty shit, spotify is just about the worst streaming service, not to mention the pharmaceutical companies…

Nope, Toyota is going HARD on subscriptions for literally every single feature. More and more every year. Remote start (Mazda also does this), charging you an upfront cost for hands-free driving, then telling you after that you have to pay 25€ to use it, soon seat heating and brakes will probably be locked behind a subscription after paying 50k for the car.

also VW with it’s bad everything in the ID line besides looks i guess and still charges 41-58k€. It is insane for something with terrible mileage (and an estimation that just plain lies), laggy as shit entertainment system that has taken up to 15 minutes to connect to android auto (2020 passat takes <3 seconds on the same phone) and is very buggy and sometimes needs a full car restart to show the maps app, horrible quality backup camera (my 2015 Nissan Altima had a 10x better quality camera) that has to be cleaned literally daily because they placed it so badly, terrible volume control, and no seat adjustment, and still tracks your every move.

While the lack of laughter can be from depression or stress (the podcasts I used to die laughing from only get an actual laugh out loud moment every once in a while now), I feel like most story-based video games that do humor try too hard nowadays and it doesn’t land (like outer worlds)

Most of my laughter in video games, personally has been from interacting with other people. Valheim, Helldivers 2, REPO, overcooked, stardew valley, etc…

Probably the last single player game I laughed with was A Hat in Time or something.

Yeah but at this point American Brands are awful, Chinese Brands are awful, Indian Brands are awful, and European Brands are awful, all in different ways, but also in exactly the same way that they harvest every bit of your driving and location data and tell it to the lowest bidder.

There is nog much left. I don’t think there will be an open source car anytime soon lol

But on this threat model? Why would it not be good?

It has to physically accessed on the PCB itself from what I gather.

There are 2 “threats” from what I see:

• someone at the distribution facility pops it open and has the know how to install malware on it (very very unlikely)

• someone breaks into your home unnoticed and has the time to carefully take apart your vacuum and upload pre-prepared malware instead of just sticking an IP camera somewhere. If this actually happens, the owner has much much bigger problems and the vacuum is the least of their worries.

The homeowner is the other person that can access it and it is a big feature in that case.

I miss the Compose key so much on windows for my work computer

Sadly Bahco was bought by Snap-On and Husqvarna large tools are mostly made in China now.

Stihl is still made in Germany for most things!

Hell, a 12TB WD red Plus in the EU is 300€. $160 for a 14TB is absolute dirt cheap

Also OLED screens so you could literally make a notification LED from 4-7 pixels in software without even having to add extra hardware at all

They sell tons of stuff that isn’t food.

Clothes and work & running gear(even Aldi merch once a year), budget electronics and appliances (their toaster ovens are very often used for DIY solder reflow ovens), garden tools and supplies like slug pellets and shears, and even lower quality tools that work fine for ocassional light use.

That is the largest overstatement of the year.

It rivals aliexpress/amazon brands in quality, sure, but it still generally isn’t even at the quality of Ryobi, which is a lower-medium tier brand together with Bosch green, much less makita, dewalt, or Bosch blue.

Though for many non-renovating homeowners just needing the occasional drill work, it works just fine!

Wow that website is a UX nightmare lol.

A bit more expensive, but if it helps shipments actually be delivered then that is a plus 😂 I guess I will go with them. Thanks for pointing me to them!

I don’t understand what happened to Happy Tabs, they were going strong, good marketing, and had collaborations with KLM airlines and Dille en Kamille and now they have just disappeared off of the face of the earth with no notice.