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TedZanzibar

@ TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

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  • Suggestions for music streaming service?

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  • Probably not what you're after but I buy cheap CDs from Music Magpie and similar sites, rip them as FLAC to my home storage, and then host them for family and friends on Plex with a lifetime pass. The Plexamp app is really good, and I especially like the "released on this day" feature for reliving some old classics.

    Costs pennies a month in upkeep, with the only major downside being the lack of a discovery feature for new music. But I'm old so I mostly just listen to the stuff from my youth anyway.

  • Simpler times

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  • Lots of people talking about beheadings, but the video that I can never unwatch was of a woman in a blank walled room facing the camera and getting unceremoniously shot in the head with a revolver. I've no idea if it was real or not, but the lack of, for want of a better word, "spectacle" makes me think it was.

    I don't want to look it up again to find out but if anyone knows for sure...

  • Climate Action Now

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  • Yeah, my mother said the same thing when I told her that I was worried about climate change when I was a teenager. I'm now deep into my 40s and, the thing is, I don't think my generation has even had a chance to try to fix things yet. According to UK government data, the average age of politicians has been 50 since 1979. Our prime minister is 63 and the walking corpse over in America is 79.

    What is my generation supposed to do, exactly, when the boomers are so determined to hold onto power? Drives me mad.

  • Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed

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  • Plus passive smoking. While drinking is bad for the drinker's health, it's possible to be around people who are drinking without drinking yourself. The same can't be said for smoking.

  • Space weather fans be like

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  • August 1999. The last total solar eclipse visible from the UK was 72 years ago, and the next one would be 91 years later. Young Ted woke up to a gloriously sunny day. This would be it!

    An hour before the event we drove out to a nice remote viewing spot with minimal obstructions for miles around. 30 minutes to go, the clouds rolled in. Thick, blanket cloud from horizon to horizon. The eclipse happened. From under the cloud it got a bit darker and the birds had a bit of a freak out but it was otherwise a non-event. We drove back home, disappointed.

    30 minutes later the clouds cleared and the rest of the day was as glorious as the morning had been. 27 years later I'm still bitter about it. Seattle's got nothing on us!

  • HS2 trains could run slower than planned to save money

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  • Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive

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  • Holy shit this has been a long time coming and it's about bloody time!

    I've been getting proper fed up of seeing new builds with a token one or two panels, presumably a requirement for getting an A rating, only for them to be put slap-bang in the middle of the roof so that the owner is unable to add capacity without ripping the whole thing out and starting again. It reeks of malicious compliance and they've been allowed to get away with it for far too long.

  • So why are Indian curries so popular in the UK? (interest in culinary perspectives).

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  • Yeah this. I think the classic tikka masala was invented in Glasgow.

  • What's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?

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  • That first line is what CGPT helped me with. I wanted something that I don't need to modify when I add or remove lights, so this just gets everything. Ideally I'd just get the lights that don't have the power restore feature but most of my lights go via Hue and that doesn't expose the feature to HA at all.

    The input_boolean is a thing I already had setup. The UPS fires a webhook event when it goes in and out of battery mode and there's a separate automation that switches the helper based on those.

  • What's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?

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  • Got a little help from CGPT so it might not be perfect, but this seems to work from my limited testing:

     
        
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - input_boolean.ups_power
conditions: []
actions:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: input_boolean.ups_power
            state:
              - "on"
        sequence:
          - action: scene.create
            data:
              scene_id: light_states_backup
              snapshot_entities: |
                {{ states.light | map(attribute='entity_id') | list }}
      - conditions:
          - condition: state
            entity_id: input_boolean.ups_power
            state:
              - "off"
        sequence:
          - action: scene.turn_on
            target:
              entity_id: scene.light_states_backup
            data: {}
          - delay:
              hours: 0
              minutes: 0
              seconds: 10
              milliseconds: 0
          - action: scene.delete
            data:
              entity_id: scene.light_states_backup
mode: single

    I've only tested it by toggling the UPS boolean manually and not actually cutting the power, so I'm probably going to need to add a delay, or a retry loop or something to make sure the scene applies consistently but so far so good! Thanks for the inspiration.

  • What's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?

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  • Thank you. I've also never used scenes beyond what comes built-in with Hue! This is all good stuff.

  • What's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?

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  • Thank you, that's food for thought at least.

    Can I ask about your light script? I have a bunch of smart bulbs that either don't support or don't expose the 'power-on behaviour' option, so in a power cut they come on full bright when power is restored, often in the middle of the night.

    My HA is on a UPS so I've been trying to have it store the states of lights when the UPS switches to battery power (before they go to unavailable) and then restore those states when power comes back, but it's apparently way beyond my skill set. Curious as to how your "input list of lights" works and whether it could help me...

  • What's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?

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  • Curious as to what you're using scripts for? I have 88 automations and have so far found no need for a single script and I feel like I'm missing a trick somewhere.

    Yes, I do have some automations that share functionality but it's one or two actions and it seems redundant to call a separate script.

  • What's your laziest or most ridiculous automation?

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  • Laziest eh? Probably the one that deletes completed items from my shopping list when I leave the supermarket, because I got sick of doing it manually.

    Most ridiculous would be the NFC tag I have on the lid of my cold brew coffee jug. I make a batch so rarely that I can never remember how much coffee to add, so scanning the tag makes my Google Home say; "You want 80g of coffee per litre, or 6 scoops."

  • Correct way to redirect emails in 365? Authoritative vs Internal Relay

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  • Thanks, yeah, as much as it feels like an overly complicated way of doing things, I think I'm erring towards just biting the bullet and making contacts. Appreciate your detailed reply!

  • Sysadmin @lemmy.world
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    Correct way to redirect emails in 365? Authoritative vs Internal Relay

  • How/why does Microsoft teams exist?

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  • Exactly this. We used to run Mattermost (essentially Slack but hosted on-prem) and Zoom, and everybody loved the combination. Then the bean counters got involved, saw that we were paying extra for something that was already included with our 365 subscription, and that was that.

    Now we're stuck with shitty Teams and its shitty Electron app that seems to come up with new ways to not work on a near daily basis. So much so that "Teams be Teamsing" has become a defacto phrase for when something janky happens.

  • Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC

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  • Dammit, I was looking forward to SoT seeing as it plays pretty janky now compared to modern standards and I was hoping they'd fix up the combat a bit. That said, I only have the Xbox version to go off of. Is the PC version any good? Maybe someone will do a Black Mesa on it.

  • Even if it has mint frosting!

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  • Especially if it has mint frosting.

  • Fun

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  • Tell that to Michel Lotito who, allegedly, ate an entire Cessna 150.

  • PC Master Race @lemmy.world
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    First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

  • Pebble @lemm.ee
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    OMG OMG OMG

    ericmigi.com /blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
  • Smart Homes @feddit.uk
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    Any solution for controlling dumb shutters?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Recommendations for running VMs on a headless server?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

    Just how secure are the various reverse proxy options?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

    How safe is self-hosting a public website behind Cloudflare?

  • Boost for Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Request: Hide pinned posts

  • Deep Rock Galactic @lemmy.world
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    This has been buzzing around in my head for far too long, it was time to make it a reality.