You’re never lonely with all your Demodex friends.

They are fairly crap as a hand dryer too.

Just put the extra napkins in your pocket/bag, now you never need to buy tissues.

I’d say it’s more that parents (companies) should be more responsible about what they tell their kids (customers).

Because right now the companies have a new toy (AI) that they keep telling their customers can make thunder from clapping. But in reality the claps sometimes make thunder but are also likely to make farts. Occasionally some incredibly noxious ones too.

The toy might one day make earth-rumbling thunder reliably, but right now it can’t get close and saying otherwise is what’s irresponsible.

It’s that daft haircut, he’s adopted a different style recently and suddenly looked 10x more human.

No amount of barbers can disguise the blokes behaviour though.

This is how I take pictures, I take pictures of the things I am seeing so I can look back at those moments later. I don’t experience life in third person, observing myself from overhead like a video game, so why would I want myself in the pictures?

Yes, I had a few audiobooks on cassettes. In the 90s PG Tips (a brand of tea) had some sort of promotion that gave out free kids audiobook cassettes, I think we had the complete collection.

Language learning courses were popular on cassettes too.

Fish and chips, the UK’s national dish. Curry sauce or mushy peas optional. From a proper local chippy for the real experience.

The wording of the new App Store rules say developers are responsible for any software offered in an app, and there’s been a bit of debate going on as to what that means in practice.

I haven’t heard if any emulators have or haven’t passed Apple’s review process yet.

I’m not sure this even can be explained…

🤢

Is it common for apartments to have shared extractor ducts? I’ve never heard of a setup like this before, and it sounds like both a pain in the arse and a potential safety issue.

Controlling the kitchen fan is probably the easier bit. Depending on the design of the hood, you might be able to control it with a smart outlet or relay. Turn the hood’s switch to always on and control it with the relay. The difficult bit would be sensing when to turn it on.

Cooking will often produce VOCs, and VOC sensors are easy to obtain, but they are also have other sources that are likely in your own apartment. Maybe try using temperature and humidity sensors int the duct to activate the fan when there is elevated temperature and humidity inside the duct?

The distributed computing explanation for purpose of the Matrix doesn’t seem to make much more sense than the power plant one.

All of the nodes are continuously occupied by living in the simulation. Unless the machines had a desperate need to understand human society circa 1999, there is nothing useful the machines could do with all the brain power.

I have a few of the Aqara leak detectors and they have worked well.

They also have screw terminals that you can attach wires onto to extend the detection area/range. I’ve also seen people attach contact or pressure sensors to them, they are nifty devices.

You may get better results by using both indoor and outdoor lux sensors. Depending on the sun position, room layouts and window locations there can be a quite a difference in outdoor and indoor lux levels, which might interfere with your automations.

I use a combination of Aqara Zigbee motion sensors, which also have a lux sensor, a couple of dedicated lux sensors, and my outdoor security cameras which have a day and night sensor.

You can always try it with one and add more if you need more granularity. Every smart home is different.

Relying on sun positions and weather data can be a bit hit and miss for lighting automations. I originally used to limit some of my light automations to only turn on between sunset and sunrise - when it should be dark.

But often when there was heavy cloud during daylight it would be dark enough to want lights, but the available weather data I had was never accurate enough to tell heavy gloomy clouds from lighter clouds.

I added some light sensors to the mix and my automations have been a light more accident and flexible.

I’m using the Drayton Wiser smart thermostat, it has a good HACS integration that runs fully locally.

I’ve also seen some generic Zigbee thermostats available which might be an option.

…make life take the lemons back!

The comic is by illustrator Jim Benton. I’m not sure where it was first published, might have been here.

Better seat them properly too - not all the pins of the current RAM are inserted into the potato. No wonder it isn’t working!

How far apart is the Bluetooth dongle and the Bluetooth devices, and are there obstacles like walls in the way? Bluetooth doesn’t have the greatest range and can be further diminished by walls etc.

I never had much luck using a USB dongle connected to my Home Assistant server. Instead I use a couple of ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy devices located closer to my Bluetooth devices.