tylerh

joined 1 year ago
[–] tylerh@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Garage sensor. Uses distance sensors to detect door open/closed and car present /absent. Has buttons to open/close the doors, a 3v garage door remote. Also has a motion sensor, temp/humidity sensor and a photo resistor to understand outside ambient brightness.

Looking at building some fridge/freezer temperature and water leak sensors.

[–] tylerh@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You want a "read it later" service, like Omnivore or Wallabag.

[–] tylerh@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Obvious Plant makes all the stuff that ~~nobody~~ everybody needs.

[–] tylerh@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UPS For Less: https://batteryupsforless.com/ca/en/
If you can pick it up in person in Markham, it's even cheaper. Bought a bunch of UPSes across a couple dozen years now, and replaced the batteries on many of them. Best prices I've found.

[–] tylerh@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

You are describing IPFS. If you install IPFS, then browse to some IPFS content (like a wikipedia mirror: ipns://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/), that's cached on your system, if someone else requests those assets, your computer will help distribute it. You can "pin" content, keeping/seeding a copy.

[–] tylerh@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I use restic extensively, and it works really really well... until it breaks. Then there's next-to-nothing you can do to fix the repo.

Rustic, on the other hand, has lock-less design, and repair options, so I end up using it to fix things. However, it has a number of rough edges: it uses its own wacky config file, its include/exclude options are wildly different and a bit painful, and to use a bunch of repo backends (like S3), you need to install, configure, and use rclone, which is poorly documented by rustic.

[–] tylerh@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Screenshots of posts on other social media sites.

[–] tylerh@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Low effort memes and other low-quality karma-farming.

[–] tylerh@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agree on the creepy side, though there's other possibilities besides facial recognition, namely:

  • They buy data from a data broker. Said data broker bought (or got) location data from any number of apps you have installed on your phone that monitor your location data.
  • They associated your phone's Wifi MAC (even if you don't connect to their Wifi) or a bluetooth MAC (of bluetooth headphones, watch, or other device) to you previously, then saw it again
[–] tylerh@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Solid File Explorer, bought it forever ago, and it hasn't let me down yet.