Bluesheep

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[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve heard it split into ‘old millennials’ being digital immigrants, and ‘young millennials’ being digital natives. Both are shaped by the wider macroeconomic effects and have similar outlooks, but older millennials are more likely to have been in work with some career progression under their belt before the crises hit.

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hrm… when I am with my family (brothers and Sisters) our conversations are like this. Our partners find it a bit weird/intense/think we are always fighting but we think that’s just how it works…

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

If you have a tool library or makerspace nearby they might have one you could borrow. The IR cameras are not cheap!

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Wowsers. My kids look at me like I’m mad when I have to turn the kitchen extractor the other side of the room off when we eat dinner. HOW CAN YOU THINK WITH THAT CONSTANT HUM.

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Related to 100% of memes. Laughed at 90%+

Think I might be a 90s kid.

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for sharing your design thinking. I have no comments but will be trying your concepts. I am considering whether it might overlap on Gridfinity bins for organising things.

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fancy sharing the details of your prompt? I might like to recreate in a corporate environment.

No sweat if your keeping it closed.

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Rebooted a bunch of bits and it seems to have sped up again. Weird really. I love zigbee for the low cost and low power consumption,M but as a tech nerd I hate that I don’t have the same tools as I would have with an IP device.

 

Anyone else finding their z2m mesh is going slow? Can’t work out the cause, wondering if it is related to recent patch.

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a good idea thanks! My wife and I talked about something similar recently. I think we’re going to try having some of our own office work scheduled for times when he is studying/revising.

My sense is that his problem isn’t particularly the understanding of the topic, it’s laying down a deep enough application of it to get the marks in the exams.

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

We’ve talked about his situation, but not in a formal ‘he needs support’ kind of way. When he’s getting low As and Bs it’s really hard to talk about him not meeting his potential, I just look like a pushy parent.

I think what I’m mostly worrying about myself is that the future he wants for himself needs grades that he’s capable of intellectually, but not at the work rate he’s able to do today. I know that things usually work out, but it’s still hard in the moment to see that he might miss out on his dream goals.

 

Hi folks. I think my 16yo son has ADHD. He shows a lot of the classic behaviours. (Not listed for brevity)

He’s smart, performs well in class, but struggles badly with exams, detail. He is also struggling with revision. He’s been a high performing up until now but he’s hit hit the limit of his abilities.

His exams are 2 months away, we won’t get a diagnosis in time 😔

Can anyone here suggest resources or personal insights that could help me help him through this period?

Thanks!

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I switched out the router and things started working. Very weird, but I can’t tho jot anything other than it being the Virgin Media hub not liking it. Apparently they have history on this.

[–] Bluesheep@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, everything looks right. I moved dhcp resolution from the router to technitium recently, but hadn’t set up local resolution.

I’m currently thinking the router is the culprit. Here in the UK there are lots of forum posts complaining about the Virgin Media gear. Nothing specifically describes my problem but I’m going to try a new router over the weekend.

 

I’m pulling my hair out over this. I’ve got a proxmox homelab, an LXC running technitium installed from TTeck’s script.

The DNS server is also doing DHCP for my network. I have an authoritative zone for ‘.lan’

I can get NS, SOA, TXT records from the DNS server, but no A records! The DNS query logs show that it gives an answer, and if I am on the DNS server itself I get an answer, but no other machines on the network hear the reply.

I think this means the DNS server is working properly. There are no FWs in the way as I can resolve other types.

Where else can I look, or how can I diagnose this? I am completely at a loss.

 

I had a bit of a scare this week. My setup is HAOS running on Proxmox. I have a Sonoff USB Zigbee gateway. (also a coral for Frigate, and a USB SSD attached to Proxmox)

Friday night, the server stops for no reason. I dig it out from the cupboard and I can hear the fan short cycling. I disconnect everything and take it to a screen so I can see what's happening - it boots fine, WTH?

Must be a USB thing. Add them back one by one and when I connect the gateway back problem is back. Now I get worried. Switch USB port and remap to HAOS and boom! back up and running. Panic over, cold house (radiators are zigbee) and angry wife and children avoided.

All of which has lead me to consider that my HA set up is really 'Mission Critical' and I need some recovery strategies beyond a daily backup. I think the gateway can be swapped but I'm not sure if the key to the zigbee mesh is hardware encoded or software.

This is the question - What are your recovery strategies? Do they include hardware or just software? I'm thinking maybe I need a second dongle and a couple of low powered machines in the Proxmox cluster. I won't be able to get my homely back up immediately, but if I can get HA running again on a different node with a backup dongle I'd be OK.

 

I was reading the HA roadmap and thinking about the points where everyone (else) interacts with my HA environment. I’ve wanted displays/dashboards for a long time but mostly have either battery powered buttons or smart wall switches. These are good in that I can automate them but with two teenage children we have a lot of variability.

Tell me how everyone else uses HA in your house. Do they love it? Do they see only that buttons ‘do things’? Do they read dashboards and crave data?

 

There is a key to lock it closed, and the same key will lock it either on or off. In keeping with a Victorian Bell/Butler Board but not near it in the house.

I guess it must be some kind of isolator switch, but I know nothing of its history.

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