rainwall

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The question is he going to do it again for the next charaltain that offers him mean, easy answers that just hurt everyone?

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Turnout was the highest its been in an off year election for 30 years.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Glad to help. Lots of dofferent answers here. The location tracking would be done by the local home assistsnt install, not amazon. Google/apple/etc on your wifes phone would have that data if she leaves if on, but most people do anyway because the vendors make it inconvenint to turn off. I wouldnt recommend this is she does leave the location tracking off in general.

If you want to keep the voice assistant but go private and are intersted in home assistant, they have recently released their own voice assistant that can be run fully localy or intergrate with their privacy first cloud. Installing home assistant and this would be my recommedation to get the best of both worlds.

For plugs, I highly recommend the brand Thirdreality. They have excellent, inexpensive zigbee plugs that work with most any zigbee compatible hubs. Note that if you go the home assistant route and get the recommened home assistant green, you will need a zigbee usb stick.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There are almost no active SMRs in the world besides a couple of very small test reactors in Russia and China.

No one is "selling them" in the sense of a working device, but rather they are all prototypes that have not been shown to work or live up to the hype. The top vendor in that artitice I posted from June, NuScale, is on the edge of bankruptcy and just churning staff. Its only existant on meme stock hype from "no detail" trade deals about nuclear investments, not on actual sales of its technology.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Add a smart plug that alexa controls and plug it in to it. Tell it to unplug itself. You would have to hit the button to turn it back on though.

You can do it a better way though. Home assistant is a local, open source stand alone home automation suite that can use alexa as an interface. You could have it set a timer to disable alexa with the power plug, and re-enable it when when your wife gets back.

You could even set it up to turn off alexa whenener you wifes phone leaves the house, and come back on when she comes back if you want a "real time" schedule.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

They fleshed out the culture of the "Predators" and made them a voyager villain. The "hunt is all" race.

It was an interesting idea, but those 2 episodes were a pretty odd premise. If holodeck technology was so revoluntary for their culture, they should have worked to incorporate it into their ships, not build a huge holodeck simulation on voyager and enslaved its crew.

I think they were fun too, but just strange in a clearly "bottle episodes" kind of way.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Dont worry, I just vibe run it.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] rainwall@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Makes sense. Need an actor thats okay with 3+ hrs of daily makeup? Call one who's already put up with it.

They were just lucky he is also an excellent actor.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The best. All their juice versions are pretty tasty. The fruit punch flavors are also great.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The whole arc was basically 6 minutes of intro/outro and 15 mintutes of zoomed in reaction shots with maybe 3 minutes of plot/action that mattered. It was pure boredom.

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