spongebue

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[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Ahhh yes. Of course the US paid millions of dollars to detain hundreds of people, and Kristi Noem went down there to make a point that if you crime while brown, you will end up in this prison because it treats its inmates... Exactly the same as an American prison. Yeah, that makes sense.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh, let me see what the state food is where I live! Let's see, Colorado...

....

☹️

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't get that impression based on his remarks when he announced he's not running for re-election. Paul, on the other hand...

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 104 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Saving you a click: Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, and Susan Collins voted against. Everyone else on party lines. Vance tiebreaker.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Honestly, I SMS myself occasionally 😬

Know any good notes apps?

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I'm also not seeing anyone spell out how I'm wrong either

At no point is one group accountable for another group's actions in cases like this.

How's that?

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

"it's not your fault Lisa. I shouldn't have let you let me get so carried away"

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In all seriousness: it was an ectopic pregnancy, 5 weeks along. Technically legal to perform under Florida law, so in theory it shouldn't have been a problem to have it done even under current law.

To be clear, none of this is meant to be an enforcement of that law, any other laws about abortion on the books, or the anti-abortion movement in general. I can absolutely understand providers being skittish about anything even remotely borderline with these laws in place, just trying to get the basic facts into the comments because good arguments are worthless if it's about incorrect facts

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

It's so perfectly terrible 🥹

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 111 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I was looking for "buzzword soup website doesn't say what the product fucking does"

Maybe that wouldn't fit in a square

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Local police is probably made aware in advance so it would end with the dispatcher

 

In the past I've gotten around this by printing on the left side of the bed, but some things need the space so here I am.

I've got an Ender 3 V2 with some tasteful mods: OctoPrint, BLTouch, a magnetic flexible bed surface, and a few other things people are bound to do with an entry-level printer they got for $100 with a Micro Center coupon. One issue I'm having with it is that any printing done on the right side of the bed seems to have a pretty big gap. I have the G28 and G29 commands in to run the bed level, I try to get it leveled properly with the springs (with help of the bed visualizer plugin for OctoPrint) and no matter what I do, the nozzle drifts just a little farther from the bed on the right side, so the filament does not stick.

I'm open to more mods, but before I spend more time and money on this for what I think is the problem, does anyone actually have a good idea of what's wrong here?

Thanks much!

 

Looking at a couple receivers. I'm not a huge audiophile or anything, but have some functional things I'm looking for (Zone 2, phono, network control, Bluetooth transmission would be nice). I tend to hang on to this stuff for a while, so 8K would be nice so I don't need to buy a receiver if/when the day comes that I get a new TV (Sharp 1080p sorta-smart TV still going strong 12 years in!)

Anyway, I'm down to two receivers:

  • Denon AVR-X1700H (new at Costco)
  • Marantz NR1711 (used on Facebook, includes some nice speakers I could probably resell if needed)

On paper, the Denon has a little more power and a few more 8k HDMI ports but otherwise similar. Since they're both run by the same company behind the scenes, I suspect most components inside are identical.

In practice, I know the Marantz is supposed to be the better brand... but it seems conceivable that a lower-end slimline, slightly older Marantz could probably be beaten by a midrange Denon, yeah?

For what it's worth, this is replacing an Onkyo TX-NR709 I've had for about 14 years. It's been a workhorse but I really want proper Zone 2 functionality and it's been giving me troubles there (no HDMI sources work, even with the "source" mode)

 

Solved!

Solution was to create a group and perform an action on that:

action: light.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: light.kitchen_cabinet_sink
data_template:
  brightness_pct: "{{100*state_attr('light.kitchen_sink_ceiling','brightness')/255}}"

Original:

Trying to run an automation to match one light's state (on/off/dim) to another's. Have this currently:

alias: Sync cabinet lights with sink light
if:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: [something]5710
    entity_id: [something]a438
    domain: light
then:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 100
else:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light

That works fine to turn the lights on or off, and I have triggers in the automation for that and changes in brightness. But using a non-static number for brightness_pct (yes, I know I'll probably have to math the 0-100 scale instead of 0-255) is giving me trouble. When I try something like this:

alias: Sync cabinet lights with sink light
if:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: [something]5710
    entity_id: [something]a438
    domain: light
then:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: {{state_attr("light.kitchen_sink_ceiling", "brightness")}}
else:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light

I have also tried {{states.light.kitchen_sink_ceiling.attributes.brightness}} instead. Both seem to have the correct value when I play around in the developer tools. But when I put it in the automation, I get an error that a float value was expected. I see some similar issues online, but it always seems to be in a different context and people fix it by changing some value I never had.****

 

So many instructions to cut an onion are essentially

  1. Cut off the top
  2. Peel
  3. Cut in half
  4. Cut horizontally (in parallel to the cut you just made)
  5. Cut vertically into strips from just shy of the bottom to top, with the bottom holding things together
  6. Cut vertically perpendicular to your last cuts to get little squares

On something like a potato, I'd understand it. You'll be cutting a 3-dimensional object along all 3 axes to get cubes. But as Shrek taught me, onions have layers. Why make that first set of horizontal cuts when the onion's natural layers do the same thing already, albeit a little bit curved?

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