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Hey all, just ran into this this morning, I was replying to a comment and it showed up at the same level as the comment I was replying to until a refresh. I'll see if I can reproduce it for screenshots in a bit. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me so far?

Options for equalizing temperature between the basement and the rest of the house in summer?

I live in a pretty old house in the midwest, built 1929, bought in '21, single-story, ~1300ish sqft, and with a large, spacious basement. Every time summer comes around I've had issues with the basement getting MUCH colder than the rest of the house (like >10 degrees F difference), presumably due to poorly-insulated floors and...

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If you're looking for a commercial product it's called a whole house fan. The tl;dr is there are vents in the places you want cooled connected to this fan that sits in your attic. Twice a day or so it exhausts the hot air letting it be replaced by the cooler basement air. Depending on the humidity you might need to run the AC to dehumidify the air a bit.

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The tl;dr is that the play version of termux has been lagging behind the master github branch because of Google's fuck fuck games with Android permissions. Now it's been updated, but effectively neutered.

Basically, PlayStore termux-app v0.120 release is functionally equivalent to v0.108

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Cobalt.tools worked flawlessly!

EDIT: Ope, thought you were asking lol. Cobalt.tools rocks!

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Basically you can mirror the instapapered versions of your saved pages as markdown files in your obsidian vault. You can customize the whole thing basically so you can put it wherever and have it tie in to your PKM system however you want. I've got mine organized in weekly folders with a dataview block in my daily note showing the articles I've saved that day.

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Thats what really kicked me into using obsidian as much as I do.

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Did you even read the article? It's not like all the users just get unrestricted access to storage to treat like a google drive, this is a backend thing. This guy is trying to find a solution to all the wasted bandwidth and storage space from sending copies to all the other instances they're federated with, which is a legimate issue that the instance admins are already dealing with on a daily basis. This will let them pool resources to help lower costs for smaller instances.

As to the CSAM thing I can only imagine it would be easier for one instance to purge fifty images/restore from a backup and everyone else just have to redo their thumbnails as opposed to all the instances having to purge and restore but that's just me.

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I'm just curious as to how you think these are insurmountable problems while every instance in existence today is already managing to navigate these issues.

The only thing the author is suggesting is to pool the resources that are going to waste copying media posts around the fediverse into a new backend (that means it's not directly user accessible and presumably subject to the same restrictions as posts right now) so that the cost of media hosting is more distributed between all the fediverse instances instead of having the big ones hogging all the bandwidth of the small ones with memes because some users decided to subscribe to a community on say Lemmy.world.

Android App for tagging locations on a map?

I'm searching an android app to mark the locations of multiple parked cars. It should be possible to mark different cars somehow to identify them. It would also be cool if there is a feature to share the location with someone on another devica (like a sync between users, NOT copy of coordinates or link on maps...

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ATAK would work, but you'd need a TAK server to share location data with other devices. FreeTAK is nice. Though it's a bit much if all you're trying to do is share location among family and don't need a whole-ass TACNET lol.

Otherwise Owntracks might fit the bill better. It hooks up to a MQTT network and you can use something like node-red to pretty easily pop that into a dashboard map if you're not running something like Home Assistant.

Only thing I'm not sure about with Owntracks is the list of location points, but you could use Tasker or something to publish the coordinates to a different MQTT topic than the one your phone is posting to.

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GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

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Oh that series is so much fun! I need to read those books again. Another good one is Scott Meyer's Magic 2.0 series. Basically a random dude finds the rules.ini file for the universe hiding out on the internet and ends up using it to travel back back to Arthurian England to live openly as a Wizard. Except he's not the first one with that idea...

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"I call it... The MicroRealm!"

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Well of course not, ever since they got that deal with Uncle Sam they knew they could do anything up to Steve Ballmer kicking a secret service agent in the nuts and stealing the Football. Maybe even including that, won't know until it happens lol.

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Before my deck crapped out I was playing around with OpenRA, that was pretty fun. Romanov's Vengeance really scratched my Red Alert 2 itch.

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Same, Generals and Tiberian Wars were all right but RA2 and Tiberian Sun were my jam.

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Have you tried going into the setting for the feed itself and using the CSS selector filters? You might be able to cut out the extraneous bits using that.

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This is fantastic!

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It looks like it's being used for cooling in some areas and static control in others.

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Get some silvervine sticks too! Cats love those.

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Looks like you're not the only one to have this issue, here's what another user managed to figure out.

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Not out yet unfortunately.

EDIT: I lied, link is here. There's no releases as of yet.

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Im looking at dashy's widget documentation and it doesn't look like they have an API query widget quite yet. You could probably output the temp sensor as an RSS feed and pick it up with dashy's datafeed widget.

Seeking assistance configuring conversations/intents

I have input_text.event_1 where the value is currently "birthday", input_text.event_2 where the value is currently "christmas", input_date.event_1 where the value is currently "1/1/2000", and input_date.event_2 where the value is currently "12/25/2024". How do I configure voice assistant to recognize a phrase like "what's the...

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So I found this which might help. I tried defining my own intent scripts too, but it was too much of a PITA, I ended up using automations instead.

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I can think of a couple ways you could have it be one automation, the first is you'd have multiple triggers with different ids and use the choose action to select the response based on the trigger id.

The other way that I'm a bit less sure about is passing the name of the input_date helper through to the response with a wildcard. You'd probably have to set the {{ trigger.slot.event }} as a variable and match that to an alias or an entity_id.

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I did just check to see if you can pass along wildcards in an automation, which you can! I used this automation:

alias: sentence test
description:
trigger:
  - platform: conversation
    command:
      - When is [my] {date}
condition: []
action:
  - set_conversation_response: curses, that damnable {{ trigger.slots.game }}
    enabled: false
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: '{{ ''birthday'' in trigger.slots.date }}'
        sequence:
          - set_conversation_response: >-
              curses, that damnable {{ trigger.slots.date }}! It completely
              slipped my mind
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: '{{ ''christmas'' in trigger.slots.date }}'
        sequence:
          - set_conversation_response: sir you know when {{ trigger.slots.date }} is!

This should give you a framework to build off of. It looks like when you don't define a list of slots in an intent it just passes the wildcard along in a slot.

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No problem! I've been puttering around trying to figure this out and this post gave me the push I needed lol

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The only NFC tag I currently have implemented in my house is for dismissing the alert for my dog's meds, and that's part of my chore framework so I can add a dismissal into anything that's tracked similarly just by the naming scheme.

I'm planning in adding NFC tags to other household appliances to reset them, like my has_coffee_maker_been_refilled toggle or triggering a button_push event to zero the waste drawer on my litter robot. Maybe something for the appliance reminders until I get door sensors on them too.

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Ope, I totally didn't see the community, I thought I was on a Home Assistant one. 😅 yeah I have all that through home assistant, I'm just getting back into tasker again after I thought I backed up all my automations and didn't.

Weird vase mode bulging ( midwest.social )

Hey all, I just finished a run of Popandsicle's excellent vase mode ornaments and I noticed these weird bulges happening all over the prints. The last run in a different color was flawless so I'm not sure where to start. I couldn't find much on the issue with a bit of googling so I thought I'd check with you folks and see if you...

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It's definitely sagging, this happened as I was composing the OP:

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/5ff1c9c2-eb64-404c-824b-9a691ccc76e4.jpeg

That's the worst I've seen, usually it's like the original picture... Oh damn I just noticed it happens at the same layer heights every time.

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/d66029cc-1f04-4f31-8ccc-cdce4b89fdad.jpeg

Hmmm, so why would this filament give me trouble and not the other one? Or is this a z-axis issue or a slicer one?

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