Almost like he wants to engineer a conflict he can use to grab more power and attack his enemies (political players, not “the little people” who he gives no shits about).

Anyone want to do the math for the distance when the attraction is equal?

Most of those little isps that advertise fiber are offering access to the big players network. Like Mint Mobile does for T Mobile. If it’s a lower price switch, unless somehow you think the customer service can be worse.

What’s Vance up to now?

Bet you can’t guess who this tax increase will hurt most. Hint: It won’t be the rich.

I don’t get it. That’s clearly a pear.

Fast enough your skin melts from the friction and incidental contact results in amputation. Have fun!

What is that law of the Internet that says, if a headline ends with a question the answer is always “no”.?

That’s just the definition of “hobby”. Time + money + obsession = hobby.

Hey look, Google killed something that could be great rather than spending time making it work. How novel…

Somebody mock up the boyfriend looking back meme but with the boyfriend as Tarantino, the girlfriend as Sam saying “Po Pay”, and the bottom left chick captioned “Toes”.

Imagining a bunch of guys in polos posted up on the corner. “Hey bro, I’ll install your printer, $10”.

Jokes on them. That’s his kink.

How’s your heat mitigation? Things slow down if they get too hot.

🌈 🤘

Eh… best lit review I could find only found that smell predicted preferences among non-birthcontrol-using fertile women. So… Smell nice around them maybe? Lit review

I would just use the old “Home changes to 0” state, and add a conditional for night (not night) and another for a triggered timer. I call my timer “Nanny mode”, and it just blocks ‘away from home’ automations while it’s running. I just need to remember to hit a button on my dashboard once a day or so, starting the 16h timer.

Here’s my “set the alarm and lower the blinds when we leave, and put them back when we get home” auto:

description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - zone.home
    to: "0"
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 1
      seconds: 0
    id: Left home
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - zone.home
    from: "0"
    id: Came home
condition:
  - condition: not
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: timer.nanny_mode
        state: active
action:
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id: Left home
        sequence:
          - service: alarmo.arm
            data:
              mode: away
              skip_delay: true
              entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
          - service: cover.set_cover_position
            data:
              position: 0
            target:
              entity_id:
                - cover.front_room_blinds
      - conditions:
          - condition: trigger
            id:
              - Came home
          - condition: or
            conditions:
              - condition: state
                entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                state: armed_away
              - condition: state
                entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                state: triggered
              - condition: state
                entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                state: pending
        sequence:
          - choose:
              - conditions:
                  - condition: sun
                    before: sunrise
                    after: sunset
                sequence:
                  - service: alarmo.disarm
                    data:
                      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                  - device_id: #######
                    domain: alarm_control_panel
                    entity_id: #######
                    type: disarm
              - conditions:
                  - condition: sun
                    after: sunrise
                    before: sunset
                sequence:
                  - service: cover.set_cover_position
                    data:
                      position: 100
                    target:
                      entity_id: cover.front_room_blinds
                  - service: alarmo.disarm
                    data:
                      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmo
                  - device_id: #####
                    domain: alarm_control_panel
                    entity_id: #####
                    type: disarm
mode: single

These are the best. The Flex Firehose ones may not be super repairable, but they straight up last forever. I wore a rotation of 3 of these for 3 years straight before I saw the first fray.

On one hand, it would be nice for us to drop the smart plug here, but at least those can be entirely local-only. I highly doubt any device API would be local.