The older I get, the more I realize that opening up makes things worse.

They’ve sanctioned a number of the ICC judges and made their lives difficult just to be dicks.

If you get a camera that is ONVIF compatible, you won’t need an app to set it up. Vikylin, amcrest are a couple I’ve used.

Use tailscale to access your cameras, don’t portforward them. They are pathetically terrible for security.

Not sure what effort this would save other than creating a “To Be Triaged” category in Issues and filtering it from issues tools.

I think I might have ordered that faucet a few days ago. Wayfair?

OPNsense

NC is fine. Ignore the haters.

Why the hell would the FUTO guide recommend OpenVPN? It’s a nightmare. I guess they also recommend pfSense instead of OPNsense so there’s that.

For your own sanity, learn about Wireguard.

Sugar makes you fat. 15-20g of sugar in an apple. I used to eat a bag of apples in the combine in a day of harvesting, and I still had room for sandwiches and cookies too. They don’t fill you up.

Happy to help.

The docker setup is probably less maintenance than a straight install, but your usecase might need the bare install. there’s also Home Assistant that can add Piper as an Addon (which is a docker container inside the HassOS docker container). Also the Hass install will let you add faster-Whisper and Openwakeword for a full voice assistant that autoconnects via the Wyoming protocol.

I used Carb Manager to monitor my diet completely and break the habits, but my wife couldn’t manage that, she just went full carnivore. But we farm, hunt, make sausage and jerky, so it’s not hard to get meat. I can see where that would be damn expensive for others though.

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Those are acceptable answers as well.

I know Lemmy thinks everyone that avoids carbs must be carnivore, but you can use your head and avoid sugar/starches and lose a lot of weight. Fruit is tough to drop but apart from a few blueberries or something, fruit is pure sugar, and juice is as bad as pop. Don’t think because something is “healthy” that it’s not loaded with sugar.

By the time you get full eating things like pasta, you’ve eaten way, way too much. Fats will make you feel full. I used to eat a 16 oz steak with potatoes and vege and still want dessert, and now 6 oz of something fatty like brisket with some broccoli or brussel sprouts will fill me up.

And you can’t outrun a bad diet. Exercise will tone you, but you can’t exercise enough to work off a cup of mashed potatoes without giving up the rest of your free time.

Start by cleaning the house out of that shit, don’t bring it back in, and use something like Carb Manager to figure out the sleepers that are putting weight on you.

Why rebut it? You aren’t going to use logic to argue someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to get to. Especially someone that probably thinks you owe them your existence. You’ll never win that argument, don’t ask me how I know.

If you’re still living at home, make it priority to determine a way to make it on your own ASAP, or be prepared to eat shit until you figure that out.

I’ve bought several Dell laptops over the last 20 years, the Windows install on them was strangled in it’s crib every time, and it was still miles cheaper than these other vendors.

If anyone needs to have Linux preinstalled on their computer and can’t click through the 3 steps in a typical Linux install nowadays, they probably should use something like a SpeakNSpell instead of a computer.

If a home automation product isn’t self hosted, it can fuck right off

Honestly, I’ll take our -20C and snow over that. I can dress for cold, if I take off enough layers to stay comfortable at 80F I’ll get arrested.

Snowblew?

Piper just moved to https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

It’s fine, and it’s probably the best TTS you’re going to run locally.