

I’m in a rental too. It’s non-invasive; just gotta pop the panel cover off, clip the transformers over the wires without disconnecting them, and put the cover back. It can all be removed just as easily.
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I’m in a rental too. It’s non-invasive; just gotta pop the panel cover off, clip the transformers over the wires without disconnecting them, and put the cover back. It can all be removed just as easily.
A fridge can create a fairly low overall temp, but with something like a PC generating a ton of heat inside, it can’t keep up. The fridge just can’t move the heat fast enough and becomes an insulated box trapping the heat instead.
A lot of people aren’t even aware of the concern. That’s why I bring it up.
Paying an electrician to add a breaker is much cheaper than replacing the PC. Tho that’s up to OC if they want to pursue that. I’m just putting the info out there for them to consider.
If you want to expand from just monitoring a couple sockets to monitoring the whole house; I’d recommend Iotawatt. I’ve been using one of these to monitor every circuit in my house for a few years now.
You can use the built in webpages shown below to view it’s internal graphs, or setup an exporter to feed the data into external DBs like influxDB+Graphana or Emoncms.
breaker to my room likes to trip if I am gaming and someone in the house decides to microwave something
… Why the hell is your pc on the same breaker as the kitchen??
The kitchen plugs should have their own dedicated breaker in most modern electrical codes (at least in North America). The voltage drop your pc experiences everytime a high-load item like a microwave or kettle is turned on, on the same circuit, is really rough on your PSU.
At least you have a UPS which presumably performs some power conditioning, but still. Not great.
That’s true; once everything inside is brought down to temp, they use very little power to stay cold.
My regular fridge uses ~500-800wh a day (depending on how much it got opened). My chest freezer though, uses ~200wh/day pretty consistently.
OS updates I only bother with every 6-12mo, though I also use debian which doesn’t push major updates all that regularly.
As far as software goes; pretty much everything is in a docker container with watchtower automatically pulling new updates to those nightly at 4am. It sends me email notifications, so It’ll tell me if an update fails; combined with uptime-kuma notifying me if any of my services is unavailable for whatever reason.
The rest I’ll usually do with the OS updates. Just because an update was released, doesn’t mean you’ve gotta drop everything and install it right this moment.
Supposedly docker volumes are faster than plain bind mounts; but I’ve not really noticed a difference.
They also allow you to use docker commands to backup and restore volumes.
Finally you can specify storage drivers, which let you do things like mount a network share (ssh, samba, nfs, etc) or a cloud storage solution directly to the container.
Personally I just use bind mounts for pretty much every bit of persistent data. I prefer to keep my compose files alongside the container data organized to my standards in an easy to find folder. I also like being able to navigate those files without having to use docker commands, and regularly back them up with borg.
Ordered merch from Bioware mid-November for an xmas present. It arrived Jan 4th; they shipped the wrong product.
Contacted them 3 seprate times through their ‘contact us’ page and got ignored for 3 weeks. It wasn’t until I filed a chargeback with my cc that they finally emailed me (4 days after submission).
I had asked for my money back in my various emails; but they didn’t respond to that at all and just shipped me a new package.
Still haven’t gotten that, so no idea if they actually shipped the right item this time. It’s not listed on their site anymore; so they likely don’t have inventory to ship.
We’ll see what’s in the box whenever it gets here.
I’ll never spend another dime with EA/BioWare.
https://www.cablecreation.com/collections/cable
I’ve had a pair of 6ft braided USB-C to USB-C cables from these guys that have lasted me 5+ years of daily use.
One of the 4 connections has gotten a little loose, but other than that they’ve held up great.
The first hyperlink in that post explains exactly why:
https://www.oligo.security/blog/0-0-0-0-day-exploiting-localhost-apis-from-the-browser
I keep a fairly close eye on my DNS traffic; it still does crash reporting through Crashlytics (which I just block), but that’s about it.
I just paid the whole 4$ for the pro version and to support an otherwise free app I’ve quite enjoyed.
No ads/tracking anymore.
Devs gotta eat.
For more manual stuff; Ssh and X-Plore File Explorer.
Internal, sd card, ssh, ftp(s), google drive, dropbox, and a bunch of other cloud providers; treats it all like one big file system that I can casually copy/move files between.
For just syncing files between folders: FolderSync. The ‘downloads’ folder on my phone is setup as a 2-way sync with a folder on my server. Drop a file in either side, click sync, file is in both places. I use this to keep most of the files on my phone backed up, not just syncing the download folder.
Gemini ‘messaged’ me in google messages introducing itself a couple months ago. Just appeared like a normal text conversation with any other contact, but as soon as you click on it you’re presented with a wall of T&Cs.
Deleted the ‘conversation’ and it’s stayed gone; though there’s an option for it in settings.
The only other place I’ve see it is an on-screen reminder every time I use Google Assistant. (usually just triggering home automatons)
Dunno about Starbucks specifically; but many fastfood places near me keep the bathroom doors locked.
You’ve gotta ask for the key which usually comes on a big ass stick/keyring/keyfob thing to make it really hard to forget or walk out of the store with it.
Some even have electronic locks with a button behind the counter. They ‘buzz’ you into the bathroom like a damn security checkpoint.
Currently dealing with really dry cracked lips…
This sounds awful.
I did this with a regular rpi, one of it’s io pins and a single npn transistor a while back.
Multimeter to check which power button pin on the mobo is + vs -. - to the rpi gnd, + to the transistor collector, gate to the io pin, drain to rpi gnd.
Whenever the io pin goes high (positive), the transistor shorts the mobo pins ‘pressing’ the power button.
Script pings the servers ip to check if its not responding; then pulls the pin high for 6 sec to ensure the mobo is fully off, then low for 2 sec, high for 2 sec, then low again.
This was for a system that kept locking up while I was away, so I needed a way to remotely hard-restart it.
Why not pay a local artist to make you a cover?
Skip the whole moral/legal hurdle and help support someone being affected by AIs takeover. I’m sure you can come to a reasonable agreement.
Or put together one yourself. A photo and some filters; or a stylized painting tool.
That’s between you and your landlord. Mine was fine with it as it doesn’t actually modify any of the wiring.