Analyze Russia’s today: they started “defending” kids ~10 years ago. Look where they are now. You will be there soon too.

That’s both the funniest and stupidest thing I’ve read all week, thanks for the sad laugh.

Loosely speaking, Russia has been “where they are now” since the failure of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union some 30+ years ago. None of that was done under the guise of “defending kids”, so quit your delusional ranting.

It has a smart controller with a wifi module from SpaNet. The app is quite “open” in that it allows you to set your own auxiliary MQTT server and send home assistant compatible data to it while still being able to use the existing app.

Added edit:

So everything is controllable by HA - blower pumps, temperature, the sanitiser routine, the lights, whether to put it into sleep/low power mode, etc

Love me a good <MARQUEE>!

Lots of things can be hooked up through it. One of the biggest things I find I like about it is the way you can merge ecosystems with it.

At home with HA I have an LG TV, Philips Hue lights, a Tapo vacuum cleaner, my EV charger, my own home made solar hot water system controller, a presence sensor that also does CO2 and temperature, a hot tub, and a few other bits and pieces. All of which can be viewed and controlled in the one interface, not the 6 or 7 apps that every individual device wants me to install.

But automations and notifications are the big thing. The presence sensor in the living room turns off the tv if nobody is in front of it for more than an hour. The EV charger tells me when the car is charged. An hour before sunset the light in my living room slowly dims on, and dims off after 9pm when the presence sensor says there’s nobody around. When my solar hot water system is a bit slow to heat up on a cloudy day, I get an email telling me to turn the electric booster on (and off when the water’s hot). Every Tuesday and Thursday evening the vacuum cleaner is set to clean the living areas, but it doesn’t if someone is watching tv, as detected by the presence sensor and the television.

I also don’t have to get off the couch to turn on a light, but the idea is that you set up automations that do all the button-pressing for you.

“We would never have bought…”

So they got large mortgages when interest rates were at down near the lowest that they have ever been in this country, since Federation.

Then it’s all surprised pikachu face when rates start to head back towards the long-term 5-6% average and they’re suddenly paying 5K a month.

History. It’s there for everyone to look at.

Is the ✨sparkly emoji✨ the <BLINK> of the 21st century? Discuss.

I think it’s becoming a play store requirement for apps to use various “notification channels” or whatever it’s called, so hopefully the all or nothing behaviour will disappear in time.

Orrrr as you say apps get totally silenced / uninstalled, I don’t have the patience for that kind of stuff anymore.

But it’s definitely not perfect and tends to add unnecessary changes, I constantly have to review and add new rules.

This is the bit that bugs me. I spend a bit of time to create a relatively simple application in C# with it, and it’s constantly tacking on new features and four extra command line arguments and it’s frothing at the mouth to add Cool Feature X, “just say the word and I’ll do it”.

Just do what I asked. No more. That’s enough. There’s enough mangled code and logic errors lurking in there already, I don’t need any more “features” clouding the water.

And newer versions of Android have notification categories for each app.

So if the developer does their homework I can turn off particular notification types and let others through, and that way you can -gasp!- actually have a messaging app that only notifies you of actual messages, instead of constantly begging for your attention for a bunch of superfluous crap.

And if I go to the notification settings for that app and it doesn’t have a category I can easily drop, it either gets completely silenced, or it gets uninstalled.

Oh lawdy, a budget phone shipping with an OS SEVEN WHOLE MONTHS out of date at time of publication. Will the horrors ever end!?

Quick, someone bring me my fainting chair!

I’ve worked in mines in the desert in South Australia where temps semi regularly hit 46-47 degrees.

It’s OK (ish) because the humidity is low. But you can drink a litre an hour all day (11+ hours) and not need to pee. All that water goes somewhere.

The underground workings are often more dangerous, with lower temperatures but higher humidity. Once wet bulb temps get above 34 degrees underground personnel need to retreat from the area and the only work that can be done there then is work to fix the ventilation.

There’s heat stress meters that measure wet and dry bulb temperatures and airflow, and can basically compute cooling power in watts. Not enough cooling power -> everyone out.

Revert to a version of nova launcher from a few years back.

All the features I needed from it were finalised years ago, so why update?

The usual nebulous comments like “bug fixes and performance improvements” in the changelogs isn’t really a strong reason for me.

Considering that some extra trackers were just added in this company’s first release, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be great.

8.1.6 apk from uptodown.com.

And then find the app in your installed app list in Google Play and untick “install updates automatically” in the three dot menu.

Maxbotix make robust ultrasonic sensors that range out to 6m, they have a 3/4" pipe fitting on the back for mounting them.

So with that you can get a few lengths of 3/4" pipe and an elbow and have an easy way of mounting it a little ways into your well.

A little on the expensive side but simple to use and easy to weatherproof.

Yeah, I had a surface laptop that had 60GB in there. Real handy when it’s only got 128GB of storage.

I used PatchCleaner and it did the job.

Having a need for a “valid travel document” to cover for your perceived ethnicity stinks of “papers, please” and I am alarmed that you cannot see that connection.

It is a valid travel document for land and sea travel within North America and the Caribbean.

The way you’ve phrased it sounds quite dystopian.

Ugh , once you know how to spot LLM phrasing you see it everywhere.

Are you doing chmod with the recursive option? You could list a few subfolders with “ls -la” and see who owns them and what permissions they have.

It’s also possible that your distribution mounts that drive with fixed permissions that override whatever you’re trying to set. Checking with “mount” and seeing what it spits out for the mount options for that device might give a clue.