Reviews should all contain brand-unfriendly language
https://lemmy.world/post/41279676
Reviews should all contain brand-unfriendly language - Lemmy.World
Most reviews are boring, corporate friendly platitudes and a 5-star rating, but
that really doesn’t tell you anything about the product. Hell, it may just be a
bot regurgitating the products marketing sheet! But if reviews contained
swearing, slander, or other legal minefields you could know it wasn’t written by
the company. “This toaster is great, works well, likes to eat forks. Feed it a
fork every morning to reward it for a good job.” “What a fucking great coffee
machine! Be sure to lick any drips off the scalding hot plate, that’s the most
tasty part.” “5-stars, mine came with an official statement from the company
saying Hitler did nothing wrong.”
Alarm triggers wake-up routine - Lemmy.World
I recently started a new job after being unemployed for too long and slipping
back into my night-owl habits and schedule. With the last job I used Google’s
Clock, Home, and YouTube Music apps to wake my ass up on time by turning on the
lights and playing some music. While it worked at the time, I since removed the
assistant from my phone the entire arrangement fell apart. I spent too long
trying to get Home Assistant to take over this process, but had so much trouble
getting the pieces together. I just couldn’t find an alarm clock app that could
trigger a Home Assistant automation or a way to play music on either the Google
smart hub I have as a clock or my phone. But tonight I got the past piece
realigned, and it’s fucking working! # How we do: - Set an alarm in your
preferred mobile phone App. (I use the Fossify Clock) - Ensure the Home
Assistant app has the Alarm Sensor enabled. (Settings > Manager Sensors) -
Configure the Music Assistant addon to connect to your preferred device and
music provider. (If it’s YouTube make sure to grab the cookie in a private
browser window!) -Create a Home Assistant automation that is triggered when the
time matches the Next Alarm sensor. (Maybe offset it back by a few seconds to
prevent update delay causing it to miss.) - Have the automation turn a nearby
light at 1%, wait a little bit, and then start slowly increase to 100% over like
20 minutes. - Set the Music Assistant player to a volume to is loud enough to
hear, but not quiet enough to ignore. Also set it to shuffle while you are at
it. - Play your chosen music using Music Assistant on your player. Give it a
playlist of your liked songs so that the shuffle always gives you something you
like every day, but not the same song. - Get your ass up and get ready to work.
Of course, if you have ideas of how to improve this I would love to hear it. I
already have my lights fade as it gets close to bedtime.
The best burger photo I have ever taken
https://lemmy.world/post/34521915
The best burger photo I have ever taken
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ESPHome and a dumb lamp - Lemmy.World
A few years ago a friend gave me an “Urban Shop” glitter lamp as a gift. It was
a neat twist on a lava lamp that used LEDs and glitter with a motor that spun
the fluid using a magnetic string bar. While it was a great vibe, it used three
AA batteries and the stirring would cycle on and off regularly causing the noise
to start and stop, which I found more distracting than just leaving it on. I
found that the on-off switch was actual an on-on switch without a second
connection, so I took an old USB cable and hardwired the second switch terminal
so that I could power it from a power supply or batteries. This was a drastic
improvement to me, but I didn’t like the cord always being attached and the
motor cycling was still annoying. Eventually, the lamp ended up on a shelf for a
later date. Today, I pulled the lamp down because I finally tried ESPHome
because I keep hearing about it in other people’s projects and wanted to finally
try the full smart conversion of this lamp. After several hours of trying to
reuse the existing surface-mount LEDs and wiring, I gutted the whole damn thing
and installed my own 5mm LEDs, rewired the motor, and added a button for
controls and wired everything into a Raspberry Pi Pico W I had bought years ago.
Now I have a lamp that can be controlled locally from the button, can be
reprogrammed from my computer without moving the lamp, can be controlled from
Home Assistant, and performs exactly how I want.
Halloween Orb Contemplation - Lemmy.World
I just finished a project to make my own orb and now I can contemplate properly.
Self-driving cars will never be popular as you can't speed in them.
https://lemmy.world/post/16137873
Self-driving cars will never be popular as you can't speed in them. - Lemmy.World
Given how many people treat speed limits as suggestions, at best, having your
vehicle obey the limit would turn some people off of them.
When microwaving food, do you stop too soon and have it still cold or do you stop too late and have to wait?
https://lemmy.world/post/9399912
When microwaving food, do you stop too soon and have it still cold or do you stop too late and have to wait? - Lemmy.World
Too cold to enjoy or too hot to eat?
TP-Link Integrates Kasa Smart Home Devices into Tapo App with Version 3.0
https://lemmy.world/post/6041456
TP-Link Integrates Kasa Smart Home Devices into Tapo App with Version 3.0 - Lemmy.world
With the release of Tapo version 3.0, TP-Link integrates their two lines of
smart home devices into a single application, reducing the number of apps needed
to control their devices. Additionally, the update claims improvements to the
user interface, optimized camera features, a sleeker status page, and faster
responses and startups. The blow post also suggest that improvements to lighting
effects, smart actions, geofencing, and a dark mode will be coming in the
future. I think the best takeaway is that I can have one less app on my phone!
