I’m not disappointed with you, just angry.
GenX pessimist (wannabe optimist). British by birth, citizen of nowhere by nature. Boringly socialist. ADHD as hell. Always not finishing something. Accompanied by a black dog.
Most posts are followers-only.
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| Site | https://awfulwoman.com |
| Github | https://github.com/awfulwoman |
| Location | Berlin, DE |
Been thinking about some home automation principles that I can use.
#HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant
https://awfulwoman.com/posts/some-principles-for-home-automation/
This apartment rennovation isn’t my first foray into home automation - I’ve had my rental place automated for years, and it’s given me a lot of insights into how things work in the real world. I’m using a mishmash of Wifi, Zigbee and ESPhome gadgets. This is undestandable - landlords hate you smashing open walls to rewire things - but these wireless technologies are kinda rubbish. I seem to be changing batteries on Zigbee devices evey day, and until I complete that task, the device in question is offline. Devices in hard-to-reach areas just don’t get dealt with. Quite often the wireless spectrum in our heighbourhood gets flooded by random data 1 and both Wifi and Zigbee networks drop out for minutes at a time. My laptop is liable to lose wifi signal if I sit at the wrong part of my desk.
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Old people, rejoice!
The demolition part of our apartment renovation is now over. Time to start thinking about the nerd shit.
In 2023 my partner and I were lucky enough to buy an apartment in Berlin. I say lucky. What I mean is that it was a deeply adult decision that I’m grateful we both could make. But my god, it was financially and emotionally stressful. Nonetheless, we now have a 90m2 apartment in a neighbourhood that was, if not quite fashionable, was certainly nice.
Upon reading more about the Puxelfed follower bug - and realising it’s a fundamental problem with the ActivityPub protocol - I can’t see much point in staying follower-only on Mastodon. I’ll go public and just keep my mouth shut about anything even vaguely related to work.
Daenney
Open Web Advocacy