I may have gone slightly overboard with the home automation. I have added my daughter's hamster to Home Assistant.

(also, that lil' guy can run!)

i am trying to find a specific size bolt to fix a thing and every damn website i search does this. am i hitting some kind of funky wildcard with the search terms or are they just _bad_?

skipping the quotes does give some correct results mixed in with the garbage, but man, this is frustrating!

my fiber provider offered 10gbit internet for 5% more than I was paying.
it's *completely* unnecessary and my router is buckling under even 4gbit throughput, but I felt like I had to do it just to see what it's like to LIVE LIFE IN THE FAST LANE.

(it's indistinguishable from the gigabit connection i had previously)

got a proposal from these guys in my inbox.

so, they want me to make my users part of their botnet to "significantly increase user experience"?!

what the shit?

the past few months i've been trawling used stuff to upgrade my desktops network connection to 10gbe, today i finally got the time to run the actual fiber.
now i'm a zoomy boy.

(nothing else on my network is 10gbe, so i'm not getting to use it really, but you gotta start somewhere)