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Canadian friends who drive: Transport Canada is soliciting feedback on ultra-bright vehicle headlights and headlight glare at night.

I encourage you to give them data on your experience, so that they might update the regulations to stop SUVs from routinely blinding me with their factory-fitted Nuclear Fireball 9000 LED Darkness Devastators Shock And Awe Edition headlights aimed directly into my face and eyes.

https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night

Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night

Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.

Transport Canada
@vac wow that'll be quite the resolution.
@vac hey i think i have a few of those lying around

Context: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.office.core.msotristate

Note that there are actually 5 values, not three. Also True is -1, and the value that equals 1 isn't supported.

MsoTriState Enum (Microsoft.Office.Core)

Specifies a tri-state Boolean value.

A reminder that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't the shortest horror story ever written, it's actually "Specifies a tri-state Boolean value" written by the esteemed author Microsoft .NET Documentation.

@scronide I find everything tends to work outside of games that are pushing new tech. (It took a while for Alan Wake 2's mesh shaders to be functional in mesa/radv.)

I also enjoyed my time with Esoteric Ebb. Would recommend.

@micahilbery Oh and one last thing, just make sure you're careful opening the base station for the fountain.

It's a little hard to pry off, but it also has a cable attaching both sides, so if you're not at least a little careful you might rip that thing right off.

But at least it's not a ribbon cable so it should be fineee.

@micahilbery for flashing I used this guy and some pins from my toolkit. Hardest part was bridging two connections to enter programming mode.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B07WX2DSVB

It seems like only one gen of these devices used the esphome chips though, so might want to double check product ids

DSD TECH SH-U09C5 USB to TTL UART Converter Cable with FTDI Chip Support 5V 3.3V 2.5V 1.8V TTL : Amazon.ca: Electronics

DSD TECH SH-U09C5 USB to TTL UART Converter Cable with FTDI Chip Support 5V 3.3V 2.5V 1.8V TTL : Amazon.ca: Electronics

@micahilbery it was really easy! I used https://github.com/taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome and no soldering was required to flash.

I had some issues getting the esphome config working but then figured out it was getting stuck on boot when i had the usb serial device pins in. So took that off, reset power and bam.

GitHub - taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome: ESPHome firmwares for Petlibro products

ESPHome firmwares for Petlibro products. Contribute to taylorfinnell/petlibro-esphome development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Flashing custom firmware on my cats water fountain entirely for me tbh.