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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • Yeah, formatting is the only place that I really enjoy using AI. It’s great at pumping out blocks of stuff and frequently gets the general idea of what I’m going for with successive variables or tasks. But when you ask it to do complex things it wigs out. Like yesterday when it spit out a regex to look for something within multiple encapsulation chars just fine, but telling it to remove one of the chars it was looking for was impossible, apparently. Spent 5 min doing something I figured out in 2 minutes on a regex test site.





  • You’re just running in docker, so you’d want to make sure you map a local folder into your container (at a different location than they are already!), then get into the container and copy your files to the host’s mapped folder. Once that’s complete, update your docker to point your local folder to the proper config location and it should keep everything local after you upgrade.

    Edit: In my compose, I have this line

    /jellyfin/jellyfin-data:/config

    so you could map it to :/backup on your first boot, copy /config to /backup, then update your compose to map it to /config and you’re good to go!


  • so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement?

    The cloud is just someone else’s computer, so when you cut the cord from the cloud, you gotta run your own server.

    And you don’t need to buy a (robust) device to run HA, just install it on a spare system and start playing with it. I started building mine about 1.5yrs ago when I bought a house and I think I only gave mine like 2 CPU and 8gb ram.

    What actually happens when I turn on a smart switch in my home? Does that command have to be sent to a server somewhere to be processed?

    Yes, you have to have something that accepts your commands and sends the action to the end device. Just like your Google home did.

    What really has to be processed, and why can’t a smartphone app do it?

    Because that’s not how things work. Your app has to talk to a server to send the commands, Google home has cloud servers and a local bridge. HA has an app that you can use to control your stuff, same as Google Home.

    Smart Home apps are worthless without hardware required to connect the app to your home.






  • It’s called the asshole tax, and it’s what happens when you believe a child over the person you’re paying to fix your/their mistake (again).

    Having run my own computer repair side business for a while, I would have (and have) absolutely done the same thing in the situation. I also had repeat fliers that realized their mistakes and didn’t try to blame me for their failure, and the nicer ones even got a discount. But the asshole tax is there to make dealing with problem customers more worth it, and potentially to encourage them to find someone else to torment and give money to.