Sekiro is not a soulslike, it’s Ninja Gaiden. :P

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You might actually want to consider a DJI Power 500 or 1000. They’re actually portable power banks but can supposedly work in UPS mode, and will run for WAY longer than a traditional lead-acid battery UPS. See also Ecoflow’s options.

They’re a lot better than that where I live.

Still the best option, huh?

As someone else said, it’s mainly so I can ask couriers to leave packages in specific places, tell salespersons to go away without getting up, etc.

This one. Especially if I am not home.

That’s an interesting solution. However I don’t need this. I basically want a video intercom with whoever’s at the door.

Maybe I’ll look into electronic locks later, I guess. It’s not really a priority.

“Mods, deactivate this man’s balls.”

This doesn’t stop even when you hit 40

And there’s no place like home.

See also “ornitho” (relating to birds) and “pter” (wing) creating the term ornithopter for a heavier than air vehicle that flies by flapping its wings. Famously seen in Dune, but I think also back in the day people actually tried to make them, long before aircraft existed.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

That’s the only thing I can think to answer your question. There are some problems that are best solved with other tools, like text parsing for example you might want to call out to some code written in a functional language.

I never liked the idea of my “likes” being a browsable list. What’s the point of retweeting, if likes are browsable?

Glad it 's finally changing. Broken clock, I guess.

Xitter is doing something I want? What’s the catch?

Mm, that could be a problem for the battery even if it does connect. You could probably work around it if you really wanted to; solar powered repeater high up somewhere between the box and the house. But that’s getting into silly territory. :P

Next time you’re out there see what signal you get from your phone, maybe? Just hold it away from your car.

Awesome, gonna bookmark those for later. Thanks!

No problem. The one I used is an ESP32 DevKitC, and you can find info about it on Espressif’s site, or just google the pinout diagram. For basic tasks it should be all you need since it has lots of binary pins, two ADC channels, two DAC channels, realtime clock, special pins for waking it from deep sleep, two I2C, etc. Though if you want to do video input you probably want something else, I’m learning.

Anyway, if you can spare the money to get one just to toy with I’d definitely recommend it.

Yeah, all it does is tell me when something is obscuring one of the sensors. I figure anything that gets put in there which is small enough to fall in a way it covers neither isn’t going to be important enough to worry about.

I am vaguely aware AusPost has some kind of service that might inform me of regular mail delivery, but anyone can put stuff in my mailbox not just AusPost. Plus this was a fun project, yeah.