This is my (controversial) tip: ask an LLM. It works wonderfully for these cases. “Give me an ffmpeg command that cuts the last X seconds of a video in a lossless manner, stabilizes it and speeds it up 200%”.

You can then checkout those commands on the manual/online to verify.

I support this idea. Moving is the perfect opportunity to classify your stuff into useful and wasteful, specially clothes, shoes, and some older electronics. Recycle and donate.

Also, if you have a phone you can turn any document into a digital one, find manuals online and trash the paper ones, etc.

It’s amazing when you suddenly feel lighter, and you didn’t know you had all that psychological weight on you.

In what sense is DuckDNS unreliable?

That’s crazy.

I don’t get how people use social media without filters.

All I see is the communities I follow… Isn’t that what most people do around here?

I don’t think this is going to happen anytime soon. In their livestreams they’ve thanked GitHub a million times for their support and services, so there’s probably some interest there.

Honestly, I am one of those who still doesn’t feel like GitHub has betrayed us (yet)… So it’s fine for me. I just hope that once GitHub gets enshittified, that we can quickly move to a more open system.

Maybe you installed a development/beta branch or something?

Look… I certainly (particularly verbally) will probably use “he” a lot more than I should… And no one cares.

But if someone makes a PR changing these into “they”, I would reply with “shit, you’re right, this is objectively better, thanks for your work”.

Instead, these contributors get their PR shut down with the most terrible, supremacist excuse. That’s the problem. There’s the true idiot.

That is absolutely amazing

Not my experience so far with my single service I’ve been running for a year. It’s making me even think of opening up even more stuff.

https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite

Uninstall YouTube, and you’ll get your browser thingie. 😅.

You should be able to do to YouTube’s Android settings and revoke the rights to auto-open.

Let’s say you have 2 scripts that do some stuff:

• script A: turns a light pink for 20 seconds and then through a smart speaker you can hear 30 seconds of La Macarena.
• script B: send 25 notifications to your phone, spaced by 30 seconds, in which each notification is a different letter of an encrypted message.

If you want those things to happen independently you must parallelize them.

So think about an automation that at a certain point you want to launch multiple scripts. I’d always parallelize, even if initially these scripts were “instantaneous”, because you might change these and add more complexities in the future.

Parallel stuff is also used for… Well, some sequences you want to run in parallel.

Also, test your automations! Specially those critical. It’s very essy, you can virtually trigger them.

I use ZHA. As I have a Pi, I prefer the less addons the better, and there are ZHA devices for everything. It simply narrows down the spectrum, but overtime it’s coming closer and closer to Z2M in terms of device support and features… So…

There is also Matter and Thread on the horizon, so I wouldn’t bother complicating things further.

Also bought an ESP and some components but haven’t yet done anything.

Just make sure you have a prototyping board.

I hate soldering, so I will only cross that road once I have a very solid project and idea.

I don’t know if Merkuro Calendar has been ported to Windows yet

Oh, wow, I do have HAOS on my Pi so this one is a strong strong candidate.

Are those shortcut buttons? How?m