AA5B

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[–] AA5B 2 points 1 hour ago

When I give out my email, I always get spam, regardless of how many boxes I uncheck.

When I give out my phone number, sometimes I don’t

Of course that no longer makes sense since I have one phone number I can’t easily change, but give out uniquely generated emails that I can individually turn off

[–] AA5B 3 points 3 hours ago

I’ve been using the wrong bathrooms all this time. I need to start walking into women’s bathrooms, saying “it’s ok, Trump defined me as female”.

[–] AA5B 1 points 3 hours ago

as an almost middle aged, fat woman who looks like I could safely run for a Rwpublican seat, standing on toilets

I’m kind of worried about your safety now, since public restrooms don’t generally have toilet lids. Perhaps bring a stool to safely appear to be standing on the toilet.

[–] AA5B 2 points 6 hours ago

That’s just reality. We don’t believe in that anymore. Apparently

[–] AA5B 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

And yet this is a place where centrism is the goal.

  • We know that trying to tightly control economies does not work. At all. We shouldnt even try.
  • We also know that corporate-anarchy serves only robber barons. That’s not acceptable.

So yes, the best answer is to give the market freedom but not complete freedom. To let it do its ups and downs … within limits. To combine the strengths of capitalism with the guardrails of a guided market. Where the capitalist driven market does not serve society, it’s a failure to guide the market so capitalism fulfills desirable goals

[–] AA5B 3 points 6 hours ago

Same here. My primary use case is making it work naturally for a voice assistant, so it’s a bit inconsistent because it needs to reflect what we actually call things

[–] AA5B 6 points 19 hours ago
[–] AA5B 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

This won’t cause more deaths in America, but mostly in developing countries. It just proves america is best.

[–] AA5B 6 points 20 hours ago

Just like he has one executive order for energy production and another to pause offshore wind farm leases

[–] AA5B 5 points 20 hours ago

No, they need reproductive cells to decide whether they’re big or small - they need to watch you masturbate (for formerly male NBs) to completion

[–] AA5B 22 points 20 hours ago

We’re all non-binary

[–] AA5B 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

None of them have come close to the severity of the Great Depression. We’ll never control all instabilities, the important part is limiting their severity

Yes, I’ve been affected by several of these. I’ve gotten laid off during downturns. I’ve been affected by high interest rates. I’ve been affected by unattainable housing. But at least it wasn’t worse

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YouTube history (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 4 days ago by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

The last several months, I’ve started watching YouTube.

I tried looking at what I’ve been watching:

  • lawn mowing
  • drain clearing
  • dog grooming
 

For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by AA5B to c/aww
 
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Waffles for the win (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

Slept in and made waffles for my kids …. I got too damn excited making Liege Waffles for the first time. The kids loved them but it’s a lot of work, even more cleanup, and molten sugar hurts like the dickens

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Huge Costco trip (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

I haven’t been in about three months so I started running out of stuff. It almost got exciting, going while hungry and without a Christmas list. I should not have done that

And still no effing tissue boxes

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submitted 1 month ago by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

The pop up reminder has been on my thermostat since October.

However the furnace couldn’t hold temperature and started short cycling so I had to. Unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the problem so I may need to call a guy (it’s always to replace the control board but I have yet to find a way to confirm that before spending $400 to do it myself)

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Did not sleep in (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

Already failed my first goal for taking today off, by forgetting to turn off my alarm clock.

So my grand plan for using one of my precious days off is (drum roll, please) ….. taking my kid to a routine appointment that for some reason had to be in the middle of the day

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Syrup from a can (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by AA5B to c/dull_mens_club
 

It’s the weekend, so I got up early, walked the dog and started thinking about what to make my kid for breakfast.

I spent way too long looking at a four hour recipe (why not, dinner is a smoked pork shoulder that I really need to get started asap) before giving it up

Started off normally: eggs over easy and sausage links. Let’s make the pancakes a little different with bananas and walnut, and top with fruit and nuts ….

Critical question: why do we buy a specific syrup for pancakes? It’s just sugar (or corn syrup). So I used the syrup from canned mangoes!!!! Tastes great but a bit thin and I didn’t use enough. It would be easy enough to thicken up, I’m sure. But why isn’t this the norm? We should have flavored syrup all the time, maybe save money over the maple stuff

Oh, and splurged with egg nog.

 

I generally use Lemmy through my phone browser: safari on iPhone. Starting a few weeks ago. I can no longer get to the primary url. When I try, the progress bar stops partway through, I get a long delay and eventually see “a problem repeatedly occurred on https://lemmy.world”.

I assumed there was some sort of update and was patient but it doesn’t appear to be getting fixed

As a workaround, I’ve been using https://old.lemmy.world

Is this a known problem or can someone help look into this?

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Thread for Inovelli Blue? (self.homeassistant)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AA5B to c/homeassistant
 

Does anyone know the current state for re-flashing Inovelli Blue switches to Thread? I haven’t been paying attention the last year so I don’t know if they released that or if it works reliably. I did try looking through the community pages without finding anything definite (plus that might not include any actual experience trying it)

I recently saw a couple new Thread devices, so maybe it’s time to start using that. My entire Zigbee network was intended to be flashable to Thread: all I have is SkyConnect and some Inovelli Blue switches. More importantly, that should be a good foundation for a strong mesh to support other devices (and I don’t have a reason for a strong Zigbee mesh). I know SkyConnect multi-protocol didn’t work out but I believe reflashing to Thread is fine. I know Inovelli Blue can’t be reflashed over the air, but that’s ok. Is there Thread firmware and what are your experiences with it?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by AA5B to c/bbq
 

Throwing this out there in case someone has advice …..

I got a smoker this summer and have been having a great time cooking new (large) meals. But my kids are back at college and I can’t depend on my ex. How do you find people to eat your meals?

It’s a weird situation where it’s a huge pellet grill and smoking tends to focus on large pieces of meat, but not everything freezes well. I want to go gangbusters with feasts, just when I no longer have anyone to appreciate it. Anyone know if there is such a thing as cooking clubs, or something? How do you find one or how do you break into one as a single guy?

Fwiw

  • kids are back from college today, ex is coming over and ex-FiL
  • smoked duck with orange maple glaze
  • chicken for those not willing to try duck
  • rice pilaf
  • arugula salad with toasted pine nuts
  • I plan to throw chocolate chip cookie dough in a cast iron skillet for brownies and top with ice cream
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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by AA5B to c/tesla
 

I just got back from a 1,200+ mile road trip and Superchargers, especially with the trip planning, made it easy!

However non-Tesla chargers seem to be more common in Connecticut. I went to try one and discovered I don’t have as complete a set of adapters as I thought. What if I need to charge at a CCS charger?

I looked online and the price range is huge. I see a $64 and one close to $300, and several in between. Do you know what the difference is or what I should be looking for? Is there one you’d recommend? Is it even worth it, since Superchargers are everywhere, plus I charge at home, and CCS is likely to go away in a couple years?

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