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The sole instrumental song on a band's self-tilted, debut album which is followed by a self-tilted second album with a Roman numeral "II"

I have an early 2000s house and they went wild with a) the sheer number of wall switches and b) the number of 3-way switches. I want to replace a good number of them while accepting my wife's requirement that they look and function as dumb paddle switches when necessary.

I've looked around and these seem to be the best at fitting all of my requirements but Mama Mia, the price 😭 😭 😭 😭

https://www.amazon.com/Inovelli-2-1-Smart-Switch-Dimmer/dp/B0BG329SH3

Anyone have some suggestions?

I've been toying with the idea to implementing HA for a couple of years.

I have no fewer than 10 "smart device" apps on my phone and the privacy implications make me sick. I've been a Google Home and it's been a sad experience.

Over the holidays, I got Proxmox working on an old laptop and ordered a ZigBee stick and some sensors.

Installing HA using helper scripts was dummy easy and the laptop is performing solidly. Got hung up on network setup and z2m but pulled through with some Google-fu.

Did I have to do some tinkering? Yes. Can I control all - literally ALL - my smart devices on one customizable dashboard? F*** YEAH!

I am looking forward to accomplishing more, unplugging from the cloud, learning a lot, and hopefully making some life tasks less annoying.

Thank you to this community for the awesome work, conversation, and inspiration!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23341185

Everyone has seen Antelope Canyon on their Windows login screens it whatever but just a few miles away, you can visit Waterhole canyon, which is bigger and quieter. A guide was and to let me spend as much time as I wanted seeing up and getting my shots, a luxury I did not have at the more famous location. My pictures came out ok but the experience was worth it.

Nikon D750 W/ Sigma 12-24mm 2.8 1/8 sec f/18 iso100 (??? what was I thinking)

Everyone has seen Antelope Canyon on their Windows login screens it whatever but just a few miles away, you can visit Waterhole canyon, which is bigger and quieter. A guide was and to let me spend as much time as I wanted seeing up and getting my shots, a luxury I did not have at the more famous location. My pictures came out ok but the experience was worth it.

Nikon D750 W/ Sigma 12-24mm 2.8
1/8 sec f/18 iso100 (??? what was I thinking)

Nikon D750 w/Tamron 150-600mm G2
180mm 1/2500sec f/6.3 iso1250

Went on a boat in Alaska to see and shoot whales but the crowd didn't afford many great pictures. Landscapes during the sunset though... Can do!

Nikon D750 50mm 1.8D
1/640sec f/1.8 iso2000

Can anyone ID the bugs?
Edit: this was in northern Washington state

24mm 13 sec f/2.8 iso3600

Driving all the way up to the top of Haleakala gets you to slightly over 10,000ft (3,000m) above the island of Maui. After sunset and when I thought it sufficiently dark, I started working on this shot.

I was extremely lucky to get clear skies and minimal wind on the evening of my visit. This particular shot also includes a comet in the top-right corner, a few satellites which I tried to clean up, and some lights (headlights?) which illuminated the observatory at the top of this long-extinguished volcano.

42mm 1/80s f/4 iso100

Perfect lighting and fog to make the dock look like it leads to nothingness.

Shot on Samsung S21U Main Lens 1/950 f/1.8 ISO 16

Definitely regretted not bringing my camera that day

Saw this guy on the Oregon coast sometime in the past couple of week

Edit: thanks to [email protected] for a more accurate ID than I could pull off

Feel free to explain if you know what this means