llamatron

joined 2 years ago
[–] llamatron 5 points 1 day ago

Peach looks good enough to eat

[–] llamatron 3 points 1 day ago

Yum.

I'm a man of few words.

[–] llamatron 6 points 2 days ago

It's always a grift

[–] llamatron 44 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's 'defunct' but your spelling is better.

[–] llamatron 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

So, a half remembered Radiolab episode or maybe it was 99% Invisible talked about this. If I remember rightly they did consider changing it because it was so much quicker and easier typing in English and Chinese character set takes up a lot of storage which was a big deal in early computers. Until someone figured they could break down all the Chinese characters into a much smaller selection of base shapes. So you could make a character by pressing a small selection of keys. So it meant a much more manageable keyboard. I think it's even resulted in quick Chinese typists being faster than English ones.

[–] llamatron 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] llamatron 5 points 1 week ago

I'm using a raspberry pi with a 'sonoff universal zigbee 3.0 USB dongle'. But I've no clue what I'm doing. I originally got into it just so I could automate a bedroom light for the wife. Beyond that I've got a couple of lights and contact sensors and the recent attempt at controlling a dehumidifier. Googling and blind luck has got me this far.

I wonder if it helps that the door contact sensor is in the same room as the zigbee dongle? Maybe 20ft away

[–] llamatron 3 points 1 week ago

I shall investigate. Thanks for the suggestion

[–] llamatron 1 points 1 week ago

Sadly I can't find a UK Thirdreailty plug. Their website only shows US, doesn't even detect I'm coming from the UK so I'd guess US only. Surprising seeing as the company is based in China.

[–] llamatron 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So how close are we to getting low end large capacity SSDs at affordable prices? I mean, are we ever gonna be able to buy 12TB SSDs for our desktops or home NAS for similar prices to mechanical drives??

[–] llamatron 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Looks like there's no DOGAIN UK plugs. Which is a shame. I have an INNR plug running a dehumidifier and it's not great. It will turn off and on as per my Home assistant schedule and I get to see how much power is being used which is cool. However, it has a habit of turning itself off and back on randomly while as far as home assistant is concerned there's been no interruption. It's frustrating.

[–] llamatron 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Aquara door sensors here too and they work great. I have one that turns on the kitchen light after sunset when the back door is opened and it works flawlessly.

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