tomkatt

There's so much you can do. If I wanted to I could even make it monitor my Steam Deck's battery.

Home assistant is the shit. I’ve got lighting automations based on time of day and via motion sensors within specific timeframes.

Many sensors. Motion, climate, humidity, you name it.

Home theater automations. If I want to watch something, I tell voice assistant (Siri in this case) “turn on home theater.” It turns on the TV, receiver, and Apple TV, and uses the receiver’s API to switch the input to the media input. When I hit play on a video it turns off the living room lights, and if I pause or stop the video it turns them back on.

It has monitoring for all my thermostat sensors, solar, batteries, keeps track of my fridge and freezer temperatures, list goes on.

It also fully supports zigbee antennas and Bluetooth devices over Wi-Fi with simple esp32 Bluetooth extender configs. HAOS is just an outstanding piece of software.

I dunno about that. Hyundais are cheap, and until recently they were pretty reliable cars. I drove an '07 accent for 14 years with zero issues and minimal maintenance. I only replaced it in late 2020 because I was having a house built and moving to a rural area, and needed something that could handle country roads and at least light off-roading.

I compared a bunch of CUVs (compact SUVs) checked out all of them, and finally got it down to the Honda CRV, Toyota RAV4, some Hyundai (Tucson maybe?), and a Kia Sportage (I know, it's basically a Hyundai, and vice versa).

Every single one of them had some caveat. The Hyundai had a high dash and infotainment blocking part of the view, the CRV had a low front end that caused issues with low obstacles a CVT that struggles with uphill driving. The RAV4 was nice, but cost at least 30-50% more expensive than every other car with few discernable advantages. Plus, several other cars I looked at were CVT with dual clutch, which can burn up and overheat just going uphill.

In the end, it actually was down to the Hyundai and the Kia Sportage.

I bought the Sportage because it was all around balanced, still had an ICE engine, AWD, and Kia Finance had a good deal I qualified for. I got the previous year's model new from remaining stock with a zero interest rate. Sweet deal, total cost was like $24k. It's been a good car. Some minor issues and a bit of recall work with the dealerships, but I haven't had any major problems with it, and I barely have to do any sort of maintenance, just like the old Hyundai.

“No” is a complete sentence, and colleagues aren’t necessarily friends. If it’s not paid, it’s your time to do with as you please.

Just say no thanks or say you’ve got other things you need to do.

You didn’t mention your budget. That will impact things.

If you have a closet with a rack you have a lot of options, hardware-wise. If you’ll be running this in your living room, for sake of your sanity, something like an AMD mini-PC with a small NAS for additional hosted storage via NFS would probably be your best bet.

A PC with Proxmox could do this handily. I have a cheap Ryzen 5500u mini PC hosting my Plex server, audiobookshelf, home assistant, and DLNA server (AssetUPnP). It’s only 6 core/12 thread and32GB RAM but still has resources to spare. You could totally do an 8c/16t one and throw more RAM at it.

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Edit - oh, and don’t forget that if you’re going to be hosting a public instance, you’ll need a good internet connection (with good up and down speed, generally fiber is good for that) and a public IP.

Exactly this. That’s not even a lot really. Less than one egg per day, or a single meal of eggs (assuming 3 eggs) twice a week.

The big issue is the price hike of a previously cheap meal and protein source.

It’s weird all the anti-egg stuff in this thread, it’s not about the eggs per se. Various beans have gone up in price in recent years, various meats are much more expensive than they were prior to the pandemic, and in recent years now eggs have gone way up.

For people on tight budgets, it’s brutal. What do you do when there are no more cheap meals you can make to maintain your budget? Then you have to make cuts elsewhere, if that’s even possible.

I make low six figures now and keep my costs low, but in recent years even I’ve started bulk shopping via Sam’s Club to save money because going to the normal supermarket has me paying $500 a trip for two weeks of food for just me and my wife, and that didn’t include small supplemental trips.

Going bulk and being selective has cut that down to $600-$700 every 5+ weeks. But poor folks on tight budgets generally can’t throw that much on a single trip and will get nickel and dimed by this crap. I’ve been there; being poor is fucking expensive, and there’s a lot of shit in place to keep you that way.

You're making a mountain out of a molehill, the recommendations are really not that different unless you're severely underweight or overweight. US recommendation is definitely higher, but it's commonly misunderstood because the recommendation is 0.8g of protein per pound of lean body weight (muscle mass), not full weight.

EFSA and the WHO recommend .66g of protein to full body weight, or PRI of .83g per kg full weight, and note that intake of up to double the PRI is acceptable and safe.

Doing the math, my PRI intake would be 74g of protein (and up to double that considered safe), while my US recommendation would be 116. Yes it's more, but not by that much. On average I probably actually take in between 90g and 115g of protein a day, give or take a bit.

Not to mention, with lifestyle related items, I'm fine with my higher intake, and it has nothing to do with being American.

• As a well controlled T2 Diabetic, I take in a much lower amount of carbs than the average person to maintain good glucose levels. This means supplementing with fiber options, avoiding simple sugars and carbs, mostly avoiding pastas and rice (or keeping them to a minimum at least), and my general intake of proteins and fats are higher to make up my daily nutritional requirements. It's literally necessary for my health and TDEE. Most people get the bulk of their daily calories from carbohydrates, and I can't do that.

Regarding the exercise, example from today:

• 30 minutes walking on treadmill at 2.4 MPH to warm up
• 45 minutes intense weight training, including free weights, kettlebells, dead hangs, etc.
• This is a regular routine for me 3 - 4x weekly

As someone who works out frequently both cardio and weightlifting, I want that protein to maintain and grow muscle mass, as this is one of the ways I control my glucose levels and it has a dramatic effect. Exercise is my main way of managing my sugar levels, along with a low dose of metformin XR daily. See:

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3005844/
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5872716/

I'm not a scientist and I always mix up whether it's glycolysis or glycogenesis, but basically, glycogen reuptake to the muscles is good for muscle repair and carrying the glucose out of the bloodstream to more active storage in the muscles is good for me.

And to finalize, I'm not obsessed with eggs either. I have no qualms getting protein from any decent source including:

• various beans (soy, red kidney, occasionally pinto, red and green lentils, etc.)
• tofu
• peas
• chicken
• turkey
• soy and whey supplements when needed
• edamame (though this is hard to find in my area)
• pork
• beef
• salmon
• peanut butter (as long as the ingredients are only peanuts, or peanuts and salt)
• cashews
• roasted peanuts
• cottage cheese

etc.

Eggs are certainly a part of the diet, but I can work around that if needed.

Like, really, pick a lane.

My lane is “glad I’m not you.” That’s a blessing.

I hope everyone you meet is as pleasant as you are.

This may shock you, but I’ve been managing this since I was 30, got into health and fitness. Now in my 40s and regularly maintain an A1c between 5.5 and 6.2.

I’m healthy and fit. I work out 3-4 times weekly with weights and recently kettlebells, and I have a walking treadmill I use intermittently while working, as well as an Airbike for cardio. I eat healthy and low carb and have curbed the behaviors that triggered my condition and have maintained this over a decade.

Fuck you for judging. I have a life long condition I have to manage. I did not give up on managing it and Diabetes won’t be what kills me.

Do you exercise at all? Recommendation is minimum 0.8g of protein per pound of lean muscle mass. If you’re twig thin and unfit, sure, you don’t need much. For me it means at least 116g of protein daily.

It’s not addiction, it’s tracking my macros and living as healthy a life as possible.

Nothing wrong with that, tofu is great. Especially fried. 🤤

Unfortunately I’ve tried going that route and for a good six months I mostly ate beans and stews and more vegetarian/vegan friendly meals with less or no meat as an experiment and all that happened was lower energy levels, regular exhaustion, the need to supplement more vitamins than I already do, and my glucose levels spiking higher and more frequently. Wasn’t good for me (though tofu is still great, IMO).

You mentioned cake and bread. I’m talking low carb options. Quiche and things of that nature. Again, I’m a T2 diabetic. I’m sure as hell not eating cakes.