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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I don’t use HA but FHEM and what I do to retrieve data from my homecontrol is using a telegram bot.

    In telegram you can setup buttons when formatting messages, so my bot shows me the control menu with predefined actions. One action is to show my power consumption at home.

    There is no need to open ports as the telegram bot polls the same way you cell phone does.

    Also the bot only communicates to known clients that I predefined before, so nobody can see or control my home network.

    Maybe something similar is possible in HA.


  • While on an fairphone where a “normal” user can change various parts himself it makes sense, how does this workout on a pixel or any other “not for selfrepair” built device?

    A screen module of the fairphone is 70€, so you drop it and change the screen yourself. Continuing to use it.

    More than 4/5 years updates with batteries dying due to fast/ultra charged cycles doesn’t make sense in my point of view.

    They will for sure require original parts installed in the manufacturer repair shop.







  • I went for the ASRock J5040 board, 16gb ram (yes it works) a 500gb m.2 as system using a PCI adapter , 2x4tb ironwolf as ZFS mirror pool, 350 W power supply all in the node 304 fractal case for 550 euro.

    Runs proxmox as hypervisor for VM or Container. 6 LXC running motioneye, plex, pyload with openvpn, syncthing, rclone cloud backup and openbookshelf.

    Typical power usage is around 20W




  • I am not familiar with the Apt series but CoT was the first book I read from this author and was blown away.

    Although the first part started slow and monologues still happen frequently but the idea and the plot pulled me forward. While I didn’t felt he recapped much.

    My other suggestion, Peter F. Hamilton is the totally oposite direction when it comes to jumping between places / characters. Sometimes between paragraphs and not at chapters end or page ends.

    Still after one sentence you know exactly where you are in the plot. Even when his books throw different characters at you like popcorn.


  • If you have a lot of time and an urge to read:

    • Peter F. Hamilton - void trilogy - space opera
    • Brandon Sanderson - the stormlight archives - epic fantasy
    • Adrian Tchaikovsky - children of time series - sci-fi

    Check if you can get your hands on an ebook reader, if you don’t have already. The reading experience from the eye view side is similar to reading books and in addition you can increase the font size. It is superior to reading on a screen.