bdonvr
@bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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Nerd, truck driver, and kinda creeped that you’re reading this.
- Comment on The search thing in Google photos is beyond useless 8 hours ago:
Sight I get that just not sure why cats are the 2nd best Gandalf (with tits).
- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 12 hours ago:
I feel like the 00s and 10s and 20’s all had pretty distinct aesthetics, music, etc as much as the 1900s decades.
- Comment on The search thing in Google photos is beyond useless 13 hours ago:
I don’t have Gandalf with tits in my photo library but if I did I’m sure my Immich search would bring it up.
- Comment on [thelemmy.club] The server is now back online. Sorry for the interruption! 1 day ago:
Your boss called and said I had to ban you, sorry.
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- Comment on Server upgrades complete! 2 days ago:
Netcup. And yeah, I know. If I could find a decently priced Canadian provider it would be nice.
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- Comment on lightbulbs 2 days ago:
loss of Internet connection
No. They aren’t controlled via Internet (they can be, but it’s not vital). You have Zigbee switches that control them through radio. Or you control them with your Zigbee controller which is hooked up to your network, but works locally so even if your Internet is down it works on LAN.
voltage drops/brown outs/black outs … They all turn on the full brightness for “safety”
Depends on the brand. Some do this. Most do out of the box but you can go into the settings of your Zigbee controller and disable that. I’d read reviews first.
Also Phillips Hue is actually a Zigbee bulb, which can be used with non-Hue Zigbee controllers. If I’m reading right this setting can be configured. community.hueessentials.com/t/…/720
- Comment on lightbulbs 2 days ago:
Brand/model isn’t important.
You’ll need a HomeAsstant controller. You can buy one premade premade or you can look up tutorials and make your own with a raspberry pi or old laptop or PC. Then you’ll need a ZigBee controller, this is a radio that will talk to your smart lights and other accessories.
You then get ZigBee compatible lights. Phillips Hue is the top of the line but so stupidily expensive I’d never recommend it. Innr makes good ones at half the cost. ThirdReality makes decent ones too for even cheaper.
You’ll probably also want some ZigBee switches to have physical controls for your lights instead of just by phone. They make models that replace your actual light switches. Or, if you rent like me and can’t modify that, you can get battery powered ones that stick on the wall. Battery life is like a year or more so not too bad.
That’ll do it. You can also use HomeAssistant now that you’ve got it. It’s a home automation software that’s open source and locally controlled. You can hook up much more than your lights. Smart plugs, your TV, 3D printer, fans, cameras, tons of sensors, your thermostat, robovac, etc. Then make automations that connect them. For example my living room ZigBee switch, one press up toggles the main lights. Double press for the lamp. Hold down and it turns off all lights and the TV. Some lights like my closet light are controlled by a door sensor instead of a switch, so they come on automatically. Some people prefer motion sensors so all lights are automatic. Turn off stuff automatically when you leave, etc.
- Comment on lightbulbs 3 days ago:
Imagine having both
ZigBee baybeee. Fully local, offline, forever. Nobody can stop them working.
- Comment on lightbulbs 3 days ago:
I live my smart lights for this. I can change them at my whim. By default they’re brighter and whiter during the day, slowly moving dimmer and yellow after sunset. Or I can make them whatever other color but I do that pretty rarely.
It’s also fully offline and no WiFi used.
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 5 days ago:
-emia, meaning presence in blood.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
How was the KFC
- Comment on Anyone? 6 days ago:
I took a look at your instance
It’s just you isn’t it.
- Comment on Anyone? 6 days ago:
Hi, admin of thelemmy.club here -
I’ve spoken with the other Lemmy admins in our group chat and we have decided to take this down. We made it very clear that this requirement should not be discussed. As a one time warning we will not ban you, but we will expect three photos this week.
Thank you,
- All Lemmy admins.
- Comment on The Boss Kyle 1 week ago:
About to? Looks mid-rail
- Comment on Does your boss even love you if he doesn't portray himself as the big minion and you as a baby minion? 1 week ago:
Wait this isn’t AI slop
This is great actually
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 1 week ago:
It doesn’t show Antarctica, but also there’s just more stuff in the far north than the far south (if we aren’t counting Antarctica)
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 1 week ago:
Crossing the globe north to south is the same distance as east to west
Not true, the earth isn’t a perfect sphere. Though I guess I’m just being nitpicky because I looked it up and it’s only ~27mi/43km longer along the equator.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 1 week ago:
I have!
Bud I don’t think it’s because Spanish is harder or whatever it’s because English speakers generally are pretty content not to learn another language…
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 1 week ago:
The spelling is just a matter of learning to spell
The drawing is just a matter of learning to draw. What?
and the grammar is dead easy.
Subjective.
But I think it’s “easy” to learn because it’s prevalent. If Spanish or Thai were as prevalent as English you’d probably speak that and think it’s just as easy.
You can learn any language basically through enough exposure to it.
- Comment on Please hold 2 weeks ago:
I have done this lmao
Management doesn’t work Saturday. College football on the TV in the office and burgers for all.
Really had to clean the desk tho
- Comment on Be fabulous 3 weeks ago:
The guy in the photo? No there is video, he climbs up on the tank, blocks them for a few minutes and then walks away.
In the US they’d have shot or run over him.
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 3 weeks ago:
The first clip is clearly not somewhere cars should be. The other two… Trenches? Are construction areas clearly. I’m not sure what you mean?
- Comment on Be fabulous 3 weeks ago:
Except in the US they’d actually run her over, unlike Tank Man
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
Maybe unsolicited advice but I have gotten my Spanish to a decent level, and I’ll paste a comment I made a year ago somewhere else below if you want to hear the method I used.
warning: long
So first, set your expectations. Learning a language takes a lot of time. A LOT. How long overall really depends on how much time per day you do it. But rest assured, if you do stick with it you are going to learn it. If you dedicated every waking hour, you could get to a high level in maybe half a year. But you’d have no life and would probably burn out. A more reasonable pace is 1.5-2 years. That sounds like a lot, but remember you don’t have to be fully fluent for it to be useful and to make connections in the language. Even after a couple months, you’ll be able to do a lot. And besides, two years is going to pass by anyway - the only question is do you want to be bilingual by the end of it? I highly, super recommend checking out Dreaming Spanish - it’s a channel/site that teaches Spanish through a method called comprehensible input. Basically, all you do is watch, listen, and read in Spanish totally in Spanish, no translations whatsoever. That sounds intimidating, but the beginner stages they really talk at you like you’re a baby almost. They talk with their hands a lot and use drawings. That’s the most important part, because in the beginning you won’t be able to understand any Spanish or hardly any. But by making it so simple you can basically understand even though you don’t know the words. After a hundred or so hours of this, you can move on to slightly less easy content. And so on and so on until you can understand just regular media in spanish. At that point, your learning will really take off, because you can watch things that you’re actually interested in and that will capture your attention more. They don’t do any explicit grammar or vocabulary practice. That’s on purpose, the arguments of comprehensible input is that language isn’t learned, it’s acquired. You didn’t learn English by rote memorization, you listened a lot. If you can hear a few words and make the connection to the meaning by watching, and then you hear that word dozens or hundreds of times more - you will have a better understanding of that word than a simple translation flashcard could ever give you. Because words don’t have just one meeting they’re complex and change in different situations. But the best part is through this method you won’t even realize that you’re learning these words. Same goes with grammar, with this method things just kind of sound right. You can use the correct grammar, but you might not necessarily be able to explain why. Just like native speakers. I’ve personally listened, or watched over a thousand hours of things in Spanish in a bit over a year. And at this point most media is almost as easy to watch as English for me. I also read the full Harry Potter series in Spanish. (It was rough at first, but after I got used to the writing style a lot of the times I’d forget it was in Spanish in the more exciting sections) I need to practice speaking more, I can definitely do it and be understood but it lacks pretty significantly behind my understanding but that is really just a question of how much practice I can get. But once you’ve banked 1k, 1.5k hours the rate at which your speaking will improve is way faster than the process of learning so far. Check out this this playlist of videos that really explains things in more depth. It has English subtitles you’ll have to turn on. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlpPf-YgbU7GrtxQ9yde-J… They have a ton of free content, and if you want more you can pay just $8 a month - but honestly if you do a few hours a day after a couple months you’ll be able to just watch some YouTube videos of native speakers and you won’t really need dreaming Spanish anymore. But the site does have a handy hour tracker that you don’t need to pay for at all that I still use to this day. I’ve tried to learn French, german, and even Spanish before but until this try when I discovered this method, I didn’t really get anywhere. At this point I’m almost comfortable saying that I’m bilingual. And it really doesn’t take that much effort just make it a routine, and once you can get into more advanced and interesting videos just watch things that you’re interested in. When you really get good, you can just watch the TV shows and movies that you already like to watch, but put on the Spanish dub. It’s that easy. I’m not doing anything differently now than I was before I knew Spanish but I’m learning every day because I just do the things I normally did but in spanish! You can start their Super Beginner (most basic level) here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlpPf-YgbU7GbOHc3siOGQ… But I’d recommend doing it on www.dreamingspanish.com where it will automatically track your watch time, let you filter by person/accent/level/topic, etc. The beginning is by far the hardest part. The least interesting videos, the least level of comprehension. It will feel like a chore. Luckily the beginning is where you have the most motivation to push through it.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 3 weeks ago:
4 years of Latin. I do not know Latin. I do know quite a bit of Roman history though
I took it upon myself to learn Spanish for 2 and a half years, and I can say I speak Spanish! Not perfectly. But I read novels and watch things in Spanish. My speaking isn’t quite as good, by virtue of me listening way more than I speak. But hey I think I did pretty well.
- Comment on genius 4 weeks ago:
I’d say cry, the small loss of water will bring the sweet release of death one step closer.
- Comment on genius 4 weeks ago:
I think we’ve lost the context here. The person in the photo self-describes as a consumer - they should not be making this. That’s the joke.
Somebody who would be prototyping something like this works for an aircraft manufacturer, and there’s probably less than a thousand of such people in the world. If you are one such person you know so.
- Comment on genius 4 weeks ago:
I get what you’re saying but this what is called the “Jesus Nut”. That’s because it’s one piece that essentially holds your entire helicopter up. To quote the Wikipedia page: …“whose breakdown would result in catastrophic consequences, the suggestion being that in such case the only thing left to do would be to pray to Jesus, or that the component’s importance could be likened to the importance of Jesus to Christianity.”
You don’t prototype this. You don’t make these. You get the tested, real part. There is no scenario in which making your own is advisable. Unless you’re an engineer for an aircraft manufacturer who is going to be doing rigorous testing then you should just buy the part ready made and certified.