Walking. If youre overweight, don’t need the vest. You live with it. Work up to a fast shuffle/jog, and/or longer walks over a period of weeks.

At the opposite end of the intensity spectrum, Burpees are also great fun. They build upper body and core strength, as well as being cardio. Do the full chest and thighs to ground version, step back, step forward and experiment with jumping back as you get better. Try something like on the minute for 5 min. Set a timer for 5:00, then burpee until it says 4:20 - at a moderate pace. That number is your target for the next 4 min. When it says 4:00, do that number of burpees again, and at 3:00, 2:00, and 1:00. Work up in number of burpees and number of minutes, over a period of weeks. If it’s getting too easy, make it burpee box jump overs (be conservative because missing a box hurts).

You don’t need equipment for either of these things.

With both these things, as you lose weight, it’s going to get a lot faster.

I’m not here to tell you how to live, but if you’re getting high every night, it’s almost certainly making your anxiety, depression, and motivation issues worse.

Last thing I need in my life is a broken system at home when I don’t have time for it!

When I remember. About once a month.

Had a friend rip out his Caseta for Innovelli because he wanted to nerd out more than Caseta would allow (smart bulbs etc.). But Caseta would be my choice for wall switches. Just so bloody expensive.

North America? I’ve heard good things about innovelli. Zigbee or zwave, bring your own hub.

I run all the scheduling in the thermostat, because I lose automatic recovery and some aspects of Thresholding, and the rest of the family doesn’t use HA. However, I can’t set certain items (for example, how often the fan runs) in the thermostat’s schedule so I automate those portions with HA.

Matter has limitations, and may not include all the capabilities you want exposed.

For the scheduling it’s basic. Wake, sleep, work, weekends. I have some settings for my high rate time periods as well, and use Proximity for setting the away thermostat.

Meross’s own FAQ addresses why you need to use their app for setup - it’s so that you can tell it what kind of system you have. It’s fairly important.

I’m happy with Reolink, but I keep them entirely isolated. Only allowing traffic in (ha to the camera) NTP to my firewall. The plugin for HA seems pretty good.

Melted down and gems re cut.

It’s a bad deal for everyone.

UK in a nutshell. Can’t afford to provide basic social services. Can afford to pay three people’s salary to ensure coffee doesn’t end up in the drain.

This is the same countrymetropolitan area that, in one day in 2021 (just the first result I found) pumped 1 billion gallons of raw sewage into the Thames.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67357566

Too busy eating crayons.

How many people are CGNAT and also no ipv6?

Actually, I don’t want to know. It’s too damn high.

HAOS has add-ons to run a sort of managed version I think of pihole. Good start for containers.

RAID0 is not RAID, because R stands for redundant and RAID0 has dependency on as many drives are in the machine. You need to change that. One drive fails you lose everything.

The question is pertinent to my interests and the answer is to spend some time learning about the benefits and disadvantages of chipsets and processors unfortunately.

Honestly I don’t know, but I think it’s bring your own USB.

I don’t really understand the appeal of Green. Yellow makes sense. More expand ability and

built-in Zigbee or Thread adapter, optional PoE

Is it that zigbee and thread are less popular than wifi devices?

I’d have bought a Yellow but when I looked they’re out of stock. A n100 NUC probably is better for my usage anyways.

In response to your edit - micromanaging is standard. It’s super awesome when the PI is telling you how to run a procedure they haven’t run themselves or haven’t done in 10 years. /s

One thing I forgot to mention is that you’ve got people with zero industry experience and zero managerial training walking into their supervisory role on the merit of their educational and research background. They just don’t know (and have the Dunning Kreuger effect in spades) that they’re being managerial jerks. ASD or not. Huge “manage your manager” challenge in academia.

And with ASD, we get into a habit of trying to communicate with neurotypicals and in America especially it’s expected to sugarcoat and kowtow in every communication with the manager but that’s not always a great thing to do with ASD people as you’re aware. Clarity without confrontation is the fine line that you’ll need to walk.

This may be unhelpful, because it’s based on limited data and specific scenarios, but my experience working in academia is that clear explicit communication helps a lot, and suspending judgement until a relationship and trust is established helps too - and that can take a really long time. Try to take a step back and not get emotionally involved with things, but keep the receipts and escalate if things do truly get out of hand. Having someone you can talk to and trust to be critical of your method of handling the situation can helps with perspective.

Some academics are just assholes. Seems most are on the autism spectrum, and that makes it hard to interact with. Aside from neurodivergence, it’s not hard for a perceived slight to get blown out of proportion for a variety of reasons.

As you’re noting you’re going to have to grin and bear it for a while until you can get the residency sorted out. Doing excellent work that’s in demand can definitely help with establishing relationships, but obviously that depends on the situation.

I don’t agree that there’s a biological need to procreate. There is a biological drive to procreate. But there’s no need.

It is resistance to occupation, and ultimately resistance to the ongoing genocide. But personally, I’d feel so much guilt to bring a child into that situation. Is it worth allowing a child to suffer so much to stick it to Israel? I can’t imagine what couples go through making the decision to try to have kids.

That’s not an assumption I made. I acknowledge there is a blockade. In fact, that’s kinda the point.

That’s not what I said.

It’s not too surprising. But I do have to seriously question why anyone would try to have a family in the circumstances of Palestine. I struggle to justify it for myself, living in a first world democratic country, because of climate change and overpopulation concerns I have. I can’t imagine considering it in a country that’s permanently under oppression by their ethnic supremacist neighbours.

ETA: It may not be clear. I’m empathizing with the situation that a young Palestinian couple would find themselves in. Choosing to introduce a child into their world with little hope for improvement is an agonizing choice, and yet there’s the constant challenge that if they don’t, they as a people risk dying out.