It is very infrequent that I find myself needing a form of entertainment. Generally, when I am unable to find it on the high seas, it is entirely unobtainable through legal channels.

It is far more frequent that I find myself purchasing a thing I have previously pirated.

But there’s no real reason for that. Losing the smarts. It’s just artificial to achieve lower bom.

If it doesn’t work when the cloud is down, it’s not your thing. Don’t buy it. 8sleep is only the most recent example.

Well, Chinese manufactures cloned the design and came in well under price, took the Chinese market, then improved the product and challenged iRobot globally.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

I’m not convinced you need specific toilet bowl cleaner if you clean it regularly; a lot of them are really strong chemicals that are unnecessary, but it does depend on your situation and the water you’ve got etc. Loose stools may need more attention.

A bit of all purpose cleaner really is all you need imo. But if hard water you’ll need to up it to something containing a (preferably buffered) acid to remove soap scum and hard water deposits.

Vinegar has its place but I find it almost universally disappointing when cleaning. In particular, it’s not got any surfactants or ability to bind to dirt or grease.

I expose homeasssistant via nginx. I run snort and I can assure you I am constantly getting hits. I haven’t tuned it much, so I’m sure there’s false positives in there but I’m equally sure there’s false negatives.

If you can’t figure out how to set up docker, set up a reverse proxy, check and configure TLS, you definitely aren’t ready for self hosting. It’s a highly technical exercise and one bad move will make your Internet connection part of a botnet. (Arguably, you don’t even need to be self hosting for that, but there’s no point in making it easy).

I believe it’s never been easier to set up a home server. I set up Tailscale in between sips of coffee one day and my mind (as an almost-grizzled sysadmin) was blown. My non technical family members can set up a VPN in 10 minutes. It’s a terrible security practice, but there’s pipe-to-bash scripts everywhere now that get things set up and running in minutes. You want Homeassistant container on proxmox? Burn the proxmox image to a usb, boot and install, then run this command. Boom. Homeassistant in a container. Let’s do pihole - another script and we’re done.

It’s ludicrously easy to get going compared to even 10 years ago.

Yes, when you want to change a setting, or configure it for local use, it’s more complicated. But that’s the way it’s always been, and that’s how I learn - follow the cookbook, and then realize you need to change this piece, which requires understanding that piece, and there you go.

Part of the world is the outside, without external stimulus of music or a screen.

I can consume all those things without music playing steadily in my ears, and I would venture to say I prefer to enjoy arts, history, geography, literature, science, philosophy, film, games etc. without steady noise being pumped into my skull. Sometimes I do it while conversing with another person or several people.

At other times, I can listen to music. But I don’t complain that life has lost its lustre because my phone can’t play my music!

That’s, erm, life m8.

If listening to birds chirping and wind blowing through trees while you’re out for a walk is “no stimuli” you have a problem.

That’s probably a good idea.

Don’t tell this person about the times before the ubiquity of iPods (and later, phones).

OP, might I suggest a “music” detox? Spend a month without the need for headphone delivered dopamine.

I’m running my tractor or lawnmower

Speed running hearing loss. Typically, people crank the audio levels to hear it over the equipment. Get some work-rated hearing protection muffs and wear the earbuds inside that.

However I’d argue that hearing protection combined with additional noise is a good way to lose situational awareness.

This resonates with me. If I’m listening to music, I want to do it with intention. Pop music is made to be background noise in an already noisy environment. Just sit down and listen for a change. The whole album. Used to be that artists wrote with a theme in mind; now they write to be the next TikTok viral song.

Yup.

They’re still in the online space but they’re not pick up artists, they’re tinder profile experts or whatever they call themselves.

Running this all on one system presents a single point of failure. Separate the router from the server, even if simply for sanity.

Well look at you reading TFA! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

That’s why the source is locked down. It’s a copyright grey area and IANAL but - good luck!

Definitely very cool.

It is odd that they went to a “different” cloud instead of making it full local. It seems like that would be more work. Local control of iot is critical.

But I wonder if they dumped the firmware, edited the URLs, and reverse engineered the google API, and made their own.

Ultimately it will be when the credit dries up and circular nature of the “investments” breaks down.

A Couple things that come to mind:

• data centre operators borrowing money to buy GPUs and then using those GPUs as collateral for loans to buy more GPUs
• nVidia investing money into companies contingent on their purchase of GPUs worth an order of magnitude greater than than their investment
• Microsoft selling Copilot below cost, provided by OpenAI selling GPT services below cost, in exchange for compute offered below cost
• A consensus that the cost of scaling users is not going to be the same as it has been with e-commerce and software (ie one user using Amazon.com vs 1 million users is roughly the same cost to build the software that runs Amazon.com while the cost scales directly with number of users of chatbots)
• a consensus that hallucinations are not a solvable problem

One way could be a failure to deliver on a contractual obligation with regards to a payout (eg company X will receive $100 billion when Y is complete) will lead to the failure to make a debt payment (company X has borrowed money based on the money promised by company Y), which will precipitate a scramble as investors try to recoup the money they’ve put in the firms, which will crash them.

For example, and I don’t know what happened here, CoreWeave had a balloon payment to make on a loan in October; if they didn’t make that payment, it could lead to a panic. But it seems that didn’t happen.

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.