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  • Not an electrician or even electrical savvy but it's typical for ground wires to be bare. Its not typical or good or even sane for them to be connected to something which WILL carry electricity.

  • Home Assistant is - by far - a better home automation platform than anything else I've tried. Most of them cannot integrate with as many platforms and your ability to create automations is not as powerful.

    Folks will argue that it's harder. I argue back that if you buy a hub with it pre-installed, your setup experience is as easy or easier than HomeKit or Google Home or maybe Alexa.

  • That's funny. When I first starred using an LLM, I threw a list of cities at it and asked for the shortest trip though all of them ( traveling salesman problem) and it was so bad I immediately knew not to trust answers from then on

  • Reposting from my comment in the past. TLDR: I took the plunge on OLED TV in 2021 as a primary monitor and it's been incredible

    I've been using an LG C1 48" OLED TV as my sole monitor for my full-time job, my photography, and gaming since the start of 2021. I think it's at around 3000 4500 hours of screen time. It averages over 10 hours of on time per weekday

    It typically stays around 40 brightness because that's all I need, being fairly close to my face the size. All of the burn-in protection features are on (auto dimming , burn-in protection, pixel rotation) but I have Windows set to never sleep for work reasons.

    Burn in has not been a thing. Sometimes, I leave it on with a spreadsheet open or a photo being edited overnight because I'm dumb. High brightness and high contrast areas might leave a spot visible in certain greys but by then, the TV will ask me to "refresh pixels" and it'll be gone when I next turn the TV on. The task bar has not burned in.

    Experience for work, reading, dev: 8/10

    Pros: screen real estate. One 48" monitor is roughly four 1080p 22" monitors tiled.The ergonomics are great. Text readability is very good especially in dark mode.

    cons: sharing my full screen is annoying to others because it's so big. Video camera has to be placed a bit higher than ideal so I'm at a slightly too high angle for video conferences.

    This is categorically a better working monitor than my previous cheap dual 4k setup but text sharpness is not as good as a high end LCD with retina-like density because 1) the density and 2) the subpixel configuration on OLED is not as good for text rendering. This has never been an issue for my working life.

    Experience with photo and video editing: 10/10

    Outside of dedicated professional monitors which are extremely expensive, there is no better option for color reproduction and contrast. From what I've seen in the consumer sector, maybe Apple monitors are at this level but the price is 4 or 5x.

    Gaming: 10/10

    2160p120hz HDR with 3ms lag, perfect contrast and extremely good color reproduction.

    FPSs feel really good. Anything dark/horror pops A lot of real estate for RTSs Maybe flight sim would have benefited from dusk monitor setup?

    I've never had anything but a good gaming experience. I did have a 144hz monitor before and going to 120 IS marginally noticable for me but I don't think it's detrimental at the level I play (suck)

    Reviewers had mentioned that it's good for consoles too though I never bothered

    Movies and TV: 10/10 4K HDR is better than theaters' picture quality in a dark room. Everything I've thrown on it has been great.

    Final notes/recommendations This is my third LG OLED and I've seen the picture quality dramatically increase over the years. Burn-in used to be a real issue and grays were trashed on my first OLED after about 1000 hours.

    Unfortunately, I have to turn the TV on from the remote every time. It does automatically turn off from no signal after the computers screen sleep timer, which is a good feature. There are open source programs which get around this. Bazzite and Mac seems to handle this too.

    This TV has never been connected to the Internet... I've learned my lesson with previous LG TVs. They spy, they get ads, they have horrendous privacy policies, and they have updates which kill performance or features... Just don't. Get a streaming box.

    You need space for it, width and depth wise. The price is high (around 1k USD on sale prices are even lower now) but not compared with gaming monitors and especially compared with 2 gaming monitors.

    Pixel rotation is noticeable when the entire screen shifts over a pixel two. It also will mess with you if you have reference pixels at the edge of the screen. This can be turned off.

    Burn in protection is also noticable on mostly static images. I wiggle my window if it gets in my way. This can also be turned off.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Ideas for Hosting on a 2009 Netbook?

    Just found this in a box and according to some Googling, its TPD is 6.8w!!! Got Debian on there with LXDE but I don't need another laptop. The big drawback is that it has a 32bit processor. It has a 100mbit network port, USB2.0, 2gb RAM and WiFi which isn't working but is listed in ip -a

    I've used it to add wireless capabilities to my ancient Brother laser printer but it was extremely slow ( 15 mins before a text page started printing, PER PAGE)

  • It's not often discussed that Microsoft, Amazon, and other 'very cool' tech companies still practice this 80s firing the bottom 10% bull.. It has nothing with being a low performer, but everything to do with culling jobs indiscriminately and creating an in/out culture. Managers are forced to place employees into bottom performance slots, sometimes arbitrarily, so that teams/groups/departments fit the bell curve nicely. Then, people get fired, bonuses go out, and everything is peachy at the end of the fiscal yesr.

    Let that stew for a few years and these behemoths are factories of pet projects and crunch culture. Your long-timers are either golden performers who've seen massive churn and project turbulance OR they're climbers, willing to step on top of anyone or burn any project to climb the ladder or at least keep their spots.

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    Help Me Satisfy My Wife Using HA

    I have an early 2000s house and they went wild with a) the sheer number of wall switches and b) the number of 3-way switches. I want to replace a good number of them while accepting my wife's requirement that they look and function as dumb paddle switches when necessary.

    I've looked around and these seem to be the best at fitting all of my requirements but Mama Mia, the price 😭 😭 😭 😭

    https://www.amazon.com/Inovelli-2-1-Smart-Switch-Dimmer/dp/B0BG329SH3

    Anyone have some suggestions?

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    Long time lurker to newb arc

    I've been toying with the idea to implementing HA for a couple of years.

    I have no fewer than 10 "smart device" apps on my phone and the privacy implications make me sick. I've been a Google Home and it's been a sad experience.

    Over the holidays, I got Proxmox working on an old laptop and ordered a ZigBee stick and some sensors.

    Installing HA using helper scripts was dummy easy and the laptop is performing solidly. Got hung up on network setup and z2m but pulled through with some Google-fu.

    Did I have to do some tinkering? Yes. Can I control all - literally ALL - my smart devices on one customizable dashboard? F*** YEAH!

    I am looking forward to accomplishing more, unplugging from the cloud, learning a lot, and hopefully making some life tasks less annoying.

    Thank you to this community for the awesome work, conversation, and inspiration!

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    Waterhole Slot Canyon

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23341185

    Everyone has seen Antelope Canyon on their Windows login screens it whatever but just a few miles away, you can visit Waterhole canyon, which is bigger and quieter. A guide was and to let me spend as much time as I wanted seeing up and getting my shots, a luxury I did not have at the more famous location. My pictures came out ok but the experience was worth it.

    Nikon D750 W/ Sigma 12-24mm 2.8 1/8 sec f/18 iso100 (??? what was I thinking)

    Photography @lemmy.world
    afk_strats @lemmy.world

    Waterhole Slot Canyon

    Everyone has seen Antelope Canyon on their Windows login screens it whatever but just a few miles away, you can visit Waterhole canyon, which is bigger and quieter. A guide was and to let me spend as much time as I wanted seeing up and getting my shots, a luxury I did not have at the more famous location. My pictures came out ok but the experience was worth it.

    Nikon D750 W/ Sigma 12-24mm 2.8
    \ 1/8 sec f/18 iso100 (??? what was I thinking)

    Photography @lemmy.world
    afk_strats @lemmy.world

    Yukon Gold?

    Nikon D750 w/Tamron 150-600mm G2
    \ 180mm 1/2500sec f/6.3 iso1250

    Went on a boat in Alaska to see and shoot whales but the crowd didn't afford many great pictures. Landscapes during the sunset though... Can do!

    Photography @lemmy.world
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    A peak under a leaf

    Nikon D750 50mm 1.8D
    \ 1/640sec f/1.8 iso2000

    Can anyone ID the bugs?
    \ Edit: this was in northern Washington state

    Photography @lemmy.world
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    Haleakala Milky Way

    24mm 13 sec f/2.8 iso3600

    Driving all the way up to the top of Haleakala gets you to slightly over 10,000ft (3,000m) above the island of Maui. After sunset and when I thought it sufficiently dark, I started working on this shot.

    I was extremely lucky to get clear skies and minimal wind on the evening of my visit. This particular shot also includes a comet in the top-right corner, a few satellites which I tried to clean up, and some lights (headlights?) which illuminated the observatory at the top of this long-extinguished volcano.

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    Seed Pod Conga

    42mm 1/80s f/4 iso100

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    Dock

    Perfect lighting and fog to make the dock look like it leads to nothingness.

    Shot on Samsung S21U Main Lens 1/950 f/1.8 ISO 16

    Definitely regretted not bringing my camera that day

    birding @lemmy.world
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    Orange-crowned Warbler

    Saw this guy on the Oregon coast sometime in the past couple of week

    Edit: thanks to [email protected] for a more accurate ID than I could pull off

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    Bells in Singapore

    Feel free to explain if you know what this means

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Grow up idiot Pepper Shinji rule

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    Early Morning Prague

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    Arctic Tern

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9168200

    Near Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska

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    Arctic Tern

    Near Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska

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    Sultan's Hangout

    Istanbul. I don't remember exactly where this was within Topkapi Palace.

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    Hanging Inchworm

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    Only Fjord in Southern Europe

    Bay of Kotor, Montenegro

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    Albanian Mountains

    Nemërçkë is a short mountain range in southern Albania on the border between Albania and Greece. -wikipedia