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DeltaTangoLima

@ DeltaTangoLima @reddrefuge.com

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Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.

Be a good motherfucker. Peace.

  • What is the proudest you have ever been towards your significant other?

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  • Watching her give birth to our daughter. No drugs. Just natural child birth (in a hospital).

    Years later, discussing childbirth with her (now) 20yo daughter (my step daughter), when asked why she did it that way for all three of her kids, she simply said it was something she wanted go go through, to feel connected to the experience of having her kids.

    Awe and pride don't even begin to explain what I felt (and still feel) for my wife.

  • Is there a place I can give review/rating to any random object or service?

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  • Could I patent harmful technology to prevent it from being put on the market?

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  • Well, thanks for the fall down that particularly horrifying rabbit hole. I can only imagine the pain these women went through, given this was at a time that predates anaesthesia.

  • Is it good employer strategy to pay my employees just enough so that they can't save money, so that they can never walk away from the job?

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  • If your strategy as an employer is how to keep your people in indentured servitude, that makes you a cunt. Be a good boss - help your employees achieve their goals and get to the next step in their career. That will help you attract newer talent when you need it.

  • FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

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  • Oh, sure. I get that. Sending yourself reminders is absolutely understandable. Sending yourself documented evidence of your plans to defraud someone is entirely different.

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • I use Shortcuts with NFC tags to automate some stuff with HA, and could probably achieve something on an entity by entity basis.

    My point is that we used to have the ability to put a widget on the screen with about 6 or 8 entities on it, for simple, single-click access. And now we don't. Seems silly to have taken it away from us.

  • FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

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  • In a 2017 email to himself, Smith calculated that he could stream his songs 661,440 times daily, potentially earning $3,307.20 per day and up to $1.2 million annually.

    Great idea, but why would you email yourself about it?

  • TGx down?

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  • Isn't the picture from Logan?

    Edit: oh, it's called johntucker.jpg.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • Later in the same comment I mention how I think social media only benefits the corporations that run it.

    It’s pretty clear what I meant.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • My own belief is that all social media is a cancer, and to be avoided entirely. I'm able to do that for myself, but I'm also realistic about the chances of keeping my kids away from it. So, I focus my energy on trying to equip them with the mental skills to neutralise the toxic aspects of social media.

    For my 9yo, that means teaching her to employ natural skepticism and critical thinking. I'm also trying to drum into her the understanding that social media is inherently untrustworthy and unreliable, and exists solely for the benefit of the corporations that run it.

    That said, I've blocked Tik Tok on my home network, much to the older kids' chagrin. They have to use mobile data if they want to access that shit on their phones.

  • Chromecast / Firestick Self Host Replacement

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  • The casting bit is the missing piece for me.

    I've built a RasPi with Kodi for our caravan, to use Plex and stream our free-to-air TV here in Australia (using Musk's space innernets). I just miss being able to cast from my phone, for the occasional thing I can't do with a Kodi add-on.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • Shit like this is why I intend to keep my (currently) 9yo as far away from social media as I can, for as long as I can. This fucking terrifies me, as it should any parent.

  • What is your "I could have been rich" story?

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  • In my mind, rich means not having to work again. A couple million doesn’t even get close, sadly.

  • What is your "I could have been rich" story?

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  • Nearly 30 years ago, I worked for a tiny li'l anti-virus software company that got acquired by one of the big boys, and everyone's performance-based options they were holding were suddenly worth a lot. Being hungry for career growth at the time, I'd left the company and forfeited those options. Less than 6 months later, they announced the sale of the company.

    My options woulda been worth a few million at the time, maybe double that in today's money. Importantly, it would've set me up with a nice house, car, etc, without any debt, in my early 20s.

    Not rich, but certainly comfortable.

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    How do you handle backup?

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  • RAID5 and unlimited downloads on my 1Gbps fibre. All I backup is my library metadata itself, using a 2N+C strategy.

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • It possibly would, but I don't have any Homekit devices, and I just feel hat this is a simple thing a home automation app should offer, it's almost conspicuous by it's removal/absence.

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  • Yep, that's it. One of my most frequent uses of this widget was to turn the kitchen light off - the teenagers are forever walking in to the kitchen while we're watching TV in the loungeroom nearby, then forgetting to turn the light off when they leave again.

    Having a quick access widget for it just made it such a non-issue for me to turn it off. No fumbling and swiping for the app, and no interrupting what we're watching to issue a voice command.

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • Disappointing that, if this was a thing, they removed it. Seems like the very definition of regression to me.

    At least I know I'm not imagining it. Or that I'm not the only one. ;) Cheers!

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • Nah - not a widget per light. Per my OP, I had a widget that had a number of lights on it. The number varies based on widget size. I think mine had about 12 entities on it.