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@ early_riser @lemmy.radio

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  • Why do my LG smart fridge and my GE washer and dryer all have DNS servers? And is there a way I can control them without the manufacturer's miserable apps?

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  • Already do that via a custom domain and SimpleLogin/Proton.

  • Why do my LG smart fridge and my GE washer and dryer all have DNS servers? And is there a way I can control them without the manufacturer's miserable apps?

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  • Reject TV. Return to monitor. Yeah monitors don’t come in the same sizes as TVs, but if you just want something that shows you whatever you feed its video ports without any bloat than a monitor works great.

  • Why do my LG smart fridge and my GE washer and dryer all have DNS servers? And is there a way I can control them without the manufacturer's miserable apps?

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  • Nothing pops a vein quite like companies acting like a one-time expense should be a monthly fee. Paying monthly for heated seats in certain cars is where I first heard of this. They already put the hardware in the car. I guarantee they already charged you for the parts and labor to put in those heated seats when you bought the vehicle. No way they're losing money on it in the hopes you start paying them.

    But I'll get off my owner's rights soapbox now.

  • Why do my LG smart fridge and my GE washer and dryer all have DNS servers? And is there a way I can control them without the manufacturer's miserable apps?

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  • I'll have to try that smart plug idea. I have some heavy duty Z-wave plugs I used for Christmas decorations last year and that would work great for the fridge.

  • Why do my LG smart fridge and my GE washer and dryer all have DNS servers? And is there a way I can control them without the manufacturer's miserable apps?

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  • For those who are saying I shouldn't have bought these half-baked smart appliances, I agree. But I wasn't always this aware of the privacy issues involved. The washer and dryer were purchased before I grasped how problematic cloud-connected always online IoT devices are, and as mentioned in the OP the ability to tell me when my laundry was done seemed like a genuinely useful feature. In the case of the fridge it was an emergency replacement and we took what fit the preexisting niche in our kitchen, and the complete lack of output on the fridge itself necessitated the app.

  • Why do my LG smart fridge and my GE washer and dryer all have DNS servers? And is there a way I can control them without the manufacturer's miserable apps?

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  • Washer dryer and fridge are TCP only

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    early_riser @lemmy.radio

    Why do my LG smart fridge and my GE washer and dryer all have DNS servers? And is there a way I can control them without the manufacturer's miserable apps?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    early_riser @lemmy.radio

    Looking for a way to make a proportional timeline out of an Excel or CSV file

  • Website containing a list of names of abilities, characters, locations, etc. from video games?

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  • A wiki is probably what you want. I was going to suggest tvtropes, which is great for, say, a list of every superhero with X-ray vision, or every work of fiction containing dwarves, but I'm not sure that fits what you want.

  • Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures?

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  • I just checked this out. It's not quite what I'm looking for right now but it does answer my question as asked. I can see it coming in handy later.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    early_riser @lemmy.radio

    Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures?

  • How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?

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  • At the time of the OP I was testing federating two nodeBB instances. ActivityPub requires HTTPS AFAIK.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    early_riser @lemmy.radio

    How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress?

  • are you permanently banned off reddit? or do you just like lemmy more?

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  • I find it interesting that there's a mix of commenters complaining that Reddit is at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

  • are you permanently banned off reddit? or do you just like lemmy more?

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  • I was on Reddit from mid 2012 to mid 2023, across a few accounts and with a hiatus of a few months here and there. I had been passively looking at less centralized forms of personal interaction on the web, trying to find traditional forums to replace the subs I frequented. Like a lot of people here, the API issues and the news of Reddit courting investors left a bad taste in my mouth.

    I deleted my account, but I still lurk on a few subs, and my IT job means I have to dig through reddit posts on a regular basis for troubleshooting purposes.

  • Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?

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  • I'm attempting to run a NodeBB forum. I'm only assuming that web sockets was the issue because the first search result I came up with that matched my symptoms mentioned it.

  • How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?

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  • Cool. Follow up question: Do I generate the cert once and distribute the same private key to all the servers I'm running? I'm guessing not, but does that mean I run the certbot command on every server?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    early_riser @lemmy.radio

    How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?

  • Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?

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  • I looked up Cloudflare tunnels and tried setting one up. Some things future readers may want to know:

    1. You have to set Cloudflare as your domain's authoritative nameservers.
    2. You need to set up an account (not a problem) but also have to register a payment method, even for the free tier (no me gusta).
    3. Regarding NodeBB specifically, if you set up a tunnel, you can access the forum, even over HTTPS, but it fails when you try to log in. A few minutes of searching leads me to believe it has something to do with web sockets, and the solution requires you to partially expose your IP address, defeating the principle purpose for me to use cloudflare in the first place.
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    early_riser @lemmy.radio

    Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?

  • Regarding posts on Lemmy, is there a way to generate an in-page link to a specific comment in order to reference it from another comment or the OP?

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  • Yes, I am talking about Lemmy posts.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    early_riser @lemmy.radio

    Regarding posts on Lemmy, is there a way to generate an in-page link to a specific comment in order to reference it from another comment or the OP?

  • How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach?

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  • Texan here. We learned Mexican Spanish (seseo, yeismo, ustedes for everyone, etc) It's been years since I had to use it for my job but IIRC there's a difference in the subjunctive verbs as well.

    There are also distinct varieties of Spanish spoken in the US that differ from Mexican Spanish. As a general rule, if a common word has a similar-sounding English cognate (often false cognate) the cognate will be used. truck = troca instead of camión, concrete (as in cement) = concreto instead of hormigón, carpet = carpeta instead of alfombra, to park (a car) = parquear instead of estacionar, and so on. This is from my years working as a bilingual call center agent.