dito. Our other account only needed one text message, for mine it took 3 ...and the opt-out did not work until I reloaded the page. Worked fine for the first acc though.
I use this on my Roborock S5 - it’s been flawless - no fuss, and completely reliable. Hooked up to home assistant. Only time I’ve had to restart is for the rare update.
Unfortunately one can't buy Roborock S5 any more due to arrival of new model Roborock S5 max. And Valetudo doesn't support Roborock S5 max (Roborock (Xiaomi) locked it up).
It does actually, however I wouldn't recommend buying one.
As an alternative, look for the Dreame D9. Similarly priced as the original S5 and maybe similarily easy to root. Hopefully, we'll see a public root for it soon-ish.
I'm trying to figure this out myself. I've gone from Google Photos -> iCloud -> testing out Unraid + PhotoPrism + NextCloud. That is, point PhotoPrism's import folder to the NextCloud photos folder. Both hosted on Unraid. And then on my iPhone, have the photos automatically uploaded. Only issue so far is I don't see an auto-detect and import option in PhotoPrism so I have to manually click 'import'.
To be clear: I understand why subscriptions work well for developers. As a consumer, I'm finding I have an enormous amount of subscriptions and it becomes harder and harder to justify an additional $1/month, $5/month, etc. for an app.
Maybe that means I'll be more selective in what I buy, which doesn't hurt. But it does lead to a "well that's a bummer" when I find a cool app I'd be willing to pay an up-front fee for, but realize it's subscription.
Right now I'm using Obsidian, which has been awesome, but it doesn't have a native UI feel to me.
A one-time payment is a nice financial boost, but it's not sustainable over time. My plan is not to build an app, make quick money and then forget about it. I'm working on this full-time, every day. It's long term and I need long-term users to grow.
You could probably do it with a sensitive vibration sensor; I know that's what folks do for basic washer & dryers. I imagine the commode shakes a bit when flushing.
This is basically happening for me now. Bought a house and a ton of gadgets to tinker with, with a dream of having the ultimate smart home.
Heavily underestimated the time sink it is and how often things break. But it definitely scratches and itch.
I’ve learned so much about circuit boards, electricity, and soldering in the past few weeks I think it’s well worth it, even if the smart home dream itself might never materialize.
I have a completely ludicrous amount of IOT devices, some with flashed open source firmware, on their own VLAN (UniFi setup) so I at least have a false sense of some security. I’m talking my washer, dryer, vacuum, thermostat, lights, home NAS, door locks, alarm system, garage door openers, AV system, Ring doorbell, Google Homes, smart outlets, contact sensors on every door and window, RPi Zeros in three rooms for presence detection, motion sensors in every room, among others. I even bought a Geiger counter to eventually hook up.
I’ve always had a dream of living like the Jetsons and Home Assistant is an awesome way of building it out. However.... it seems destined to be an always-beta something-isn’t-working-right project. Right now, my lights turn off when I open my windows instead of flash briefly. Google Home doesn’t connect to several devices, and it lets me know every time I ask it to do something.
The reality is I don’t have time for this, but I’d be lying if I said it isn’t a whole lot of fun to solder some Alitove addressable LED strips to my NodeMCU and have them turn on with Christmas animations along with Christmas music, but only when it’s below 50 degrees outside and both me and my fiancé are home. Just kidding, that’s not setup yet - still trying to figure out why my bedroom lights turn off 10 seconds after the living room lights, when only the living room light Lutron dimmer switch was pressed.
A few years ago I worked at a company that was making a go of IoT (before it was called that). Everyone was trying to do home automation but the bills were paid by large companies just wanting a way to not have to roll out a guy to some remote place at 150 an hour (yeah that much). So the space was crowded with dozens of protocols and hardware hubs that all rarely worked together or promised to glue it all together. It was all kind of stitched together with odd bits of c/python/java/c# code. Each one tied to some proprietary protocol that wanted 5-30 bucks a month that would stop working when the company was either bought out, went out of business, or the product line went EOL.
Your always-beta made me think of this. I went the opposite direction I use as little of it as possible. A good old leviton toggle switch is kind of hard to beat for when you enter and leave a room. They cost basically nothing and work correctly for years.
When done up nicely it is pretty cool. But the cost still seems high on a lot of this and is very bespoke still.
I stay with Firefox for a lot of reasons, but the main one is this - I am so used to TreeStyleTabs I can't imagine going with anything else. Do any other browsers support something similar?
Opera has tree tabs extension (which I'm using for a long time, but only for really threaded sessions), chrome idk. Not sure how much different it is, but the basic functionality you'd expect from tree editor is there.
I thought a lot of people use VPNs specifically to avoid DMCA requests? From what I understand, it works extremely well in those cases and I imagine that most VPN use-cases stem from region check bypassing and DMCA request avoidance (but I could be wrong).
In all seriousness, what would be the best way of increasing both anonymity and privacy online? Not from nation-states, but hackers/data breaches/ad-tech/local law enforcement?
It's an interesting but frustrating topic. It seems like every potential solution has some major caveat that someone will invariably point out as making the solution useless.
For example, I am wanting to export all of my data from my social media (texts, posts, location data from Google, etc) for posterity and then delete the accounts. But I also want to keep it safe and secure. So I use VeraCrypt containers. But then what if my Kinesis keyboard has some firmware embedded reading my passwords? Now I'm screwed. And if I backup online with Backblaze, and use their E2E encryption but one day they change their software so that it records the password when typing it in. It almost feels helpless.
> It seems like every potential solution has some major caveat that someone will invariably point out as making the solution useless.
You have to come up with a threat model. You have to decide what threats are the most important to you.
I'd group them into three domains, based on the amount of effort involved in mitigating the threat. From the most work to the least: Threats you absolutely and utterly must avoid at any cost and effort. Threats you want to avoid, but you're not willing to the extent of fighting a state-level actor. Threats where it would be nice to have them mitigated, but it's not worth exceptional effort or cost.
For your backblaze (BB) example, your threat is "BB's client can't be trusted" and the sanctity of the data falls in bucket two.
To mitigate your distrust of BB's client, you'd want to make sure it never sees unencrypted data. And so, you'd do something like encrypt the data with your own key, and then send it to BB. You'd want to use a second computer (or a dual boot system) to ensure that the OS which hosts BB's client is not running when the encryption is happening, and share the resulting encrypted binary files with the computer that will do the upload.
The keyboard on the encrypting computer could still be a threat, but that's getting into the "state-level actor" levels of effort to counter.
I have been looking for something like this for a LONG time. Impressive! My ideal state is to be able to navigate anything and everything with VIM keybindings. Including the physical world :)
