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I don’t agree with the use of these weapons, ever, but let’s not deceive ourselves that they’ve not been being used throughout the conflict already.

And just so I understand your point, you’re suggesting that if the use of these weapons systems, which are already being used in this fight, incites Russia to use nuclear weapons, that will be the fault of the US, and not the fault of Russia who both started this war of aggression and escalated it to the use of nuclear weapons in your hypothetical. Do I have that right?

You can use it for the most basic of things and build from there. My first automation was turning off all the lights around my home at bed time (triggered by a button which makes it less automation and more remote control I guess). From there the bug bit me and I do all kinds of crazy stuff now.

The most practical is my load-shifting power automations. My power company has a rate plan that rewards you with really cheap power if most of the time in exchange for not using power during peak times. I selected this plan and automate a near-complete shutdown of the electrical systems in my home during peak times - the A/C goes off, the water heater goes off, the pool pump off, nearly everything except for lights. Total house power use during this time goes to like 400watts as a result. It has saved me hundreds on my power bill, even with adding an electric car that needs to charge every night!

The most magical is likely the automations around my bed. Both going to bed and getting out of bed are detected and magical stuff happens. When the first person gets into bed (either my wife or myself) almost nothing happens other than the lights dimming in the bedroom to get ready for sleep. Once the second person is in bed a bunch of things happen - all of the lights in the house go off, the doors lock (if they weren’t already), the garage doors close (if they weren’t already), the security system arms for “Home mode”, the HVAC systems go into eco mode outside of the sleeping areas, and a toggle is set for “Sleep mode” that allows me to have other automations make decisions based on it (like if an interior motion sensor turns on a light during sleep mode, the light is turned on at a low dim mode). When the first person gets out of bed after our wake up time of 06:00 the coffee maker will start brewing. Once the second person is out of bed the sleep mode is disabled and most of the home systems return to normal.

Another favorite is the nightlight mode for my kids. Their bedrooms are on opposite ends of a hallway with a shared bathroom in the middle. During sleep mode, if one of them opens their door at night, the lights on their side of the hallway will turn on to a very warm color and very dim, but plenty to walk by. The bathroom lights also turn on dimly and everything automatically turns off a few minutes after motion stops being detected.

I’ve got tons of stuff related to motion detection for security and such too. It’s really a sickness once you get into it. I can’t stop sometimes… send help…

Heheh. I laugh-snorted at this one. Good show.

I’m sure it will depend a bit on your exact setup (video card especially, and likely display server too) but I can confirm that Baldur’s Gate 2 (the only one I own on Steam) literally just worked with the built-in Proton emulation. I clicked install, then once it downloaded I clicked play and required no additional intervention.

I think that it’s great what you’ve done here so far and I wish you all the best in your efforts!

Just a thought; If things ever calm down and you’re so inclined to share, I would love a “lessons learned” type post from you and the team. You’re possibly some of the foremost experts in the world at operating a Lemmy instance at this point and those of us with micro-instances running on random corners of the fediverse could certainly benefit from your hard-earned wisdom.

Thanks so much for everything!

This is exactly how I feel about VW. Clearly an unscrupulous company that will lie to anyone to make an extra buck. If they were willing to deceive powerful regulatory bodies in a vast conspiracy with the side effect of fucking over the already fucked environment, what hope does the lowly consumer have to trust such an organization. Fuck 'em, they can go out of business for all I care.

If you’re not feeling the age of the chip for your own particular use cases (gaming, work, whatever) then I would wait until you do feel it. Put the money in an interest bearing account until you are ready.

I’m on an i9 and in much the same boat, I could definitely upgrade, but nothing seems to be bogging down on CPU for me right now so I don’t feel the need. I will wait another generation or two and things will be ever better.

I am sure there’s a significant survivorship bias to the responses you will be getting on this platform, but I really am glad to be off of Reddit.

It has allowed me to find other discussion platforms online (Lemmy) that feel more genuine somehow, at least for now (I don’t question if I’m talking to a human or a bot/shill).

I’ve also spent more time just learning and doing stuff that I am sure would have been simply wasted in the endless scrolling in Apollo.

My expectation is that if any of the higher traffic subs hold the line for more than a few days, the greedy little pig boy will replace the mods with loyalists and force them open.

I’m honestly grateful in a way. It’s forced me to look very seriously at the fediverse apps such as Lemmy and I’m really liking the model more than putting all of our eggs in one basket.

https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth

Wesnoth is one of those games where once you start playing, you fall into a time warp and lose hours before you know what happened.