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Love the Sensorwatch project and I’ve been wearing the lite for half a year now, but I wonder what’s going on with the Github project. There seems to be really high community engagement and interest, with over 50 open PRs, but not much happening at all. There are good improvements and fixes in the PRs, too.

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I think your heart is in the right place, but I wonder how you feel about tools and their quality vs. cost.

There are many easily made arguments to pay extra for quality, as you pay less in the long run, which is an idiom (“cheap tools you always buy twice”) but also very true in most cases. Then what about paying extra for ergonomics, reducing strain on your body and preserving health?

And then there’s the question where the line is between a hammer and a table tennis racquet.

Again, I think your heart is in the right place. There are few things more ridiculous, I feel, than absolute beginners of a sport in full brand gear from head to toe, even the stuff nobody who really practices the sport won’t actually use. But then you’ve been playing table tennis for a few years. How much is your current gear holding you back? True it takes a lot of effort to learn about what you like and need, but it definitely pays off. Why don’t you borrow a racquet from one of the other players once in a while for a match to get a feel for what you like?

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Terrible opsec sharing your WiFi SSID, by the way. I can’t find one right now, but I’ve seen global “wardriving” maps of all broadcast WiFi SSIDs that allow to pinpoint a somewhat unique SSID or at least narrow down to a few options. A list of SSIDs around you pretty much gives away your precise location.

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Had similar behaviour last night. Turned out UnboundDNS had crashed in my opnsense firewall and took “internet connectivity” with it. Restarting the service fixed it in one click after I found it.

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Highly recommend cupping your favourite coffee with different kinds of water (e.g. tap, mineral, DIY water see below). It’s pretty eye opening.

Here’s how to make your own, if you’re motivated to try: https://www.baristahustle.com/diy-water-recipes-the-world-in-two-bottles/

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How much is one street cred in channel points?

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It’s not my Github, but I think you’d do something like print and store in a safe place your trusted party has access to. My SO has my Keepass password stored in their password safe and theoretically knows (and hopefully will recall when the need arises) how to find my Keepass file, for example.

In short, it’s trust. And then there’s the fact that they would never voluntarily touch this stuff anyway. 😅

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Not about design patterns, but about making preparations: https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr

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