I’m a senior software engineer, there’s lots of leftists in my field. Most of us have to keep quiet about it cause management doesn’t like workers with ideas.

Deep pockets. Like my jeans in high school.

Ugh, tell me about it with the sour fruits. I love cherries. My climate is far too cold to keep any sweet varieties alive. I’ve talked to multiple local master gardners and nobody has any advice other than “well, you could try to set up a microclimate that will keep it alive through the winter, but that’s pretty tough.”

I put a bunch of fruit trees in last year. I’ve gotten nothing from them, I’ll continue to get nothing from them for the next few years if I can keep them alive, between weather and animals that just love the taste of young fruit trees.

Even with perfect luck that kind of a layout is a recipe for starvation.

I always tell new engineers that “not feeling it” falls under “not feeling well” and that they shouldn’t check their email or respond to work messages when they’re not being compensated.

Send your “I’m not feeling well email” and shut it all off and don’t pick up the phone, your time is your time.

Eta: I think hearing that from a senior engineer when I first started out would have kept me from burning out so hard.

Imagine being against these people and thinking “we’re spreading democracy!”

Zwave is a little more reliable, but pricier. ZigBee gets you into mesh networks and gives you a better experience without the drawbacks you’d get going with a purely wifi based experience. Both are mesh networks and fundamentally different than using wifi.

As though at this point China isn’t capable of producing the advanced manufacturing equipment necessary themselves… Well, the fucking around has been underway for some time, I guess we’re about to find out.

For the people who can’t be bothered to deal with ZigBee or zwave, the wifi is always connected to the Internet. Which means that those devices are possible threat vectors.

If you could properly configure a vlan to isolate your untrusted iot devices you would also be entirely capable of configuring a zwave or ZigBee mesh network.

I’ve built my own esphome sensors and have tasmota compatible devices (Shelly, I endorse all of their tasmota capable devices), but the use case is different.

There are different tools for different jobs, that’s why we have these different standards. It’s not about fracturing markets or some other capitalist end goal, it’s about having the right tool for the job. Wifi ain’t it.

If you must use wifi, esphome and tasmota are the best (and only acceptable ones that I know of) options.

• most wifi devices are cloud based, which means they can go out of business or start charging you for access to your device. Or stop updating their app… Or… Etc. Etc.

• wifi is accessible remotely, combined with the cloud point, you increase your surface area for someone accessing your home network without your permission

• adding 20+ iot devices will bog down pretty much all your consumer grade routers. You will degrade performance across your network.

• matter, thread, ZigBee, and zwave are not bespoke or “low tech”. They are standards developed to mitigate the above listed points. They use completely different frequency bands than wifi, they are not designed for high throughput applications.

• you mitigate the “mess” by running locally controlled software on a hub that aggregates all the devices in a communication agnostic way.

I’ve been doing this for a while. Do not use any wifi ones. They’ll update themselves into incompatibility or the cloud service running them will go out of business, or there will be some security breach…

Get yourself a ZigBee dongle, or a zwave dongle, and then get devices compatible with it.

You won’t find yourself buying products that just stop working because capital demands line go up.

Ok, as a burgerlander pfefferspray sounds cute. Idk what the problem is!

I like this, I also like the idea of using actors names and terrible impressions. It’s a specific style of play for sure, so it doesn’t work for everyone. But I do enjoy the silliness.

So, this seems to be the case, but I’ve never seen anyone use anything but 73. Or “Good Business.” But I’ve only been a ham for a few minutes.

I will say that most normies have no idea about Nazi weirdos and all the symbols they love.

Can confirm, I’m an Internet.

The onion knight rides again

I had a model pby-2 when I was a kid. I loved that thing so much.

I can’t help but to think that this is at least in part my fault. “Modern Phrenology: it’s not the size, but the shape” is months behind.

I know that everyone has been waiting on tenterhooks for me to complete this modernized textbook, as the current editions are lacking for classroom instruction. It’s a lot of research and me and the rest of the team want to make sure that everything is perfect.

We’re just not there yet. We need more samples and measurements. We have pending requests for skulls, unfortunately the interview questions with our existing stock have been difficult. Honestly, I’m starting to wonder if this was the right field to dedicate my life to.

“This code isn’t shitty enough!”

“It appears that whoever wrote this understood the problem, the language, and had a thorough grasp of an appropriate solution. I’m afraid we need to let you go.”