tylerh

Garage sensor. Uses distance sensors to detect door open/closed and car present /absent. Has buttons to open/close the doors, a 3v garage door remote. Also has a motion sensor, temp/humidity sensor and a photo resistor to understand outside ambient brightness.

Looking at building some fridge/freezer temperature and water leak sensors.

You want a “read it later” service, like Omnivore or Wallabag.

Obvious Plant makes all the stuff that nobody everybody needs.

UPS For Less: https://batteryupsforless.com/ca/en/
If you can pick it up in person in Markham, it’s even cheaper. Bought a bunch of UPSes across a couple dozen years now, and replaced the batteries on many of them. Best prices I’ve found.

You are describing IPFS. If you install IPFS, then browse to some IPFS content (like a wikipedia mirror: ipns://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/), that’s cached on your system, if someone else requests those assets, your computer will help distribute it. You can “pin” content, keeping/seeding a copy.

I use restic extensively, and it works really really well… until it breaks. Then there’s next-to-nothing you can do to fix the repo.

Rustic, on the other hand, has lock-less design, and repair options, so I end up using it to fix things. However, it has a number of rough edges: it uses its own wacky config file, its include/exclude options are wildly different and a bit painful, and to use a bunch of repo backends (like S3), you need to install, configure, and use rclone, which is poorly documented by rustic.

Screenshots of posts on other social media sites.

Low effort memes and other low-quality karma-farming.

• Exterior house lights - I have a bunch of automations around this, the most complex is that lights will turn on if one of us is away from home, but within 8km (proximity) after dark – going to upgrade this to reference a photoresistor soon instead of sun state
• Laundry - push notification when both the washer & dryer are finished. Also controls exhaust fan. Planning to upgrade this with a motion sensor so I can detect when the washer has run but nobody has moved the wet laundry.
• Extended away - If we’re going to be away for a while (eg: vacation), turn thermostat to Eco. UI control to set return date & time, when it comes out of Eco so the house is temperate when we get back. This also disables firing of some automations.
• Currently building a garage sensor, which will detect garage doors open/closed, car present/absent, motion sensor, temperature/humidity, photoresistor of ourdoors, and manual garage door open/close buttons

Agree on the creepy side, though there’s other possibilities besides facial recognition, namely:

• They buy data from a data broker. Said data broker bought (or got) location data from any number of apps you have installed on your phone that monitor your location data.
• They associated your phone’s Wifi MAC (even if you don’t connect to their Wifi) or a bluetooth MAC (of bluetooth headphones, watch, or other device) to you previously, then saw it again

Solid File Explorer, bought it forever ago, and it hasn’t let me down yet.