I never really understood doing this as I hate getting most notifications when in awake. Unsubscribe and filter spam emails, disable notifications you don't want, and uninstall any app that provides notifications that can't be disabled.
I want my waking hours to be as undisturbed as my sleeping hours while still retaining my awareness for friends, family, and emergencies.
MotionEye may be worth looking into further. There is an add-on for it. I have used to before on a raspberry Pi to steam video of the washer in the basement so that I could know if it was done from the second floor.
Funny thing is I've been thinking $1,500 isn't a bad price for an alterative mode is transportation that isn't a second car. I've even seen options that go over 750 watts of power, but those are classified as mopeds in my area, need to be licensed, and cannot use bike paths. An actual, classifiable electric bicycle does seem weirdly hard to find.
I have never watch all of the wizard of oz, but we had this on DVD as a kid and I watched it a lot.
Toss it over the curtain so that it clatters to a weird spot that is hard to miss.
I already do this on occasion, there is usually just several inches of snow on the ground when I do.
When they announced the change to licensing from annoying to awful, the company I was with at the time immediately started looking for alternatives. I imagine that the announcement will be spoken about as the downfall of the company in future video essays.
The urge to overfill may be overcome by using a scale. No need to be precise, but it does help keep you consistent.
- Laundry
- Sewing and garment repair
- Simple hand tools
- Troubleshooting and repair of frequently used devices (cars, computers, bicycles, etc.)
- Cooking, eating healthy, and packing a lunch
- Basic medicine (symptom identification, when do you need to seek immediate help, first-responder training)
- Self defense and de-escalation
- Consent and how to be clear with your desires and intentions
- Communication and being understood
- Emotional health and understanding your own feelings and how to handle then in a healthy way
- Addiction, negative feedback loops, obsession and how to avoid becoming a victim of them
- How to exercise and maintain a healthy body
- Dishes
- Learning how your own mind works and how to work with it. (Rewards, pitfalls, living with ADHD, etc.)
I'm going to one-up you here and suggest learning to learn. Some people can learn through long form video, some through reading, and some need to take notes and review them later.
For example, I hate all the extra fluff that goes into a written work and frequently need to delete sections until only the minimum information is there. Like deleting the first several paragraphs before a recipe actually gives you the ingredients and instructions!
They get moody if you don't give them enough attention and start giving you the silent treatment.
A fun but of visual metaphor there, none of the vehicles she catches a ride in are fully put together or they have some oddity to them.
It's probably more fair to say that it's important to understand WHY you had that thought. Is it conditioning, a past bias against someone else, an unfair stereotype that you are perpetuating, or a lack of understanding?
I have to do this with my anger as sometimes I'm short tempered with someone only to reflect and realize that I'm angry with something else and taking out my frustrations on an undeserving bystander. I try to apologize if I catch myself doing this.
I am not a lawyer. (IANAL)
You have a lot of legal right you may or may not choose to exercise. For example, if you have the right to own firearms they don't issue you a firearm just because you haven't purchased one yet.
If I recall it right, there wasn't always the concept of a public defender who could represent someone even if they couldn't afford a lawyer. You had to already have a lawyer in order to even use that right. This was eventually changed and resulted in the creation of public defenders.
From what I have heard, public defenders are really overworked and spread thin, so you may want to have a lawyer setup to represent you if you ever get into trouble with the law. I have also heard it's good to know several lawyers as the one who can help you draft a will is different than the one to help you purchase real estate and the one to keep you out of jail.
May or may not have used a conference room getting poor signal as a reason to move an access point closer to my favorite quiet bathroom.
A few years ago a friend gave me an "Urban Shop" glitter lamp as a gift. It was a neat twist on a lava lamp that used LEDs and glitter with a motor that spun the fluid using a magnetic string bar.
While it was a great vibe, it used three AA batteries and the stirring would cycle on and off regularly causing the noise to start and stop, which I found more distracting than just leaving it on.
I found that the on-off switch was actual an on-on switch without a second connection, so I took an old USB cable and hardwired the second switch terminal so that I could power it from a power supply or batteries.
This was a drastic improvement to me, but I didn't like the cord always being attached and the motor cycling was still annoying. Eventually, the lamp ended up on a shelf for a later date.
Today, I pulled the lamp down because I finally tried ESPHome because I keep hearing about it in other people's projects and wanted to finally try the full smart conversion of this lamp. After several hours of trying to reuse the existing surface-mount LEDs and wiring, I gutted the whole damn thing and installed my own 5mm LEDs, rewired the motor, and added a button for controls and wired everything into a Raspberry Pi Pico W I had bought years ago.
Now I have a lamp that can be controlled locally from the button, can be reprogrammed from my computer without moving the lamp, can be controlled from Home Assistant, and performs exactly how I want.
I just finished a project to make my own orb and now I can contemplate properly.
Given how many people treat speed limits as suggestions, at best, having your vehicle obey the limit would turn some people off of them.
Too cold to enjoy or too hot to eat?
With the release of Tapo version 3.0, TP-Link integrates their two lines of smart home devices into a single application, reducing the number of apps needed to control their devices.
Additionally, the update claims improvements to the user interface, optimized camera features, a sleeker status page, and faster responses and startups.
The blow post also suggest that improvements to lighting effects, smart actions, geofencing, and a dark mode will be coming in the future.
I think the best takeaway is that I can have one less app on my phone!
A picture of a Loon sitting on its nest in a lake. Taken July 2023 on a Pixel 6 Pro at full zoom and through a waterproof phone bag.
A picture of a Loon sitting on its nest in a lake. Taken July 2023 on a Pixel 6 Pro at full zoom and through a waterproof phone bag.
A picture of a Loon sitting on its nest in a lake. Taken July 2023 on a Pixel 6 Pro at full zoom and through a waterproof phone bag.