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What was your favorite ESPHome project?
  • 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.

  • Looking for a app/service to save webpages
  • You want a "read it later" service, like Omnivore or Wallabag.

  • A Birthday Card You Will Throw in the Trash
  • Obvious Plant makes all the stuff that nobody everybody needs.

  • Best bang for the buck battery backup
  • 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.

  • Torrent style internet
  • 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.

  • Anyone using rustic?
  • 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.

  • What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
  • Screenshots of posts on other social media sites.

  • What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
  • Low effort memes and other low-quality karma-farming.

  • Have you ever had this happen to you?
  • 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
  • Best file menager on android?
  • Solid File Explorer, bought it forever ago, and it hasn't let me down yet.

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