There’s always something at least a little off about anybody who earns a PhD.

I’ve met a lot of them, and some of them are good at hiding it, but it’s always something…

I startled my dogs laughing at that last bit.

Last time I dealt with Matlab much was like fifteen years ago when I was helping some people using it for quick interpretation of data. We just kept finding bugs that caused calculation errors (which they fixed pretty quickly TBF) and it was so much slower than any other general programming language we tried. It could be way better now, I wouldn’t know, I haven’t had call to use it since… A circuit simulation class?

In all reality it’s fine for what it does, just like every other language. It’s another tool in the box that’s most useful for a certain set of problems.

Matlab shouldn’t, in my opinion, be used to construct a GUI, or generally be used for any sort of production code. Perfectly fine as a research tool though.

But I digress, my overall point is a meaningless semantic joke. The only people who will get bent out of shape about splitting hairs between “scripting” and “programming” are all people who belong in this community.

Oh it shouldn’t, seeing as how it’s a scripting language and not actually for programming lol

We’ve got a melange of ducks, khaki Campbell, blue runner, swedish blue, Cayuga, and Ancona. My favorite might be the Anconas. Although, our khakis used to be very skittish, our drake just lets me pick him up now though lol

We actually got our first egg this morning!

I’ve heard muscovies are great producers, great foragers, and great reproducers. Has that been your experience?

We put in a bunch of trees and bushes this spring on our new property, so we had zero expectation of actually harvesting anything at all this year.

One of our raspberries has surprised by cranking out a couple of canes this fall. I’m grabbing a handful every other day or so, just collecting them in the freezer until I have enough to do something interesting.

I’ve missed eating things I grew. Our ducks should start producing eggs soon, I’m very excited about that also.

Just pull the trigger, we both know how this ends.

A hot bath being wasteful because you have to heat water and need a sewer is ridiculous.

Solar water heaters are a thing and grey water reuse is also a thing.

You don’t even need electricity to have a private bath.

In addition, prior to the modern era regular bathing was often a privilege of the elite, not to mention the hygiene concerns of a giant bowl of people soup.

Bathhouses still exist in the form of steam rooms and the like, and you could make an argument about the inefficiency of personal hot tubs, but those are more specific examples of “bathing” as a recreational activity and not a hygienic one.

Yeah that immediately looks way under-extruded to me.

Also that wood stuff (from what I read) clogs terribly.

Ubiquiti has had outages in the past that meant you couldn’t manage the equipment right in front of you.

Even discounting the potential security implications of that kind of management, the rage I would feel in that situation is enough that I while my AP is nice, works great, I will never use any of their gateways.

I’m using a 2.5g protectli with OPNSense now, and it’s easy to manage, and all local.

It would be a crying shame if someone were to figure out a way to force those e ink displays to refresh fast enough that it kills the batteries on those things…

I’ve seen one flying around Lemmy since I’ve been here at least.

Banana fana fo fort.

As far as the local control goes, you can keep it from phoning home and it will still work. I don’t believe that the Shelly firmware is open source, but they allow you to upload custom firmware that is.

Because you can cut them off from the outside world I don’t believe it is doing the same kind of data collection externally unless you allow it to.

The new “mini” versions of their gear is harder to customize apparently but still possible, they still sell the larger versions though too that are easy to modify.

I agree that other protocols are better, but I’ve found that zwave tends to be more stable and reliable than zigbee. And both are better than Wi-Fi. But Wi-Fi is the easiest to onboard for a beginner.

Shelly is pretty good for smart home stuff.

I care a lot about local control, but they even have some cloud stuff if you’re into that sort of thing.

Zooz is one of my favorites for zwave gear.

“Where does this green wire go?”

I appreciate HW engineers and techs. I’m not afraid of datasheets, circuit diagrams, or a mso and they’re always patient enough to explain things to me so I can make the rocks behave. Or at least tell me how to go from diagram to board lol.

“the serial output from my test unit turns into garbage and it happens at completely random times!”

“Did you make sure they were plugged in all the way?”

“WHAT?!?! ARE YOU SUGGESTING I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING?!?!”

Some time later

“Yeah, it turned out to be the serial connection was loose.”

Since it doesn’t say specifically and it’s not tied to any other condition I would say the intent is probably to tie it to the space and/or until the PCs have a few minutes to warm up. So once out of range of the haunt I don’t think I’d force them to hold onto the condition. If in a fight it could make a difference, but otherwise it seems to be an inconvenience.

Source: I’ve been an embedded sw engineer for 10+ years

This seems like a pretty decent resource generally speaking. I’ll add this caveat though.

If your threat model includes anyone with large state level resources, you should stay very far away from anything with a radio in it. Wifi, Bluetooth, NFC, whatever, it doesn’t matter. It is possible for it to be compromised at a silicon level, which means you can never be sure it is fully secure.

You have to assume that anything transmitted via RF of any type is capable of being collected and compromised.

All that said, if your concern actually does include people with black helicopters, you already know this, and if it doesn’t, just remember that these technologies are getting cheaper and more ubiquitous all the time (see stingray), so be careful.