Thanks for posting!

seems like a good thread to plug https://represent.us

they describe themselves as

RepresentUs is America’s leading nonpartisan anti-corruption organization fighting to fix our broken and ineffective government. We unite people across the political spectrum to pass laws that hold corrupt politicians accountable, defeat special interests, and force the government to meet the needs of the American people.

here’s their policy platform https://represent.us/policy-platform/

they claim to have played a part in over 185 pieces of legislation (mostly at the state level) that contributed to their core platform https://represent.us/our-wins/

here are their ongoing campaigns presented state by state https://represent.us/2024-campaigns/

nobody and no organization are perfect but I feel like most people can find something to agree on here

I don’t want to talk about it

Thanks for posting this, it’s important people catch more than just the headline. This is clearly another example of proton delivering on their promise. Fucking headlines gonna headline.

When our first child arrived I had a cheap IP cam lying around that I could flash with something I trusted and integrate into my other stuff (Homeassistant in this case). The camera didn’t really support a wired connection, only 2.4 wifi. This has probably been my single complaint about the setup generally. We live in a somewhat dense neighborhood and the surrounding 2.4GHz noise affects the stream quality, making it somewhat less reliable.

I would say that if reliability and complexity are your biggest concerns go with one of the decent baby monitors. Very reliable, zero complexity. We didn’t find the reliability to be an issue in practice and I didn’t mind the complexity. I would say that if you go the IP cam route, do your best to go wired or at least 5GHz.

Really felt this comment today, stay strong fellow human

Always nice to see some good news.

Not really hating on valve as they have done an enormous amount of good for pc gaming but yeah, it is deeply frustrating how slowly they roll out fixes. For a ~$700,000,000 a year company they are incredibly slow at publishing fixes and necessary updates to just their core software. It’s all kinds of ridiculous that with a budget like that they are still lagging behind open source projects like moonlight/sunshine.

You managed to solve two problems for that I hadn’t even articulated yet, thanks for sharing!

No worries mate, appreciate you posting and following up, have a great day!

Not sure if I just missed something but I couldn’t find any new content pulling it up with Firefox for Android. Just seeing the original videos. Will check desktop site later.

I am too old to tell if this is good photoshop, good generative ai, or a real photo . 🫠

man who gets rich pumping oil out of ground blames everyone else for using it while offering no alternatives

😭I just want convenient software that makes my life better, is that too much to ask

Can you set reminders/timers with it?

I’ve been chasing this dream for a while. My final solution would be wired speakers and a smart amp or some such setup but we’re still renting so that’s a no go. In the meantime we’re using Logitech Media Server and a mix of devices.

LMS isn’t the most beautiful solution but after years and years it’s still the most feature rich and flexible solution to multi room audio you’re going to find for zero dollars. It allows me to sync playback across almost any device, such as desktop computers, laptops, phones, raspberry pis, my Nvidia shield and most recently a couple refurbished Sonos OneSL speakers. It also integrates really smoothly with Spotify which is our primary music source.

The Sonos speakers were a decent price refurbished and work really well for us. LMS can control them flawlessly with the AirPlay bridge plugin and we can cast directly to them with Spotify whenever we want. I’ll also note that the Spotify plugin for LMS supports turning any of its clients into a Spotify connect receiver as well. I did have to setup some automation to improve the handling between LMS and the speakers. If you cast Spotify while LMS is controlling the speaker it will cutover perfectly but resuming the LMS stream afterwards seems to require turning off and on the virtual LMS device but I was able to handle that with an automation.

Both the Sonos speakers themselves and LMS have robust integrations in homeassistant. It took me a bit to find the proper format for sending media_play requests but once I did, automation has been solid. I’m not a fan of proprietary setups like Sonos but I have to admit it’s been a good fit so far.

Best of luck, hope you find a solution that works well for you. Let me know if you have any questions about my setup.

Thanks for the links, that’s really interesting!

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out.

Legit, used Wayland for a whole two hours before realizing barrier wouldn’t work and had to drop back to x. Workflow gotta workflow.

When you’re right you’re right