I’ve got this little blue plastic cup I’ve had for almost 30 years. Use it for my toothbrush. Got it when I was a kid and it’s the only toothbrush holder I’ve ever had since.

Open the Google Home app, go to " Automations", and make one for the household for when someone says “turn everything on” and any other variations you want, then just make it respond with something instead of actually doing the thing.

My wife refuses to let me pirate books for her. She wants to support the authors she reads, which is fair. But she decided she wanted to try the Harry Potter books, and asked me to pirate them for her to make sure JK Rowling didn’t get a penny out of her.

“just don’t use the internet” is not the hot take I was expecting

You’re right. It’s better to just not use a password manager and use the same password on every site you go to.

/s if that’s not obvious

I’m in the exact same boat. I have a Jellyfin server configured and ready to go whenever something happens to really piss me off. This nearly was it until I saw that my lifetime Plex pass I bought 10 years ago will make it still be free for my family.

There are password managers you can self host. Bitwarden being one of them. Secure it as much as you want and keep off-site encrypted backups if you’re worried about a single point of failure.

I just recently ditched Windows and installed Kubuntu. I like Ubuntu but wanted KDE Plasma, and that’s exactly what this is! Works great for me, including proton gaming with Steam.

It’s probably that. While on cellular my IP isn’t 192.0.0.4 (but it is in 10. space), but there’s probably some v6 somewhere in the way.

I can’t get it to have network connection while my phone is on cellular data. On wifi it’s fine.

KDE Neon and kubuntu have Wayland as default. Just was trying them because I wanted Plasma 6. Took a bit of tweaking for a few things but I have all the things I need running fine with Wayland.

My entire childhood was Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 on the PS2.

I used mostly this, but had to customize it a bit I think to get things working right. NUT feels like a super finicky system, but in the end it does work. My biggest issue right now is that it only reports a new status update to Home Assistant every few minutes, so the actions don’t really get a chance to trigger before the server shuts down. It also shuts down with the UPS at way too high of a percentage remaining, so I need to figure out how to make it wait just a little bit longer before the power down. It wants to power off like < 2 minutes after the power goes out…

https://chribonn.medium.com/proxmox-nut-homelab-howto-step-5-install-nut-ups-solution-configure-nut-for-email-alerts-and-be74838fdccb

I’ve got a project to look forward to. Have my Proxmox server with a UPS, running NUT to watch the battery percentage and power down gracefully if the % gets too low. I have Home Assistant watching that so it’s supposed to notify me before that happens. It’s not notifying me though, so I gotta look into that. I know it’s not working this morning because the power went out, so now I’m just sitting here theorizing instead of actually looking at it. 🙃

The one I use is called “Unpinterested!”, and is on both the Firefox and chrome extension stores. You can also use uBlacklist to block the domains.

“oh no someone’s unwelcoming to my bigoted belief system”

I did the same thing with home assistant and just the stock clock app. Just looking at the “next alarm” sensor state.

You guys use more than just the +30 button? Weird.