spongebue

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[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago

But only worked for space force for 2 people

If you need that level of easily implied detail spelled out in a freaking tweet, you have my sympathies

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You listening, Grassley?

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Some people know they want kids and look forward to being a parent their whole lives. Others are like you and know it's not for them. Either feeling is so valid!

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

He's gotten away with a lot and supposedly has a lot of money, but to be honest I really don't envy him. He seems miserable inside.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

No, if you find a flight you like and, instead of putting your credit card information right there, you drive to the airport, pay for parking, wait in line at the ticket counter, tell the agent you want to buy that itinerary you just found online, argue with them when they say they can't/won't so it because it's freaking Frontier, pay for your ticket, walk 10 minutes back to your car in the parking ramp, pay for your hour of parking, and drive home.

Probably not worth it for a single person/purchase, but if it's charged per person, per direction (I think it is but not sure) and you're paying for your whole family it may be worth it.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's only really done now for nonrevenue (employee) travel and changes in existing itineraries (trying to get an earlier flight, getting rebooked to a full flight because you missed your connection and that's the next one, etc)

Some flights during certain seasons (spring break in Florida, for example) are so full that you hardly stand a chance of getting on, and of course that's the airlines' fault

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The principle, yeah. The fact that it's 50 cents keeps it mild though

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Well, half of it is a "carrier interface charge" - basically, you're paying to buy online. Fees are taxed differently, but they have to be optional. If you buy at an airport, they don't charge it.

That's Frontier for ya. The Ryanair of the US

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Medium is the singular, for those not aware

Similarly, data is also the plural for datum

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This sounds like the work of a developer. If you want to take a plot of land and sell it for $2x/m², it's entirely possible... But it may take $3x/m² worth of improvements if you're not careful.

Frankly, if you have to ask these kinds of questions Lemmy is not the place to get the answers. You can get a college degree in this kind of thing, and it seems like you'd need to start at the very basic level.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a basic economics thing that doesn't have an easy answer. But basically, at lower prices, people generally demand a higher quantity of something. Raise the price, and people start to think twice and consider other options. Supply is the opposite: at a higher price, more of a product will be produced (or in the case of pre-owned land, landowners are more likely to cash out). At lower prices, people won't bother.

So in the case of land, price is affected by what people want, but also what's available. If there is a lot of open space and that's what everyone wants, groovy! But if people want limited amounts of tree land, prices are going to skyrocket for that and people will look at open land as an alternative.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You're putting your priority of beauty on others, who seem to prioritize function if they do hobby farming (in which case, trees could get in the way of whatever they're trying to do with the land)

Neither preference is wrong. In theory prices should reflect supply and demand.

 

In the past I've gotten around this by printing on the left side of the bed, but some things need the space so here I am.

I've got an Ender 3 V2 with some tasteful mods: OctoPrint, BLTouch, a magnetic flexible bed surface, and a few other things people are bound to do with an entry-level printer they got for $100 with a Micro Center coupon. One issue I'm having with it is that any printing done on the right side of the bed seems to have a pretty big gap. I have the G28 and G29 commands in to run the bed level, I try to get it leveled properly with the springs (with help of the bed visualizer plugin for OctoPrint) and no matter what I do, the nozzle drifts just a little farther from the bed on the right side, so the filament does not stick.

I'm open to more mods, but before I spend more time and money on this for what I think is the problem, does anyone actually have a good idea of what's wrong here?

Thanks much!

 

Solved!

Solution was to create a group and perform an action on that:

action: light.turn_on
target:
  entity_id: light.kitchen_cabinet_sink
data_template:
  brightness_pct: "{{100*state_attr('light.kitchen_sink_ceiling','brightness')/255}}"

Original:

Trying to run an automation to match one light's state (on/off/dim) to another's. Have this currently:

alias: Sync cabinet lights with sink light
if:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: [something]5710
    entity_id: [something]a438
    domain: light
then:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: 100
else:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light

That works fine to turn the lights on or off, and I have triggers in the automation for that and changes in brightness. But using a non-static number for brightness_pct (yes, I know I'll probably have to math the 0-100 scale instead of 0-255) is giving me trouble. When I try something like this:

alias: Sync cabinet lights with sink light
if:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: [something]5710
    entity_id: [something]a438
    domain: light
then:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light
    brightness_pct: {{state_attr("light.kitchen_sink_ceiling", "brightness")}}
else:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: [something]b447
    entity_id: [something]470f
    domain: light

I have also tried {{states.light.kitchen_sink_ceiling.attributes.brightness}} instead. Both seem to have the correct value when I play around in the developer tools. But when I put it in the automation, I get an error that a float value was expected. I see some similar issues online, but it always seems to be in a different context and people fix it by changing some value I never had.****

 

My, how the tables have returned!

 

Year and a half old. It may feel silly, but she's always been in the single-digit percentile, usually low-single-digits at that. She was born about 3 months premature, and after her weight gain stalling, they prescribed a medication with a side effect of increased appetite to give things a jump start. I think it's going to work 🙂

 

Running on a Raspberry Pi 400

Lately my home has been dumb and unassisted at random times, and the HA app can't connect to my HA rpi server. Ditto when I go to homeassistant:8123 in a browser. I'm trying to see what's causing this, but the logs in app only show since last restart. Tried plugging my Pi into a monitor and getting something from the command line but not sure how to do the equivalent of a Linux tail or whatever. Searching was surprisingly unhelpful. Any advice?

Thanks much!

 

I get that some instances use the domain + TLD to make a word, like lemm.ee or to an extent, sh.itjust.works. But I've seen so many TLDs I had no idea existed, like .world, .zone, .social, and yes .works as well.

Is there any real reason for that? Trying to look cool or kinda underground-y? Cheaper and more varied domain options? Something actually kinda functional?

Interestingly, I started on vlemmy.net because I was a scared Reddit refugee and the .net TLD gave me comfort. Then it vanished a few days later without a trace. So here I am on lemmy.world

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