This was also my experience during the main sweep of the pandemic. It was so great getting to cut the commute and be home. Something I have luckily managed to largely continue. Prior to the pandemic my kid was in daycare pretty much 7:30-5:30 so it was really nice to not have to do that, plus during our lockdown we used to go for a family walk at lunchtime.

While some of the single guys I worked with hated staying home and were straight back in the office the moment they were allowed.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard strimmer, though it does seem to be a thing when I search it up. I would say Weed eater, weed whacker, or line trimmer.

Not the one I was looking at: https://f-droid.org/packages/it.danieleverducci.lunatracker/

I do see with a web search there is a period tracker with the same name. Confusing!

Froid has LunaTracker. It says you can sync via WebDAV (e.g. Nextcloud or others).

I haven’t used it so can’t vouch for it but it looks nice and simple to use.

The question reminds me of this:

Ross: Why are you mad at me?

Phoebe: You said I was boring

Ross: When did I say you were boring?!

Phoebe: Oh my God, I remember now! We were playing chess!

Ross: Phoebe! You and I have never played chess!

Phoebe: Oh, come on! Yes, remember that time on the frozen lake? We were playing chess, you said I was boring, and then you took off your energy mask and you were Cameron Diaz! Okay, there’s a chance this may have been a dream.

We have never bought new couches. My main chair is older than I am. But I did sit in a chair in a shop the other day and the back was right up behind my head, a surprisingly hard thing to find for someone tall-ish like me. Almost made me want to buy it.

I hate visiting other people because they have short backed couches that just aren’t person-shaped. Makes me wonder how they sit there for hours.

But you’re also a grownup who can buy more markers!

My parents didn’t buy good furniture until after I left home. They always said they would when the kids were gone but I moved out and my first visit they had new furniture, so I’m pretty sure it was me they were waiting for to leave.

Unrelated, I spilt coke on the new furniture on that first visit.

I have a kid who (on a regular basis) took felt tip pens and just started colouring at the toes, up the legs, arms, all the way to the head sometimes. Changing colours as they felt like it.

They did this well past the toddler years.

Pro tip: washable markers are a lot more washable if you wash it off straight away instead of waiting all day.

The back calls it “Tasty cheddar cheese”:

Other types of cheese are available, it’s just that cheddar is not clearly labeled as such since it’s kind of the “default”.

E.g.

In NZ English… “Cheese”. Though we do have a term “tasty” for a 12-18 month aged cheddar cheese that I don’t think is commonly used elsewhere. At the supermarket you’re likely to see “mild” or “tasty” not “cheddar”.

In Māori, “tīhi”. It’s a transliteration of “cheese” into a language that has neither a “ch” nor a “s” sound.

Haha when they did that blog post to change the switch from 8/10 to 4/10 saying they don’t normally do that but wanted to make sure you could compare the 2 properly against the original, I thought they were making space for the 2 to be above the original, not that they were going to mark it as worse 😅

Me too!

I think it’s reasonable to respond with something like “I’m really not a kid person, I don’t much enjoy talking about kids or being around kids. I’m still happy to meet for coffee, but maybe we plan to keep it a short chat and see how it goes?”

They’re mostly just going to be the focus of the occasion because they need constant attention, and I don’t really like kids in general. And, if they cry or act up and attract attention I will hate that.

Many places will have toy areas for kids, maybe you can find one (or ask if they can suggest one since they are more likely to know which ones nearby have that). A 2 year old can probably keep themselves mostly entertained off and on for 30 mins or an hour, depending on the specific kid and if there are a good selection of toys. The 6 month old will need more attention but may well spend a lot of the time sleeping.

An old friend/aquaintance I’ve not spoken to in a few years popped up recently and we got chatting a little over text.

I don’t want to put you off, but I’d probably have a plan for what you’re going to do if they start a MLM pitch.

I agree. I keep loads of shot that I’m hoping one day will just be processed by an AI to pick out the stuff people might want to actually see.

“People” includes me. I don’t delete anything (when it comes to photos, videos, etc) and just assume at some point technology will make it easy to find whatever.

It says

As these installation methods are used for the development of Home Assistant, it will still be technically possible to update them. We still would recommend migrating to a supported method, but that’s your choice.

And then towards the end:

Will the developer documentation on these things remain?
Yes, those will remain. The developer documentation for running Home Assistant’s Core Python application directly in a Python virtual environment will remain. This is how we develop. This proposal is about removing end-user documentation and support.

How I read it is that these methods are actively used for development so will still be maintained and updated, including developer documentation because developers will continue to need to use these methods.

If you read the Home Assistant official announcement, it basically says all the different methods were confusing to new people so they will remove them from end user support documentation and won’t take support questions from people using these methods.

However, outside the deprecation of 32bit OSs (which they point out a large portion are on 64bit capable hardware), they are still going to be documenting the other methods in the developer documentation.

I honestly think this is the right move. Their time is being wasted by confusing new users, and supporting 32 bit OSs is literally preventing the development of new functionality. If you want to use a Python environment instead of docker, the developer documentation is there to support advanced users.

Everything is exposed through a reverse proxy. E.g. homeassistant.mydomain.nz

However, I have DNS rewriting set in Adguard that does *.mydomain.nz -> 192.168.1.XX

This means a) things don’t need to go external if I’m at home, and b) I have many things only accessible internally, which rely on this otherwise they won’t work at all.

It’s all HTTPS, I just use a cloudflare integration in Traefik to do the Let’s Encrypt validation for domains not accessible externally.

It’s an LLM that has access to run commands. It’s a major bug by design 😅. But it does do a decent job if I keep tweaking after thing kind of thing happens.

Without the LLM you have to phrase things very specifically, or it will say it doesn’t understand. With the LLM the kids can do things like ask for “the song that goes [lyrics here]” and it can play it. It’s a very cool thing to play with, e.g. “can you tell me what the weather will be like today, phrased as a haiku”, but it’s full of traps as well. I have a “Home Assistant Voice Preview”, the “Preview” bit is to make it clear this is not ready for the general public yet 🙂

P.S. if you’re wondering, the weather today:

Showers grace the sky,
Rain will fall, then clear away,
Gentle winds will sigh.