My mother is thoroughly addicted to Facebook and literally gets all her news from there. I keep sending her warnings about more targeted AI generated content and she keeps shrugging it off saying she “does her own research and doesn’t just blindly accept what gets posted.” Which from talking to her I know is total bullshit. I don’t know how to pull her out of it…

OMG I didn’t even see that until you pointed it out. That’s an amazing detail!

I’m using z-wave stuff but similar setup. Home Assistant does reach out to the cloud for some things like weather forecast and Google calendar but otherwise it will operate 100% without internet if needed. I also have cameras that while they aren’t air-gappend they are blocked from Internet access and can only talk to the NVR.

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I changed mine before a ~1500 mile road trip summer of 2022. Flipped to the percentage (Honda) the other day just out of curiosity and it’s still at 60%, lol. I put so few miles on that thing it’s crazy. I sometimes go a few miles to lunch. Outside that we use it for hardware store runs here and there. I guess I did drive it to a wedding a couple weeks back but that was because I knew we would be parking in a farm field and it’s my only 4 wheel drive vehicle. Probably should change the oil before winter just for good measure.

Good luck with that…

Let’s see here, I’m 37 so 20ish years ago I worked for OfficeMax. We were literally trained that if someone was shoplifting to try and note any relevant details then call the cops. Even if that wasn’t told to us none of us were paid enough to do anything about it. Our one older manager tried to stop a shoplifter once and got knocked unconscious for his efforts.

I work in IT so may be skewed a bit, but one of the biggest things to me was a manager that actually…managed. I don’t mean managed their employees, I mean was a proper bridge and blocker to keep high-level management from interfering with our day-to-day work. Someone that doesn’t just pass a screw-up down to the little guys. Someone that takes responsibility even if a problem or extended resolution wasn’t directly their fault. THAT’S the person you want to be behind.

Appreciate it, I’ll check them out.

Am curious about those documentaries. I love caves, but stick to safe tours and whatnot. I don’t know that I would be OK exploring a “wild” cave.

Any good alternatives to Credit Karma? Didn’t even know Intuit owned them until the other day. :( I moved my funds from their savings account elsewhere but need a good alternative to keep tabs on my credit score.

Online through a text-based role playing game, lol. We’ve been married 13 years as of last Monday.

I would imagine it’s still below 400ft to minimize the chance of interfering with manned aircraft. I read through a handful of articles though and none mentioned it.

Is this the “find out” that I hear happens after the “fuck around?”

Really appreciate it. I don’t feel any guilt, maybe a little sadness as I really enjoyed the community and spent a lot of time on it.

I am excited for the new opportunities here and the fediverse at large and hope to be able to contribute even in a small part to the continued growth.

She reached out to me on reddit. It was dumb luck I had landed there from a Google search (and was still logged in) as I don’t spend any time there anymore.

I saw your edit, and we did still deal with life and death (in terms of electrical work) but probably not on the order of magnitude as /r/canning. I’m about to head to bed but at least wanted to say thank you for the kind words. I’ll find peace, but it won’t be in modding. Hell, I’ve applied to be an engineer for lemmy.world! I like working with tech better than people anyway, lol. I’ve been catching up on a backlog of games, my own home automation oddly enough, home projects that have been on hold since covid started, etc. Hope you had a fantastic holiday weekend (assuming you are in the US)!

Mod of /r/homeautomation here (mentioned in the article as “Dan”) and yeah, you pretty much nailed it. In our case the biggest concern was amateurs working with electricity. The “which wire is which” posts were often greeted with a “black hot, white neutral” response which on the surface is generally correct. However, there are lots of cases (especially in houses older than say 20 years) where that can be wrong and dangerous. It’s further complicated by the fact that multiple live circuits can exist in the same box so even if you killed power to the light you are working on the box may still have live wires.

As with canning, homeowners dying from electrocution is rare, but it doesn’t negate the danger. I’ll wire shit hot all the time (much to my wife’s annoyance) but I’ve been doing this for years and with lots of guidance and supervision. I will also very much KNOW what’s hot and what’s not both through a no-contact probe and a voltmeter. Electricity isn’t something people should be messing around with if they don’t have at least a basic understanding.

I’ve rambled long enough, lol. Funny enough, I also live in the state where the train derailment happened in February (though I was nowhere near it).

I was a mod on /r/homeautomation, probably should have clarified that (though it’s in the article). I was a mod there for some 7 years and dedicated many hours to helping people get into the hobby. It was a huge passion of mine after I bought my first house.

But you are right, it was 100% a thankless role. The trolls at times can be especially…tiring but I loved the community and it was all worth it. I can only hope I set at least a few people on a path of a new passion.

I truly, truly appreciate your kind words though. It means a lot as thanks are few and far between while modding. Mostly we just got yelled at for “censorship” when someone was banned for being an ass or totally off-topic.

I’m one of the mods mentioned in the article (Dan) and yes, I’m here. Been talking (well emailing) with Scharon for a number of weeks now. I’m highly unlikely though to become a mod again here or anywhere. I just don’t think I can handle it again to be honest. I’ll continue to contribute where I can with advice but my mod days are likely past.

EDIT: For those that didn’t read the full article, I was a mod of /r/homeautomation which is discussed further down. I was not, nor was ever, associated with /r/canning. Just wanted to make that bit clear. :)