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  • Do you have any articles discussing this? I'm interested to learn more as someone who doesn't live there.

  • Extensive afforestation and reforestation can brake global warming
  • It's good to plant trees, but beware of folks using it as cover to avoid more important work like actually reducing fossil fuel usage: https://art19.com/shows/the-climate-deniers-playbook/episodes/5322de3f-ffc0-4258-a890-c648f59bc195

  • Physical keyboard for alarm
  • It is expensive but that Frient keypad is what I have and it's fantastic. Been running it for about a year now and it's rock solid. I've even repurposed Nest tags to work with it.

  • Introducing Proton Duo: Unlimited privacy for two
  • If you click the switch plan link in the blog post it'll let you change. That's what I had to do.

  • End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone
  • I've been using Neo Launcher for a while as a Nova replacement and it's pretty good. Both of those features are included as well as things like shortcut actions when you double tap or swipe on the home screen.

  • I've been getting a lot of Lucky Pants lately
  • Dude, that 68 overall one with spikes in Res, Rec, and Dis!? Nice!!

  • Best ZigBee keypad and RFC tag for alarm ?
  • I don't use it with Alarmo but it would work just fine if I understand how Alarmo functions. I installed it 6 months ago and it still reads as 100% (though who knows how accurate that is). It does require some beefy batteries though so I tend to believe it. The battery reading is coming through Z2M.

    Hope that helps! Here's a helpful thread about getting it working and setting up RFID tags (I used old Nest Secure tags with no issues).

    https://community.home-assistant.io/t/frient-keypad-zigbee/546090/10

  • Best easy to use e-commerce front end with no javascript?
  • That's definitely its focus, but if you want a very simple store it does support payments: https://ghost.org/help/ecommerce/

  • Best easy to use e-commerce front end with no javascript?
  • If you're willing to accept JavaScript I'd recommend a Ghost setup. Pretty good platform once it's set up and easy to selfhost. Not sure you'll find a platform without JS for your use case tbh.

  • Best Local Smart Lock for Privacy/Security
  • Thanks for the info. That's odd since most Z-wave devices can enter pairing mode with a button press.

    How do you like the lock? Any issues with it?

  • Networking Gear Recommendations? (starting from scratch)
  • I have two of the U6 lite APs and they cover my whole house perfectly. They're POE but I just got a cheap POE unmanaged TP-Link switch for now.

  • Were any of you able to get into The Final Shape today?
  • Yep! And it's amazing. I just had to keep retrying the connection for like 3-5 minutes.

  • Best Local Smart Lock for Privacy/Security
  • I've actually been eyeing the Yale Assure Lock 2 because I want a keyless option (it's Z-wave as well). Does anybody here have experience with that one?

  • TFS Armor Tuning Preview
  • Yeah it's weird but usually when Destiny says something has a "chance" to happen it's actually an invisible progress meter based off of kills, damage, etc. Super odd they don't just say that in game.

  • Weekly Discussion: 13 May 2024
  • I have an Emporia Vue and really like it. It's great for catching things being left on accidentally.

  • Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.
  • I use yarr as well but forked it to use postgres as the database instead of sqlite: https://github.com/jgkawell/yarr

  • (US) Where do you buy a decent quality dresser?
  • We got one from Grain Wood and liked it so much we got a second. One we have is pine wrapped in a veneer of walnut and the other is painted white. They're not hardwoods, but they're leagues better than particle board IKEA stuff and don't cost a fortune.

    https://grainwoodfurniture.com/

  • When are the other classes getting hoverboards?
  • The Guardian Games skimmer works on all classes! Just move it over to your other characters or purchase duplicates from collections.

  • Help me build a privacy focused voice assistant
  • I'm experimenting with the Music Assistant add-on but it seems to be early days for that project. Could be awesome though as it combines media libraries from services (e.g. YouTube music) and self-hosted things (e.g. Navidrome) and plugs them into the Home Assistant ecosystem.

    https://github.com/music-assistant/server

  • Time to get farming
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    Getting Gugal to work with SearXNG [SOLVED]

    I'm running my own SearXNG instance and trying to configure Gugal to work with it: https://gitlab.com/narektor/gugal

    It says my instance needs to have API access enabled but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do that. Anyone done this before or know how to do it?

    edit: SOLVED - see comment below

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    How to configure multiple Piper voices?

    I'm using the Piper addon in Home Assistant and want to have multiple voices for various usecases (one for assistant and one for security alerts, etc.). In the "Voice assistants" settings you can configure various personas for Assist to use and there are dropdowns for different voices too select when using Piper (see attached image). However, that dropdown only has a single voice which you configure in the Piper addon configuration. Is there a way to configure multiple voices to the Piper addon at the same time? I can only seem to get one working at a time.

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    BudgetAudiophile @lemmy.world jgkawell @lemmy.world
    Speaker recommendations for small shelf

    I'm looking for some good bookshelf speakers to fit into this small shelf. This is a media console that sits underneath the TV in our living room. I'm thinking if I get some speakers that are fairly slim I could lay them on their side. The size of the shelf is shown in the attached picture and there's an equivalent shelf on the other side of the console. Any recommendations?

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    jgkawell jgkawell @lemmy.world
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