white_nrdy

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[–] white_nrdy 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Quick question, what would federation provide? How would they have anything to do with a search engine?

Do you mean just not centralized/run by big tech? If so, that wouldn't necessarily be "federated", but just self hostable. That way you can host it yourself, if you have the know how/equipment, or you can access someone else's hosted version (probably for a price).

[–] white_nrdy 10 points 1 day ago

"Hey hey wait. Let's throw in one It's Not Unusual"

[–] white_nrdy 22 points 1 day ago
[–] white_nrdy 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

While I'm all for having local services like search engines. I don't think we need more "messaging platform" services. At least not new complete platforms. I'd argue something like a Canadian popularized Matrix host or something.

Full disclosure, I'm American but fully support not depending on us. We fucking suck.

[–] white_nrdy 2 points 2 days ago

Lol, so much of the FPGA industry 🤣. Especially East coast of the US

[–] white_nrdy 2 points 2 days ago

GrapheneOS

When I search for it on stock android on my P7, it says it's in Google Play Services. So my guess is it isn't part of AOSP, therefore GrapheneOS wouldn't have it, unless they make their own implementation

[–] white_nrdy 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Same here.

VHDL represent. Although it's arguably not a "programming language"

[–] white_nrdy 3 points 6 days ago

My bad. I thought I saw that they ship with them now. I haven't really looked at the configurator since I got mine in 2021.

[–] white_nrdy 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

All of the models ship with various options for OS:

  • None
  • Fedora, Mint, or a couple other Linux distros
  • W11

So given they all list a few different distros as an official option, and each product page has a Linux tab, I think it's a safe bet

[–] white_nrdy 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the reveal took my by complete surprise. I thought the same with why she was keeping it secret.

[–] white_nrdy 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe that's the 3D chess move that orange man did when he appointed RFK

[–] white_nrdy 15 points 1 week ago

Tbf, my building also uses an app for laundry. However they also have a machine in the laundry rooms where you can purchase an NFC payment card and put money on it. So you can use it without the app. Is that not the case with yours? If not, that's 100% fucked

 

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Hello all, I am moving into a new apartment, and was planning on replacing the thermostats with Z-Wave ones. I currently have a Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave in my current apartment, and was planning on picking up a couple more.

When I was at the new place today, I took a look inside of one of the thermostats and saw something I was not expecting. They are all 120VAC line voltage thermostats. The heating and cooling is shared between the building, and whether heating or cooling is on is a whole building schedule. The person in the leasing office that was touring us around the new place when we got our keys said that it switches to heat in october or November.

Attached are a couple of photos of the thermostat and a photo of the vent in the wall (although not sure if that is helpful). The thermostat is a Honeywell T651A. I am not sure of what the actual HVAC equipment looks like.

This obviously throws a hamper in my plans, and now I have to look for alternatives. I am not super familiar with 120VAC HVAC, so I wanted to get some advice from others. I believe it is a heated/chilled water system, and the thermostat simply controls the pump/blower in the wall panel (one of the photos). The fact that there is both heating and cooling is what is confusing me, since all of the 120VAC thermostats I have seen are only for heating. Obviously it all boils down to how the temperature is compared to the set point. If the building switches to cooling (which won't be a problem for about 6 months after it switches I am guessing), the comparison will be backwards.

If anyone is able to point me to any resources on how I can learn about this control system, that would be great. I found the Stelpro KI Z-Wave Thermostat which I think will work, but I am not sure what happens when it switches to cooling in the spring. I prefer Z-Wave since I have found it to be far more reliable (especially in a larger building. This is a 7 floor building with ~15 units on each floor. So there is a lot of 2.4GHz traffic I assume), however if anyone knows of a product that will work for this (if the Stelpro one won't) I'm all ears.

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