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#Goals2025

Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware

Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running oa #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11 working together

Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV

Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal and #Emacs. #CLI #TUI

Get an #3DPrinter and learn to use it

Design and build my own portable 8dot #braille terminal & try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.

Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools

Writing more of my own tools #DIY

#SmallTalk #ObjectPascal #Prolog #Scheme #Racket #CommonLisp #Haskell #Rust #Go #ObjectiveC #Swift

Deploy #LoRa #ReticullumNetwork #RNodes #MeshCore #Meshtastic

Start an #InternetResiliencyClub

Add #Tor, #I2P support by #WebProxy

#SelfHost over #I2P and as #OnionService

#SolarPowered servers

SelfHost a blog/wiki

SelfHost my own repositories
#Darcs #Mercurial

SelfHost my own #EmailServer, will only accept email from #KnownHosts #MutualEmailAcceptance and otherwise only if they contain an proper #OpenPGP signature

Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P

DIY #HomeAutomation

Start #Gardening #GreenHouse #GardeningAutomation

Get a house cat

Start asking money for advice & technology support

@ernie, hate to cold @ you, but, are you following this #sengLED smart light bulb fiasco? No one seems to be writing about it. Not the tech publications that promote sengled... no one. It's been days and people can't get their lightbulbs to work, esp if they were dimmed at night when they stopped working.

After a bunch of complaints to their main seller, #Amazon, Amazon finally released a statement to people that have them linked to one of their appliances. I suspect Amazon just wants to stop fielding calls about them, although they are still selling products that can't work now or be setup. #GoogleHome #iot #Alexa #homeAutomation #google #home

reddit.com/r/smarthome/comment

/r/SengledUS is covering it, also reddit.com/r/SengledUS

„Matter is the worst protocol... and honestly, they should give up.“ Ist dem wirklich so? Zugegeben, ich hätte mir auch vorgestellt und gewünscht, dass Matter inzwischen weiter verbreitet ist. Aber dennoch läuft es bislang gut, dort wo es eben verfügbar ist. Wie sieht es bei euch aus? Ist Matter noch immer ein Hoffnungsschimmer oder habt ihr das Vertrauen verloren? 🤔 #SmartHome #IoT #HomeAutomation #TechTrends

Apple will simply never get #SmartHome or #HomeAutomation right. It is so abundantly obvious that none of the engineers working on this *actually use it*.

The only way Apple figures out how to do this is if they build the entire house.

And they couldn't build a car, y'all.

Bed thermostat is ready for its first full test! Since my last post I've shortened it so the vacuum doesn't bang into the fan, and added a flexible aluminium wire with a temperature sensor mount.

Tonight I set it to trigger at 27C and see how that works! No real understanding of what a good feet temperature is so this next bit is going to be trial and error.

#homeautomation #projects #electronics #arduino
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@Mumonkan I know the trade war has left them unable to pay 1000 Chinese employees there and there is a big protest about it.

" Employees at Sengled Optoelectronics say the company has failed to pay their wages for three consecutive months, which prompted protesters to march to the local town hall to demand a resolution on April 29.

A Sengled employee confirmed the protest in a telephone interview with The Epoch Times on April 30. “Over a thousand of us went to the town hall to protest,” the worker said. “Employees’ wages haven’t been paid for half a year.”

“Over a dozen people were arrested,” he said. "The company owes wages to over 1,000 full-time workers. We are all entitled to full benefits—pensions, retirement funds, unemployment insurance. The amount they owe is huge, but they haven’t given us any explanation."

The worker said that the factory owner owes the government a great deal of money and the “factory should’ve shut down long ago.”

Supposedly there are youtube videos about it, too.

#sengled #smartlightbulb #tech #home #AmazonEcho #GoogleHome #alexa #HomeAutomation

ntd.com/us-tariffs-trade-war-p

Protest in Zhejiang, China, on May 1, 2025. (Screenshot via NTD)
NTD · Wage Strikes Surge in China Amid Mounting Economic PressuresThe number of protests in China has risen sharply in recent weeks. In particular, protests by furious workers who say they haven't been paid for months—or even longer.

In the immortal words of Hannibal Smith - "I love it when a plan comes together".

As the sun is finally creeping through the clouds, I just remembered I'd turned off the automatic EV charging routine on Home Assistant yesterday as the weather was too overcast and it was struggling to keep the car and house battery topped up and I'd rather keep the house full given a choice.

Home Assistant automatically resets those automations at sundown ready for the next day in case I forget. Well dear reader, I forgot, but Home Assistant didn't, and has been charging Eddie (our EV) for about the last hour with no input from the forgetful meat entity.

I just blue-tacked a few of these around the kitchen. They're about 30mm square. This way I can scan them to zero out the inventory of a grocery if we've used all of them and there's none left to scan.

If the inventory shows less than the minimum number of something #grocy will add it to the shopping list, and my firefox addon will automatically add it to my woolworths shopping cart. It's all working nicely.

youtu.be/hvldrKMWksQ
github.com/tjhowse/woolies_car