I’ve got a wireless button with a wall-plugged speaker inside. It’s all I need, as we have cameras feeding a motion-server.

I’d really want to get push notifications when the doorbell is rung, as we’re not always where the bell is. And sometimes we’d like to disconnect it because the baby is sleeping and the dogs go off at the sound of the bell.

I haven’t found any zigbee-replacement. I’m thinking to just put a zigbee-button and solve the chile through HA.

We’ve been married 12 years now. She still doesn’t have a clue.

Yes, but now you get all the bad news streamed straight to you 24/7.

Previously you would have to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV at the right time to hear about it.

Back in these days you’d install your distribution and stay there until the next major release. There were no online software repositiories for updates.

And exploits were plentiful. It was an easier time if you were up for mischief.

I flipped in 1997, so any software I might have missed since those days are probably not around anymore.

Windows 95 was pretty shitty in comparison to Linux, and a lot of software broke with NT 4.0

It was an easy choice at the time. Linux was the operating system for this new fancy thing called the internet. Software development turned into a career, and Linux is just a very nice stack for building backends and infrastructure.

I do have an old ThinkPad around running windows 10. I’ve only used it three times in the past five years: To unbrick an Android phone, to set the MMSI on a marine radio, and to update the maps on my car’s satnav.

I’m a software engineer. I also do programming as a hobby.

Programming as a job can be draining, but I find that autonomy makes it enjoyable. If I’m just checking off tickets that I don’t care about, I’d have very little motivation to so so. If I can plan the road map and start at the end where my work makes the most impact, then I’m a lot more passionate about doing so.

13 years. Married for 6.

First two years were mostly long-distance.

OP didn’t say anything about their financial situation, so we can only speculate.

Maybe they’re a landlord. Maybe they have a hedge fund. Maybe they’ve made good financial decisions in the past and have a big buffer saved up. Maybe they just sold their yacht and have a lot of cash burning in their pocket.

OP never said anything about being light on money.

It’s actually easier when you don’t have to plan your travel around your work schedule.

Tariffs are a fee paid when goods enter the country.

When your $599 iPad is loaded off the freight ship in the harbour, the receiving company pays 34% ($203.66) to the gubment for the privilege of importing things from China.

Now Apple will have to sell that same iPad for $802.66 (plus sales tax) to cover the tariff.

In theory Apple could start producing iPads in the US instead to avoid the tariff. But US workers want a living wage, paid overtime, health care and PTO, so there’s no chance of being cost effective. Also, most materials are still imported, so they’ll have tariffs, too.

It might make sense to put tariffs on foreign cars to stimulate a domestic auto industry. It might keep a lot of workers at their job, and any dollar they earn will be taxed both as income and again when they spend it.

All-round tariffs like we saw this week just hurt most of the involved parties.

So, how does this affect the involved parties?

• Things get more expensive for US consumers. They can’t afford to buy as much stuff.

• The US gubment gets extra money.

• Other countries don’t sell as much stuff to the US.

How this affects international relations, and if countries retaliate with tariffs remain to be seen. Anywho, the US is no longer considered a reliable trading partner.

The first week at any job is always exhausting. There’s a lot to take in, and a lot of active decision-making to do. It gets better fast when a lot of small things start going on autopilot.

Long commutes add to the suck.

Yeah, me, too.

But it feels like all cars made in the last decade have connectivity. I’m not a fan.

I’m driving a 2007 Citroën. I hope I can find a car without OTA updates when it’s time to upgrade.

I really don’t want a bait-and-switch where I start to get ads on the dashboard at every intersection.

I speak Swedish from Finland. Similar variation as Sweden’s Eurovision entry.

I always say that thinking before speaking is a bit like wiping before going number two.

Maybe that’s why I don’t have any friends.

I usually don’t use one for browsing, and not for privacy reasons.

I have a wireguard hub-and-spoke configuration with my VPS as hub to

• Let my VPS act as a reverse proxy to my home servers
• Not have to expose ssh on my VPS to the public internet
• Easily reach all my home servers when I travel
• Route traffic through my VPS when I’m on sketchy open WiFi. Which is when I’ve encountered OP’s sign-in requirement.

Happens to me only when I use my VPN.

Me, too. I’ve got some extra buoyancy on account of being fat.

While servicing my sailing yacht I dropped a part of the furler in the water while docked. A new piece was stupidly expensive and would take two weeks to get, while I was cruising on a schedule.

So I dropped the anchor and climbed down the chain to look for it. At the end my wife found it. We probably spent a good three hours diving and feeling around in the soft mud for it.

Meow!