The Tinker Dad

Software Developer, Tinkerer, Dad, YouTuber, 3D Printing fan, IoT/Home Automation addict, Self-taught DevOps. Sometimes I even sleep.

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#Sensible v0.2.0 is out! Actually it's been out for a while🫤 but finally I found time to make a video about it! If you don't know #Sensible, it's my smart home / home lab automation project available on GitHub.
https://t.co/vRaQghA52Y

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@Jodaille What do you mean? This is just a screenshot I've made from my HA dashboard minutes ago. Anyway it's just funny to see those lines seemingly connected even though they are from independent sources and time frames

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Ok, what are the odds for these continuous charts? 🤣

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@Palito_sk @blakadder_ Being a team lead has multiple aspects - I've worked for companies in the past where being a team lead meant pure technical leadership consisting of architecture/design and task assignments. Honestly, I'm okay with that kind of lead role.

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I've spent the last three years in a manager role. Today, I'm back to being an engineer. Instead of a bazillion of meetings slowly draining my soul, it's once again all about listening to drum and bass, solving tech problems and being high on caffeine. Damn I missed this! 🤟🤓

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@blakadder_ Is this an exceptional day or you've changed roles today too? After playing with the idea for months, I asked my director if I can switch back to actual engineering and yesterday my was my last day as a manager - at least for the foreseeable future. I feel so relieved and calm.

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@martinfasani Yes, ESPHome should work on the Pow R2 too - Personally I'm kinda stuck with Tasmota because 1) I have a lot of devices I'm too lazy to reflash 2) I wouldn't use half of ESPHome's capabilities anyway

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@kevsmac Windows 11 + a whole lot of different Linux distros running as VMs on Proxmox. Got a couple of RPi's too. Can't name a favorite though, but if I realllly had to choose, I'd say anything Debian based.

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Gotta love the AMD Ryzen APUs. Updated my home lab server from an old intel 6600K to an 5700G. Roughly 4x or even more computing power and with the same case, cooling, HDDs, etc. the whole thing consumes roughly 15% less power. Time for a whole lot more VMs! :)

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@tomfleet It's good to see that I'm not the only one who refuses to use the this new, kinda childish name... :)

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@arturo182 I remember reading this article when it got posted, but I think it's no longer valid or they simply toned down the filters by a lot... https://t.co/maWPGkMWtF

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1/2 Tbh I can't find my place on social media. Facebook overran by weird people and hacked accounts. Instagram is something I really try to love, but... TikTok? Meh. And now Twitter is simply a mess. My "home" page is full of tweets I have zero connection with...

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@arturo182 You're right, honestly I totally forgot this. I stayed on the "For you" feed, because it introduced new people to follow and connect with but lately I have no idea what's the logic behind choosing the tweets "for you", but I swear it gotten totally random...

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Many of us can relate to this, right?

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@eevblog Challenge accepted! Give me one for the sake of hacking the bejesus out of it! :)

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@JoRoTechRE @TechnoTimLive This might be kinda OK in a very small network...

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@TechnoTimLive So many devices and containers! No way I'm ever going to set IPs one by one. The whole network is based on a reservation table managed conveniently at one web UI.