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I must be missing something -- Cursor has no unlimited plan? I'll grant that the usage limits on auto are very generous, though. I think they need to be for Cursor to stay relevant…

I bought a Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition to try out. It's surprisingly good, but still falls short when compared to Google Home speakers: - Wake word detection isn't as good…

Works for me? Check the little "more info" button - it sounds like your browser is rejecting the TLS certificate, not completely unable to connect.

Mysa thermostats - don't integrate well with Home Assistant and can't even reliably follow schedule. Every Samsung phone I've ever owned - great hardware, but the software is a mes…

I was very happy to find that there are similar libraries for Mitsubishi units as well: 1: https://github.com/SwiCago/HeatPump 2: https://github.com/echavet/MitsubishiCN105Esphome …

Or attach an ESP32 to the boiler's control board that closes a dry contact circuit...?

I'm especially curious about which ones are earning "life-changing" money for their authors. I couldn't find an easy way to list Substack newsletters by subscriber count, though. (…

Roblox | Senior Software Engineer | ONSITE (San Mateo, CA, USA) | Full time We are hiring systems engineers experienced in C++ to work on the game engine that powers our platform, …

You can install the microcode driver to have Linux provide the updated microcode, if you'd like. (Depending on your distro, it might already be doing it.) https://www.intel.com/con…

Some (all?) Trane heat pump models are re-branded Mitsubishi units.[0] Not sure about Carrier. [0]: https://www.metahvac.com/

I think the big issue is the different "tuning" for each heat pump system. For example, a heat pump water heater needs a different maximum temperature than an air conditioner, and …

MrCool has a DIY cassette that is designed to fit between residential joists: https://mrcool.com/diy-ceiling-cassette/ No idea if it's any good though, and I don't really like the …

Just because a device isn't cloud-connected doesn't mean it isn't designed for planned obsolescence. For example, the ongoing cheapening of major appliances, or the DRM applied to …

What do you mean by a "mesh-oriented obfuscation"? My best guess is: serving a different subset of the VM detection code to each client?

Site appears to be down. Mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20230206232359/https://eulawenfor...

Anything dense (e.g. lasagna, meatloaf, etc.) is good for a lower power level / more time trade-off. It will end up more evenly warm without the edges exploding. I usually use powe…

Panasonic "inverter" microwaves actually do reduce the power output. It's one of my favorite features. On power level 1 you can actually soften butter without melting random pits i…

Good. Spam calls and texts are a blight, and nobody was doing anything about it until regulation kicked in. Last year, after receiving several spam texts from numbers that were reg…

On most (all?) carriers, you can forward spam SMS messages to 7726 ("spam" on the keypad) to report messages as spam. That said, I've got no idea if they actually do anything actio…

Assuming you're using Chargepoint level 2 chargers (3.3/6.6kW AC, not DC fast chargers), they are reporting energy delivered. There is no data channel to report energy stored; only…

FYI, it looks like you've been shadowbanned ever since a rather uncivil comment in 2013. Most of your recent comments are dead, the rest I assume someone hit "vouch" for.

Cloudflare won't tell you the abuse contact or the origin IP, they'll just forward your entire abuse report verbatim to the hosting provider of the booter, who will either ignore i…

Blind forces you to sign up with a work email address (matching domain name) and verifies the address. I'm not sure Glassdoor does any verification. If you really need to verify th…

8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.1 have strict rate-limits configured that make them uninteresting/unsuitable for reflection attacks. The real issue is misconfigured resolvers exposed to the inte…